Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13403, Richard Hilton, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Hilton, Richard
S 13403
CONTENTS
Carded

70
any 31.467
Richard Hilton
any in the State of N. York. a Private in the company commanded in Jerolmen of the Regt. commander ob. Loring in the N. York for 7 months
Enrolled on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 1/3 Cents per annu commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6. day of July 1838 and sent to Hon. Albert Gallup, H.R.
Arrears to the 14th of March '38 163.33 1/3 Pension allowance ending 6. Sep. 11.66 2/3
$175.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown
Cle
Book E-2 Vol. 4 Page 31

No 5046
Richard Hilton
Dublin
July 1852
PO July 24 1852
rem d
20 mo pri
$66.66
In the further case of Res

Before the Justices Court of the City of Albany in open Court personally appeared on the 12 th 13 th day of January 1832/1833 Richard Hilton of the City of Albany, the same Richard Hilton who on the Sixteenth day of July last past, Subscribed and swore to his former declaration, whereto Derick Hilton of Bethlehem in said County, and Nicholas Joralemon of the City of Albany testifi- ed, and being duly sworn, Declared and Said, that he doth now Confirm, in all its particulars his said former declaration, and by way of addition thereto, and amendment thereof, he doth further declare; that in 1777, he performed actual Service for the United States, Six months; in 1778 he served under Cap t . Joralemon, the same Cap t under whom he served in 1777 and march- ed from Albany to the Helderbergh, Beverdam, and Schoharie, as a drafted militia man, and was out on duty and previous to his dis- missal after his return full three months; — that he was again draf- ted in 1779 and marched with the same Captain as before to Schoharie and was garrisoned in the lower fort there, under the Command of Col o Abraham Cuyler of the Albany Militia, and was engaged in Service during that tour for three months; — that in the year 1780, he was again drafted as a militia man in Cap t Joralemon's Company, and marched up the Mohawk River and having arrived at or near Stone Arabia, he was present and was engaged in the battle between the American Colonel Brown and the British and Indians under Sir John Johnson and the noted Brant, on which occasion in consequence of the alleged improper conduct of General Robert Van Rensselaer who Commanded the Claverack, Albany & Schenectady Militia the gallant Col o Brown was defeated, and he himself killed with others. In this Service, and in one other tour in the same year as a drafted militia man to Schoharie, where he lay garrisoned in one of the three forts there, he was in Service for a period of Six months — In the year 1781 he was again drafted as a private in Cap t Joralemon's Compa- ny, and marched under him to German Flats, and up the Mohawk River and joined the troops not far above the Flats or Bowland above Schenectady, and marched onward up the River, and was for a few weeks in garrison at Fort Herkimer, and from thence marched in pursuit of the enemy, until they retreated in a northern direction, when the American General Clinton deeming it need less to pursue the enemy any further at that time gave order for the Militia to be mar- ched home and dismissed, which took place accordingly — that this tour occupied not less than two months — That he hath also perfor- med Services for the United States within the City of Albany, in moun- ting guard sometimes every third night, and sometimes less frequent, when this declarer was not marched from the City on duty out of it, and that that duty in the course of the years of the War, did not amount to a less period, in all, than six months — And for all the Services aforesaid I claim a pension? Richard Hilton
Subscribed & sworn to on the day & year aforesaid J. G. Watson Clerk
in presence Mark J. S. Vanderveer

City & County } ss. of Albany }
I Richard Hilton the within named claimant, do swear and declare that the facts set forth in the within declarations are true; and that altho' the six mo. service mentioned on the other side of this paper writing as having been performed under regular militia officers in mounting guard within the City of Albany were so performed during the periods and in the manner within mentioned, yet in consequence of his impoverished situation and his inability by reason of old age, to gain a living for his family, he doth consent to abandon that time in the computation of his time of service & he doth respectfully ask that the residue of the within specified time may be allowed him in making out the calculation of the amount of a private's pension -
Subscribed & sworn } This 25 Jan y 1833 }
Richard his X Hilton mark
I do hereby certify that the within is a true copy of the original now on file in my office. H. S. Sear Justice of the Peace, board of the City of Albany.

