Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14,907, Henry Hill, Md.
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Md.
Hill, Henry Hester
W.14907
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5.3. 49
District of Columbia 
Hester Hill, dec d
widow of Henry Hill who died on the 
of
in this State of
who was a Captain in the xxx commanded by Captain xxx of the xxx commanded by Md in the Revolution line for Increased from $390.16. Inscribed on the Roll of Washington at the rate of 410 Dollars 66 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. and end 15th August 1842. Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of Decr 1856 and sent to A. H. Markland Arrears to the 4th day of [illegible] Semiannual allowances ending Present. {Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the } Recorded by G.T. Getty Clerk, Book 36 Vol. 1 Page 210
AH Markland May 25, 1857 1880 April 19 Dr. Du Hamel of amt allowed when it commenced
1880 May 5 Doct Du Hamel a fuller [illegible possibly a/c account] of his military service
1890 May 10 J F Duhamel history [illegible]
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Extract from the Record of Marriage License in possession of the Clerk of the County Court of Prince Georges County

Seventeen hundred & eight one April twenty third
Henry Hill Jun & Helta Brooke

Maryland Prince Georges County

I Aquila Beall do depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk to the County Court of Prince Georges County in the state of Maryland and that the above extract is truly taken from the Record of Marriage Licenses in my possession with the exception of the date which is inscribed on the record in fair legible figure.

Aquila Beall - Clerk
Prince Geroge's County Court

Sworn before 
W G Carter J.P.
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Maryland Prince Georges County

I hereby certify that William G Carter Gentleman before whom the within deposition appears to have been made was on the day of the date thereof and still is one of the Justices of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for Prince Georges County duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of Prince Georges County Court this 18th day of November 1838.

A Beall - Clk
P.G. Cty Court

SEAL
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District of Columbia
County of Washington

On this thirtieth day of November in the year of our Lord 1855 before me T. Hartley Crawford one of the judges of the Court in and for the county and district aforesaid personally appeared Joseph B Hill administrator of Hester Hill dec'd a resident of Prince Georges County, Maryland, who being duly sworn according to law doth make the following declaration in order to obtain  the benefits of the act of congress passed 4th July 1836 that he is the administrator of Hester Hill who was the widow of Captain Henry Hill of Prince Georges County Maryland and who applied for a pension under act 7th July 1838 for the services of her said husband said application was rejected for the reason that there was no evidence shown to justify the allowance of said claim, since making that application new and material evidence has been found which is hereunto transmitted which will most clearly show a service of nearly two years for further particularly in reference to the marriage of Hester Hill and the service of Henry Hill reference is made to the declaration of Mrs. Hester Hill under act 7th July 1838 whilst she was then living. That Hester Hill the widow of Henry Hill died on the fifteenth day of August 1842, leaving the following named children and they are the only children now alive of
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[illegible] Hester Hill [illegible] viz: Anne T. Hill, Joseph B. Hill and Clement B Hill and Hennetta J Kennedy for the truth of the aforesaid particularly he refers to the evidence hereunto annexed and made part of this declaration.

Clement B Hill [illegible] before signing.

Jos B Hill

Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above written before me & I certify that evidence has before [illegible] before me showing that Hester Hill died on the fifteenth day of August 1842 leaving the following named children and that they are the only children now alive, Anne T. Hill, Joseph B. Hill, Clement B. Hill and Hennetta J. Kennedy and said evidence is hereunto annexed.

T. Hartley Crawford
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V 2483
Declaration No 1
of
Mrs. Hester Hill
of Prince Georges County MD
in order
to obtain the benefit of an
Act of Congress passed the
7 July 1838 entitled
"An act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows"

Joseph Hill Adm
Oct 17/38
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Declaration of Mrs. Hester Hill

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows."

District of Columbia
Washington County

On this seventeen day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight personally appeared before the subscriber chief Judge of the circuit court and sole judge of the district court of the said district Mrs. Hester Hill a resident of Prince Georges County in the state of Maryland aged seventy-eight years on the ninth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty-eight who is too infirmed to attend court and who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed the seventh day of July eighteen hundred and thirty eight entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.

That she is the widow of the late Captain Henry Hill of Prince Georges County in the state of Maryland.

