Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 41639, Henry Hill, Va.
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(3-1776)
 SERVICE                 NUMBER

[handwritten] Va.  Hill, Henry   S 41689 [handwritten]

CONTENTS
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[Left hand page]
[written]   1.6.19  R
O H I O
[printed] _______________
[written] Henry Hill
[printed] in the state of 
was a [written] Private [printed] in the regiment commanded by
Colonel [written] Campbell [printed] of the [written] Virginia
[printed] , line, for the term of [written] 18 Months.
__________________
[printed] Inscribed in the Roll of [written] Ohio
[printed] at the rate of [written] 8 [printed] Dollars per month, to commence on 
the [written] 10 [printed] of [written] May 1818.
[printed] ___________________
Certificate of Pension issued the [written] 10 [printed] of [written] June 1819
[printed] and [written] sent to Orris Parish
Columbus, Franklin C. Ohio
[printed] ____________________
Arrears to 4th of [written] Mar 1817 78.70
[printed] Semi-anl. all'ce ending [written] 4 Sept 17 48
[printed] ________
[written] $126.70

[printed and contained in braces] Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.

[right hand side page]
[written vertically along the left margin]
Death not on O 13 1819 [1819 is written horizontally]
[written horizontally at the top of the page]
Reinstate July
21.1821 and
sent as before


[There is writing vertically down the center of the page]
Certificate sent July 10th 1820
to David Smith Esq.
Columbus
Ohio
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Henry Hill
Private
Colonel Campbell Regt.
Virginia line 1780 - 18 months
O Rolls
S 36
S 21 - 3 - 6
S 66 - 18 - 8

Honorable J. C. Calhoun
Admitted Secretary of War
Washington City
Henry Hill
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State of Ohio
Franklin County } On this 10th day of May
1818 before me the subscriber, associate 
judge of the Court of Common pleas
for the County of Franklin in the 
State of Ohio, personally appeared
Henry Hill aged sixty seven years,
resident in said Franklin County
who being by me first duly sworn
according to law, doth on his oath
make the following declaration
in order to obtain the provisions
made by the late 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."
That in an about the year of our Lord
one thousand seventy eight he
enlisted for one year into a company
commanded by one Captain
Spencer in a Regiment commanded
by Colonel Heath in the Virginia
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line of Continental troops, there an
Continental establishment. The [illegible]
of said Company this deponent
has forgotten, but he thinks the
Regiment was the 7th Virginia Regiment.
This deponent enlisted as aforesaid
at the Courthouse in [illegible]
County in Virginia. This deponent
was discharged at the expiration of the
year aforesaid, but said discharge
he has lost. After having served
as a faithful soldier in the Company
aforesaid for the year aforesaid, he
enlisted sometime in the year of our
Lord 1780 into a company commanded
by one Captain Craig in a Regiment
commanded by Colonel Campbell
for Eighteen months, in the Virginia
line of Continental troops, then an
Continental establishment. The
aforesaid served as a good and faithful
soldier in the Company and
Regiment last aforesaid for the
term of Eighteen Months aforesaid
and was then honourably discharged
from the service, as [illegible] from
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said discharge herewith enclosed. This 
deponent was in the battles of Monmouth,
Guilford Courthouse, [illegible], Chambler,
Eustace Heights, and some of less note. This
deponent knows of no other residence
at present within his power to prove
his services aforesaid. This deponent
has never received any pension from
the United States, and is now in reduced
circumstances and needs the assistance
of his country for support
of the present.
[Signed, indicating his mark]  Henry Hill [The word "seal" is next to his signature]
Sworn and subscribed before me
the day and year aforesaid.
[Signed] Saml. G. Flenniken

I Samuel G. Flenniken associate
Judge as aforesaid do Certify that
it appears to my satisfaction that
the said Henry Hill did serve in 
the Revolutionary was, as stated in
the preceding declaration against
the common enemy; and I now
transmit the proceedings and testimony
taken and had before
me especially to the act of Congress
aforesaid.
May 18th 1818
[signed] Saml. G. Flenniken
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[Left section]
I further Certify from my own knowledge 
that the said Henry Hill is in said reduced
circumstances the he absolutely needs
the assistance of his country for his support.
[signed] Samuel G. Flenniken

