Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4022, Hugh Gill, Md.
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Md.
Gill, Hugh
Mary
R.4022
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17.549
Pennsylvania

Hugh gill
of mercer 6 in the state of Pennsylvania
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hall of the Maryland line, for the term of 3 years

nscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 19 of May 1818-

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of June 1820 and sent to Alex Brown, Judge, Mercer 6 Penn. 

Arrears to 4th of March 1820. [illegible] 18/31 
Semi-anl. all's ending 4 Sep' 1820 -

$172.64
48.
______
$220.64

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818}
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See letter to R Paxton
Oct 29, 1835 to same and P Cyt Nov 17, 1835
Ower to pay Oct 13, 1837
[illegible] Dec 15, 1837
letter to Hon T. Hough

Let Hon J W Howe
August 20/50

Continued and notification sent to Honorable Robert Moore House of Reps [illegible] 1821
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See letter to R Paxton
Oct 29, 1835 to same and P Cyt Nov 17, 1835
Ower to pay Oct 13, 1837
[illegible] Dec 15, 1837
letter to Hon T. Hough

Let Hon J W Howe
August 20/50

Continued and notification sent to Honorable Robert Moore House of Reps [illegible] 1821
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District of Pennsylvania
Mercer County

On this 2nd day of October 1820 personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the said county Hugh Gill aged sixty-two years, resident in Mercer County in said district on his oath declares and says that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz: that he enlisted on the fifteenth day of August 1777 in Baltimore County in the state of Maryland in the company commanded by Capt. Burges afterwards commanded by Capt. Belt in the fourth Regiment of the Maryland line - the date of his original declaration is the 18th day of May 1818 and the number of his certificate of pension is 17549 - and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property in any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it so as to bring myself within the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities continues in debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. viz.

One old Mare valued at $10.00
1 cow valued at $12.00
3 sheep valued at $4.00
1 calf valued at $3.00
Cheaves and [illegible] valued at $7.50
1 sickle valued at .75
1 plough valued at $2.50
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Harrow teeth valued at $3.00
1 single tree $1.00 and one Sytthe valued at $2.50
1 [illegible] .50 Household property $15.08

This declarant is indebted to upwards of twenty persons amounting to seventy-one dollars and 17/100 cents in the whole, which is more than the amount of his property.

This declarant has a wife aged forty-two years he is by occupation a common laborer but not able to do much labor at present.

Hugh Gill - His X Mark

Sworn to and declared in open court the 2nd day of October 1820

James Miller 

District of Pennsylvania
Mercer County

I James Miller [illegible] of the court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total accounting in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is sixty one dollars and seventy eight cents - In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court the 2nd day of October AD 1820

James Miller Prothonotary
of the Court of Common Pleas of said county
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Mercer

On this twenty fifth day of November one thousand eight hundred and fifty four personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county James Bowman and on his solemn oath doth depose and say that he is the administrator of Mary Gill the widow Hugh Gill who was a soldier of the Revolution War and that the soldiers died on the tenth day of September A.D. 1851 and that Hugh Gill was inscribed on the Pension List Rolls of the Pennsylvania Agency at the  rate of eight dollars a month it commenced on the eighteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred fifty one, and that he served in Captain John ?bell company of  musketeers in the state Maryland Regiment in the Maryland line, that he resided in Mercer County at the  time he drew his first money from the pension Agency and continued to reside there until his death which took place as above stated and that Mary Gill his widow died on the tenth day of January AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three and that she was still his widow at the time of her death. He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the two years and four months pension that would [illegible] to her at that time of her death as said Hugh Gill's widow and that the foresaid Mary Gill lived with said James Bowman until the time of her death which took place as above stated and they left no children.

J Bowman

Sworn and subscribed before me a Justice of the Peace the day and year above written.

Robert P Johnson
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State of Pennsylvania
Mercer County

Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county came Thomas Hays and John McChesney and on their solemn oath doth depose and state that they have been acquainted with the before mentioned Hugh Gill and Mary Gill his wife and knew them to live together as Husband and wife in their life time and that they were always so reputed in their neighborhood where they lived and that they both died as stated in the foregoing petition and that she was his widow at the time of her death we have been acquainted them for near fifty years and know the aforesaid Hugh Gill to draw a pension from the United States during his lifetime and believe his widow never drew any except the arears of his pension that was due at the time of his death.

Thomas Hays
John McChesney
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written.

Robert P Johnson - Justice of the Peace

State of Pennsylvania
County of Mercer

Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county cam William McMiller and on his solemn oath doth depose and say that he was acquainted with the before mentioned Hugh Gill and Mary Gill his wife in Fayette County Pennsylvania and had understood by her father Robert McGill that they were married and he thinks this was before the year 1800 and lived together as husband and wife and was always [illegible] until the death of Hugh Gill and that they left no children.

