Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,408, Frederick Hill, Penn.
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Penn.    Hill, Frederick    S. 35,408
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20,281
Kentucky
Frederick Hill of Washington in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the company commanded by Captain ______ of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Stewart in the Pennsylvania line, for the term of twenty one months from ______ 1777 to ______ 1779
Inscribed on the roll of Kentucky at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 24 day of December (date illegible)
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of December 1830 and sent to Hon. J. Kincaid House of Reps.
Arrears to 4th of March 1831.  $19.10
Semi-anu'l all'ce ending           $19.10
{Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820.}
Rec. Book S vol. 9, fol. 42
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No. 20,502
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An amended Declaration in Order to be placed on the pension list under the act of the 18 March 1818
Washington County (illegible)
On this 28th day of January Eighteen hundred and twenty Eight personally appeared in Open Court being a Court of record, because its Judgments and orders are directed by the laws of Kentucky to be entered of record and preserved as such in and for the County aforesaid Frederick Hill aged seventy years who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following amended Declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820 that he the said Frederick Hill enlisted in Captain Palmer's company of the State of Pennsylvania on the ____ day of ____ 1776 or 1777 for the Term of Twenty one months; in the Regiment commanded by Colonel ____ Piper in the line of the State of Pennsylvania; that he continued to serve in said corps until the Battle of Long Island at which time said corps was broken up and out parts of three regiments one was formed commanded by Colonel Stewart in the line of the State of Pennsylvania on the continental establishments that he continued to serve in the said corps (he having been transferred to said corps after the Battle of Long Island) until he was regularly discharged from said service--which discharge he has so lost or mislaid he cannot now find it, he states that he was discharged in March 1778 or 1779 that he was at the Battle of the White Plaines, at the
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Battle of Brandywine at which Battle he was wounded in the right leg below the knee joint. He hereby relinquishes every claim toward a pension except the present and that his name is not on the roll of any State except the State of Pennsylvania and that the following are the reasons for not making an earlier application for a pension; that when the act of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820 passed he was in tolerable good circumstances and therefore did not at that time make application therefor; and did thus think and has always since thought that whenever he made an application for a pension that his name would be registered on the pension list and a pension allowed--he would now state that at this time he has become old and infirm and unable to labour for a support; he would further state that some time in the fall 1827 he made an application for a pension; had his Petition or Declaration regularly certified and transmitted to the Secretary of War for Adjustments in which Petition he states that he enlisted in the regiments commanded by Colonel Piper (which was the fact) who did not belong to the Continental Establishment; and in that Petition forgot to state that after the Battle of Long Island he was transferred to the Continental Establishment and there served during the time for which he enlisted-- he would further state that he never knew that there was any limited time for making application for pensions he would state that he was a resident of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818
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and that he has not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of his property or any parts thereof with intent thinly so to diminish it as to bring himself within the provisions of the acts of Congress entitled and Act to provide for Certain persons engaged in the land and naval (illegible) of the United States in the Revolutionary War drafted on the 18th day of March 1818-- and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property contracts or debts due to me nor have I any interest other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by the subscriber (illegible) two (illegible) worth $ _____ three beds and furniture $_____; in all amounting to $60.  That since the 18th day of March 1818 there has been little or no changes made in the property that I actually owned at that time.  I have a wife aged about seventy years and no children living with me
Given under my hand this 28th day of February Eight hundred and twenty eight
Frederick Hill
Sworn to and declared on the 28th day of February 1828 before me John Hughes Jr. clerk of the Washington County County Court in Open Court given under my hand this 28th day of February 1828  
John Hughes Jr. Clk.
State of Kentucky Washington County
I John Hughes Jr Clerk of the County Court for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Frederick Hill did serve in the revolutionary war as states in the preceding Declaration for
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Term therein stated and a greater part of the time thereof on the continental establishments against the common enemy.  I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the words of the said Courts and I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is worth sixty dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County Court on this twenty Eighth Day of February one thousand Eight hundred and Twenty Eight
John Hughes Jr Clerk of the Court for the County of Washington
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Frederick Hill
Feb. 25--1830
Ref. (illegible) Mil. pensions
May 3--1830--Bill (illegible)

"Military Pensions,"
Hon. John Kincaid H. R.

