Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,745, Daniel Gill, Continental (Md.)
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Continental (Md.)  Gill, Daniel S. 42,745

Revolutionary Pension
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Ohio Roll

Daniel Gill, 
Colo Hartley Private
Pennsylvania line 77-3 years
Ohio
8
25 April 1818
29 Oct 1818
sent to the pensionen at
St. Clairyville, Ohio
Sept, 1818....$34.66
Mar. 4.1819..48.
Ars?, 4 mo 10/30 $82.66
Contineed?
Bellmont Co.
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Notification sent 28 Dec. 1820 to Benjamin, Van Cleave Dayton, Ohio.
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Daniel Gill
not on roll
?
The Honorable Secretary of War
Washington City
St Clairsville
May 1
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Daniel Gill, aged sixty five years on the 
eighteenth day of August, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
states and declare life on oath, that I
inlisted [enlisted] on the first of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and  seventy seven, under Captain Heckleberger
for the term of three years and that Captain Heckleberger's company was attached to the
regiment of Col. Hartley in the Pennsylvania
line, then commanded by General Anthony Wayne and that at the battle of Ironhill, I was taken
a prisoner by the enemy and was held by them
nine months and made my escape from
the enemy at Charleston, South Carolina
and after having thus escaped I again
entered into the service of the United States, under
Col. Ward  for eighteen months in Carolina aforesaid and having faithfully served
out the time of eighteen months, I received an honorable discharge from Col Waid
which discharge I have by some means
lost that I have become infirm
and unable by my reduced circumstances
in life to support my family and therefore
stand in great need of assistance from my
County all which I declare upon oath
this twenty fifth day of April anno Domine
1818     Daniel Gill
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State of Ohio 
Belmont County

Personally appeared before me Edward ?, one of the judges of the county of Coramon? Plean? in and for the County of Belmont Ohio, ?
Daniel Gill, who having duly sworn ?, that the fore going facts are just and true, to the best of his knowledge - Sworn and subseriteed? before on this 25th day of April.
? ? 1818
Edw, Bryson?
one of the apso? judges
in and for ? County

The state of Ohio Belmont County
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St. Clairsville April 30th 1818
The ? Calhoun
Sir you will please to inform me whether the foregoing named Daniel Gill wil be ? ? the list, or he is ? and lives out of the way of intelligence of almost every kind
? your very humble and obedient servant
David Jennings
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166

Daniel Gill

Clerks Signature 
Wanting

Benjamin Vanbleve, Clk
Dayton, Ohio
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Pleas at Dayton before the Honorable Joseph H Crane Esquire
President and his associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery and the state of Ohio of the ? of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
The Application of Daniel Gill for a Pension Montgomery so be it remembered that at a Court of Common Pleas ? at Dayton in the County of Montgomery State of Ohio on the fourth Monday of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty before the Honorable Joseph H Crane Esquire President and his associate Judges of the County aforesaid came Daniel Gill and produced his application for a pension in the words following to wit "District i.e. State of Ohio
On this 25th day of July 1820 personally appeared in open Court (being the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County in said state and Court of Record) Daniel Gill aged sixtyfive years resident in said Montgomery County who being first and duly sworn according to law  doth on his oath declare tht he served in the Revolutionary war as follows - In the Company commanded by Captain Heckelbarg in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hartley in a Brigade commanded by Gen. Anthony Wayne - That this declarant enlisted at the city of Baltimore in or about March 1777 That he served in that Company and Regiment until he was taken prisoner at the battle of Iron Hill. That he remained a prisoner about nine months. That he was taken while a prisoner to Carolina where he made his escape. Joined a Regiment commanded by Colonel Wade at the Cheraw hills in North Carolina where he served until regularly discharged that he has heretofore made a declaration but the date thereof he does not now recollect. That he has received and has now
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in his possession a pension certificate numbered 3.027 and date October 29th 1818, and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818. I that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to dimish it as to bring myself within the few visions of an act of congress intilled "An act to provide for certain persons engage in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolution any 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 securities contract, or debt due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed by me subscribed to wit
One table - value $3.00
One small chest - .75
Crockery & tin ware - $3.00
Two Chairs - .25
Hard ware or Hollow ware - 3.50
Coopers ware or work - 1.75
One Axe - 2.00
One Iron wedge - .50
A sett of Shoemaker tool - 2.50
Two hoes - 1.00
One looking glass - .12%
One Slate - .12%
Knives forks and spoons - 1.00
One bow - 14.00
Whole Amount $32.50
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his wife Nancy and he verily believes from the appearance of both of them that they are of the age or there abouts metiontioned in the above declaration. That they are both infirm and able to perform but little labor. This deponent has no other knowledge of the property of said Gill than what he derives from their residence in the vicinity of said Gill and from being occasionally in his house and from having recently been called upon by said Gill to make an inventory and to set a value upon said proprty and from a knowledge so derived he verily believes that the foregoing schedule making ? of the declaration of said Gill contains all the property of said Gill (except a bed bedding and bedstead and the wearing apparel of said Gill and his said Wife) that the value of the same does not exceed thirty two dollars and fifty cents exclusive of said bed bedding beadstead and wearing apparel which is not more than twenty dollars value adn deponent also believes that should said Gill of his said wife be sick for any considerable lengths of time they must become a charge upon the township or dependent upon charity.

