Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,063, Michael Gill, Mass.
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Service: Mass 

Gill Micheal

Number: S, 31,063
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33.068
Massachusetts
Michael Gill decd
of [blank] in the state of [blank]
who was a private in the 2nd M commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by 
Colonel Rand in the Massachusetts
line, for Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll of Boston at the rate of 78 Dollars 09 Cents per annum to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of October 1852 and the sent to Elijah Clark 
Prest.
Arrears to the 4th of [blank]
Semi-annual allowance ending [blank]

{Revolutionary claim,
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by R McRae Clerk,
Book E Vol.3  Page 30.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Worcester ss
On this seventh day of October, eighteen hundred and fifty one, personally appeared in open court, before the Court of Probate in and for the County of Worcester aforesaid, Moses Gill a resident of Shrewsbury in said County of Worcester, being seventy years of age, who being just duly sword according to Law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration for himself as well as for Thomas Gill and Frances Reed his brother and his Sister, in order to obtain a pension from the United States which was due Michael Gill, his late father at the time of his death, agreeable to the Law of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and the Second Section of the act of July 4th 1836.
That said Michael Gill, was a resident of Westminster in said County of Worcester, and was in the Service, at the Lexington and Concord alarm April 19th 1775 for five days. That in the Autumn of 1776, he as appointed A Quarter Master to Col. James Conouses Regiment. Which was ordered towards New York and rendered two months, and seventeen days service in that Capacity in Col. , 
 Conouses Regt. That in the summer of 1780, he was a Quarter Master in Col. John Rand's Regiment, and was in
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Service at different places in the State of New York as Quarter Master of three months and nineteen days. And it is his belief that the said Michael Gill, rendered his County other services which he is not now able to prove. that of a Pay Master at Cambridge in place of Some other person and that he was engaged under an appointment or was a committee to purchase Horses in the Continental Army. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present herein claimed, an declares that the name of the Said Michael Gill was never placed on the pension Roll of the United States, That the said Michael Gill, made Some exertions to obtain a pension, Some years before his decease, but as he had not the necessary assistance and became destitute, he never to the knowledge of the deponent made a claim for the Pension due him,
Moses Gill (signed)

Sworn to and Subscribed to by the Said Moses Gill in open Court, the day and year first above written. Before me,
N.P. Kinnicutt
Judge of Probate for the Court of pensions(?)
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Worcester ss, I Charles G Prentiss, Register for the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Thomas Kinnicutt is the Judge of said county, duly commissioned and qualified - and that signature to the foregoing I authenticate as genuine.
In testimony whereby I do hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this seventh day of October, one thousand, eight hundred and fifty one. 
Chas. G. Prentis, Register.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester, ss:
I, Charles G. Prentiss Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court,, that Michael Gill, who formerly resided in Westminster, in said County who has been reputed to have been an Officer in the Army of the Revolution was a resident of the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and died in Princeton in said County, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty on the tenth day of August, that he left no widow - that he left three children only known to be living to wit. Moses Gill, Thomas Gill, and Frances Reed - and that Michael Gill Jr. another boy, who [illegible] to the western states , has not been heard from for twenty one years [illegible several words] and is not supposed to be living. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Worcester, this seventh day of October in the in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty one. 
Chas. G. Prentis, Register.
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[first line illegible]
285:8:5 1/4 -   for Sa***
136:9:4 1/2 -    For officer ration
375:0:9 -   For mileage _________________________
796:18:6 3/4

Gill, Michael
Mass S31063
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W. Tasks Accomplish
[W. Tasks Accomplish is crossed out]

Col. James Con(illegible)   Brookfield
Lieut. Col. Eph'm Sawyer   Lancaster
Major John Grand   Westminster
Joshua Pain Chaplin  Sturbridge
David or Daniel Sam'l Crosby   Shrewsbury
Adjunt Ebenr, (illegible)   Ashburnham
(illegible)
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31063
Reg INVALID

File No. 31063
Michael Gill 
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th 32"
Index:- Vol. 2, Page 154

{Arrangement of 1870}
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No. 38.271
Michael Gill Dec.d
Mass
Act 7th June 1832

To E. Clark. Dec. 25, 1857
Same: April 15, 1852
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Eben.r Newell
Dec.d 1776


Gill, Michael
Mass S31063
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Phillipsborough Nov.r 16 1776  Received of Michael Gill four hundred ten shillings [illegible] money full for a Flanger
Eb.r Newell
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Capt. Hayes
Rect. for 8 1/2
6 Kettles 8 Tents
One Spade - 2 Axes
October 1789

Gill, Michael
Mass. S31063
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Rec.d of M Gill QM of Col. Rands Reg.t  Eight Tents two Axes One Spade & five Camp Kettles for the use of My Company in o? Reg.t 
Jim Paige- Cagt
West Point October 4. 1780.
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Gill, Michael 
Mass S31063
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Westminster December 1: 1784: Received of The Town of Westminster by the Hand of Michael Gill Sixteen pounds ten shillings & six pence which sum together with what I have before Received of him is in full of all my Demand for Cloathing (sic) which I supply'd said Town with in the year 1780.
James Walker (signed)
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7 Tents -
1 Axe - -
1 Spade - -
5 Kettles


