Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7735, Ebenezer Hills, Conn. New York (Rev. & 1786)
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(8-1776)
Service
Conn.
New York (1786) Rev 4
Hills, Ebenezer Jr.
Mary
Number W.7735
[unreadable handwriting] res his father's bounty land W1974 Ebenezer Hills
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No 8398
Ebenezer Hills Junior

Sep 13 1832
Nov 9 1832
P-40.
45141516
Jas Van Ingen
Albany
N Y
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No 8398
BRIEF in the case of Ebenezer Hills Jun of Watervliet
County of Albany in the State of New York
(Act 7 June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Before a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? Seventy four years 74
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. | Duration of Service. Years, Months, Days | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Enlisted
December In 1775 until his term of enlistment had expired | not stated | As a private | Col. Goose Van Schaick reg. New York Line, Lt. Col. Peter Gansevoort, Capt. Eleazer Curtis company

In the year 1777 |  More than 2 years | As a private | Genl Huntingtons Brigade Continental line, Col Herman Swift Reg, Lieut. Ebenezer Hills

5. In what battles was he engaged? not any
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? at Albany 1st tour, at Kent Litchfield Co Connecticut 2nd tour.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? The documentary proof attached to his declaration, appertaining, to the services of his Father and not to his. [illegible] living witnesses of the same name, swear their belief & [illegible], their credibility is not verified.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No [illegible], no definite period of service stated. The documentary evidence attached, is calculated to deceive.
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
[Signed] Chas G Wilson Examining Clerk.
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3620
New York
Ebenezer Hills of Albany in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Curtis of the Regt commanded by Col. Van Schaick  in the New York line for 2 years & Conn.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars [cents is crossed out] per an to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of Dec 1832 and sent to  Van Ingen Albany

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1832  $120
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4th '33  40
$160

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by [Leo C. Stiles is crossed out] Jno. Cromwell Clerk,
Book D. Vol. 5 Page 127
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Reported Jany 25/49 [handwritten on blank side]
Date of Death [rest of text unreadable]
[page torn and section missing]
3360 [handwritten]
Ohio [handwritten, rest of line is missing]
Mary [handwritten, rest of the line is missing]
Widow of EB[rest of line is missing]
NY & Con
who served in the [rest of line is missing]
war, as a private [rest of line is missing]
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of pension issued the 25 day of Jany 1849 and sent to O.H. Fitch Ashtabula Ohio
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act [page torn] February 2, 1848 page 343 volume 4
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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
}SS.
State of New York
County of Albany
On the thirteenth day of September 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the Justices Court of the City of Albany now sitting, Ebenezer Hills Junior a resident of the Town of Watervliet in the county of Albany and state of New York aged 17 March last - seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.  That in December 1775 he enlisted for one year as a private in Capt. Eleazer Curtis's company and Col. Goose Van Schnicks req of the New York Line whereof Peter Gansevoort land. (late General Gansevoort of Albany) was Lieut Colonel and marched to and took winter quarters at Fort George. In the spring following the march with the regiment to L Johns and there the army retreating from fanador, that the Reg then marched down as far a Ticonderoga where it continued in service until their term of enlistment had expired and were then discharged. In the year 1777 he again enlisted the Town of Kent in Litchfield County which [ad unreadable] on its west line, the State of New York, under Lieut Ebenzer Hills in Col Herman Swifts reg and General Huntingtons Brigade in the Connecticut line of the Continential Army in which regiments he the declarer served more than two years.  One winter they were quartered in Reading in Connecticut and built huts and wintered at Valley Forge in the State of Pennsylvania, made long marches, and was in the memorable battle at Monmouth in New Jersey. The afore said Lieut Hills under whom this declarer enlisted war was the father of this declarer and was promoted to the rank of captain as can be seen by the commission he went to annexed.  That this declarer has been in / [unreadable] of both his discharged from the army but that they have been lost or mislaid so that he cannot now produce or refer to them, from which circumstance it is impossible for him to state with accuracy the [unreadable] loss relative thereto.  He refers to the testimony hereunto for proof of his services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid John G. Watson [unreadable suffix] Ebenezer Hills Junior
We [blank line] a clergyman residing in the [blank line] and [blank line] hereby certify that we are well acquainted with [blank line] who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank line] years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.  Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  And the court further certifies, that it appears to them, that [blank line] who hath signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the [blank line]; and that [blank line] who has also signed the same, is a resident of the  [blank line] and is a credible person and that their statements are entitled to credit.
I John G Watson, Clerk of the Justice Court of the City of Albany,, Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Hills Jr for a pension.
In Testimony whereof , I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 13th day of September A.D. 1832. 
John G Watson [unreadable suffix]
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State of New York
County of Albany
Before the Justices Court of the City of Albany, in open Court, personally appeared Samuel Hills and Ira Hills, both residents of the Town of Watervliet in the County of Albany, and to this Court well known, as persons of unimpeachable character for truth & veracity, who being duly sworn, do severally depose and say, that they are brothers of Ebenezer Hills Junr. who hath Subscribed & sworn to the within declaration, which has been distinctly read in their hearing. That from a number of circumstances, and from their own personal knowledge, they do testify, that the facts detailed in the said declaration are Substantially true
[Signed] Samuel Hills
[Signed] Ira Hills
Subscribed & Sworn to the 13th Sept 1832
[Signed] J. G. Wasson Clk

