Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16138, Hezekiah Hall, Continental (Conn.)
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Service Continental (Conn)
Hall, Hezekiah
Number S16138
Carded
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32 992
Ohio Clev
Hezekiah Hall decd of [blank] in the State of [blank] who was Sergt. in the [unreadable] commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the Revolution line for Continental 

Inscribed on the Roll of Cleveland at the rate of 240 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. (Unreadable name) 1834

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Feb 1852 and sent to B B Chapman

Arrears to the 4th of Elyrin O.
Semi-anl. allowance ending

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Rn. McRae, Clerk,
Vol. 8 Page 26
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State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County
Supreme Court} ss.
On this ninth day of August 1826, personally appeared in open court, being a court of Record for the county and state aforesaid, Hezekiah Hall of Newburgh in said county, aged sixty nine years and [illegible], who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820.
That he the said Hezekiah Hall first enlisted in the town of Wallingford, in the County of New Haven in the state of Connecticut, in the month of March 1777 in the company of Capt. William Mills in the Regiment of Col. Jeduthan Baldwin. Capt. Mills afterwards left the service, and Nathaniel Clark was the Captain of said company. The aforesaid Regiment was a Regiment of Artificus. I enlisted during the war and served four years and two months without ever leaving the army. I was then sent home after deserters and was taken sick and lingered about a year, entirely unable to join the army. I wrote to my captain my situation, and received his answer not to return unless I gained my health and became rugged and hearty. I did not regain my health until after the close of the war, and did not return, and therefore never received a discharge, and the letter I received from my Captain not to return without I gained my health, has been lost by time or accident. When I left the army to go in search of deserters I was stationed
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at New Windsor, a little above West Point in the State of N. York. Not usually bearing arms, as I belonged to the [illegible], I was only in one Battle, which was called the Battle of Germantown, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, except the affidavit of Living Eddy and the warrant of his Col. Jeduthan Baldwin. And in pursuance of the Act of May 1st 1820 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 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 services 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, constructs or debts, due to me, nor have I any income other than what is in the schedule hereto annexed contained, and by me subscribed.

Schedule of my Property.
I have fifty dollars a year due to me from my third son John Hall during my life, which with some difficulty I have, as yet, and probably shall be able to obtain from year to year. I have one black mare, worth about thirty dollars, and no other property real or personal, necessary
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clothing and bedding excepted. By occupation I am a farmer but am so infirm as to be able to do but little. I have a wife that lives with me, in tolerable health, aged about fifty six. I have no children living with me, and further I say not.
Hezekiah Hall

Sworn to & declared on the ninth day of August 1826, in open court.
Before me, Horace Perry Clerk Supreme Court.

The State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County ss} I Horace Perry Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio within and for said county, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of said court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is forty dollars exclusion of the fifty dollars a year due to him from his son John Hall. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Cleveland the twenty first day of September Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty six.
Horace Perry Clerk Supreme Court
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State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County} ss.
On the seventh day of November A.D. 1837 before the Court of Common Pleas of the county and state aforesaid, personally appeared John Hall a resident of the township of Rockport in said Cuyahoga County & state of Ohio aged fifty-three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That himself and Simeon Hall and Keziah Woolsey of Willoughby Lake County Ohio are the only surviving children of Hezekiah Hall deceased late of said County of Cuyahoga Ohio who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under act of Congress passed March 18th 1818 at the rate of ninety-six dollars per annum and died in said County of Cuyahoga and state of Ohio on the third day of August A.D. 1834 and at his death left a widow whose name was Margaret Hall to whom he was married at Newburgh in said Cuyahoga County Ohio on the 11th day of August A.D. 1825. That said Margaret Hall died in the township of Bedford in said Cuyahoga County on the 8th day of July A.D. 1849 & was a widow at her death & left as the only surviving children of the aforesaid Hezekiah Hall the following named persons to wit John Hall this declarant, Simeon Hall and Keziah Woolsey aforenamed. That said Hezekiah Hall pensioner enlisted into the service of the United States to serve during the war and did the duties of an Artificer and some period of his service acted as Orderly Sergeant and declarant asks that his said pension be increased to the full pay allowed an Artificer or an Orderly Sergeant of the Artificer Corps and that the said increase be made payable to John Hall, Simeon Hall and Keziah Woolsey only surviving children of said Hezekiah Hall deceased.
John Hall

Subscribed and sworn to in open court, this 7th day of November A.D. 1851. Roland D Noble, Deputy Clerk of Cuyahoga Common Pleas
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The State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County, ss} Court of Common Pleas October term, A.D. 1834 Term commencing Oct 6, 1834.

