Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 22,017, John Hall, N.C.
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N.C.    Hall, John                  R.22,017
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State of Missouri County of Iron: SS 
     On this 6th day of April A.D. 1858 personally appeared in open Court before the County Court of Iron County in the State of Missouri now sitting John Hall a resident of the town of Ironton in the County of Iron and State of Missouri aged ninety-seven 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 1832.   
     That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. 
     That he enlisted with Colonel Penticost and served as Captain of a company in Colonel 
Penticost's Regiment and General Morgan's Army.  The precise time he entered service he does not now recollect but it was in the year 1779 or thereabouts as he is certain that it was when he was of the age of 18 years.   
He entered service in town of Hertford County Perquimans and State of North Carolina
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and as a Volunteer he marched through North Carolina and Virginia under Colonel Penticost 
Regiment and was with his Company while in North Carolina engaged part of the time as a 
Scouting party to watch the advances of the enemy and thus acted under the direction of General Morgan.  He was engaged in the battle of Guilford Court House – He remained in actual service until the close of the Revolutionary war when he was honorably discharged.  He knew both of the above named officers – He further says that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State. 
                        John X Hall
                          (X his mark)
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
                    John V. Logan
                    Presiding Justice
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We J.R. Pratt, a clergyman resident in the county of Iron and State of Missouri and Hiram V. Tony residing in Ironton and County & State aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Hall who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 97 years of age that he is reported in the neighborhood to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
                    signed
                         Jesse H. Pratt
                         H.V. Tony

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
     John V. Logan
        Presiding Justice

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after an investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above name applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that
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Jesse R. Pratt who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman residing in Iron County Missouri and that H.V. Tony who signed the same is a resident of Ironton, Iron County Missouri is a creditable person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
             signed
                    John V. Logan
                    Presiding Justice of the County
                    Court of Iron Court Mo

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State of Missouri
County of Iron
     I John F.T. Edwards Clerk of this County Court in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Hall for a pension.
     In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at office in the town of Ironton this 7th day of April A.D. 1858
                 John F.T. Edwards Clerk
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Know all men by these Presents, that I John Hall of the County of Iron and State of Missouri have made constitute and appoint Daniel C. Finn of the town of Ironton County of Iron State of Missouri my true and lawlfull (sic) attorney for me and in my name to prosecute my claim to received the certificate when issued and to do all other acts necessary and proper in the premises.
            signed
                     John X Hall
                       (X his mark)

     Sworn and subscribed before me this the 7th day of April A.D. 1858, in witness whereof I have caused my hand and the seal of said Court affixed by order of said Court in Session.
                    John F. S. Edwards
                    Clerk

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State of Missouri County of Iron: SS: On this 20th day of December 1858, personally appeared in open Court, before the Iron County Court, now sitting, John Hall a resident of the town of Ironton in the County of Iron and State of Missouri, aged about ninety-nine 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 entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and 
served as herein stated – I entered the service of the United States under Colonel Penticost about the first day of March in the year 1781, but by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory I cannot state precisely how long I served nor cannot swear positively to the precise length of my service, but according to the best of my recollection I served not less than two months the whole time as a Captain, never was under but one engagement, I resided in the town of Perquimans (about five miles from Hartford) in the County of Perquimans, State of North Carolina
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when I entered the service.  I entered the service as a volunteer, I was engaged in the Battle of Guilford Court House.  After we had enlisted we all met at Hatford [sic], the County seat of Perquimans, went from Hatford through Gates County and crossed the Maherrin River, which [two indecipherable words] is called the Chowan, through Hatford & Bertie counties and others I cannot recollect – I do not recollect what Continental Companies or regiments I served with.  I was acquainted with Penticost and Marion.  We crossed the Maherrin River at Tommy Winn's ferry – Bill Blackmun and myself were appointed Captains.  After the battle of 
Guilford Court House, we went down to Pedee to the Cape Fear River and up the Cape 
Fear River to Fayetteville, remained there for 2 or 3 months and were ordered to disband and 
return to our homes – Peter Williams was our fifer this was all the music we had with us.  We 
arrived at Guilford Court House but a very short time before the battle.  I signed my name to the muster roll – Dutch John Hall to distinguish me from other men of the same name living in the neighborhood.  I was also well
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 acquainted with Captain Martin, and I further state that I have no documentary evidence and I know of no person whose testimony I can procure who can testify to my service. 