{written upside down across the bottom of the page]

Albany County ss
Ebenezer Hills Junr in the within declaration named, being duly sworn saith that he hath faithfully served as a revolutionary private soldier, agreeably to the Within Statement made by him, and testified to by the above witnesses, who are Certified before the Court to be men of truth and veracity, between the month of December 1775 and the year 1779 for a period of three years and upwards; and for his said services he respectfully claims a pension allowed to a revolutionary Soldier who hath served two years as a private and he doth respectfully ? for character
[Signed] Ebenezer Hills
Subscribed & Sworn to the 15 Decr 1832 & reputation of myself [Signed] G.Y. Lansing Esq
[Signed] J. G. Wasson Clk M.C. from this County -
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Albany County ss
Subscribed
Ebenezer Hills Junr in the within declaration named, being duly sworn saith that he hath faithfully served as a revolutionary private soldier, agreeably to the Within Statement made by him, and testified to by the above witnesses, who are Certified before the Court to be men of truth and veracity, between  the month of December 1775 and the year 1779 for a period of three years and upwards; and for his said services he respectfully claims a pension allowed to a revolutionary Soldier who hath served two years as a private and he doth respectfully refer for character
[Signed] Ebenezer Hills Jnr
Subscribed & Sworn to the 15 Decr 1832 & reputation of myself to [Signed] G. Lansing Esq
[Signed] J. G. Wasson Clk M.C. from this County -
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Declaration of Mary Hills, widow of Ebenezer Hills
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State of New York
City of Albany Ss
On this First Day of November One thousand eight hundred thirty eight personally appeared in open court before the Justices Court of the City of Albany being a Court of Record, Mary Hills a resident of the Town of Watervliet County of Albany & State of New York, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration  in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions, made by the Act of Congress passed 7th July 1838, entitled "An Act  granting half pay and pensions to Certain Widows".
That declarant is of the age of Eighty One years, on the fifteenth day of September last past, according to her best knowledge & belief. That she is the widow of Ebenezer Hills, now deceased, late of the Town of Watervliet & County of Albany aforesaid, who had been a Soldier in actual Service in the Revolutionary War, And who was at the time of his decease a Pensioner of the United States, for & on account of his said Services.
That she was married to the Said Ebenezer Hills on the nineteenth day of November One thousand Seven hundred eighty as near as this Declarant can recollect the date thereof in the Town of Waterbury in the
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State of Connecticut at the House of her father Isaac Bronson by the Reverend Mark Leavenworth. That this Declarant did not keep a record of her marriage, & is only enabled to state the state thereof, from her best recollection & belief. That her said husband, the said Ebenezer Hills died on the thirtieth day of March One thousand eight hundred & thirty then at the town of Watervliet aforesaid. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January One thousand eight hundred & ninety four. Viz the time above stated in manner aforesaid.
And this Declarant further says that she & her said husband removed into the town of Watervliet about forty six years ago, where she has since resided & when her husband resided until his death.
That this Declarant has never married since the death of her said husband the said Ebenezer Hills. 
[Signed] her
Mary X Hills
mark
[Notes} the words "November" "nineteenth day" November 1st page, interlined.
Sworn in open court the 1st day of Novr. 1838
{Signed] J. G. Wasson Clk

