Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23248, William Hall, Conn. R.I.
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Conn.
R.I. 

Hall, William

S.23248
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New York 24.656
William Hall
Rensselaer in the State of N. York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Wells of the Regiment Commanded by [blank] in the R. Island troops line for one year and 11 months

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 76 dollars 66 cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of Jan.y 1834 and sent A, G. Hammond 
Berlin, NY

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833 $191:65
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '34 $38.33
$229.98

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Geo. B. Whiting Clerk
Book E Vol. 4 Page 111
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Hed. June 15, 1840
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No the matter of William Hall] Application for a pension
14646
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Declaration in order to obtain  [illegible] of Congress of June 7, 1832.

Form for State Troops &c. 
Printed & Sold by Kemble & Hooper, 8 State St. Troy, NY

State of New York
County of Rensselaer

On this ninth day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before the judge of --the Fray Mayors Court now sitting, William Hall a resident of Petersburgh county of Rensselaer and State of New York, aged seventy six 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 7, 1832.
That he enterd the service of the United States under the following names officers and served as herein stated. 
That in the year 1775 he resided in the town of Hopkintown in the State of Rhode Island that he was in army that year drafted in said town as a minute man & put under the command of Captain Joshua Wells, Lieutenant Barker Wells and Ensign Henry Wells was put under drill and remained in this service at least three months. That he again entered the service as a substitute for John Lift of Westerly in the said state and service one month at
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Sworn to, and subscribed and sworn to the above. 

We, William Satterlee a clergyman residing in the town of Berlin and Ziba Hewitt residing in Grafton hereby certify that we are acquainted with William Hall who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy six 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. 
Wm Sterlee
Ziba Hewitt
Archibard Bull clerk

And the said court de hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations 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 William Satterlee who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the town of Berlin and that Ziba Hewitt & Charles Hall who has also signed the same affidavit a resident in the Grafton and a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. 

I Archibald Bull clerk of Troy Majors Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of William Hall for a pension. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this ninth day of August 1832. 
Archibald Bull clk
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was in the month of February 1776 - That in the face of the same year he having removed to Stonington in the state of Connecticut was then drafted and performed one month service at Groton in said state of Connecticut - helped build Fort Trumble - thinks he was under Captain Stanton in this tower of duty - that in hence 1777 he enlisted in the aforesaid town of Westerly in the Rhode Island State troops under Captain Peleg Hoxey and served nine months at Tiverton in said las mentioned state and was discharged on the 16th day of March 1778 - during this time he was engaged in General Spencer's Expedition against Rhode Island which failed - that in June 1778 he again enlisted in said Town of Westerly into the Rhode Island state service and served for nine months under Captain Springer at Tiverton aforesaid in Col. Topping's Regiment in General Cornwell's Brigade and was discharged on the 16th day of March 1779 - that during this service he was engaged in General Sullivan's expedition  on Rhode Island and was in the engagement of Butt's Hill - that he has no documentary evidence of his services and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can certify to his services except what is hereunto annexed - 
To the prescribed interrogations put by the court he answered 
1. He was born in Charleston in the state of Rhode Island in the year 1756 - 
2. He expects there is a record of his age in said town in the town clerk books
3. He resided when he entered the service as above stated and continued to reside then till about 1794 when he removed to Petersburgh in the County of Rensselaer & state of New York when he has since resided. 
4. He entered the service & he was as above stated.
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5. To this interrogatory he issues to the above statement
6. He never received a written discharge
7. He is knowns in his present neighborhood to General Aaron Worthington P.N. & L. Saunders Esq. who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a solder of the Revolution - he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and the declarant that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any other state. 
Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid. 
Archibald Bull Clerk
William Hall

State of New York
Rensselaer County

Charles Hall of Grafton in said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was acquainted with William Hall during the Revolutionary war. That he knows him to be the person within named and that he know he services with nine months service under Captain Hoxey as he has above stated and that he also served the next year being the year 1778 and that he believes he performed all the services as he has above stated and further this deponent says not - 
Charles Hall
Sworn and subscribed day & year aforesaid
Archibald Bull Clerk

I hereby certify that Charles Hall character for truth and veracity is reputed to be good. he being the same person above named. 
Archibald Hall
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Rev. And 1812
War Section

October 23, 1925

Mrs. Russell McChesney
120 Levee St. 
Brownsville, Tex. 

