Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 13356, Jacob Hall, N.H.
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(3 -1776)

SERVICE
N. H.

Hall, Jacob
Mary

NUMBER
W. 13356

CONTENTS
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760
Maryland
Mary Hall deceased widow of Jacob Hall
N H was a pensioner under the Act of 1812
and who died on the 7th May, 1812 of Baltimore in the State of Maryland was a Surgeon in the [crossed through] commanded by Captain [crossed through] of the Regt commanded by Col. Dearborne in the N. H. line for 18 mo. & 5 [illegible]  Increased from $366 6y 
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of
454 Dollars [illegible] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of March 1844 and sent to Hon. Kennedy Hos [House] of Rep [Representatives]
Total Amount, [blank]
Payable to W. W. Hall, Executor

[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Tho. Lumpkin Clerk, 
Book A Vol. 2 Page 174
Reported
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Jacob Hall and Mary Willmott were joined in holy Matrimony, the Twentieth day of May 1784
Richard Willmott Hall son of Jacob & Mary
Hall was born October 20th 1785
William Willmott Hall second son of Jacob & Mary was born January 30th 1787
Thomas Parry Hall third son of Jacob & Mary
was born December 21, 1789
Mary Hall daughter of Jacob & Mary was
born October 10th 1793.
Doctor Jacob Hall A.M. died 7 May 1812
aged 67 a patriot of the American Revolution which established the Independence of the United States. An eminent Physician a scholar & a pious exemplary Christian.
Richard Willmott Hall, son of Jacob & Mary &
Eliza S. Taylor daughter of William W. Taylor
& Maria Taylor were joined in holy Matrimony
14 May 1815
Doct Physic alive in 1838
W W Hall Baltimore 1838
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John P Pleasants & Mary Hall daughter of Jacob & Mary Hall were married the 19 May 1816
Phineas Pemberton Pleasants Son of John & Mary Pleasants was born the 14 of June 1817
Richard Hall Pleasants second Son of John & Mary Pleasants was born the 10 of October 1818
Alfred Pleasant 3rd Son of John & Mary Pleasants was born on the 23rd of Number 1821.
Thomas Perry [Parry?] Hall M.D. departed this life September 21. 1825, at Augusta (Ga)
Mary Pleasants wife of J.P. Pleasants departed this life
Alfred Pleasants 3rd son of Jacob P Pleasants & Mary Pleasants died October 10th 1826
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Register copied from the original at [illegible] by Richd. W. Hall 1815.

Richard Willmott was born June 29th 1719
Mary Gittings was born May 10 1725
Richd Willmott & Mary Gittings were married December 22
1741
Thomas Willmott son of Richd & Mary was born Dec 22nd  1742
Rachael Willmott daughter of Richd. Mary was
born November 15th 1744
John Willmott son of Rich & Mary was born February 1st 1746.
Elizabeth Willmott daughter of Richd. & Mary was born January 20th 1748
Richd. Willmott son of Richd. & Mary was born
December 24, 1750
Mary Willmott daughter of Richd. & Mary was
born Jany 28. 1753.
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Baltimore City State of Maryland ss. On this twelfth day of September in the year 1838 before the Subscriber, a justice of the Peace for the city aforesaid personally appeared Richard W. Hall M.D. of the City aforesaid, aged about fifty three years; who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangely, deposeth & saith, that all the
memorandums of the family record hereunto annexed which are on folio 3, and part of 1 
particularly, that which relates to the marriage of Jacob Hall with Mary Willmott, now Mary Hall of the City of Baltimore, widow, were copied by this deponent from the original family record in the great family Bible of the said Jacob Hall: which original family record was in the hand writing of the said Jacob Halle: That the said Copy of the family record, was 
made on the [blank] day of May in the year 1815 and that it is a true and faithful copy of the original. That the original record aforesaid, has since the making of the copy aforesaid, been lost, as this deponent believes, in consequence of the top of the cover of the Bible in which it it was made
Samuel Pickering
State of Maryland Baltimore County
I hereby certify that Samuel Pickering gentleman before whom the above deposition was made & who has thereto signed his name was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore, duly commissioned and sworn, and I further certify that the Signature of "Samuel Pickering," affixed to said deposition is genuine
In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of Baltimore County
Court this twelfth day of September Eighteen hundred and thirty eight
Thos Kell Clk
Balto [Baltimore] Co [County Ct [Court]

