Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,267, Daniel Hall, S.C.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
S.C.
CONTENTS
Hall, Daniel
        Susanna
NUMBER
W.21.267
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South Carolina 1 99
Susanna Hall
widow of Daniel Hall
who died on the 
of Charleston Dist in the State of S. Carolina
who was a Private in the company commanded by  Captain G. [George] A. Hall of the True Blues commanded by _in the SC Revolution line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of S. Carolina at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of March 1838 and sent to Robert Elfe Charleston SC
Recorded by D Brown clerk
Book A Vol 2 _
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The petition of Mrs. Susanna Hall widow of Daniel Hall late of the City of Charleston South Carolina and a Soldier in the War of the Revolution – Taken for the purpose of procuring the benefit of the act of Congress extending the provisions of the act of the 7th of June 1832 to the widows of the officers and soldiers of the Revolution. Your petitioner respectfully represents that she was born on John's Island in the month of
October 1758. That she is now in the 79th year of her age. In the year 1778 your petitioner was married in the City of Charleston to Daniel Hall Esquire she being then in the 16th year of her
age. Your petitioner's husband was a private Soldier in the Volunteer Company which was then raised in this City known as the Blues. The Company was commanded by Captain George A. Hall brother to your petitioner's husband. The first service rendered by your petitioner's husband
was at the siege of Savannah. The company of Captain Hall remained at that place but a short time, and returned to assist in the defense of Charleston. On the memorable occasion when the British took possession of Charleston Captain Hall and his Company were surrendered prisoners of war – and your petitioner's husband with the balance of the Company remained so for twelve months and a day. From the peculiar situation of your petitioner at that time the British officers permitted her husband to return to the city and remained with his family. But in a short time he
was compelled to leave home.
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He then joined the Army under the command of General Green
[Major General Nathanael Greene] and continued to serve in all the military operations before and near
Charleston up to the final evacuation of the place in 1782.
In conclusion your petitioner respectfully requests that the benefit of the late act of Congress may be extended to her relief, first because her husband did serve more than two years as a soldier in the War of the Revolution – secondly That she was married to her late husband who died in the year 1811 in the year 1776 – and has continued a widow up to the present time – all of which is sufficiently proved by the accompanying testimony of old and respectable inhabitants of this City then and now residing at this place.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 11th day May 1837. S/ Susanna Hall

State of South Carolina City of Charleston }
This day personally appeared before me one of the Judges of the Court of  General Sessions and Common Pleas for the State of South Carolina Mrs. Susanna Hall of the City of Charleston who made oath in due form of Law to the foregoing petition and declaration. In testimony whereof I have herewith in my hand and affixed my seal this 11th day of May 1887. s/ E. H. Bay 
Judge of Genl Sessions of the 
Peace and common Pleas of So Carolina
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The State of South Carolina
BY HIS EXCELLENCY,
John H. Means.
GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, IN AND OVER THE STATE AFORESAID.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:
Know ye that M. T Mendenhall Esq: whose official Certificate and Seal appears to the annexed certificates is the Ordinary of Charleston District and sole Judge of the Court of Ordinary for said District in the state aforesaid. THEREFORE, all due faith, credit and authority, is and ought to be had and given to his proceedings and certificates as such.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused to be affixed the Seal of the State, in the City of Charleston & State aforesaid the sixth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two and in the seventy sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

BY THE GOVERNOR.
 J H Means

Benjamin Perry
SECRETARY OF STATE.
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State of South Carolina Charleston District 
In the Office and Court of Ordinary 
By M T Mendenhall Esquire Ordinary for said Dist;

I hereby certify that the foregoing page contains a true copy of the record of the Original Letters Testamentary which were granted on the fifth day of March instant by said Court to Mrs Susan E Gaillard as the qualified Executrix of the last will and testament of Mrs Susannah Hall deceased which was proved and made of record in said Court on the thirtieth day of October A.D> eighteen hundred and forty six by Act of Assembly in such case made and provided.

I further certify that the said Court of Ordinary consists of a Judge without any other Officer and that I am the sole Judge and Keeper of all the records thereof and that this attestation is in due form of law.

Witness my hand and the Seal of the said Court at Charleston this fifth day of March Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty two.
M. T. Mendenhall O.C.D.
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LETTERS TESTAMENTARY. -- Printed and sold by A. J. Burke, 40 Broad st.

The State of South Carolina,
CHARLESTON DISTRICT.

SEAL
M.T.Mendenhall
O. C. D.

