Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5003, Joshua Hill, N.C.
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(3 - 1776) 
SERVICE 			NUMBER
N.C.		Hill, Joshua	R. 5003

Born in Va. 
CONTENTS
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State of South Carolina } S.S.
District of Abbeville       } on this twenty third day of March in the year Eighteen hundred & forty two, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Com. Pleas now sitting Joshua Hill. a resident of said District and State aged Seventy nine next May. 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 in the war of the Revolution and service as herein stated. In 1780 was called out with the militia of N. Carolina under the command of General Rutherford of said State. Col Isaacs Redgment. Capt. Miridith’s Company a little before Joining Gates Army an occurrance took place. A wind & rain came on in the night where we were encamped a tree fell & killed one Warren Walker and badly cripled Lieut Robt Hill my Brother. This happened sometime in July in what is now Cabarrus County of that State. Myself & two others were ordered to bury the dead man & take back my Brother in a litter to a house & nurse him before we could Join the Regular army. Gen Gates was defeated & the expedition ended. the defeat was about the middle of August so that term of my servitude was about one
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month in 1781 following went on the trail of Cornwallis on horse back as a volunteer in Feby into Guilford County of N. Carolina was in a small engagement with a few hundred of militia at the Roody fork of [illegible haroe] River that formed to cover the retreat of Genl Greens baggage wagons. Commanded by a Col. Williams saved the baggage and the fire of the Brittish Cannon & musketry. from thence returned home out about four or five weeks in Sept of the same year, and ordered out again in the Willington expedition on horse as a volunteer under the command of Col Smith of Sailsbury in Capt Wrights Company. returned home in nov of the same year, coming home heard of the capture of Conwallis out this time about two months the term of my servitude four months with the exception of Guarding prisoners Chasing tories to.
Sworn to before me 25 March 1842 in open Court. Jno Livingston @ct
Joshua Hill

ap 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 or if any [illegible ondly] on that of the agency of the State of South Carolina. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year afore
Joshua Hill
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We James M Chiles a Clergyman Residing in the District of Abbeville and State of South Carolina and David Lesly Residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joshua Hill who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age the 26th of May next, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion sworn & subscribed the day & year afore said.
James M Chiles 
David Lesly 

And the said Court do hereby declare this 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 stated and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that  James Molehily who has signed preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the District & State mentioned and that David Lesly is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit 
John F Richardson
[illegible Price Judge] of the State of South Carolina
& John F Levingston Clerk of the court of Common Pleas of Abbeville District South Carolina do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joshua Hill for a pension in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 28th day of March 1842.
Jno F Livingston cep
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Quty 1st Where and in what year were you born?
Ans.- I was born in Carolina County, State of Virginia in May A.D. 1763. 
Quty 2nd Have you any record of your age & where is it? 
Ans.- Has none.
Quty 3rd Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, & where do you now live?
Ans.- I lived when called into service, in Surry County North Carolina; in the year 1785. came to South Carolina, & have lived in South Carolina Abbeville District ever since, & at this time.
Quty 4th How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute? And if a substitute for whom?
Ans.- In the year 1780, I was [illegible returned] by Martin Armstrong Colonel of the Regiment as a volunteer, and as such commanded to go. was a volunteer afterwards under Col Winston in 1781_ afterwards I was a volunteer in the Wilmington Expedition.
Quty 5th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, and if so by whom was it given & what has become of it?
Ans.- Our time was not limited therefore, received no written discharge.
Quty 6th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops, when you served; such continental and Militia Regiment as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
Ans.- General Green, Colonel Lewis,- also of the Militia officers, Col. Winston, Genl Pickens. I was acquainted also with Col. Williams, & in his service, to cover the retreat of Greens baggage wagons. My Declaration will answer this [illegible Ingably], as to the time & manner of service.
Joshua Hill