Gill, Michael
Mass S31063
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[upside down]

7 Tents -
1 Axe - -
1 Spade - -
5 Kettles


Gill, Michael
Mass S31063
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West Point Aug.t 21.1780, Rec'd of M Gill QM of Col. Rands Rig.t of the Massachusetts Militia Seven Tents five Camp Kettles & one Ax for the use of my Company 
Ephrm Stearns, Capt.
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2     [there is barely visible handwriting of which     
        the following words are visible:]
                  July 10, 17

 [then:]     Col  John 
                  Certificate 1780
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Westminster June 26: 1780
To: Michael Gill Gentleman -
By Authority Vested in me by Jon:a Warmer Brigd;r of the Millitia in the County of Worcester & State of the Massachusetts Bay You are hereby appointed Quarter Master of the Rigument of Millitia Detached from said County agreeable to the Order of the Generall Court of the 22 of June Last of which I am appointed to Command & you are to March forthwith Clavarack in the State of New York {cut off} ..ct to such Other Order as you Shall - ..we from your Superior Officer & you to Observe & obey all the Rules & Regulations appertains to your office as Quarter Master During the Term Specify'd in the Order of the 22 of June Last. 

John Rand 

Gill, Michael
Mass S31063
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Mass. Roll.

Michael Gill, Dec
Who was a private and Quarter Master Mass

Nov/71
[Illegible] June 7, 1832
4 1/2 days Private $0.49 1/2
5 m 26 days Quarter Master 78.20
= $78.68 1/2

Conv. March 4, 1831
2nd Aug 10, 1840, when he died - 

Payable to Moses Gill Thomas Gill and Frances Reed, only children etc
Elijah Clark

P_____ [cut off]
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Brighton, Mass.tt January 1, 1832

Dear Sir,
     your letter of date Decm. 20th representing the claim of the children on Michael Gill, formerly of Westminster has been received. On the Probate Court certificate of the County of Worcester, you will notice, that Michael Gill a resident of Westminster, died in Princeton in said county on the tenth day of Augt, 1840. A number of Mr Gills original papers found by Mrs. Frances Reed, & by her sent to me, are herewith enclosed. The original Adutant Book of Mr Conanto, I can exhibit to you, when I shall be in Washington & the written papers are not sufficient. The Service which Mr Gill rendered, you will find I believe to be Six Months ten & one half days, 
Very Respt 
Your Obdt. Srvt
Elijah Clark

Hon. J.P. Heath.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
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Brighton, Mass.tt October 8, 1837 
Dear Sir,
     I have the honour to enclose to you herewith the claims of the children on Michael Gill, late of Westminster, deceased for the pension due him at the day of his decease. 

Very Respt 
Your Obdt. Srvt
Elijah Clark

Hon. J.P. Heath.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, City, D.C.
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Pension Office
April 1832
Sir,
     Your letter of the 1st Janry, last enclosing some old papers in the case of Michael Gill has been reced. Before this claim is finally disposed of, we would prefer to examine the "Adjutant." Bivts in your possession as the service shown here does not amount to as much as six months
Vry Respectfully  yo. Obt Ser

FFC Triplett
joulcommipania

E. Clark Esq
Brighton, Mass, 


(H. Hoblitzell, Jr)
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No. 38.271

Michael Gill dcd
Mass
Ret 7 June 1832


E. Clark
Brighton
Mass -
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
[Seal in top right corner]
Secretary's Office, Boston:
April 9 1850