By M. T. MENDENHALL, Esquire, Ordinary.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME -- GREETING:

Know Ye that on the thirtieth day of October which was in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and forty six the last Will and Testament of Susanna Hall
late of Charleston in this State, widow deceased
was proved, approved, and allowed of; the said deceased having whilst she lived, and at the time of her death, divers Good
Rights and Credits within the State aforesaid, by means whereof the approbation and allowing of her Testament, and the pow
of granting the administration of all and singular the Goods, Rights, and Credits, of the said deceased, to me is manifest
known to belong, and that the administration of all and singular the Goods, Rights, and Credits, of the said deceased, and he
Testament, any manner of way concerning, was granted and committed unto Mrs Susan E Gaillard

named Executrix in the said last Will and Testament: being first sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God
well and faithfully to administer, and make a full and perfect inventory of all and singular the Goods, Rights, and Credits, of the
said deceased, and to exhibit the same into the Ordinary's Office, in Charleston, in order to be recorded, on or be
fifth day of May now next ensuing; and to render a just and true accalculation, 
and reckoning thereof, when thereunto required.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and seal, the fifth day of March
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred fifty two and in the Seventy sixth
year of American Independence.


Ordinary's Office,
Recorded Book C  
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The State of South Carolina Charleston District. In the Court of Ordinary

By M T Mendenhall Esquire Ordinary

I hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been addressed before me and filed in this Court, that Mrs Susanna Hall, late of Charleston widow of Daniel Hall, a soldier of the Revolution, died on the twenty sixth day of October eighteen hundred and forty six, leaving surviving her only two children Eliza Maria Couturior and Anna Thompson. Given under my hand and seal of office at Charleston this fifth day of March A.D> eighteen hundred and fifty two
M.T. Mendenhall O.C.D.
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Susan E. Gaillard
Exix &c in

to⎬   Power of Atty

F L. Brockett,
Susanna Hall
widow of Daniel
suspended
or 
rejected

Act 4 July 1836
S.C.

F. L. Brackett

Present
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SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY.
Printed and sold by Wm. Riley, 41 Broad-street.

The State of South Carolina.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT
I, Susan E. Gaillard Executrix of Susanna
Hall decd widow of Daniel Hall, deceased
do make, constitute, and appoint
F. L. Brockett, Esq. of Washington 
City in the District of Columbia
my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to examine
the papers on file in the Pension Office
in Washington City and to obtain for
me and in my name a certificate
for an increase of pension in right
of my testatrix and Grandmother
the said Susanna Hall widow of
Daniel Hall, deceased, a soldier in
the Revolutionary War
with power also, an Attorney or Attorneys, under him for that purpose, to make and
substitute, and to do all lawful acts for effecting the Premises hereby ratifying and confirming all
that my said Attorney or his Substitute or Substitutes, shall do therein, by virtue thereof

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Sixth
day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
fifty two

SEALED AND DELIVERED  }
IN THE PRESENCE OF         }

C. R. Brewster,
Susan E Gillard
Executrix

Be it Known, That on the Sixth day of March one thousand
eight hundred and fifty two and in the seventy sixth year of the Independence of
the United States of America, before me, Charles R. Brewster
Notary Public, by Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the State, duly commissioned and
sworn, came
Susan E. Gaillard Executrix of
the last will and testament of Susanna Hall
widow of Daniel Hall decd
above named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney, to be her act and deed.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand affixed my Seal of Office, at
in the State of South-Carolina, the day and year last mentioned.
C. R. Brewster,
Notary Public
JC for Charleston Dist:
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Payment to be made
at Charleston
by A. Spears, Esqr
Agent for paying Pensioners
in the Agency of
S. Carolina

Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book A. Vol. 2
Page 172 by
D Brown
Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the 4th July, 1836, Susanna Hall
of the State of South Carolina 
widow of Daniel Hall
who was  a private in the War of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Fifty six  dollars and 
Thirty three cents per annum, during the time she may
remain unmarried , commencing  on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi=annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of
September :

SEAL

GIVEN at the War Office of the United 
States, this first  day of
December,   one thousand eight
hundred and thirty=seven.
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Mar 8
[illegible]

Susanna Hall
Increase to
$80 per annium

[Postal stamp]
CHARLESTON
MAR
2
S.C.