Justices Court of the
City of Albany
I John G. Wasson Clerk of the Justices Court of the City of Albany. The same being a Court of record Do certify that on the day abovementioned. The said Mary Hills appeared before the said Court & being duly sworn made oath to the truth of the statement set forth in the forgoing declaration.
In testimony whereof I have hereto affixed the seal of the said
Court this 1st day of Novr. 1838.
John G. Wasson, Clk
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June 6, 1932

BA-J/AWF
XXXXXXXXXXX
Ebenezer Hills
W. 7735

Mrs. Marjorie H. Chandler
38 Granite Street
New London, Connecticut.

Dear Madam:
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 7735, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Ebenezer Hills.
He was born March 17, 1758, place not stated, and was the son of Ebenezer Hills.
Ebenezer Hills, Junior, enlisted sometime in December, 1775 and served one year as a private in Captain Eleazer Curtis' company in Colonel Goose Van Schaick's New York regiment. He enlisted at Kent, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 1777, served as private in Captain Ebenezer Hills' company (soldier's father), Colonel Heman Swift's Connecticut regiment,
wintered at Valley Forge, and was in the battle of Monmouth, length of service two years.
He was commissioned, October 23, 1786, ensign in Captain Samuel Thomson's company in Colonel James Van De Burgh's regiment of Dutchess County, New York militia.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 13, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Watervliet, Albany County, New York.
He died March 30, 1833 at said Watervliet.
Ebenezer Hills, Junior, married November 19, 1780 in Waterbury, Connecticut, Mary, the daughter of Isaac
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Bronson. She was born September 15, 1757. They were married at her father's house by the Reverend Mark Leavenworth.
The widow, Mary Hills, was allowed pension on her application executed November 1, 1838, then a resident of Watervliet, New York.
In 1848 she was living in Ashtabula Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio.
Soldier's brothers, Samuel and Ira Hills, were living in 1832 in Watervliet, New York.
One Laban Hills was in 1839 in Watervliet, no relationship to family shown.
It is not stated that they had children.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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2200
June 29 1843
And dec. Mary Hills
March 30, 1843.
$80 per annum

Frothingham & Lansing
Albany New York

Hon. James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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State of New York
Albany County ss
On this first day of April 1843. Personally appeared before me Matthew Fort a Justice of the Peace of the town of Watervliet in said County Mary Hills a resident of the town of Watervliet in the County of Albany State of New York aged Eighty five years who being by me first 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 on the 3d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Ebenezer Hills who was a private in the war of the Revolution and the annual amount of the Pension she received under the Act July 7. 1838 was Eighty Dollars per annum She further declares that she is still a widow
[Signed] Mary Hills
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before me, to whom the said Mary Hills is personally known.
[Signed] Matthew Fort Justice of the peace

