Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38790, Clement Hall, N.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
Hall, Clement
NUMBER
S.38790
B.L.Wt. 1095-300 Capt.
Issued Aug. 6, 1789.
No Papers.
CONTENTS
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1905
Tennessee West
Clerment Hall,
Captain, 
Col. Martin
North Carolina line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionaory War. 4

Inscribed on the roll of Tennessee
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 2d of April, 1818. - 
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th of July 1818 and sent to John McNairy, Esq'r. Nashville Tennessee

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818
5 mos. 3/30 $102.00
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

77 War
Continental
Davidson Tennessee

Notify just to Robert Searcy Esq. 5 Nov. 1820
Nashville Tennessee
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Clement Hall's clim for a Pension 
Admitted
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District of West Tennesse

On the second day of April 1818, Clement Hall came before me and claimed to be placed on the  pension list of the United States, that he may receive the benefits of the provisions of an act of  Congress passed in the winter of 1817 and dated the 7th March 1818 entitled an "act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War,"and after being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he belonged to the Army of the United States during the revolutionary War, from the first of  September 1775 as a first Lieutenant in the Second No. Carolina Continental Regiment commanded alternably by Cols. Robert Howe, Alexander Martin and Jno. Patton and Served first in Captain Michael Paynz Company and others and afterwards as a Captain in said regiment from the nineteenth day of  April 1777 to the end of the revolutionary war as the records of the war Office kept by W. Peters president of the board of War will Testify, and that his services were against the common enemy of the country and for which services he obtained a Brevet Commission discharge at the close of the war, signed by John Jay president of Congress in their Sittings
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at Anapolis in the State of Maryland and as he believes in the year 1784 of which there is probably a record now in the war office. That he now claims this pension as needed for his support.
Clem Hall Brevet Major
Sworn to & subscribed before me
John McNairy
[Signature] District of West Tennessee

On the 11th day of April 1818 personally appeared Howel Tatum before me and deposeth and saith that he verily believes the first and second regt. of North Carolina Continental Troops were raised and the officers commissioned on the 1st day of September 1775 that he was an officer of the first regiment to the time it was raised and that the rate of his commission was as above stated that the second regiment was commanded in succession by Col. Robert Howe, Alexander Martin and John Patton, that when he first became acquainted with Clement Hall he was Lieutenant in that regiment that this was in March 1776 and before any other troops were raised that he knew the said Hall from this time untill the end of the war the whole of which time he served in the
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capacity of Lieutenant aforesaid and captain - that he was a captain befre the first of September 1777 and continued so to the end of the war. by which means he became entitled to a Branch Majors Commission after the war, which this deponant has been informed (and has no major doubt) he obtained. This deponant further states that the said Clement Hall now resides in the state of Tennesseee in Davidson county.
Ho Tatum
late a Capt. of North Carolina
Regiment
[Signature]

Sworn to & subscribed
before me
John McNairy
District Judge
[Signature]

On the 11th of April 1818 the before mentioned Clemant Hall made oth that he hath not heretofore been allowed any pension by any law of the United States.
Clem Hall Major Brevet
[Signature]
Sworn to & Subscribed before me
John McNairy
District Judge
[Signature]
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Clement Hall came before me and made oath that he has not his commission in his possession and does not know where it is that he must have lost it or mislaid it, has not seen it for many years.
Clem. Hall Maj'r by Brevet
[Signature]
Sworn to & Subscribed before me this 13th of May 1818.
John McNair
District Judge
[Signature]

Clement Hall's claim for a Pension

Admitted

This may certify to all who mit may concern tht I habe been acquainted with the applicant Maj'r. Clem. Hall for 12 or 13 years and with How. C. Tatum, who has made the foregoing afidavit for near thirty years. That they are men of undoubted credit, and that I m perfectly satisfied of the truth of their statements. That the said Hall is in very moderate circumstances, and is a resident of the county of Davidson in the State of Tennessee. Given under my hand this 11th day of April 1818.
John McNairy
District Judge
[Signature]