{illegible]

Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written 

Robert P Johnson Justice of the Peace
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Mercer

Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county came James G Smith and on his solemn oath doth depose and say that on the tenth day of January 1853 I received a measure for a coffin for Mary Gill and that on the eleventh I attended the funeral with the corpse of the deceased - I have always understood that the deceased was the widow of Hugh Gill a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

James G Smith

Sworn and subscribed before me this twenty-ninth day of November 1854
James G Smith

State of Pennsylvania
Mercer County

D W Findley Protonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county and state aforesaid do certify that Robert P Johnson and James Throop Esqrs before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken were at the time of taking the same acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified and that to all there official acts full faith and credit is and ought to be given and that the several signatures "Robert P Johnson" "David Throop" hereto subscribed are the true and genuine signatures of the aforesaid Robert P Johnson and James Throop Esquires. Given under my hand and the seal of said county this 4th day of December AD 1854

D W Findley
Prothonotary
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State of Pennsylvania
Mercer County

SEAL

I hereby certify that James Bowman Esq did on the 13th day of Nov AD 1854 apply for and receive from me letters of administration on the estate of Mary Gill late of Greene Township, Mercer County dec'd and that he is at the present time the acting administrator of said estate with full power to settle the same and do all acts appertaining to the same. Given under my hand and seal of office at Mercer this 4th day of Dec AD 1854

Joseph Alexander
Register
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June 10/52
Appl of Mary
Gill widow of 
Hugh

Hon J W Howe
H of R
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State of Pennsylvania Mercer County

On this third day of June 1851 personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer County which is a court of Record Mary Gill a resident of Greene Township Mercer County Pennsylvania aged seventy-five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the several acts of congress granting pay to the widows of Revolutionary soldiers - that she was married to Hugh Gill who was a private int he Revolutionary Army and to whom a certificate of pension was granted of which the following is a true copy.

"War department - Revolutionary Claim"
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th of march 1818 Hugh Gill who was a private in the army of the Revolution is inscribed on the pension list roll of the Pennsylvania Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the eighteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen given at the war office of the United States this twenty first day of June one thousand eight hundred and twenty.

Seal of War Office

J C Calhoun
Secretary of war

Registered in Book B Volume 7 Page 99 by F Wright - Clerk"

She further declares that she was married to the said Hugh Gill on the third day of December in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-five that her husband the aforesaid Hugh Gill died on the tenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and fifty and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference
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to the proof hereto annexed.

Mary Gill - Her X Mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me.

W. Waugh - Associate Judge

Witness Present - B F Baskin and S Campbell

State of Pennsylvania Mercer County

On the third day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the court of Common Pleas of Mercer County, Martha Moreland aged seventy years who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that she was personally acquainted with Hugh Gill and with his widow Mary Gill. That she was present at the marriage of said Hugh Gill and his wife Mary Gill - that they were married in Fayette County Pennsylvania on the third day of December one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five and that she has known them ever since that time and that they lived together as husband and wife from that period up to the time of his death which occurred on the tenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and fifty i Greene Township Mercer County Pennsylvania and that the said Mary Gill has continued and still does dontinue the widow of the said Hugh Gill from the period of his death up until the present time.

Martha Moreland

Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written.

W Waugh - Associate Judge

Witness Present - B F Baskin and S Campbell
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Mercer County

I D W Findley, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer County do hereby certify that William Waugh who signed the foregoing affidavits was at the time of taking the same an associate judge of the court of Common Pleas of said county, duly commissioned and qualified and that I am acquainted with his signature and the signature to the foregoing affidavits purporting to be his are genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said office this twelfth day of March AD 1832

D W Findley - Prothonotary
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July 14, 1933

Hugh Gill
R.4022
BA-J/MLB

Eugenie Coulter
620 South Center Street
Grove City, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:

The date contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim R.4022 based upon the revolutionary war service of Hugh Gill.

The date and place of soldier's birth and names of his parents are not shown in the claim.

Hugh Gill enlisted August 15 or 19, 1777 in Baltimore County, Maryland, and served as a private in Captains Joseph Burgess', John Sprigg Belt's and Spurrier's companies, Colonel hall's 4th Maryland regiment, was in the battles of Germantown, Monmouth, the storming of Stony Point, and was discharged August 15 or 19 1780.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 18, 1818 at which time he was aged sixty-two years and a resident of Mercer County, Pennsylvania.

He died September 10, 1850, in Greene Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.

Hugh Gill married December 3, 1795, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Mary the daughter of Rober McGill.

In 1851, soldier's widow, Mary, was seventy-five years of age and residing in Greene Township, Pennsylvania, where she died January 10, 1855, at the home of James Bowman (no relationship to family stated).