State of New York
County of Albany ⎬ I Henry B. Haswell Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Matthew Fort before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the jurat thereto a Justice of the Peace in and for said County that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and believe that his name subscribed to said Jurat is his proper hand writing
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said County this 20th day of June 1843
[Signed] H.B. Haswell Clerk
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Albany June 26 1843
Hon J. L Edwards
Com of Pensions
Sir
We have the honor to forward you the annexed Declaration for Pension of Mary Hills, under [cross out] Act of 3 March 1843
We have received from your department no information of the disparities made of the claim of Polly Ferguson widow of Abraham Ferguson under the Act of 7 July 1838. the provision of which were extended by the joint resolution of 16 August 1842.-- Her claim was held in Suspence for a long period, & we were informed by your letter of the 23, Feby 1843. to Hon J J Barnard, that if she was then alive or was alive on the 16th August 1842. her claim was provided for. This widow was soon after forwarded. - She is Still alive & in poverty & infirmity. A disposition of her claim is extremely desirable
We have the honor to be Very respectfully
Frothingham & Lansing
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M.H.
Ad
2031 
Ohio Pitts Roll
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Declaration
In  order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2nd February 1848 Entitled, "An act making further provision for Surviving widows & Soldiers of the Revolution".
The State of Ohio
Ashtabulla County On this First day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight personally appeared before me Amos F.Hubbard a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Mary Hills, a resident of the township of Ashtabula in the County of Ashtabula and State of Ohio aged ninety two years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision  made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2nd February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Ebenezer Hills, (a Revolutionary Pensioner) who was a private in an infantry company in the army of the Revolution, in the regular service, (the number of the regiment and the name of the Colonel not now recollected) - that she drew a pension of eighty dollars per annum under the act of Congress of the 17th of June 1844 - She further declares that she has not intermarried and that she is still a widow, that previous to her removal to Ashtabula aforesaid, she resided in Watervliet, in the county of Albany and State of New York
Sworn to and sbscribed on the day and year written before
Mary Hills X her mark
Amos F. Hubbard Justice of the Peace
State of Ohio Ashtabula County  I Amos F. Hubbard, a justice of the peace in and for this county duly authorized by law to administer oaths, do hereby certify that the above named applicant Mary Hills, is personally know to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a 
pension under the Act of Congress of 17th June 1844, as stated by her in the above declaration 

Amos F. Hubbard Justice of the Peace
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I hereby certify that there are no records of
the First Congregational Church in Waterbury Connecticut prior to the year 1795 in my possession and that if any were kept, they are not now, so far as known in existence.

Henry N. Day, Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Waterbury & Keeper of the Records

Waterbury Connecticut
December 28th, 1838    }

State of Connecticut, New Haven County Waterbury December 28, 1838
Personally appeared the Reverend Henry N Day known to me as the Pastor of the 1st Congregational Church in said Waterbury.
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and made solemn oath to the truth of the
foregoing certificate by him subscribed before me [Signed] Joel Hinman Justice of Peace.

I am well acquainted with the Honorable 
Joel Hinman whose name in his own proper handwriting, is affixed to the above. He is, and for more than one year last past hath been a Justice of Peace in and for the County of New Haven Connecticut.
[Signed] Samuel Ingham
M.C.
January 5. 1839
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Albany 1635
Mary Hills widow of Ebenezer Hills
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 and who died on the 30th March 1833
of Albany in the State of New York who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Curtis of the regiment commanded
by Colonel Van Schaick in the New York
line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of
80 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th March 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of January, 1839 and sent to Honorable J.H.
Bronson, H. R.
Arrears to the 4th of September 1838 - 200.00
Semi-annual allowance ending March 1839 - 
40.00 = $240.00
Act July 7, 1838
Recorded by D. Brown
Vol. 2  Page 81

Letter to Honorable J.H. Bronson ⎬
& to T. W. Olcott, 23 February 1839.

New certificate issued 11. March 1839 and
sent to Laban Hills Walersleit Centre and 
Agent notified.
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2031
New York Albany
Mary Hills
widow of Ebenezer Wills
who was a Private
in the N. Y. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars ___Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of Sept 1843 and sent to
Frothingham & Lansing
Albany, New York

Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 4 Page 118
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1635 V 3450
Mary Hills
Declaration &c
Ny
7 July 38
Admitted
Private 2 years

Hon. J. H. Bronson
H. of R.
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I Hannah Hine of Middlebury in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut now in the seventieth year of my age, do depose and say, that Ebenezer and Mary Hills were married at my father's house and that according to the best of my recollection it was in the year 1780, I was present and witnessed the ceremony of the marriage.

Hanna Hine


State of Connecticut
New Haven Country

Be it remembered that on this sixth day of September 1838 personally appeared before me Hannah Hine and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by the ... described, and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the deponent and know her to be a person of strict veracity. 