"At this term came Margaret Hall and by the oaths of Levi Hall and Johnathan Lapham proved to the satisfaction of the Court that she is the widow of Hezekiah Hall late of the County of Cuyahoga and late a pensioner of the United States who departed this life on the third day of August A.D. 1834 and who claims herself entitled to the amount of pension money due to her late husband. And the Court declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter that the said Margaret Hall is the widow of said Hezekiah Hall and further certify that it appears to them that Levi Hall & Jonathan Lapham witnesses above named are residents of this county and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit"
The State of Ohio, Cuyahoga County, ss.
I, Robert F. Paine, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said county, hereby certify the foregoing to be fully and truly copied from the Records of said Court.
Witness my signature and seal of office, at Cleveland, in said County this 7th day of November A.D. 1834.
Robert F. Paine, Clerk
By Roland D. Noble, Deputy
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State of Ohio
Cuyahoga}ss. 
At a session of the Court of Common Pleas of the county and state aforesaid held at Cleveland in said county on the seventh day of November A.D. 1851 personally appeared John Hall of said county and on his oath subscribed his declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and by the affidavits of Stephen Lapham, Benjamin Woolsey and S. W. Tarbell who are persons entitled to credit, proved to the satisfaction of the Court that Hezekiah Hall late of the county of Cuyahoga and state of Ohio was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the rate of ninety-six dollars per annum and died in said county of Cuyahoga on the third day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty four and at his death left a widow whose name was Margaret Hall to whom he was married in said county of Cuyahoga and state of Ohio in the year eighteen hundred and twenty five and that said Margaret Hall died in the township of Bedford in said Cuyahoga county on the eighth day of July in the year eighteen hundred and forty nine and was a widow at her death and left as the only surviving children of said Hezekiah Hall the following named persons to wit - John Hall of Rockport in said Cuyahoga County, Simeon Hall and Keziah Woolsey of Willoughby Lake County Ohio. And it is ordered that the clerk certify to the same under the seal of this court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventh day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty one.
Robert F. Paine, Clerk.
By Roland D. Noble, Deputy
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3-525

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington, D. C., __________, 19____

S. F. 16138

In reply to your request of _________, received _________ for a statement of the military history of Hezekiah Hall a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

[column titles]
Dates of Enlistment or Appointment
Length of Service
Rank
Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered
State

March 1777 4 yrs 2 mos, Artificer, Captain William Mills and Nathaniel Clark, Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin, Conn.

Battles engaged in, Germantown
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted at Wallingford, New Haven Co, Conn.
Date of application for pension, Aug 9 1826 His claim was al.
Residence at date of application, Newburgh, Cuyahoga Co Ohio
Age at date of application, 69 yrs. He died Aug 8, 1834 in Cuyahoga Co Ohio
Remarks: In 1821, this wife Relefa was alive. He married Aug 11, 1825 at Newburgh, Ohio Margaret, maiden name not stated. She died July 8, 1849 in Bedford Township Cuyahoga Co Ohio. In 1851, John Hall aged 53 yrs a resident of Rockport Ohio. Simeon Hall and Keziah Woolsey both of Willoughby Ohio were the only surviving children of the soldier.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Declaration 
+
Warrant
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20,115

Revoly claim

Hez. Hall Ohio

service admitted by Mr. Beall

Suspended for want of proof as to property.
See letter to claimant 29 January 1827

See letter to the claimant at Newburg, Ohio, May 10, 1827 and to Lewis Dille Esq 8th Sept 1827

Recd 3rd Jany 1827

Hon. M. Bartley
HR

See letter to Hon M. Bartley H. R. 4 January 1828
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[various sums]

3112
71:.2

265
179
.66

23.4
5
187.10
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Jeduthan Baldwin Esq.
Lt Colonel Commandant
of a Regiment of Artificers raised by the United States of North America to Hezekiah Hall forth Serg of a Company of Artificers under Col Jeduthan Baldwins Regiment of Artificers in the service of the United States of American commanded by Capt Nathaniel Clark [illegible] reposing especial power and confidence in your [illegible] and good conduct, I do by there presents appoint you a Serg to the said company of Artificers in the service of the United States you are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a [illegible] Serg by doing and performing all manner of duty belonging thereunto and I do strictly charge and require all non commissioned officers and soldiers under your command to be obedient to your orders as a sergt and you are to observe and [illegible] any from time to time as you shall receive from me or any of your superior officers according to the rules and regulations of said regiment in pursuance of the trust reposed in you forwith this that to your [illegible] warrant.
Given under my hand and seal at Morris Town.
April 1 1780
J Baldwin Col of Engineer
Lieut Col Con of Artificers
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Hezekiah hall
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January 13, 1930

Miss Elive E. Reeve
Willoughby
Ohio

Dear Madam
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.16138, it appears that Hezekiah Hall, while residing at Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut, enlisted in March, 1777, as a private in Captain William Mills' Company, Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin's Regiment of Artificers, April 1, 1780 was appointed first sergeant in Captain Nathaniel Clark's Company in the same regiment, was in the battle of Germantown and served four years and two months.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 9, 1826, at which time he was aged sixty-nine years and resided at Newburgh, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

He died August 3, 1834, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

In 1821, soldier's wife, Relefa, was living, her maiden name, dates of their marriage and her death not given.

The soldier married August 11, 1825, at Newburgh, Ohio, Margaret, her maiden name not given. In 1826, he stated that this wife was aged fifty-six years.