That by the annexed certificate of G.G. Brewer Esquired dated "Land Office Annapolis 7th September 1838" it will appear that her said husband Henry Hill was appointed a Captain in the lower Battalion of Militia in Prince Georges County on the 1st day of September 1777.

That her husband commanded a company of militia under Colonel Luke Marbury and was attached to the Flying Camp under General Smallwood in 1777 that he marched to Pennsylvania and was in the actions of Germantown and White Horse and that he served during the whole war in the cause of his county defending and maintaining her dearest rights - which is corroborated by the annexed deposition of Daniel Carroll of Dudington, Esquire a resident of the City of Washington in the District of Columbia to whom her husband was related and by whom the services of her husband were partially known.

She further declares that she was married to
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to the said Captain Henry Hill on the twenty fourth day of April, either in the year seventeen hundred & seventy nine or in the year seventeen hundred & eighty:  which circumstance, as well as the services of her husbands, she is unable further to prove in consequence of the entire loss of all her husbands papers, and family records, by fire on the twenty third of October Eighteen hundred & thirty two, when her dwelling was entirely consumed.
That her husband, the aforesaid Captain Henry Hill, died on the twenty seventh day of April, Eighteen hundred & twenty two:  that she was married to him during the war, whilst he held the commission of Captain in the Battalion aforesaid, and that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four; viz, at the time herein before stated, and that she has not since married,
Hester Hill
by Henriette Kennedy
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year first within written
before me
W. Cranch
Oct 17, 1838 [written on side]
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Hill, Henry
Md W 14907
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [SEAL]
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(? 770)
SERVICE NUMBER
Md.    Hill, Henry          W. 14.907
           Hester

15 Lines below blank
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Henry Hill
W. 14907. Md.
An order signed Luke Marbury, Col. [Colonel] Md. Militia dated Baltimore Mch 1, 1779.
A return of men recruited for service by Capt Henry Hill of Col Marbury's Md. rest in 1779 and a receipt have been removed from this case to be sent to the War Dept.
Sent to War Dept.
Jany 16, 1913
L. H. Much 2, 1911
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She died Aug 15 1842
Rev Widow, etc. 
File no. 14907
Hester Hill
Widow of
Henry Hill
Capt. Rev. War
Act: July 7th 1836
Index:--Vol. a, Page 935
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Hill, Henry
Md W14907
[Seal of the National Archives of the United States]
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5.349
District of Columbia
Hester Hill, dec'd,
widow of Henry Hill, 
who died on the [blank]
of [blank] in the State of [blank]
who was a Captain in the [blank] commanded
by Captain [blank] of the Md commanded 
by [blank] in the Revolution
line for 19 months and 16 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Washington
at the rate of $90 Dollars 66, Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of 
March 1831 and ending 
15th August 1842
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of 
March 1856 and sent to 
A.H. Markland
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending Present. 

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act, July 4, 1836,
Section the 4th

Recorded by G.Y. Getty Clerk,
Book 66. Vol. 1. Page 210. 

A. H. Markland
April 5, 1856
Lee Intena,
Afoul 29/56
[unreadable] May 28/86
[unreadable] of 
May 31, 1856
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I, Bernard Hove, a Clerk in the Pension Office, do
hereby certify that I have been personally well acquainted with Genl. George Washington Biscoe for more than Fifty years; during all which time he has sustained, and now enjoys the reputation of the strictest veracity and integrity. 
I have no hesitation in saying that I believe any statement by Genl. Biscoe would be entitled to the most implicit reliance, and entirely above all suspicion or doubt. 
B. Hove
February 29:1856.
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[Illegible] Cir Agency
[illegible]

