Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21284, Samuel Hull, Conn

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Hull, Samuel Mabel
W. 21284
CONTENTS

Connecticut 514
Mabel Hull
widow of Samuel Hull
who died on the 31. Sept 1835 of in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain of the Regt commanded by Col. Webb in the Conn't Cont. line for two years.
Enrolled on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum. to commence on the 15th day of March, 1834. Sept. 1835.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of March 1837 and sent Wm H Eddy Esq. P.M. 425.
Arrears to the 15th of Sept 1836. 80. 00 Pension allowance ending 4 Mar 37 40.
$ 120
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the }
Recorded by Wm H Sylvester Clerk, Book 4 Vol. 1 Page 79

For service in 1743
4,658
Connecticut
Samuel Hall private, 4
S. B. Webb's regiment,
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25 th of March 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st of Dec r 1818 and sent to Hon ble Mr. Huntington, House of Rep s U.S.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1815 m d 7/31/30 $42.86 semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th Mar 1819. 48.00.
$90.86
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
War
New Haven, New Haven Co
Contin ued
July 13. 1821
Hartford R.S. Skinner
New Haven
Con

Samuel Hull
4658
Henry L. Lagg New Haven Cont Cond sent to A. S. Skinner New Haven July 13. 1821

At a City Court, held in and for the City of New Haven, in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 10th day of July 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, by virtue of the laws of said State.
PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, Samuel Hull a resident in the town of New Haven in the County of New Haven in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made oath that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his income and property, necessary cloathing and bedding excepted, viz.
  3 Tables of the value of 4 Crane Hooks 50   13 Chairs 5 1 Stand 12   1 Desk 2 Sundry articles of Tin Ware 83   1 Wm And Irons 2 do do Wooden do 1.50   1 Floor Carpet 3.50 do do Iron do 1.50   1 Looking Glass 1.75 do do Stone do 34   2 Canals Stash 75 do do Glass do 25   1 Stand 50 Old lamp Candlestick & Snuffer 25   Old Books 1 Sundry Old Cash 1.50   Sundry articles of brookery 2 4 old Table cloth, 1 old Towels 1   Songs Peal & 2nd Bells 1 4 old Tea Spoons 1   Old Knives Forks 1 1 Old Chest 67   $24.50 34   24.50   48 
Two Swine $11 Two Cows & 1 Ox Calf $35
3 Acres of Land in York Shire In water-bout $1000 dolls, under the encumbrance of a mortgage for $1000 dolls, & the interest thereon the right of redemption is worth nothing
2 Acres of Land in the York Shire In water-bout 70 $ dolls I state over for the land as much as the land would sell for then for the right of redemption is worth nothing
A life estate or right as Tenant by the Curtesy in half an acre of land, belonging to my wife in the Oyster point In water with half of a small old Dwelling house & barn, the whole of the premises valued at 180 $ dolls, my right or annual rent (after deducting) taxes & repairs is worth about 13 $ per year.
I have due & owing to me about $15 & same undited about 50 $ besides what I owe for the above described land
13 15
Samuel Hull
$107.89

District and State of Connecticut, ss.
Be it Remembered, That in the City Court, held in and for the City of New Haven , in the District and State aforesaid, on this 10th day of July 182 0 , the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, under the Authority of said State, personally came and appeared in open Court, Samuel Hull aged Sixty Six - years, 15 months, resident in the Town & City of New Haven in the County of New Haven in said State, and being duly Sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: That he enlisted in Capt Buckley's Company 7 months, in Genl Wooster's Regiment, 6 weeks in Colonel Thompson's Regiment Militia, I was six years in Col Saml B Webb's regiment in the Connecticut line that he served about six years & was discharged at the end of the war
that the original Declaration made by him, for the purpose of obtaining a pension, under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, was dated the 25 day of March 1818; that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the list of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. 4658 And I do further solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person, in trust, for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation has been that of a Carpenter & former but eye sight failing & infirmity of age has rendered me unable to pursue my occupation as usual, I am able to do but little labor of any kind on account of a Rheumatic complaint and that I have a family residing with me consisting of myself & my wife she is Fifty Two years of age the present month & is much disabled having been afflicted with the numb palsey, my children are of lawful age
all which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid. Samuel Hull
Sworn to, and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule, is One hundred and seven Dollars and Eighty nine cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the records of said Court.
Attest Roger G Skinner Clerk