Register of Family
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1552

Admitted Surgeon
1 yr 6 mo. 5 da. $365.33
on roll Col. Scammells regt as Surgeon from   Oct 1. 1778 to April 5. 1780 = 1 yr 6 mo 5 days
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State of Maryland
Baltimore City To wit:
On this fifteenth day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight before the subscriber Chief Judge of Baltimore City Court appeared Mary Hall (widow), a resident of the City of Baltimore in Baltimore County and State of Maryland, aged eighty five years and a half, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7. in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight, entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows": That she is the widow of Jacob Hall, who was surgeon of the Third New Hampshire Regiment in the army of the Revolution: That the said Regiment, during the service of the said Jacob Hall in it was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Henry Dearborne: That the said 
Jacob Hall was in at the battle of Germantown, and Monmouth Court House; that he was on the expedition against the Indians, which was commanded by Major General Sullivan, about the year 1779 or 1780.
She further declares that she was married to the said Jacob Hall on the twentieth day of May in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty four: That her husband the aforesaid Jacob Hall died on the seventh day of May in the year eighteen hundred and twelve: That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but that the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated. All which matters are true according to the best of her knowledge and belief.

Mary Hall

Sworn to & subscribed before me on the above date
N Brice Clk
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I Nicholas Brice Chief Judge of Baltimore City Court before whom the above declaration of Mary Hall aforesaid was made certify that the said Mary Hall cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
N Brice C Jud [Chief Judge]
State of Maryland
Baltimore To wit:

State of Maryland
Baltimore To wit:
On this fifteenth day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight, before the subscriber chief Judge of Baltimore City Court.
personally appear Richard Wilmott Hall, Doctor of Medicine and nearly fifty three years, and William W. Hall attorney at law, aged fifty one (51) years & upwards; both of the City of  Baltimore, who, being duly sworn in the Holy Evangely, severally and respectively depose and say: That they are the sons of the late Jacob Hall in the above "declaration" mentioned, and of his wife Mary Hall by whom the said "declaration" made: that their father the said Jacob Hall departed this life on the seventh day of May in the year eighteen
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widow of the said Jacob Hall deceased, and that the said Mary Hall was never married after the death of the said Jacob Hall
Richd. Wilmot Hall
Wm. W. Hall 
Sworn to and subscribed before me N Brice Chief Judge
Baltimore City Court
this 15 Augt 1838-

State of Maryland
City of Baltimore St
I Hereby Certify that the Honorable Nicholas Brice before whom the aforegoing declaration of Mary Hall, certificate, and the affidavits of the said Mary and Richard Wilmot Hall and
William W Hall were made and who hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing Chief Judge of Baltimore City Court duly commissioned and sworn and to all
whose acts full faith and credit due ought to be given in Courts of Justice or thereout and that the signature of the said Nicholas Brice is his genuine signature and that
Baltimore City Court is a Court of Record
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto ┃
Subscribed my name and affixed the
seal of Baltimore City Court is a court of record. In Testimony whereof I hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of Baltimore City Court this sixteenth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty eight.
W M Metcalfe 
Baltimore City
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3 -- 525
W.F. 13. 356

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.,

In reply to your request of [blank],received [blank]. a statement of the military history of Jacob Hall soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
Late 1778
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
retired in 1780.
RANK.
Surgeon

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
1780
CAPTAIN.
[blank]
COLONEL.
Henry Dearborn
STATE.
NH
(Also rendered other service as Surgeon details of which are not stated.)

Battles engaged in, Germantown, Monmouth and in Genl Sullivan's expedition ┃
against Indians
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
[blank]
Date of application for pension, 
Aug 15 1838 Her cl.([claim] was al. [allowed]
Residence at date of application, 
Baltimore, Md
Age at date of application, 
She was 85½ yrs old
Remarks: He mar. [marched?] May 20. 1784, Mary dau. [daughter] of Mary & Richard Willmott, was b. [born] Jany 28, 1753,the soldier died May 7. 1812 aged 67 years. She died Aug 1841. In 1838 their children Dr. Richard Willmott Hall aged 52 years [age crossed through], & William W. Hall aged 51  [age crossed through] years were residents of Balt, Md. See attached paper for further family data.
Respectfully,

Commissioner.
fam [family] Record to be written
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The names of soldiers parents
attached paper for further family data
Respectfully,
record on
Commissioner.
to be Wm
are
not stated
for
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DR. J. HALL PLEASANTS.
806 UNIVERSITY PARKWAY
BALTIMORE Jan. 23, 1914.

