Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31747, Isaac Hill, Conn. & French & Indian War
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(S1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Conn. Hill, Isaac  S.31747
& French & Indian War.
CONTENTS
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Connecticut
Isaac Hill
[Woodbury] in the State of C
as a pr in the --- [commanded] Captain Yates of the Rgt commanded by Col Enos in the Ct. line for 7 months 21 days

28.920

Inscribed on the Roll of Connt.
at the rate of 25 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of July  '30 and sent Chas. B. Phelps Woodbury Ct.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar '34    76.98
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " 12.83
______
$89.81
{Revolutionary Claim, Act of June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Nath Rice Clerk
Book E  Vol. 2 Page 17
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State of Connecticut, Probate } ss. District of Woodbury
13 day of August 1832 personally appeared, in open Court, before said Court holden at Southbury within aforesaid District
Now sitting, Isaac Hill a resident of -- in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut Ninety two years, who being first 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 State under the following named officers and served as herein
I was born at Guilford Connecticut on the 16 day of April 1740 and lived there about six years then moved to Wallingford Con and remained there about untill I removed to Gorham and staid there a year or two and when about the year old moved to what is now called Southbury and lived there two or three years and then moved to Stratford in the year 1757 I belonged to the militia company in Stratford and my master ( I was apprentice to a weaver) turned me out to take his place in a Reg of Soldiers for the French War I went into the army and served three years and returned to Stratford. I remained there and at Newtown untill the Revolutionary War. The year independence was declared I belonged to the Stratford militia and was in the fall of that year called out to do a tour of duty and was put into Capt John Yates company Col Enos Regiment
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and served between two & three months near New York at Byram River I was discharged about first Jan 1777. I cannot remember the exact day of my beginning service or having it
In the year that Danbury was burned I was called out again under Capt Robert Lewis and served about three months at New Rochelle NY
In the year 1781 I enlisted for six months and left home last June or beginning July and served untill the night after my daughter Sally was born which appears to be by an entry in my Bible on 10 Dec 1781 I got home the night after her birth. I served at Peekskill NY and near there in Col Butlers Regiment but I cannot remember the Capt name that I served under. I served four months this company & Regiment as near I can remember.
I never had any discharge. My son has made inquiry for proof and can hear of none except Samuel
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Beardslee & Nehemiah Clark, Lemuel Judson my son Benjah went with me from Thatford a part of the way to Danbury in the year 1781 when I joined an attachment at Danbury & marched to Peekskill. I moved from Thatford to Southbury in the year 1806 or 1807 and have lived there ever since
I am acquainted with my son Benjah Hill & Alfred Treat of Southbury
Isaac Hill   X his mark
Sworn before me on the day & year aforesaid
Chs B Phelps Judge of Probate District of Woodbury
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Isaac Hill 31.389 Connecticut
2333
233
entered 6 July 1781
admit
7 mos 21 days
$25.66

Reply to 
Chs. B. Phelps Esq.
Woodbury Ct
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I Nehemiah Clark of the town of Cornwall in Litchfield County State of Connecticut now sixty eight years of age do testify and say that i was well acquainted with Isaac Hill of Southbury (I believe) County and State afforesaid and was acquainted with him in 1781 at which time said Hill was living in Stratford County of Fairfield and State aforesaid in which town I lived at that time and that in the Summer of 1781 I was in the Continental service for six months in. Capt Lays Company Coln Butlers Regiment formaly Coln [Migs] Regiment which company I joined at Peekskill Hill in the state of New York.  said Hill was at that time in the continental service in said regiment I remember his going to camp with me and saw him several times whilst in camp at Peekskill Hill aforesaid
Nehemiah Clark

Sworn and subscribed before me at Cornwall in Litchfield County State of Connecticut 
November 22 1832
Samuel Hopkins Justice of the Peace

I certify that I well acquainted with the afforesaid Nehemiah Clark and that he is a man of reputability and of good Character
Samuel Hopkins Justice of the Peace
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I Frederick Wollcott, Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, certify that Samuel Hopkins [illegible] of Cornwall in said County was on the 22d day of November 1832 & that he now is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Litchfield, legally commissioned & qualified that he hath a right by law to admiinister Oaths [illegible] and that his name subscribed to the certificates annexed to the within affidavit of Nehemiah Clark is the genuine signature & handwriting of the said Samuel Hopkins.  In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the Seal of said Court at Litchfield in said County this 24th day of May AD. 1833.

Frederick Wolcott, Clerk


Seal of the County Court
County of Litchfield
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I Samuel Beardslee of Monroe in Fairfield County of lawful age do depose and say that Isaac Hill formerly of Newton in said County was one of a number of persons who volunteered during the Revolutionary War to go into the service.  We agreed to go for the term of three weeks.  Our Captain was Robert Lewis & under him we served at New Rochelle for the term, from that place we came to Biram [Byram] River where we remained in service two or three days.  we were, while at New Rochell under the command of Genl. Wooster.

The particular month or year I am unable to determine, though I believe it to have been during the year in which Danbury was burned.  The said Isaac Hill went to and returned from the service with me.  Monroe
August 31st 1832.  
Samuel Beardslee

Fairfield County ss Monroe August 31st 1832.
Personally appeared the above deponent Samuel Beardslee & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition before me
Cyrus H. Beardslee Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County       } ss  I Thomas B Osborne Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Cyrus H. Beardslee Esquire is now and was on the 31st day of August AD 1832 a Justice of the Peace for said Fairfield County duly commissioned & qualified & duly authorized to administer oaths and take Depositions &c  I further certify that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Cyrus H Beardslee Esquire & that I very believe the signature to the foregoing Certificate annexed to the Deposition of Samuel Beardslee, purporting to be the signature of the said Cyrus H Beardslee, is genuine.  Given under my hand and the Seal of said County Court in Fairfield this 4th day of October AD 1833.

Thomas B Osborne Clerk.
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State of Connecticut
                                   ss Probate Court
                                        District of Woodbury
                                        Town of Southbury
                                        in said District
                                        August 13, 1832.
Be it remembered that on the day and year aforesaid in open court appeared Benajah Hill of Southbury whom the Court certify to be a credible witness and being first duly sworn on oath deposes and says that he is the son of Isaac Hill of Southbury and when he was seven years old he remembers going from Huntington into Newtown with his father said Isaac with a horse.  His father was then going to join the army of the Revolution near Peekskill New York  this Deponent went into Newton and his father went on & he the Deponent returned back with the Horse, returned back with the Horse, but is unable to say what month it was but it was warm weather and well remembers said Isaac Hill returned the night after the Deponent [illegible] Sally Hill was born which appears by an entry in a family bible to have been on 10 Dec 1761
and the Deponent sayeth that the resolution & mental powers [illegible] of said Isaac Hill are much [illegible] impaired but that said before his mind was impaired has often
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[illegible] this Deponent that he said Isaac served in the year 1781.  Six months and this Deponent has no doubt he [illegible] serve that period 
Benajah Hill

Sworn before me on the day and year aforesaid 

Chs B Phelps Judge of Probate
Dist Woodbury
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States of Connecticut
Probate Court
District of Woodbury

Be it remembered that on this 2d day of September 1833 personally appeared in said Court Lemuel Judson of Woodbury to the Court personally known & whom the Court certify to be a credible witness and being first duly sworn on his oath declares and says that he was seventy three years of age on Decr 1832, and that in the year 1776 at the close of the year and in 1777 at the commencement of the year  He was a private in the company of Capt John Yates Col Enos Regiment and knew Isaac Hill who was a private in said company [illegible] and duty in the in the same as [illegible].

This Deponent cannot state how long said Hill served in said company but remembered said HIll when dismissed he was dismissed at the same time with the Deponent was which was on the 5 March 1777 as near as I can ascertain I served two months & supposed Hill did the same.
Lemuel Judson

Sworn & subscribed before me 
Chs B Phelps Judge of Probates Dist
Woodbury
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The said Isaac Hill 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.  Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Chas B Phelps Judge Probate
Dist Woodbury

We, Benajah Hill residing in the town Southbury and Alfred Treat residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Isaac Hill who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 92 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.

Benajah Hill
Alfred Treat

Chs B Phelps Judge
Probate Dist Woodbury

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Benajah Hill who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident in the town of Southbury and that Alfred Treat who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Southbury and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Chs B Phelps Judge of Probate
District of Woodbury

I, Edwd M Phelps Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Woodbury do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding [illegible] said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Hill for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Probate Office, this tenth day of January 1834

Edwd. M. Phelps Clerk
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section.
Camp Stanley, M. D.
The Farragut,
Washington, D. C.
Sir;
●
April 10, 1924.
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 31747, it appears that Isaac Hill was born April 16, 1740 at Guilford, Connecticut, and was a resident of Stratford, Connecticut at the time of the French and Indian War (1757 ) and served three years in said War in the Stratford
Militia, names of officers not stated.
He enlisted in the Revolutionary War in the fall
of 1776 and served between two and three months as a private in Captain John Yates' Company, Colonel Enos' Connecticut Regiment.
He enlisted in April 1777 and served three weeks in Captain Robert Lewis' Connecticut Regiment.
He enlisted in June or July 1781 and served to Dec-
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ember 11, 1781 in Colonel Butler's Connecticut Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 13, 1832, while a resident of Southbury, New Haven County, Connecticut.
A son Benajah was seven years of age in 1781; and daughter Sally was born December 10, 1781; the name of soldier's wife is not stated. There is no further family data on file.
In order to make a proper search of the records for a particular soldier named Abraham Hill, some of the following data is essential: approximate dates of birth and
death, places of residence at enlistment and after service, given name of widow.
Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
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Yonkers N.Y. Aug 26, 1898
The Hon. Com. of Pensions.
Sir
I have a certificate from the Add-Gen of Conn  saying that Isaac Hill was a private in the Revolutionary War and in the list of pensioners 1832, residing in New Haven, County. I would like to know if at this late
day I can obtain the information from your office as to the reason that said pension was granted. Do you keep records so far back. If so please let me know if I can obtain all the information for may have of this Isaac Hill and the fee for the same very truly yours,
(U. S.
Fred L. Hill.
82 Maple St.
Yonkers New York
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Auth 
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24286
317.47

Yonkers, N.Y. Oct 2, 1899

The Hon. Com. of Pensions.
Washington D.C.
Sir: In Aug. 1832,
Isaac Hill, a veteran of the French and Indian Wars and the Revolutionary War, Connecticut Troops, applied for a pension, which was granted.   Will you kindly inform me at what date payment of said pension was suspended?  Also if it was continued to his widow after the [decease] of said Isaac Hill?