[Right section]
State of Ohio
Franklin County } I Abraham J McDowell
Clerk of the Court of Common 
Pleas for said Franklin County
do hereby Certify that Samuel G. Flenniken
Esquire, whose certificate is hereby attached
is and was, at the time of Certifying
the above, Associate Judge of said
Franklin County.
[signed] Hiram J. McDowell, clk
January 16th, 1819
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[All of the following is written horizontally]
Not entitled

holl.big  month $130 80/100

9th June 1819

Sept 1819
[There is a flourish written under the date]

Sent to Henry [Henry has been crossed out]
Hon David Smith
Columbus, Ohio

[written vertically along the left side]
Not entitled

[Written vertically along the right side]
Henry Hill
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State of Ohio Franklin County
On this 13th day of June 1820 personally appeared in
open law it being, a court of record/ being such by a Statute of
the State of Ohio, and having common law jurisdiction to an
unlimited amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings,
for Franklin County in the State of Ohio Henry Hill aged
69 years, resident in Franklin County aforesaid who being
first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath
declare that he Served in the revolutionary war as follows
in the 7th Regiment commanded by [illegible] Health in the
company commanded by Capt Spencer in the Virginia
line & declares in his declaration of the 10th May 1818 on which he accrued certificate of pension  [illegible] 11, 1819 and
further testified here an oath as follows.
"And I do solemnly swear that I was a assistant 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
means dispensed of my property, or any part thereof with
the intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself
within the provisions of an 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 for me in trust any property or 
licenses, contracts, or debts due to me, nor have I any
income other than that is contained in the Schedule
hereto annexed, and by me subscribed viz. a title lease
to a quarter of a lower lot on which I have paid $80
with a log house on the same [illegible] ------ 35
[illegible] ------12
[illegible] --------- % 00
         128
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five [illegible chairs?]   $ - 62%
1/2 doz [illegible smudged word]   30
1/2 doz [illegible]  37%
four [illegible]   1.50
_________________________
95.80 [signed] Henry Hill [the word "Seal" is written with a flourish]

Note by the court
he is [smudged word] about an hundred dollars & then is about 
hereby owing to him.

I Henry Hill pursue this occupation of husbandry
and in light make can do near an half days in a day in
heavy work not more than one fourth of a days work in a day
have there rheumatick [sic] pain in my left knee. My family consists
of me and my wife who is aged 54 years and is almost
continuously sick, is [illegible], and has for one year been
almost all the time under the care of physicians
for whose attention the only [illegible] of any value
I had is now under [illegible].
Sworn to and declared this 18th day of June before
the Court of Common Pleas for Franklin County.
[signed] John A. McDowell
Associate Judge
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I Abram J. McDowell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
in and for the County of Franklin and State of Ohio, do
hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and oath and the
schedule thereto annexed to an truly copied from the records of
said leasest. And I do further certify that it is the opinion
of the leasest that the total amount in value of the property
[illegible] in the aforesaid Schedule is $95.80 dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my seal of office at Franklinton
this 27th day of June AD 1820.
[signed] Abram J. McDowell Clerk
[There is an imaged of an embossed seal to the left of the signature]
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January 21, 1938

(Line of X's")

Henry Hill, S. 41639
BA-J/MCS (illegible signature, probably A. D. Hiller)