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
STATE OF NEW-YORK, COUNTY of Albany } ss.
On the Sixteenth day of July 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the Justices of the City of Albany now sitting, Richard Hilton a resident of the City of Albany in the county of Albany and state of New York aged the Winty East Seventy Three 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 act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated: that he was enrolled in the City of Albany, as a militia man under Captain Nicholas Jerolaman in Col. Jacob Lansing's Regiment, and was five times drafted to march on different expeditions against the British, and against Indians and Tories - that he was marched to the Battle of Bennington, to Saratoga, and various places on the Mohawk River, and was in the Battle in which Col. Brown was killed at Stone Arabia, and at that time he served under the Command of General Robert Van Rensselaer; he was also ordered out and marched to the Westward on various occasions and expeditions; and I am confident and do declare that I have served in all my various wars during the Revolutionary War a period of five Years and upwards
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
J. G. Watson Clk
Richard Hilton
WE and a Clergyman, residing in the residing in who has sub- and hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with years of scribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 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 day and year aforesaid.
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 Richard Hilton who hath signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the and that who has also signed the same, is a resident of the and is a credible person, and that their statements are entitled to credit.
I John G. Watson Clerk of the Justices of the City of Albany DO HEREBY CERTIFY , that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court, in the matter of the application of Richard Hilton for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 16 th day of July A. D. 1832.
J. G. Watson Clk

of the City of Albany ss On this 16 July 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Justices thereof, Derrick Hilton of Bethlehem in the County of Albany to this Court well known, and hereby Certifying to be a man of probity and veracity, who being duly sworn, saith that he is well and intimately acquainted with Richard Hilton who is a Relative of his, and who hath made and sworn to the within declaration, and that he of his own knowledge doth know the material facts therein stated to be substan- tially true; and that the said Richard Hilton is a man of strict probity and veracity.
Derrick Hilton
I John G. Wesson, Clerk of the Justice Court of the City of Albany do certify, that the above affidavit was made in open court, before the Justices thereof J. G. Wesson Clk In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and seal of office on the day and year aforesaid
City of Albany ss On this 19 th July 1832 before the Justice Court of the City of Albany, in open Court personally appeared Nicholas Foralmon , to the said Court well known, as a man of true veracity, and made solemn oath, that the facts stated in the declaration of Richard Hilton to which he has subscribed and sworn to, and hereunder written, are in all respects true; and that the said Richard Hilton is a man of strict truth and veracity.
Subscribed & sworn to on the } day of year aforesaid
Nicholas Foralmon
J. G. Wesson Clk

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
L. W. B. I. 15403.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
March 23, 1897.
Madam:-
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of Richard Hilton, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on July 18, 1832, at which time he was 73 years of age and residing at Albany, N. Y., and his pension was allowed for twenty months' actual service as a private in the New York troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Jeroloman and Col. Lansing. He enlisted at Albany, N. Y.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mrs. C. L. Murphy,
425 North Fifth St.,
Quincy, Ills.

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Hugh Y. Lansing AR

State of Ohio Clermont County
On the 13 th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty Six before the Justices of the Inferior Court of the City of Albany now sitting (the said Court being a Court of Record) personally appeared Richard Hutton of the City of Albany being in the County of Albany and made the said his supplemental affidavit to his Declaration now on file at the time of obtaining a peremptory order for the purposes of obtaining a peremptory order for the return of the act of the General Assembly of 1832. And the said Richard Hutton in his oath states that in 1777 he was in the service of his country and left from the place, took the oath, was hired and some duty in the Company and in the officers' meeting it was his said Declaration and that he was at the time and actual duty for the period of six months And he further saith that in 1778 he was also in the service of his country and left from the place, took the oath, was hired and some duty in the Company and in the officers' meeting it was his said Declaration and that he was at the time and actual duty for the period of six months
And he further saith

2- That in the year 1779 he was also in the service of his Country and left home from the place, took the route, was stationary and done duty in the Company and under the officers mentioned in his said declaration. And that he was at this time no actual duty for the period two months.
3- And he further saith that in the year 1780 he was also in the service of his Country and left home from the place, took the route, was stationary and done duty in the Company and under the officers mentioned in his said declaration. And that he was at this time no actual duty for the period of three months.
2- And he further saith that in the year 1781 he was also in the service of his Country and left home from the place, took the route, was stationary and done duty in the Company and under the officers mentioned in his said declaration. And that he was at this time no actual duty for the period of two months.
And he further saith that the whole period of actual duty performed

by him and for which he only a person under the aforesaid acts is one year
And he further saith that each every part of his answers to the several Interrogatories proposed to him by the War Department to be responded to are as stated in his said declaration here And that he does not write his name owing to his inability
Richard H. Milton Mark
Sworn before me Court the 13 th day of April 1836
There is a "not" written in the evidence and the words "And that he does not write his name owing to weakness of eyes" in the last before being sworn John G. Watson Clk
And the said Court, I hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories proposed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a stationary holder and found as he states
I John G. Watson Clerk of the justice Court of the City of Albany that the foregoing answers contain the usual pro se of the said Court in the matter of the appli- cation of Richard Milton for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at this office this 13 th day of April 1836
John G. Watson Clk

Am A. Gallup N.R.