Interrogatories presented by the War Department 

I Where and in what year were you born? 
Answer.  I was born in Perquimans County, North Carolina in the year 1759 or 1760 – 
II. Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it? 
Answer – There is a record of my age but I do not know where it is – 
III. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the 
revolutionary war, and where do you now live? 
Answer – I lived at Perquimans, Perquimans County, North Carolina, when called into service.  
From there after the Revolutionary war I removed to Guilford, from there I moved to 
Muhlenberg County Kentucky and from there I moved to Missouri near the place where I now 
reside. 
I V.  How were you called into service, were
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 you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a 
substitute, and if a substitute, for whom? 
Answer.  – I was a volunteer – 
V. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such Continental & Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service? 
Answer – I knew a great many of the officers but can now only recollect General Marion & 
Morgan, Colonel Penticost & Captain Martin & Blackman.  Do not recollect any Continental or 
Militia regiments, the general circumstances of my service are as follows – I volunteered under 
Colonel Penticost about the first of March 1780, marched to Guilford Court House, arrived there a very short time before the battle – was wounded in the battle – after this my Company and one other were detailed to assist Marion and keeping down the Tories.  We marched down the Pedee to the Cape Fear River and up the Cape Fear River to Fayetteville – where we remained 2 or 3 months when we were ordered to disband and return to our homes, during which time I was not
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engaged in any civil pursuit. 
VI.  Did you ever receive a Commission, and if so by whom was it signed and what has become of it? 
Answer – I never received any Commission – 
VII. 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 in your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
Answer.  Louis V. Bogy, Conrad C. Zeighter, Herman N. Long, David Carson, C. R. Peck, James Lindsay, C. M. Service, Peter Ake and many others 
I hereby relinquish every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and I declare 
that my name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state. 
                        John X Hall
                         (X his mark)
Sworn & subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid.
   John F.S. Edwards
   Clerk of County Court
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We Andrew Peace a clergyman residing in Iron County and Wm F. Mitchell resident in Iron county, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Hall who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration, that we believe him to be about ninety-nine years of age, that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
           signed
                Andrew Peace
                W.F. Mitchell

Sworn to & subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid.
            John F.S. Edwards
            Clerk of the Co. Court Iron Co. Mo.

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 Andrew Peace who signed the preceding certificate as a clergyman resident in the County of Iron and that William F. Mitchell who has signed the same is a resident
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of the County of Iron and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.  I John F.S. Edwards Clerk of the County Court of Iron County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings from said Court in the matter of the application of John Hall for a pension.
     In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at the town of Ironton this 20th day of December A.D. 1858
               signed
                  John F.S. Edwards Clerk
                  County Court Ironton County Mo.
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rejected files 4475 - 1 paper only
39144
Act June 7 1834
Mo
John Hall
Served 80 days
wounded
Missouri
Capt. N.C. Militia
Served 80 days
No trace of paper or name or Book
Letter
C.W. Bennett July 3/58
Th. B. Sanford Oct 26/58
Alfred Smith Feb. 10/60
L.N. Fowler March 6/60
Hon John W. Noell March 22/60

Papers sent Hon. Jno F. Potter
Chrm. Com. Rev. Pensions H.R.
April 2, 1860
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(3-223.)
M
No. 22017 Revy
AWN
REJECTED
OLD WAR INVALID

John Hall of Missouri Pri N.C. Militia Served 80 days in 1781 & claimed to have been wounded 

Papers sent to Congress
April 2 1860 & not found Augt 1883

Iron Co. MS 1860
Capt., Col. Penticost ac 101
Guilford

310
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North Carolina
John Halls Petition for Pension to Commissioner of pensions
Stewart Copper
Agt
Ironton
Iron Co. Mo
Let. Stewart Copper Dec. 18/60

PENSION OFFICE
DEC 11 1860
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State of Missouri
County of Iron
Sct
     On this 5th day of December A.D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty personally appeared before me J. T. Ake a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical John Hall who volunteered his service to Colonel Penticost in the Continental or Revolutionary war of the Colonies against Great Britan (sic) in the year 1781 and was immediately appointed and duly commissioned Captain of a company of North Carolina Malitia (sic) {in which stated said applicant volunteered his service} in which capacity he served about eigty (sic) days, that while in the service, and in the line of his duty, he received the following wounds {in the battle of Gilford under General Morgan} first by being cut on the head with a sword and second by a ball penetrating the left arm during the time of said battle;  said Applicant states that since he left the Service he resided in North Carolana (sic) 29  years and Kentucky 15 years Illinois 11 years and In Missouri near and at where he now resides 23 years and his occupation while able was Millwrighting and farming, said applicant States that he was dismissed soon after The battle of Gilford until further orders
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     And in a short time after being Dismissed he received a letter from General Morgan that his service would not be Required again in that war as it was About to terminate;  said applicant states That all the papers that he had concerning his service Are worn out and lost;  and by the death {which is probable} of all the officers With whom and under whom he served As Captain, he is unable to procure the Certificate required by law.
      Said applicant makes this application For the purpose of procuring a pension of The General Government.
                     John X Hall
                      (X his mark)