She died July 8, 1849, in Bedford Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

In 1851, John Hall, aged fifty-three years, a resident of Rockport, Ohio, Simeon Hall and Keziah Woolsey, both of Willoughby, Ohio, were the only surviving children.
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The above is the history of the only soldier named Hezekiah Hall found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Very truly yours
Earl D. Church
Commissioner.
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Hist
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[middle section]
I 16138
INVALID.

File No. 16138
Hezekiah Hall
Sergt Rev War

Act June 7th 32

Index: Vol. 1, Page 164

(Arrangement of 1870.)

[right section, right side is cut off]
1893 - May 18
to Elizabeth B.
Dec Mo

1909 Feby 24 Hist to Hon John A. T. Hall 

1920 June 15 Hist to Mrs H Blakeslee

1930 Jan 18 Hist to Miss Olive E. Reeve
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No 38135
Power of Attorney in case of Hezekiah Hall of Ohio 
Pension under act of 1818

Hezekiah Hall decd
O
Act 7 June 1837

Adm 2 yrs Sgt of Artificers
$240 per annum.

deduc'g former payts under Act of 18 March 1818 at $96.9 per annum
com'g 4 March 1831 & ending 3 August 1834,
payable to 
John Hall,
Simeon Hall &
Keziah Woolsey, only 
surviving children

Cl;eveland

Ex K B B Chapman 
[illegible]
Nov 28 Ohio
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[illegible month] 19 1882

Ohio Pittsburgh Agency
Hezekiah Hall

of Cuyahoga in the State of Ohio who was an artificer in the company commanded by Captain Clark of the regiment commanded by Colonel Baldwin in the Connecticut line, for the term of during the war from March 1777 to April 178[?] Continental 

Inscribed in the Roll of Ohio Pittsburgh agency at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 26 day of January 1828

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th of March 1828 and sent to Hon M. Bartley House of Representatives

Arrears to 4th of March 1828    10.58
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1828   48.00
____________________
$58.58

{Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820,}
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Dept of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

[postal stamp] PENSION OFFICE U.S. NOV 11 1929
Dear sir, 
I wish the Revolutionary records of Hezekiah Hall born 1756  Died [crossed out 1832] 1832 buried in Willoughby, Ohio.
As the name Hezekiah Hall who fought in the Revolutionary War is the only one I think can be found. I am finding the above for Dr. Geo Hall Reeve of Cleveland, Ohio.
Very truly,
(Miss) Olive E Reeve
Willoughby Ohio
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[stamped]
FILE WITH CASE
For Advice through desk.

[stamped] 
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER
ANSWERED
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[written]
630-41st St
Des Moines IA

Feb 15-1909

Hon J. A. T. Hull
Washington D.C.

16138

Dear Sir
I am anxious to get, in the earliest time possible, a record of the birth, death & marriage (if possible) & the army services of my great grandfather Hezekiah Hall. He was I believe a sergeant in the Revolutionary War. He was wounded and
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drew a pension. The latter part of his life he [crossed out "drew a pins"] lived in Willoughby Ohio and died there.. He is buried there and I have seen his grave but there is no stone & I can get none of the data I wish there. If you can help me to this information soon, you will greatly oblige me.
Very truly yours,
Elizabeth M Howell
(Mrs. Harold R.)
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[letterhead]
Committee on Military Affairs,
House of Representatives U. S.,
Washington, D. C.,

Sixtieth Congress
John A T Hull, Chairman
Richard Wayne Parker
Adin S Capron
George W Prince
Elias S Holliday
H Olin Young
Julius Kahn
Beman G Dawes
James F Burke
Thomas W Bradley
Frederick C Stevens
Daniel R Anthony
William Sulzer
James Hay
James L Slayden
Robert F Broussard
Isaac R Sherwood
George W Gordon
Thomas Cale
Hepman D Reeve, Clerk
Clifton E Stanley, Assc Clerk

February 22, 1909
Personal.

My dear major:
Enclosed I hand you letter from Mrs. Elizabeth N. Howell, 630 41st St., Des Moines, Iowa. General Ainsworth reports that there was a Hezekiah Hall in a Connecticut regiment but that he has no record of his birth, nor anything beyond his service with the Connecticut troops. He suggested that if the man drew a pension you could probably give me the information asked for in this lady's letter.
Very truly
J. H. Hull

Hon. V. Warner
Washington, D.C.

[stamped]
To Chef M
Action 
Feb 23, 1909 
COMMISSIONER

[stamped]
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER, 
ANSWERED
________ 190___

[stamped]
FILE WITH CASE

[stamped]
To Chf record Div
Action Reply through
Feb 23 1909
desk please 
Commissioner

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For advice through desk M
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Rev
JC
3918 Maine Ave.
Balto, Md.
May 20th 1920
[postal stamp] PENSION OFFICE U.S. May 26 1920
Dear Sir:-
Wil you kindly send me any data, you may have in your files of the following names who were my ancestors and
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took part in the Rev. War.
Moses Locke
Samuel Locke} 1st company of Col Joseph Cillys New Hampshire Regiment

Henry True} 3rd company of Joseph Cilley's New Hampshire Regiment

Hezekiah Hall from near New Haven Conn.