Supplemental declaration in affidavit of Richard Hilton of the City of Albany to obtain a pension, as have his contumacy under the laws of the United States of June 7. 1832
That in the summer of Seventeen hundred and Seventy seven in force ten hundred & forty light - though the department has always supposed it was in the latter year is not the year following Captain Jordan and this department - were in the service of the United States at Fort Plain. That while there information was brought to Captain Jordan that one of his family was very sick that he then asked for leave of absence which was not granted, he left without it. That from that time Captain Jordan was not in the service of the company. That on duty as the department records recollects. That from the time Captain Jordan's command ceased until what was called the new arrangement was made in 1780. Lieutenant Lansing com- manded the company. When it was united with Captain Scott's & then he Capt Scott took the command. That the deponent cannot recollect in which of the above years Jordan came to town man. but it was in one of them. That in the summer of Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine he was again called into the service of the United States in consequence of the threatened & actual depredations

murders and Conflagrations of the Indians and Tories, and that he continued in the service from the period last aforesaid until late in the fall of that year (and that he was in duty for three months at Fort Plain and Stone Arabia.
Richard his Hiltner Mark
Sworn before me the 30 day of July
1838 The within "Capt. Scott's" This Depment" in first presented to me
John G. Watson 6th Dist
(116) says Richard Hiltner being sworn saith that he is acquainted with Richard Hiltner mentioned in the foregoing affidavit & was during the whole of the Revolutionary War & from that time to the present. That he knows he was in the service of the United States at different times during the said war and at the time mentioned in the said foregoing affidavit, & that he believes the period of service therein set forth are true,
Sworn before me the 30 July 1838 The within "war" in the above
Richard Hiltner
John G. Watson 6th Dist
(117) the Justices of the Justice Court of the City of Albany being a Court of Record do hereby certify that we are acquainted with the persons mentioned in the foregoing affidavits & believe them to be entitled to full credit and belief. Know them good characters

for standing in the community, & that they duly made oath to the said affidavits & that Richard Bellon in the first foregoing affidavit made his mark to imperfective right
In Witness whereof we have caused the seal of the said Court to be hereunto duly affixed the 3 rd day of July one thousand eight hundred & thirty eight
John G. Watson Clerk

33.463
Richard Hilton
3 months men in 1779
Admitted
Private 7 months
Hon Albert Gallatin
Home Repy
Yes. Hon G. of Lexington
H.R.

State of New York Albany Superior Court
On the twenty-seventh day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty five personally appeared before the Justices Court of the City of Albany now sitting (the same being a court of record) Richard Nelson a resident of the City and County of Albany and State of New York aforesaid aged seventy six years in the month of June last past who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 712. In the month of May 1777 I went into the public service as a private and volunteer and was placed under the command of one Major Smith who was stationed at Albany and had the charge of clothing and ammunition for Gates Army then lying at Saratoga. The ammunition was kept on board of vessels lying in the river in front of the City. I continued with Smith until about the first of September following when in consequence of orders which I received I accompanied Captain Nicholas Fish's Company of Matilda from the City of Albany to where the American Army then was at Saratoga. We marched to Saratoga on the west side of the river until we came to Fort Edward when we crossed the river and continued our march on the east side until we reached a certain place of destination in which was on the next day after we commenced our march we continued here until after the Surrender of Burgoyne . A few days after which event we returned to Albany and were there discharged from further duty about the close of the month of October . Having been in the service six months my company belonged to Col Jacob Lansing's regiment of Matilda and my officers who were in duty at the same time were to the best of my present recollection Mr. Col Jacob Lansing Captain Fish as per order Lieutenants Wade  Lansing & Samuel  Walters . In the month of July 1778 I was drafted in Captain Derlooman Company which was ordered to proceed to Chatham in consequence

