This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hulick, Lott, Tait, Monday, Shumard Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zQB.2ACE/1549.4.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't have any documentation that my 4th great grandfather John Hulick was a tavern owner, it's possible though, he lived in the area at that time. What information that I have about John is from the National Archives including his military records and a copy of his bible records. I also have copies of records for his family from the 1st Presbyterian Church of Cranbury, NJ where he was a member. In his opening statement of his pension file he states the following: "On this 6th day of August in the year of our Lord 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the Honorable Court of Common Pleas for said County John Hulick a resident of the County of Clermont and the State of Ohio, aged 77 years, 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 June 7, 1832". "That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he was born in Somerset County, New Jersey, on the twelfth day of November in the year seventeen hundred fifty four, and removed (as he has been informed) to Middlesex County in the same state at when he was about three years old, and continued to reside in that county about nine miles from New Brunswick in a place called the South Ward of New Brunswick until he removed to the western country". I am not from this area and I am not able to find the South Ward, Rhode Hall or Ten Mile Run on the earliest map that I have (1895)of Middlesex County, NJ. Is this near Kingston, Cranbury or Hightstown, NJ? The following is also from his pension record. Personally appeared in open Court Edward Kinnan of lawful age ( a resident of said Clermont County) who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath state that he knew John Hulick in the State of New Jersey in Middlesex County near Hightstown. First saw him in the year 1790. Deponents father owned a mill there and the said John Hulick the present applicant ( for the benefit of the Act of Congress dated June 7th 1832)came to the mill. Are there records of mill owners for this area and time period? Any help greatly apreciated, sincerely, Jim Weaver