I will be very grateful if you can send me anything in reference to [crossed out] any of the above named persons.
Yours Truly,
Mrs W. Blakeslee
3918 Maine Ave
Balto, Md
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1021 26th St
Des Moines Iowa

April 21, 1893

Sec Old War & Navy Dept
Pension Office
Washington, D.C.

Can the war and pension record of Hezekiah Hall who fought in the War of the Revolution and afterward drew a pension be obtained from your records. He died about 1835 and previously to his death resided in Willoughby Ohio where the pension was sent.
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Hezekiah Hall was my great grandfather and I with only to prove that he fought in the Revolution in order to enter the society of Daughters of the Revolution.
Yours truly,
Elizabeth B. Howell

Mrs Elizabeth B Howell
1021 26th St
Des Moines Iowa
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State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County}ss. Know all mainly these present that I John Hall of Rockport Cuyahoga County Ohio and son of Hezekiah Hall deceased late of said county & who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the rate of $96 per annum and died in said county August 3rd 1834 do hereby constitute & appoint B. B. Chapman my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to prosecute the claim of the surviving children of said Hezekiah Hall for an increase of pension or bounty land and I do hereby authorize my said attorney to examine all the papers & documents in relation to said "claim" on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere to file additional evidence or arguments & to receive the certificate which may be issued for said claim. Which certificate I wish made payable to John Hall, Simeon Hall & Keziah Woolsey only surviving children of said Hezekiah Hall, to appoint one or more substitute under [illegible] for the purpose herein & proceed & to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby certifying & confirming all that my said attorney shall lawfully do in the [illegible]. Witness my hand & seal this 8th day of November A.D. 1851.
John Hall [handwritten] seal

Signed & sealed in the presence of 
Saml Ross
D. H. Beardsley

State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County}ss.
On the 88th day of November A.D. 1851 before me a Notary Public in and for the county aforesaid personally came John Hall above named & acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act & deed for the purpose therein mentioned & I do further certify that he made oath that he was directly interested in said claim. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office the day & year aforesaid.
Saml Ross
Notary Public
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Elyria Lorain Co Ohio
Nov 1851

Sir
I herewith enclose application of John Hall and other surviving children of Hezekiah Hall for increase of Pension under act of June 7th 1832. You will please examine & report to me.
Very Respectfully Yours
B.B. Chapman


Hon. Comm of Pension
Washington City, D.C.
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Brief in the case of Hezekiah Hall dec, late of Cuyhoga County and Sate of Ohio
Act 7 June 1832
Claim, ("original" or  [crossed out] "for increase.")
Proof Exhibited, (if original)
Is is documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been files since the admission of of the claim? If so, what?
artillery Arteficer Increased from $96. to $240 per annum
Name and residence of Agent B.B. Chapman, Elyna Ohio
J. Cole Examining Clerk.
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Adm [lightly written]
Hon M. Bartley H.R.
[illegible] Feb. 19. 1828
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Having lived a near neighbor to and having an intimate acquaintance with Hezekiah Hall Senr and his family for eleven years I have a pretty distinct recollection of the principle occurrences relative to the family. Among which is that of a bargain that the old gentleman made with his two sons, John & Simeon in which they were to work for him by the year, and did work for him, say from three to five years, for one hundred dollars a year. And that he settled with, and paid them in lands for the same, and the impression always has been with me that there was a writing between them on the subject and believe that I have seen it, and well recollect that I saw the old gentleman burn said writing which he said was the agreement with the boys.
Kezia Woolsey

The State of Ohio Cuyahoga County ss. Be it remembered that on this 26th day of January AD 1828, Keziah Woolsey a person of lawful age and the subscriber of the above deposition personally appeared before me H. Cook one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid who being duly sworn before his oath says that the above deposition and statements therein made are true to the best of her knowledge and belief.
H. Cook Justice of the Peace
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As my recollection serves me, about eight or ten years ago I was acquainted with and had a personal knowledge of a contract between Hezekiah Hall Senr and his two sons (viz) John and Simeon, that they worked for him about three or four years, settled with them and paid them in lands, and I did then believe and [illegible] to, that the said Hezekiah destroyed the writing that did exist between them.
B. Woolsey

The State of Ohio Cuyahoga County ss. Be it remembered that on this 26th day of January AD 1828 B. Woolsey a person of lawful age and the subscriber of the above deposition personally came before me H. Cook, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid, who being duly sworn upon his oath sways that the above deposition and statement therein made are respectively true to the best of his knowledge and belief before me.
H. Cook Justice of the Peace
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According to the best of my recollection it was in the year of 1819 or 1820 that Hezekiah Hall entered into a written contract with John Hall his son, to labor for him for a number of years, and he (John) was to receive his pay in land. He labored for three or four years and was to receive one hundred dollars a year and on settlement there was a balance found due to John of three hundred dollars. Some time after which the said Hezekiah found himself much in debt, sold his farm to John and paid the balance due out of said farm, and through John he paid Simeon the four hundred dollars in land for labor as stated in the deposition of Hezekiah Hall.
Levi Hall

The state of Ohio Cuyahoga County ss. Be it known that on the 26th day of January AD 1828 Levi Hall a person of lawful age and the subscriber of the above deposition personally came before me H. Cook one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid, who being duly sworn upon his oath says that the several statements in said deposition are respectively true according to the best of his knowledge and belief.