2 of an apprehension felt by the inhabitants of that place that they were to be attacked by the enemy. We left Albany and went to Schenectady and on our arrival there took up our quarters at the town fort as it was then called. On our march we took the old Schenectady road lying on the south side of the Mohawk river. We remained at Schenectady until sometime in the month of September following when we returned to Albany by the same route we had gone & where we were discharged. We saw no troops at Schenectady in the American service and had no engagements with the enemy. We were absent on duty four months. Our officers were Major Abraham W. Cuyler of the militia who had the command at the fort. Captain Nicholas J. Sedgman and Lieutenants Ballenbecke and Mellon. In October of the same year I was again drafted and started with my company from Albany for Stone Arabia. On our way there we passed through the City of Schenectady and were stationed on our arrival at our place of destination at Fort Paris. Before we were drafted & left home it was reported that the Indians intended to attack & slaughter the inhabitants of that place. When we arrived the people had already assembled in considerable numbers for the purpose of defence. We remained here until sometime in the month of December following when we returned by the same route we had gone to Stone Arabia & to Albany & on our arrival there were discharged. We had no engagement with the enemy. Lieut. Abraham J. Brock had the command at the fort. The officers of the company and regiment to which I belonged & who accompanied us on our march were Col. Jacob Lansing (Colt) Nicholas Sedgman and Lieut. Vitting. We were on duty at this time one month.
In the month of May 1779, I was again drafted in Captain Nicholas Sedgman's company and we were ordered to march to Fort Hunter. We left Albany accordingly for Fort Hunter passing through the City of Schenectady and along the Mohawk river to the fort. We found no troops here on our arrival but remained until in the month

2- 3-v 1- 7  of July following when we returned home to Albany & were discharged. Having been absent on duty four months we had no fighting with the enemy. The officers who accompanied us were Col William Schoenfeldy, and Capt. Gayle. Captain Nicholas Johnson and Ensign Mellon. We had not been home and discharged but a few days before news was brought to Albany that the Tories and Indians under Brant threatened to attack the people about Fort Plain. My company upon this news was again ordered on duty and to March to Fort Plain. We marched from Albany and took the same route through Schoenfeldy up the Mohawk until we came to Fort Plain. We learned on arriving there that many people, men women and children had been murdered & that the enemy had then left. We remained here without being in any engagement until about the first of September following when we returned to Albany by the same way we came and were discharged. We were absent on duty one month. Genl Robert Van Rensselaer of Claverack Columbia County was at the fort with his Regiment when we arrived. Col William had the command of the Regiment to which I belonged and the only other officers who accompanied us whose names I now recollect were Capt. Nicholas Johnson and Lieut. Mellon. In the month of October in the year last mentioned I was again drafted and called into the service in consequence of reports of which were true that one John Johnson intended to march from Canada with a body of Tories and Indians and lay waste the Country. Accordingly left Albany with my Company passing through the City of Schoenfeldy and up the Mohawk river to Fort Hunter a few days after our arrival at Fort Hunter information was brought there that Johnson with his Tories and Indians was near by and had been & devastated the Country in his march. We immediately received

order to prepare to meet him. He did not make his appearance, and we then in pursuance of orders went in pursuit of the enemy & continued the pursuit to Fort Stanwix, where we arrived here we were told that the Enemy were six miles off and we still continued the pursuit to the German Flats and came up to him there about an hour before Sun Set. There had already been an engagement between him and Col Brown in which Col Brown was killed and scalped. After we arrived a number of men were placed under Col Dubois of the regular army who was ordered to keep himself & men concealed from the enemy and not to fire until John Sim came within ten or twelve yards of them. Dubois however disregarded his orders and his men by his direction fired upon the enemy at five times that distance. Johnson immediately after the firing by our troops under Col Dubois retreated and was pursued by our troops to Fort Schuyler without being molested and the pursuit was then given over. Genl. George Clinton came to Fort Schuyler the same evening accompanied by his aide de Camp and a Major Shann met a Frenchman. We remained at Fort Schuyler two days afterwards and then returned to Albany. We were discharged, having been about an entire two months. My officers then were Col Wemple, Major Doagler Captain of Artillery, Lieut. Johnson & Hutton. Gen. Van Rensselaer accompanied us, & had the Command.
In the month of October 1780 I was again drafted in my said Company and marched with it from Albany to Saratoga. We were called into the service at the time in consequence of certain Scotchmen refusing to serve against the enemy where it was ordered should be marched to Montreal. After we arrived at Saratoga a draft of ten men, I think it was, was made from each Company.

