How do you go about looking for a Pension File. Pat > From: MomNat@aol.com > Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:14:37 EDT > To: WARof1812-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [WARof1812] Justin Jacobs - 31st US Infantry > Resent-From: WARof1812-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:14:50 -0600 > > Hello Pat, > > Boy am I glad to hear that someone else had heard of the first 31st!!!!!! My > ggg grandfather John HUTCHINSON was also in the 31st US Infantry in the > WO1812 - Capt Dickinson's Co as a Private. I sent for and received his Pension > file. It was a gold mine of information, but it took 18 months to get because > they > lost my request, etc - this was several years ago, they have improved. BUT, > information about the 31st!!!! DEAD END. I even joined the list for the 31st > US > Infantry - someone on list told me it was disbanded and then reformed, but no > references. It is now somewhat of a polar unit, heavy on the Korean War - the > other war called the "Forgotten War". I have tried to find a unit history, > dead end, just the modern unit. I sort of dropped the ball on this. John was > from Vermont, born in Pomfret in 1795. > > John Hutchinson also got a land grant - in Hardin County, IL. The family is > still nearby. He may have also been in another unit (Capt Burnap's) for a > short > time and received land in another county - I have gotten nowhere on this. > This was during a mysterious first marriage prior to his marriage to my ggg > grandmother, where he fell off the map, so to speak. > > Kathryne > > > ==== WARof1812 Mailing List ==== > MESSAGE HINT: Limit your per line characters > to 55 to 70 for a much better return message. > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >