Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4479, Moses Hall, Vt.
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32.659.
Moses Hall
Declaration for a Pension

J. F. Redfield agent
Danby Ft.
Vermont
[margin note: Court]

Suspended 
let J F Redfield
9 March 1835

June 17/54d
I sent the envelope in, my pay when I served the son.
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State of Vermont
Orleans County ss} Be it remembered that before the Honourable Probate Court within and for the District of Orleans sitting at Barton in said District on the twenty second day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four in open court; personally appeared Moses Hall of Shipton in the province of Lower Canada, and being carefully examined and duly sworn doth on his oath make and subscribe the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of an act of congress passed June 7th. 1832: that he entered the service of the United States and served under the following named officers in the manner herein after stated.
That about the first day of May A.D 1781 he was detailed by the Town of Barnet Vermont where he then resided, to join the company of Captain Nehemiah Lovell, who was then raising a company under the command of Colonel Wait and Gen'l Baily to be stationed at Peacham Vermont, which was then almost a frontier settlement for the purpose of protecting the lives and property of the inhabitants. This company was raised by soldiers furnished by the adjoining, [illegible] he accordingly at the date last named joined said company, which belonged to Col. Waits regiment and was employed in said service for the term of seven months. During this term the company were on daily drill & comp service except when
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sent on scouts to discover the movements of the enemy. He has now in his possession a cutlass which was furnished him at that time and also a bullet pouch. There was no engagement at this point during this service. He was discharged, but without writing some of the first days of December of that year and returned home.
On the first day of May A.D. 1782 he again enlisted in a company commanded by Lieutenant Cawley raised under the direction of Gen'l Bailey for the purpose of building a fort at Barnet Vermont. He immediately joined the company aforesaid and was employed daily in drill work in building said Fort and in scouts for the term of six months and some of the first days of November - this company was discharged but without writing. He with many others resided in the fort during the winter and in the months of April 1782 a company was formed in the same manner above stated under the command of Captain Stevens by direction of Genl. Bailey to perform service as above stated at the fort built the summer before at said Barnet, which was on his father's farm. He joined said company six months & longer until late in the fall when the company was discharged He entered the service as a volunteer. He was born in Newbury Vermont. (when if any where is a record of his age.) on the 5th day of July 1764 and is now seventy years old. Since the revolutionary war he has resided in Barnet aforesaid.
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twenty years, in St. Johnsbury Vermont seven years & twenty four years in said Shipton. He resides eighty miles from Barton is the reason he cannot produce a clergyman to certify his being reputed to have performed said service. He hereby relinquishes all claims to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension list of the agency of any State. Subscrib'd & Sworn this 22'd day of December A.D. 1834.
/s/Moses Hall

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 - 
I John H. Kimball Register of the said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Moses Hall for a Pension. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 22nd day of December 1834
/s/John H. Kimball Register
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[typewritten letter]

BA-J/AWF
Moses Hall
R. 4479

Mrs. Colin F. Campbell
Fergus Falls, Box 98
Minnesota

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Moses Hall of Vermont.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, R. 4479, based on the military service of Moses Hall in the Revolutionary War. This is the record of the only Moses Hall found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this office, who served with the Vermont troops. 
Moses Hall was born July 5, 1764 in Newbury, Vermont. He was the son of "Captain Jacob Hall of Barnet, Vermont"; the name of his mother was not stated.
Moses Hall was a resident of Barnet, Vermont, during the Revolution. He served in 1781, seven days in Captain Jacob Hall's company, "in scouting service"; he served in Captain Nehemiah Lovell's company in Colonel Benjamin Wait's Vermont regiment, from July 1, 1781 to sometime in November, 1781. It was stated that he served in 1782, six months under Lieutenant Cawley, and assisted in erecting a fort at Barnet, Vermont, on his father's farm; and that he served in 1783, six months under Captain Stevens, stationed in the fort at said Barnet.
Moses Hall lived after the Revolution in Saint
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[typewritten letter]

Johnsbury, Vermont, and from there moved to "Shifton, Province of Lower Canada."
Moses Hall applied for pension December 22, 1834, then a resident of said Shifton, where he had lived about twenty-four years.
His claim for pension was not allowed, as he did not serve six months in an embodied military corps, which was the minimum length of service for which a pension was allowed. His service in erecting the fort on his father's farm, and having been stationed in that fort, were not considered in a military capacity. 
The papers on file in his claim contain no data in regard to wife or children of the soldier, Moses Hall. His cousin, Levi Hall, was living in 1834 in Barnet, Vermont, and stated that he served with Moses Hall during the Revolution.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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STATE OF VERMONT.
Secretary of State's Office, 
Montpelier, May 29th, 1854

