Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34921, John Hill, Md.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE | | NUMBER
MD | Hill, John | S.34921
CONTENTS
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11.198

Maryland
John Hill
Capt. Howard
Private Maryland
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 15th of August 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st of June 1819 and delivered to Mr. James Owings of Baltimore

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $53.41
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 $48.00

Total $101.41

{Revolutionary claim Act 18th March, 1818.}

177 3 yrs

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Notification [illegible] Oct 13, 1826

Died Feb 5 1828 (AB)
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District of Maryland Anne Arundel County

On this 23rd day of September 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record of the District and County aforesaid possessing a jurisdiction unlimited in amount and with the power of fine and imprisonment John Hill aged upwards of sixty four years resident in the County and District aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doeth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: enlisted on Elkridge in Maryland in Capt Vachael D Howard's troop of Col Stephen Moyland's regiment of Light Dragoons on the 1st day of May in the year 1777 and served in said troop three years and was in the battles of Brandywine, Peola, German Town and Monmouth  and also a great many skirmishes at New Rochester and other places. At New Rochester I was wounded in the thigh with a sword. I was discharged at Middle Town Connecticut on the 11 day of May 1780. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift Sale or in any part disposed of my property thereby so to diminish it as to being myself within the provisions of the act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States
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in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or certificates contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. I do further declare that I am a pensioner under the act of Congress of the18th of March, 1818, and that my Certificate is numbered 11.198 that I am by occupation farmer but from age and infirmities, and wounded consequence of a broken thigh, not in a situation to follow it and that my family consists of a wife in the sixty second year of her age very much afflicted
with the Rheumatism

Schedule of property in the possession of
John Hill on the 2 day of September 1828
one horse, one cow, one table, two chairs,
two pots, one skillet, a few plates, knives and
forks, cups and saucers. Also a pension of $40 a year from the State of Maryland. The property enumerated in the above schedule is hereunto valued by the Court at sixty five dollars.

John Hill

Sworn to and declared on the twenty third
day of September in the year 1820 before the
judges of the third Judicial District of Maryland
sitting in open Court in and for Anne Arundel County.

Wm S. Green - Clerk AA Co 

I William S Green Clerk of Anne Arundel
County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing doth
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Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed and truly Copied from the record of said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said
Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid declaration is sixty four dollars.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed of the said court on this twenty third day of September Eighteen hundred and twenty.

Wm S. Green - Clerk of Anne Arundel County Court
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Maryland Anne Arundel County - to wit:

Be it remembered that on the fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and Eighteen personally appeared before the subscriber Associate Judge of the Third judicial District of Maryland John Hill of the county aforesaid and did deposeth and say and declare that he enlisted as a private in Colonel Stephen Maryland Regiment of Light Dragoons belonging to the army of the United States on the fifth day of February in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven for the term of three years and that he faithfully fought in the revolutionary war against the collective enemy during the whole period and was duly discharged at the expiration of his enlistment. The said John Hill did further at the same time doth say and declare that he is indigent and in distressed circumstances and stands in need of the aid and assistance of his country for support.

I the subscriber do further certify that on the 25th day of April in the year eighteen hundred and nineteen that John [illegible] of Anne Arundel County aforesaid did also appear before me and made oath in the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God that he was well acquainted with the deponent John Hill during the revolutionary war and that the said John Hill did enlist as a private in the Dragoons for three years during the revolutionary war and did fight as such against the common enemy during that period in the army of the United States.

Sworn to before me

Richard Redgoly

Be it therefore know that I Richard Redgoly Associate Judge in aforesaid do hereby certify to the Honorable Secretary of the Department of War that
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the aforegoing deposition was taken before me in the [illegible] and at the[illegible] there in po.

I also certify that the said John Hill is at this time in indigent and distressed circumstances and stands in need of the aid and assistance of his country for support and that from the evidence before me I am satisfied that the facts stated in his deposition are just and true which evidence is also transmitted herewith. Given under my hand and seal this first day of May in the year eighteen hundred and nineteen.