H. Cook Justice of the Peace
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I do hereby depose and say that the written contract mentioned in the within deposition of Levi Hall was destroyed at the time I settled with John Hall.
Hezekiah Hall

The state of Ohio Cuyahoga County ss. Chagrin 26th January 1828
Personally appeared Hezekiah Hall a person of lawful age and to me well known who subscribed the above deposition and made solemn oath of the truth thereof before me.
H. Cook Justice of the Peace
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I do hereby depose and say that the written contract mentioned in the within deposition of Hezekiah Hall was destroyed at the time I settled with Simeon Hall.
Hezekiah Hall

The state of Ohio Cuyahoga County ss. Chagrin 26th January 1828
Personally appeared Hezekiah Hall a person of lawful age and to me well known who subscribed the above deposition and made solemn oath of the truth thereof before me.
H. Cook Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County}ss.
I, Orville B. Skinner Deputy Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify and make known that Henry Cook Esquire, before whom the foregoing depositions were taken and who has thereunto in his proper hand writing, subscribed his name, was on the twenty fifty day of January in the year 1818 has ever since continued to be and now is, an acting Justice of the peace in and for the township of Chagrin in said County duly commissioned and sworn, to all whose official acts as such full faith and credit are and of right ought to be given then throughout the United States of America and elsewhere.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Cleveland on second day of February A.D. 1818.
O. B. Skinner Dep Clerk
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Some years ago and as nearly as I can recollect in the year 1818 or 1819 a written contract was made by and between Hezekiah Hall Senr and Simeon Hall his son, in which it was agreed by the said Hezekiah that he would pay to the said Simeon one hundred dollars a year for each and every year that the said Simeon should work for him on the farm, and I believe the said Simeon worked for the said Hezekiah from four to five years after which they settled and the said Hezekiah owed the said Simeon about four hundred dollars, which he paid to him in land, and to the best of my recollection when they settled the contract was destroyed. The land above mentioned was paid through John Hall who had previously purchased the homestead and as part payment for the homestead paid the debt which was due to the said Simeon.
Hezekiah Hall Jr.

The State of Ohio Cuyahoga County ss. Be it known that on the 26th day of January AD 1828 Hezekiah Hall Jr, a person of lawful age and the signer of the above deposition personally came before me H. Cook, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid, who being duly sworn upon his oath says that the statements in said deposition are respectively true to the best of his knowledge and belief.
H. Cook Justice of the Peace
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Should be sworn to and authentication
[lightly written near bottom] 
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Citizens of Cuyahoga County O.
We the undersigned, being acquainted with the subscribers to the foregoing statements relative in the application of Hezekiah Hall for a pension do certify that they are men of undoubted veracity and that full credit may be given to any statements which they would make. And furthermore we would say that from the uniform good character that said Hall has sustained we concur in the belief that he would not receive a pension that was obtained by fraud.

Saml Williamson [illegible] & Judge
Leonard Cass
Philip Scoville County commissioner
Lewis Dille
Paul P. Condit P.M.
Saml Russell J. P.
Nehemiah Dille
Noble H. Mendin

I am acquainted with the subscribers to the within statements and from their characters implicit confidence may be placed in them. As to the character of Mr. Hall, I say nothing and I am altogether unacquainted with it.
Samuel Cowls
Horace Perry
A. W. Walworth
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The State of Ohio Cuyahoga County ss. Be it known that on this 25th day of January AD 1828 S. Allen, V. S. Card, S. Lapham and B. Woolsey, personally appeared before me H. Cook one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County and made solemn affirmation that the several statements contained in the within instrument by these subscribed are respectively true according to the best of their knowledge and belief.
H. Cook Justice of the Peace

Should be sworn to and certified to
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The state of Ohio Cuyahoga county ss. Be it known that on this 26th day of January A.D. 1828 William Jones, John Clarke and G. W Card personally appeared and made solemn oath that the several statements contained in the within instrument by these subscribed are respectively true according to the best of their knowledge and believe before me
H. Cook Justice of the Peace
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To the Secretary of War
Viz
Msers. Bartly & Warttney
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[very faint writing on the back of a document that had the ink show through]

It is to be mention from list of property I have [illegible] to be to pay on debts [illegible] foot.
Hezekiah Hall
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Gentleman to whom those lines may concern, I do not think myself capable of writing to my rulers in such language I could wish, but necessity has made it as long as I am required to have written agreement with my two sons that I paid seven hundred dollars. I had written agreement with them but when I settled with them I burnt the said writings as was my way in [illegible] and writings that I took up. [crossed out "writings that I think [illegible]"] by sufficient evidence that there was written agreements with both sons. I thought as right for to pay my boys as other men as I could pay them better to my advantage and had more labor from them as they had nothing else to dependent but the labor for driving of [illegible] they came for themselves. I have not used [illegible] of proof in all my writings for my will. I did oblige for this cause I got my petition drawn for [illegible] and said by others that has been well acquainted with me for ten years living in the same neighborhood. The nine months I was in the service 1776 New York, I have names then listed for three years as serving the army as our wages was good and I thought would be made good. I thought I would continue during the war as I engage for seventeen dollars and one their payments, and was entitled to one hundred dollars allowed but I lost my health after two years and two months and got discharged about one year before the war resolved which I lost my land, the question whether or not I ought to lose it or lost the continental money  remains paid of in land settlement. Of this there was paper also , we had specialists managing them down that they were the better, and I sold them for two shillings on the proceed which could be said of close was all that I got for four years some land that much nothing for I went into the service with [illegible] & close of my own the year that was began I was eighteen years old. I was then appointed at the carpenters tools [illegible] but our country [illegible] which was two hundred dollars damage as I was appointed. I was to have six months schooling that year that I was [illegible] but I lost my learning and for this reason I cannot [illegible] gentlemen of your rank or better. But if I have not learning I have feelings as to the loss of learning. I have the gentlemen to judge, but the whole loss understand by that now would be one thousand dollars. I have total in my other letter that I might give some offence, if I did I beg pardon, it was not intended. Pray do not throw these lines away before you read them with care and pity. This from your humble servant. 
Euclid Cuyahoga Ohio December 11, 1807
Hezekiah Hall

[3 last lines illegible]
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[very faint writing]
Garbin, Aug 20th 1827
Cuyahoga County Oh

Sir,
Mr. Hezekiah Hall has requested you to [illegible] for him on the subject of his claim for a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier. I have known him for many years and always believed him to be a wealthy man and now know [underscored] him to be poor and needy. Since he made his request, I have examined his papers amongst which was your letter of the 10th of May within which is stated that evidence ought to be provided of a written contract between him and his sons relative to the $700.00 paid them for labours performed that he [illegible] he thinks there was not. I have [illegible] of the aforesaid of the neighbors and am well convinced that the [illegible] was a bargain made and not now for the pension or of having aid from the Govt. That the old gentleman is inform and wholly dependent on others for the means of sustenance there is no doubt and has no legal living [illegible] who by [illegible] their families are much [illegible] and unable to [illegible] of this letter is to enquire whether in the [illegible] admitted which wants. Now the bargains, the time the service was done and pay most of the property. It was some time that it could hardly have been the intention of Congress to have confined evidence of such facts to proof worthy [illegible] habit of throwing such things in the fire of written contracts the consequences resulting from such a law is obvious.
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[very faint writing]
Mr. Hall also wishes me to state that the owing so long delay in writing was the procuring [illegible] deposition which is now of obtained.
No withstanding I have appointed many in procuring Pension claims, I feel a degree of reluctance in writing directly to the war department, as it is more than possible that my [illegible] is not known there, I have faith to do such business through the [illegible] congress. I know of now that would probably recollect me at Washington except [illegible]. Although I known no compensation but the satisfaction of being beneficial to my fellow man. I always have felt an [illegible] that all our worthy revolutionary soldiers should receive the reward contemplated in the pension law.
Be please to write me soon,
Very Respectfully
Your obt svt
Lewis Dille

L. L. Edwards Esq
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To Elisha Whittney sitting member in Congress
at the request of Hezekiah Hall a soldier of the revolution we make the following statement in order to
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by said Hall to pay for the land in question. This sum was somewhere about four hundred dollars and was about equal to what the young man was wroth who bought the homestead. The small balance that was stipulated to be paid over the sum of borrowed money was to be paid in small annual payments. When this the said Hall deeded & left the pace & the lumber [illegible] who shortly had a long and severe fit of sickness & after his moving his wife was taken sick & after a fortnight illness died leaving an infant child. So that although the said Hall has [illegible] something; yet it was in property and at [illegible]. He might have said all in words respecting the said Halls circumstances since we knew him, that is we do not think after paying his debts he ever had enough to support himself & wife. We are well satisfied that the said Hall has never practiced the shadow of fraud to obtain a pension & from our knowledge of the man do we believe he would receive a pension that was obtained by fraud. Chagrin River O. Eleventh Mo 8th 1827
N. Allen
Asst Judge of Cuyahoga County O.