Madam: 
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 23248, it appears that William Hall was born in 1756 at Charlestown, Rhode Island. 
While residing at Hopkinton, Rhode Island, on April 1775 he was a minute man in Captain Joshua Well's Rhode Island Company and served three months. 
He enlisted in February 1776 and served one month as a private, guarding the shores at Point Judith, Rhode Island no officers stated. 
While residing at Stonington Connecticut he served in the fall of 1776, one month under Captain Stanton, and helped to build Fort Trumbull at Groton, Connecticut. 
He enlisted at Westerly, Rhode Island in June
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1777 and served nine months as a private in Captain Peleg Hoxie's Rhode Island Company, and was in General Spencer's Expedition. 
He enlisted in June 1778 and served nine months as a private in Captain Springer's Company, Colonel Topham's Rhode Island Regiment, and was in General Sullivan's Expedition and the battle of Butts Hill. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 9, 1832, while a resident of Petersburgh, Rensselaer County New York. 
He died June 15, 1840.
It is not stated that solder was married. 
Respectfully, 
Winfield Scott
Commissioner. 

Death from agency book
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary's Department May 10th 1819

By this I certify that it appears by public official documents remaining in this department that William Hall served as a Solder in Capt. White's Company and Col. Topper's Regiment (being one of the Regiment's in the Massachusetts Line and on the Continental Establishment ) in the American Army in the War of the Revolution from [illegible] 1777 to Dec. 31 - 1779 being three years
Alden Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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Revolution
23248
INVALID.
File No. 23,248
William Hall
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32"
Index: --Vol. 2, Page 168
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1925: Oct. 23 Hist to Mrs. Russell McChesney Aug

1928 May 31 - Hist to Mrs. Gertrude E.W. Young Aug
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Bureau of Pensions
Department of Interior
Washington D.C
Dr Sirs
I would like any
information you may have
on record concerning the
Revolutionary War service of
William Hall who enlisted
in Rhode Island - Westerly was
his residence - and whose pension
was sent to Rensselaer Co. N.Y. Also
any record of mention of his family
is wanted.
Yours Respectfully,
Mrs Russell McChesney
120 Levee St.
Brownsville Texas,


PENSION
   SEP
U.  15   S.
   1925
 OFFICE
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Mrs. Gertrude E.W. Young
788 Massachusetts Avenue
Arlington, Massachusetts

4-8-27
U.S. Commissioner - Pensions- Rev War

Dear Sir -
Kindly send me a copy of the Pension record of a William Hall of Charleston R.I. 1756. He was placed on pension roll 30 Jan 1837 he was a resident then of Rensselaer County N.Y.

Service in Captain Joshua Well's company 1775 in Captain Hoxey's Company 1777 - 78
In Captain Springers company 1778 - 79

An early reply is desired. 
Yours truly
Mrs. Gertrude E.W. Young
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Brief objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of William Hall of Rensselaer Co NY which require further proof or explanation. 

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes

III. If the applicant did not make declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? [blank]

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served in conformity with the regulations? yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension that the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes

IX. Has the clerk given his certificate? yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? and if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolu
tionary service?   yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtain
ing it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one
living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness
or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?  yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the
regulations direct?  yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age,
as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No Amended
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And,
if not, which of them is not so answered? all answered
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EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. 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 recol
lection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For______
year________months, and__________days, I served as a___________ For months
and____________ days, I served as a __________; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served,
and the particular rank he held, as the 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 in
definite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions
merely state 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 objection
able. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration
of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the
applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either
in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must
prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of
the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the
regiment, company, and line to 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 magis
trate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not
written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the cer
tificate 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.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the
certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Rhode Island District
Clerks office of the District Court of the United States In the City of Providence December 18 1838
I certify that it appears from the Roll of a
Regiment now in this office raised by the State of
Rhode Island during the Revolutionary War
and first commanded by Col. Joseph Stanton
in the year 1777 and subsequently in 1778 & 1779
by Col John Topham that the name of "William
Hall" is borne on said Roll as a private But
it does not appear how long he served It appears
said Roll was made up in the year 1785
to ascertain the amount of depreciation of wages
due each one who served in said Regiment
In testimony whereof I have hereto set
my hand & affixed the seal of said
Court this Eighteenth day of December 1833
Benja Cowell Clerk
of said Court
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Berlin Rensselaer County N.Y.
Decem. 26, 1833

Dear Sir
The papers relative to the claims of Arnold Worden,
William Hall, William Hall, Jonathan Hakes, Caleb Hakes
and Daniel Saunders are herewith again forwarded accompa
nied by Certificate of Benjamin Cowell Esq Clerk of the District
Court of U.S. at Providence Rhode Island. I received the Certif
icates inclosed in a letter from Mr. Cowell of which the following
is an extract-

"Providence Decem. 18, 1833
Dear Sir
"Enclosed you will receive the certificates of what
"appears on the Roll in relation to the services of the old soldiers
"whose names you sent me. The Roll does not state the length
"of time each one served but I presume it will tend to cor
"roberate the statement of each in that respect"
Accompaning the certificates with their statements I find
that they are corroberated and I presume will be satisfactory
to the department. The certificates are folded up with their
original applications-
I have the honor to be serving
Respectfully your humble
Servant
A. G. Hammond

J.L. Edwards Esq.  }
Com. of Pensions }