Mrs. Luella Herbert
291 14th Avenue
Columbus, Ohio

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for the record of Henry Hill, a Revolutionary War soldier who was pensioned in 1819 in Franklin County, Ohio.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 41639, based upon the military service of Henry Hill.
The date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.
He enlisted at the courthouse in Orange County, Virginia, and served one year as private in Captain Spencer's company in Colonel Heath's Virginia regiment and was in the battle of Monmouth.  He enlisted in 1780, served as private in Captain Craig's and S. Stribling's companies in Colonel Campbell's Virginia regiment, was in the battle of Guilford, (overwritten and smudged) in the siege of Ninety-Six and the battle of Eutaw Springs and was discharged January 18, 1782, having served eighteen months.  He also stated that he was in the battle of Chamblee, no details of this service given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 10, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Franklin County, Ohio, aged sixty-seven years.
In 1820 he referred to his wife aged fifty-four years but did not give her name.  There are no further data relative to family.
Kindly make your requests (smudged/illegible) personal signature.

Very truly yours,

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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[There is a stamped image in the upper left corner that may be a postage cancellation stamp]
COLUMBUS
Aug 14
OHIO 

[Written vertically upward is:] To U-conjuer

[Written in the center part of the image is:]
Hon. John C. Calhoun [above Calhoun is a flourish of 3 letters "Fme" possibly and a flourish after Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City

[written vertically downward on the left hand side is:]
Rec. 28 Aug 1820
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Columbus, O. August 14, 1820

Mr. Calhoun
Sir 
The memo by yours [illegible]
that Henry Hill a pensioner is stricken
from no list. The schedule indeed calculated a 
lot on which he paid $80.00 and owed 40, but
he could estimated his lot at no more than $15.
The high price he gave arises from his ignorance in
business. Taking the court's estimate of his property
and it amounts to less than $70 dollars.The  [2 illegible words]
of which he [illegible] with his pension money. His age
69. His wife at home sick, no family. 
I as an individual of the court feel bound in
much to deal on the goodness of an official pension 
as to no real value of his property and can state with
assurance that he is in circumstances of such indigence
that the help of his country would be well
applied.
[Signed] David Smith
Judge of Franklin
County, Ohio
Hon J. C. Calhoun
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[Left page]
[written] 41639
[Printed] INVALID.
[written] Rev.
[printed] File No. [written] 41.639
Henry hill
Priv. Rev. War.
[printed] Act: [written] 18th March 18
[printed[ Index: - Vol. [written] 3, [printed] Page [written] 227
[printed] {Arrangement of 1870.]

[Right page, written entries]
1931 Feb 9. hist. to Dr.
John Wesley Hill, Sr.
correspondence in
Rev. War [illegible] [illegible]. Geo.
Hill W. 4987  M.C.S [This may have been intended to be inserted before the "Geo."]
___________________________
1938 Jan. 21. hist to Mrs.
Luella Herbert M.C.S
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The bearer hereof Henry Hill soldier of the 2nd Virginia detachmt [detachment] Capt Stribling's company having served eighteen months being the time for which he was engaged is humbly discharged from said detachment in which we certify he hath behaved as a brave and faithfull [sic] soldier.
Given [illegible] this 18 day of January 1782
[signed] S. Stribling Capt
[signed] S. Smead [illegible]
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Amount of property
as certified by the 
Court $95.80
Age 
69 - infirm -
Re.
Wife - 54 - very feeble
no family - Service
18 months - Judge
Smith provide letter within
says he is very poor
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[This is type written letter]
Columbus Ohio
January 11, 1938.

Veterans Administration,
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir,
Will you please send me the personal and war record of Henry Hill,
a private in the Virginia Continentals, where he served eighteen months.
he enlisted in Grange (Orange?) County Virginia. Was pensioned June 10, 1819,
in Franklin County Ohio; also applied May 11, 18??, in Franklin Co. He was aged
69 years in 1820, wife aged 54 in 1820. "Reference-Virginia S. 4. 1639.
Thank you for the favor,
Very Truly yours,
(Mrs.) Luella Herbert
291 - 145h Avenue
Columbus, Ohio.
[A date-time stamp is to the left of the signature block]
RECEIVED [Pointing towards about 3:15]
Jan 13 1933
MAIL [illegible]
VETS. ADM.
READER # 8

[Below the signature block is the hand written note]
Kindly make your requests
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