I hereby certify, that, from an examination of the books and documents relating to military services in the War of the Revolution which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Michael Gill is borne on a list of men who went from Westminster, Apr 19 1775. 4 1/2 days service rank not stated. 
On a pay roll of Field Staff Officers in Col. John Rands Regt. as Quartermaster, from July 4 1780 3 months 19 days roll dated at Westminster:
Also on list of commissions issued from July to September 1780 as Adjutant.
A name of Michael Gill is also borne as QuarterMAster on several original receipts from officers of Col. James Conver's Regt. for pay of milage & dated "Philipsburg, Nov 17 1776" also at "northcastle" for various supplies and paper in apparently his own handwriting being a list of the officers of Col Barnes' Regt Service at "Dobb's Ferry Tarrytown" & himself being Q.Master.
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I Moses Gill of Shrewsbury in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, sixty nine years of age, Depose and say, that I always considered that my father was entitled to a pension from the United States at the time of his death and that by reason of his [illegible] circumstances and disability, he never made a claim for a pension. I therefore for myself & in behalf of my brother & sister request the Secretary of this Commonwealth to examine the dollars & documents in his office for proof of the service of our father Michael Gill a resident of Westminster in said County of Worcester and according to the best of my knowledge, my said father resided in said Westminster before the commencement of the Revolution & also at the time of the Revolution, and that he may have been in the service on the Lexington & Concord alarm April 19, 1775; in Capt. Bemises Company, and that he may have been in the first eight monthes service in Capt. Bemises company in Col. Asa Whitecomb's Regt. and that in the summer of 1776 he was in the service somewhere in the State of New York for one month. & that in the autumn of 1776, he was Quartermaster in Col. James Conocos Regt. at New York for also three months, and that he may have been in the service at other places which I am not able to describe as a Quartermaster or Paymaster to some of the Regiments in Worcester County that in the summer of 1780 he was a quartermaster in Col. John Barnes Regt. at Great Barrington, then at North Castle on West Point in the State of New York for four months.
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and that near the time he rendered this last service, he now appointed Adjutant in Colo. John Rands Regt. It's my impression that he may have been in the service more than what I am able to describe, and he may have rendered the service of Adjutant & and also that of a paymaster, the said Michael Gill was born in Cambridge, and resided in Boston with Moses Gill and then removed to Westminster with his family and died in Princeton the adjoining town of Westminster in the year of eighteen hundred and forty.
Moses Gill

Worcester. Ss.
Thursday April 3rd 1850
Subscribed to this day in my presence. Job C. Stone, Justice of the Peace
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And I further Certify, that before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case. 

In testimony Wherof, I have herunto affixed the Seal of the commonwealth the date above written.

Wm Tufts Depy Secretary of the Commonwealth
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CommonWealth of Massachusetts.
[Line]
Secretary's Office, Boston, October 3 1851

I hereby certify, that at the dates of the annexted attestations John White was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester; and William Warren was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex.
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and qualified and that to their acts and atestations, as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given, and and out of Govt.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written
Amasa Walker
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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I, James Sawin of Westminster County of Worchester and State of Massachusetts do testify and say, That I am ninety years of age. That I am a revolutionary pensioner that I was well acquainted with Michael Gill of Westminster during the revolutionary war, and even after the said Gill's lifetime and that it was understood and believed that he the said Gill served as quartermaster in the said war of the revolution the said Michael Gill formely kept a store in Westminster but afterwards lost his property and beacme a pauper of the town of Princeton the remainder of his life.
Attest. John White James [x mark] his mark Sawin

Worcester Ss. Westminster Sept 29th 1851
Personally appeared the above James Sawin and made oath the the above statement by him subscribed is true. Before me John White, Justice of the Peace.

I hereby certify that the above named James Sawin is a man of veracity and sound mind and memory. John White Justice of the Peace
Sept 19th 1851.
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I, Cyrus Winship of Westminster county of Worcester and state of Massachusetts do testify and say that I am eighty four years of age, That I have always resided in Wstminster, that I well recollect the time of Lexington and Concord alarm of April 19th, 1775, and also the principle events that occured in the Revolutionary war that I [bloctched] knew Michael Gill of Westminster preivous to the revolutionary [up arrow] war, and was well acquainted with up to the time of his death, and that the said Gill served in said war, and that he bought a horse of my father's to be used in the service, and he was understood to be an agent to purchase horses for the use of the army. The said Michael Gill left no widow, but did leave children. He died a pauper in the town of Princeton. Cyrus Winship.

Worcester SS. Sept 27th 1851
Personally appeared the above named Cyrus
Winship and made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true.
Before me, John White. Justice of the Peace.

Sept 29th, 1851 I hereby testify that the [illegible] Cyrus Winship is a man of veracity and of sound mind and memory.
John White, Justice of the Peace.
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I, Elijah Clark of Brighton in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age. Depose and say, that I have in my possession a revolutionary record or document received of John Conant of Bradon in the state of Vermont, he being creditable reputed to be the sone of Ebeneezer Conant deceased., who resided and died in the Rohburham, County of Worcester, State of Massachusetts who the said Ebenezer Conant was an Adjudicant in the War of the Revolution. And in said document I find on the last page but one, "a pay roll of Field & Staff officers in Col. James [Illegible] Regiment of Foot including the time allowed to retrun home," in the is the name of Micheal Gill, Quartermaster engaged Sept. 20, 1776 of 5:10:0 [& sybol above each number] per month, and creditate for two monthes and seven days, including time to return home. Whole amount of pay, [Illegible] 12:5:8 [&/8 above numbers] and at the foot of this page or account, Ebener Conant. Adjt [illegible] attest. Elijah Clark

Middlesex Ss. Ot 9, 1851. Then personally appeared the above mentioned Elijah Clark and made oath the truth of the above affidavit subscribed by him.
Before me A. Warren,
Justice of the Peace
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Brief in the case of Michael Gill, dcd
Worcester County and State of Mass.
act June 7, 1832.
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")

Proof Exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
    Record end ****of service from the Books of the Secretary of Massachusetts and private 
original Records.

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?