It is not stated in the claim whether Hugh Gill and his wife, Mary, had nay children, but none survived them.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873

4022
REJECTED

Mary Gill
Widow of Hugh

1933, July 13 - Hist to Eugenie Coulter (Rev Warin claim S.22597 of Jas Williamson
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No. 54
Mary Gill wid
of Hugh 
PA - 1852

4 lines scratched out some of which says
" Rejected Let Thomas Hages Dec 11/54
J Bowman March 16, 1855"
followed by 4022
Act 2 Feby 1868
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Hugh Gill Priv Pension $8 per month
To what time last paid
Pension Office 15th Dec 1837

Note 4 Sept 1835 J.H.
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Auditor's Office, Annapolis, June 19th -1820.

I hereby certify, that it appears from the muster-rolls remaining in the Auditor's Office, that Hugh Gill-----enlisted as a private--in the 4th---Maryland Regiment, on the 19th---day of August 1777--and was discharged on the 19th August --1780

Thos. Karney -A.G.S. Md.
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J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
War Office
Washington City

Mail Stamp - Phila 25 Oct

Oct 27 
Hugh Gill 
Act 1818
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Philadelphia Oct 24, 1835

J.L. Edwards Esqr
Respected Friend

Enclosed I hand you power of atty from Hugh Gill on which payment has been refused in consequence of leaving said over two years.
Application has been made by me two or three times before now but owing to some informality it had to be returned, have the goodness to return it to me and if [illegible] with the rules of the Department instruct the U S Bank to pay it.

Respectfully your friend

Richard Paxton
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Hugh Gill
16542
Hugh Gill
Maryland Line
Mercer Co Pennsy
4 Rgt Col Hall

15 August 1777
15 August 1780

1st application
18 May 1818

The Auditor General of Maryland is requested to furnish evidence from the rolls of this applicant's service.

Alexr Brown, Judge
Mercer, Penns
rec'd 4 March 1820
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District of Pennsylvania
Mercer County

On this 29th day of Jan 1820 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and General Quarter sessions in and for said county in said district personally appeared Hugh Gill aged sixty-two years resident in Mercer County, PA who being by me duly sworn according to law doth on his solemn oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" that he said Hugh Gill enlisted for the term of three years on the 15th of August 1777 in Baltimore County in the state of Maryland in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Burges of the regiment commanded by Colonel Hall of the 4th Regiment in the Maryland line on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States until the 15th day of August 1780 at Ridgley's Mill in South Carolina when he was discharged from service by Col. Hall. That he was in the battles of Germantown, Monmouth, at the storming of Stoney Point by Gen'l Wayne and then he was marched to South Carolina and that at the time he was discharged he was commanded by Captain Spunneons his former Capt. Belt having been taken prisoner. Spunneons at that time had the command of both companies and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his county for support, and to corroborate this statement he says Capt. Lieut Thruman was wounded on the forehead and Lieutenant Bawley was wounded in the right knee and Wm Bingley was wounded on the head but slight at the battle of Germantown - that this is all the testimony now in his power but if this is not sufficient proof, old and poor
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as he is determined to go down to Baltimore County where he believes and is positive he will find proof enough.

Hugh Gill - His X Mark

Swornand his mark made before me this day and year written 29th January AD 1820

A Brown

Mercer County

Personally, came before me Alexander Brown one of the judges in and for said county. John Moreland and James Dowlin who being duly sworn respectively deposeth and saith that they are well acquainted with the applicant and his circumstances and that they are well assured they are such that he stands much in need of the assistance of his county for support.

John Moreland
James Dowlin - His X Mark

Sworn and subscribed before me this 29th day of Jan AD 1820

A. Brown

I Alexander Brown, one of the Judges in said for Mercer County District of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Hugh Gill did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of more than nine months in continuance on the continental establishment and I now transmitthe proceedings and testimony taken before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.

I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his county for support.
The date of his final application is the 18th of May 1818. Given under my hand and seal [illegible]
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This fifteenth day February A.D. 1826

A Brown  (Seal)

Pennsylvania
Mercer County

I James Nelson Register and Recorder in and for the County of Mercer do hereby Certify that Alexander Brown before whom the foregoing proceeding were had was the and now is a Associate Judge of said County as appears to me of Record Given under my hand and Seal of Office at Mercer this 18th day of Feby 1820---

Hon James Nelson Recd
Jon Hubers
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J. Bowman
March 16/55
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Pension Office
Mar 16. 1855

Sir
In answer to your letters of the 8th instant, inquiring as to the claims of Mary Gill, deceased, widow of Hugh, of Pennsylvania.
I have to inform you that none but the widows or children of Revolutionary soldiers or the children of the widows are entitled to arrears of their pensions; and as Mary Gill left no children, her heirs are not entitled to arrears, even if a pension had been due her in her life time.
Mr. Thomas Hayes was informed of this decision of the case by my letter of the 14th of December last.

