Series 2 (1 January 1812-16 February 1815)
To all to whom these presents shall come, I Reuben Swift Sheriff of the county of Columbia send Greeting: Whereas by virtue of one writ of Fieri Facias, issued out of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the People of the State of New York, tested the sixteenth day of January in the year one Thousand eight hundred and Thirteen, at the suit of Cornelius J. Schermerhorn, John J. Schermerhorn &... Continue Reading
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I hope you will excuse my remissness in not writing you before. The circuit, the common pleas & my Jaunt to Utica, have kept me in hot water. I returned to this place have kept me in hot & adjourned our court to Troy. My principal residence after this will be here where I shall at all times be happy to hear from you & to communicate such information as may be agreeable to you.
I gave... Continue Reading
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I have read your letter over & over again, it is plain, sen sensible & interesting. That you have not been to blame I knew & have I hope always admitted. Its effect on my opinion of others I will write more fully hereafter.
I enclose you a Letter which I wish you to read & ^seal^ deliver it, & if it is not improper say a few words to the Secty on the subject. The thing has... Continue Reading
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I am on my way to utica to try Wilkinson & embrace the time afforded me by the severity of a snow storm to drop you a line.
You who know me well must know that I am not much inclined to despondency or much given to fault finding, but my dear sir the complaints of the country are of a nature not to pass unheeded. I have spent two hours with a respectable officer of the army. His conversation... Continue Reading
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The court for the Trial of Genl. Wilkinson met at Troy on the 16th. Instant, pursuant to an adjournment of which I apprised you.
I appeared before them, produced my letter of appointment and claimed to conduct the prosecution in pursuance of it. Genl. Wilkinson objected to my appointment on the gen general ground of want of authority in the President to make it & to my surprise the court... Continue Reading
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I returned to this place last evening from utica, whither I had repaired to discharge the duties attached to the station with which you had honored me. The court disgusted by the impositions which the people of utica who attempted to practice upon them & satisfyed that that place would be less convenient for the Witnesses have adjourned to Troy where on monday next they will assemble &... Continue Reading
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The People of the State of New-York, by the Grace of God,
free and independent.
L.S.
To Gideon P. Wolcott of
the town of Granger in the County
of Columbia, send Greeting:
Whereas Lydia Pulver mother of Hannah Pulver daughter of Teunis Pulver
late of the town of Granger in Columbia County, deceased, has, by her Petition, presented to Martin Van Buren Esquire, our Surrogate for our said County of... Continue Reading
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TO MARTIN VAN BUREN, Esquire, Surrogate
of the County of Columbia.
The Petition of Lydia Pulver mother of
Elisabeth Pulver who is the daughter
of Teunis Pulver Deceased.
Respectfully Represents.
That Elizabeth Pulver,
is a Minor, within the age of fourteen years, and that according to the best of the knowledge and belief of your Petitioner she was ^is^ Eleven about ^eleven^ years of age on the [... Continue Reading
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I am Judge advocate in the tedious trial of Genl. Hull, a member of the Court of Errors, bound to prepare opinions, a Legislator obliged to Step into the Senate Chamber every two or three hours to stop the passage of some wicked law, an attorney of Counsel in the Supreme Cout & Common pleas & Mayors Court, with many other great & important callings and avocations & moreover... Continue Reading
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This will be handed to you by my Brother who I have sent down with the proceedings in the case of Genl. Hull. On examining them you will I presume be surprised that he was not detained by the court, that he ought to have been was my opinion, the court however thought that it did not belong to them but to the Goverment to arrest & confine him.
If in this they erred that error was one of... Continue Reading
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I do hereby certify that Captn Charles Fuller has attended & been sworn as a Witness in the cause of Genl. William Hull from the 14th. Jany till 25 18th. Feby 1814.
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I feel in a very bad humour or I would give you the reasons at lenght why the application I now make to you is unpleasant, but will in one Word say that the middle district has never been ^truly^ represented at Washington & untill I am satisfyed that the Secretaries & President have changed their disposition on the point of listening exclusively to the recommendations of John P. Van Ness... Continue Reading
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I write you at the instance of the Court convened here for the trial of General Hull, to obtain your advice as to some points arising from the present and probably future state of the Court as to the number of its Members.
The Court when organized, consisted of fourteen Members; Viz: thirteen sitting Members, and one Supernumerary, (Col: Forbes.) After the cause on the part of the U. States was... Continue Reading
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The United States}
vs.}
William Hull}
Abbreviation of Charges
& Specifications
Ist. Charge
Treason agt. the U. States between the 9th. of April & 17th. of August 1812
First Specification
1. The sending the Boat & papers 1st. July 1812 from Rapid to Detroit.
Second Specification
I. The abandonment of Sandwich a post necessary to the reduction of Malden.
2d. A... Continue Reading
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I Treason.
A. 1. Witnesses to prove the previous connection of Genl Hull with the inhabitants of Canada; his passage from Detroit to Fort-George in the Queen Charlotte, & his conversations on board; with any other facts, shewing an illicit intercourse and intimacy with the Enemy.
B. 2. Witnesses to prove the hiring of the vessel at the Rapids &, putting the Trunk of papers on board; the... Continue Reading
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