Free
To    J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City
D.C.
Mail/
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Charleston 1st March 1838

To J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir

I herewith enclose
you the Certificate of Pension
granted to Mrs Susanna Hall
the widow of Daniel Hall, who
was a Private in the War of the
Revolution.  In order that she
may receive the benefit of a
full Pension which I understand
you have allowed her__

With great respect
I am
your obt set
Rob Elfe
________
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P. 771
13 June - 1837
Capt Hall case
referred to Charleston
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Sir,
War Department
Pension Office
June 12. 1837

Sir,

At the request of R. H. Mosby, Esqr
of Littleton, N.C. I submit to you the papers in support
of the claim of Mrs Susanna Hall. Accompanying the
papers will be found a copy of my letter of the 3rd. inst
to Mr Mosby and the reply of Mr Mosby, dated the
10th inst.

I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your Obt. Servt
J L. Edwards

Hon. J. R. Poinsett,
Secretary of War
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To
James L Edwards Esqr
Comr of Pensions
Washington City -
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Littleton P.O. N. Ca. Mar 29th  1837 
To J.L. Edwards Esq. 
Sir,  The enclosed papers  were sent to me a few days  since by a friend of Mrs. Hall of Charleston S. Ca. for my inspection  before submitting them to you for consideration , after the best consideration I can  give to the   subject I  have no reason to doubt for a moment  that the application will to   attended to success.  Mrs. Hall is one of the oldest and at the same time respectable inhabitants of the City of Charleston . Her devotion to the cause of the Revolution  and the free expression of her  opinions  when the  enemy were in possession of that place drew upon him  the displeasure of the officers of the British army  - you will find a detailed account of it in   Gardens sketches of the character of distinguished person in  S. Ca during the  Revolution  at the time refer'd to her husband was a  prisoner of War, and so continued for 12 months , he was then permitted to see his family , but in short time he was ordered to  quit Charleston  and then joined the army under Genl. Greene. I feel sensible that a call may be made for more precise statement of the services rendered by Mr. Hall  than the one  continued in the declaration  - In answer to it I will remark that there is  and will be necessarily a great difference between a statement made  by the person performing  the service , and one who  speaks from mere recollection  and it cannot be expected  that  a person detailing  transactions of so remote a period  could speak with any thing like the precision  that the party could who performed  the service. Mrs. Hall  assured me that he husband  was 1st a prisoner for more than 12 months and was then allowed to visit his family  only on account of her situation and then for a short time.
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the answers to the inquiry ? If her husband served two years or more, she replied that she knew he did- That  he first went to Savannah and was there for 2 months . He was then taken  prisoner in close confinement for 12 months and when released, he joined the army under Genl. Green and did not return until the City was taken possession of by the American army.  Mrs. Hall and her family she informs me  are well known to the  Hnble. The Secretary of War, and I am in the  event of the present application not receiving a favorable  consideration from you  instructed to request that you will cause the papers be placed before him for consideration  - Her reason for so wishing is  first that she is known to the  Secretary  and secondly a conviction that any error or deficiency  in the  case will be fully supplied by the personal knowledge on his part of Mrs. H  and the traditionary  information he may possess of the services of her husband . You will be so kind as to give to this subject your earliest attention and  apprise me  of the result of the application - In  the want of its receiving a favorable  consideration  Mrs. Hall  desires  that the certificate of Pension may be forwarded to Mr. James S Colbern of Charleston for the  prompt manner in which all the business  I have had with  your office is attended to. If ever y other department of the government  would only foll the example   I am inclined to think matters would be in a different situation . With sentiments & respect and esteem I  remain  very respectfully  your obt. st. R. H. Mosby ( signed )
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R. H. Mosby
Susanna Hall
Increase to $80
when certificate of pension
is returned
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The affidavit of Joseph Righton taken to prove more fully the Revolutionary services of Mr. Daniel Hall who was a private in the company called "The True Blues " commanded by  his brother during the Revolution. This affiant being duly sworn  testifies and says that in his former affidavit given  for the purpose of establishing the right of Mrs. Susanna Hallas the widow  of Daniel Hall to the benefit of the Act of  Congress of July 4th 1836 , he understands that the periods and the length of the service rendered by Mr. Hall are not distinctly  stated in the affidavit given by him and now on file in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, and he now  makes this statement that justice may be done to Mr. Hall - The first service rendered by the said Daniel Hall was in the company commanded by his Brother, he marched from Charleston to Savannah , and in that expedition  served not less that a month  and a half when Provost  besieged Charleston , Mr. Daniel Hall was still a member of the company of his Brother, and was in service during the period that preparation s were making for the defense of the  City . He continued in service not only while the siege lasted but for some time after. This affiant was engaged in the same service, and is convinced that Mr. Daniel Hall did serve for a period not less that five months when  Charleston was besieged by  Sir
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Henry Clinton . Mr. Daniel Hall was again called into service which was in the fall  of the year 1779  in the latter part of November, he continued from that time through the siege  and to the surrender of Charleston  in May 1780. when he became a prisoner of war and continued  as such for thirteen months. This affiant is fully persuaded  that Mr. Daniel Hall  did perform the services herein detailed and his is induced to make this statement that Mrs. Hall may obtain  the full benefit of the Pension law which he understands has been withheld from her. Joseph Righton ( signed ) Sworn to and subscribed  before me this 13th day of February A.D.  1838 . Rob Elfe ( signed ) QU  I take leave to add that the deficiency  in the former affidavit  of Mr. Righton which was taken by me, was occasioned by me in a  part measure by my own  inadvantence in drawing it - and  trust that the above supplemental  will  ans the omissions of the former. Rob Elfe ( signed ) QU