District of Connecticut, ss.
I, Roger J. Skinner Clerk of the City Court in and for the City of New Haven in the State and District of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing and the Schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the records of said Court: and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount, in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is One hundred & seven Dollars and Eighty nine Cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said Court on this 20 th day of July 1820.
Attest Roger J. Skinner Clk
I, Elizer Goodrich presiding Judge of the City Court in and for the City of New Haven in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that Roger J. Skinner is Clerk of said Court, and keeper of the Seal and Records thereof; and that the preceding Certificate, under his hand, and the Seal of said Court, is authentic, and in due form of Law.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in New Haven City this 20 th day of July 1820.
Elizer Goodrich

Samuel Hullin
Mar 25. 1818
described by the Admitted
Inadmissible
Hon. Mr. Huntington H. of Reps.

Connecticut fr.
I Samuel Hill of New Haven in the County of New Haven in the State of Connecticut, do declare under oath that I served my country more than six years in the revolutionary war. That I enlisted as a private in the continental army in the year 1777 in the regiment commanded by Col Sam: B Webb in the Connecticut line of the Army of the United States & continued to serve in that Regiment until the close of the said war & was then honorably discharged with the bages of merit - That I enlisted under Lieutenant N. Biers & first joined the Company commanded by Cap Buckley in 3 d regiment but was afterwards trans- ferred to other companies in the same regiment & that by reason of my reduced circumstances, in life I now need assistance from my Country for support. I therefore pray that I may be placed on the list

List of the United States, according to the provisions of the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war. —
New Haven Mar 25 th 1818. —
Samuel Hull
New Haven County ss.
New Haven Mar. 25. 1818
Then personally appeared Samuel Hull above named & made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him in my presence. Subscribed — he is well known to me & is a resident citizen of the United States.
Simson Baldwin a judge of the Sup ior Court of Connecticut
To the Honourable the Secretary of the Department of War
I certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the above named Samuel Hull served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy as stated in his declaration.
I therefore transmit the evidence & proceedings in his case Mar 25. 1818
Simson Baldwin a judge of the Sup ior Court of Connecticut

William H. Storer agent
156
Walter Hull Cl
Swamp? See letter to Mr
Storer Oct 7. 36
do - do - Nov 10. 36
Ad? pr. $80 per ann.
comm. Sept. 1835
W. H. Storer Esq. Respectfully

State of Connecticut. — County, and City of New Haven. } ss
On this 3 d day of September 1836. Personally Appeared, Before the Hon ble Henry C. Folagg, Mayor of the City of New Haven, and Chief Judge of the City Court. — Mrs Mabel Hull, a resident of New Haven, in said State, and County, now in the 79 th year of her age, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the follow- ing Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision
made by the 3 d Section, of the Act of Congress, passed July 4 th 1836. That She is widow, of Samuel Hull, late of New Haven, deceased, who, was a Soldier of the Revolution, and served as a private of infantry, by several enlistments, for about seven years, in the Continental Army, by the last enlistment, he engaged to serve during the war, all which he duly performed, as she fully believes, satisfactory proof, of his service, having been heretofore made to the War Department, As appears from his Pension Certificate, now in her possession. Which is, in the words and figures following. — — — — — Viz. — War Department. — Revolutionary Claim. — I certify, that, in Conformity with the Law of the United States of the 18 th of March, 1818. — — Samuel Hull, late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension list, Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twentyfifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. — Given at the War Office of the United States, this first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. — — — — — Signed — J. C. Calhoun
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War.
On the inside are the figures, 4, 698 — supposed to be the number of the certificate. — On the envelop, or back cover of the certificate, is inscribed the following words. Viz — Payable Semi-annually — the first payment on this certificate will be made on the 4 th of March next, at the Branch Bank U.S. Middletown Connecticut. — — — — — Recorded.
She knows of no other documentary evidence of her deceased husband's service, except that, which has been many years in the War Depart- ment. — She further declares, that her name, before she was married to the aforesaid Samuel Hull, was Mabel Bradley, and that she was married to the said Samuel Hull, by the Revd Jonathan Edwards D. D. then of New Haven, now deceased, on the 18 th day of March, 1779. — — — She has no certificate, no certificate, or record, of her marriage in her possession, and she does not know of any record of it, now extant. The witnesses of her marriage are nearly all dead, and it is not to be expected that the few, who are living,

