Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,210, Elihu Hall, Conn
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Hall, Elihu, or Ellehu
NUMBER S 29.2910
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31768

Michigan

Elihu Hall, decd 
who died on the 14 March 1840 at Oakland in the State of Michigan
who was a private in the compy commanded by Captain Whittman of the regt commanded by Col. Storrs in the Connt line for 6 m 29 days.

Inscribed on the Roll of Michigan at the rate of 23 Dollars 21 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 & end on the 14 March 1840.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of June 1840, & sent to Hon John Norvell, Senate, United States.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1840 $209.53
Payable to James Hall and Oshan Hall children of said decd.

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D. McCurdy, Clerk
Book E2, Vol 9, Page 99

Let Hon Wm Springer July 25/50
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State of Michigan
County of Oakland
On this Eighth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared before me Samuel Satterlee one of the associate Judges of the Circuit Court in and for the County of Oakland within the State of Michigan Ellehu [Elihu] Hall a resident of the township of Southfield in the County of Oakland and State of Michigan aged eighty three 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - That he entered the service under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. First that he enlisted at the commencement of the Revolutionary War in the month of April 1775 as a soldier in the Regiment under the command of Experience Storrs Colonel, James Denney [Dana] Lieutenant, and Isaac Farewell Ensign, that he enlisted under said officers for six months at the town of Mansfield, in the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut that after said enlistment he was ordered out by said officers to go to Cambridge in Massachusetts, whither said Regiment did go, that he continued thither six months, in service when he was discharged at Cambridge aforesaid.
Second That he subsequently served as a soldier under the command of Captain [Aaron] Whittemore [Whitmore], at New London in the State of Connecticut that he served under said officer for six months in the whole period of time, though at different times, as a volunteer, that owing to the loss of memory, the infirmities of old age, and the
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long lapse of time that has intervened, he cannot recollect the month nor the day of the month when he entered the service of the war under the said Whittemore [Whitmore] nor the time when he was discharged, but it is his belief from the best of his recollection, that he served as a soldier in the capacity of a volunteer under said officer, at the place aforesaid after the commencement of, and during, and in the Revolutionary War for the time aforesaid- 
Third, That subsequently the whole Regiment under the command of Colonel Experience Storrs, Captain Whittemore [Whitmore], and Lieutenant Barrows were ordered to go to White Plains in the State of New York, that he went thither under said officers as a soldier and served as such at said place, until discharged, but for want of recollection cannot remember how long, that he thinks he was called to White Plains in 1776
Fourth - That subsequently he was called out frequently serving a few months, each time he was called out, that he never received a written discharge, that he has no documentary evidence, and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service, except the papers hereunto annexed that the reason he has not made an earlier application for a pension is that he did not know that he could until lately procure a pension in the absence of living testimony that from the year 1775, in consecutive order he served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War for six years at different times and places in the American Army down to the year 1781, That he further states that he was on the main guard as a soldier when General Warren was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill, and saw the General carried off the field by four men, and witnessed the burning of the church in Charlestown by the British, That the aforegoing is true according to his best knowledge and belief, he hereby relinquishes every claim
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whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State or Territory
sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Ellehu [Elihu] Hall (his mark)

Samuel Satterlee
Associate Judge Oakland
County Circuit Court

State of Michigan
Oakland County
We John Martin, Clergyman residing in the township of Troy in the County of Oakland and State of Michigan and Nathaniel Martin residing in the Township of Southfield in said County and State hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Ellehu [Elihu] Hall who has subscribed and sworn to the preceding declaration; that we believe him to be eighty three years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resided, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
sworn and subscribed the and year aforesaid
John Martin
Nathaniel Martin

Samuel Satterlee
Associate Judge Oakland County Circuit Court
And I the said Samuel Satterlee one of the associate Judges of the Circuit Court aforesaid do hereby declare my 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 said Judge further certifies that it appears to me that John Martin who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman
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resident in the Township of Troy in said county and Nathaniel Martin--- who has also signed the same is a resident in Southfield County & State aforesaid and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit, and I the said Judge do hereby further certify that by reason of the bodily infirmity of the said Ellehu [Elihu] Hall he is unable to appear in open Court to make the aforesaid declaration that in consequence thereof I the said Judge of the Court aforesaid do attend upon the said Ellehu [Elihu] Hall at his residence in the Township of Southfield aforesaid for the purpose of enabling the said Hall to make the said declaration
Samuel Satterlee
Associate Judge Oakland Co. Circuit Court

