Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19705, Solomon Hill, Mass.
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Service Mass
Hill, Solomon
S. 19705

contents_____________________Carded
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10109
Massachusetts
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Solomon Hill
of Ashfield in the State of Mass
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Nathan of the Reg't commanded
by Col. Wood in the Mass 
[illegible] for 11 months 14 days

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Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of _35_ Dollars 24 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of March 1833 [illegible]16th [illegible]
Granted [illegible] Mass
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. " 
$76.48                          
$19.12
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$95.60
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{Revolutionary Claim,}
  [illegible] June 7, 1832

Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk
Book 8   Vol. 2A  Page 31
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Solomon Hill
22.375

P[illegible]
11 Mon 16 days
[illegible]



E. Alvord Esq.
Greenfield
Mass
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Brief in the case of Solomon Hill
of Ashfield in the State of Massachusetts
(Act 7th June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In open court.

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 

3. How old is he? Seventy two

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
==============================Period. | Duration of Service. | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Years, Months, Days. | As a | Gen.
In Augt: In 1777 | ...2... | private | Capt: Partridge
" June 1777 | ...1... | " | Capt: Snow
1777 | ......14 | more named
" June 1778 | ...8... | " | Col. Wood & Capt: Matthews

5. In what battles was he engaged? Some named
6. Where [type obliterated] when he entered the service? In Abington
7. [type obliterated] witnesses, by documentary proof, by [illegible] 
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Three living witnesses and Naditionary evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correctly authenticated
I Certify that the forgoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above

Examining Clerk.
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Solomon Hill
Ashfield
22375


Solomon Hill 
Declaration
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DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

County of Franklin, s.s.
ON this sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty 
                            personally appeared in open Court, before the court of Probate for said county        now sitting Solomon Hill a resident of Ashfield in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy two 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 act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832.
 - THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
I was born in the town of Abington in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts on the Second day of November 1759.
I have no record of my age but suppose it may be found in the records of the town of Abington. I live in the town of Abington and Bridgewater, a town adjoining until [crossed out] I was about forty one years old when I removed to the town of Ashfield in the County of Franklin and State aforesaid in the early part of June 1778. I volunteered in the [crossed out] service of the State and I suppose as a private in Company Commanded by Zechariah Watkins. For the term of eight months we marched from Plymouth County through the State of Rhode Island and Connecticut crossed the river at Hartford and from thence to White plains we were attached to a Regiment commanded by of Wood and in Gin Dixon Brigade serve at White plains the greatest of the time at Danbury a month or more and marched to Puts kite [torn paper] one there when my time expired where I was discharged. As near as I can recollect in the month of August 1777 I was drafted for the term of two months to go to Newport in the State of Rhode Island. I was attached to a company commanded by Capt Partridge and to what Regiment I cannot recollect we marched to Newport via Scranton and [illegible] the term for which I was drafted and now discharged. In a few weeks after my return from Newport I was again drafted for the term of one month to go on what was called a secret expedition we marched via Scranton to the vicinity of Newport in the State of Rhode Island but did not [illegible] onto the Island and staid in that vicinity one month before was discharged. I was in a Company Commanded by Nathan Snow. I do not recollect that we had any Field or General Officers in the latter part of November or beginning of December of the same year. I again [torn paper] to Bristol in the State of Rhode Island as a private and served  two weeks. I do not recollect any of my Officers. In February or March 1779 I was again in the service at Fort Hill in Boston for the term of two weeks. The time was short that I do not recollect under what officers I served. I [last line is illegible due to constricted space].

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.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
R.E. Newcomb       Judge of Probate 

Solomon Hill
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We   Moses Hallock        a Clergyman residing in the town of Plainfield County of Hampshire State of Massachusetts and Benjamin Gardner, residing in said Plainfield            hereby
certify that we are well acquainted with Solomon Hill              who has subscribed and sworn
to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy two years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the 
neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion. 
      [Crossed out: Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.]
Moses Hallock
Benj. Gardner

Franklin [illegible] August the 24th 1832 then Moses Hallock and
Benjamin Gardner above named personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above certificate by them subscribed is the          
    before me        Henry Bassett, justice of the peace.

