Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,894, Thomas Hiller, [BLANK]
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Hiller, Thomas   S. 29,894
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Thomas Hiller [signature]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

County of Nantucket ss. On this Twenty Seventy day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting at Nantucket in and for said County Thomas  Hiller a resident of Nantucket in said County, aged Twenty one 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 7th, Amendment.A.D. 1832. 

THAT he was born at Rochester County of Plymouth State of Massachusetts on the second day of November A.D. 1761, and that there is a record of his birth in said town of Rochester: that he was in the United States service from the first day of December  A.D. 1778 to the first, day of October AD. 1779 as a seaman in the marine service aboard the [?] Providence that he was residing at New Bedford, state of Massachusetts when he entered the service; that he entered on board said ship Providence, while ship was commanded by Capt Rathburn, afterward appointed to the Queen of France, and served for the period aforesaid under the command of said Rathburn & Hoisted Hacker, and make the following statement of his service
: that he marched from
: that he served with
of the regular troops; and. regular officers 
were know to him: that he was in_____     battle
and at the end of his service received a discharge:  that he left the service on _____and that since the Revolutionary he has resided at 
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the 
day of           A.D. 17     , to the      day of   A.D. 17
as a              in the 
that he was residing at
when he entered the service; that he
                                                  and served for the period aforesaid under the command of
: that he marched from 
:that he served with

regular officers were known to him; 

that at the end of his service he received a discharge on the service on
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name in not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.  
Signature of Thos Hiller

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid. 
Seth F. Swift, a clergyman residing in the town of Nantucket and Joshua Coffin & Benjamin Worth residing in said Nantucket hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Hiller who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be twenty one years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he reside, to have been a seaman in the war of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed as aforesaid. 
Signatures of Seth F. Swift, Joshua Coffin.
Benjamin Worth 

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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary Seaman and served as he states.  And the court further certify that it appears to them that Seth F Swift
Joshua Coffin & Benjamin Worth who have also signed the same is a resident in Nantucket and are credible persons; and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
Isaac Coffin Judge of Probate.

I Timothy, Hussy; Request of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Thomas Hiller for a pension. 

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid. 
Signature of Timothy Hussey
Reg. of Probate
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We sailed, aboard the Providence from New Bedford in March 1779, and [?] at Martha's Vineyard to obtain more men _ From there we proceeded to Boston to procure provisions, ammunition  &c - From Boston we sailed on a cruise in company with the frigate Providence, Boston and one other sloop whose name I do not now recollect.  We parted company with them in Boston Bay in a gale of winds, and then proceeded on a cruise.  Off [?] Hook we fell in with the Britannic Majesty's brig Diligence, mounting fourteen guns, commanded by John Walbcoff and manned with 95  men.  This vessel as I hears her Captain tell our Captain was sent out from New York with a picked gang, for the express purpose of taking the sloop Providence.  We engaged her about 10 o'clock
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from her captain's conversation with our captain, after the fight the brig must have lost in killed and wounded not than 5 men. On our side we lost our sailing Master James Rogers, our lieutenant of marines, a Scotch
man, and a number of our men killed among whom I recollect the names of Pope of New Bedford, Hathaway and Wilkie of New Bedford and one by the name of Hyder of Rochester and two others names not recollected-- We had 13 wounded-- We put away for New
Bedford, on the way took another & carried bot in safe. A few days after we heard of a number of the enemy's vessels being in the vineyard found, and set over to Howlands Ferry for Capt. Barton who was stationed there. He came with his men our prize the big Diligence was manned, I also our own vessel
and we pursued the enemy, but not being able to come up with them, they made their escape-- however retook several of their prizes 
 and returned to New Bedford We went from New Bedford, with the Diligence lot Boston- there refitted and joined the expedition to Penobscot, under Commodore Calton
State. The same Captain, Hasker, continued on board the
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Sloop  Providence -- Philip Brown who was first lieutenant of the Providence in the fight with the Deligence, was promoted to the command of the Diligence and went down
to Penobscot Master of the brig. He then went up the bay against an island where the British had possession, and made an attempt to land, we were beaten off with a considerable loss of men. An English sixty four then came in (?)  he river, and we were obliged to burn our vessels to prevent their falling into the hands of the enemy --  This we did on the 15th day of August
1779 - I was one that helped set fire to the sloop Providence -- 

We then  marched through the woods as far as the town of Falmouth now Portland, where we were provided with provisions until we were vested, and then we that belonged to the continental service were transported to Boston by water & detained thereby
Capt Hacker until October, he promising to obtain our wages, so as to enable us to obtain clothing to go to sea again- But after tying his best, but he being his best for a great many days, he finally told
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us, we had been like a ship and the hours
as the government as the government was so poor to pay and has never to give up the cause for [illegible] a certainly showed obtain it notwithstanding the shameful expedition to Penobscot I will recollect that while in the Providence, in June 1779 we took a little sloop
coming from New York as a flag that had obtained some prisoners-- Capt. Simeon Folger of Nantucket was one of the prisoners & I was on board of our vessel one night and part of a day. 