Respectfully Yours,
Fred L. Hill
61 Poplar St
Yonkers
New York
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O. W. & N. Division
Aug 9 1900
Received

Yonkers, N.Y. Aug 6 1900

The Hon. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Sir: One of my ancestors, Isaac Hill was a soldier in the Conn troops, Revolutionary Army and applied for a pension on Aug 13 1832, which was granted.  Will you please tell me at what date said pension stopped as I am very anxious to know the date of his death.

Yours very respectfully
Fred L. Hill
61 Poplar St
Yonkers
New York

Pension
K
Aug 6 1900
U S Office
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In reply to your request of ___________, received __________ for a statement of the military history of Isaac Hill a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (text scratched out) application for pension on file in this Bureau. S.31.747

DATES OF ENLISTMENT
Fall 1775
Apl. 1777
June or July 1781
French & Indian War 1757

LENGTH OF SERVICE
Between 2 & 3 months
3 weeks
to Dec. 11, 1781
3 years

RANK
Private

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
CAPTAIN
John Yates
Robert Lewis
" (at Peekskill) [crossed out]
officers not stated -- Stratford Militia

COLONEL
Enos
"
Butler

STATE
Conn.

Battles engaged in, _____________
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Stratford, Conn.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 13, 1832. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Southbury, New Haven Co., Conn.
Age at date of application, born Apl. 16, 1740 at Guilford, Conn.
Remarks: Soldier lived at Guilford 6 yrs.; Wallingford; Goshen 1 or 2 yrs; & when about 10 yrs. old moved to Southbury for 2 or 3 yrs. thence to Stratford where he was an apprentice to a weaver and made to serve as his substitute in the French & Indian War, after which he lived at Stratford and Newtown. Son Benajah was 7 yrs. of age at this time; dau. Sally b., Dec. 10, 1781.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
(Danbury [illegible] Apl.  25-28, 1777.)
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Personal inquiry Oct. 18 1917
furnish record of
Isaac Hill, Conn.* S.31747
to Mr. S. J. Hill
Masonic Temple
Fargo, N.D.
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31747
Revy
INVALID.
In French War from 1757-60
File No. S1,747
Isaac Hill
Pri. Rev. War
Act: June 7th '32
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 187
[Arrangement of 1870.]
[Notes written right side]
Oct 11 '98
Fred L. Hill
Yonkers, N.Y.
Sept-18-1900
To above, how to get date of last payment.
1917 Oct.19. Hist. to Mr. S. J. Hill [illegible]
1924 Apr. 10 Hist. to Camp Stanley, M.D.
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Camp Stanley, M.D.
THE FARRAGUT
WASHINGTON, D. C.
April, 4TH. 1924.
U.S. Pension Office
Washington, D.C.
Record Dept.
     I shall greatly appreciate any information that you may furnish me in the reference to the Revolutionary War Record of Abraham Hill {asked for more information} " Honor Roll. Litchfield County (Conn. ) Revolutionary Soldiers". F102, L6D2, page 220..  In the list of "Revolutionary Soldiers of Woodbury" compiled by the Judea Chapter, D.A.R. Washington Conn., is the name of Abraham Hill, who might be (so far as the dates of baptismal record go) be the father of Isaac Hill.  In Cothren's "Ancient Woodbury " (Conn.) F104 W8806, page 782 he is also listed and on page 782 is this further information "Abraham Hill died in N.Army."

ALSO RECORD OF,
Isaac Hill, Pensioners, 1832, Residing in New Haven Conn. (Reference numbers of authorities refer to books in the Library of Congress, and are the numbers for which to make out call cards.) "Conn. Men in Revolution" page 655 R.R. E 263., C5C5. Connecticut Line 1781-1783, Fourth Regiment-Col Butler, Isaac Hill, Private. Date of enlistment July 6th. 1781. engaged for six months term, Ripton is the name of the Town for which they served.
"Connecticut Men of the Revolution. Connecticut Historical Society Collection" vol. 8, p. 115.  Page 117 of same vol. Discharged Jan. 1, 1782.

I am anxious to know if these records show any reference to their wives and children, this information is desired in order to complete a line for membership in the Society of Sons of the Revolution

     Trusting that you will be able to help me in this matter, I am,

Very sincerely,
Camp Stanley.
CS/MPN.