Hester Hill, died who was
the widow of Henry, who
was a captain in the Maryland Militia
---
---
An Act July 4, 1836
20 months 16 days since
of Captain's
$410:66 ts per Annum
ca March 4, 1831.
and Aug 15, 1842, when she
died [illegible] deducting former
payments at $390:16 ts
per Annum
-
To Joseph B. Hill Administrator
use of
Anne T. Hill
Joseph B. Hill
Clement B Hill
Henrietta J. Kennedy with children
A. H. Markland Present
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Dist. Col. Agency
Hester Hill, [illegible] who was the widow of Henry, who was a Captain in the Maryland Militia -----
See Act July 4, 1836,
19 months & 16 days
$390.66 per ann.
Co March 4, 1831
End August 15, 1842
---when she died
To Joseph B. Hill, Act 
use of 
Anne T Hill
Joseph B. Hill
Clement B. Hill
Hennrietta J. Kennedy, all children
A.H. Markham, Present
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Washington City
February 24th 1856
I hereby Certify That I was well acquainted with Captain Henry Hill who was a Captain in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War in the Line of Maryland Troops, Genl. Smallwoods, Brigade, and I well recollect hearing him frequently recount events and dangers he had experienced in said service. Captain Hill has been dead many years, he was a Native of Prince Georges County Md. Highly respectable and his statements were always deemed fully entitled to credit. 
Geo. W. Biscoe
Late Major in the War of
1812
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[illegible handwriting]

[Stamp]:
Second Deputy
May 8, 1899
Commissioner


R 4999
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Washington D.C. May 4, 1890
Deputy Commissionaries of Pensions
Sir:
If it is possible will you please furnish me with a certificate detailing the terms of service, date of enlistment, company and regiment of Capt Henry Hill who served in the Revolutionary War in a Maryland regiment. All of these facts are set forth in an application for a pension or bounty made by his heirs about 1850. If these papers are not in your office what chances are there of their being found in the War Department. 
Very respectfully
James F. Duhamel
700 9th st. NW.
Washington, D.C.
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Jan 8
Jan 3'd 1856
Application of the Adm.
of Hester Hill dced
Widow of Henry Hill
Act 21 July 1836
Les Sept 1777 to 25 July 1778 - 3.25
27 Apr 1778 to 12 Aug 1778      3.05
2 Oct  1778 to 1 Dec 1778           1.29
2.25
3.15
4.07
-------
19.16
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January 3, 1856
Hon J Minot
Commission of Pensions
I declare, herewith, the application of the Administrator of Mrs Hester Hill of Prince Georges County Md, for the benefit of the pension law of 4th July 1836, in the life-time of Mrs Hill she made appreciation for a pension under act July 7 1838, but was unsuccessful for the reason that she could not prove the service of her husband, she supposing that all evidence of said service was destroyed by the burning of her dwelling some years previous, since that time the very best possible evidence has been discovered and is herewith transmitted viz. a memorandum of his service as a Captain from the day of his Commission 1st Sept 1777 to the 10th Dec 1781, making a period of actual service of [two illegible words inserted here] 19 1/2 months , also a letter from Col Marbury addressed to him and dated March 15 1779., a [illegible word] against him for repairing comp wagons dated Sept 18 1781. A fragment of a letter from Col Luke Marbury addressed to him and dated 13 March 1782. There can be no doubt but what Capt Hill served over two years. I ask that a full pension may be allowed his widow. 
Your servant
A.H. Markland
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I have often the hand writing of the Late Captain Henry Hill of Prince Georges County Maryland and to the best of my recollection he wrote of Plain and intelligible hand, such as Planters and Farmers usually write. 
Geo. W. Biscoe
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Hester Hill
Widow of Henry
Maryland
J.H. Riley 18 Oct 1838 -
Hon S Wright Jr 11 Dec. 1838 - same Dec 26 1838 -
A. H. Markland Jany 16 1856 -
Let. A.H. Markland
Feb 29 /56
July 7 1838
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Hester Hill of Henry
Maryland
Suspended
let:  18th Oct 38 J.N. Riley
See let: 11th Dec 1838 [illegible word] S Wright, Jr. same Dec. 26, 1838
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Asks reexamination case
Hester Hill
Md - sus - 1838
Rev [illegible word]
A.H. Markland
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Washington January 22, 1856

Hon J Minot Esq.
Dear Sir
In accordance your verbal request  I addressed a letter to the Clerk of Prince Georges Court Maryland, asking if there was any instrument of writing in his office by which the handwriting of Henry Hill might be recognized.  I enclose herewith his answer.  I feel satisfied that upon a reexamination of the case you will be convinced that the evidence heretofore filed will be sufficient to justify you in the allowance of the case, it being sufficient by documentary as well as parole proof, the character of all the parties particularly that of Daniel Carroll. The witness ought to be sufficient of itself even if there was no record evidence.  I ask a reexamination. 

