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John Hull<\/strong><\/span>
\n Revolutionary War Pension Claim<\/strong><\/span>
\n Transcribed and submitted by James W. Patrick<\/a>, 2008<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

[Index Card]<\/span>
\n Service: Penn<\/span>
\n Hull, John<\/span>
\n Number: S.2636<\/span>
\n Carded<\/span><\/p>\n

——————————————————–<\/span><\/p>\n

[Outer face of folded document]<\/span>
\n 4097<\/span>
\n Tennessee, East<\/span><\/p>\n

=======================<\/span><\/p>\n

John Hull<\/span>
\n of Green Co. in the State of Tennessee<\/span>
\n who was a private in the company commanded<\/span>
\n by Captain Beddinger of the Reg. commanded<\/span>
\n by M Alislie [?] in the [something crossed out]<\/span>
\n Militia for nine months<\/span>
\n from 1776<\/span>
\n Pa. Line Records corrected Feby 15 \u201804<\/span><\/p>\n

================================<\/span><\/p>\n

Inscribed on the Roll of Tennessee<\/span>
\n a the rate of 30\u2014Dollars — Cents per annum<\/span>
\n to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831<\/span><\/p>\n

================================<\/span><\/p>\n

Certificate of Pension issued the 10\u2014day of July<\/span>
\n 1833 and Hon John<\/span>
\n Blau H.R.<\/span><\/p>\n

==================================<\/span><\/p>\n

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 45.00<\/span>
\n Semi-Anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833 15.00<\/span><\/p>\n

========<\/span><\/p>\n

$ 60.00<\/span>
\n Revolutionary Claim,<\/span>
\n Act June 7, 1839<\/span>
\n Recorded by Henry H. Sylvester [signed]<\/span>
\n Book D Vol. 9 Page 102<\/span><\/p>\n

[First written Full Page]<\/span><\/p>\n

State of Tennessee }<\/span>
\n Green County } September Term 1832<\/span><\/p>\n

On this 5th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Honorable<\/span>
\n Samuel Powel Judge the Circuit Court of Law & Equity –?\u2014John Hull aged eighty one years,\u00a0a resident\u00a0Citizen of the County of Green State aforesaid\/ who, being first duly sworn according to law doth on his\u00a0oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th\u00a0<\/span>June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served\u00a0<\/span>as herein stated towit. that being a resident citizen of the County of York Pennsylvania he in the month of\u00a0<\/span>June 1776 was drafted to perform a Tour of duty of two months, under Capt Nicholas Beddinger and\u00a0<\/span>rendezvoused in Abbotts Town in the County of York Pennsylvania operated–?\u2014in order to go to Trenton\u00a0<\/span>New Jersey, where was the British, and marched at the rate of thirty miles a day, Col. McCallister being\u00a0<\/span>the Col [scrawled — commandant?] and highest officer until their arrival at Amboy where was the regular\u00a0<\/span>army under Gens Mercer and Roberdo [?] that the main army then marched from Amboy, where this\u00a0<\/span>declarant entered into the flying camp under Capt. Beddinger for a four months tour, this first two months\u00a0<\/span>having expired, and, marched to Fort Lee & Washington, where the British under Col How captured Fort\u00a0<\/span>Washington & made prisoners of about twenty seven hundred of the American troops, most of his\u00a0<\/span>Company including Capn Beddinger being of the number after which the British took possession of Fort\u00a0<\/span>Lee also, and the American troops retreated to Trenton, this declarant of the number under Genl\u00a0<\/span>Washington Green & Starting [?]. At Trenton took eight or nine hundred Hessians, when & where\u00a0<\/span>declarant was taken sick & was carried to Philadelphia to the Hospital where he remained until cured\u00a0<\/span>which was more than five months from the time he entered the service in the flying camp and returned\u00a0<\/span>home from the Philadelphia Hospital and obtained a written discharge.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The next tour he was drafted to go as a guard to keep the British prisoners taken at Burgoynes,\u00a0after they were transported from Albemarle Barracks or Stanton to little York Pennsylvania where five\u00a0acres of land were stockaded to contain them, & were kept until the final ratification of Peace and they\u00a0discharged. Which service he rendered under Col Gibson & Capt. John Wampler, Lieutenant Jonas Wolf\u00a0of the Militia and served two months in the performance of that duty, being eight months according to\u00a0[something crossed out], but nine months actual service owing to his engagement being for but four\u00a0months in the flying camp where he in fact was kept in service for five months. That he has no\u00a0documentary evidence & that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to\u00a0his service [something crossed out] relinquishing every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except\u00a0the present, & declares that his name is not on the roll of pensioners of the agency of any state, nor is\u00a0there a resident minister of the gospel in his vicinity by whom he can establish the facts required by the\u00a0Secretary of War.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this day and year first before written.<\/span><\/p>\n

V. Sevier , Clk. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0John Hull [personally signed]<\/span>
\n [Signed] \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>[Signature is very shaky but strong]
\n<\/em><\/span>
\n We Vincent Jackson & John Balch residing in the County of Greene State aforesaid, do hereby certify\u00a0that we are well acquainted with John Hull who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration\u00a0that we believe him to be eighty one years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood\u00a0where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sworn to & subscribed in open Court this 5th September 1832.<\/span><\/p>\n

V. Sevier, Clk Vincent Jackson [signed]<\/span>
\n John Balch [signed]<\/span><\/p>\n

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting\u00a0the interrogatories prescribed by the War Dept\/ that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier &\u00a0served as he states & the Court further certifies that it appears to him that Vincent Jackson & John Balch\u00a0who signed the preceding certificate are residents of said County & are credible persons and their\u00a0certificates entitled to full confidence.<\/span><\/p>\n

S. [Norres?] [signed, but unreadable] Judge of the<\/span>
\n Circuit Court of the State of Tennessee<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Hull Revolutionary War Pension Claim Transcribed and submitted by James W. Patrick, 2008 [Index Card] Service: Penn Hull, John Number: S.2636 Carded ——————————————————– [Outer face of folded document] 4097 Tennessee, East ======================= John Hull of Green Co. in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-81","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/greenetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/greenetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/greenetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/greenetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/greenetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/greenetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/greenetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/greenetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}