Pen.: to com: Dec. 24, 1830
Rep. Dec. 24, 1830
Kinkaid
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No papers    21st Congress  1st Session
Congress of the United States
In the House of Representatives 
Feb'y 25, 1830
On motion of Mr. Kinkaid,
Resolved, That the Committee on Military Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of placing on the Pension roll Frederick Hill of Washington County, Kentucky, a soldier of the Revolution
Attest, M. S. Clarke
Clerk
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No. 20,502
Copy
F. Hills
(illegible) Statement
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(O. L.)
State of Kentucky Washington County Court March Term 1820.
Frederick Hill an applicant for a pension to the Government of the United States exhibited in Court and amended Declaration and made oath to the same which is ordered to be certified 
The amended Declaration exhibited in Court as above (illegible) is in the words and figures following court "An amended Declaration" in order to be placed on the pension list under the Act of the 18th of March 1818
On this 23rd day of March in the year 1829 personally appeared in open court in the Washington County Court being a Court of record in and for the County of Washington aforesaid Frederick Hall aged seventy one years and being sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following amended Declaration in order to obtain the provisions of the Acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820.  He states that at the time he enlisted under Captain Palmer (or Farmer) the Regiment to which he as a member of the said company of Palmer (or Farmer) was attacked  was under the command of Col. Piper that he remained in the company of Palmer (or Farmer) in Pipers Regiment until the Battle of Long Island.  At the battle of Long Island his Captain the said Palmer (or Farmer) being wounded his Regiment and two other Regiments were consolidated and placed under the command of Colonel Stewart, he states he had entirely forgotten the name of the captain under whom he served after the battle of Long Island until the battle of Brandy Wine, that in the
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battle of Brandy Wine he was wounded in his right leg and on the account of the wound was taken to and put into the Hospital at Princeton where he remained until the expiration of the Term of his enlistment, he states that in addition to the battles of Long Island and Brandy Wine he was also in the battle of White Plains.  He states that being involved in his pecuniary circumstances and indebted as expressed on the face of a Mortgage given by him on the 20th of October 1831 to Cornelius Comegys & Company that he executed said Mortgage a copy of which is made part hereof, that his son John N. Hill was only bound as his security, that being unable to raise the money to pay off the said demands expressed in said Mortgage on the 28th of August 1827 he did surrender and relinquish to the said Comegys & Co. the whole of the property contained in said Mortgage which embraced each and every article of property his necessary bedding and clothing excepted which he possessed in the world and also all the negroes that his son John owned-- that since the said surrender he has been completely stript of all property whatever except two beds and his clothing.  Nor has he any security contracts or debts due him or any means whatever to support himself or wife that they both live with and have been supported since the surrender of his property on the 28th of August 1827 by his son John N. Hill who is a man of family--he states that he has in no act of his life disposed of any property or fund of any kind or description for the purpose of having himself placed on the pension list he refers to a copy of the mortgage and Surrender to Comegys
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Comegys & Co. and make them part hereof of which the following are copies.
This Indenture made this 20th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, between Frederick Hill and John Hill of Washington County and the State of Kentucky of the one part and Cornelius Comegys & Company of the city of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania of the other part.  Witnesseth that whereas the said Frederick Hill and John Hill are indebted to the said Cornelius Comegys & Co. the sum of four thousand and twenty dollars and twenty cents with interest from the fourth day of September 1820 and seventy & a half cents cost a reference to an execution commonly called a fire facias No. 4350 from the clerks office of the Washington Circuit Court in the name of Martin H. & Nathl Wickliffe against the said Frederick Hill, John Hill, & George Hill will more fully appear and whereas the said Frederick Hill & John Hill is indebted to the said Corn. Comegys & Co. in the further sum of Two thousand four hundred and fifty six dollars eighty nine cents with interest from the 14th day of April 1820 and thirty three cent as will appear by an execution which issued from the Clerks Office of the Nelson Circuit Court No.(illegible) and dated the 8th day of May 1821 in the name of Wm. Cochran agt. said Hills and others which said recited debts have been transferred to the said Cornelius Comegys & Co. and amounting in the whole including interest therein to the sum of six thousand nine hundred and sixty two dollars and whereas the said Frederick Hill & John Hill in consideration the said recited count due from
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them to the said Cornelius Comegys and Co. and for the purpose of securing the payment thereof and for  and  in consideration of the sum of one dollar to them in hand paid the receipt whereof  is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained and sold and by those present do grant bargain sell alien and conformed unto the   said Cornelius Comegys and Co.Ho.  their Heirs Executors  and administrators the following described estate real and personal, to wit, a Certain tract or parcel of Land lying and being  in Washington County  including or near the mouth of Cartwright's Creek