who are living, can remember the precise day, if they can the month or year, when her marriage took place, altho they will remember the fact. — And she further declares that her Husband, the aforesaid Samuel Nute, died at New Haven on the 31 st  28 day of September 1835. aged 82 years and that she has never married again, but has remained his widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. Amen
Mabel Nute Mark
Subscribed and sworn to this day and year above written before
Henry D. Bliss — Mayor of the City of New Haven and Chief Judge of the City Court.
I hereby certify that the applicant "Mabel Nute" could not prove bodily infirmity at Court but dictation was therefrom taken at residence. Henry D. Bliss — Mayor of the City of New Haven and Chief Judge of the City Court.

New Haven 3 d September 1826
I am fully persuaded that the statement of the widow Mabel Hull herewith forwarded, is substantially correct, & may safely be relied on, the most important particulars related by her, were personally known to me, having for a long period lived in the neighborhood where she resides, & where we now both reside
Her deceased Husband Samuel Hull was enlisted by me & served through the revolutionary war (in the 3 d Connecticut Regiment Commanded by Colonel Samuel B. Webb) & he has regularly received his pensionary allowance until his decease
Nathan Beers Lieutenant - late 3 d Connecticut Regiment, Revolutionary Army
Personally appeared Nathan Beers organ of the foregoing deposition, on the day and year above written, a gentleman well known by me and a man of undoubted truth and veracity and made oath to the truth of the foregoing.
Sworn before - Henry St. Leg - Mayor of the City of New Haven and Chief Judge of the City Court. -

New Haven Sept 3 d 1836.  I. Lydia Alling of Orange in the county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, now aged 88 years, Testify and say, that I was sister, of the late Samuel Hull of New Haven, deceased, that I was present when he was married to Mabel Bradley, now his widow, and altho from my advanced age, I can not recollect distinctly, the exact time when they were married, yet I well remember that it took place when he was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, as they were married, while he was home on furlough, and that my Brother returned to the Army soon after, and his wife, now his widow, resided in my family, and with my fathers family, for two, or three years, until the close of the war. and I have full confidence that Mrs Hulls statement, as to the time of her marriage, and widowhood, is correct
Lydia for Alling mark
Personally appeared Mrs Lydia Alling, signer of the foregoing deposition a person with whom I am acquainted, and of truth and veracity, and on the day and year above written made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition.
Sworn before me D o 10 o A M - May 18 th Mayor of the City of New Haven and Chief Judge of the City Court
State of Connecticut City & County of New Haven
I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office, and that Henry C Hogg is Mayor of the City of New Haven and Chief Judge of the City Court within the said City, and that the above foregoing is his genuine signature given under my hand & seal of office this 3 d day of September 1836 J. N. D. Smith Clerk

Hon ble James L. Edwards.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

New Haven, Ct
Dec r 22 d 1836.
Sir,
The only record relating to Samuel Hull, or Mabel Hull, his wife, or any of their children, either in the Town, Parish, or Church, now to be found, are in the Church Records, of Whitehaven Society, in the town of New Haven, and is in the words following. Dec r 5 th 1784. Mabel Hull, wife of Samuel Hull, admitted a member, in full Communion, — Dec r 12 th  1784 Sidney, son of Samuel & Mabel Hull, Baptized — April 9 th 1786. Ebenezer, son of Samuel & Mabel Hull, Baptized, July 11 th 1790. Almira, daughter of Samuel & Mabel Hull, Baptized. — This is all that is found on the record, But Mrs Hull has informed me, that her first child was born, in the Spring, or Summer, of the year 1782, and that it died, in infancy, the particular time of its birth, I do now recollect, But the fact, is clearly established, (I think,) by the accompanying Deposition, of Deacon Nathan Beers, and his wife. — Mabel Bradley, was a Cousin of my Mother, and lived in my Father's family, when I was a Child, Samuel Hull, was an Apprentice to my Grandfather Bradley, and lived in same neighborhood, with Mabel Bradley's Father, who was a Brother, of my Grandfather, I was well acquainted with them Both, at this time it was, in the year 1775. in the Spring of 1776. — my uncle, with whom I lived, after the death of my Mother, moved from New Haven, to Litchfield, and I went with him. I was then, Eleven years old. I returned to New Haven in the Spring of 1780, and immediately Enlisted into Capt t Phineas Bradley's Company of Artillery, Stationed at New Haven. — I was soon informed the Cousin Mabel Bradley, as we called her, was married to Sam l Hull, and that He was in the Continental Army. — I recollect to have seen him once, at home on furlough, after that, before the War, and they were recognized as man and wife at time, and ever after while he lived. — Thus I should say, if I was under Oath. — Please inform me, if the certificate of no record to be found, in the case of Mary Woolcott, widow of Elijah Woolcott, and the application, of Mary Brown, widow, of Capt t Robert Brown, have been presented, and how they are disposed of. — those widows, are all of them very aged, very poor, very anxious, and very much in need of assistance, and justly deserving a pension. Very Respectfully,
James L. Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions
Yours & William Storer

