Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5387, Levi Hungerford, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Hungerford, Levi Ann
R 5387
CONTENTS

No 7657.
Anna Hungerford Levi N.Y.
Oct 7 July, 1838
Hon. J. B. Prentiss W.D.

This certifies that I have searched the records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Caughnawaga, that they are much torn & mutilated and some of the leaves are missing. And that after a careful examination I am not able to find the record of the marriage of Levi Hungerford with Miss Grachenbop and that I am at present Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Caughnawaga and Successor to the Rev. Thomas Romeyn
Jacob D. Fonda Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Caughnawaga

State of New York
Montgomery County
St. Catharine Quackenbush of the Town of Herk- County & State aforesaid Being Duly sworn Deposes and Says that she was Personally acquainted With Levi Hogenford deceased and his widow Ann Hogenford who has applied for a pension or is about to apply for a pension and this Deponent Says further that she was Present at the Marriage of the aforesaid Levi Hogenford & Ann Hogenford and that they was Married By the Reverend Minister Thomas Romayne who then Resided at Caughnawaga and that the aforesaid Levi & Ann was Married at the the House of the aforesaid Minister & Mohawk in the Town of Herk on the year 1740. and this Deponent further Says she has Been Personally acquainted With the said Levi & Ann Before mentioned more than Sixty years last Past and further saith that
Catharine her Quackenbush mark
Sworn & Subscribed Before me this 15 th Day of Feb y 1841
John S. Quackenbush J. Peace
I Certify that I have Been Personally acquainted With Catharine Quackenbush who Made her Mark to the above affidavit more than Sixty years last Past I lived Within half a Mile from her During the aforesaid fifty years and she is a Member of the Church and that she is a Credible Woman and her affidavit above Made is entitled to Full Credit and the Words of the Aforesaid Minister & Words Mohawk was underlined Before she Made her Mark and Prayers Made John S. Quackenbush J. Peace

State of New York County of Montgomery
Esq: Cornelius Snook of the Town of Glen County and State aforesaid Being Duly Sworn -
Deposes and Says that he was Personally acquainted with Levi Hungerford Deceased who was a Private & Soldier in the War of the Revolution and the Said Levi Hungerford was enrolled and - Belonged in a Company of Militia commanded by Captain William Snook in Col d Frederick Fisher Regiment of Militia and the Said Capt e William Snook was then Stationed at Fort Hunter and that this Deponent was then at Fort Hunter on the 18 th Day of October or there about in the year 1780. and the Said Levi Hungerford Deceased was on the 18 th Day of October 1780. a Private & Soldier & under the Command of Capt e William Snook of the Militia under arms and Doing Duty at Said Fort until he was ordered out on duty and was taken a prisoner he the Said Levi Hungerford was a Bout a Mile from the above Said Fort where he the Said Levi Hungerford was taken Prisoner By a Party of Tories & Indians when he the Said L. Hungerford was taken Prisoner he was on Duty and under arms as this Deponent was informed and believes to be true and the Said Levi Hungerford was taken to Canada and detained a prisoner for 18 Months - as this Deponent always has been informed and By one Jacob Newkirk who Said he was 18 Months in Prison in Canada in Company with the Said Levi Hungerford and this Deponent States that Levi Hungerford resided and lived a Bout a half a Mile Distance from this Deponent through the whole of the Revolutionary War Excepted when he was Prisoner in Canada and this Deponent will remember the above said Day he was Made a Prisoner and the Time when he returned from Canada
Sworn & Subscribed Before me This 15 th Day of February 1841
Cornelius Snook
John S. Luackenbough J. Peace
I Certify that I have known the above named Cornelius Snook more than forty five years past but that he is a Credible man and his affidavit whereunto he Made his Mark is entitled to full credit The words until he was ordered out on Duty and the words War was interlined Before Executed
John S. Luackenbough J. Peace