Containing eighty acres with the Mills and other improvements thereon being what is call the Mill tract it being the same purchased by said Frederick Hill from Parkers heirs, also two other tracts of Land [illegible] House hundred acres the balance  of  a tract land purchased by the said Frederick from the Heirs of Richard Parker deceased adjoining the said Mill tract, the other tract of land containing about one hundred and ninety acres adjoining the Mill tract on the upper and it being the same purchased by the said Frederick Hill from John Robertson for the courses . Situation[illegible] of these three tracts of Land a reference is made to the annexed extracts certified by John Robertson. 
Clerk of the 
Washington County Court which is marked (A.) and made a part of this deed; so have and to hold the said three several tracts of Land as described unto the said Cornelius Comegys and Co. their heirs and [illegible] forever yet upon this condition. Preservations   herein after named, the said Frederick Hill doth by these presents
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further mortgage and sell unto the said Cornelius Comegys  & their heirs and assigns the following Negroes and other property To Wit) Negro Rachel aged about thirty eight years, Eliza aged about Seventeen years, Matilda aged about fifteen years, Jackson aged about eight years, Lewis aged about Six years also one Road Waggon and gun, one Brown Mare 10 years old one Irongrey Horse 5 years
old one bay mare 6 years old also two stills one holding 130 gallons the other 65 gallons and 32 Mash tubs now in the Distillery of said Frederick Hill.  To have and to hold the said last described negroes and other property to said Cornelius Comegys & their heirs & assigns forever, yet upon the conditions herein after expressed and the said John Hill for himself and his heirs doth by these presents alien
claim and confirm unto the said Cornelius Comegys & Co. their heirs or assigns one Negro man named George aged about twenty two years, one Negro Woman named Grace aged about nineteen years To have and to hold the said described negroes and their increase to the said Cornelius Comegys & Co. their heirs and assigns forever subject to the conditions hereafter expressed and the said Frederick Hill and John Hill separately and jointly do by these presents warrant and forever defend the several species of property herein described and conveyed to the said Cornelius Comegys & Co.  their heirs and
assigns forever from all persons whatever claiming the same in any manner whatever except as expressed hereafter and upon the conditions also hereafter expressed (to wit) that whereas the said Frederick Hill by Deed of Mortgage & Sale to
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Sam'l Grundy bearing date the ___ day of ___ 1821 and duly recorded in the Clerks Office of the Washington County Court did mortgage the 80 acres with the mills and improvements thereon to said Grundy to secure him as one of his securities upon three several notes which were to be offered for discount (illegible) discounted for two hundred and fifty dollars each amounting in all to Seven hundred and fifty dollars at the Commonwealth branch Bank at Harrisburg.  It is now clearly understood that the said Hill reserves the right of continuing this mortgage above described to Grundy for that am't and for the purposes it was intended to said Grundy.  Said mortgage is not to loose its priority by Grundys renewing said notes from time to time as they may fall due or to any other person or persons that he may hereafter select for the purpose of securing him or them as his security in the above described notes or note for the said seven hundred and fifty dollars and any mortgage on said property for that purpose of continuing said note or notes in said Bank that has been already given are recognized in this and shall be after the renewal of said notes though the renewal is not authorized by the mortgage heretofore given valid but it is also understood that whenever the am't as described is paid off to said Bank either by said Hill or any person for him or by the said Cornelius Comegys & Co. that any such mortgage now made or which may thereafter be made shall be cancelled and made null and void and all the property conveyed in this Deed shall vest in the said Cornelius Comegys & Co. for the purposes (illegible) and hereafter expressed. To wit it is clearly understood that all the property herein before conveyed
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is mortgaged for the security and payment of the  said  sum of Six Thousand and nine hundred and sixty two dollars with legal Interest thereon from this date and also that the property herein conveyed and mortgaged is to be and remain in the possession of the said Frederick and John Hill for and during the time as herein after [illegible] and to be used and enjoyed by the them the said Frederick and John Hill during said time.  It is also further agreed and understood by and between the parties to this Indenture of mortgage and Sale that the said Frederick Hill & John Hill are to pay within twelve months from this date the sum of Two thousand five hundred dollars and at the expiration of twenty four months they are to pay the Balance of the $6962 with all the interest then due on the same and that upon their making the payments as stated to the said Cornelius Comegys Co. their [illegible] or a [illegible] that all and singular the property herein mortgaged and sold is to revert back to them the said Frederick Hill and John Hill their being or assigns and that this mortgage & sale is to be null and void and of no effect otherwise to be and remain in full force & virtue in law and it is further understood and agreed by and between the parties to this Instrument of writing that upon the failure of payment of the amounts as stated to the said Cornelius Comegys Co. or their [illegible] that the expiration of the two years as stated that the said Cornelius Comegys Co. their [illegible] or assigns may at their option proceed to sell the property herein mortgaged under and by virtue of the Execution before referred to or that they may proceed to foreclose and sell under this mortgage and Indenture of Bargain and Sales.  In testimony
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whereof the said Frederick Hill & John Hill have hereunto set their hands & seal this day and year aforesaid.
Witnesses
Washington County Sct