Leonard Bronson Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of New Haven

I Willard Spencer, Town Clerk of the Town of
Waterbury in the County and State aforesaid do certify that I have examined the records of said Town in order to find a record of the marriage of Ebenezer Hills to Mary Bronson, but that no record of such marriage exists on
the books in my Office.
Waterbury September 3, 1838
William Spencer, Town Clerk

State of Connecticut
New Haven County } SS

On this 3rd day of September 1838
William Spencer above-named appeared before me and made solemn oath to the truth of the above certificate by him.
Subscribed & I certify that I am well acquainted with said Spencer and that he holds the Office of Town Clerk of the Waterbury.

Joel Hinman
Justice of Peace
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FREE

Laban Hills Esqr.
Postmaster
Watervliet Centre
Albany County NY

[Round Postal Stamp]
NEW HAVEN Ct
SEP 17
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
NEW-HAVEN COUNTY:
COUNTY COURT CLERK'S OFFICE. SS.
I, Jno Beach Clerk of the County Court, within and for said County, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, and of the Commissions of Justices of Peace, within and for said County, hereby certify that Leonard Bronson and Joel Herman Esqs. each is a JUSTICE OF PEACE within and for the said County, duly appointed Commissioned and sworn, with power to administer oaths and take the acknowledgment of Deeds: that his Commission is dated the 28th day of May A. D. 1838, and will expire on the twentieth day of June, A. D. 1839. That I am acquainted with his hand writing, and that the signature hereto annexed, purporting to be his, is his genuine official signature. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court, this 17th day of Sept. A.D. 1838
Jno Beach Clerk.
[Seal on left side of page is illegible]
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Payments to be made at a New York
[Illegible]
Agent for paying pensions and in the Agency office.
New York

Recorded by Jno Cornwell
Clerk in Book D Vol 5
page 127
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Ebenezer Hills of the State of New York who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive eighty dollars per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 21st day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
[There is an illegible seal on the left side of page]
[Signed] Lewis Cass
Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned.
[Signed] J.L. Edwards
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Capt Curtis & Hills company of Infantry 
Col Swifts & Van Schaicks Regt - 4.0 years
14 March 1833
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[The seal for Military Commissions is illegible] 
{Signature on the left side of page under seal]
Geo Clinton
THE PEOPLE of the State of NEW-YORK,
BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT;
To Ebenezer Hill Jnr Gentleman Greetings
WE reposing especial Trust and Confidence, as well in your Patriotism, Conduct and Loyalty, as in your Valour and Readiness to do us good and faithful Service; HAVE appointed and constituted, and by these Presents Do appoint and constitute you the said Ebenezer Hill Jr. Ensign No. 8 in Capt. Samuel Thomson's company in the Regiment of Militia in the County of Dutchess whereof James Van De Burgh Esquire is Lieutenant Colonel Commandant.
YOU are therefore, to take the said Company into your Charge and Care, as their Ensign thereof, and duly to exercise the Officers and Soldiers of that one in Arms, who are hereby commanded to obey you as Ensign thereof, and duly to exercise the Officers and Soldiers of that Company in Arms, who are hereby commanded to obey you as Ensign and you are also to observe and follow such Orders and Directions, as you shall from Time to Time receive from our General and Commander in Chief of the Militia of our said State, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you; and for so doing, this shall be Your Commission, for and during our good Pleasure, to be signified by our Council of Appointment. IN TESTIMONY whereof, We have caused our seal for Military Commissions to be hereunto affixed. WITNESS our Trusty and Well-beloved GEORGE CLINTON, Esquire, our Governor of our State of New-York, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the same, by and with the Advice and Consent of our said Council of Appointment, at our City of New York, the Twenty seventh Day of September in the Year of our LORD, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty six and in the seventh Year of our INDEPENDENCE.
Passed the Secretary's Office 23d October 1786
Lewis A. Scott SECRETARY.
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Watervliet Centre P.O. March 5th 1839
J L Edwards Esq

