Morrison's Pensions
Pension Application for Isaac Fuller
S.8536
State of New York
Otsego County
On the 22d
day of October in the year 1832 personally appeared in open court before his
Honor Sherman Paige Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for
the County of Otsego, Isaac Fuller a resident of the Town of Unadilla in
the County of Otsego and State of New York aged seventy eight 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 the 7th June
1832.
That he
entered the service of the United States under the following named officers
and served as herein stated.
That in
the year 1777 he thinks in April he enlisted at Florida formerly called Warren’s
Bush in the County of Montgomery State of New York in a Company of Rangers
commanded by Captain Kitman. (1) That the Lieutenant’s name was Jacob
Simmons (2) which said company was raised by the State of New York for the
purpose of ranging the woods between the Mohawk River and Canada and watch
the motion of the British & Indians
and to guard & protect forts and the inhabitants for the term of six
months and until discharged by the orders of the governor that he went with
said company to Stone Robby (3) from thence to Sacandaga to the Fish House & various
places on the Mohawk River and through the woods back & forth untill
sometime in December following when they returned back to Stone Robby and
was there discharged.
That in the
spring of the year 1780 (4) he again enlisted for eight months at Schenectady
in Capt. Hale’s (5) Company New York Militia and went to Schohary and was
stationed there three Months at the Middle Fort commanded by Capt. Dubois (6)
from thence was out in scoughting [sic—scouting] parties after the
Indians and guarding the forts and inhabitants until winter when he was discharged
at Schohary he thinks in December he well recollects that he traveled in
the snow on his return home that he lived in said Florida in the time of
the Revolutionary War where the inhabitants were much harassed and alarmed
by the British and Indians and that he was frequently called on to turn out
and go and repel them. That he did go on alarms very frequently and also
on guard for two or three years in that war.
That he
engaged and served (three months in carrying provisions from Albany to Fort
George and about one month from Albany to Rome and various services through
the most of the war he living in a place very much exposed to the enemy that
he has no documentary or other evidence to prove his said services that he
hereby relinquishes every claim for a pension or annuity except the present
and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any
state.
(Signed
with his mark) Isaac Fuller
Sworn to & subscribed
the day and year aforesaid S. Paige, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for
Otsego County.
The interrogatories
prescribed by the War Department being then put to the said applicant by
the said judge when the applicant gave the following answers under oath on
examination that he was born at Charles Town in the State of New Hampshire
in the year 1753 that he has no record of his age but had in his father’s
Bible which is worn out but believes it correct. That he lived in Warrensbury
[sic] now Florida when called into the service. That soon after the war he
came to Unadilla in the County of Otsego about forty-eight years ago and has
resided there since and lives there now. That he entered the service by enlistment
twice and volunteered several times. That he refers to Silas Scott esq., Christian
B. Fellows, Colo. Cone & Jared Mudge who reside in the neighborhood and
are acquainted with him that he requests the 3 months team service be stricken
out because he was paid for it.
The
following letter is in the pension application folder.
December 13, 1912.
Mr. D. C. Young
The Orange National Bank
Smethport, Pa.
Sir:
In response
to your letter dated the 7th and received the 9th instant you are advised that
Isaac Fuller, sur. File No. 8,536. Rev. War was allowed pension for fifteen month’s
service as a Private on his application executed October 22, 1832, at Unadilla,
Otsego County, New York, where he had resided about forty-eight years.
He stated
that he was born in 1753, at Charlestown, New Hampshire and resided during the
Revolution at Warren’s Bush of Warrensbury, which was afterwards called
Florida, Montgomery County, New York.
He enlisted
in April 1777, in Captain Getman’s Company of Rangers, and served against
the British and Indians on the frontier between the Mohawk River and Canada
and was discharged at Stone Arabia sometime in December following.
Enlisted at
Schenectady in the spring of 1780, for eight months in Captain Hale’s company
of Militia and was engaged in guarding the Forts and scouting after Indians until
December when he was discharged at Schoharie. He also “engaged and served
about one month from Albany to Rome”, and was out on frequent alarms.
There is
no family data on file in this claim.
For the date
of last payment of soldier’s pension, and to whom paid, application
should be made to the Auditor for the Interior Department, U. S. Treasury
Department, Washington, D. C., giving him all of the following date:
“Isaac
Fuller, Certificate No. 14,231, issued May 15, 1833, under the Act of June
7, 1832, at the New York Agency.”
Referring
to a map of New York at the time of the Revolution, it appears that Warrensborough
was then in Tryon County, and the publication entitled “New York in the
Revolution” compiled by James A. Roberts, 1898 page 186 shows that Isaac
and Michael Fuller served in Captain Getman’s Company of Tryon County
Rangers.
Very respectfully,
J. L. Davenport
Commissioner.
End Notes for Isaac Fuller S.8526
By James F. Morrison