and then together constituted a guard where duty it was and which did accompany the said Veterans from Saratoga to Lake Champlain where they were put on board of boats and taken to Albany. I was not drawn up but I accompanied them as one of the guard but I remained at Saratoga until the guard returned to that place when I came back with my company to the City of Albany at being about the middle of November 1777 as discharged having been absent on duty for me in 1777. And I do further declare that the whole time I was in the public service for which I hereby claim the benefit of the act passed of Congress is one year and three months and I confine myself to that period for the reason that I have positive proof of its being rendered by me and in the hope that it will for me entirely satisfactory to the Department. And I do further declare that I served as a private in the capacity of a private & never saw any commission or warrant.
To the interrogatories presented by the War Department in the case of Richard Nelson answers as follows: First I was born in the City of Albany in the year 1759. 2 d The only record of my age of which I have any knowledge is contained in the handwriting of my late father William Nelson as it is in the first birth book in my possession. 3 d I was living in the City of Albany at the several times I was called into the public service as is mentioned in my preceding declaration. 4 th I have lived in the City of Albany since 1759. 5 th I was drafted in 1777 in May 1777 when I returned. 6 th I refer to my preceding declaration for an answer to this interrogatory. 7 th I did not receive an written discharge. 8 th In an answer to this interrogatory I refer to the annexed affidavits of Deitch, Nelson and Jonathan Kidney — there is no Minister of the Gospel now residing in the City of Albany who knows of my having served as a private. The Albany Presbyterian Church after it has been a resident of this City but a few months. I have made my mark owing to a defect in my eyesight.  Given in open Court this 27 th day of November 1835  Richard D. Nelson mark
1835 The word "enemy" & "His" here written in error & the word "and" omitted before execution John G. Watson Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a very many of them in service, as he states. And the Court further certifies that Jonathan Sidney & Dick Milton also have made and signed the annexed affidavits in each of them credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.
I, John Watson Clerk of the Superior Court of the City of Albany do hereby certify that the foregoing documents contain the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Keaton & Milton for a pension.
On testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 27 th day of November 1835
John G. Watson Clerk

State of New York Albany County
South an Kidney of the City of Albany in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn in open Court before the Justices of the Supreme Court of the City of Albany both before and say that he has heard the declaration of Richard S. Tilton for a pension which is hereto annexed read before the same relates to services rendered by the said Richard Tilton commencing in the month of October 1778 at Stone Madia and so far also as the same relates to services rendered by the said Richard Tilton commencing in July 1779 at Fort Plain and knows that the said declaration so far as relates to those services is true and correct and that the payment was in duty at the same times at the same places in the same company and in the same officers and further he saith not
Given in open Court Jonathan Leavitt the 27 th day of November 1833 the word "commencing" in titled before execution John G. Watson Clerk

State of New York Albany County ss
Derrick Hilton of the town of Bethlehem in the County and State of New York being duly sworn in open Court before the Justices of the Superior Court of the City of Albany doth depose and say that he was born on the twelfth day of November 1755 and is now in his eighty first year. That he was a Soldier and officer in the Revolutionary War, and was acquainted during the whole of that war with Richard Hilton the person named in the declaration for obtaining a pension to which the affidavit is annexed and that he knows the contents thereof and that the said Richard Hilton was in the public service as a private soldier at the several times and for the several periods in his said declaration mentioned, and volunteered and was drafted at each of the said periods of service and was discharged from the same at the City of Albany and that he the deponent belonged to the same Company and was in the public service during the said war at the same time & for the same periods with the said Richard Hilton and was discharged therefrom at the same time. And further the deponent saith as
Derrick Hilton
He was a "bad" written in an erasure
Given before me this 27th day of November 1833 in open Court on a blue paper sworn to "County of State" written in ink before me John G. Watson Clerk

Sir
Albany Jan. 25 th 1833
I now do myself the honor to enclose to you Richard Hilton's further declaration in his pension case, which I hope and trust, on account of his peculiar situation, may prove satisfactory, and insure him his much desired, (and as all who knew him in the Revolutionary war in this City believe, well earned) pension -
Respectfully
Your obed Serv t
J. Van Ingen
St Edwards Crs.