I Pierce Patrick Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County of Oakland and State of Michigan do hereby certify that Samuel Satterlee above named is one of the associate Judges of the Circuit Court in and for the County of Oakland in the state aforesaid and that the signature annexed on this paper is his genuine signature
Witness my hand and seal of office this ninth day of January A. D 1840
Pierce Patrick
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Oakland County Michigan
[on the left margin of the page appears the following]
34.954 Ellihu [Elihu] Hall Michigan
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At a session of the Circuit Court of the County of Oakland and State of Michigan continued and held pursuant to adjournment at the Courthouse in the village of Pontiac on the tenth day of May A.D 1840 were present the Honourable Charles W. Whipple one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of said State and Presiding Judge of the said Court, and the Hon. Samuel Saterlee [Satterlee] one of the associate Judges of the said Court, then personally appeared James Hall and Osha Hall residents of the county and State aforesaid the said James Hall and Osha Hall who first being duly sworn doth depose and say and each for himself deposeth and saith that they are the children of Ellehu [Elihu] Hall deceased that there are no other children of the said Ellehu [Elihu] Hall now living to their knowledge, that there is no widow of the said Ellehu [Elihu] Hall, and that the said Ellehu [Elihu] Hall died on the fourteenth day of March AD one thousand eight hundred and forty
[signature of] James Hall
Osha Hall his mark

I certify that James Hall and Osha Hall personally appeared in open Court and made solemn oath that the matters and things set forth in the foregoing affidavit are true as they verily believe - In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name this tenth day of June in the year 1840

Pierce Patrick
County Clerk and Clerk of the Circuit Court of Oakland County
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93
64
34.954
Elihu Hall decd
Michigan
Admitted
Pr. 6[illegible] 29 days $23.21
Cap. Whittemoore Col
Stores, Conn
certificate to be
issue in the name of
James Hall and
Osha Hall children
amount due from March
1831 to 14th March 1840
the day of his death
Act 7 June 1832
Hon. John Norvell
S. U.S.
40.3.14
31 3 4
9 10
208.89
7.73
---
64
209.53
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Washington July 20, 1850

Hon. J. L. Edwards

Sir,

I thought proper to return the enclosed letter from the  Dept. in order to enquire whether the [unk] Rolls rules, shows whether or not Mr Hall served in the continental line. I suppose the other inquiries in the letter a sufficiently full to enable Mr Hall to give all the reformation which will be required, if I will forward it to him when returned.

Very respty

Wm Sprague
House of Representatives
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Pension Office
July 15, 1850

Sir
I herewith return to you Hall's statement which is not sufficiently explicit to enable me to afford the desired information. The state of which Elihu Hall was a resident while in the reception of his pension must be given. I may add that if he did not serve in the Continental Line, under an enlistment made for during the war, his heirs are not entitled to Bounty Land.
I am Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Washington Jan. 18, 1840

Sir,

I transmit the evidence in support of the claim of Hall for a pension, and hope that it will be sufficient to serve the object.

Very respectfully your most obt. servt.

John Norvell

James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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Washington, May 10, 1840

Sir,
You will perceive from the within that Elihu Hall has died since I received the last letter before this from his attorney. No inquiry nor is, whether his son James Hall, who is, I believe, his eldest, and perhaps his only surviving child, can receive the amount of the pension due to him at the time of his death. Please to let me know.
I am, very respectfully,
Your most obt servt.
John Norvell


James L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
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Washington, [illegible month] 26, 1840

Sir,
I enclose you, as I decently hope, the last of Mr. Roger's [illegible], and beg you to close the whole matter by allowing the pension so far as you have heretofore decided to allow it, and direct it to be paid to the person entitled to receive it at the Michigan pension agency.
I am, very respectfully,
Your most obt servt.
John Novell

James L. Edwards, Esq.
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Free

John Norvell
Senator
U States Senate
Washington City
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Free

John Norvell
Senator
U States Senate
Washington City
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Birmingham June 13th 1840

Dr Sir,

I sit down to reply to your last communication rec'd from the Pension office touching the application of the late Ellehu Hall-that letter has been duly rec'd and this, covers the proceedings which have been taken in relation to the matter in conformity with the directions contained in the last letter of Mr. Edwards, which proceedings I herewith transmit to the Pension office for examination.

