Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1193-300, Stephen Hall, Conn.
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(8-1776)
Service: Conn [Connecticut]
Hall, Stephen
Number: B.L.Wt. 1193-300
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Warrant No 1193 issued
in the name of Rachel
Fowler and the other heirs
of Captain Stephen Hall
of the Connecticut line
Novr 4th 1826 and
Delivd to MrP.W. Gaullodett
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Given under my hand and seal of office,this sixth day of October 1826
Reuben Elliott
Judge of Probate
Guilford District

STATE of Connecticut
New Haven County
Probate office

I certify, that satisfactory evidence was adduced to me, to prove
that Rachel Fowler
is the daughter and
heir at law in fee to Stephen Hall late a Captain
in the Seventh Regiment of Connecticut line, Col Heman Swifts Regiment
Given under my hand and Seal of Office, this sixth
day of October 
1826
Reuben Elliott
The above form will answer for the following States: viz.
Maine.
Massachusetts,
New-Hampshire,
Rhode-Island,
Connecticut,
Vermont,
New-York,
New Jersey,
South Carolina
Surrogate.
Ordinary.
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No 1133
31 Oct 1826
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Act 1826

DEPARTMENT OF WAR
Regulations for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who were
slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war, and have not received land from
the United States.

By an Act of Congress of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided, that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged
for, and continued to serve during the war, or until discharged by Congress, and the heirs of such Officers and Soldiers
as shall be slain by the enemy, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, or who died of sickness,
fatigue, or casualty, are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration and enclosed blank form of heirship) must be filled up and signed by the proper authorities
State of Connecticut
County of New Haven AD 1826 

I Rachel Fowler wife of William Fowler
heir at law of Stephen Hall
do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that Stephen Hall.
did enlist in 1777, for the term of during the war, and served in the regiment No. Seventh
Under the command of Colonel Heman Swift
of the Connecticut line and
that he continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the year 1783

I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to Military officers
on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim
to it in any manner whatsoever: therefore,
Know all men by these presents, that I, Rachel Fowler (with the consent of my husband Miner fowler ), aforesaid, do hereby constitute
constitute and appoint P.W. Gaullaudet of Washington City to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to
Constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
Sworn to Attest before me
William  Todd Justice of the Peace
Rachel Fowler
Miner Fowler
Personally appeared the above named Rachel Fowler & Miner Fowler her husband, subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be their free act
and deed, for the purpose
In testimony that the above written William Todd
was a magistrate
authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of Connecticut at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the
county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at New Haven
day of Oct.1826
this 18th
Attest Jno Beach Clerk of the
County Court and keeper of the
Records and seal of the same and
of the Commission of Justices of the peace
in & for New Haven County