Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13496, Samuel Hull, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Hull, Samuel
S. 13496
CONTENTS
carded

14831
New York
Samuel Hull
of Candor in the State of New York who was a Private in the Comp y command by Captain Morgan of the Reg t command by Col Graves in the Connecticut line for 6 months, 14 days
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 21 Dollars 54 Cents per annu to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of July 1833 and sent to Baccor Candor N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar '33 $43.08 Pemi-anl. allowance ending 4 Feb '33 10.77 $53 85
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Jno Bromwell Clerk Book E Vol. 4 Page 61

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Samt Hoult's
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Ansra may be given to
William Bacon
Canoe
Tioga County
N.Y.
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alleged enlistment cause admit without rendering actual service not embraced by the act.

Full list of names... Truth ... Noon ... Aya & Laminar ... Seventy Seven ...
9 74
...received a written request from Gen. Washington to... two months ...
...called to still more a work for the... but can not... to join the... that he has forgotten the names of the... in the... 1781. For the term of... the captain and the officers... he was not called upon to do any duty under this engagement.
...in the... 1781. For the term of... the captain and the officers... he was not called upon to do any duty under this engagement.

Green M. Tuttle & Co. 33
For General Wilson a St. John coming in the St. John - was ordered to Williams Station where he was afterwards ordered, that he was well acquainted with General Staff, and that Major  St. John was in command of the above Detachment and was ordered to be Seventh  from  the  list  of  the  list  of  the to General  Wilson  the  list  of  the  list  of  the  list  of  the and to  have  been  promoted  the  list  of  the  list  of  the to General  Wilson  the  list  of  the  list  of  the  list  of  the Yours truly General William Bacon
Given under my hand and seal this 3rd day of June 1882
And the said Samuel Hall further on his oath declares that he has always been informed & verily believing that he was born in the said town of Phillipsburgh in the month of June 1755. that he had no record of his age - that he resided in the said town till twenty three years of age - since which time he has resided in the said town of Candor

And that the annexed copy deposition & the above declaration & certificate is the best evidence that his can admit admits
I sworn to and subscribed the day & year of our Lord
Green M. Tuthill Clk
Samuel his Hull mark
I Green M. Tuthill Clerk of the Court of General Assizes Aforesaid do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Application of Samuel Hull for a pension. — In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal & affixed this 20 th day of Nov. 1832
Green M. Tuthill
State of New York } On this eight day of Jany 4 th 1833 personally ap- County of Tioga } peared before me for my said commission Cornelius Brown a commission- ed officer, Samuel Hull known to me to be the same person who sworn to & subscribed the foregoing declaration who being first duly sworn according to law took an oath before me say that in the 4 th tour mentioned in the foregoing decl n he entered the service on or about the first day of April 1781, & was dismissed on or about the first day of Oct r 1781, And further on his oath says that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise time that he entered upon and was discharged from his different engagements but is certain that he served not less than the periods mentioned below as a Private viz:
Under Capt. Morgan served two months
Under Capt. Crane served six weeks
Under Sergeant Timothy Peal served six weeks
As a Substitute for Private Hull served three months
making in all eight months and in such
service I claim a pension
mo. day 2. 00
1. 15
1. 15
3. 00
8. 00
Samuel
his Hull mark

State of New York County of Tioga ss I Greene H. Tuttle Clerk of the County of Tioga aforesaid do certify that William Brune before whom the preceding affidavit (insofar to have been sworn was at the date of the same a commissioner of deeds in and for said county and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand and Seal of office this 14th day of February A.D. 1833.
Greene H. Tuttle

State of New Hampshire County of Sullivan ss
On this eighth day of December A.D. 1832 personally appeared before me Aluah Smith one of the parties in and for the County of Sullivan aforesaid Joseph Hull a resident of the Town of Lempster in said County to me well known who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say
That he is seventy two years of age, That he is a soldier of the Revolution - and served in Capt William Morgans company of Connecticut militia in the summer of the year 1776, that in the same company served Samuel Hull then of the Town of Killingworth Middlesex County Connecticut now of the town of Canaan Tioga County N.Y. That I was with him the said Samuel at York Island, and he knows that the said Samuel served in said company two months between the 12 th day of August and the last day of October 1776 Joseph Hull Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written before me - Aluah Smith Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Joseph Hull is a creditable witness
Aluah Smith Justice of the Peace

State of Hampshire ss. County of Southampton ss. I Henry Metcalfe Notary Public for the Estate of Hampshire dwelling in the town of Lymington do certify that Abraham Smith before me the preceding affidavit was sworn to and subscribed to the said affidavit to be his truth at the date of the same one of the justices of the Peace in and for said County and that I am acquainted with his
hand writing and verify believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature witnessing hand and seal of office this eighth day of Decr AD 1832
Henry Metcalfe (Notary) Public

before the thing thing in hand 11

No 25617 Samuel Hull Tioga County New York
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Wm Bacon, Canaday Tioga County New York

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
183
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Samuel Hull Tioga County New York
   Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service. Rank of the claimant. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. Proof by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     Vol. Aug t 1776 - 2 - private Genl. Washington 77 years Traditionary evidence & one   Vol. Sept. 1779 - 1 14 " Capt Morgan, Col. Graves Haddington brimp - papers correct   Enlisted 1780 - 1 14 " Capt. Brann Connecticut   Served 1781 - 3 - " Serg t Teal { not called into service }   officers not recollected  
Killington Conn.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. J. L. EDWARDS, 
Commissioner of Pensions.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of }
On this _____ day of _____ personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of _____ in the county of _____ and State, Territory or District of _____ aged (c) _____ years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) _____, with _____ and served in the _____ (e) regiment of the _____ line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of _____
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I, _____ of the Court of _____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this _____ day of _____ &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the _____ and C. D. residing in (the same) _____, who has hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____ years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the _____ and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the _____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, _____ Clerk of the Court of _____ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this _____ day of _____ &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his

alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following ( m ) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.  6. { To a Soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? To an Officer. { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?  7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons—one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:—For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months , is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
¶ The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

Feby-11-1901 Miss L. Maud Hill Piqua Ohio
Reborn
13496 INVALID.
File No. 13 486
Samuel Hoult Briv. Rev. War.
Act: June 7 th 1832.
Index: Vol. 1 , Page 186
[Arrangement of 1870.]