  And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interogatories 
prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that   Moses Hallock   who signed
the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in [crossed out: the] Plainfield near Ashfield and that Benjamin
Gardner   who has also signed the same is a resident in the said town of Plainfield
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. And the said Court also certified
that by reason of its being inconvenient for the said Moses & Benjamin to
attend court, they have made oath to this said certificate before Henry Bassett
Esq. who is a Justice of Peace for said and who has above certified the same
[illegible] this proper signature   R. E. Newcomb   Judge of Probate
     I  Elijah Alvord Register, [Crossed out: Clerk] of the Court of Probate do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Solomon
Hill     for a pension.
   IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court this
16th day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.

E. Alvord Reg. Prob
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[diagonal handwriting] Revolution INVALID.
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File No. 19.703

Solomon Hill

[illegible] Revolutionary

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Act: [illegible]

Index :--- Vol. 1, Page 183

[Arrangement of 1780
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Joseph Gurney
affidavit
for Solomon Hill


[the following handwritten along left side of paper:] 
Solomon Hill
Jos. Gurney Aff
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I Joseph Gurney of Ashfield in the County of Franklin and State of Massachusetts having advance to the age seventy three
year testify and declare
that I was personally knowing
Solomon Hill of same Ashfield entering the service of the State of Massachusetts in the fall of 1777 on what was called
scout expedition that I belonged to the same company which was commanded by Nathan Snow that we marched to the State of Rhode Island and was in the vicinity of [illegible]
but did not go to the island and that the said Hill served one month and was then discharged
Joseph Gurney
[Hampshire] August 14 1832 Personally appeared Joseph Gurney and made solemn oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed before me
Eliphalet Packard Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the above deponent is a person of truth and veracity
Eliphalet Packard Justin of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire
Soloman Studdard Clerk of the New Judicial Court of the Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire do certify that Eliphalet Packard Esq  whose signature is affixed to the above certificate received the date
thereof and of the Justice of the peace within and for said County duly
Commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth
and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and
attestations done in that capacity
and that the signature to said
certificate is known by me to be the handwriting by the said
Eliphalet Packard
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth this
tenth day of August in the year of an Lord one thousand eight
hundred and thirty two
S. Stoddard Clerk
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I Shepard Packard of North Bridgewater County
of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts
of lawful age do testify and say, that I am acquainted with Solomon Hill of Ashfield in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth aforesaid and I am knowing to his serving as a private in a Company then commanded by Lieut. Watkins
and regiment by Col. Woods in the service of the State of Massachusetts, during the war of the revolution in the vicinity of New York for the term of eight months in the years
1778 and 1779. that I the said Deponent served
in the same regiment for the same term of eight months and was discharged about the same time
his
Shepard X Packard
mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss July 20. 1832 Personally appeared the above said Deponent, and made oath to the truth
of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed
and further certify that I am acquainted
with the said Deponent, and that he is considered
and reputed to be a person of truth and veracity
Elial Whitman Jus of Peace
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[written on side] Solomon Hill Aff
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
[illegible] I John B Thomas Clerk of the [illegible] [illegible] Court Judge Court of [illegible]- the County of Plymouth do hereby certify N, C, Hill [?] of [illegible] [illegible] before whom the written affidavit was sworn is a Justice of the Peace in the County of Plymouth and that I believe his name hereto subscribed be in [illegible] [illegible]  signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said [illegible] judicial Court at Plymouth on this [illegible] day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
[illegible signature]
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I William Brett of the North Bridge [illegible] County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age do testify and say, that I was formally acquainted with Solomon Hill of Ashfield in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and I am knowing to his serving as a private in a Company commanded by Capt. Partridge the Col. of the regiment I have forgotten in the service of Massachusetts during the wat of the revolution for the turn of two months in Newport in the State of Rhode island in the year 1777. I the said Deponent served in the same company for the said turn of two months and then was discharged.
William Brett

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County Js. July 30.  1832 Personally appeared the said Deponent and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declarations by him subscribed, and that I further certify, that I am acquainted with the said Deponent, and that he is considered and [illegible] to a person of truth and veracity.
Eliab Whitman Jus. of Peace.
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[very difficult to read]
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
[illegible] I John B Thomas Clerk of the [illegible] Judicial [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] of [illegible] County of Plymouth [?] do hereby certify that the   [illegible] [illegible] before whom the [illegible] affidavit was sworn is a Justice of the Peace for the County of [illegible] and that I believe his name hereto [illegible] [illegible] in here did proper signature.
[illegible] [illegible] [illegible] I have hereunto it my hand and affixed the seal of the said is [illegible] [illegible] at court at Plymouth + the [illegible] day of July [illegible] [illegible] of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
[illegible signature]