I am not able to offer any further evidence in support of our declaration, than that which is already submitted, owing to the long lapse of time that has intervened, since our alleged service was performed-altho in my last letter I entertained the belief that I should be able to make out our whole case- but further efforts have not been crowned with success-I therefore can only solicit, that the most favorable consideration be given to the whole of our declaration isasmuch as we have established by proof of the highest character (I allude to the certificate of Mr Kilbourne the Comptroller of Hartford) to sustain the allegation of services rendered under & or experience [unk]. This service together with the time served-was quoted by Mr. Hall from memory
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which memory tho greatly bedimmed with age still such was his tenacious regard for truth that he did not allege the time which he actually did serve under Col. Storry by twenty nine days, [unk] Mr Hall (If you will please refer to his declaration) declared that he served six months under the said Col. Storry and when we procure the certificate of service from Mr Kilbourne he certifies to six months and twenty nine service under said officer, Showing thereby that we were entitled to twenty nine days more since than what we asked for-Therefore as Mr Hall was correct with respect to the service under Col Storry it is fair and just to presume that the whole of his declaration is correct and therefore corrborates the whole-

I am informed by a gentleman of the country that in the case of Alexander Bolton a revolutionary soldier, who in 1832 applied for pension and obtained a full pension-that the term of his service was seven months that his case was similar to this as he could not substantiate his claim by living proof-neither had he any written discharge from the officers under whom he alleged a full pension-Mr Bolton applied in 1832 [unk] in Ledyard in the county of Cayuga and state of N York at the time of application.

Finally I remark that I shall submit the whole case-with the entire belief that I will be disposed of according to the principles of Justice- and with to be
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SERVICE
Conn

Hall, Elihu or Ellehu

NUMBER
S 29.210
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Ellihu Hall
Michigan

suspended
let 20 Jan 1840
Hon J Norvell
do. 6 April 1840
do. 11 May 1840

Act of June 1832
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29210

Revy  INVALID

File No 29,210
Elihu Hall

Pri Rev War

Act: June 7 32
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 171

(Arrangement of 1870.)

Mansfield Con.
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Certificate and Letter from Mr. Kilbourne to John J. Raynor

Rec'd March 6, 1840
(Friday)

John T. Raynor Esq
Birmingham
Township of Bloomfield
Oakland County
State Michigan

Hon. John Norvell
Senate U. S. H. R.
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Comptrollers Office
Hartford Feby 20, 1840

I certify that on application for evidence of the services of Elihu Hall, who claims service in the Revolutionary War under Col. Storrs and Cap Whittemore in 1775-76, that I have examined the books & papers remaining in this office, and find on a "Pay Roll of Lt. Col. Experience Storrs 2nd Company, 3rd Regiment, raised by order Genl Assembly Connecticut May 1775" the name of Elihu Hall, who entered service May 17{?} time of discharge, December 16th having served six months twenty nine days (16 mo 29 days). That no pay roll  of Captain Whittemore can be found in this office. And that nothing appears on record  either to confirm or deny the alleged service under Cap Whittemore in 1776.
Henry Kilbourn Compt.
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Comptrollers Office
Wilford July 21 1840
Dear Sir
Your favour of the 8th was duly received. Enclosed you will find certificate as evidence of the services of Elihu Hall for six months 29 days in Lt Col Stones Company in 1775
I have examined all the Pay Rolls remaining in this office from 1775 to 80 and do not find the Roll of Cap. Wittman [illegible] the name of Elisha Hall does not appear so I have embraced this result in the certificate. We have no means of ascertaining the services of the private Soldier, Militia except by pay roll in this we are very deficient particularly for the year 77[illegible] - I have also examined the Records of the Connecticut Line from 1777 to 81 [illegible] for the name of Elihu Hall without success The usual charge for Search & Certificate is Two Dollars [illegible]

Very respectfully
Your obt Servant
Henry Hillbourne Comptr

No seal is required by the Comm of Pensions
from this office- [illegible]
Henry Kilbourn Comp
John Traynor Esq
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Berrien July 2nd 1850

To the Hon Commissioner of pensions

Sir Having met with a notice in the New York Weekly Tribune of Jan'y 1850 to the following import-- "that the United States will pay to all persons who served in the Revolutionary War -- to Privates 100 acres of land and a pension from the 4th of March 1831-&c---  I therefore solicit your earliest attention to a consideration of the following,
     Elihu Hall who served in the Revolutionary War - made application for a pension in the year 1835 which was granted running back to the year 1831-- the amount of which was 96$ - if my memory serves me allowing as you will discover one forth [sic] pay- for reasons to me unknown -  From the notice above refered [sic] to I infer that Elihu Hall or his children are entitled to 100 acres of land --  And that whereas the said Elihu Hall and his widow are dead (she dying soon after the above pension was granted) - his children are entitled to the land.
     And now I James Hall the legal heir of Elihu Hall deceased do hereby apply for a grant for said land.
     Supposing that on reference the public records will show the above statements to be essentially the facts in reference to the pensions being paid to the said pensioner as above -  Therefore no other evidence is here introduced than to refer you to the public records-  Supporting that should the one be established by the public document the other would be also.

Yours truly -- James Hall for Horace Hall

Address Berrien Springs Berrien Co Mich