Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,754, Christian Hubbert, Pa.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Pa.
Hubbert, Christian
S. 39,754
CONTENTS

5255.
Pennsylvania.
Christian Habbert Colo Proctor private
Pennsylvania Line in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
subscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 of Jan'y 1819 and sent to Deborah Easum Philadelphia
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 $ 42.35 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 6 March 1819 48.
$ 90.35
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Yours &c
Entered under act 1 May 1820 - Notification sent to Col. Habbert, Phila Pa

Christian Hubbert
5258
yp. 9 Jan y 1819.
©

Eastern District of Pennsylvania Is.
On this Fourth day of July A.D. 1820. Personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the said District Christian Hubbert, aged Fifty One years and about Six Months resident in the County of Philadelphia in said District, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:— He enlisted in the City of Philadelphia, in the Month of May, 1777. in Captain Vanharn's Company of the Regiment of Artillery, commanded by Colonel Thomas Proctor in the Pennsylvania Line, and continued to serve in said Corps until discharged by General Wayne at Trenton on or about the Fifteenth January 1781. — Was in the Battle of Trenton and Princeton, as a Militiaman — as a regular Soldier in the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Newtown in the Army of Genl. Sullivan against the Indians. And I the said Christian Hubbert do 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 whatever, disposed of my Property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby 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 hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.  Christian Hubbert
Sworn to and declared on the 7th day of July, 1820 in Open Court L. Caldwell Clerk. Dist. Ct.
Schedule.
  Two old Tables, worth perhaps $7.00   One Kitchen Table — may be worth 2.00   Twelve old Chairs at 37 1/2 is $4.44. — One Old Desk $5.00 — 9.44   One old Chest of Drawers, $4.00. — 3 Small looking Glasses 2.50 — 6.50 

  One Small Stove $6.00. Andirons Shovel & Tongs 2.50 8.50   One Pewter Dish, 3 do Plates (very old) 1.25   Three Small Iron Pots - 1 do Kettle 2.00   A Small Lot of Crockery Ware 3.00   A Small Lot of Tin Ware & 2 Iron Candlesticks 1.00   A Lot of Knives and Forks, and Spoons 0.40   A Lot of Sundry old Carpenter's Tools 10.00   $51.09 
B. By a Special Law of Pennsylvania passed in the year 1818 for the relief of this Declarant, he has received a Pension of Forty Dollars per Annum from this State, because he was proved to be poor, and still more because his Corporal injuries were proved to unfit him in a great measure for further Labor; which is in part attested by the annexed Certificate. Christian Hubbert
With respect to Occupation the declarant begs leave to observe that he was bound apprentice to the Trade on calling of a House Carpenter & Joiner; that in an early stage of his Apprenticeship, animated like other Native Youths of that Day, with ardent love of Country, excited by the exhilarating sounds of Drum and Fife, he left his Master and enlisted into the Revolutionary Army as before stated, thereby losing the chance of becoming a full Workman, which has proved a principal Cause of preventing him from acquiring Property, and has finally brought him to the Point of "reduced Circumstances" as mentioned in his Schedule. The Declarant further states that what with advanced Age and several severe Injuries, one by the kick of a Horse belonging to a Team some time placed in his charge at Valley Forge, and another on the Western Expedition in 1794 as set forth in the annexed affidavit, he is no longer able to get a livelihood by Labor, even if sufficient employ could be had, but often he cannot get work, and frequently for many weeks together he does not earn the average of a dollar per week.
The Declarant's Family consists of
His Wife Margaret aged Sixty one Years and nine Months - who has during the last Eleven Years been in a poor state of Health, and unable to do the whole of her own House work.

  His daughter Elizabeth M c Donald aged  years  months     28.  4    Her daughter Margaret  6.  8    Her Son Isaac  4.  3    Her Daughter Elvira  1.  4.  
Her Husband, John McDonald has for upwards of 14 Months been absent in Virginia, yet sends her the means of support in part; not so however as to prevent this family from being a burden to him this declarant for the present  Christian Hubbert
Sworn to in open court July 7 th 1820. L. Caldwell Clk. Dist Ct
Eastern District of Pennsylvania ss.
Christian Hubbert, a revolutionary Soldier, having in his declaration and affidavit made before this Honorable Court on the fourth day of July 1820 omitted to state the number of his Pension Certificate prays leave to add this to the said Declaration and Affidavit as a part thereof viz - that the number of the Certificate of the allowance of his Pension is 5255. on which he has drawn a Pension since the 27 th day of March 1818, the date of his Original Declaration  Christian Hubbert
Sworn to in open court July 14. 1820. L. Caldwell Clk. Dist Ct
I L. Caldwell Clerk of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania do hereby Certify that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly Copied from the Record of the said Court. and I do further Certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the Property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Fifty one Dollars and Nine Cents. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court, on this fourteenth day of July A.D. 1820 and in the forty fifth year of the Independence of the said United States.  L. Caldwell Clk. Dist Ct

Phila a April 2 d 181.
I do hereby certify that Christian Hubbart of the Northern-liberty has a tumor behind the left knee, the size of an hen's egg: from which he finds great inconvenience in the pursuit of his business, as a house carpenter. It occasioning much pain and weakness in the part.
I have been his family Physician, for four or five years past, and know what I have stated to be a fact.
Thos. Sargent

Christian Hulbert -
27 March 1878.
Gunner -
Admitted.
D. Caldwell, Bsqf.
Phila.