United States Pension Office,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen,

Can you give me any information in regard to the war record of Jacob Hall, who was a native of Pennsylvania?
He served as surgeon in the Revolution, first in a Massachusetts, and secondly, in a New Hampshire regiment. He moved to Maryland in 1782, and lived in Harford County, Md. until his death in 1812. His wife Mary (Wilmot) Hall received a pension presumably sometime between 1835 and 1841. She lived in Baltimore.
Any information which you can give me in regard to his military career will be most acceptable.
Very truly yours,
J. Hall Pleasants
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S. L. M.
Rev. War Section.
3 - 1865
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON
February 4, 1914.
Mr. J. Hall Pleasants,
806 University Parkway,
Baltimore, Maryland.
Sir:
In addition to the military record of Jacob Hall, W. File
13,356, Rev. War, you are furnished the following family data.
Richard Willmott born June 29, 1719, married December 22, 1741.
Mary Gittings born May 10, 1725.
Their daughter,
Mary Willmott born January 28, 1753, married May 20, 1784, Jacob Hall.
Their children,
Richard Willmott Hall born October 20, 1785, married May 14, 1815, Eliza S. daughter of William W. and Maria Taylor.
William Willmott born January 30, 1787.
Thomas Parry born December 21, 1789, died September 21, 1825.
Mary born October 10, 1793, married May 19,
1816, John P. Pleasants,
Children of Mary and John P. Pleasants:
Phineas Pemberton Pleasants  born June 14, 1817.
Richard Hall born October 10, 1818.
Alfred born September 23, 1821, died October
10, 1826.
Very respectfully 
G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner
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Revy
WIDOW &c.
File No. 13356
Mary Hall
Wid of
John Hall
Surg. Rev. War
Act July 7th 1838
Index: - Vol. A, Page 309
{Arrangement of 1870.}

1914 Feb. 5 Hist. t Dr. J. J. Pleasants V. L. W.
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Jany 22 1844

M D.
Mary Hall decd
for Increase
1838
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James L. Edwards Esq.
Comr [Commissioner] of Pensions
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Washington Jany 2. 1844
Sir
I enclose a declaration made by the Son
executor of the late Mary Hall decd. She recd
the benefit of the act 7 July 1838. as the widow of Surgeon Jacob Hall of the revolution on the Maryland Agency. The son and executor now asserts a claim at the rate of $600 per ann [annum] in right or under act 1838.
I am yours
very respectfully
Alex. Ray

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comr [Commissioner] of Pensions
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FREE

[postmark]
BALTIMORE MD
[illegible]

feb. 18. 41

Blank

James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City.

Hall
[illegible]

Form. act 1838
sent feb 18. 1841
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Baltimore Feb. 16. 1841
Sir
As my Mother has become so infirm as to be incapable of going to Bank to receive her pension, as the widow of a Revolutionary officer, I have to request of you a favor to send me the necessary blank forms, and directions to enable me, or her attorney in fact, to receive it for her.
Accept my assurances
Wm. W. Hall

To J. L. Edwards Esq
Com.[Commissioner] of Pensions

Direct to W. W. H. Atty at Law Jefferson Row Conway [illegible]
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Sir
Mr W.W. Hall of Baltimore has requested me to ascertain what has been decided in your office
when the claim of Mrs Hall his mother for an
increase of pension under the act of July 1838.
If this subject has not yet been acted on by you,
I beg you to give it your early attention and to enable me to communicate your decision to the parties interested
Very respectfully
Yours &c.
J. P. Kennedy


House of Representations
March 9. 1844

James L Edwards Esq
Com. [Commissioner] of Pen. [Pensions]
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Baltimore September 14. 1838
Sir
In pursuance of your directions, I have procured the affidavit of Richard W. Hall, Doctor of [illegible], to the copy of the family record which I showed you. I enclose also the declaration of Mary Hall & the letter of Gen Dearborn, which you recommended me to send. Also the affidavit of Naomi Matthews. Please to send the certificate to the care of Richard W. Hall. M.D. or to the case of the subscribed
And it my assurances
Wm. W. Hall

To J.L. Edwards Esq.
Comer [Commissioner] of Pensions

P.S. As it is absolutely certain that my Father served a long time as a surgeon in the Continental Hospital, tho we have not been able to find evidence of it, perhaps your office may contain some evidence on the subject. Will you do me the favor to search for it?
W. W. H.
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H. Dearborn
1818.
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(Copy)

Boston January 2nd 1818
Dear Sir
Your letter of the 26th ult [ultimo] has been received be assured sir that any aid in my power to afford, which I may be usefull [sic] to the family your late worthy father, will be performed with great pleasure, Docr [Doctor] Jacob Hall served in the 3rd New Hampshire Regt as Surgeon I do not recollect the date of the appointment, I presume it was in the latter part of the Campaign of 1778, he served through 1779 & 1780, - at the close of 1780, the three New Hampshire Regts [Regiments] were reduced to two, and the supernumerary officers, retired intitled to similar emoluments with those who remained in service, except
pay & rations, the third Regt being reduced, and there being Surgeons to the 1st & 2d Regt, Doctr Hall retired from service. I have an impression that your father had served either in the Hospital Department or as Surgeon of some other Regt previous to his appointment to our Regt, having had the command of the Regt while your father served in it, I was intimately acquainted with him, his  amiable & correct character as a Gentleman, and his able & attentive character, as surgeon, commanded & received the highest respect & esteem of the whole Regt. Your Father's name may, I presume be found on the old returns in the War Department with others who were intitled to land. Such a list may be found in the office of the accountant of ┃
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the War Department.
I am sir your
Humble Servt [Servant]
signed H Dearborn

Wilm [William] W. Hall Esq.