I am very respectfully [illegible word]
[signature of ] A. H. Markland
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United States Senate Chamber
21st February 1856
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Joseph H. Hilll Esq of Prince Georges County Maryland. I know him to be a man whose honesty and integrity is unquestioned, I would readily believe any statement he would make on oath. 
Thomas H. Platt
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Washington 10 Dec. 1838
My Dear Sir, the enclosed papers, asking a pension for the widow of a Revolutionary soldier, have been placed in my hands by a Lady of your City with whom we[illegible] at our last [illegible], and who appeared to be
most respectable and worthy. She is a Mrs. Kennedy and the daughter of Mrs. Hill the applicant for the pension.  Her strong request that  I would deliver the papers to you and endeavor to aid her mother induced this
note.  I have read the papers, but my acquaintance with the pension laws and with your [?] and instructions does not enable me to form an opinion as to their sufficiency. Mrs. Kennedy tells me she fears you will require a second witness to the services of her Father
and that after the most diligent inquiry she cannot find a second who is acquainted with the deceased. If a second war is indispensable
can i not hopefully find one in some pensioner who belonged to the same corps?  If it be possible, consistently with the law and your public duty, and the testimony of Mr. Corsall shall satisfy your [illegibe], I hope 
the second witness may not be required. May it not be possible that further testimony can be obtained from the records in Maryland.
Will you do me the favor to examine these papers and communicate to me the result at as early a day as may be convenient, and in case objections are found, will you state them to me particularly, that I may try to aid Mrs. Kennedy and her aged mother in [illegible]  them?
I am Very Respectfully
Your obedt Servt
Silas Wright Jr
I. L. Edwards Esq. 
Court of Pensions
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Brief in the case of Hester Hill, dec who was widow of Henry, Washington County and ,[words "State of" crossed out] District of Columbia
act July 4, 1836

Claim, ("original," or "for increase"
[space left blank]

Proof exhibited (if original)
[space left blank

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.

[illegible words] 19 months and 16 days service as Captain, in 'the militia of Maryland," ending December 10, 1781.  She died August 15, 1842.  An Administrator of the State hs been appointed,  and the number and names of the children certified
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, whkat?
[space left blank]

Name and residence of Agent
[signature of ] A.H. Markland
[illegible word]
Examining Clerk
[signature of] Ogden Niles
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Brief in the case of Hester Hill, dec widow of Henry, Washington County and [words "state of" crossed out] Dist of Columbia
act July 4, 1836

 Claim ("original,' or 'for increase")
[space left blank]

Proof exhibited, (if original)
[space left blank]

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported b y rolls?  If either, state the substance.

Increased in pursuance of the decision of the Secretary of the Interior of the 31st of May, 1856.  See decisions in Mr. Niles' room

(If for increase.). Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim.?  If so, what?
[space left blank]

Name and residence of Agent
[signature of] A.H. Markland
[word illegible]

Examining Clerk:
Ogden Niles
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Mr Webster.
    Please oblige Dr. D_________

[signature of ]. J.H. Markland
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Washington DC
April 24th 1880
J. H. Hobbs Esqr
Chf Clerk Pension Office
Dear Sir
I thank you for the within certificate of my grandfather's service; but please give me
a certificate, (also official) showing
that he (Captain Henry Hill) was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, also that A H Markland Esqr was the attorney when the claim
was passed in 1855.
As I wish to join a military Society and have to give them proof that my ancestors were
in the Revolutionary Army for the Independence of the U. States
Yours very Respectfully
W.J.C. Dr Hamel M.D.
338 IndianaAvenue ┃
Wash D C
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[illegible initials]

Department of the Interior
Pension Office
Washington, D.C. April 19, 1880

Sir
    Agreeable to your request, you are informed that Hester Hill as the widow of Capt. Henry Hill was allowed a pension of $410.66 per annum, to commence March 4, 1831.