I Richard Peters, Judge of the District Court of the United States in and for the District of Pennsyl- vania, do certify that Christian Hubbert whose deposition and declaration dated the 27 th day of March 1818 with the documents accompanying it are here- unto annexed, did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in his said Declaration, against the common enemy , upon the Continental establishment, for the term of Three Years and upwards, and that it appear to my from evidence produced to me satisfaction, that he is now in reduced circumstances and in need of assistance from his country for support; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the direction of the late 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".
Richard Peters
Philadelphia 18 th Sept. 1818.

United States Eastern District of Pennsylvania 345
I certify. That the honorable Richard Peters, who has subscribed the foregoing Attestation is the Judge of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, duly commissioned and qualified.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my Name and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Philadelphia, this eighteenth Day of September, A. D. 1818. and in the forty third Year of the Independence of the said United States -
R. Baldock. Clerk.

THIS is to certify that the Bearer Christian Hubbert  German having served in the Artillery Regiment of Pennsylvania during the Term of his Enlistment, is now discharged the Service of the United States of America. Given at Weston this seventh Day of January 1781.
Anty Wayne
Before me the District Court of the United States, in and for the Pennsylvania District, personally appeared Christian Hubbert of the county of Philad a who being duly sworn deposes and declares, that during the War of the Revolution he served against the common enemy as a gunner in the army on the Continental Establishment—that on the May day of A. D. 1777 at Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania he enlisted as a private and became a gunner in Captain Bartholomew Van Aehr's company of the Regiment of Artillery commanded by the late Colonel Thomas Procter in the Pennsylvania line on Continental establishment, and was discharged by the late General Anthony Wayne in January 1781.—
That by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support, that he never has received, or been allowed any Pension by the laws of the United States—that he is a resident citizen of the United States, and that his original discharge , and also a certificate of Doctor Sargent as to disability, (which originated in the public service) are severally hereto annexed.
Christian Hubbert
Sworn and Subscribed this 27 th day of March — A. D. 1818, before me
Richard Peters 60

DISTRICT
John Van Buren 11-2-1818 11-2-1818 11-2-1818
On this 27 th day of March Richard Peters, Judge of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Pennsylvania District, personally appeared Christian Hubbert of the county of Philad a who being duly sworn deposes and declares, that during the War of the Revolution he served against the common enemy as a gunner in the army on the Continental Establishment— that on the May day of A. D. 1777 at Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania he enlisted as a private and became a gunner in Captain Bartholomew Van Aken's company of the Regiment of Artillery com- -manded by the late Colonel Thomas Procter in the Pennsylvania line on Continental estab- -lishment, and was discharged by the late General Anthony Wayne in January 1781. —
That by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support, that he never has received, or been allowed any Pension by the laws of the United States—that he is a resident citizen of the United States, and that his original discharge , and also a certificate of Doctor Sargent as to disability , (which originated in the public service) are severally hereto annexed.
Christian Hubbert
Sworn and Subscribed this 27 th day of March — A. D. 1818, before me
Richard Peters G o

DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, ss.
On this 27 th day of March A. D. 1818, before me, Richard Peters, Judge of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Pennsylvania District, personally appeared Christian Hubbert of the county of Philad a who being duly sworn deposes and declares, that during the War of the Revolution he served against the common enemy as a gunner in the army on the Continental Establishment—that on the May day of A. D. 1777 at Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania he enlisted as a private and became a gunner in Captain Bartholomew Van Aehr's company of the Regiment of Artillery commanded by the late Colonel Thomas Trocter in the Pennsylvania line on Continental establishment , and was discharged by the late General Anthony Wayne in January 1781.
That by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support, that he never has received, or been allowed any Pension by the laws of the United States—that he is a resident citizen of the United States, and that his original discharge , and also a certificate of Doctor Sargent as to disability , (which originated in the public service ) are severally hereto annexed.
Christian Hubbert
Sworn and Subscribed this 27 th day of March — A. D. 1818, } before me
Richard Peters G o

O. W. & N. DIV.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
February 17, 1892.
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
Sir:-
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Christian Mappert, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below an extract from his declaration for pension on file in this office, dated at Philadelphia, March 27, 1818.
"May, 1777, at Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania enlisted as a private and became a gunner in Captain Bartholomew Van Aehr's company of the Regiment of Artillery commanded by the late Colonel Thomas Procter in the Pennsylvania line of the Continental Establishment, and was discharged by the late General Anthony Wayne in January, 1781."
His pension was allowed.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
J. F. Moore,
Easton, Pa.