Examined & compared with original and found correct
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Maryland 160
Mary Hall
widow of Jacob Hall decd.
and who died on the 7th May 1812
of Baltimore in the State of Md
who was a Surgeon in the [crossed through]
commanded
by Captain [blank] of the Regt. commanded
by Col Dearborne [Dearborn] in the N.H.
line for 18 months 5 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
the rate of 366 Dollars 67 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of Octo. 1838 and sent Wm. W. Hall Baltimore Md.

Arrears to the 4th Sept. 1838    $866.67
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar '38. $133.33
$1000.00

Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 2 Page 174
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Mary Hall decd
Md
Act 7 July 38
Increase
18 mo. 5ds [days]. Surgeon
454.16 from
4 March 36 to 4 March 41
 To W W Hall exr [executor]
of Mary Hall decd

Hon.
J.S. Kennedy
H.K.
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State of Maryland
Baltimore City ss
On the 20th day of December 1843 personally appeared before me A. H. Penington a Justice of the Peace in and for said City, William W. Hall a resident of Baltimore, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath State
That he is the son and executor upon the
estate of his deceased mother Mrs Mary Hall late of Baltimore. Who died in the month of August 1841 and was a pensioner under the act of Congress from the 4 March 1836 to the 4 Mar 1841 of the 7 July 1838 on the Maryland agency as the widow of Jacob Hall who was a Surgeon in the war of the revolution.
Now the object of this declaration being made is in order to assert a claim as Executor in right of the deceased the aforesaid Mary to an  increase of her late pension at the rate of $60 per annum in lien of the allowance made, at
the rate of $600 per ann [annum] and the payment of the increase thereon from the 4 March 1836 to the 4 March 1841 under
act 1838. On account of the revolution services of said Jacob Hall as a Surgeon.
Wm. W. Hall Exr [Executor].
of Mary Hall decd.

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above mentioned before me.

A.  H. Penington J.P. [Justice of the Peace]
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State of Maryland
Baltimore County Sct
I hereby certify that A H Penington Gentleman before whom the within affidavit was made and who has thereto Signed his name was at the time of so doing one of the Justices of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore duly commissioned and sworn
In Testimony thereof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of Baltimore County Court this 20th day of December 1843
Thos. Kell Clk Balto. City. Crt.
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[illegible seal]
MARYLAND, Sc.
THE STATE OF MARYLAND,
To all persons to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:
KNOW YE, That the last will and testament of Mary Hall of BALTIMORE COUNTY, deceased, hath in due form of law been exhibited, proved and recorded, in the Office of the Register of Wills for Baltimore County, a copy of which is
to these Presents annexed; and Administration of all the goods, chattels, and credits of the Deceased, is hereby granted and committed unto William W. Hall the Executor by the said Will appointed.
WITNESS, Wm Baker, Esquire,
Chief Justice of the ORPHANS' COURT of Baltimore County, this 5th day of October in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and forty one.
Test, D. M. Perine
Register of Wills for Baltimore County.
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State of Maryland
Harford County Sc
On this thirteenth day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight, before the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Naomi Matthews of said county, Spinster, aged about
seventy four years. who being duly sworn on the holy evangely, deposeth and saith that she was present at, and witnessed the marriage of Doctor Jacob Hall with Mary Willmott (now Mary Hall of the city of Baltimore, widow.) That the said marriage of Jacob Hall and Mary Willmott aforesaid was celebrated lawfully & in due form. That this deponent, at the time of said marriage was about twenty years of age.
A. Lingan Jarrett
I hereby certify that Miss Naomi Matthews, the deponent in the above affidavit is a respectable and creditable person, and that full credit is due to her testimony
A. Lingan Jarrett
State of Maryland Harford County to wit
I Henry Dorsey Clerk of Harford County
Court, do herby certify that Abraham [Abram] L Jarrett
Gentleman before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and who has subscribed his name thereto was at the time of so doing one of the State of Maryland's Justices of the peace in and for Harford County duly commissioned and sworn, and that the foregoing signature
purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of Harford County Court this thirteenth day of August Eighteen hundred and thirty Eight
Henry Dorsey Clerk
Hartford Cty Court

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