Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21323, Israel Hill, Mass. War Of 1812
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(8-1776)
Service                                         Number
Mass                Hill, Israel        W. 21323
Mar 7 1812           Lydia   

Contents
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9559
Vermont
Lydia Hill Deemed widow of Israel Hill_
And who died on the 3 May 1813
of Washington(in the state of vr:_
Who was a private in the__________
Commanded by Captain __________ of the
_______ commanded by ________ the Massachusetts line for 2 years_
Inscribed on the roll of Montpelier
at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
Certificate of pension issued the 21st day of August 1845 and sent to J. Bryant, Meriden, N. Hampshire

Total Amount, $400 [A'ct July 7, 1838]
Recorded by Masternat - Clerk,
Book D_ Vol 1- Page 129
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State of New Hampshire Town clerk's office
Cheshire County JS Keene April 13 1839
Israel Hill and Lydia Duriwell both of
Keene were joined in marriage on the second of June seventeen hundred eighty nine by the Revd Aaron Hall
recorded by Jeremiah Stiles T. Clerk
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy
of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures and letters, as follows, Second of June,  1789"
Geo W. Sturtevant Town Clerk
I, Geo W. Sturtevant above named depose and say That I Hold the office of Town Clerk In the town, County and state aforesaid, and that the above is true extract from the record with the exception above named as certificate by Me, 
Geo W. Sturtevant Town Clerk

Cheshire 
April 13 1839 Then the above named Geo W. Sturtevant personally appeared and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed  is true, Before me
Charles Sturtevant Justice of the peace
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State of New Hampshire. 
Cheshire County
P Henry Coolidge Clerk of the Superior
Court of ... in and for the county and state of..., certify, that Charles Sturtevant, was on the 13 day of office... and Stile is, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Cheshire...duly commisioned and sworn and that his signature, within written is genuine... under my hand...seal of... court at Keene this fifteenth day of March A.D 1839.
H. Coolidge Clerk
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Israel Hill - 15 May 77, 3y can - died 25 Aug. 77

V 5571
Lydia Hill
widow of Israel.

... 7, July 38
M 89. D 13


Widow died 31 March 41



David, Calvin & Harry
Hill -Sally Bancroft
Fanny Stewart
..., Delia Curren
David ...
J. Bryant
Meriden
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Declaration. 
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
State of Vermont
Washington County ___. On this 5th day of June 1839, at Montpelier in said county and state, personally approved before Daniel P. Thompson, Judge of Probate for Washington Probate District, embracing all of said county of Washington, Lydia Hill, a resident of Plainfield, in said county, aged seventy 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."  That one is the widow of Israel Hill, who was a private soldier in the army of the American revolution- that he enlisted into the army in Barre in the state of Massachusetts about three years previous to the close of the revolutionary war and served till the close of the war making three years service- and that according to her best recollection and belief he ..., and kept a regular discharge from service in his house many years after she married him. That he served most of said three years under his first enlistment and perhaps full three years, that after his term was out he took the place of another soldier and stayed some months longer to the close of the year.  all this she distinctly remembers to have heard him very often tell, not only to her, but o those who were out with him, and who also told her the same story in regard to her husbands services in the revolution; but that she has forgotten what officer he served under, yet she well knows the last that he was regularly enlisted, served three years or more, and was regularly discharged.  
She further declares that she was married to said Israel Hill in the first part of June 1789.  That her husband, the ... Israel Hill died twenty six years ago the third day of May 1839 being May 3' 1813 having been taken sick at Burlington or Plattsburgh the fall before and lingered along till spring when he died.  That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794 -viz- the time above states, and that one has ever since remained his widow.
Lydia hill 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year 
above written before 
Daniel P Thompson, Judge of Probate 
I hereby certify that the above named Lydia Hill is a woman of respectability and credibility
D P Thompson Judge of Probate 

(side of document) all ... made previous to signing
D P Thompson Judge of Probate 
D
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I Charles Bancroft of Plainfield in Washington county and state of Vermont aged 54 years do [illegible] and say that I was well acquainted with Israel Hill for eight or nine years previous to his death which took place at [illegible] [insert NH] where he had some years resided, on the 3rd or 4th of May 1813 he having been out with the militia in the last war - that Lydia Hill is his widow and has ever since remained as such - that I have often heard [illegible] Israel Hill say he served three years in [illegible] revolutionary war and had received a regular discharge.
Charles Bancroft
Sworn to and subscribed on this 5th day of June, 1839 before Mr D P Thompson Judge of Probates