State of New York Montgomery County ss
William Newkirk of the Town of Moreau - First Being Duly sworn Deposes and says that he was a Private and Soldier in the War of the Revolution and that he was personally acquainted with Levi Hunsford deceased and his and his wife Ann Hunsford and that he was a Private and Soldier in the War of the Revolution and that on or about the 10 th day October in the year 1780. The Enemy and Tories and Indians came from Schoharie and down the Schoharie Creek to Fort Hunter to the Mohawk River Destroying and Burning a long said Creek and up the Mohawk River Everything in their way and the Enemy & Tories was commanded by Jacob Brant the Indian & Col. Butler and that Levi Hunsford with this Deponent was taken and made Prisoner By the aforesaid mentioned Enemy & Tories & Indians about a mile from Fort Hunter and this Deponent further says that they took Levi Hunsford a Prisoner with this Deponent up the Mohawk River and as far as the Onida Lake where this Deponent & the said Levi Hunsford separated at that time and Levi Hunsford Went in a Boat on the Onida Lake to Canada & this Deponent Went By Land and Boath Went as Prisoner to Canada and this Deponent further says that His uncle Jacob Newkirk & said Levi Hunsford was put in Prison in Canada and Remained in Prison Eighteen Months as this Deponent believes to Be true and further saith Not The interlined was done Before William His Newkirk Signed or sworn to mark
Subscribed & sworn Before me
This 13 th Day of February 1841
John S. Duccchenbott J. Peace
I Certify that I have known The above William Newkirk who Made his Mark To the above affidavit Forty five years or more Past Past and That he is a Credible man and his affidavit as above made is intitled to full Credit the words in their way and the words a Boat a mile from Fort Hunter was interlined before Executed
John S. Duccchenbott J. Peace

State of New York Montgomery County Clerks Office
I verily Cook Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County aforesaid do hereby certify that John S. Trachtenberg before whom the foregoing affidavits of Cath- arine Trachtenberg, Cornelius Newkirk & William Newkirk purport to have been sworn was on the date of the date of same a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & verily do believe that his name subscribed to said affidavits and also to the foregoing Certificates of Characters of said Deponents is his proper hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of my Office the 15 th day of February 1841
J. Cook Dep. Clerk the Clerk being absent

State of New York County of Otsego 38
On the 23rd day of February 1841 personally appeared before Seth Chase a judge of the court of common pleas of of the county of Otsego (it being a court of record) Ann Hungerford a resident of the town of Milford in the county of Otsego and State of New York aged seventythree years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the by the act of congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows" that she is the widow of Levi Hungerford who was a private in the war of the revolution that during the whole period of the said war she resided at Fort Hunter at the junction of the Schoharie Creek with the Mohawk river now in the county of Montgomery in the State of New York that Levi Hungerford her late husband then resided about one mile from said Fort Hunter that she was then well acquainted with him that some time during the said war of the Revolution (she cannot state the particular year) it was said (and which she then believed and still believes true) that said Levi Hungerford was called into the United States service and actually entered such service at Fort Hunter aforesaid as a private soldier in the New York militia and that while so in service as a soldier he was taken prisoner by a party of Indians and Tories under the command of Buller and Brant and from thence taken to Canada as such prisoner and detained and kept as such prisoner for the term of eighteen months or more that he did not return to the place of his former residence near Fort Hunter until about three years from the time he was taken prisoner as aforesaid that he the said Levi Hungerford when in service at Fort Hunter was under the command of Capt Snook she does
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not recollect the names of any of the other officers there in command - that she has not any documentary evidence in support of her claim to a pension or as proof of services rendered by the said Levi Hungerford.
She further declares that she was married to the said Levi Hungerford on the 14th day of May but in what year she cannot recollect but it was more than fifty years ago and after the close or termination of the Revolutionary war that they both resided near Fort Hunter aforesaid at the time of their marriage that they were married at Caughnawaga the opposite side of the Mohawk river by the Reverend Mr. Romynne then pastor of the Reformed Dutch church at that place and were married at the house of said Romynne that after their marriage they continued to reside near Fort Hunter for several years and then removed to the county of Otsego in the new town of Milford nearly fifty years ago where they continued to reside until the death of her said husband that he the said Levi Hungerford died on the 15th day of May 1829 at Milford aforesaid that he was about sixtyseven years of age at the time of his death that she has continued to reside at Milford aforesaid since the death of her said husband - that she was not married to him prior to his having the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January nineteen hundred and ninetyfour Vox - at the time as above stated that her name previous to her marriage with with the said Levi Hungerford was Ann Luackenbopf that she has not been married since the death of her husband the said Levi Hungerford but that she still remains and continues his widow - that the nearest court of record is held is about seventeen miles from the residence of the declarant and by reason of the infirmities of old age she is unable to appear in open court to make her declaration to obtain a pension.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Seth Chase a judge of Otsego County
Ann { Hungerford Mark