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section.
January 16, 1934.
Mabel S. Askew, 113 W. Evergreen Ave., Youngstown, Ohio.
Madam;
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 21284, it appears that Samuel Hull was allowed pension for two years' service as private in the Connecticut troops, on his application executed March 25, 1818, at which time he was a resident of New Haven, Connecticut, and aged fifty eight years. He died at New Haven, Connecticut, September 31, 1835.
Soldier married March 15, 1779, while home on furlough, Mabel Bradley, she was allowed pension on her application executed September 3, 1836, while a resident of New Haven, Connecticut, aged seventy eight years.
They had children, only names stated being Sidney

born December 12, 1784; Ebenezer, born April 9, 1786; and Almira.
There is no further family data on file.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Letter to Mrs. Theo. W. H. 229 Caroline St. Derby, Conn. M.E. 1924 Jan. 16 H. et la Mabel S. advised
Key
WIDOW, &c.
July 22 1924 Basse
File No. 21284
Heabell Hill
widow of Samuel Hill
Rev Rev war
Act: July 16 th 1924
Index: Vol. 04 Page 366
[Arrangement of 1870.]

113 W. Englewood Ave. Youngstown, O. 11-30-1923-
Com. of Pensions - Washington, D.C. Rev. Section:
Gentle man: I have been working several months - trying to aid a friend get her D.A.R. to a Capt Samuel Hull straightened out -
This is the war record as given in family genealogy - (Phelps Gen.)
Capt Samuel Hull - of Derby, Conn. Sgt. in in Lexington Alarm. also served in 3 rd Co. - Co. of Mr. Griswold's Regt. and as corporal in 6 th Co. - Col. Webb's regt. (2 nd ) later served as corporal in Col. Swift's regt. (7 th ) "

As I have it from Hist. Derby, Conn. this Samuel Hull - bro. of Gen. Wm. Hull was born 8-5-1755 - His brother Gen. Wm. Hull resided in Newton, Mass. from 1793 - till death and Capt. Samuel Hull's dau. Nancy who mar. Prof. Royal Gurley was married at the home of her uncle, Gen. George William Hull - in Newton, Mass - but so far I've been unable to learn when Capt. Samuel Hull & his wife died -
I would be very glad if you would send me a copy of the pension record of Samuel Hull as mentioned Pp. 632 + 642 Conn. Mass. in to Rev. it may

throw light on his death if not on his wife's, and oblige -
Yours sincerely
Mabel S. Asken -
#115750 D.A.R.
He is supposed to be the Rev. ancestor of Mrs Laura (Gulley) Hostman - 3240 Burnet Ave. Cincinnati. Ohio.