Frederick Hill (Seal)
John Will (Seal)

I John Hughes Jr Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that on the 25th day of October 1821. This Instrument
of Writing was acknowledged before me in my office by the within named Frederick Hill and John Hill to be their act and deed and thereupon certified and that on the day of the date hereof the same was at the request of the within named Cornelius Comegys & Co. 
admitted to record. In Testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of February 1822.

John Hughes Jr [Illegible]

This Indenture made between Frederick Hill
of the County of Washington and State of Kentucky and John Hill of the same state and County of the one part and Cornelius Comegys of the City of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania of the other part, Witnesseth, that whereas the said Frederick Hill and John N. Hill by their certain deed of Indenture and mortgage bearing date the 20th day of October 1821 did convey and assign to the said Cornelius Comegys by the name of Cornelius Comegys & Company for and in consideration of Six thousand nine hundred and sixty two dollars one tract of land including the mouth of Cartrights Creek
containing Eighty acres with the mills and all
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buildings and appertaining thereunto belongings, one other tract of land containing four hundred acres more or less being the whole of a tract of land not heretofore sold and conveyed to F. Hill by the being of Richard Parker by deed bearing date the ___ day of ___ 1816 for six hundred and eighty nine (illegible) be the same more or less and one other tract of land containing one hundred and ninety acres being the whole land purchased by Frederick Hill of John Robertson deceased, also sundry slaves and other property by deed more particularly described subject to the right of redemption by the payment of the sum aforesaid and whereas it has become impossible for the said Frederick and John Hill to pay the sum aforesaid and they are desirous to surrender the same estates or so much thereof as remains in their power and possession and to convey the same with other property to be thereafter more fully described in pure and absolute fee simple unto the said Cornelius Comegys in satisfaction of the Debt aforesaid and that the said Deed with its stipulations covenant and warrantees shall remain in full force and effect free and unconditional from all right title and claim to them the said Frederick and John N. Hill in any event whatever.  Now in consideration of the proximity and the further consideration of one dollar to them in hand paid them the said Frederick and John N. Hill do forever release and confirm unto the said Cornelius Comegys all right title and claim to the said property and every part thereof and the said Frederick and John N. Hill for and in consideration of the sum aforesaid and have bargained and sold and by these present do
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bargain and sell (illegible) and convey unto the said Cornelius Comegys all lots tracts or parts of land and all rights and Interest in equity or reversion which they have or hold in the Town of Fredericksburg or which they have in any wise derived from the heir of said Parker or others in at or near the said Town of Fredericksburg and including all houses out houses and appurtenance all Ferrys rights of Ferries and privileges whatever appertaining thereto, also the following Slaves not particularly named in said mortgage, to wit, a Negro Boy Charles about four years old Negro Winny about two years old a child named Nat about six months old and all the above, bargained and sold lands Slaves and other property; To have and to hold unto the said Cornelius Comegys (illegible) forever and the said Frederick Hill and John N. Hill all the said property subject to the provisioned in said Mortgage will forever warrant and defend against the claim of all and every person whatever; In witness whereof they have hereunto set their hands and Seals this 28th day of August 1837
Frederick Hill {Seal}
John N. Hill {Seal}
Washington County
I John Hughes Jr Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that on the day of the date hereof, this Indentured was acknowledged before me in my office by Frederick Hill and John N. Hill to be their Act and Deed for the purpose therein mentioned and on the same day Mary Hill wife of the said Frederick Hill and Frances Hill wife
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of the said John N. Hill were examined by one separate and apart from their said husbands to the law direct who declared that they did severally relinquish all their right of dower in and to the lands in this Indenture conveyed which they said they did do without the threats persuasions or coercions of their said husbands or the fear of their displeasure and was willing the same should be recorded; which is at the request of Robert Wickliffe Esquire attorney in fact for the grantee therein named admitted to Record in Deed Book J page 56.  Given under my hand this 28th day of August 1827
John Hughes Jr Clk.
Copies attested J. Hughes Jr. (illegible)
Washington County
The foregoing amended Declaration of Frederick Hill was thus (illegible) in County Court of Washington County and the declarant duly sworn to the contents thereof Given under my hand as Clerk of the said County Court this 23rd day of March 1829.
(illegible) John Hughes Jr (illegible)
State of Kentucky Washington County 
I John Hughes Jr Clerk of the Washington County Court do certify that the above and foregoing eleven pages contain a (illegible) and complete transcript of the record and proceedings and amended Declaration of Frederick Hill (illegible) under my hand and the seal of said County Court this 19th day of May 1829
John Hughes Jr (illegible)
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N. Wickliff
(illegible)
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State of Kentucky
Washington County
This day Nathaniel Wickliffe surviving partner of the late firm of Martin H & Nathaniel Wickliffe personally appeared before me John B Smith a Justice of the Peace in and for the County in the State aforesaid, and made oath that the debt for which the mortgage was given by Frederick Hill & John Hill to Cornelius Comegys & Company, was contracted with (illegible) of M H Wickliffe, principaly for (illegible) sold (illegible)
to the said Frederick Hill, which said debt was by their(illegible) to the said Comegys for a debt due them-- a reference to the mortgage, and proceeding in the Washington (illegible) Court annexed to the said Frederick Hill amended declaration (illegible) O. L. will more fully appear
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The said Nathaniel Wickliff further states that said Mortgage was given in good faith, and for the purposes therein stated, which sd Mortgage was written by him – the disposition of the property and settlement of the debt was made as He is informed & believes as is set out in the papers referred to.  He states that said Hill whom he has known for many years is an Honest & Honorable man in his dealings & transactions - that during the time said Hill was in business 
and manufacturing floor, He met with considerable losses which to a considerable extent he believes to be the cause of his failure, and his misfortune to be reduced in his circumstances, as stated, at an advanced period of his life. 