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[ Office of Common Pleas Charleston District ] I Charles C. Strohecker clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the District aforesaid , do hereby certify that Robert Elfe Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit  is made, is a Justice of the Quorum for the District aforesaid , that the signature purporting to be his is genuine, and that full faith and credit is due the same. Given under my hand  and the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston District as clerk thereof  at Charleston  this thirteenth day of February  in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty eight. Charles C. Strohecker ( signed / sealed )  C.C.P.
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To James L Edwards Esq [illegible]
Comsr of Pensions
Washington  City
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Littleton  June 10th  1837  To James L Edwards Esq. Sir I have had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 3rd inst: stating  your objection s to allowing Mrs. Susanna Hall of Charleston  the benefit of the act of Congress of 4th July  1836. I have attentively considered the objections stated in your communication  and as an act of Justice to Mrs. H. I respectfully  ask you to the  following reply. In the 1st place you say  " In the execution  of the act of 4th July 1836 it becomes necessary that the applicant prove to the satisfaction of this department that her late husband  was a soldier;  and the amount of his  actual service " The justice and propriety of the first part of the rule is not questioned - and in the case of Mrs. H all I shall proceed to show that it has been strictly complied with . If you  will be so good as to refer to the testimony of Judge Bay  and Mr. Roux you will find that they both prove 1st that  Mr. Daniel Hall was a soldier, 2ndly that he was  a prisoner of war for a period of more than 12 months , 3rdly  you will find that Judge Bay expresses a conviction  that Mr. H. did serve 2 years or more and Mr. Roux 's evidence  proves the facts. The remaining requirement  of the rule if adhered to I consider as sealing the door opened by the provision of the act 4th July 1836. To require the widow  of a deceased officer  or soldier " to state the actual  amount of his service " cannot be effected in one case in a thousand- Independent of the loss of memory in such remote and by gone  transactions it cannot be expected that the widow can or should give the precise amount of service rendered by her husband, which he could render it alive - no person  applying nor would any witness having the slightest regard for the obligation  on an oath , make a statement of the precise amount of actual service rendered by another - I readily grant that they   may testify as to service within their positive knowledge, but I again  repeat the same party would not and
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should not be required  to state that it was the " actual amount "  of service rendered, a fact which could alone have been proved 1st by himself  or 2ndly  by the records of the Country - I am fully persuaded that such a construction was  never contemplated as those who drew or past the act of 1836. In any case where the Records are silent if the party applying  can show by good testimony  that the deceased husband did serve she is clearly entitled to the benefit of the act. I n South Carolina there is scarcely any recorded evidence of the services of the Revolutionary officers  & soldiers. The 2nd and much more important objection is in these words :" The  Legality and date of the marriage must be proved "  - I am  somewhat  at a loss to know on what construction  to place upon this requirement - If  a party applying  is required to furnish as they do and can in England  a Registry of marriage or evidence from it - The answer is that we have no Registries of marriages or Births or deaths - If  the "Legality " of the marriage is to be proved in all cases it is important  for a party to know what is proof of a legal marriage by the rules of the Department - Is it the common law rule  that parties " are  able  willing and really did contract with  solemnities of Law " for such is the doctrine to be found in the Books of highest authority in England. The impossibility of applying these test to a marriage in this country  will strike you at once, allow me  now to call your attention to the decisions  upon that subject in this country  - our strict Courts of law  have abandoned the practice of  the English Courts as to the proof of a marriage. For the obvious reason that  we have no records to guide us - If it is proved that a man and a woman lived together as man and wife and was acknowledged by the husband to be such and generally  so considered - It is marriage for all legal purposes - or if it can be proved that the property of a deceased person  was by the Laws of  the  State where they reside  given to the widow and children by the act and  operation of  Law or by testament such widow would be considered  and rule to be legally married. In a word  where our clerks offices cannot show the  lenience granted for the
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marriage we must necessarity resort to parole testamony. and I question if one tenth of the married population of the U. States could prove at this day the Legality of their marriage by Record testamony. In the case of Mrs Hall the fact is proved by Judge Bay, and he testafies to the hand writing of Mr Hall in his family Bible fixing it sometime in 1775  The fact is also proved by Mr Roux. and that they were known and lived as man and wife to his death in 1811 -
The testimony "in detail" required in the concluding part of your letter upon that part of the subject I must beg bear to refer you to my remarks upon the Rule requiring the "amount of actual service" for an answer. But let us admit that the testimony is not precise as to time and place, after Mr Halls return or release.
Still you have positive testamony that he was at Savannah prior to the surrender of Charleston. And more you must admit he was in service prior to his becoming a prisoner of War. The preperations and defence of Charlston were not the work of a day or a month or of two months. That the company to which he was attached performed duty prior to the surrender of Charlston you must admit it and it is for you after a careful examination of all the facts to say what was most probably the extent of that service. I have deemed it a duty to Mrs. Hall to make the foregoing statement, which I should be greatly pleased to learn had produced an alteration in your views of her case. If however I should be so unfortunate as to be unable to produce the desired impression upon your mind, as much as I respect both your private and official opinions I shall be constrained to ask the favour of you to cause this communication to be placed before the Hnble the Secrty of War, as indicated in my former letter.
In making this request you will understand me as doing so by and with the authority of Mrs Hall as her attorney - Upon the personal knowledge which Mrs H has of the Secretary of War; and a belief in his traditionary and historical information as to the services of her husband, she bids me say she firmly relies
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you will be so kind as to apprise me of the result to the decision of the Hble Secty-- with as little delay as possible.