I certify that Samuel Hull enlisted as a Soldier for the war, in the Regiment late Commanded by Col o Samuel. B. Webb of the Revolutionary Army, & that in the course of his services, he was (for a short time) Mustered as a Diserter, but that afterwards he joined the said Regiment & continued therein untill the close of the war, & was then honorably discharged, with the Badge of Merit He is a respectable inhabitant of this City, but in needy Circumstances
Nathan Beers Esq r Paymaster late 3 d Conn d Regiment Commanded by Colonel Samuel. B. Webb Revolutionary Army
New Haven Septem r 20 th 1818
I certify that the signature of Nathan Beers Esq r to the above certificate is known to me to be genuine & that the certificate of no Gentleman is entitled to higher credit than Mr Beers
Simeon Baldwin - late a Judge of the Sup t Court of Connecticut

District of Columbia Nov 26-1818
I certify that the within named Mathew Beers was Lieutenant Day Martin in Col o Sam l H s Webb's Regiment that his certificate is entitled to full credence - I do also certify that I well recollect the man this service in said regiment
Chas. C. Cumming Lt Col o in Sam l H s Webb's Regiment in the war of the revolution

Wm H Ellis View Haven
Rest

In addition to what I certified the 3 rd of last month in the case of the Widow of the late Sam l Hull deceased I observe - that diligent search has been made both in the town clerks office & in the records of the Church of which the widow Mabel Hull was a member, of the marriage of Samuel Hull with Mabel Bradley & this search was made previous to her application for a Pension but without effect - Mrs Hull observes that her marriage was recorded in an ancient Bible in Fathers family, but the bible is lost, or destroyed long since - She says that her marriage was in the month of March 1779 the year that the British made their attack on New Haven. Mrs Hull is known as a woman of unquestioned veracity - She does not recollect any other person now living that was present at her marriage except Mrs Allen who has certified, & is the best evidence now attained by her - it was a custom adopted by many, but not by all, for the Clergymen to record the marriages performed by them, but as there was no law obliging them to do it, many marriages were and unrecorded - There is a law now in force, (passed in the year 1821) making

it the duty of every one authorised to Marry, to leave a Certificate, of each marriage with the Town Clerk for record, & a penalty incurred in failure of the duty
Certified by
Nathan Beers Lieutenant late 3 d Connecticut Regiment Revolutionary Army

I. — Mary Beers, wife of Deacon, Nathan Beers, of New Haven, in the County of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, aged 74 years, testify, and say, that in the summer of the year 1782, My sister Beers, the wife of Elias Beers, of said New Haven, was in a deranged state of mind, soon after the birth of a son, which rendered her incapable of taking care of her child, and Mrs Mabel Hull, (wife of Samuel Hull, who was then in the Continental Army) having then, recently lost a child, was applied to, and came into the family, to perform the office of a wet nurse for the child, which office she faithfully discharged, for several months, my sister Beers' son was named Sidney, and by referring to the family Record it is found he was born on the 15 th of July 1782. Mrs Hull became much attached to the child, and her first son, which lived, she called by the same Name. I have known Mrs Hull, from that period, to the present time, she has allway sustained a respectable Christian Character, and I know her to be the same person who was then the wife, but is now the widow, of Samuel Hull, deceased, and I have the fullest confidence in the truth of her statement, as to the time of her marriage, with Samuel Hull.
New Haven December 22 d 1836.
I fully concur in the foregoing } Mary Beers Statement of Mrs Beers,
Nathan Beers Lieutenant Colo 3 d Conn t Regiment Revolutionary Army
State of Connecticut New Haven County ss New Haven December 22 d 1836 — Personally appeared Nathan Beers & Mary Beers to me well known, and are persons of truth and veracity, and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Instruments, by them signed in my presence.
Arthur H. Fowler Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut County of Middlesex
I Robinson J. Hemen a Clerk of the County Court within and for Middlesex County, hereby certify that Antho ny B. Sanford Esq. who has signed the within testatior
Certificate was at the time of signing the same a Justice of Peace for said County, duly appointed and sworn and that his signature thereat is his genuine Official signature In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court this 24 th day of December A.D. 1836
R. Hemen Clerk

Jamies L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington - D. C.