I hereby certify that there is on file in this office a Pay Roll of Capt Jacob Hall's Company "for scouting" service for 1781. on which roll is the name of Moses Hall with an allowance of seven days' service and 48 miles travel.
Also "A Pay Roll of Capt Nehemiah Lovell's company in Col. Benjamin Waits Battalion in the service of the State of Vermont commending the 1st day of July and ending the [blank] day of November 1781 inclusive" on which roll is the name of Moses Hall with an allowance of 147 days service
[state seal affixed] Given under my hand and the Seal of this Office this 29th day of May 1854
/s/Daniel Thompson Secretary of State 

[margin note: 156 days]
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[illegible] Moses Hall
Vt. '32 susp'd

AH Mackland
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Washington City June 16 AD 1884

Hon L P Waldo
Comm'r of Pensions}

I enclose herewith evidence of the service of Moses Hall, of Vt, suspended '32 I do not know whether there is any evidence in the paper which will extend the time of 6 months you will please report to me. 
I am Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt
/s/A. H. Mackland
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Moses Hall papers
Omit
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I Thomas Manchester of Barnet county of Caledonia & State of Vermont of lawful age of 62 years do certify and say that in the year AD. 1781 that was a company of men under the command of Capt Nehemiah Lovel and Israel Mory Lieutenent under the regiment of Col Wait established or stationed at Peacham with County of Caledonia and State of Vermont and that said Company service [illegible] soldiers under the revolutionary war in favor of the U States against Great Britain during a period of about seven months commencing ['commencing' crossed out] early in the spring succeeding & my remembrance about the first of May and were disbanded about the last of Nov That were employed presently in building a fort and also in guarding the frontier and scouting also that one Moses Hall of Shipton Lower Canada the supposed son of Capt. Jacob Hall of Barnet Vermont, belonged to that company and according to the best of my remembrance served the whole reason that the deponent was eleven years old that summer - further deponent saith not
/s/Thomas Manchester
Sworn to before me this 19th day of Nov. 1832 - /s/Samuel A Chandler Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named deponent is a man of truth and veracity
/s/Samuel A Chandler Just of Peace
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}[margin note: Omit]

State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss} I Benjamin F. Deming Clerk of the County of Caledonia aforesaid do hereby certify that Samuel A. Chandler Esq before whom the within affidavit of Thomas Manchester was taken was at the date thereof and now is a Justice of the Peace for said Caledonia County and that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine - In witness whereof
[court seal affixed] I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Danville in said County this 27th day of December, A. D. 1832. 
/s/Benjamin F. Deming Clerk.
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Benj. Bailey's Evidence
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I Benjamin Bailey of Peacham in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont aged seventy three years, depose and say that in the time of the revolutionary war, to wit, in the year 1781 I resided at Peacham aforesaid - that on the 1st of May 1781 I enlisted into the service of the United States in the Company of Cap't Nehemiah Lovell in the regiment of Col. Benj'n Waite. Said company was stationed at said Peacham during the summer of 1781. Immediately after my enlistment I was employed at Newbury, Vermont, guarding prisoners and continued at that place until about the first of July when I joined said company at said Peacham. On joining the company I found Moses Hall then of Barnet, Vermont now of Shipton, Lower Canada (with whom I was then well acquainted) doing duty in said company and we both continued to serve in said company until about the last of December of the same year. 
I think we were all discharged together, but cannot certainly tell whether said Hall was not discharged a few days before me but I think not.
/s/Benj. Bailey
Danville Vermont, March 8, 1834.

State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss} Personally appeared Benjamin Bailey and subscribed and made oath to the foregoing affidavit. - before me - And I certify that s'd Bailey is a credible witness.
/s/Sam'l Sias Justice of Peace
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State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss} I Amos Paul Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Samuel Sias is a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 8th day of March A.D. 1834. 
/s/Amos Paul Clerk
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32.659
Moses Hall
Vermont

['Let A. H. Markland June 17/54' crossed out]