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court July 20th 1820
Attest B Van Cleve, clerk
James Grimes

On the application of Daniel Gill a petition for a pension under the several act of Congress, this Court is of opinion and doth adjudge that the total amount in value of the property exhibited
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And I do hereby declare tha I am by occupation a Shoemaker that from age and infirmities I am not able to perform more than one third of the labor per day of a common laborer in that occupation and many times from infirmities not as much. That my family is composed of myself and my wife Nancy who resides constantly with me and is of the age of fifty seven years and I verily believe and is afflicted with many of the complaints incident to old age and is barely able to do that small portion of labor indispensably necessary to every family however small. An this deponent most solemly declares that without aid from that Country which he faithfully served in his youth with his blood, in the event of the sickness of himself or his said wife for but a short time he must become dependant upon the charity of his neighbors or a charge upon the township.
Daniel Gill
Sworn to and declare in the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County and State of Ohio in open Court of the 25th day of July 1820 before the said Court of Common Pleas.
Attest B Van Cleve, Clerk
On the application of Daniel Gill James Grimes being duly sowrn according to law  deposeth and saith that he resides in said Montgomery County within a short Distance of Daniel Gill the above declarant that he is well acquainted with him and
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and set forth in the schedule annexed to the petition and declaration of said Gill and the schedule of property annexed to the same together with the affidavit of James Grimes relative to the value of the property of said Gill be entered of record.
The state of Ohio, Montgomery County
I Benjamin Van Cleve Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Mongomery aforesaid do certify tht the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the 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
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section
March 3, 1928

C. M. Gill,
Athens,
Ohio.

Sir: 
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 42745, it appears that Daniel Gill was born August 18, 1756. He enlisted at Baltimore, Maryland, March 1, 1777, under Captain Eichelberger in Colonel Hartley's Regiment, General Anthony Wayne's Brigade, was in the battle of Iron Hill where he was taken prisoner and held as such nine months when he escaped from the enemy at Charleston, South Carolina, and again entered the service for eighteen months under Colonel Wade at the Cheraw Hills in North Carolina, where he served out his time. He was allowed pension on his application executed April 25, 1818, while a resident of Montgomery County, Ohio. In 1820 his wife Marcy? or Nancy? (not clearly written) was fifty seven years old. There are no other data on file as to family. The above record is that of the only soldier named Daniel Gill found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT.
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Left Side Page

42745 INVALID
Rev

File NO 42745
Daniel Gill
Priv Rev War

Act: 18 March 1818
Index: - Vol J Page 196

[Arrangement of 1870.]

Right Side Page

1921 Jan 25 - Hist to Hon Thos S Williams
1928, March 2 - Hist to C M Gill
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Left side under emblem:
C.M. Gill & CO., Agents
Athens, Ohio

Fidelity-Phenix
Fire Insurance Company
of New York
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Ernest Sturm, Chairman of the Board
Paul L. Haid, President
Western Department
844 Rush St., Chicago
J.R. Wilbur, Vice-President     E.A. Henne, Secretary
J.F. Donica, Secretary

February 28, 1927.

Department of Interior,
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:
I would like very much to secure the military records of Daniel Gill, Senior, who died November 8th, 1843, at the age of ninety-three years and twenty-three days, and is buried at McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio, part of which county was formerly in Athens County, Ohio. We know that at one time he received a pension from the government as a Revolutionary soldier, as an old resident of Vinton County, who was very aged told me that he had helped Daniel Gill, fill out his pension papers near the year of 1840.
The State of Ohio has recently appropriated sufficient money to publish all the names of the Revolutionary soldiers in Ohio, and we are very anxious for Daniel Gills name to be in this publication. For your information I might add that a great many years ago some descendant of Daniel Gill had written on his tombstone, "A soldier of the American Revolution".
Very truly yours, 
CM Gill
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Top left:
Sixty-Sixth Congress
Thomas S Williams. ILL., Chairman
Norman J. Gould, N.Y.
Willis J. Hulings, PA.
Frank Murphy, Ohio.
Ernest R Ackerman, N.J.
Michael F. Phelan, Mass.
William E. Cleary, N.Y.
   Hallie F. Stanford, Clerk.
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 House of Representatives U.S.
Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce. 
Washington, D.C.
January 22, 1921

The Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C. 
My dear Sir:
Daniel Gill was a Revolutionary War soldier, apparently with some Pennsylvania organization, but who was a pensioner at the time of his death in 1853, and was then living somewhere in Ohio.
If this information, which is all I have at hand, is sufficient to identify the soldier, I will appreciate it if you will inform me what the records of the Pension Office show as to his service, etc. 
Very truly yours, 
T. Williams
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V.L.M (signature)
Rev. War Section 

January 25, 1921

Hon. Thomas S. Williams, 
House of Representatives. 

My dear Mr. Williams: 
In response to your letter dated the 22" instant, I have the honor to advise you that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. Fils(?) No. 42,745 that David (scratched out) Daniel Gill, who was born August 18, 1756, {he} enlisted at Baltimore Maryland, March 1, 1777, under Captain Eichelberger in Colonel Hartley's Regiment, General Anthony Wayne's Brigade, that he was in the battle of Iron Hill where he was taken prisoner and held as such nine months when he escaped from the enemy at Charleston, South Carolina, and again entered the service for eighteen months under Colonel Wade at the Cheraw Hille in North Carolina, where he served out his time. 
He was allowed pension on application executed April 25, 1818, while a resident of Montgomery County, Ohio. In 1820 his wife, Nancy, was fifty-seven years old. There is no other data on file as to his family. 
Very truly yours, 
F D Byington 
Commissioner.