Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4492, Robert Hall, N.C.
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Service N.C.

Hall, Robert
Mary

Number R4492

Contents
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Robert Hall
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The State of North Carolina.
To all whom these presents shall come greeting:

Be it known, that Hon R M Pearson
whose name, in his own proper hand-writing, is subscribed to the annexed Certificate, is and was at the time of granting the same, a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of North Carolina, and as such is duly authorized and empowered to take the probate of Deeds. Powers of Attto-[Illegible].

and that his said Certificate is in due form.

In Witness Whereof, His Excellency Thomas Bragg, our Governor, Captain-General, and Commander-In-Chief, hath signed with his hand these presents, and caused our Great Seal to be affixed thereto.

Done at our City of Raleigh on the 29th day of July in the year of Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six and in the Eighteenth year of our Independence.
Th. Bragg.

Pulaski Cowper
Private Secretary.
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July 21st, 1856
State of North Carolina 
Wake County
Thomas Hall, aged 54 years, this day personally appeared before me, Richmond M Pearson, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court in and for said State, and being duly sworn according to law, [Illegible] as follows, to wit: That his deceased father Robert Hall was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and he rendered services in said war as he has always understood and believes from his family’s history, a considerable length of time in the State of North Carolina in the militia of said State from Guilford County, North Carolina, in which county and state he then resided, and died in Wake County, North Carolina before the date of 1832 and left his wife (this deponent's mother) surviving him whose maiden name was Mary Ross and she died on the fourth day of January 1840 and left surviving of her eight children one of them has since died, whose name was Durham Hall, Susan Smith, Mary Cook, Mary Wheeler, Sarah Day, Elizabeth Rochel, and Thomas Hall, and he believes a pension under the act of June 7, 1832, the amount of pension due up to his said mother’s death. He declares that his said father and mother were married in Wake County, North Carolina before the
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date of 1794 and refers to the record of the marriage [Illegible] 25th May, 1780 and also refers to the ages of these children the original record of the same son to [Illegible] [Illegible] -- R.M. Pearson N.C.
Thomas Hall
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State of North Carolina 
County of Wake 
August the 15th A.D. 1856
I, Alsey Rochel, aged 64, the undersigned, do hereby certify that I was well acquainted with Robert Hall in his life. He was an honorable man and a soldier in the war of the Revolution. I have often heard him speak of his services in said war it was the general opinion of his neighbors and all with whom he was acquainted who was quite an aged man when he died and no doubt served more than one year in the service of his country and I have no object to this claim.
Alsey A Rochel
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State of North Carolina County of Wake August 16th A.D. 1856
I, John G. Thompson, the undersigned of Wake County N.C. do hereby certify that I was intimately acquainted with Robert Hall in his life. He was a man who was well thought of by all who knew him. I have often heard him relate the hardships he endured while in the war of the Revolution and I have every reason to believe he rendered more than one year service in said war. He was an aged man when he died and I have no protest to this claim.
John G. Thompson
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State of North Carolina 
Comptroller’s Department
I, Geo. W. Brooks, Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the state aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears of record in my office among the payments made to sundry persons for military service in the Revolutionary War as follows to wit:
Robert Hall 
Indent No. 4803 – £9.6 – open Salisbury Dist. " 4403 – £7.10.6 – " ditto 
" 2662 – £3.15.11 – " ditto 
" 7104 – £1.12.0 – " ditto
 " 7109 – £1.10.0 – " ditto
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said office at Raleigh on this the 29th day July 1856
Geo. W. Brooks 
Comptroller
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State of North Carolina 
Wake County} 
Superior Court of Law
 Fall Term 1856
Solomon D. Hall, a witness, appearing in open court, and after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and saith that Mary Hall departed this life on or about the 4th day of January 1840 It is therefore considered by the courts that it has been proven to the satisfaction of said court, that the said Mary Hall died on or about the 4th day of January 1840, and the Clerk is ordered to certify the same to the War Department.
Solomon D. Hall
Sworn to & subscribed in  open court, this 29th day  of Sept. 1856.
Jno. C. Moore, Clk

State of North Carolina
 Wake County}
I, Jno. C. Moore, Clerk of the Superior Court of Law for the County of Wake aforesaid, do certify that the above affidavit was, at Fall Term 1856 of said Court, taken in open Court—and duly spread upon the minutes of said Court and is part of the record thereof.
In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name & affix the seal of said Court at Office, in Raleigh, this 29th day of September, A.D. 1856.
John. C. Moore, Clerk of Sup. Court of Law 
Wake County – N.C.
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State of North Carolina 
Wake County 
August the 18th, 1856
On this day personally appeared before me an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State afore said Thomas Hall and maketh oath on due form of law that a paper, perhaps a leaf of an old family Bible containing the birth of my father and his marriage with my mother and the ages of their children and their death, which was preserved by them as long as they lived, and after them was preserved and kept in my possession. In whose hand writing the record was made, I do not know. But that it is genuine, there is no doubt which is [Illegible] with [Illegible].
Sworn to and subscribed the 18th day and date above written.
Thomas Hall 

Wm. P. Hays, JP
State of North Carolina 
Wake County}
I, Thomas J. Utley, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Wake aforesaid, certify that Wm. P. Hays, whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit, was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court at office in Raleigh, this 18th day of August A.D. 1856.
Thomas J. Utley, Clerk
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Robert Hall & Mary Hall was Married the 25th day of May in the year 1780
William Hall was born November the 24th day 1781  & Milly Hall was born the year July the 25th day 1784  & Durram Hall was born October the 29th day 1786  & Susane Hall was born May the 25th day 1789  & Jerey Hall was born July the 4th day 1791  & Robert Hall Junior was born September the 1st day 1793  & Mary Hall was born November the 25th day 1795  & Celzea Hall was born October the 10th day 1799  & Thomas Hall was born April the 26th day year 1802  & Lucy Hall was born February the 17th day 1805 & Dito the same
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Robert Hall Senior was born June [Illegible] the 8th day of 1757
Robert Hall departed this life the 23 day of February 1820
Mary Hall his wife departed this life the [Illegible] day of January 18[Illegible]
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Mary Hall dec.
Widow of Robert
N.C.
George C. Ames Octo 18 1856
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4492
P.O. Mary Hall
Service: Wid. of Robert
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Hon J. Minot
Comm. of Pensions
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Hon J. Minot
Comm. of Pensions
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Washington Oct 10 1856
Hon. J. Minot 
Sir,
Enclosed you will find the declaration and the evidence in support thereof, in the case of Mary Hall, widow of Robert Hall, of North County, N.C.
This claim is made under the act of 7 July 1838, but the evidence shows that Robert Hall was in service after 1780, the date of their marriage, and that Mrs. Hall was entitled under the act of 4 July 1836. I ask therefore that this application may be considered as having been made under that law.
The date of their marriage in 1780 is clearly established by the old family record attached to the declaration, and the payment to Robert Hall as appears from the Comptroller’s Certificate will cover about 9 mo service.
From the testimony of witnesses who are certified to be credible, it is shown that Mrs. Hall’s husband had the [Illegible] of having served in the War of the Revolution and that he belonged to Wake Co. The Comptroller’s Certificate shows that the Robert Hall
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to whom the several payments were made belonged to the Salisbury District, and the record which has been thereby turned up by the Comptroller which I respectfully ask may be returned, proves clearly that the said Hall resided in Wake Co., which proves the identity of Mrs. Hall’s husband with that soldier & I ask therefore that a pension may be granted in this case under the act of 4th July 1836.
Very Respectfully, 
Your Obdt Servt 
Geo. C. Ames