After being dismissed in of Boston by Capt. Hacker in October 1779, I entered onboard the 
brig Revenge, [illegible]  Capt James Rob, also of Boston; We were taken in the lot of [illegible] by the Camilla frigate, and about sixty of us put aboard a small vessel,  under the care of our first lieutenant, John Coffin Whitney of Nantucket with a parole to proceed to Halifax but we were taken by
an American privateer [illegible] and carried into Providence where the sloop belonged. This was a three months cruise-
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I was twice drafted and marched to Howland's Ferry from New Bedford, to try to take Rhode Island but the expeditions failed. I cannot pretend to State the precise time of service, but I think both amount to one month - 

My next  service was in 1782, I enlisted with 
Captain Stephen Martin of Rochester, for eight months to cruise in Long Island sound and elsewhere-  Captain Samuel Holley of Connecticut was one of the Captain in this expedition, there being two vessels engaged in it -- Their Commissions were from the State of Massachusetts -  This service was hard & perilous-- We had official accounts of getting 73 of American prisoners of the Old Jersey- I only served six months in this cruise, in consequence of Capt Martin having been
killed on Long Island in a fight with some refugees- two of our crew were also killed
and several were wounded in this fight-- We
were all discharged at the expiration of six months Capt. Hawley, the surviving Captain
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The wages in the Continental service by sea were nine dollars a month for seamen.
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Thomas Miller
of Mass

Seaman  13 months

Allwed


Hon John Reed
House of Reps
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension
can be allowed. the notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, showing the service of Thomas Hiller

Period Service was Rendered. Rank. Field Officers. Age & Place.  Declaration Proof. 

Dec. 1778   10 months  0 days  Seaman  Vessel name not stated   Age 71 Traditionary evidence alone

Line not Stated  3 month  0 days  Seaman
Brig Revenge Capt Haines

1782  6 months 0 days (?) Galley 


I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

Turn Over
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2
 REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. 

The following regulations have been adopted: This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. 
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops. 
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers. 
3. Persons employed in the Naval service. 
4. Indian Spies. 

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance , make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION,
 In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. State.  Territory of County of day of A. B. a resident (b) of personally appeared (a) before in the county of and State, Territory or District 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 provisions made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) served in the (e) regiment of the with and line, under the following named officers: Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of  the Agency in the State of               
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B. And then will follow the certificate of the Court. And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. I do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of________ for a pension. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of & c. 

If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. 

Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: 

(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with and C.D. residing in (the same) subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be who has 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 then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

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 A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 


I,_________ Clerk of the Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the applicacation of for a pension. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day ____of_____ & c. 

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission ; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction. 

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.

The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension
on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born.

2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?

3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?

4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?

5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia
Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.

6. To a Soldier
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it givand
what has become of it?

To an Officer.
Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what
has become of it?

7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.

The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.

The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before
required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper
county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is the genuine signature. 

No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

(a) The declarant must appear in prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance

(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.

(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned

(d) The declarant must mention the person or persons of the war when he served.

(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the
loss of memory, state precisely how long
he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:

"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, A Justice of the Peace, &c A.B. who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and the following grades:--For___year, ____months,  and day as a_____; and for such I claim a pension. 

It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as them law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite
and all such questionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement,  the particular place or places where the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; 

(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the Court is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of the office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers. 

Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the rent of the certifying office where the papers is not
written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate  must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer so as to prevent  any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service
([j] In a case where the names the applicant for
on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses
who are required to set forth in their affidavit the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses and the official
character and signature of the magistrate must be certainly the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
[j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in a militia case.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact. 
[m] The answer to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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Thomas Hiller
Petitioner for 
Pension
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In the matter of the application of Thomas Hiller for a pension, under the act
of June 7 1832 - These papers have been, upon examination at the Pension Office,
deemed satisfactory except as the following items :

1.  That the length of the service, & the grade of the petitioner are not described with sufficient accuracy:

2. That the petitioner has  not mentioned the name of the vessel commanded by Capt Martin

3. That there is no seal of the Court.

4. Deficiency of certificate of a  Clergyman - That the applicant has not stated his ability to procure
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the testimony of living witnesses to be served.

The papers are now returned to the Pension Department, the [illegible] applied as follows:
[illegible] deficiencies supplied in the additional affidavit of the petitioner appended, and marked and Reuben Bunkers affidavit marked -- supplied by the accompanying
affidavit of Hon. Isaac Coffin Judge,
and certificate of Charles Bunker, a justice of Peace Marked

No. 4 supplied by affidavit Rev. Seth F. Swift, a clergyman whose certificate also a accompanied the original papers.
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I Isaac Coffin of Nantucket, Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Nantucket State of Massachusetts make oath and say 

hat have been during [illegible] and twenty years in the part of State, within and for the County of Nantucket appointed by [Illegible] under the hand and Seal of the Govenor of the state of Massachusetts --

I further make oath that is no (?) of a distinguishing character for other Seals
as to mark or device of the Court of Probate this County. But it has been the custom to apply the Common water Stamp in cases
requiring the seal of this Court.
Signature of Isaac Coffin   Judge of Probate
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State of Massachusetts
Nantucket County
Town of Nantucket} Ss   On this fifteenth day of March in the year of our Lord 1833 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county.