[Seal]
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Clement Hall
1.905

Robert Searcy Esq.
Nashville W. T.
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District of West Tennessee
On the 7 day of August 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the district of west Tennessee by act of Congress held by the honorable John McNairy, Clement Hall aged about sixty seven years resident of the County of Davidson who beign duly sworn on his oath declares that he served in the revolutionary war, in the regiment commanded by Col. Robt. Howe at the commencement of the revolution and afterwards in the same regiment under Col. Alexander Martin being of the second North Carolina continental Regiment under the first Howe he was a Lieutenant; and under Martin a Captain and the said Clement Hall doth solemnly swear that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that he has not since that time by gift sale or in any manner whatever disposed of his propertpy or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring himself within the provisions of an 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" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that he has not nor has any person in trust for him any property or securities contracts or debts due to him; nor has he any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by him Subscribed viz.
A mare valued at .............................................$25.00
A saddle, 2 bridles, Saddle bags & valice 15.00
A walnut chest........................................................5.00
A tract of Land valued at ..............................164.00
= $209.00
Relative to which land James Mulherrin who serveyed it 19th july 1820 appeared in open court before said jduge that is John McNairy, and made oath that he had examined the north part of said land and that there was scarecely any of it fit for cultivation and no water, the residue he is
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Informed by credible men is equally unfit for culture and without water; this was told him by persons he knew and who were respectable. It is rocky with some cedar timber on it, but its situation either as to the land or water carriage would render it of very little value the neigborhood is so well stocked with land of the same description that it would not be saleable to any of the adjoining farms nor does he suppose it could be sold in Major Halls lifetime for twenty cents an acre; and at present scarecely at all. For his own part he would not pay taxes for it and thinks it a high evaluation at 25 cents per acre.

The declarant further states that he was reared a Soldier and has no occupation which he can pursue; nor is he indeed able to purusue any being often and violently affected with the Gout and chronic Rheumatism and Sciatica for upwards of twenty years. And that he was never married and has no family. The No. of his pension Ceretificate is 1905.
Clem. Hall
[Signature]
Sworn to & suscribed in open court 7 Aug't. 1820.
R. Searcy Clk.
[Siginature]

I Robert Searcy Clerk of the Court of the United States for the District of West Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule that annexed are truly  certified from the Record of this court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of this court that the total amt. of value of the property contained in sd. schedule is $209. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the sd. Court this 7  Aug't. 1820.
Rob. Searcy Clk
[Signature]

[Seal]
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ow
In reply to your request of .........., received .............................for a statement of the military history of Clement Hall a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his  application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S. File 38,790

[Headings]

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. | STATE.

Sept. 1, 1775 | [blank] | 1 Lieut. | Capt. Michael Payne | Col. Robert Howe | 2 N. C. 
Apr. 19, 1777 | served to the end of war when he was made a Brevet Major | Captain | [blank] Col. Alexander Martin & John Patton | [blank]

Battles, engaged in, __________________________
Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____________
Date of application for pension, Apl. 2, 1818.
Residence at date of application, David Co. Tenn.
Age at date of application, 65
Remarks: 1820 he stated that he "was never married and had no family." Died Aug - 1824 (Agency book.)
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387890
Rev'y
INVALID.
File No. 38790
Clement Hall
Capt. Rev. War

Act: 18"March 18"
Index:-Vol. 3, Page 210

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1909 Oct. 7 History to Mrs. Kate A. Maness ¢
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Ingleside, DeKalb Co. G.A.
Sept 27 1909

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

My Dear Sir, 
     Please send me record of Capt. Clement Hall who died in Davidson County, Tenn. in 1824, instead of Chowan County, N.C. as I wrote by mistake last Spring. This will be highly appreciated.

Very Truly Yours,
Mrs. Kate G. Maness