4479
June 7, 1832
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Levi Hall's affidavit for Moses Hall
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State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss} Danville Oct. 21, 1834
Then personally appeared Levi Hall of Barnet in the County of Caledonia and made oath as follows to wit that he is well acquainted with Moses Hall formerly of s'd Barnet now residing in Shipton Lower Canada and was well acquainted with him during the revolutionary war having been brought up in the same family and he being my cousin. I further state that in the year 1781 said Moses Hall served in the Continental service at Peacham in the State - the same being a frontier post and s'd Hall served at s'd Fort in Capt. Lovell's Company in Col Wait's Reg't of Vermont troops for the term of not less than seven months commencing about the first day of May 1781. I served at the same place for the same time.
I further state that in the year 1782 at Barnet aforesaid by order of Gen. Bayley of Newbury, Vermont who then commanded the frontier, the few persons who inhabited said Barnet were called out to build a fort in said Barnet and assistance for that purpose was had from militia then in service - the said Moses Hall and myself were both employed ['from' crossed out] in this service from the commencement of the same, ['which' crossed out] until the building of the same was completed
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being in the opinion of said Levi not less than two months, and that he said Levi together with said Moses Hall were employed by Capt. Jacob Hall of s'd Barnet and residing in said fort to assist in guarding the same and scouting the woods which were frequently in the surrounding ['woods' crossed out] country. That in my opinion said Moses was employed in that service after the completion of said fort not less than ten months and that said service terminated about the month of October 1783 - 
/s/X his mark Levi Hall
Witness Amos Paul

State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss} Danville Oct. 21, 1834
Personally appeared Levi Hall whose name is above subscribed and made oath that the same is true. and I further certify that it is made to appear to me that said Hall is a credible witness. 
/s/Charles Davis Justice of Peace

State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss} I Amos Paul Clk of the County Court of the County of Caledonia aforesaid do hereby certify that Charles Davis Esq. whose signature is above written is a justice of the peace within and for s'd County and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of s'd Court this 21st day of Oct A.D. 1834
/s/Amos Paul Clk
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[handwritten letter]

273

Pension Office
June 17, 1854.

Sir:
The certificate of the Secretary of the State of Vermont, dated May 29th 1834, showing that Moses Hall is credited with seven days served in Capt. Jacob Hall's company in 1781, and one hundred and forty seven days served and same year, under Capt. Lovell, does not show an amount of service which [illegible] ['L' crossed out] Moses Hall claim under the provisions of the Act of June 7, 1832 - the entire service, even admitting that the tour under Capt Hall of seven days, was rendered by him, length only 5 months and 4 days. The same claimed in 1782, during which Hall was engaged in building a fort, was not strictly military service within [illegible] the Pension Laws - being solely
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[handwritten letter]

for neighborhood defence, as is evident from the fact - that Hall and "others resided in the Fort during the winter." To [illegible] that the line was regularly organized, and was served under the request of the proper authority. It was shown also in the case of Benjamin Bailey, one of Hall's witnesses, that the entire service under Lovell in 1781, was only 147 days.

A. H. Markland, Esq
Present

[margin note: June 11/34]
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[handwritten letter]

Fergus Falls, Minn
Sept. 19, 1938

Veterans Administration, 
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen, 
I am interested in securing the service record & family record of Moses Hall who was [margin note: only Vt. ser] a Revolutionary soldier from Vermont. 
The only information I have to establish his identity is that his wife's name was Experience Tolman and the family lived at Sudbury, Vt. in 1805 when one of their children was born.
I shall greatly appreciate any information that you can send me. 

Respectfully yours, 
/s/Mrs. Colin F. Campbell

Address 
Fergus Falls, Minn
Box 98.

[receipt stamp: RECEIVED SEP 22 1938 MAIL BUR-DIV. VETS ADM READER 7]
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Request for Photostating    M 6
(To be prepared in duplicate)        Ex. AW

OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK
Job No. 1683   Date Jan. 31, 1925
Subject Moses Hall. Rev. R4479
1 copies of 1 pieces consisting of 1 pages to be 
(No.)           (No.)                            (No.)
forwarded when completed to the REV. WAR SECTION Division 
Remarks (see receipt for payment use Daniel Hall, N.H. + VT wid. Sally. W23199)
Approved: 
W Wilson
Chief Div.               Chief Clerk.
REV. WAR SECTION
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Request for Photostating    M 6
(To be prepared in duplicate)    Ex. AW
OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK
Job. No. 1663        Date Jan. 24. 25
Subject Moses Hall - Rev. R4479
1 (No.) copies of 1 (No.) pieces consisting of 3 (No.) pages to be forwarded when completed to the REV. WAR SECTION Division.
Remarks: (see receipt for payment to Levi Hall W19743)
Approved: 
W Wilson
Chief Div.         Chief Clerk
REV. WAR SECTION
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3-2233  113
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
Aug 14 1925
Chief Rev Sect Division [crossed out]
I have this day received
from A.W.DeGoosh
cash No
for $45/100 in payment of requesting[crossed out]
photostat copy } as per
post office address [crossed out]
memorandum [handwritten]
letter [crossed out] herewith.

