Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5316 1/2, Gershom Hubbell, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Hubbell, Gershon Sarah
R, 53 16 1/2
CONTENTS
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State of Connecticut } ss Fairfield County
On this fourteenth day of July ad eighteen hundred and fifty one personally appeared before me a county Judge in, and for said County and State at a Special Term of said Court held at Town of Fairfield, Fairfield County, State of Connecticut, Priscilla Hubbell, aged seventy eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth declare and say that her Father Gershon Hubbell was a Soldier of the Revolutionary War; That he enlisted as a Private under Captain Elijah Abel in the month of May ad Seventeen hundred and seventy six and served for two years and up- -wards - This Declarant further states that her Mother, Sarah Hubbell was married on the Thirtieth day of November, ad Seventeen hundred and sixty nine and that her Mothers Maiden name was Sarah St. John . and that she departed this life on the seventh day of September ad eighteen hundred and forty two aged Ninety Six years; This declarant further states that she has one Brother living in Ridgefield Fairfield County State as aforesaid aged eighty years and that herself, and her Brother Moses Hubbell are the only surviving Children of Gershon & Sarah Hubbell (Deceased)

That her father Gershon Husbell departed this life on the fourteenth day of April A.D. eighteen hundred and two aged seventy two years and nine months; This Declarant further states that her mother never received or applied for a pension previous to her death and since her death the children have not applied from the fact they were ignorant of the law believing at the death of the Parents there could be nothing collected; This declarant therefore makes this application in order to obtain the arrearages of pension due their mother up to the time of her death by the passage of an act of Congress sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first above written Thomas B. Osborne Judge of the County Court for said Fairfield County Priscilla Habbart

State of Connecticut Town of Fairfield Fairfield County
Personally appeared before me on this fourteenth day of July 1857 1857. Miss Grizzell Bradley aged sixty five years and Mary Bradley aged sixty three years who being first sworn both each and severally depose and say that they were personally acquainted with Gershon Houbell and his widow Sarah Houbell both deceased; these deponents speak positively from the fact of their living near neighbours and they recollect their deaths and attended the funeral of Mrs Sarah Houbell and they are of the opinion that they attended the funeral of Gershon Houbell — Deponents further state that Gershon Houbell departed this life in the year and eighteen hundred and two and that his widow Mrs Sarah Houbell departed this life in the year and eighteen hundred and forty two that Priscilla Houbell and her Brother Moses Houbell are the only surviving children of the said Gershon and Sarah Houbell his widow deceased — Deponents also state that they are disin- terested in the application of Priscilla Houbell for arrears due her mother Sarah Houbell as aforesaid deceased Mary Bradley sworn to and subscribed before me on the day & year first above Grizzell Bradley written Thomas B. Colborne Judge of the County Court for Fairfield County

I also certify that the persons who hath sworn to and subscribed the foregoing deposition are personally known to me and their statements are entitled to full credit and belief and I believe them to be of the age stated by them in their deposition
Thomas Blochome Judge of the County Court for Fairfield County

State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss
On this fourteenth day of July eighteen hundred and fifty one Personally appeared before me a County Judge in and for said County and State Uriah Hombell — aged forty nine years who being duly sworn doth depose and say that the record herunto annexed is the genuine original Family Record and that said record has been in his possession for the space of nine — years and upwards and was made in the handwriting of Gershom Hombell deceased and that said record came in his the deponent's possession by his moving into the house wherein to and subscribed (formerly occupied by Sarah the widow of the said Gershom Hombell deceased) before me on the day and year first above written
Uriah Hombell
Thomas B. Colborne Judge of the County Court for said Fairfield County

State of Connecticut } Fairfield County } ss
I Thomas Robinson Clerk of the County Court in & for the County aforesaid - Keeper of the seal thereof do certify that Thomas B. Robinson Esq. was on the 14 th day of July 1851 sworn in Judge of the County Court in and for the Fairfield County Duly Commissioned & acting as such a duly authorized by the laws of this State to administer the oaths & take the acknowledgment of deeds I also certify that the foregoing is the proper words attached & purporting to be his seal to wit the his general office signatures - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at the seal in New Britain 16 th day of July 1851 Thomas Robinson Clerk