I hereby certify that Daniel P. Thompson is Juedge of Probates for the District of Washington and State of Vermont and that the above and foregoing are his genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court, at [illegible] in said District, this 5th day of June A.D. 1839
Jeremiah T. Marston Register
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John Bryant Mendien N.96
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State of Vermont, District of Windsor
J. [illegible] T. Dritton, Register of the Probate Court for the District of Windsor
aforesaid, hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court, that Lydia Hill, widow of Israel Hill, died on the night of the thirty first day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty one - that at the time of her death she had a pending claim to a Pension under the Act of July 7 A.D. 1838, and that she left eight children, whose names are Sally Bancroft, Fanny Stewart, Betsy Knight, since deceased, Nancy Knight, Delia Curren, David Hill, Calvin Hill, and Harry Hill, all of lawful age.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of Said Probate Court, and subscribed my name at Cavendish in said District, this sixteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty five.
[signature:] Salmon F. Dutton, Register
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Lydia Hill Pending claim of John-
H.H. Sylvester
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Merriden Nov 21, 1845
Sir
As my mother Mrs Lydia Hill widow of Israel Hill have at the time of her death a pending claim to a Pension for the services of her late husband Israel Hill under the agency as I believe of Mr. David Colburn of Plainfield VT in which he has not to my knowledge suceeded - I as one of her children and the one with whom she was living at the time of her death, have therefore to request a renumeration of the papers in her case under the agency of H. H. Sylvester Esq. of the City of Washington in order to the allowance of her said claim.
Respectfully Yours
Betsy Knight X her mark
witness John Bryant

NB Mrs. Hill's declaration was made at Montpelier VT

I Nancy Knight another of the children of Mrs Lydia Hill join in the above request of me sister Betsy Wright
Nancy Knight
Hon I L Edwards
Com. Pensions
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5371
Level Davis coburn
2 Clul '39-
ach 7, July 38.
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Israel Hill
John Bryant 
Merider
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564
Commonweath of Massachusettes. 
Secretary's Office, Boston;
Sept. 20. 1844
I herby Certify, that, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Israel Hill of ___ County...
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case. 

In Testimony Wherof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written. 
John G. Palfrey,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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In order to enable the subscriber, one of the eight surviving children of Mrs. Lydia Hill, deceased, a Vermont applicant for a pension under the Act of July 7, 1838, to establish his claim pending at the Pension Office of the U.S. at the time of her death, and which is still pending,
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his Office of the service of my late Father, Israel Hill, in the War of the Revolution.
He enlisted as I have reason to believe, from the town of Barre in the County of Worcester in said Commonwealth, towards the close of the War, and as I think, in the year 1780, or 1781, for the term of three years, and served accordingly, but in what Regt. or Company, I cannot now state. 
Witness my hand at Cavendish in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, this 9th day of September, 1844.
[signature] Calvin Hill
Signed by said Calvin Hill in my presence,
Thomas F. Hammond, Justice of the Peace for said County of Windsor
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Payment to be made at Montpelier
By Thomas Reed Agent for hanging pensioners, in the agency of Montpelier Recorded  in the pension Office in Book 10, Volume 1 Page 129 by clerk
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War Department Revolutionary Claim I certify that in conformity with the law of the United states of the 7 July 1838 Lydia Hill Deceased who was the Widow of Israel Hill, who was a private and who was entitled to a pension at the rate of $80 per annuum the 4 March, 1841(the lawing died on 31 March 1841) which will behind whom the moduehow of the juoler voucher to


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Menden NH Aug 21, 1848
Sir,
As it is presumed that the name of Richard Jennys instead of that of Israel Hill was inserted in this certificate by mistake it is herewith return for correction
Very respectfully yr Obt Servt [your obedient servant]
[illegible] Bryant

Hon J L Edward
Commissioner of [illegible]
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Menden NH June 30, 1845
Sir
I herewith send additional proof in the case of Mrs Lydia Hill. Mrs Hill made her declaration in Vermonth, but was at the time of her death, a resident with a daughter of hers in New Hampshire. And in case of the allowance of her claim, it is desired that it be made payable at [illegible] N.H.
Respectfully Yours
John Bryant [illegible]
Hon J. L. Edwards
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Plainfield Vt
June 6 Free
J.L. Edwards [illegible]
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
War Department

7 July 1838
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Dear Sir
Enclosed are the papers of of Lydia Hill widow of Israel Hill of Plainfield in order to obtain a pension. She has written to the office of the Secretary of State of Mass - who informs her that the records in relation to the revolutionary war have been removed to Washington and are now in the war department where she believes are to be found full proof of the services of her husband who she believes enlisted & served as set forth in her declaration. I remain your Obt. Servt. [obedient servant],
David Coburn
Please direct your answer to David Coburn
Plainfield Vt
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Rev
Widow, &c.
File No. 21323
Lydia Hill
Widow of 
Israel Hill
____ Rev War
Act July 7th 1839
Index: Vol. A, Page 336
[Arrangement of 1870.]