Sir I herewith send you a certificate for a pension of Mary Hills I presented a power to draw the amount due agreeable to this instrument the pension agent said that he had received instructions from you not to pay & that the certificate must be returned that there was an error that you wished to correct I therefore enclose it when rectified please enclose it and send it to me direct to the above named post office
Yours with Respect
Laban Hills
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Jan 7
From at
JLE
Mary Hills 
acct 1858
James L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Hon J. Bronson
JLE
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Ho: of Reps.
Jany 5, 1838
Dr Sir
I enclose the certificate which I showed you yesterday in the case of Mary Hills showing that there are no records of her marriage in the 1st Cong. Church in Waterbury Conn. You already have the certificate of the town clerk that there are no town records
This I trust will be sufficient for the allowance of the Pension claimed
Very Respectfully
Yours Truly
J H Bronson
To
James L. Edwards Esq
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
To Ebenezer Hills, Esquire. Greeting. We Reposing especial trust and competence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity. DO by these presents constitute and appoint you, to be a Lieutenant in the Seventh Connecticut Regiment in the Army of the United States to take rank as First Lieutenant from the first day of September AD 1779, You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of [illegible] by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your command, to be obedient to your orders as [illegible] And you are to [illegible] and follow such orders and directives from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed Committee of the States or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States or any other your Superior Officers, according to the rules and discipline of War in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue inforce until revoked by this or future Congress, the Committee of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of the States.

Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board Attest

Witness His Excellency John Taylor President of the Congress of the United States of America, at Philadelphia the [illegible] day of March 1779, and in the third year of our Independence.

[Signed] [illegible] Secretary of the Board of War
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IN CONGRESS
The DELEGATES of the UNITED COLONIES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent,
and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, to
Elenezer Hill
Gents Greeting
We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity,
DO by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be first Lieutenant of a Company [illegible] in the State of Connecticut in a Battalion commanded by Col Homan Swift during the present war in the Army of the United Colonies raised for the defence of American Liberty, and for repelling ever hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a [illegible] Company by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as
their first Lieutenant. And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee
of Congress, for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United Colonies, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress.
Dated the first day of January AD 1777
By Order of the Congress
Chas Thomson   John Hancock PRESIDENT
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[For J.H. Bronson is crossed out]
[Round Stamp] Washington CITY DC FEB 24

Feb 25
FREE

Hon J. L. Edwards
Pension Officer
War Department
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Ho. of Reps.
Washington  July 23th.1839

Sir
Yours of this day is before me -
The Pension Certificate of Mary Hills was Read: by me some time ago Immediately sent by me to Misters Frothingham & Lansing her Attorneys at Albany N.Y. with whom I presume it now is - Mrs Hills lives at Watervliet Albany Co N.Y. - but I presume the certificate is with her Attys Frothingham and Lansing
Very Respectfully 
Yours &c
J.H Bronson

To  J.L. Edwards Esq
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New York Albany
Ebenezer Hills on roll act of 1832 at the mtr of $80 per ann - to what time paid?
V L
Pos 4th March 1833 BH
John Harry Esq 3rd Auditor Office
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M. Hills [illegible] Certificate
Payment to be made at Albany by T. W. Olcott, Esq. Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Albany

[First payment to be made on the 31st December,1838, and on the 4th March and 4th September in each year thereafter. has been crossed out]

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A. vol. 2, Page 81 by [Signed] D. Brown, Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Five years Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Mary Hills, of the State of New York  widow of Ebenezer Hills who was a Private in the War of the Revolution and died on the thirtieth day of March 1833 is entitled to receive a pension, at the rate of Eighty dollars [and ___ cents: is crossed out] per annum, commencing on the thirty first day of March 1833; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the 4th of March, 1841, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death. 
Given at the War Office of the United States, this fifteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.
[Unclear signature]
Examined and Countersigned.

[Handwritten note] Found mutilated when opened by one Nov. 12, 1907. AW.
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V N. York
Mary Hills, widow of Ebenezer
Letter to Hon. I. H. Bronson 10 Dec. 1838
Act July 7 1838
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[Left side of page]
Milt. Hist to Fred M. Steel, Ellis Ave, Chicago, Ill.  M.Ed. |
- 1897 History to Miss F.D. Hatfield Poughkeepsie, NY see Wid. 19891 |
- 22. 1897 - History to Maud D. Brooks -
Olean, New York Inv. 93661 |
1907 Nov 12. Hist. to Mrs. A.L. Johnson aw.
letter in Wid 4197
1908 Nov. 10. Hist to Mrs. J. J. McWilliams V.L.M. |
1915 June 17 Hist to Henry Sage Dermott
& date to apply to auditor
1915 Oct. 30. Henry Sage Dermott
given data as to soldiers father AW

[Center of page]
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 7735
Mary Hills Wid.
Ebenezer Hills Pvt. Rev. War
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Act: Feby. 2nd/48
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 334
Arrangement of 1870.