J. Bowman Esq
Jamestown
PA.
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Pension Office
March 22 1855

Sir.

  I herewith return the letter of Mr. Bowman and have the honor to inform you the the clerk referred to by him.  Mary Gill of PA. was reported to him on the 11th  Mar. since the date of his letter to you.


Hon M C Trout
?
PA
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Nov 11


J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Philadelphia Nov 13 1835

J L Edwards Esqr

I have repeated called at US Bank relative to Hugh Gill's Pension, they have not received any instructions from you respecting it presuming it is an oversight on your part. Allow me to call your attention to it.

Respectfully your friend
Richard Paxton
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Free
Thos Henry

[Circular mail stamp:
WASHINGTON
DEC
13
[illegible]

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of
Pensions

Hn T. Henry
HR
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House of Representatives 
Dec 13th 1837

Der Sir,
I am requested to receive your order for the payment of the within pensions at Philadelphia.
 Will you have the ? to make such order and return the same to me.

Very Respectfully

Thos Henry


Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Washington
Aug 14, 1850

Col J.L. Edwards

Dear Sir

I enclose to you a letter from W Gibson making inquiry about the plight of Hugh Gill for a pension. Will you expedite the case and with the [illegible] with the original.

In Sickness I have the honor to be your friend
J W Howe
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Hon JW Howe
Aug 23 1852
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306

Pension Office
Aug 23 1832

Sir
The application of Mary Gill, widow of Hugh of PA has been received and filed under the act of 2nd Febry 1848, and I have the honor to inform you that before her claim open be allowed.
The must furnish proof of her marriage prior to 1800.  Application there be made to the clerk of the County in which she was married for such evidence as the she may provide of the date of that event, or to the clerk of the town in which she lived at that time, or there may be a Church Registry showing its date, or she may provide a family record of her marriage or of the birth of her children.  The evidence of this ? cannot be obtained then she must establish the date of marriage by the testimony of living  kinship.
Hon JW Howe H....
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Pension Office
December 14 1854

Sir,
The additional proof transmitted by you in suppress of a decision for assess of pension suppose to the one Mary Gill, widow as of July 29, 1848, as the widow of Hugh Gill, a revolutionary pensioner, has been examined together with the ? in his original application.  Whether the widow, if now living, would be entitled to pension under the aforesaid act, and would depend upon the date of her marriage; but it is not necessary now to decide whether the proof is satisfactory that she was married before January 1800, as the evidence now addressed discover the fact that she left no children surviving her. N one other are entitled to the stipend which would have been due her.  The claim is rejected.
Thomas Hages, Esq
Green Township
Mercer County, PA.
Very respectfully
SC

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Jamestown, March 8th, /55

Hon L P Waldo

Dear Sir

I beg to inform you that about the 5th or 6th of Dec last I forwarded by mail to the Pension office documents in application for two years and four months pensions for Mary Gill deceased "Widow of Hugh Gill a soldier of the Revolutionary" and have not received any communication from you informing me whether the documents reached your office or not. You will therefore much oblige me by letting me know whether you have had the papers and if so whether the claim meets your favorable consideration or otherwise. I am acting in this capacity of administrator of the Estate of Mary Gill hence the necessity of my ascertaining as soon as possible the validity or otherwise of the claim. By replying to the above you will much oblige your most obedient servant.

J Bowman

PS - Address J Bowman Jamestown, Mercer County PA.  J.B.
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Greene Township, Mercer County Pennsylvania

November 25th 1854

Hon L P Waldo, Commissioner of Pensions in Washington City D.C.

Enclosed I send you the petition of James Bowman the Administrator of Mary Gill the widow of Hugh Gill a deceased soldier of the Revolutionary war I consider the deposition of William McMiller as good proof of the marriage as I put it in his own words, the deposition of Martha Moreland was sent to your office to prove that Mary Gill was married to the said Hugh Gill before the year AD 1800. I expect that deposition is on file in your office, it was sent for the purpose of issuing the last six months and six days pay that was due the old soldier at the time of his death, if it is there it will help to make the proof stronger. The 48 dollars was received by Mary Gill but not the [illegible]. Please direct to James Bowman, Jamestown Post Office Mercer County Pennsylvania.

With respect your friend...Thomas Hays

PS - The pension certificate of Hugh Gill was surrendered to the Pennsylvania Agency for the purpose of drawing the last six months' pay that was due at the time of his death.

T.H.
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July 13, 1935

Hugh Gill R.4022
James Williamson, S.22597
BA-J/MLB

Eugenie Coulter
620 South Center Street
Grove City, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Hugh Gill, a pensioner of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and of James Williamson, a pensioner of Greene County, Pennsylvania.

Their histories are furnished herewith as found in claims for pension based upon their service in the Revolutionary War.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator