Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,894, James Hall, New York
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New York      Hall, James     S.44,894
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(2,837)
New York
James Hall private 
in York line and
Capt Parsony
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 6th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th of September and sent to T Wendall Esq. Albany New York.
Arrears to the 4th of September 1818 39.73
Semi-anl;. all'ee ending 21 March 1819 48.
Van Schaick 87.73
Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818
One year
1777 - to clery

Notifecation sent to H Wendall Eng. 26 July 1820 Albany NY
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James Halls
Pension documents
Dated April 6th 1818
(count
New York Line
Correct - on the Rous
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United States of America
State of New York City and County of Albany. To wit:
In conformity with the provisions of the Act of the Congress of the United States of America, passed March 18th, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United "States in the Revolutionary War," the following DECLARATION, in writing, is made under oath, by James Hall of the city of Albany, in the county of Albany in the state of New York before the Honorable Philip S Parker Esquire, one of the Judges of the Mayors Court of the city of Albany in the said state, which Court is a Court of Record of the County and State, in which the said James Hall doth reside, that is to say:

DECLARATION.
I James Hall of the city of Albany in the county of Albany in the state of New York on this sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, Do solemnly, sincerely and truly swear and declare, that I served against the common enemy in the Army, in the War of the Revolution, until the end thereof and that I am a resident Citizen of the United States, to wit, in the City – County and State aforesaid; and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I am in need of assistance from my country for support. I do further swear and declare, that I served in the said Revolutionary War, in the capacity of, and being a private soldier that I belonged to the Army, to wit, I belonged to Captain Parsons Company, Col Van Sehaicks Regiment and New York Line – That. centered said service the fifteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seen and left it the end of the war in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and Eighty three in the manner following, to wit: I left it by reason if the conclusion of the War, that I received one document concerning the same service and discharge, which had been casually lost or destroyed and that there is no other evidence in my power to my knowledge, concerning the matters deposed by me than Nicholas Boom who has made a deposition accompanying this Declaration – And I further declare, that in pursuance of the requisitions of the aforesaid Act of Congress, I do hereby freely and absolutely, and to all intents and purposes, relinquish all claims to any Pension under any of the Laws of the United States, except the Pension contemplated to be allowed me under the Act of Congress aforesaid mentioned, and under which this Declaration is made.
IN WITNESS of the truth of this Declaration, I have subscribed the same in presence of the said Judge, and have solemnly deposed o the truth thereof, on the day herein before, for that purpose, specified.
Sworn before me, the Sixth day of April 1818

Philip F. Paines ???
Judge of the Mayor [unintelligible] Albany

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James x Hall
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United States of America
By the Honorable Philip S. Parker
Esquire, one of the Judges of a Court of
Record in the State of New-York, to wit, of
the Mayors Court, of the City of
Albany in the said State.

To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States of America.

SIR,
I do respectfully certify to you, in pursuance of the Act of the Congress of the United States of America, passed March 18th, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and "Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," that James Hall of the City of Albany in the County of Albany and State of New-York,
personally appeared before me, at the City of Albany, in the said State, on the Sixth day of
April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and then and there was carefully and minutely interrogated and examined by me under oath, touching the facts stated in his foregoing Declaration,
and thereupon he then and there subscribed the said Declaration in my presence, (after the same was deliberately read and explained to him by me) and at the same time made solemn oath before me, on the Holy Evangelists of
Almighty God, that the said Declaration was, in all respects, true -- Whereupon, I required of him to produce such other evidence as was in his power, to support the truth of his said Declaration -- Accordingly he produced as testimony,
The deposition of Nicholas Boorn--

(and which accompanies this Certificate) -- and I having duly considered the said Declaration and the said testimony produced in support thereof, I DO CERTIFY to you, Sir, that I am fully satisfied that the said James Hall -- did serve in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, for the time and in the manner by him stated in his said DECLARATION and I am likewise satisfied, that the other facts in that Declaration stated, are in like manner, true -- I do therefore, respectfully transmit to you the
testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, according to the Act of Congress aforesaid.
GIVEN under my Hand and the seal of the said court at the city of Albany, the sixth day of April
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Philip S. Parker
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State of New York
City of Abany [illegible]

Nicholas Boorn late a soldiers in the army of the United States, in the Revolutionary War, against the Common Enemy, being clu[illegible] from faith, that he knows. James Hall the soldier in the preceding Declaration Certificate of his Honor Judge Parker named; _ and that the paid James Hall served as a private soldier in Captain Parsons Company Col Van Schaicks Regiment, New York Line_ and that he verilly believes the facts stated by the paid James Hall in the foregoing Declaration and Certificate to be true.