[Right side of page]
Feb. 26/93 3815

Feby 13
June
Miss.
(ser
[Written sideways on the right side]
1915 Dec. 15. Hist to Miss K.A. Prichard &c
1917 Jan. 11 Hist to Mrs. E. Sponnoble 87 E. Main St. Johnstown, N.Y.  See her letter in Capt Ebenezer Hills bounty land, NT -974-300-Conn. awg
1925-Oct.12th Hist to Mrs. Minnie H. Murphy advised hist [illegible] only once etc. See her letter & reply in Ebenezer Hills B.L.W. 974 Capt. |
1932 - June 6 hist to Marjorie H. Chandler See her letter in Ebenezer Hills S.43691 awg
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The Johnson
MODERN OFFICE BUILDING
Muncie, Ind. Nov 4 1907
To the Pension Department
Washington, D. C.  W7735
Have you the record of pensions given to Mary Hills (or Hill) widow of Ebenezer Hills (or Hill) of the Revolutionary War. Mary Hills (or Hill) received her pension first at Watervliet Centre N.Y. afterwards moving with her son Laban to Ashtabula O. received her pension there, and of Polly Ferguson widow of Abram (or Abraham) Ferguson of the Revolutionary war  714197 also, receiving her pension at Watervliet Centre, N.Y. Any information concerning these will be thankfully received 
Signed Mrs. A L Johnson
330 E. Washington St Muncie Ind
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To Chf. Record Div.
Action Reply through
Nov 9 1906
COMMISSIONER
desk please M

RECORD DIVISION CHIEF'S DESK
NOV 9 1906
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Department of Interior
Washington D.C.
(stamp) Division of Mails & Files
Received Nov 9-1908
To Bur, Pensions
Dept of the Interior
Will you kindly give
me the Revolutionary War
record of Ebenezer Hills Jr.
and Abraham Forgason?
Their widows drew pensions as
Mary Bronson Hills &
Polly Emery Ferguson.
May I ask if this
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is the proper way 
for me to proceed to
get this record.
Very Respectfully,
Mrs. J.J. McWilliams
11500 Euclid Ave
Cleveland.O
The Euclid.
November 6, 08
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No 554 Hudson Ave
Albany NY 11 June 1915
Hon. Comr of Pensions
Washington D .C.
My Dear Sir:
May I have copy of application for pension made by Ebenezer Hills who served in the Rev. War, and appears to have been granted a pension while at Albany Co N.Y? I should also like to have memorandum for securing date of his last payment. With thanks.
Yours truly
Henry Sage Dermott