Came Isaac Coffin, known to be a Judge of the Court of Probate in & for the County of Nantucket & made oath to the truth of the statement on the other side written.
Charles Bunker
Justice of the Peace

I, Charles Bunker, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Nantucket, certify that I have had frequent occasion to transact business in (illegible) the Court of Probate in and for the County aforesaid.
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an having frequently received papers, under the seal of said court am able to certify, that it is not & has not been the adage of said court to affix any other then the common letter (?) seal to its 
documents.
Charles Bunker Justice Peace
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I, Seth F Swift of Nantucket, in the State of Massachusetts, make oath that I have been a clergyman, & settled in Nantucket more than twenty years.  that I am personally acquainted with Thomas Hiller, applicant for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832  _ that it is a matter of current reputation & general belief that he served as a mariner in the war of the Revolution_ He is a man of honest reputation, of a character for integrity and his statement is in my opinion entitled to full credit. 
Seth F. Swift

The deponent also makes oath that he believes the above named applicant to be seventy two years of age.
Seth F Swift

United Stated of America}
State of Massachusetts}
Nantucket}  on this
twenty fifth day of February
A. D. 1833, before me the
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Subscriber a Justice of the Peace
for the County of Nantucket
came Seth F. Swift, known a (?) as a clergyman
J Sittlea Mindler of the gospel in Nantucket and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Affidavit by (?).  The witheld's character for integrity & truth is unimpeachable. 

Signature of Charles Bunker Just {eace
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Ruben R. Bunker of Nantucket  make oath that I have known Thomas Hiller of this town, a petitioner for a pension, during the last forty years (?)  -  He has not had the
reputation of having served in the War of the Revolution, and do not do not the fact- He is Seventy two years of age of age, often undoubted [illegible] & his statements are [illegible] 
Signature of R.R. BUnker

Under [illegible] of America
(?) Massachusetts
Nantucket  Feby 25 1833
Before me
The subscriber as Justice of the Peace in and for said County, (?)
Reuben R. Bunker who is (?) known to us of undoubted
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veracity, and made oath to the truth of the
forgoing affidavit
by him required. 
Charles Bunker

I hereby certify that Charles Buner is a Justice of the Peace that the above is his signature is that Timothy (?) is a Register of Probate & that the signature hereto annexed is hiw own pro
for Register of Probate &
thereto annexed is his own proper (?) & I fully certify that he has no seal
of offer  than the one hereto attached. 
Signature of John Reed
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United States of America
State of Massachusetts
County Town of Nantucket
this [illegible]
day of February, A.D. 1833, before
the magistrate, a Justice of the Peace (?) within, and duly commissioned  for the County of Nantucket personally appeared Thomas Hiller being duly sworn, deposeth and Saith
that by reason old age, and the
consequent loss of memory he cannot
swear positively as to the precise length
of his service, but according to the best
of his recollection he served not less than
the periods mentioned in the following statement, and in the following grades viz.
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For Ten months [underlined], from Dec 1, 1778 to October 1, 1779 I served as a Seaman [underlined], according to the narrative of my service to which this affidavit is annexed.

For Three months [underlined] I served as a seaman [underlined]
on board the brig Revenge, Capt James
Rob

For six months [underlined] I served as a Seaman [underlined] on board the new gallies fitted out in 1782 to cruise in Long Island Sound. Their names I do not recollect. They were small craft, called on that day sharing mates, but known by specific names. The 
Captains were Stephen Martin & Samuel
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Hawley -

I further make oath that I have no knowledge
of any persons now being a [illegible],
in the service with me, and have no reason
to believe that any person is now being a ha[illegible] with me in the Revolution - I refer to his attestation in his printed form of [illegible] of this town, as to the general reputation  of belief, teaching my [illegible].
Thos. Hiller

On this day & year above named Thomas
Hiller made oath to the truth of the
foregoing statement before
Charles Bunker
Justice of Peace
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James L. Edwards Esq
Commisioner of Pension
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House of Representa
Dec 9th, 1833
Sir
Mr. Thomas Hiller of Nantuck
Mass an afficant for a Pension has
endevered to obtain further evidence in support
of a p[illegible] of his declaration [illegible]
can obtain none he therefore requests
a Pension may be grant for
such term of time as the evidence
he has given will warrant [illegible]
that it may be done as
as comment & sent to me
[illegible] Ob & Liet.
John 
S.L. Edwards Es
Commision of Pensions
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Invalid
[WIDOW, &c. crossed through]
Navy
File No 29894
Thomas Hiller
Seaman
on the Brig "Revenge"
Rev War
Act June 7, 1832.
Index Vol 21. Page 35
[Arrangement of 1870.]