1920 Aug 20 copies mailed + Finance Div notf AW ok not cyd [handwritten]

O.J. RANDALL
Chief Finance Div.
H.C.L. [handwritten]
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3-2006
OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK
Job No. 2286   Date Aug 14 25
Subject Moses Hall Rev R4479
1 (No.) copies of 2 (No.) pieces consisting of 3 (No.) pages to be forwarded when completed to the Rev + 1812 Wars Section Division.
Remarks: 
Approved: 
W Wilson
Chief Div.       Chief Clerk
Sect
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Mr. A.W. DeGoosh            Aug. 13.1925
Care U.S. Shipping Board
Washington, D.C.
paid 45 cts for three pages, copies not ctfd. from Rev. War pension claim of Moses Hall R4479.
rec'd payment. AEWilson
Chief Rev. + 1812 Wars Section
FINANCE DIVISION
AUG 14 1925
BUREAU OF PENSION [STAMP]
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SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE 1-681  PHONE Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 43574
Rev + 1812 [handwritten]
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON
CHIEF, Divison of Publications, 
Room G139.         May 23, 1930  192
Please furnish work specified below
Bureau ordering Pensions   Deliver to Room No. 5033
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)
Title and description of job photostatic copes of three pages from Rev. War pension claims, Moses Hall, R. 4479.  sol's decl. Dec. 22-1834 [handwritten]
No. of copies 1 of each page Shall form be kept standing?  days
For further information see M.M.H.Finch 5033 Room No. 541 Phone No.
Approved: 
AD Wilkinson  Chief Clerk of Bureau.
Margaret M. H. Finch Chief of Division.
NOTE: No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering

Division of Publications
Received
May 24 1930
Dept. of the Interior

in Law May 29 [handwritten]

CHECK WORK DESIRED
Duplicate
Multigraph  single or double space?  Facsimile signature?
Mimeograph  one side or both sides? Facsimile signaure?
Folding once or twice?
Assembling
Stapling Once? Twice? Side? End?
Electric Typewriter Fill in addresses? Dated?
Addressograph from lists
Envelopes, size | Cards, size
Proof list |Pay rolls
Labels (submit sample) | Corrections
Fill in letters | Tabulation sheets
Photostat X Size actual  Official use?  Repay? yes $0.45
Blue Print  Size  Official use? Repay? $
Remarks
(OVER)
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NOTE: Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without formal reference through or initialing of chiefs of branches or chief clerks of bureaus.
192  (Date)
INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN.
Make new addressograph plate
Change present addressograph plate
Destroy present addressograph plate as follows: } On list:
Now reads   1
2
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Should read 1
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FOR USE OF DUPLICATING AND ADDRESSING SECTION
ADDRESSOGRAPH
The above change was made   192
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MULTIGRAPH
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May 23, 1930
Cash - 70 cents
FINANCE DIVISION
BOOK [illegible] DESK
MAY 24 1930
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir: 
Please send me certified photostatic copies of three pages from Revolutionary War pension claim, Moses Hall, R. 4479.
A W. DeGoosh
US Shipping Board
Washgton D.C.

Received payment
Seventy cents
May 23, 1930
M.C. Stokes
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
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1938. Oct 31. list to Mrs. Colin F. Campbell [illegible]
REJECTED
4479
P.O.
Moses Hall
Service: 
Enlisted: , 18
Discharged:  , 18
Application filed:   , 18
Alleges [crossed out]: The printed list of 1835 [crossed out] 1852 gives cause of suspension as: 
Re-enlisted [crossed out] He did not serve six months"
Attorney: 
P.O.
Recognized.  Contract.

Jan 26 25. Copies delivered to Mr. A.W.DeGoosh in person. AW
see receipt for payment in Levi Hall W 19743) AW
Feb. 3 25 Copy of 1 page mailed to Mr. A.W. DeGoosh care U.S. Shipping Board Wash. D.C. (see receipt for payment in Daniel Hall. N.H. + Vt. W23199) AW
1925 Aug 20. Copies mailed to W.W. DeGoosh AW
1930 June 3 Photos mailed to A.W. DeGoosh + Fin Div. ntfd A.D.Y. [handwritten]