                    Proof of identity
State of Missouri
County of Iron
Sct
     Personally appeared before me J.T. Ake a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Iron and State of Missouri H N Tony and F T Fontaine Resident of the County and state aforesaid persons Whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to Credit, and who by me being duly sworn say that They were present and saw John Hall make his mark to the foregoing declaration And they further swear that they have every reason To believe from the appearance of the applicant And their acquaintance with him, that he is the Identical person he represents himself to be That they believe the foregoing declaration To be true in every particular.
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and they further swear that said Applicant is and has been since our knowledge of him a man of good habits and unable from infermity (sic) of age to follow any occupation for a livelihood.
                 Hiram N. Tony
                 Cyrus Fontaine

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day of December A.D. 1860
                      JT Ake Justice of the Peace
State of Missouri
County of Iron
Sct
Doctors certificate
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State of Missouri
County of Iron
Sct

     I this Clerk of the Iron County Court for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Jacob T. Ake A Justice of the Peace whose signature Appears to the within and foregoing certificate Is and was at the time of the signature of said certificates an acting Justice of the Peace Duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due his acts as Such.
    In testimony whereof I have Hereunto set my hand and Seal of office affixed at Ironton In the County of Iron on this the 5th day of December A.D. 1860
                    John F. T. Edwards Clerk

     I John V. Logan Presiding Justice of the Iron County Court (a Court of Record) certify that the above seal and signature are correct and Are entitled to full faith and credit Done on the 5th day of December A.D. 1860
                    John V Logan
 Presiding Justice of (page is cut off)
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Copy

State of Missouri
County of Iron SS
     On this twentieth day of December A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid John Hall aged ninety-nine years, a resident of Iron County in the State of Missouri who being duly sworn according to law declares that he is the identical John Hall who was a Captain in the company commanded by Col. Penticost under General Morgan in the War with Great Britain commonly known as the revolutionary war; that he enlisted at Perquimans in Perquimans County, N.C.  on or about the first day of March A.D. seventeen hundred and eighty one, and continued in actual service in said war for fourteen days and was honorably discharged at Fayetteville.
     He furthermore hereby constitutes and appoints David Taylor his attorney to receive his Land Warrant when issued.
     He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act approved the 3d day of March 1835.  He also declares that he has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other Act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor.
                                      John X Hall
                                        (X his mark)
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We James H Green and Isaac A Covington, resident of Ironton in the State of Missouri upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledge by John Hall in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be.
                    James H. Green
                    Isaac A. Covington

     The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
                      J.T. Ake 
                      Justice of the Peace

State of Missouri
Iron County
     I hereby certify that J.T. Ake, Esq. before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit were made, is and was at that time an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn.
      In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as clerk of the county Court of said County, this twenty seventh day of December 1838.
            John F.T. Edwards Clerk
               Joseph Huff D.C.

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State of North Carolina
Comptroller's Department
     I C.H. Brogden Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the State aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears of record in my office among the payments or allowances made by said State of sundry persons for militia services in the Revolutionary war as follows:-
     John Hall Edenton District N.C.
Army Accounts Vol 10 Book No 19 page 50 L9.15 s specie
""                         ""                                    56 L18 "

Book C. Entry 649   L18 specie
                               Oct. 1781.
Ident NC 649             L18 specie
                                  April 4th 1782
Book c. Entry 381       L9.15s "
Indent No. 68             L9.15s "
                                   Sept. 26th 1781
Indent N. 2847           L7.14
                                   Dec 29th 1783Book C. Entr7 439, as follows:
     To John Hall and Company for Militia Services L7.13 specie.
     The above payments or allowances were made for militia services by the Auditors for the Edenton District, N.C. of which the County of Perquimans formed a part.
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      In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office in the city of Raleigh this 1st day of March A.D. 1860,
                           C.H. Brogden
                           Comptroller,
                                          N.C.

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