I have the Hon to be and remain
Your obliged & Hble St:

R. H. Mosby

To James L. Edwards Esqr
Comr of Pensions

P771

To James L. Edwards Esqr
Comr of Pensions
Washington City
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[check mark]
M 860 1942
Aug 17. 1837.
Pension Office.


War Dept
Ansd 18 Aug '39

To The Hble 
J R Poinsett
Depart of War
Washington City
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Littleton P.O N. Ca
Augst 5th 1837.
To the Hble Joel R. Poinsett
Sir,
My solicitude for the fate of an application now before you in behalf of Mrs Susanna Hale of the City of Charlston for the benefit of the act of Congress granting Pensions; induces me without the pleasure of an acquaintance to address you a few lines upon the subject.
I will premise what I have to say by assuring you that I am in no way interested in the matter than an earnest desire that Mrs Hall shall get what she is most clearly entitled to - Mrs: H. was induced to make the application not that she required the bounty of the government; but with the laudible intuition of applying the proceeds to the education and support of a widowed grand daughter and her children. My friend Mr. Turner S. Colbern of Charlston is well acquainted with Mrs H. and her motives in making the application. If you will be so kind as to examine the case; and an explination sent to the Commissioner of Pensions when the appeal from his decision was taken; I feel persuaded you will be convinced of the justice of the demand of Mrs Hall. But on the other hand should you be disposed to sustain the views of the compre-
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pensions; I have to request that you will have me apprised of it_ or should you desire additional information a letter addressed to Mr James P Colbern Charlston will preserve it

Nothing but the fulfilment of a promise to Mrs H could have induced me to trouble you with so small a
matter  but small as it is I feel confident it will no longer be withheld from her _

I remain [illegible]
obt: St:
R. H. Mosby

The Hble 
 J.R. Poinsett
Secty of War
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July-11-1901
Wm M. Hall
Cincinnati Ohio
______________
to

21.267
Revy WIDOW, &c.
_________
File No. 21.267
Susanna Hall
Wid of
Daniel Hall
Priv. Rev. War.
______
Act: July 4th 1836.
Index:--Vol. A, Page 315
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Susanna Hall of
(No. 1942.)
S. Carolina
Act 4 July 1836
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E 545    Nov 30 1837