Richard Ridgely - SEAL

To the Honorable Secretary for the Department of War

Anne Arundel County Court

I hereby certify that the honorable Richard Ridgely Esquire who appeared to have taken and signed the aforegoing deposition was at the time of so doing one of the associated Judges in the third Judicial District of Maryland comprising the counties of Calvert, Anne Arundel and Montgomery duly commissioned and qualified and to all his acts as such full faith and credit as such ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as [illegible]

In testimony whereof I hereto set my name and affix the seal of Anne Arundel County Court this eleventh day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

Wm S Green - Clerk AA Count Court
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May 19, 1936

John Hill
S.34921
BA-J/MLB

Mr. Albert L Lowe
Deeerick Stree and Third Avenue
Nashville, Tennessee

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of John Hill, said to have lived near Antietam, Maryland, during the Revolutionary War, served in that war in Captain Morris' company, Colonel Gunsby's 7th Maryland Regiment and was present at the battleof White Plains.

No claim for pension or bounty land has been found based upon service in the Revolution of a John Hill identical with your description. You are furnished herein the record of the only John Hill of Maryland found in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The data therein were obtained from Pension Claim S.34921, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of birth and names of the parents of John Hill are not shown.

John Hill enlisted at Elkridge, Maryland, May 1, 1777, for the term of three years, served as private in Captain Vashel D Howard's troop, Colonel Stephen Moyland's Regiment of Light Dragoons, was in the battles of Brandywine, Paoli, Germantown, Monmouth and numerous skirmishes, one of which was at New Rochester where he was wounded by a sword in his thigh and was discharged May 11, 1780.

The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed August 15, 1818, while a resident of Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

In 1820, John Hill was still a resident of Anne Arundel County, Maryland and stated that he was then aged "upwards of sixty-four years" and that his wife was aged sixty-two years, but did not give her name or make any reference to children. He died February 5, 1828.
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In order to obtain date of last payment of pension and name and address of the person paid, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Divion, this city and cite the following data:

John Hill
Certificate # 11198
Issued June 1, 1819
Rate $8 per month
Commenced Aug 15, 1818
Act 18th March, 1818
Maryland Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Anne Arundel County Court

I hereby certify that Gustavus Warfield gentleman who appears whence taken and signed the aforegoing affidavit was at the time of so doing one of the State of Maryland's Justices of the Peace in and for Anne Arundel County duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my name and affix the seal of Anne Arundel County Court this second day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

Wm S Green - Clerk
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I do hereby certify that John Hill did enlist in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven in the spring of that year as a troop member in Capt Vachel D Howard's troop in Col Stephen Moyland's regiment of Light Dragoons to serve for the term of three years which engagement I believe he faithfully performed.

Richd Dorrey then 
Lieunt of said Troop
Aug 11th 1818

Anne Arundel County to wit

On the fourteenth day of August [illegible] came Richard Dorey before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid and provided the above certificate according to law.

Sworn before
Gustavus Warfield
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J L Edwards
{illegible]
Admitted

Cert of Pension 
issued 2nd June 1819
and delivered to Mr.
James Owings of 
Baltimore, MD
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Copy

Mary 24, 1933

Honorable Joseph W Byrns,
House of Representatives

My dear Mr. Byrns:

I have your letter of May 20, 1933, in which you request the record of one John Hill, said to have lived near Antietam, Maryland, during the Revolutionary War period, and to have served in the Revolutionary War.

The records show that one John Hill served in the Revolutionary War as a private of Captain Jonathan Morris' Company, 7th Maryland Regiment, commanded by Colonel John Gunby. He enlisted for 9 months, and was present in the field at White Plains, September 9, 1778. Nothing additional has been found of record in his case.

No other John Hill has been found as of any other Maryland Regiment in service during the Revolutionary War.