Given under my handthis 11th day of Aug. 1829
Nath. Wickliff

Sworn to before me as stated, this 11 Aug. 1829
John B. Smith JPce
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State of Kentucky     }   Let
Washington County  }

I John Hughes Jr Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that John
B Smith Esqr whose signature is affixed to this paper dated the 11th August 1829, and whose Signature is affixed to the affidavit of Frederick Hill hereto annexed dated the 9th November 1829 is now and was at the date of each Certificate an Acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned [covered by seal] and authorized to administer and [covered by seal]

Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court this 16th day of December 1829
John Hughes Jr Esrd
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State of Kentucky
Washington Cout} Let

This day came Frederick Hill [illegible] of the County of Washington County, Kentucky now of the County of Hardin in the same state before me Jno B Smith a Justice of the peace for Washington County and made oath that it is and of his power at this time to give an exact statement or anything like it of the disposition of the property and his possession on and since the 18th of March 1818 that he then considered himself in prosperous circumstance, with property and money passing  this his hands to a considerable amount, that he failed in his circumstances and honestly surrendered all that, he  possessed in discharge of his duties, except his clothing and  bedding, he refers to the affidavits of Nathaniel Wickliffe and Robert Wickliffe and makes them part hereof.
Sworn to before me this 10th day of November 1829} John B Smith{illegible]
Frederick Hill
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I Robert Wickliffe attorney & counseler at Law residing in the Town of Lexington on oath state that I am well acquainted with Frederick Hill late of the County of Washington now residing in Hardin County In the State of Kentucky & have known him upward of thirty years; that he always
did & has born a good character (so far as I heard & when I first knew him he was considered an industrious enterprising Man.