Very respectfully, 
[signature of ] O.P.G. Clarke
Acty. Commissioner
[illegible word]

Dr. Du Hamel
338 Indiana Avenue
Opposite City Hall
Present
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Washington, DC. Jebo 20, 1856

Hon. Josiah Minot
Commissioner of Pensions

     I enclose herewith a recruiting roll of Captain Henry Hill, dated in January 1782 and sworn to by him.  lt will remove the objections to the allowance of the claim of his widow Hester Hill under the act of 4th July 1836, this having been made out with his own hand and reference is made to the statement already on file.  I also enclose certificates from gentlemen employed by your office as to the character of the Administrator.  The family is wel known to Samuel Cole Esq, the Chief Clerk of your office and also to the Hon Thomas F. Bowie of khe House of Reps;  I respectfully ask that the case may be reexamined upon the evidence herewith subfmitted.

I am Very Respectfully
Your ObSt.
[signature of] A.H. Markland
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 no 10

Asks reexamination of case of Hester Hill

Md 1836 ad
Dis. Col.

[signature of]. A.H. Markland
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Washington City, March 15, 1856

Hon. J. Minot
Comm. Pensions

I respectfully ask a re-examination of the case of Hester Hill of Maryland act 1836 admitted, I think, that she is entitled to a pension for twenty two months and eight days service of her husband as Captain upon the evidence already filed.  I find that I made an error in calculation myself and thereby misled the examining clerk, the error will be found in the first tour mentioned in the statement & should be 4 months and 25 days instead of three months and twenty five days. That wold show a service of 20 months and 14 days to the 10th of Decr 1781.  Then there is a fragment of a letter addressed to him by Luke Marbury dated 13 March 1782, and also the recruiting roll dated in 1782, upon which he charged at the time $890 for his services as Captain.  He ought agreeable to the rules of the office & the pension laws be allowed on half of that amount, viz $455 per annum.

Very respectfully your svt

A.H. Markland
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Washington 25 Dec 1838

James L. Edwards Esq,
Commr. Pensions

Dear Sir

I enclose to you a letter requesting copies of some papers upon which the name of a pensioner has been struck from the rolls.  If consistent with the rules of the office, please have the copies made and sent to me, that I may be able to answer the letter and do me the favor to return, with your answer, the enclosed letter of Mr. Botsford.
   I will also be under obligation to you if you will return to me the papers in the case of Mrs. Hill an applicant for a pension as the widow of a revolutionary soldier, which I sent to you on behalf of Mrs. Kennedy some days since.  She wishes me to see Mr. Carroll, the witness to learn if he cannot be more specific as to the service of her Father, and I wish his deposition, that I may compare what he can testify with what he has testified.  The papers shall be safely returned.  

I am Very Respectfully
 Your obdt. servt. 
    Silas Wright, Jr.  [signature]
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Upper Marlbro, Md. 
July 26, 56

A.H. Mackland, Esq.

My dear Sir

Your letter and Mr. McClusky's directive to me at Washington was forwarded to this place.  I shall be in Washington on Monday next when I shall be pleased to see you.  Mean-time I can say with truth that my neighbor Mr. Jos. B Hill is a man of the highest sense of Honor and in all respects a gentleman whose veracity I have as much confidence in as in that of any living man.  

Very Respectfully  yours, 

[signature of ] Thomas F. Bowie
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Clerk's Office
Upper Marlboro
January 21, 1856

A.H. Markland Esq

Dear Sir

Your former of the 18th was duly received and upon search I can find no papers with Mr. Hill's signature.  With due respect.

I Remain 
  Very Respect.
[signature of ]Charles S. Middleton
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I do hereby certify that I know Joseph B. Hill of Prince George's County, Maryland, who represents himself as Administrator of Hester Hill, dec'd, and for his general character [illegible] personal knowledge of him, I should place complete confidence in any statement or claim he should make for any purpose whatsoever.

[Signature of}] J. Calvert

Pension Office
February 19, 1856

I have been personally acquaited with Joseph B. Hill, mentioned in the above Certificate of Mr. Calvert, for more than forty years, during all which time he has enjoyed the confidence of he pubic to the fullest extent, and I am satisfied that no man's statements are more reliable under any circumstances in which He may be placed.  