U. S. PENSION OFFICE JUN 12 1915
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No 554 Hudson are
Albany my 27 Oct. 1915
Hon. G. M. Saltzgaber
Comr of Pensions
Washington D.C
My dear Sir: Under date of June 17, 1915, the Bureau very kindly gave me military history of
Ebenezer Hills junior (V.L.M. W.F. 7735, Rev War)
one of the officers under whom the said pension served is put down as Capt Ebenezer Hills which an asterisk reference states was "soldier's father". Would you kindly tell me if that information is not a part of petitioners affidavit presumably that of the widow of Ebenezer junior, and if anything further concerning relationship, residence etc of the parties is put down?
Yours respectfully
Henry Sage Dermott
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80 Pine Street
Waterbury, Conn.
Ebenezer Hill (or Hills) born
(where?) 1758, married Mary 
Bronson.  He is said to
have been "a son of Ebenezer 
Hill or Hills, who 
was a captain in the 
Revolutionary War."  This
is all the information
I have and I would like
to connect the two.
Ebenezer, Jr. may have had
a brother, Samuel.  Yours,
K.A. Richard
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Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D.C
Custodian of US Pensions
Dear Sirs:
I am very anxious to find out the name of the person who received pension for Ebenezer Hill - First Leut from N.Y. State Renssaler County N.Y.
from Late Capt Eleasor Curtis N.Y. Co. now Captain Moses Martins Co in Colonel Goose Van Schaick's Battalion of the
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Officer raised in New York
Commissioned June 1 1776
also (S__named Hills)
I am anxious to know where this officer family were from - and who waso have pension - This is for the D.A.R. information - I am not sure what the wife's name is but wish to know - anything about him or her you happen to have.
Sincerely
Mrs Minnie Hall Murphy
80f5 Gaylord st
Denver, Colo
Aug 20, 1925
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Rev. War Section
October 30, 1915
Mr. Henry sage Dermott,
No 554 Hudson Avenue,
Albany, N.Y.
Sir:
In response to your letter of the 27" instant,
you are advised that in the declaration for pension
of Ebenezer Hills Jr. (W. File No. 7,735) he states
that in 1777, he enlisted in Kent, Litchfield County.
Connecticut, under his father Ebenezer Hills then a 
Lieutenant afterwards a Captain.
It also appears that Ebenezer Hills was commissioned
First Lieutenant of Colonel Heman Swift's Connecticut
Battalion, January 1, 1777, and Captain of 
the 7th Connecticut Regiment, September 1, 1777.
There is no further data on file as to the service,
relationship or residence of Ebenezer Hills Sr. in
said claim.
Very respectfully,
[signature illegible]
Commissioner.
[handwritten illegible]
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In reply to your request of _________, received for a statement of the military history of Ebenezer Hills Jr. a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. W7733
See Capt Ebenezer Hills Comm - Bounty and Wt974-300 issued June 14, 1790 - no papers
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Dec 75
77
Oct. 23, 1786
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
1 yr
2  "
RANK.
Pvt
  "
Ensign
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Eleazer Curtis
*Ebenezer Hills
Samuel Thomson
COLONEL.
Goosi Van Schaick
Herman Swift
Jas Van De Burghis
Dutches Co Mil
STATE.
NY.
Conn
NY
*Soldier's father
Battles engaged in, Monmouth
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
Date of application for pension, Sept 13,1832. The same allowed
Residence at date of application, Watervliet, Albany Co NY
Age at date of application, b., Mar. 17, 1758, d. Mar. 30, 1833 at Watervliet NY
Remarks: Sol. mar. at Waterbury Conn. Nov. 19, 1780. Mary dau. Isaac Bronson She was born Sept. 15, 1757 and was at par on an ap ex, Nov. 1, 1838 while res. of Watervliet NY. In 1848 she resided in Ashtabula Twp., Ashtabula Co. Ohio
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Rev. and 1812
War Section.
October 12, 1925
Mrs. Minnie H. Murphy
805 Gaylord St
Denver, Colo.
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 7735, it appears
that Ebenezer Hills, Jr. was born March 17,
1758, place not stated [and was the son of E.H.]
He enlisted in December 1775 and served one
year as a private in Captain Eleazer Curtis' Company,
Colonel Goose VanSchaick's New York Regiment [handwritten illegible]
He enlisted in 1777 and was a private in Captain Ebenezer Hills' Company {soldier's father},
Colonel Heman Swift's Connecticut Regiment, was in
the battle of Monmouth and served two years.
October 23, 1786, he was commissioned Ensign in
Captain Samuel Thomson's Company, Colonel James VanDeBurgh's
Regiment of Dutchess County, New York Militia,
length of service not on file.
He was allowed pension on his application exe-
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executed September 13, 1832, while a resident of Watervliet, Albany County, New York, and he died there March 30, 1833.
Soldier married November 19, 1780 in Waterbury, Connecticut, Mary, daughter of Isaac Bronson, she was born September 15, 1757. [by the Rev. Mark {illegible last name}]
She was allowed pension on her application executed November 1, 1838, while a resident of Watervliet, New York.
In 1848, she was residing in Ashtabula Township,
Ashtabula County, Ohio.
Respectfully,
Winfield Scott
Commissioner.
[handwritten text not transcribed]