Nathan Hubbell my Honored Father Was Born December 1 th A.D. 1699
Martha Hubbell my Honored mother was Born January 4 th A.D. 1702 Died December 1 th A.D. 1755 about 5 in morning
Sarah Hubbell Died May 28 th A.D. 1757 aged 19 years and 19 days
Elijah Hubbell my Brother Died September 1760
Nathan Hubbell my Honored Father Died February 26/1761
Sarah Hubbell my Wife Died Jan y 12 A.D. 1767 aged 38 years
Gershon Hubbell Died Jan y 4 th A.D. 1782 Aged 18 years & 10 months
My Second Son Gershon Died 3 rd of February A.D. 1783 Aged 21 days
Susanna Hubbell Died Septem r 13 th A.D. 1783 aged two years & ten months
* Gershon Hubbell Our Honored Father Died April 14 th 1802, Aged 72 and 9 Months
Uriah Hubbell Died August 25 1828
* Sarah Hubbell my Honored Mother Died September 7 aged 96, 1842

Black Slave
  To cash of by cash paid to High & Whelan 12/6 0 1 6   To cash of to cash before above 1/6 1 1 6   To cash of 0 4 0   To an Execution given up dated March 60 £2-4-2 3/4 2 5 4   To the intrest of above Execution 0 8 8   To making a vest 6/6 0 5 6   To 2 doz of pigeons 8/8 0 1 4   4 13 9 
Do 2 Do 2
Country Coll for of above debt
  By sundries brought from page 41 1 1 9   By 1 days mowing 8/6 by 1 day & part of a day 4/ 0 4 6   By 1 day mowing 8/6 by 1 day mowing 8/6 0 4 0   By week 9: by 1 day & part of a day gathering corn 8/6 0 4 3   By 1 day 34 hours 8/6 0 6 6   By 1 day threshing corn 2/6 0 4 0   By 1 day 1/6 0 1 3   By mowing a row 1/6 0 1 3   By cash paid by Daniel Sheppard 4 13 3   By 1 day 1/6 0 1 9   By 1 day 1/6 0 1 6   By 1 day 1/6 0 3 3   By 1 day 1/6 0 3 0   By 1 day 1/td 6 6 10   By 1 day 1/td 0 8 2   By 1 day 1/td 0 3 9   By 1 day 1/td 0 4 6   By 1 day 1/td 0 0 13   7 6 11 

N o 7.751 Priscilla Hubbard Child then at law of Gershom & Sarah Hubbell Application for a revolutionary Pension, under act, 4 th July 1836
Edwards & Smith Agents

Gershon Hubbell was born July 17 th A.D. 1729
And was married May 2 nd A.D. 1754
Mary His wife was born June 21 st A.D. 1738
Mary Hubbell was born July 10 th 1755 in the morning And Died December following 25 th day a bout 5 in the morning
Mary my wife Died February 23 rd A.D. 1756
I was married to my second wife November 9 th A.D. 1756
Mary Hubbell was born August 15 th A.D. 1757
Elizabeth Hubbell was born March 10 th A.D. 1759
Elijah Hubbell was born February 27 th A.D. 1761
Gershon Hubbell was born March 19 th A.D. 1763
Sarah Hubbell was born April 9 th A.D. 1764
Walter Hubbell was born August 18 th 1767
* I was married to Sarah my 3 rd wife November 28 th 1767
Sarah my 3 rd wife was born April 9 th A.D. 1766
* Moses Hubbell was born Jan y 25 th A.D. 1771
* Priscilla Hubbell was born Feb y 22 nd A.D. 1773
William Hubbell was born 1 st of Decem r A.D. 1775
Uriah Hubbell was born 23 rd of May A.D. 1778
Lyman Hubbell was born Novem r 15 th A.D. 1780
Gershon Hubbell was born Jan y 13 th A.D. 1783
Abraham Hubbell was born March 29 th A.D. 1786