V. S. Card
S. Lapham
B. Woolsey
William Jones
John Clarke
[illegible signature]


N. B the subscriber to the above reside in the town & state & county where the whole declaration referred to took place
L. Dille
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E. Curtis
Deposition
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Crawford County and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Elisha Curtus of Cussewago township and county aforesaid who being sworn according to law doth depose and say that, about the first of June eighteen hundred and nineteen, he loaned to Hezekiah Hall the sum of two hundred and fifty eight dollars for which he gave me his note, and in the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty three, he the said Hall paid to me the above mentioned sum with interest. 
Elisha Curtiss

Sworn and subscribed before me the 17th day of July 1827.
John P. Davis 

Crawford County}ss.
James Cochran, [illegible] of the Court of Common Pleas for the county aforesaid do certify that John B. Davis before me by whom the above probate was made and taken was at the time of taking the same and now is a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned for the County aforesaid and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such.
In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said county & Commonwealth and set my own name this 4th day of August A.D. 1827.
James Cochran, [illegible]
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The amt money mentioned in the within deposition was at 7 per ct interest being loaned while Curtis lived in the state of New York.
Prin $258
four yrs Int 72.24
Total $330.24

Hezekiah Hall
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I Leocus Eddy of Lanesborough in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age testify and say, that Hezekiah Hall enlisted in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War as an artificer under Capt William Mills in col. Jeduthan Baldwins Regiment. This was in the year AD 1777. I also enlisted at the same time; that the said Hall continued in the Army about three years or four. I was in the service with him almost three years and I know he served faithfully. And further this deponent saith not. Dated at Lanesborough aforesaid this 12th day of March AD 1819.
Leocus Eddy

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Berkshire ss.
Leocus Eddy personally came before me and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him signed; and I hereby certify that the said Eddy is well known to me to be a person of truth and veracity. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my notorial seal this 12th day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred nineteen.
Luther Washburn, Notary Public
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Hezekiah hall
died to
John Hall
Copy
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To all people to whom these presents shalt come, Greeting: Knows he that are Hezekiah Hall and Relefa Hall, wife of said Hezekiah of the township of Chagrine County of Cuyahoga and State of [illegible] for the consideration of one thousand dollars, received to our full satisfaction of John Hall of the town, county + State aforesaid do give, bargain, grant, sell, and confirm unto him the said John Hall his thousand in the township of Chagrine aforesaid, known and distinguished by lot No. 2 of the [illegible] of great lot No. 14 in township No. 9 in the 10th range of townships of the Connecticut Western Reserve, borrowed as follows, vis, beginning twenty three chains west from the northeast corner of said great lot and running thence west twenty three chains--three south 1°22 east, seventy one chains twenty five links to the centre of the ridge road, thence east along said road four chains seventy five links, three south 1°22 east eighteen chains twenty five links, thence north 1°22 west eighty seven chains to the place of beginning, containing one hundred and ninety two acres of land, be the same more or [illegible].

To have and to hold the above granted and bargained premises with the [illegible] thereof with him the said John Hall, his heirs and assigns forever, to his own [illegible] use and behoof. And also I the said Hezekiah Hall do for myself, my heirs, executors and administrators, covenant with the said John Hall his heirs and assigns that stand until the ensealing of these presents, darn well seized of the premises good indefeasible estate in fee simple and have good right to bargain and sell the same in manner and form as above written, and that the
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same is free from all incumberances whatsoever. And I the said Hezekiah Hall do by these presents bind myself and heirs forever, to warrant and defend the above granted and bargained promises to him the said John Hall his heirs and assigns against all lawful claims and demands whatsoever. And furthermore of teh said Relefa Hall do hereby remise, release and forever quit claim unto the said John Hall all right and title of [illegible] in and to the above described premises. 
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 28th day of May Anno Domini 1821.
Hezekiah Hall
Relefa Hall

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of Lewis Miller
Levi Hall

The State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County ss} Personally appeared before me Lewis Miller, one of the Justices of the Peace for said county the within named Hezekiah hall who acknowledged that he did voluntarily sign, seal and deliver the within deed of conveyance, and for the purposes therein expressed. Also personally appeared before me the said Relefa Hall, wife of the said Hezekiah, and being examined separate and apart from her said husband, acknowledged the within deed of conveyance to be her voluntary act and deed and that she executed the same without the threats, coercion or persuasion of her husband, and freely relinquishes
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her right of [illegible] to the premises within mentioned, and advises that the same may be admitted to record. Given under my hand & seal the 8th day of June 1821.
Lewis Miller, J. Peace

Received June 13th 1823 & Recorded June 16, 1823.
Horace Perry Recorder

The State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County ss}
Orville B Skinner deputy recorder of deeds, within and for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a deed recorded in Cuyahoga County Records Book D. Page 465.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Cleveland this eighteenth day of Nov A.D. 1826.
O. B. Skinner Dep Recorder
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Depositions


deposition of Benjamin Wolsey
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Deposition of Hezekiah Hall jus
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Deposition of Levi Hall
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State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County ss}
Before William Jones Justice of the Peace for [illegible] in and for said County. Deposition of Levi Hall of the [illegible] in the county of Cuyahoga, sworn and subscribed on the 21st day of Feb. AD 1826.
Levi Hall of the township and county aforesaid [illegible] the whole truth, doth depose and say - that in the month of March 1818 all the Property owned by Hezekiah Hall as for us ever came to my knowledge was 190 acres of land lying and being in the town, county & state aforesaid and in 1821 he sold the same to his son John for one thousand dollars paid down & fifty dollars to be paid annually during the natural life of the said Hezekiah. And that the said John did pay to Simeon Hall for the said Hezekiah four hundred dollars.
Levi Hall

