Rutland County VT Archives Obituaries.....Hulett, Daniel August 27, 1838
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Rutland Daily Herald - September 18, 1838
  Died at Pawlet on the 12th day of July last, Mrs. Abigail Hulett, age 83, on
the 27th August following, Mr. Daniel Hulett, age 90.The funeral solemnities
were each performed by the Rev. Joseph Ayres, and discourses delivered to large
congregations well adopted to the solemn occasions.
  Mr. Hulett was a Revolutionary soldier and was at the Battle of Bunker Hill,
in the Retreat of New York, in the Battle of White Plains, in Sullivan's
Expedition at Rhode Island, and at the capture of Burgoyne. In this last
engagement his ramrod was hit by a bullet as he was charging and bent so that he
could not charge until he got a stone and straightened it. Soon after, two balls
hit him at one and the same time and brought him to the ground. One struck him
on the left side of his throat and the other on the right side of his face, each
taking a piece of flesh as large as a man's thumb. He had the offer to be
carried off the field but refused, though the blood flowed profusely. He
remained on the field until night put a stop to the charge. He had with him a
wife and two children who now grew tired of the camp and returned home to
Connecticut.
  Mr. Hulett had a small farm in Connecticut which he sold, intending to settle
in Vermont, but had to take Continental money for his pay and nearly lost the
whole, being obliged to pass 72 dollars for one.
  Poor and penniless but not discouraged, he removed to Pawlet [VT] and put up a
pole cabin. Though now in a desolate and somewhat retired spot, he was not
beyond the din of war. In October a few weeks before his wife's confinement, two
men in the dead of night came to his hut and demanded of him "to turn out
immediately for the French and Indians are upon us." After some parleying he
shouldered his musket and took leave of his wife and children. Then in a howling
wilderness without any of the comforts or conveniences of life he joined the
expedition. 
  He returned in about two weeks, it being the 8th of November, the ground
covered with snow. In his absence and alone, his wife bore him a fine daughter,
which must have been somewhat cheering to a brave soldier.
  Under these circumstances, think you, oh ye fair daughters of Vermont, what
your mothers suffered and endured to raise the standard of liberty and to
procure for you your invaluable civil and religious privileges. Will you assist
in preserving them now? 
  The subjects of this brief notice lived together 63 years and raised a large
family, three sons and eight daughters, ten of whom lived to have families.
One hundred four grand-children and one hundred five great-grandchildren. 

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Notes:
Daniel Hulett (s/o Josiah Hulett and Lydia)- b. 11 May 1748 in Killingly Ct; d.
27 Aug 1838 in Pawlet, VT. Married 3 Aug 1774 Abigail Paul (d/o John Paul and
Abigail Kiles)in Killingly CT. Abigail Paul b. 1755 Killingly CT, d. 12 July
1838 Pawlet VT. 11 children.
THE REAL STORY: From the Hulett Family by Carl S. Hulett, Jr.
  In the fall of 1774, only a short time after his marriage to Abigail, Daniel
left Killingly for Pawlet, VT, to begin clearing the 640 acres of land he
received in a grant from Benning Wentworth, the last royal Governor of New
Hampshire. Daniel traveled alone and on foot, pulling a sled. When he arrived at
his land he built a pole cabin a short distance to the south and west of where
he is now buried in the family cemetery. He spent the winter clearing the land
and in spring planted wheat which he brought from Killingly. He then returned to
Connecticut and did not return to Pawlet until after the Battle of Bunker Hill.
On this second trip to Pawlet Daniel planted his famous apple orchards with the
'999 seeds' he brought from Killingly. The legend of the 999 seeds is mentioned
in Herbert Wheaton Congdon's book, "Old Vermont Houses".
  Daniel brought Abigail and their two children to Pawlet in 1780. In 1781
Abigail's father deeded him a parcel of land in what was known as the Willard
Tract, which adjoined the original 640-acre grant. This gift increased Daniel's
farm to about 1,500 acres, making it one of the largest in the region. 
  Nine more children were born to Abigail and Daniel. Both are buried in the
Hulett Cemetery, a few hundred feet from the site of Daniel's first encampment
in Vermont and within sight of where he later built a substantial home.  


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