— Milton April 10.
Rev. James A. Purnell Convent of Sorrows New Bethlehem, Washington D.C.
Hon. G. A. Lansing

Hon J. L. Edwards
Albany April 6 1855
Mr. Hiltone of this City informs me that his pension has been stopped on account of some uncertainties in the declarations made - To enable him to supply the deficiencies and explain the circumstances he will require the original and supplemental declarations made by him now in your office - and I have been requested to ask you to send them to me for that purpose. - If my recollection serves me, you accorded to a like request in the case of Isaac Van Ness and with the like conditions as were made in that case I will thank you to enclose to me the papers of Mr. Hiltone who I believe is a worthy man and entitled to relief in case he can make his case conform to the requisitions of your office.
I am very respectfully Your obed serv
J. L. Edwards
Albany 6 April 1855

Hon. G. Y. Laming Member of Congress Washington

Albany June 21 st 1836.
Dr Sir
I have already troubled you so much in relation to the pension of Mr Hutton that I am fearful of affording you the trouble of complaint and without being able to offer any other apology than for the past than that we have both been indebted to each other and important services to an old man who believes she has her claims upon her country and who is to our friend & neighbor. The principal upon which Mr Edwards appears to act is that Mr Hutton claims a pension for more or longer services than he has actually rendered and this belief of her seems to be founded on these particular facts that that Capt. Goodwin in whose company Hutton served claimed & received a pension for a shorter period than for which Hutton seeks a pension and secondly

That he also differs in point of time with the Lieutenant of the Company who now receives a pension on whose name is also Kirtin - In reply to these I have to say that the one is two of the periods of service mentioned in our present declaration Capt Gerolomus did not go with his Company but remained at home and at another time left his Company in consequence of sickness in his family long before his Company returned home was discharged. And in the second place there can be no difference between the periods of service stated in his declaration the those stated in the declaration of Lieutenant Kirtin except and that I believe is the period which includes the time when Parfynne was taken And why this is so will be palpable enough to any but a stupid blind man if upon a comparison of the two declarations Mr Edwards, it would seem as  doubt not a little about their difference and rather that it should be an impediment any longer we cannot but the difference right or wrong be kept so there can I think be no disparity

between the time claim of for, by our friends & the Lieutenant as the Lieutenant is our principal witness in establishing the loss services of our friend William . If you can obtain it I wish you would obtain for me a copy of the Declaration in which Lieutenant William receives his pension as that will enable us at once to remove every difficulty & obtain the grand object of our mutual labors, the  the see last  page  up
I am Sir Respectfully Yours
John Brown
Hon. J. P. Morgan

BH39.
Sept 1836
belong probably to
22 833 & not to
13 403

State of Ohio Pats Albany Justice Court
On the third day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty one personally appeared before the Justice Court of the City of Albany now sitting as being a Court of Record & Richard Hutton of the City of Albany and County of State of Ohio do hereby certify that I have been for the last half dozen years according to the best of my knowledge and belief the following is a list of the oaths which the following declaration is supplemental in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 VIZ
I intend the services of the United States and in the officer I served as is here in State
I intend the services in the month of September 1777 in Captain Sedgwick's Company of Artillery. I marched from Albany to Saratoga by the route mentioned in my former declaration for a Prisoner. I remained at Saratoga and its vicinity until after the surrender of Burgoyne and until in the month of November when I returned to the City of Albany where I was discharged. My officers were those mentioned in my former declaration. I was on duty at the time two months. There appears to be two different dates against the time I was out on duty at the period. One is that in my former declaration I charged for six months. To this I answer that I included the time I was under the immediate command of Major Smith then having the command of the City. I was in front of the City and which I had been enrolled in Capt. Sedgwick's Company. I suppose I could be allowed time. I have now deducted it. I did not volunteer to serve in Major Smith's but was ordered to do so. I obeyed. The next objection is that according to Capt. Sedgwick's own statement of the service I should not have been on duty over twenty eight days. If Capt. Sedgwick's statement conflicts with mine in this respect I should be in error and I believe will be sustained by the declaration of Richard Hutton his servant which I suppose to be in full.
In 1778. I was again in the service of the County & went from Albany to Schobaria in the Company under the officers and by the route mentioned by me in my former declaration & returned home by the route also therein mentioned. I was on duty two months. In this time it was objected that Capt. Sedgwick in his declaration charges I only twenty eight days service. I don't know that but I do declare that Capt. Sedgwick
In former declaration I was on duty two months 21
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4- 1.19 Return a time long before his Company had and against the orders of his Superior officers for the reason as alleged by him at the time that information had been sent him from home of the death of his daughter and all news of his other children. He was not in the standing then a bond to leave on duty which he refused to do & accordingly became a home. And while I do not wish to complain of the most rigid investigation & scrutiny on the part of the government to prevent fraud, I do not wish to suffer for his not continuing to do duty as did the circumstances dictated.
25-25 In 1779 I was again on duty in the service of my Country in the Company and under the officers mentioned by me in my said former declaration. I started from Albany & went to Fort Hunter as set forth by me and returned to the City of Albany with my Company where I was dismissed. I was absent on duty twenty five days.
1.86 In 1780 I was again on duty in the service of my Country. I left Albany with my Company to conduct certain Scotchmen out of the Country, who were to be taken to Montreal. I was in the Company under the officers stated in the route going. The terms mentioned by me in my said former declaration. I was absent on duty this time thirty six days.
1- 7-1 In 1781 I was again on duty in the service of my Country and left Albany & went to the place of destination in the Company, under the officers & by the route mentioned by me in my said former declaration. I returned home & was discharged as also there in State & I was absent from home on duty one month.
I have abridged the period of service at the

different times I was on duty in order to meet the views entertained by the Department on that point and I claimed a pension for Seven Months service. I am unable to write owing to a defect in my eye light.
In my answers to the several letters of others presented by the War Department. I refer to my statements here in contained and those contained in my former original & supplemental declarations now on file as I suppose in the War Department.
Richard his X Kettle mark
4.20 Scars in open Court
This 3 rd day of September 1836
The word "they" means the word "know" contained in first page and the word "certain" contained in 2 nd page
John G. Wapson Clerk S c S c
And the said Court do hereby declare them open and after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and that his statements are entitled to credit.
I John G. Wapson Clerk of the Superior Court of the City of Albany do hereby certify that the foregoing numbered contain the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Richard Kettle for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this third day of September 1836
John G. Wapson Clerk S c S c

N. York Richard Milton Suspended
See letter to Hon. G. G. Lanning
16. Dec. 1835
Lt. to June Feb. 24. '36
" " " April 25. "
" " " June 28. " " " " August June 1835

New York 14/79-
Richard Hilton
City of Albany in the State of N. Y.
who was a private in the Comp commanded Captain Foreman of the Regt commanded Col Brown in the my Militia
20. months private
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Y. at the rate of 66. Dollars 66. Cents per annum, commence on the 1 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20. day of June 1833. and sent to La War Ingen, Albany N.Y.
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833—133-32 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sept. — " — 33 37.
166. 65.
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Francioni Clerk, Book C. Vol. 4 - Page 61.
with the E. & F. M. C. Co. - Feb. 10, 1830
" " Henry Jameson's Open Life . " "
11 — " same " you 10 2007
" " Stone A. Gulliver 22 Sept 44
"September 20th 1887"

Mar. 23. 1894. History to Mrs. C. L. Murphy 425. N. 5 th st. Quincy - Ills -
Richard
13403 INVALID.
File No. 13, 403
Richard Hilton
Prv. Rev. War.
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 174
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Omaha Rainier, Illi. Feb. 15 th 97
Mr Murphy
Will you please give me any information in regard to Richard or Eric Hillton.
Revolutionary Period. He lived for many years at Bethlehem, four miles from Albany, New York. He is not positive but thinks he served under Gen Schuyler but knows that he received pension for years. Can you read my papers to prove this. I wish to become a member of the "Daughters of the Revolution"

and must have positive proof.
Very Respectfully,
Mrs. C. L. Murphy 425 North Fifth St. Quincy Ills.

B489.
Richard Hilton
Sept. 6, 1836. Parker's Office.
My
Wendell Phillips Esq. Washington St. Boston

Albany September 30/1836
Dear Sir
I sent to you enclosed the supplemental declaration time of Mr Richard Hiltner for a pension under the act of June 1830. The great difficulty to be overcome since the suspension know of his pension in order to have its payment continued appears to have been the time for which a pension is claimed In preparing the supplemental declaration under the time claimed for has been so far reduced that no objection is prevented will be further made on that score. In making the reduction Mr Hiltner has been influenced solely by the consideration that at the late day when all friends and friends of his services have died and when age and feebleness disqualify him almost in- evitably for that service which is necessary to obtain what he knows he is entitled to I ought to receive from the bounty rather than the justice of the country I not because he is not justly entitled to pay for all the time for which it was ever allowed him. I am in hopes that his case will receive with as little delay as possible The favorable action of your department
Yours Sincerely John S. Edle
Yours with respect John H. Morton