New Haven Dec. 26 th 1836.
Sir
I herewith transmit to you, the Pay roll of capt Bradleys company of Artillery guards, stationed at New Haven, in the years 1778. 1779. & 1780. I had supposed that they had been copied, while in your office before, or I should have forwarded them with the application of Mrs Mary Mix, the widow of Eldad Mix, for a pension, whose claim I forwarded, some time before the claim of Mrs Benham. Mrs Catlin and Mrs Neill, was sent to your office. — — — It is presumed, capt Vandenburgs Pay roll, is now in Pension office, forwarded there by Silas Mix esq r of this City. with the application of Nathiel Towns, or Asel Tuttle, as Mrs Vandenburg informed me, she had lent it to him for that purpose, before I sent on her application, and Mrs Mix says, it has not been returned to him.
I likewise send you copies from the Records, of the marriage of Mrs Benham. of Mrs Catlin, and of Mrs Vandenburg, all duly authenticated, agreeable to your instructions. — — —
By myself, diligent search has been made, both in the Town Clerks office, and in the Records of the Church, of which Mrs Neill is a member, for a record of the marriage of Samuel Neill, and Nabel Bradley, it was made before her application, and the search has been again since, but without effect. — — Mrs Neill says that her marriage was recorded, in an old Bible, in her fathers family, but that the bible has been lost, or destroyed, many years past. she says that she was married in the month of March, before the British troops made their attack, upon New Haven, in the war of the Revolution. (which was in July 1779.) Mrs Neill is known to be a woman of undoubted veracity, by all her acquaintance, she does not recollect any person now living who was present at her marriage, except Mrs Allen, who has testified and is the best evidence now attainable, by her. — — —
It was a custom, adopted by many, but not by all the Clergy, to record the marriages which they consummated. on their private records the law of the state, making it the duty of any persons to record their marriages within since about the commencement of the American Revolution and many marriages were not recorded at all, except in the family, and such records would, in a few years become obliterated, or lost. — — —
There was a law enacted in 1821. making the duty of every person now authorized by law, to consummate a marriage, to lodge a certificate of each marriage, which they perform with the town clerk, to be recorded, and a penalty is incurred in default of that duty. — this I am informed, is now the law making it the duty of any one to record, marriages in this state. — — — — — please

Please inform me if the application of Mrs Mary Mix, the widow of Eldad Mix, has been received, and will be the result, it was sent on in the month August, and I have heard nothing from you respecting it. —
Respectfully
yours
William Storer
Honble
James L. Edwards
Commissioner
of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
City of New Haven Oct 27 th 1836
Personally appeared William Storer known of the foregoing letter who is known to me as a man of veracity and made oath that so much of the matters contained in the foregoing letter as came within his own knowledge is true and what he states on the authority of others he believes to be true.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand officially and caused the seal of said City to be hereunto affixed.
Messrs. Olab S. Mayor of the City of New Haven —
[Large decorative flourish or signature]

Oct 31.
FREE
M rs . Michael Phelan
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City DC

Collectors Office
New Haven October 28. 1836
Sir
I am informed that Mrs Mabel Hull widow of the late Mr Samuel Hull a Pensioner, has made application for a Pension under the Act of the last Session of Congress, & that she has met with some difficulty in procuring the proof of her marriage to Mr Hull during the war of the Revolution - no Records of marriages being then kept in this State except in the family's where the marriages were.
I have known Mrs Hull & her late husband Samuel Hull, from my childhood & have heard the late Mr Hull in his life time speak of his marriage to his present widow, during the Revolutionary War - I can further say that both Mr Hull & his widow, have ever sustained in their immediate neighborhood, & among their acquaintances, the best of characters & reputations for truth & veracity, & indeed I may go further, & say that no persons could sustain better reputations as good & pious Christians; I have no hesitation in saying that the utmost confidence can be placed in the statement of Mrs Hull, in regard to

his having been married to Mr Hull during the war, & previous to his his last campaign in that War
I am very Respectfully, Sir
Your Obedient Servant
(W. H. Ellis
Collector
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions

Uppland used 66 1/2
Alma mater, failure of eye sight in future -
White flanders with incubator and of the same -
over special (some of the same) in the same way (and) with the same from 1890 - 1895 - yearly value 15 -
Ans. of school: B 107: 29.
COW COW COW

Sim Off
March 6 1837
To what time was said Hull of New Haven Co. Court paid with the Act of March 1818
$100
Then a Auditor To the 4th of Sep 1835 of per 94