B. Hooe
Pension office, Febry 19/56
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District of Columbia 
Washington County

On this fifth day of March 1856, before me a Justice of the Peace in and from the district and county aforesaid personally, appeared Joseph B. Hill of Prince Georges County Maryland and made oath in due form of law that the handwriting on the paper purporting to be a remitting roll of the company of Captain Henry Hill, is the handwriting of his father Henry Hill who was the husband of Hester Hill who made application for a pension for the services of said Henry Hill in the War of the Revolution, he is positively certain that the handwriting is that of his father Henry Hill who was a captain in the War of the Revolution.

Sworn to before me the subscriber

Jno Wright J.P..
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Treasury Department,
Third Auditor's Office
Oct 5, 1854

Sir,
I herewith return to you the
papers in the case of Hester Hill
claiming pension, and have to inform
you that as the pension appears not
to have been yet established, the subject
refers itself to the Commissioner of
pensions

I am, Sir, your
obedient Servant
Robert J Akinson
Auditor
 Ser. Mrs J. C. De Hamel

Washington
D. C
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Washington City, May 7, 1857
Hon. George C. Whiting
  Comm. of Pensions

     I respectfully call your attention to and ask a re-examination of the case of Mrs. Hester Hill of Maryland admitted under act of 4th July 1836.  I think you will find that the evidence already filed will be sufficient to justify an allowance for two years service of her husband as a captain.  I hope to be able to file new material evidence on that point before the case shall come up for examination.

        I am very respectfully. [illegible]
        [signature of]. A.H. Markland
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District of Columbia
Washington County

On this 1st day of March 1856
before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said
County and District duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared Henrietta J Kennedy a
resident of the City of Washington who being duly sworn
doth on her oath make the following statement. That she
recognizes the writing on the enclosed papers purporting
to be a recruiting roll that of her father Captain Henry
Hill, more particularly does she recognize the name
"Henry Hill " as being written by him; for the reason that 
until within a very short time she has had in her
possession a profile of her Father on which he had
written his name, as written in said roll, she also
firmly believes that the entire filling up of said
roll is in her father's own handwriting. She is further
of the opinion that it is his handwriting from the fact
that it is like the writing of other members of the
family as it has much of the characteristics of their style
-- all of his papers and books having been destroyed by the burning of the homestead

Henrietta J Kennedy
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Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year before written, and I further certify that the said Hennetta J. Kennedy is worthy of all confidence and belief.  

[signature of] John S.  Hollingshead, J.P. 

                                        Pension Office
                                         March 3, 1856

I hereby certify that for about nine years last I have been intimately acquainted with Mrs. Hennetta J. Kennedy, who signed the within jurat and that I would place implicit confidence in any statement made by her by affidavit, or otherwise.  

[signature of] S. Cole
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State of Maryland to wit
Be it remembered
and it is hereby certified that on
this fifteenth day of November 1855
personally appeared before the undersigned
District
Judge of the first Judicial District of the state of Maryland
Bennet F Guynn and Stanislaus Blandford residents of Prince Georges County
in the said State and men of credit
and veracity and make oath
on the Holy Evangels of Almighty
God. That Anne T. Hill, 
Joseph B Hill, Clement B Hill and Henrietta
J Kennedy all of whom are
now alive are the only surviving
children of Hester Hill deceased
the widow of Henry Hill deceased

Peter W. Crain 
State of Maryland Prince Georges County Sch
I hereby certify that Peter W Crain who name is
affixed to the aforegoing certificate was at the time
thereof and still is the Judge of the First Judicial
Circuit of Maryland.

In Testimony whereof I
hereunto subscribe my name
and affix the seal of the
Circuit Court for Prince
Georges County this Fifteenth
day of November Anno Domini
Eighteen Hundred and fifty
five
Edward W Belt Clk
Cb for PG County, Md
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State of Maryland Prince George's County Sct
I Peter W. Crain, Judge of the First Judicial Circuit of Maryland do hereby certify that Edward W. Belt whose signature is signed to the aforegoing certificate was at the time of his signing the same and still is Clerk of the Circuit Court for Prince George's County.  In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand this fifteenth day of November A.D. 1855.