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Nicolas X Boorn
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[illegible] Before use this
6th day of April 1818.
Philip Parker [illegible] and Judge of [illegible] Court of Albany.
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James Hall
Albany
2837
24 Sept 1818. 
Notification [illegible]
H. [illegible]
Albany N.Y
July 26, 1820. 
[illegible]
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District of New York Court of Common Pleas
City & County of Albany [illegible] - On this 14th day of June 1820. personally appeared, in open court, being a Court of Record, in and for the City & County of Albany, James Hall [illegible] aged seventy five years in May last, a resident in the city of Albany, in said district, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, in Capt. Parsons Company; Col Van Schaicks Regiment of Infantry, in the New York line and that the date of his original declaration is the sixth day of April 1818 that his Pension Certificate is numbered Two thousand eight hundred and thirty seven. 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 or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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"[illegible] on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. And this deponent further saith, that he has no occupation, and that he lives with his daughter, whose husband has left her, with a family for which he has to provide, and that by daily labour. And this deponent further saith that he is too infirm and weak to perform manual labour and consequently needs assistance from his country for support having no other property. than his necessary wearing his apparel Sworn to and declared on the 14th day of June 1820 before [illegible] James Hall mark 

State of New York 
City & County of Albany
I Henry Truax Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said City and County, do hereby certify, that the foregoing affidavit and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court; that the total amount in value, of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is worth nothing except exceptions; In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, on this 7th day of July, 1820
Henry Truax Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
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Rev. and 1812 
Wars Section.
April 12, 1927 
Miss Mabel Stewart
116 W. Seventh Ave
Flint, Mich
Madam: I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 44894, it appears that James Hall was born in May 1745, place not stated. He enlisted February 15, 1777 and served as a private in Captain Parsons' Company, Colonel Van Schaick's New York Regiment, and was discharged in 1783. He was allowed pension on his application executed April 6, 1818, while a resident of Albany, New York. In 1820, he stated that he was living with a daughter, whose husband had left her with a family, no names are given, and there is no further data on file as to family. The above noted James Hall is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records,
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of this Bureau, who served in the New York Troops. From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim of John Hall (S. 13334) it appears that he was born May 9, 1758 at Peekskill, New York, and when pensioned in 1832, he was a resident of Warwick, New York. Names of his parents not on file. From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim of Stephen Hall (W. 19678) it appears that he was born June 22, 1760 at Peekskill, New York, and when pensioned in 1832, he was living in Warwick, New York. Names of his parents not on file. The Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Reuben Hall, who served in the New York Troops. 
Respectfully 
WINFIELD SCOTT 
Commissioner.
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U. S. Pension Office
F
Feb 17 1927

116 West Seventh Avenue,
Flint, Michigan,
February 14, 1927. 

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.,
Dear Sir: - As neither your records nor those at Albany, N.Y., give positive proof of the Revolutionary service of my James Hall, buried at Mapes Corners', near Goshen, Orange Co., N.Y. (tombstone gives the battles he fought in the Revolution, "Long Island, Fort Montgomery and Trenton"), I am trying to find out some things through his supposed brothers, Stephen Hall, who was a pensioner, of the Revolutionary War, and a prisioner in the old Sugar House in New York; and John Hall, also a pensioner. This "John Hall, was Fife-Major in the Fourth Orange County Regiment N.Y. Militia. He is buried on a knoll on the Raynor Farm back of Raynor House, on the Warwick Mountains about three miles from Warwick, Orange County, N.Y. He received a pension of $152.00 a year from the United States Goverment." I had this information from a descendant of this John Hall, who "always understood that there were three Hall brothers, John, James and ------" 
Miss Laura Bradner, of Warwick, Orange Co., N.Y., writes me that she is a descendant of this third brother, Stephen Hall, who received a pension. Please give me any data you may have in connection with these brothers, who did receive pensions, John and Stephen, especially anything about there parentage, or place of residences, birthplaces etc. The trouble in distinguishing my James Hall's Revolutionary services, is, that Albany and Goshen records were burned, and there was at least one other James Hall in the Rev. from N. Y. (our James Hall died 1813 - pensions not gain until 1818?) Mr. J. W. Gott, Attorney of Goshen, Orange Co., N.Y., says if your ancestor fought at Trenton, N.J., he must have enlisted in one of the regiments of the Line after his services in the Militia expired....Orange Co., Militia fought at Fort Montgomery and Minisink but the Militia were enlisted for short terms of service. The name of James Hall occurs in two regiments of the Line who were called outside of the State of N. Y., to take part in the War. It may be that one or both of them were the same James Hall who had originally been in the Militia."
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As I have written you before, and my Mother before that, we feel sure that the record of James Hall, on page 164, "New York in the Revolution", Orange County Militia, 4th Regiment, belongs to our James Hall, and that probably some of the other references to a James Hall, also belong to our James Hall. ("Our James Hall was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, under Washington's immediate command, in that terrible Valley Forge Campaign, the tombstone in Orange County, has the inscription on it of the battles he was in", from a letter in 1882, to my Mother, Frances McQuigg Stewart, from her uncle, Gilbert Lewis Hall, New Orleans, Louisana.) I hope that your records of John Hall, the Fife-Major in Fourth Orange Co., N.Y. Militia, and those of his brother, Stephen, who was also a pensioner, will throw some light on their parents names, at least. Miss Bradner (descendant of Stephen Hall, above) thinks that probably the name of the father of these three brothers (John, Stephen, James) was Reuben Hall. [illegible] 
Shall I send you any money for your trouble? Respectfully, (Miss) Mabel Stewart

U.S. Pension Office
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Feb 17 1927
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1927 Apr. 12. [illegible] to Mabel Stewart [illegible]

44894
Reg INVALID.
File No. 44.894
James Hall
Priv. Rev. War.
Act: 18 March 1818.
Index: Vol. 3, Page 213
[Arrangement of 1870.]