The collection of Revolutionary War records in this Department is far from complete, and it is suggested that additional information can possibly be obtained from the Adjutant General of the State of Maryland, at Annapolis; the Maryland Historical Society, at Baltimore; or from the Director of Pensions, Veterans Administration, this city.

Very respectfully,

Signed James F. McKinley
Brigadier General, 
Acting The Adjutant General
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Fruits   Vegetables   Groceries   Seeds

U.S. License

Lowe Brokerage Company
A.L. Lowe
Deaderick Street and Third Avenue
Nashville, Tennessee

Code: Speedkode

Phone: 5-4732

April 15, 1938

Revolutionary Soldiers Pension Claim Dept.
19th Constitution Avenue
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

Plese give me information on your Pension Record of John Hill mentioned in the enclosed copy of a letter from James F. McKinley.

Yours truly

Albert L. Lowe

ALL:WMK

Date Stamp:  Received Apr 18, 1939
Mail Sub Div
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Fruits Vegetables Groceries Seeds

U.S. License

Lowe Brokerage Company
A.L. Lowe
Deaderick Street and Third Avenue
Nashville, Tennessee

Code: Speedkode

Phone: 5-4732

Mary 31, 1938

DATE STAMP: Received Jun 2, 1938 
Mail Sub Div

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
Veterans Administration 
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Re: John Hill
S.34921
BA-J/MLB

Referring to your letter of May 19, 1938, the John Hill who enlisted at Elkridge, Maryland, May 1, 1777, for the term of three years, and who served as a private in Captain Vashel D Howard's troop, etc. is not he John Hill who is my ancestor.

Please tell me whether or not you consider the following information of my John Hill ancestor is correctly given; and which information is taken from pages 34 and 208 of the ARCHIVES or MARYLAND, Volume XLIII-Journal and Correspondence of State Council 1779-1785:

"Friday, Dec 10, 1779, ordered that the Commission of Stores deliver to JOHN HILL, a nine months soldier in the 7th Maryland Regiment, discharge the amount of Twenty-four Pounds, ten shillings in clothing due him per act of Assembly to procure Troops for the American Army."

"Pay to JOHN HILL three pounds, four shillings, paid by the Western Store Treasurer through Samuel Theebold, allowed for mfg. salt."

Possibly the payment of pensions mentioned in the above quoted records were expenses paid by the state of Maryland, and possibly this is the reason that your records do not contain any record of this particular John Hill.

If you can hlep me in any way to establish data for the Daughters of the American Revolution, I shall be very thankful.

Yours truly

Albert L. Lowe

ALL:WMK
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August 5, 1938

JOHN HILL
S.34921
BA-J/MMF:MLB

Mr. Albert L. Lowe
Deaderick Street and Third Avenue
Nashville, Tennessee

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you state that the record of John Hill of Maryland (S.34921), which was furnished you May 19, 1938, is not that of your ancestor John Hill. You request to know whether citations in your letter of May 31, 1938, from Maryland Archives are correctly given and which my pertain to pensions paid by the State of Maryland.

Your citations do not pertai nto the records of this office, but the payments made by officials in the State of Maryland, for the benefit of a John Hill. This office has no way to determine whether or not these citations pertain to your ancestor. As previously stated, the record of John Hill, S.34921, furnished you was that of the only one who served in the Maryland troops that is fround on the Revolutionary War records of this office.

If you have not contacted the Maryland officials in Baltimore and Annapolis, as suggested by Brigadier General James F. McKinley, perhaps some valuable information might be obtained from those cities.

In the event that your ancestor, John Hill, served from some other adjacent state, if you will furnish as much as possible of the following data in regard to your very own ancestor, another effort will be made to aid you; approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of widow.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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1938 May 19 - Hist to Albert L Lowe MLB
1938 Aug 5 - Mr Albert L. Lowe and further inst re John HIll

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34921
Rev INVALID

File No 34,921
John Hill
Pri Rev War

Act 18 March 1818
Index: Vol - 2, Page 188

[Arrangement of 1870.]