[signature of] Peter W. Crain
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The estate of Hester Hill of P.G. Cty decd.
To Zaddock Robinson
1842 Aug. 16th.  To coffin [illegible word]
$20.00

Received of Mr. Joseph B. Hill Executor of Hester Hill, the above amount1843 June the 9th.   Zadock Robinson

True Copy 
Test:  William A. Jarboe Reg
Prince Georges County Sct.  I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true copy of Voucher No.1 entered in Western Hills first final account passed by Joseph B. Hill her Executer and now upon record remaining in the office of Register of Wills for Said County.
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In testimony whereof I hereunto
set my hand and affix the
Seal of the Orphans Court of
Prince Georges County and State of
Maryland this 28th day of
November 1855.

Sent
Wm A. Jarboe Regr [Register]
of Wills for PG Cty [Prince George's County]
Md [Maryland]
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[Printed] THE STATE OF MARYLAND.
Prince George's County, Sct:
THE SUBSCRIBER, Register of Wills for Prince George's County, doth hereby certify, that it appears by the Records in his office, that Letters  [handwritten] of Administration
[Printed] of all the goods, chattels, credits and personal estate of [handwritten] Hester Hill late
of said County
[Printed] deceased, were on the [handwritten] ninth
[printed] day of [handwritten] September 
[printed] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [handwritten] forty two [printed] granted and committed unto [handwritten] Joseph B. Hill
[printed] who was then and there appointed ADMINISTRATor of the said deceased [handwritten] and gave bond
as such in the penalty of Two Thousand dollars-

[Printed] In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix
the Seal of the Orphans' Court of said county this [handwritten] fifteenth
[printed] day of [handwritten] November
[printed] in the year of our Lord
eighteen hundred and fifty [handwritten] five
[printed] TEST:
[signature] William A. Jarboe
[printed] Register of Wills for Prince George's County
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Mr Theodore Middleton certified before the
subscriber a justice of the peace for Prince Georges
County (Maryland) that Captain Henry Hill
Junior was a captain in the Revolutionary War and
commanded a company of Malitia [militia] at
German Town Pensylvania [Germantown Pennsylvania]
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January 26th 1841
Witness before
Henry Tolson


State of Maryland, Prince Georges County Sct
I hereby certify that Henry Tolson gentleman before whom the above certificate and affidavit appears to have
been made, and whose name is thereunto subscribed was on
the day of the date thereof and still is and of the said State of
Maryland's Justices of the peace in and for said County
duly commissioned and Sworn -

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed the
Seal of Prince Georges County Court
this second day of February Anno
Domini 1841 -
John B. Brooke Clk [Clerk] of
Prince Georges County Court
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District of Columbia
County of Washington
Sct
On this seventeenth
day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before
the subscriber an [lined out -affiliated-] ^chief^ Judge of the Circuit Court
^and sole judge of the District Court of the U.S. for &^
the said District, Daniel Carroll of Dudington,
who to me, is personally known, and makes oath in
due form of Law, that he knew the late Captain Henry
Hill of Prince Georges County in the State of Maryland,
that he is also well acquainted with his widow
Mrs Hester Hill, who is an applicant for a pension
as will appear by the annexed Declaration,
[lined out -that all the statements in said declaration by the said Mrs Hester Hill are true to the best of his knowledge and belief-]
& that the said Mrs Hill is a lady of great
respectability and entitled to full confidence,
and that the late Captain Henry Hill was his
uncle, that to his knowledge he commanded a
Militia company in the year 1777 and marched
to join his regiment, either in Jersey or Pennsylvania; and that the said Mrs Hill lost her dwelling
and household effects by fire in the year 1832, as
stated by her in the annexed declaration --
Danl Carroll of Dud [Daniel Carroll of Dudington]
---
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me
W. Cranch
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STAMP: Annapolis MD Sep 3

Mrs. Henrietta J. Kennedy
Washington City
District of Columbia

Mail;
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Land Office, Annapolis, 7th Sept 1838

Dear Madam,

In reply to your letter of the 5th [illegible] I have to state that I find the name of Henry Hil, upon roll of the militia officers of Maryland in this office, he appears to have been appointed a Captain in the Lower Battalion of Militia in Prince George County, on the 1st day of September 1777 - how long he was in service, the roll does not show - the rolls afford no evidence of his having served in the Continental line, his name does not appear upon the muster rolls or Army Ledgers of the regular troops, to have served in the Continental Army.

Very respectfully, 
Your Obedient Servant

G G Brewer

Mrs. Henrietta J Kennedy