O. W. & N. Division.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
F. S.
Bureau of Pensions,
M.R.C.
Washington, D. C., April 10, 1895.
Sir:-
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of --- Christian Hubbert --- a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE. CAPTAIN. COLONEL. In his declaration for pension he made the following statement relative to his services: "May, 1777, at Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania enlisted as a private and became a gunner in Captain Bartholomew Van Nehr's company of the Regiment of Artillery commanded by the late Colonel Thomas Procter in the Pennsylvania Line on the Continental Establishment, and was discharged by the late General Anthony Wayne in January, 1781."
Newtown.
Battles engaged in, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, &
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted at Philadelphia.
Date of application for pension, March 27, 1818.
Residence at date of application, Philadelphia, Pa.
Age at date of application, Fifty-nine years.
Remarks: No record found of John Hewson as a pensioner.
Very respectfully,
George W. Youmans,
Delhi, Delaware Co.,
Commissioner.
1904blm
New York.

Hist Easton
39 754
INVALID.
Rev
W. Yarmouth Mel.
File No.
39 754
Christian Hubert
Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 248
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1892 Feb 13 to J. H. Moore Penna. F.S.
Apr 1/95 sent Hist. to Geo. Helli. NY.
1896 Feb 11 Pap copied by J. T. M. for Secy of War.

Christian Hubert

Christian Student

LAFAYETTE COLLEGE
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
EASTON, PA., Nov. 5 th 1891
Dear Sir:
Can you give me any information in reference to Ohnorian Hubbert, a soldier of the Revolution who resided in Phila. in 1837? He was a prisoner of the U.S. I wish to know his rank, and services. Any information will be of greatly esteemed
Yrs Very Truly,
J. M. Moore

OLD WAR & NAVY MAR 16 1895 FILES.

REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE.
O. W. & N. Div.
MEMORANDA.
Please supply as much as possible of the data called for below.
Full name of soldier:
with W Captain John Hewson
Place of residence before service: (Town, county, and State, if possible.)
or Kensington Philadelphia, Pa.
Place of residence after service: (Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Kensington Philadelphia or
Date of death (as near as possible):
Christian name of widow:
Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
think not.
Remarks:
See paper annexed
Your name and address:
Geo W. Townsend
Delhi
Delaware Co. N.Y.

OLD WAR & NAVY MAR 16 1895 LETTERS.

O. W. & N. Div.
REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
MEMORANDA.
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CLERK
Please supply as much as possible of the data called for below.
Full name of soldier:
John Dickinson
Place of residence before service: (Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Amherst Mass
Place of residence after service: (Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Amherst Mass
Date of death (as near as possible):
about 1843 or 5
Christian name of widow:
Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
he did -
Remarks:
He was with Gen Sullivan at Bunker Hill -
Your name and address:
Geo. W. Young Delhi Delaware Co N.Y.

OLD WAR & NAVY MAR 16 1895 FILES.

REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE.
O. W. & N. Div.
MEMORANDA.
Please supply as much as possible of the data called for below.
Full name of soldier:
Christine Hubbert
Place of residence before service: (Town, county, and State, if possible.)
lied in Penn.
Place of residence after service: (Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Philadelphia or Kensington
Date of death (as near as possible):
1840
Christian name of widow:
Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
he did -
Remarks:
He was with the Penn. troops - do not know what regiment
Your name and address:
Geo M. Young
Delhi
Delaware Co N.Y.

"Captain John Hewson of the 2 d Regiment of Foot in the service of the United States, Com- -manded by Lieut-Col Benj G. Eyre of the 2 d 3 d & 4 th class of Philadelphia Volition of the State of Penn, deceased
Aug 31, 1780"
(Extract taken from Penn. Archives)
Do not think he received a pension.

File in Harker case & Record.
and if the information desired is a matter of record therein it will
be furnished to you.
Very respectfully,
Counselor.
Mr. George W. Young,
Delhi, N.Y.

and if the information desired is a matter of record therein it will be cheerfully furnished you.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. George W. Youmans,
Delhi, N. Y.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
O. W. & N. Div. F. S. M. E. C.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C., January 11, 1896.
Sir:
In returning herewith your communication of the 7th instant with its enclosures, official statements of the services rendered during the Revolutionary war by Christian Hubbert and John Dickinson, you are advised that the rules of this Bureau prohibit the furnishing of copies of the pension papers of Revolutionary soldiers, for the reason that there is no appropriation of money for carrying on work of this character, and that so many requests of a similar nature are received that they could not be complied with without seriously interfering with the regular work of the Bureau. As a courtesy short statements of the services of one or two Revolutionary soldiers are furnished to applicants for historical purposes, but owing to the large number of requests for such statements it is with difficulty that the work can be kept up to current date even when only extracts from the papers are furnished. If you desire information upon any particular point not covered by the statements already supplied you the pension papers of the soldiers mentioned will again be examined

and if the information desired is a matter of record therein it will be cheerfully furnished you.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. George W. Youmans, Delhi, N. Y.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hubbill, Ebon GRADE Private LINE Connecticut
WARRANT NUMBER 5950 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Feb. 27, 1793 to Alexander Power
*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.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hubble, Isaac GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7250 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Sept. 28, 1790 to M c Aulay & Brown, assignees
*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.