Country Credit
  February 10/1754 Then received of Ebenezer Mills Estate 8 8 1   Jan 4 1758 Then received of Ebenezer Mills Estate 0 12 4   Dec 1758 By making & letting one flax & By shelving one bush and shelving more 9 00 5   By 1 set of hooks & eyes : By making & letting 31 1/2 of shawls & letting a part   By making & letting a parcel of shawls   Feb 29 1762 By sundries from his Book 2 5 0   £11 5 5   Oct 1762 Then reckoned with Joseph Dyer and due to him 14 2   1763 By part of an order on William Gould 16/ 0 16 0   April 24 1773 By sundries that had not down 6 12 2   Then Reckoned and due to Balance 8 5 4   June 1773 By one flax 1 19 0   Feb 14 1776 By an advertisement on a Execution £9 19 4   0 5 0   2 15 9   £3 0 9 
  April 1773 The Debt brought over £9 19 4   Then reckoned and due to me 1 14 0   Feb 1774 for sundries 26/9 6 9   Feb 24 1776 Received a net of part of my granddall of my share of the belongs to me by note to John Dyer 10/6 more in cash £3 0 9 
Country Debit
  1779 By pasturing cows 3 weeks 21/ 0 6 0   By 2 cows 2 weeks 21/ 0 4 0   By cash paid by Lockwood for manure of barn 3 3 9   £3 13 9 
Country Credit
  May 1786 By cash paid by Sam l Bradley 2 6 5   Jan 1783 By cash paid by Capt o Whitney 13/1 1/2 york money is 0 11 6   Oct 1786 By cash paid by Capt o Whitney 15/2 york money is 4 0 10   July 1789 By Carling 2 loads of wheat 28/ 0 6 0   0 2 0 

December 26, 1939.
Mrs. Herman L. Sweet 3 Irving Place Utica, New York.
BA-3/ILL Gershom Hubbell R. 5316½
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Enoch Crocker of Massachusetts, also, information in regard to Gershom Hubbell, who was born July 29, 1729 in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and served in Captain Abel's company from Fairfield County with his son, Abijah Hubbell.
A search of the Revolutionary War records of this office has been made and no claim for pension or bounty land found which was made to the United States based upon service of an Enoch Crocker, under any spelling of that surname. The record has been found of only one Gershom Hubbell; his record follows as found in the papers on file in pension claim, R. 5316½, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. His name is shown also Hubbel in this claim.
Gershom Hubbell, of Fairfield County, Connecticut, married November 30, 1769, Sarah St. John, who was his third wife; names of her parents were not given. He died April 14, 1802, aged seventy-two years, nine months. Sarah, his widow, died September 7, 1843, aged ninety-six years.
Priscilla Hubbel (as she signed her name), the daughter of Gershom and Sarah Hubbell, noted above, applied July 14, 1851 for the pension which might have been due on account of her father's (Gershom Hubbell's) service in the Revolutionary War. She was then a resident of Fairfield, Connecticut, aged seventy-eight years. She applied in behalf of herself and her brother, Moses Hubbell, who was aged then eighty years and resided in Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut. They were then the only surviving children of this Gershom Hubbell.
It was stated in 1851 that Gershom Hubbell enlisted in May

1776, and served two years and upwards as private in Captain Elijah Abel's Connecticut company. This claim for pension was not allowed as proof of service of Gershom Hubbell was not established as required by the pension laws.
The following family data are recorded which, it is shown, was compiled by the soldier, Gershom Hubbell, himself-
" Nathan Hubbell my honored father was born December 1-(O.S.)1699 Marther Hubbell my honored mother was born January 7-O.S. 1702 and died December 1, N.S. 1755. Sarah Hubbell died May 28, 1759-aged 19 years and 19 days. Abijah Hubbell my brother died September 1, 1760 Nathan Hubbell my honored father died February 18, 1761 Sarah Hubbell my wife died January 12, 1769, aged 38 years. Gershom Hubbell died January 3, 1782, aged 18 years, 10 months. My second son Gershom died February 3, 1783, aged 21 days. Julanna Hubbell died September 13, 1783, aged two years, 10 months. " -----
Gershom Hubbell our honored father died April 14, 1802-aged 73 years, 9 months.
Uriah Hubbell died August 25, 1828
Sarah Hubbell my honored mother died September 7, 1842, aged 96. -----
Gershom Hubbell born July 17-O.S. 1729 and was married May 2 N.S. 1759 Mary his wife was born June 21 O.S. 1733
Mary Hubbell was born July 10, 1755 and died December 27th following
Mary my wife died February 23, 1756.
I was married to my second wife November 2, 1756
Mary Hubbell was born August 15, 1757
Elizabeth Hubbell was born March 10, 1759
Abijah Hubbell was born February 27, 1761
Gershom Hubbell was born March 17, 1763
Sarah Hubbell was born April 11, 1764.

(family data continued)
Walter Hubbell was born August 18, 1769
I was married to Sarah my 3d wife -November 30, 1769 Sarah-my 3d wife was born April 15, 1746
Moses Hubbell was born January 25, 1771 Prisilah Hubbell was born January 22, 1773 William Hubbell was born December 1, 1775 Uriah Hubbell was born May 3, 1779 Susannan Hubbell was born November 15, 1780 Gershom Hubbell was born January 13, 1783 Abraham Hubbell was born March 27, 1786. "
(The letters O.S. designate Old Style--the letters N.S, designate New Style)
In 1851, Uriah Hubbel, aged forty-nine years, stated in Fairfield County, Connecticut, that he had moved into the house formerly occupied by Sarah Hubbell, the widow of Gershom Hubbell; he did not state his relationship to the soldier's family.
There are no further data regarding the family of this Gershom Hubbell.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Acts of July 14, 1866, and March 3, 1875
REJECTED
5316 1/2
P. O.
Sarah Hubbell
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .
144 - Rev. 26 - Natl. To Mr. Sherman & Smith - 1882

No. 7. 701.
Sarah Hubble dec. wid. of Gershon Conn.
Act 4 th July 1830
To Edward & Smith Oct 20/32
✓ 3162

Sarah Kennebec
let
Apr 4 July 1836

Washington 19 Feb 1857
Sir
Enclosed is the revolutionary pension claim of Priscilla Hubbell children of Gershon & Sarah Hubbell. The old record attached swears have been made in the handwriting of said Gershon Hubbell. Shows that he was married to his 3 rd wife Sarah in 1769 - This is pointed out by a star on the 2 nd sheet of the record. Those marked by stars on the first sheet of the record as to the date of the death of Gershon & Sarah Hubbell were undoubtedly made by the children of said Gershon & Sarah, but these facts are proven by the witnesses Grizzle & Mary Bradley -
Please report to us in the case -
Very Respectfull Edwards & Smith
A. D. Heath Esq. Com Pers.

3 Irving Pl. Utica, N.Y.
Nov. 29, 1930
Mr. A. D. Hiller
Veterans Administration Rev. War Section Washington D.C.
From Mrs. H. L. Sweet 3 Irving Pl. Utica N.Y.
Dear Sir - Would you send me a full copy of the pension papers issued to the following
2 men in the Enoch Crocker Revolutionary War.
(Died in Rensselaerville Albany Co. N.Y.) Born - June 1, 1741, Barnstable Mass. Residence at enlistment " " " Place of " " " County. Mass.
(Feb. 15, 1777) [He was] Sergeant in 5 th Company, Col. Hamakel Bradfords 12 th Reg.
Feb. 24, 1777 - Mustered - James Otis Muster Master May 10, 1778 - Return of men { Had joined for 3 yrs. to expire 1780 Also on Continental Army pay accounts for service from January 1, 1780 to Feb. 15, 1780.
and - Gershon Hubbell (Died in Greenfield Hill Conn.) Born, July 29, 1729 - Greenfield Hill Fairfield Conn.
He enlisted in Fairfield County and was Lieutenant in Capt. Dimsdals Company of Fairfield Conn, raised
May. 1775. Enlisted June 20, 1776 in Capt Abels' Co (with (son Abijah) and discharged Nov. 16, 1776 -
Very Truly yours - I finish this information both for Mrs. Herman L. Sweet D.F.R. Records and for a genealogy I 3 Irving Pl. am compiling of Oneida Co. N.Y. Settlers - Utica - N.Y.

COPY
Pension Office October 24, 1851.
Messrs. Edwards & Smith
Gentlemen:
The declaration in the case of Parscilla Hubbell decsd. is filed under the Act of July 4, 1836. Of her husband's service no evidence is produced. It appears from the certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut that a man of the same name with him enlisted in 1776, but for what period is not known, nor whether he ever served at all. Before the claim can be allowed it must be distinctly proved that the father of the claimant's and the husband of the deceased widow was the man to whom that certificate relates, and that he served under his enlistment for some definite time equal to at least 6 months.
Very truly yours,
Commissioner, J.W.
From old correspondence book /ILL

State of Connecticut Comptroller's Office Hartford Feb. 25 th 1851
I certify that on application for evidence of the service of Gershon Hubbel, in the war of the Revolution, I have examined the books and documents remaining in this Office relating to that war, and find the name of Gershon Hubbel, in a list under the following heading "Names of Officers and soldiers enlisted by Elijah Abel "in the year 1776." The term of service is not stated on this Roll, nor do I find any Pay Roll of Capt. Abel's Company in 1776. Capt. Elijah Abel, was appointed a captain, by the General Assembly of Connecticut at its May Session 1776; his officers commissions were to bear date the 10 th day of June 1776, and said troops were to be holden in service until the 25 th day of December 1776,
R. G. Paine, Comptroller by Geo. Robinson, Clerk