State of New York
County of Otsego
William Hungerford of Milford in the county of Otsego aforesaid being duly sworn before Seth Chase a judge of the county court of common pleas of said county of Otsego deponeth and saith that he is the son of Levi and Ann Hungerford and resided with them at the time of the death of said Levi Hungerford that he died on the 15 th day of May 1829, in Milford in the county of Otsego that the said Ann Hungerford his mother has resided with him the deponent in the town of Milford aforesaid ever since the death of her husband the said Levi Hungerford and that she has not married since the death of her husband the said Levi Hungerford but that she still remains and continues his widow.
Subscribed and sworn to by
23 rd 1841 before me
Seth Chase judge of Otsego County
his
William + Hungerford mark
State of New York
County of Otsego
Peter Collier and Durison R. Boyce of Milford in said County of Otsego being both duly sworn before Seth Chase one of the judges of the court of common pleas of said County of Otsego do hereby and each of them separately depose and say that they have for many years past been well acquainted with Ann Hungerford who has made the

foregoing declaration to obtain a summon  summons both the summon  summons ally and by reputation the said Peter Collier for more than forty years and the said Denison R. Boyce for eight or nine years last past and that they have also been well acquainted with William Hungerford who has made the foregoing declaration and that they do know the said Ann Hungerford and William Hungerford to be persons of good character for truth and veracity and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Sworn to and subscribed February 1841 before me
Peter Collier Denison R. Boyce
Seth Chase a judge of Oregon County
I the said judge before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavits were taken do certify that I am well acquainted with Peter Collier & Denison R. Boyce and have been for several years last past and do know them to be persons of good character for truth and veracity and that their statement is entitled to credit. And I further certify that by reason of old age and infirmity I believe that Ann Hungerford who has made the foregoing declaration is unable to appear in open court to make her declaration and that the reason she does not write her name is she never learned to write.
Seth Chase judge of Oregon County

State of New York - 3
Albany County ss 3 I, Jeanne Russell clerk of said County Do hereby certify that J. W. Chase Esquire before whom the annexed affidavit purport to have been sworn was on the day after date of the same a Judge in and for Albany County commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to take the same: And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Judge and really believe his name subscribed to said affidavit and the certificate of credibility is to be his genuine hand writing and signature.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 28 th day of February 1841
Jeanne Russell Clerk

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
5387
P. O.
Ann Hungerford
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Logi - M.Y. 7651
Let to Hon. J. H. 16.
Prentiss - March 5, 1881
Am. E. G. Browne
Aug. 16, 1881
Inn - Hungerford - Inn
5387
act 7 July 38

Mar 3. 1841
No
NY.
July 7. 1838
Ann Hunsford
J. H. Phipps, n. 6.
J. H. Phipps n. 6.
J. L. Edwards, Esq. Court. of Sessions, Washington.

Wall St. Papers.
Tuesday, March 2, 1841.
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Sir:
The enclosed papers come to me by this day's mail. They are sent to you official, with a request that you will ask where there is your enlistment commission, and write an enlistment at Cooperstown, N.Y.
Yours &c. &c.
J. W. Putnam

PAID
Col. John H. Pratt M.C. Washington

Cooperstown Feb 25, 1844
Col Brewster
Enclosed are papers upon the application of Anna Kennicott of Oneonta for a pension will you do me the favor to present them at the proper office, and inform me after receipt direct your Letter to Anna Kennicott, Collinsville Otsego County
I am very Respectfully yours Anna Kennicott

Sept 14 a
Hungrford Mornings
H. S. Bowne HQ

Concord August 2 d 1841 Sir I wish you would inquire of the Hon J. L. Edwards and find out if you can whether he has Exam the cases of Ann Hangerford and also the case of Margaret Mooney and if so I would like also to know what the objections Objections are to either of the cases
Mr Magun is also very anxious to hear concerning his claim
Yours Truly J. Adams Hon S. S. Bowdoin
I sent the above to the Hon J. H. Prentiss which he was at Washington but has since had from them since J. Adams