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New Haven Nov 10 1818
Sir I expect Deacon Brees will send on those papers respecting the petition business as Mr Brees I understand is acquainted and well known by the Hon the Justices I expect there will be no other information wanted. Except what you Sir will be so good as to inform Sir I will state some facts some of them Sir you will recollect to be correct some of them perhaps will not be unimportant in the first place soon soon after the Revolutionary war began I enlisted for seven months in Gen Westons Regt first company Wilmot Capt. Shepard Lieut. namely Ensign they are all dead I know of but too that are now living I was Surgeon and master Sergeant major I was at the taking of St Johns in Canada and Montreal I might say much of the hardships and privations of the above campaign next I was in the militia when our army retreated from West End of Long Island & New York to Hudson after the above town I enlisted for twelve months in the Company to keep guard Blackrock fort New Haven I remained in that Company Sam Webb Regt was then raising & I enlisted under Mr Brees there was but a few months up to this time that I was out of the service and I never was told that I did not serve faithfully Sir you will recollect after I joined the Regt whatever was amiss was looked over Sir at the time they have it that I deserted & joined the Regt you regarded the Regt as at almost all other times for Col Webb was seldom with the Regt I very well remember that the crime of deserting was not brought against me and at the close of the war my conduct had been such that you was pleased to give me a honorable discharge that I had served faithfully during the war and was entitled to the Bages of merit when I sold my 100 acres of land I give my discharge to Danford that bought it not thinking it would be of any consequence to me Sir there is no one living or ever was living that could say that I ever acted in anyway against my country But I have ever been aiming to be a true American towards the close of the war Sir you permitted me to exchange with a three years man at the same time give me a certificate that I should be held during the war in case he deserted I give him 30 hard dollars to exchange with him in 2 or 3 weeks he deserted and I was held during the war

 and after green deserted Sir you sent me in search of him with Watch the Sumner for a number of days we had his track but was finally unsuccessful & returned I mention the above circumstance because as it was after they let us that I joined the Regt Sir you would not have sent me after a deserter had you not thought I should have been faithful Sir I am truly yours Samuel Shell
To genl Conner Huntington
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R d Mr. Edwards kept no record of marriages. - He swears that there is no family record -

I hereby certify that I have made diligent search in the New Haven Town Records - to find the record of the marriage of "Samuel Hull and Mabel Bradley" - and have not found any such record, I further certify that the records of marriages - during the period of the Revolutionary War is very imperfect & that no record of any marriages appears on Records - between the years 1789 and 1820 - since the last mentioned time, the Records of marriages appear to be full -
Attest - John Scovell -
Town Clerk's Office New Haven November 15 th 1836
Town Clerk of New Haven
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Before me - (Nelly D. Sanford) Justice of Peace
I hereby certify that the church Records kept by Jonathan Edwards a former pastor in this city are in my possession and that they do not contain any record of marriages performed by him. He was ordained 1769 & dismissed from his pastoral charge in 1795.
Leicester Sawyer Pastor of the New Haven November 15 th Church of Christ in the United Society 1836 in New Haven.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Before me - (Nelly D. Sanford) Justice of Peace
15 Nov 1836

I Sidney Hull of New Haven in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut, aged 52 years testify and say that I am a son of Samuel and Mabel Hull, of New Haven The said Samuel Hull is now aforsaid, deceased and that there is no record of my parents marriage in possession of the family, and that no such record was ever kept by my Father, to my knowledge, and I am confident, I should have have found it, if there was, for I have made diligent search for such record, but in vain. - Dated November 17 th 1880
Sidney Hull
Sworn to, and subscribed on the day and year above written
Before me Walter D. Spaulding Justice of Peace
Please inform me if the application of Mrs Mary Misc widow of Eldad Misc a private in Capt Phineas Bradleys Company Artillery in 1780. has been received, - The widow is old, and deceased and very needy, and is anxious to know the fate of her application which was sent on to the Pension Office in Month of August last - Very Respectfully Yours &c Humbt J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions William Storer

State of Connecticut County of New Haven } ss. County Court Clerk's Office
I Robinson H. H. in an Clerk of the County Court for said County hereby certify that Anthony P. Sanford Esq. who has signed the annexed Certificate was at the time of signing the same for a long time had been & now is a Justice of Peace duly appointed & sworn and that the signature purporting to be his are his genuine official signature. In testi- mony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 17 th day of November A.D. 1886.
R. H. Newman Clerk

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hull, Samuel GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7237 and 244 14146 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 13, 1797 do — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.