Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5362 1/2, Benjamin Hall, R.I.
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Service - R.I.


Hall, Benjamin


Number - R.5362 1/2
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Benjamin Hall




Direct to William C. Keen
Vevay Indiana
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The State of Indiana Switzerland County

Be it remembered that on the  16th day of October, AD 1819 before me Abner Clarkson one of the associate judges of the Circuit Court in and the county aforesaid personally appeared Benjamin Hall, of the county aforesaid, aged about seventy years who after being duly sworn according to law, in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress of March 18, 1818, to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, doth and did depose, declare and say that he entered into the army, raised to obtain and defend American liberty and independence by enlisting, by enlisting at under Captain Elijah Lewis of the regiment in the Connecticut line, commanded by Colonel John Angle in the month of April or May AD 1776 and served three years, and was discharged in 1779, at White Plains, New York state by Colonel John Angle - Again he enlisted in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1780, in September under Major Ebenezer Adams of the Artillery and served until the end of the war, when he was discharged by Major Adams at New York - that he is in indigent circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support - and that he never received
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a pension from the United States to his knowledge, and if any should have been allowed him he hereby relinquishes the same to the United States, and further saith not.

Benjamin Hall


Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16th day of October AD 1819.

Abner Clarkson

Associate Judge S.C. Indiana


The State of Indiana Switzerland County

I Abner Clarkson, do hereby certify that Benjamin Hall has proved to my satisfaction that he served nine months and upwards in the Revolutionary War and that he is in indigent circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support.

Given under my hand and seal, at Vevay, this 16th day of Oct. AD 1819

Abner Clarkson
Associate Judge S.C. Indiana
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State of Indiana
Switzerland County

I John Francis DuFour Clerk of the Switzerland circuit court of the county aforesaid hereby certify that Abner Clarkson Esquire before whom the foregoing Declaration appears to have been sworn to and subscribed and who granted the above certificate was at the time of administering said oath and granting said certificate and ? is one of the associate Judges of said court and that due faith and credit is and ought to be given to his official acts as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Vevay this 2nd day of November AD 1819
John F. DuFour Clerk
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Direct to William C. Keen
Vevay Indiana
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State of Indiana Switzerland County


On this 28th day of February 1820, before me, the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit court in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Benjamin Hall aged 70 years, resident in Switzerland county in the said state, who, being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war":  That he, the said Benjamin Hall enlisted for the term of Three years on the 10th day of December in the year 1776 in Prospect Hill, in the State of Massachusetts, in the company commanded by Captain Elijah Lewis of the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Angle in the line of the State of Rhode Island, on the Continental Establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the year 1779, when he was discharged from service in New York state at King's Ferry, that he was in the battles of Stillwater and Trenton. Again he enlisted in Easton Pennsylvania in September 1780 under Major Ebenezer Adams of the Artillery commanded by ? and served until the end of the war; and was discharged at the City of New York
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.

Benjamin Hall

Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.

Associate Judge J.C.C. 

I, Ralph Cotton, Judge, &c., as aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Benjamin Hall did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months at one time, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.  I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support. and I certify, that the first application was dated 16th Oct. 1819. Witness my hand and seal this 28th day of February 1820. 

Ralph Cotton 
Judge
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State of Indiana
Switzerland County Ss. I John F. Dufour Clerk of the Switzerland Circuit Court in and for Switzerland County aforementioned hereby certify that Ralph Cotton, before whom the aforementioned applicant appears t have been taken and by whom the Certificate there under written appears to have been signed by him the said Cotton, was one of the appointed Judges, by said of said Court at the time the said affidavit and certificate appears to have been made and has been ever like the said 25th day of February 1820 and still is one of the Associate Judges of this court, and duly qualified to act as such and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts. 
     In testimony which of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at (too light to read) this 18th day of May 1820
                     John F Dufour Clerk
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Printer’s Retreat Indiana
August 23. 1832

Sir
     I closed I send you the application of Benjamin Hall, /who now resides in (illegible due to inside of fold on paper.) County for a pension, made out in 1820.  I am informed also, that he made an application through O.H.Smith some 4 or 5 years since = you can compare those in to his with them files by Smith. He called on me a few days since to make out an application under the act of Congress of June 7, 1832.
     His statement differences go widely, that I declined sending it on.  He may make application from Ripley, Dearborn or Jefferson = if so, you will be enable to judge of his claim - I will copy his last statement, made to me and forward it by neat mail. 
                          Yours Truly
                         William C. Keen
              Honorable Secretary of War
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(This is a two page document, journal style, with writing on the left side only. Right side is left blank)

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873
(The sentence above was lined through)

REJECTED
5.3622
P.O.—————————————————————-
Benjamin Hall
Service:———————————————————-
Enlisted:———————————————————,18
Discharged:—————————————————,18
Application filed:———————————————————————, 18
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Re-enlisted:——————————————————-
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Attorney:————————————————————
P.O.———————————————————————
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———Recognized, ——————————Contract
—-Cert. of Dis.  Searched for———————,18
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File this with suspended cases 
Rec’d at Pension Office
2 of Sept 1832
See case from Keene
Illinois case WRP
Between 10.000 & 10.500