Sworn to and subscribed before me William Jones a Justice of the Peace as aforesaid, certified under my hand and seal at the township of Chagrin aforesaid, the day and year first above written.
William Jones J. P.
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State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County ss} Before William Jones, Justice of the Peace for Chagrin township in said county. Deposition of Benjamin Woolsey of Chagrin township in the county of Cuyahoga sworn and examined on the 21st day of Nov AD 1826.
Benjamin Woolsey of the township and county aforesaid, aged thirty four and upwards, being carefully examined, cautioned & sworn to testify the whole truth, doth depose and say
That in the year 1818 Hezekiah Hall, [illegible] 190 acres of land in the township of Chagrin mostly unimproved and that in the year 1821 the said Hezekiah Hall sold the said land to John Hall, his son, for one thousand dollars and that at the time said Hezekiah Hall sold the said land he was owing Elisha Curtis about $320 and to his son Simeon Hall he was owing $400 for services performed by Simeon after he was 21 years of age. Also $300 to his son John Hall.
The said Hezekiah Hall was to receive of his son John $50 dollars annually during said Hezekiah Halls natural life besides the $1000 as mentioned above.
Benjamin Woolsey

Sworn to and subscribed before me William Jones a Justice of the Peace as aforesaid. Certified under my hand and seal of the township of Chagrin aforesaid the day and year first above written.
William Jones J. P.
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State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County} Before William Jones Justice of the Peace for Chagrin township in said county.
Deposition of Hezekiah Hall Jun. of Chagrin township in the county of Cuyahoga sworn and examined on the 21st day of Nov AD 1826. Hezekiah Hall, Jun of the township and county aforesaid aged thirty years and upwards being [illegible] examined, cautioned and sworn to testify the whole truth doth depose and say that In the fall of 1822 Hezekiah Hall paid to Elisha Curtiss a debt due Elisha Curtiss from H. Hall tot he amount of three hundred and twenty dollars or there abouts.
Also that John Hall paid Simeon Hall for Hezekiah Hall to the amount of four hundred dollars or upwards to my satisfaction.
Hezekiah Hall Jr.

Sworn to and subscribed before me William Jones a Justice of the Peace as aforesaid certified under my hand and seal at Chagrin aforesaid the day and year first above written.
William Jones J. P. 

The State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County ss} I, Orville B. Skinner Dep Clerk of the court of common pleas in and for said county do hereby certify and make known that William Jones Esquire before whom the foregoing depositions were taken and who has thereunto in his proper hand writing subscribed his name, thereto was on the day of the date thereof and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn to all whose official acts as such full faith and credit are and of right ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
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hand and affixed the seal of said court at Cleveland the twenty ninth day of November Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty six.
O. B. Skinner Dep Clerk
Cuy Comm. Pleas
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Hezekiah Hall
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The State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County SS} On this twenty ninth day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty six, Hezekiah Hall of Newburgh in said county, aged sixty nine years and upwards, personally appeared before me Ashbel W. Walworth a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, and being first by me carefully examined, cautioned, and sworn on his said oath deposeth and saith, that the reason why he has not made an earlier application for a pension is that he was determined never to make application to his country for a pension while he was able to work for a living. That taking into consideration the trouble with which an application would be allowed and the great length of time which must lapse before a final decision could be had, he was discouraged from making an earlier application.

And the said deponent further saith that the following is all the landed property that he had possession of on the 18th day of March 1818, Viz.
One hundred and ninety acres of land in lot No 2 in the township of chagrin in said County of Cuyahoga.
Sold & conveyed to John Hall on the 28th day of May AD 1821
The said John Hall paid for the said 190 acres of land, one thousand dollars in manner following, to wit:
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Paid to Elisha Curtiss for Hezekiah Hall $320.00
Paid to Simeon Hall for Hezekiah Hall $400.00

That at the time of making the deed to the said John Hall, there was due to him the said John from the said Hezekiah Hall three hundred dollars. $300.00

Making in all $1020.00

And this deponent further saith that in addition to the aforesaid sum of one thousand dollars the said John Hall agreed to pay him the said Hezekiah Hall yearly and every year the sum of fifty dollars during the life of him the said Hezekiah, which as as yet been payed by the said John & applied toward the support of this deponent. And that he, this deponent, has not at any time since the 18th of March 1818 been in possession of, or had title to any land other than that above described and further this deponent saith not.
Hezekiah Hall

Sworn to and subscribed November 29, 1826. before me, A. W. Walworth Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County JS}
  I, Orville B. Skinner Deputy Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify and make known that Asbell W. Walworth Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration was made and who has thereunto in his proper hand writing subscribed his name was on the [crossed out words] date thereof and now is an acting Justice of the Peace and and for said county duly commissioned and sworn, to all whose official acts as such due faith and credit are and of right ought to be given throughout this United States of America and elsewhere.
In testimony whereof I have  hereunto set my hand an affixed the seal of said court at Cleaveland [sic] this twenty ninth day of November Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty six.
O.B. Skinner Dep. Clerk
Cuy Com Please