35,323
L of D.
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Revig Pension claim of Joshua Hill of So. Car. 
Power of atty to
M. Thompson 
File Nov. 15. 1852 [illegible or 1853]
Papers cal for Mr Cole
Nov 30/52
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STATE OF     }
COUNTY OF }

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me 

That                               was a Revolutionary                        of the
United States at the rate of $               per annum, and that                          died on the
                          day of              eighteen hundred and                          leaving surviving 

and that


the only surviving child                  of the aforesaid.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this           day of one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

NOTE. -- If the original Claimant or person in whose right the claim was made, be dead, then there is no use for the above certificate, but simply the power of attorney. But if he or she (as the case may be) be dead, then the exact period of his or her death must appear. If the widow execute the power of attorney it must also appear when the marriage took place, and that she is still a widow. If there be neither father nor mother, the period of the marriage, and of the death of each, must appear; and also, the name or names, of the surviving child or children. If, he, or she, (as the case may be) was a pensioner, state that fact, and also the amount received per annum; but if a claimant merely, state that fact. 
The above certificate must be executed by the Clerk of the Court under his seal of office.
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POWER OF ATTORNEY - Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Joshua Hill
hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint M. THOMPSON, Esq., of Washington City, D. C., my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Joshua Hill for any amount of Revolutionary Penson, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises, and revoking all former powers.

WITNESS my hand and Seal this 25 day October A. D. 1852 
Joshua Hill [seal]

Signed and sealed in the presence of }
S. H. Jones
S. B. Jones
J. Holt

STATE OF South Carolina }
County of Abbeville          } S.S.
On this the Twenty day of October A. D., 1852. before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Joshua Hill and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, }
the day and year aforesaid.                                           }
Williams Trewit
[illegible Mayor]

In this blank, if the Claimant be alive, he will insert his name, and execute the power. If he be dead, the widow, if alive, will insert her name, (stating the fact that she is his widow,) and execute the power. If both be dead, then any one of the children may insert his, or her name, (stating the fact that he or she is the son or daughter) and execute the power. 
If there be neither father, mother, child, or children, then there is no person entitled under the existing rules of the Department, and the power of Attorney need not be executed.
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Claim of 
Act of 

STATE OF S. Carolina       }
County of Abbeville Dist }

Be it Known, That on this the Twenty fifth day of October A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty two, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Johus Hill a resident of Abbeville District in said county, and made oath according to law that he is the identical Joshua Hill who executed the foregoing power of attorney, and that he is directly interested in said claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as said Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and }
           year aforesaid, before                  }
                               J. Peace.                      }
I, Williams Trewit Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that Joshua Hill who executed the foregoing paper, is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth. 
J. Peace.
Williams Trewit

I, Matthew McDonald Clerk of the Com. Pleas Court in the District of Abber State aforesaid, do hereby certify that William Trewit before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said District duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscriber, is his signature. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal, this second day of November A.D. 1852 

Matthew McDonald Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Abbeville District South Carolina.
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Abbeville S.C. Mch 24/42
D. Lesly.
Declaration of Joshua Hill 
for a pension.
L of O. Rec April [illegible 1 or 3] 1842
Pension Office.
S.C.
Act 1832
not [illegible enlisted or entilted]

Honbl. John C. Spencer
Secretary of War
Washington City, D.C.
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Abbeville C.tt.S.d. March 24th 1842

Honble Secretary of War.

I herewith enclose the papers required by law for Mr Hill, who is an applicant for a pension. if he is successfull. You will have the goodness to forward all papers & orders for the amount allowed to me at this place
Respectfully 
D. Lesly.
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S. Carolina
Joshua Hill
Let to D. Lesly 1st April 1842
5003
Act 1832
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873

5003
P.O.
Joshua Hill
Service:
Enlisted: REJECTED , 18..
Discharged:                18..
Application filed:       18..

Alleges:

Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.

___________ Recognized.   _____________ Contract.
_______ Cert. of Dis. Searched for ___________ , 18  .