Pension office


Joel R Poinsett
Secretary of War
Washington
 Mail
________________
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Charleston 20th November 1837

Hon Joel R Poinsett
Secretary of War

Sir:

I enclose you some
Documents in proof of Mrs Susanna
Hall's  claim to a Pension under 
the act of July 1836 as widow of
Daniel Hall, you will greatly
oblige me by asking for them
an early consideration

With great respect
I am
Your Obt Sert
Rob Elfe
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Mr Anderson
Pension office
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(South Carolina)
Heirs of Edward Lynah Suspd. Act 7 June 1832
Sarah Tucker widow of Benjamin Suspd. Act 4 July 36
Susannah Hall widow of Daniel - admd 4 July 36

Please let me see the papers in these
cases. Power of atty on file
F.L. Brockett
August 2?. 18?4
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Susanna Hall
Widow of Daniel
Hall, private
16 mo. 27 days
act 4 July 36
S. Carolina Roll
Send certificate to
Robert Elfe Esq
Charleston
S.C.
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South Carolina 1577
Susanna Hall
widow of Daniel Hall
who died on the _
of Charleston in the State of S. Carolina
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain G. A. Hall of the True Blues commanded
by  _   in the Revolution
line for 16 months & 27 days
Inscribed on the Roll of S. Carolina
at the rate of 56 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of Decr 1837 and sent to Robert
Elfe, Esq.  Charleston, S.C.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 37.                         366.16
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar '38    28.16 =   $394.32
Revolutionary Claim Act July 4, 1836,        Section the 3    
Recorded by D. Brown  Clerk,
Book A    Vol. 2.      Page 172
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No - 1942
_______________
Susanna Hall
Wid of Daniel
_______________
S. C.
_________________

________________
Act 4 July 36
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for letters - see inside   over


[right side]
See ad36 - 1599

his papers belong
the Admitted case
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The affidavit of the Hble. Elihu Hall Bay a citizen of the City of Charlston S. Ca. Taken to establish the fact that Mrs Susanna Hall now of the City of Charleston is the widow of the late Daniel Hall a soldier in the War of the Revolution.
The affiant being duly sworn testafies and says that he is now in the 84th year of his age. In the year 1781 This affiant came to the City of Charlston and then became acquainted with Mr Daniel Hall and his Lady (now the widow of Mr Hall) at the time this affiant came to Charlston in 1781. Mr and Mrs Hall were residing in this place and Mrs Hall was then the mother of several children. They lived together as man and wife up to the period of the death of Mr Hall in 1811. 
This affiant also testafies that he has this day seen a entry made in the family Bible of Mr & Mrs Hall, in the hand writing of Mr Hall. "That he was married on the 12th day of February 1775 to Susanna Mathews. This affiant is fully persuaded that the above recited entry is in the hand writing of Mr Daniel Hall. In conclusion this affiant will say that altho he has no knowlidge positivly of the services of Mr Hall still he is fully persuaided that he did serve as set forth in the petition now about to be presented for the relief of Mrs Hall.
This affiant also testafies that Mrs Savannah Hall was about to apply for the benefit of the act of Congress granting pensions
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to the widows of the officers and soldiers of the Revolution is
the widow of the late Daniel Hall of the Revolution

In testemony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
my seal this 11th day of May 1837.

Sworn to in open Court
at Charleston 11th of
 May 1837 before                              E.M. Bay ℗     JP      SEAL 
Jno B O'Neall 
Presiding Judge
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Susanna Hall
1942 wid of Daniel
So Ca


P. 771
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The affidavit of Louis Roux Esqr. a citizen of Charleston and a Pensioner of the Government of the United States. Taken to prove the Revolutionary services of Daniel Hall who was a Soldier of the Revolution. and the husband of Mrs Susanna Hall now about to apply for the benefit of the late act of Congress.
This affiant being duly sworn testifies and says that his acquaintance with Mr Daniel Hall commenced as early as 1775 at which time he was married to his wife the present Mrs Susanna Hall now about to apply for a pension. The said Daniel Hall was a member of a company as a soldier under the command of his Brother Capt George Hall, and at the capitulation and surrender of Charleston Capt Hall and his company were surrendered prisoner of War. This affiant well recollects the fact and that the said Daniel Hall was a Prisoner for 12 months or more. This affiant is fully persuaded that the said Daniel Hall after returning to Charleston was imployed in other antics connected with the armey there before this place under the command of Genl Green. He is convinced from his own knowledge of Mr Daniel Hall, having resided in Charleston from 1772 to the present time and imbracing the whole of the Revolution, that Mr Hall after his return prove his captivity as a Prisoner served from 1780 until the final
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Evacuation by Genl Leslie -
pr conclusion this affiant says that he knows Mrs Susanna Hall now applying for a pension is unquestionably the widow of Daniel Hall. And was married to him between the years 1775 and 1787.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix my seal this 11th day of May 1827.
Lewis Roux
[hand-drawn seal inscribed "L.S"]

State of South Carolina
City of Charlston -
- 11th May 1837 -
Personally appeared Lewis Roux who being duly sworn saith that the forgoing affidavit is just true and correct, and in due form of Law
Philip Patrick
Not. Pub.
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ordered that satisfactory testimony has been this day introduced in open court to prove that Mrs. Susanna Hall now of the city of Charlston is the widow of Daniel Hall late of this place and a soldier of the War of the Revolution. It is also in proof to the satisfaction of this court upon the testimony of the Hble E. H. Bay and Lewis Roux Esqr. that Mrs Hall now about to apply for the benefit of the pension and was married in the year 1775. and has continued a widow ever since; the death of her husband in 1811 - up to the present time. It is also in proof to the satisfaction of this court that Daniel Hall did serve as set forth in the accompanying petition and Declaration.
Jno. B. O'Neall
Presiding Judge
Charleston
May Term 1837
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The words and [crossed out] "place"
"and Lewis Roux Esqr"
were interlined before
this order was signed
Jno. B. O'Neall

I hereby certify that the above named John B O'Neale is one of the justices of the court of Common Pleas in for the State of South Carolina and that the above name of John B. O'Neale is in his own proper hand writing subscribed by him at this present [illegible] of the Court of Com. Pleas for Charleston District  In testimony whereof I have subscribed my name and caused the seal of, hand to be hereto affixed. Charleston
May 24 1837
Charles C. Strohecker
C.C.P
[seal]
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In the matter of
Susannah Hall
widow of Dan'l
Hall - application
for a pension
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2961
E 545
Pension Office
It appears to me
that the evidence
in this case is 
sufficent although
not exactly in conformity
with the
regulations. The
credibity of all the
Parties is known to
me personally & I can
certify to the signature
of [illegible] Recd [illegible] Gadsden
J. R. P.
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By the Honourable Elihu Hall Bay -
ONE OF THE ASSOCIATE JUDGES OF THE STATE AFORESAID.
To all to whom these Presents shall come or be made known:
Know Ye, That Charles Strohecker Esq, who
hath subscribed the above Certificate, is Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the
District aforesaid, that all due faith and credit are and ought to be given to his attestations
as such, and that the above attestation is in due form of law.

Given under my hand at Charleston
this Twentieth day of November
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty Seven. 
E. H. Bay

[illegible]
Charles C Strohecker
C. C. P.
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Office Common Pleas
South Carolina         Charleston District
I Charles Strohecker Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas of Charleston District
in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that
Robert Elfe Esquire is a Magistrate of
stated in the within papers and that the
Signature within purporting to be his, is genuine &

SEAL

In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto affixed my Seal of Office and
subscribed my name, this Twentieth
day of November in the year of our
Lord one thousand Eight hundred
and thirty Seven and in the Sixty
Second year of the Sovereignty and
Independence of the United States
of America_
Charles C  Strohecker
C.C.P.
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The State of South Carolina
Charleston District
Personally appeared before me Rob Elfe one of the Quorum; Mrs Mary Matthews who being sworn deposeth, that she was born and raised in Charleston. That she is now in her seventy seventh year. That she well remembers Daniel Hall the Husband of the present Mrs. Susanna Hall. That she is the sister of Susanna Hall - remembers when she was married to Daniel Hall. That she was at the wedding. was then in her fifteenth year. Deponent remembers that Daniel Hall was at the time of his marriage with her sister a strong and active Whig. That he became shortly after the War a member of a Volunteer Corps called the "True Blues," which company was commanded by his brother George Abbott Hall. Deponent remembers that the Said Daniel Hall performed duty in the Said Company in the City of Charleston. That the said company was on guard duty. She also well remembers that the said Daniel Hall marched with "The True Blues" when said company went to Savannah and that he was in the action before Savannah. Deponent further states, that the said Daniel Hall returned with the "True Blues" to Charleston after the action at Savannah, and that he continued in the Said Company doing duty in the City and precincts, up to the time that Charleston was beseiged by Sir Henry Clinton, that Daniel Hall was on the lines of Charleston during the whole
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seige with his company, and became a prisoner when Charleston fell. That Daniel Hall was to have been sent a Prisoner to St. Augustine along with his brother George Abbott Hall, but was allowed to remain on account of the Health of his wife, upon some friendly intercession being made for him. That Daniel Hall continued in the City of Charleston a prisoner after this, until he got an opportunity of crossing from Charleston to Johns Island for the purpose of joining Captain Wilmots Company. That in pressing his way to effect this object he received a stroke of the sun, which disabled him from further service during the War.
Mary Mathewes
Sworn to before
me this 4th Oct 1837
Rob Elfe
QA
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The State of South Carolina
Charleston District
Personally appeared before me Rob Elfe one of the Quorum for the district and State aforesaid, Mrs. Susanna Hall, and made oath that she is the widow of Daniel Hall deceased, that she was born on the 10th of October 1758. That her maiden name was Susanna Matthews. That she was married to the said Daniel Hall on the twenty third day of February A.D. 1775. That her husband the Said Daniel Hall was a Whig at the time of his intermarriage with her, and performed duty in the City of Charleston at that time. And in the year 1778 in the early part of that year the Said Daniel Hall joined a company of Infantry called "The True Blues," and performed duty by keeping guard in the city of Charleston, "The True Blues, was commanded by George Abbott Hall the older Brother of the said Daniel Hall. Daniel Hall continued a member of "The True Blues" when said company marched from Charleston to Savannah and was with the company in the action before the lines of Savannah; after which, the company returned to Charleston, and continued in service up to the time when Charleston fell Daniel Hall being all the time a member of the Company, and performed duty on the lines during the whole seige of Charleston
After the fall of Charleston Daniel Hall remained a prisoner and was among the number to be sent to Saint Augustine; but through the interference of one Col Powell, a British officer, who interced with the Commander in Chief, he was allowed to remain in Charleston, on account of the delicate situation and feeble health of Mrs Hall, this
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this deponent) Daniel Hall remained in Charleston after this, until he had an opportunity of going to John's Island in the year 1781 for the purpose of joining Capt Wilmots Company_ In endeavoring to
effect this object in very hot weather,
he received a stroke of the sun which
disabled him from further service during the War.
s/ Susanna Hall
Sworn to before me 20th Sept. 1837  
Rob Elfe                         
QU
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State of South Carolina
Charleston District
Personally appeared before me Rob Elfe one of the Quorum in and for the State aforesaid Joseph Righton who being sworn deposeth; that he is now in his seventy sixth year, that he has lived in the City of Charleston for the last sixty nine years, that he was acquainted with George Abbott Hall and with his Brother Daniel Hall, that he knew these gentlemen before the Revolution. That George Abbott Hall commanded a company called "The True Blues which was raised in the first part of the War. That Daniel Hall the brother of the Said George Abbott Hall was a member of the said Company. That Said Company performed duty in the city of Charleston. 
Deponent well remembers that "The True Blues" marched from Charleston to Savannah, and was in the action at the Seige of Savannah; He also well remembers that after the said company returned from the Seige of Savannah, it was in the action before the lines of Charleston when it was approached by Sir Henry Clinton and that George Abbott Hall and the Said Daniel was in the action with the said company. After the fall of Charleston, deponent remembers that he frequently saw Daniel Hall whilst he was a Prisoner. Deponent was on the lines during the Seige of Charleston, and became a Prisoner himself. Deponent was some time after the Surrender of Charleston confined in the Prison ship Torbay for two months
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and then sent to Philadelphia upon an
exchange of Prisoners, and did not return
to Charleston until after the evacuation by
the British, where he still found Daniel
Hall - Deponent is acquainted with Mrs.
Susanna Hall, the widow of the said Daniel
Hall, knew her at the time of her marriage
with the said Daniel Hall and knows her
to be the person the describes herself to be
in her affidavit_
                                         Joseph Righton
Sworn to before                          }
me this 2nd of October 1837. }
Rob Elfe                                         }
[illegible] M                                   }
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The State of South Carolina
City of Charleston
I do hereby certify
that "Daniel Hall and Susanna
Mathews" were married on the Twenty
third day of February in the year of
our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred
and seventy five, and that the same
is duly recorded in the Parish Register
of Saint Philips Church, Charleston
South Carolina_

Given under my hand
as Rector of the said Church this
Eleventh day of September A.D. 1837
C. E. Gadsden