Oct 1837

State of New York Albany County - 355
On the twenty fifth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven before the Justice Court of the City of Albany now sitting (the same being at Court of Record) Richard Killen a resident of the City of Albany in the County of Albany and State of New York aged twenty eight years in June last past who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following supplemental declaration in order to obtain (whereby continued) the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1833 VIZ
I entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated (wherefore etc)
That in the year 1777 I was in the service of the United States as a private in the company and regiment mentioned in my original declaration now on file at Washington that I left Albany for the place of destination and took the route thence as is also therein mentioned and that the officers under whom I served in the aforesaid year were those also therein named and that I was in the service in said year for the period of seven weeks
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That in the year 1778 I was also in the service of the United States as a private in the company and regiment mentioned in my said declaration now on file at Washington that I left Albany for the place of destination and took the route thence as is also therein mentioned and that the officers under whom

1 19 3-21 I served in the last aforesaid mentioned year none those also therein named and that I was in the service in the said last mentioned year for the period of fourteen weeks and three days
1 That in the year 1779 I was also in the service of the United States as a private in the company and regiment mentioned in my said declaration now on file at Washington, that I left Albany for the place of destination and took the route thereto as is also therein mentioned and that the officers under whom I served in the last aforesaid year were those also therein named and that I was in the service in the said last mentioned year for the period of one month
2 That in the year 1780 I was also in the service of the United States as a private in the company and regiment mentioned in my said declaration now on file at Washington that I left Albany for the place of destination and took the route thereto as is also therein mentioned and that the officers under whom I served in the last aforesaid year none those also therein named and that I was in the service in the said last mentioned year for the period of two months
In answer to the interrogatories prescribed by the War department I would refer to my said original declaration which answers thereto. Therein contained are true =

I have not gone into detail respecting my service for the reason that I suppose it is unnecessary as the only difficulty to be removed is the one arising from the time for which of service in each year for which a pension is sought by me. The whole time for which I hereby claim a pension is eight months and ten days.
Sworn in open Court this 25 th day of October 1837.
Richard Mr Hutton Mark
The word "year" is the "m" in "O" page in the line and the word "two" in same page in line in an erasure. I also wrote "the" in 3 rd p. 3 in the line of the words "for which" on same page in line before 1837. The applicant cannot write his name owing to a defect in his right hand.
John G. Watson Clerk
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the Department that the above named applicant was a non-Residentary Soldier in the Service of the United States.
I John G. Watson Clerk of the Superior Court of the City of Albany do hereby certify that the foregoing document contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Richard Hutton for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 25 th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven.
John G. Watson Clerk

Sept 20.
W. F. H. Schwenk Esq. Court of Sessions Washington Hn. Al Gallup HN

Washington 19th July 1837- J. L. Edwards Esq. My Dear Sir-
Allow me to trouble you with the enclosed note from John S. Norton Esq- I am unacquainted with the facts connected with the case of Mr. Norton but with him I am well acquainted. He is an aged & feeble man & an honest man. If he has fallen into any error in relation to the time which he claims to have served it must have been an error of the head & not of the heart. I have often heard him represented as having been on service during the revolution & know that few among those who receive pensions receive the bounty of Government more than Mr. N.
Will you have the goodness to give the subject an early reference
Respectfully
Yours
A. G. Atkinson

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir
Could I believe that a personal interview on the subject of the embezzlement would have a beneficial effect on your mind, I would do myself the pleasure to call on you - The case of Mr. Helton is peculiar. He is not only aged but blind. He has always sustained the character of an honest man and I believe deserves to be so esteemed. If the facts & arguments used in the within shall work a favorable action in the case of Mr. Helton I shall be much gratified with a communication from you to that effect.
I am Yours very respectfully
J. W. Canning
Washington 24 Jan 1836

Albany Oct 23 rd 1837
Dear Sir
I enclose to you the supplemental declaration of Mr Richard Mitten for a renewal of his pension under the act of June 7, 1832. Mr Mitten's pay under that act has been stopped for about three years, & should a pension be again allowed to him for the time mentioned in the enclosed supplemental declaration, he will be allowed a sum for the period for which no pay has been received. He has not been so full & constant in the relation of his services as he would have been difficultly as the only, as it is supposed that his hand in the way is the time in the aggregate for which he has claimed a pension. This it is hoped is removed or overcome by this supplemental declaration.
Hon. J. S. Edwards
Respectfully, Yours John Norton
P.S. Any communication for Mr Mitten you will please to direct to me