That afore years since he has forwarded a claim due to [illegible and a word crossed out] secured by mortgage on the Sd Frederick Hill & his son John Hill to a large amount He thinks [crossed out] annually to [illegible] In [illegible] to live [illegible] fallen & perhaps a [illegible] -- That He would Said Hills to See there [illegible] a time& that of the property.  That the Hills proposed to add the property-- which this Deponent consented to accept with some additional property -- which they had which as he understood them Hill believes constituted the whole of --- Frederick Hills property with the
exception of some trifling articles which the affiant permitted him to claim as indispensible to himself
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and his wife both of whom appeared very ancient & Frederick added to age [illegible words crossed out] his the appearance of Considerable bodily infirmity -- this Deponent allowed Saml John Hill to retain some articles of uncertain value from the Same [illegible] that he allowed Fredrick Hill to retain, that the property was not in his estimation worth the debt but it was essentially the all of [illegible] Hills   he accepted it as a fee discharge of the debt [illegible]

R Wickliff

State of Kentucky Fayette County Court

I Robert S Todd a justice of the peace in & for the said State for the County afd and by virtue of Said office a judge of the County Court for the County of Fayette and do certify That R Wickliffe
the deponent did that day at my office appear & duly swear to give & subscribe to the foregoing an affidavit in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 29th day of Sepr 1829

R. S. Todd J.P.
Commonwealth of Kentucky Fayette County Court
S. James C. Rodes Clerk of the County
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Court for the County aforesaid, do Certify that Robert S. Todd, who has signed the foregoing Certificate, is and was at its date, a duly authorized Justice of the peace in and for said County, Commissioned and qualified as the law directs, and who is duly qualified to administer oaths, and his Signature to the same is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the County aforesaid this 29th day of August 1829 and in the 38 year of the Commonwealth. 

J. C. Rodes Clk J.C.R.

[A round, illegible Seal is visible to the left of the clerk’s attestation]
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[The back page of a paper]

Report in the Case of Frederick Hill
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May 3. 1830
Bill in favor [illegible] No. 454
/favorable/
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The Committee on Pensions who were directed by Resolution of this house to enquire into the
Expediency of placing the name of Frederick Hill upon the pension list have had through resolutions and a consideration and do report as follows, that it affirms from the letter of Mr. Edwards June 2d 1829 that the revolutionary services of the said Frederick Hill are admitted -- In relation to his property it appears to have been mortgaged on 2 Oct. 1820 to Cornelius Comeggs Lee for the sum of $4020 20/100 with Int-- which absorbed all the property of the said Frederick Hill – the Committee was also satisfied from the documents -- a proof, that the said debt was fairly contracted & that the said Frederick Hill is now poor without any means of sustenance [illegible] he is fairly entitled to the relief afforded by the Pension law ---
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[An envelope or cover for a letter]

Springfield sq    }  3 0z = 1 oz exceeds
Dec 18 1829      }   Free 1.00

Honble John Kincaid
Washington City
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Sprinqfield Decr. 16th 1829

Dr Sir

I have been for some time engaged in an attempt to procure for a very worthy meritorious claimant a pension as a revolutionary soldier-- and have experienced more difficulty in getting it than in any other instance although he is more deserving than any I have heretofore forwarded-- I now on behalf of the old man for the last time send on his papers to you to try your hand-- you will perceive that his services are admitted.-- but a more detailed account of the disposition of his property is required, this he cannot give, he was at the passage of the Act in affluent circumstances engaged in Mills, distillerys, boats, town tolls and merchanddise for all of which he was by nature and education entirely disqualified to manage.  from his want of knowledge in business and confiding disposition he has honestly gotten through the whole.-- from the amount in his hands.-- some sold himself and some by the Officers he cannot remember each article or to whom disposed.-- he is now and his memory and intellect much impaired and says he can only say that all is gone-- you will confer a favour on him to give his business your immediate and prompt attention—

you would also confer a great favor on the Citizens of Springfield by procuring an immediate alteration in
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the mail, we are litterally shut out from the political news of the world, we have heard of the Presidents message at Louisville and elsewhere, and yet have not received [illegible] our Governors message-- If we could have a route from Harrodsburg through this place three times a week to meet the Bardstown Stage -- it would be of great service to us -- or if the route from Perryville [illegible] Lebanon were to pass here it would answer [illegible] these arrangements must be made or we remain in heathenish darkness for a season

Respectfully
John Hughes
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35408
(illegible) Invalid.
File No. 35,408
Frederick Hill
Pri Rev War
Act:  18 March 18
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 188
{Arrangement of 1870}