Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1670, Daniel Hill, N.C.
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Service
N.C.

Hill, Daniel

Number
S1670

carded
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19505

West Tennessee

Daniel Hill of McNairy Co. in the State of WT who was a pr of Cav in the co commanded by Captain Wilson of the regt commanded by Col Sevier in the NC line for 9 mos.

Inscribed on the Roll of WT. at the rate of 37 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Sept 1833 and Wm S Wisdom Purdy

Arrears to the 4th of Sept $93.75
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar $18.75
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$112.50

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk, Book E Vol. 7 Page 83
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No 24689

West

Daniel Hill McNairy County Tennessee

from 1780 private of Cavalry 9 mos.

$37.50/100

37.50
37.50
18.75
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93.75

Wm. S. Wisdom Clk. McNairy County, Tennessee

Purdy
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War Department,

Pension Office,

May 31 1833

Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,  you will find marked in the margins with a brace, (thus: } ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, showing the Service of Daniel Hill McNairy County Tennessee:

Vol. Fall 1780, 3 months, private, under Gl. Marion, Cap Wilson, Col Sevier, 76 years, Washington County, North Carolina, Traditionary evidence & Claimants Certificate _ _ credible, one being _ certified credible, papers not properly attached;

Draft 1781, 3 months, promoted Militia, Gl. Marion, Cap Wilson, Col Sevier;

Draft 1782, 3 months, promoted militia, Genl Marion, Cap Wilson, Col Sevier.

I am, respectfully, you obedient servant, J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia" and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians {musicians} or privates, will, in the first
instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of
County of
On this
day of
of
personally appeared (a) before
A.B. a resident 
(b) of
in the county of
and State, Territory or District of
aged (c)
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 he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)
with and served in the
(e) regiment of the
line, under the following named officers:
{Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
A. B.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I
the Court of
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
day of
&c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the
and C. D. residing in (the same)
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,
Clerk of the Court of
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this
day of
& c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the service of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be at
tempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be ex expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6.
To a Soldier.
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
To an Officer.
Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform,
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(d) The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:
For
year
months
, and
days, I served as a
. For 
months and
days, I served as a
and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil
pursuit.
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the Court is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
(j) In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from (a) to (l) are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k) This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
(l)If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
(m) The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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Declaration in Order to Obtain the Benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

State of Tennesse
McNairy County

On this the 24th day of June in the year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Thirty three. Personally appeared in open court before the Justices of our court of please and quarter sessions for said county and state of Tennessee, Daniel Hill Sent. aged seventy six years next September 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 as a volunteer soldier in the year 1780 (the month nor day not now recollected) under Captain James Wilson and Col John Sevier that a few days after I volunteered I rendezvoused on Chuckey Rivers then Washington County North Carolina. So soon as the regiment was mustered into service they took up this line of March and went directly into the Cherokee Nation of Indians who was at that time committing a great many outrages against the whites, when we reached the nation we marched in a measure all through it first one place and then another killing a great many Indians destroying their crops and taking Indian prisoners. I think this was in the fall of the year as well as he now recollects after they had finished their business in that quarter and served three months the length of time he volunteered for the troops returned home and I was discharged. I received my discharge from a board of commissioners in North Carolina and deposited the same in the Land Office of North Carolina which I have never heard of since.
In the year 1781 I was drafted for the term of three months and went out against the British under Captain James Wilson and Col John Sevier a few days after I was drafted we rendezvoused at Captain Landon Carters in Washington County so soon as we were mustered into service, we took up our line of March for General Marions army who was laying in the swamps of Santee in South Carolina. We went across the mountain to a place called Tuckasuga Ford on the Catawba River. There we waited about two weeks for Col. Robertsons Regiment to join us. After he joined us
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we then went directly on our march passing Genl _ army who was laying on the High hills of _ and after the Battle of the Eutaw Springs from General Green we got provisions powder and lead after staying there but a very short time we went immediately on and joined General Marion in the swamps of _ after we joined him I was kept out first one place and them another to get provisions for the Army while laying there I perfectly recollect that a company of our army went out and took about ninety or one hundred British Prisoners between there and Charleston. I was at the camps when they were brought in or arrived their in a short time afterwards. I was drafted for the term of three months which I served as a mounted horseman when my time was out we marched directly home and was discharged I received my discharge for a Board of Commissioners of North Carolina and deposited the name in the Land Office of North Carolina which I have never heard of since.

In the year 1782 I was again drafted and went out against the Cherokee Indians under Captain James Wilson and Col John Sevier a few days after I was drafted we rendezvoused at the Long Island on the French Broad river now Wast Tennessee. So soon as we was mustered into service we marched directly on to the Cherokee Nation of Indians who was still massacring and killing the whites on the frontiers every chance or opportunity they could meet with. We marched through the nation destroying their Towns. We Killed a few Indians and took a great many prisoners after I had served my term of three months out we marched directly home and was discharged. I went out as a mounted _. I received my discharge in the same way that I did my first and second and deposited it in the land office of North Carolina which I have never heard of since. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present and declare that
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my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. I have no documentary evidence to prove my serving nor does he know of any person now living by whom he can prove my first tour by, but I can prove by James Robertson my second and third trips he being out at the same time with me.

Question, where and in what year were you born

Answer, I was born in the Jerseys on the 4 day of September in the year of Our Lord 1757 and lived there a few years after his birth and then his father moved to Louden County state of Virginia.

Question. Have you any record of your age if so where is it.

Answer. I have a record of my age in a large family Bible now at my house in McNairy County. I copied my age from a bible that my father kept the age of himself and family in.

Question. Where were you living when called into the service where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live.

Answer. I resided in Louden County State of Virginia until I was eighteen or twenty years old. Then I moved to Washington County North Carolina. but now known as East Tennessee. Here i was living whence called into service and continued to live there since the Revolution until a few years since, then I moved to McNairy County Tennessee where I now live.

Question. How were you called into service. Were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute. And if a substitute for whom.

Answer. I was a volunteer the first tour I performed, the other two tours I was drafted.

Question. State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops where you served. Such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your services.

Answer. I do not believe that we had any regulars with us at the time I performed my first and third tours, when I performed my second tour I saw Genl Green at the high hills of _. I also was with Genl Marion and know him when in the body of my declaration.

Question. Did you ever received a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of them.

Answer. I received discharge fro my services given by the Core of Commissioners of North Carolina, and deposited the same
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in the land office of North Carolina which I have never heard of since.

Question. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

Answer. I have been acquainted with Parson Frances Beard of my neighborhood for a number of years he can testify as to my character for veracity and his belief of my services and also the neighborhoods belief of my services in the Revolution. I am also well acquainted with James Robertson of McNairy County and have been acquainted with him since the year 1781 he can testify that I did do and perform the two last tours mentioned in my Declaration and also that it is his belief that I performed the other tour mentioned and also that I have always been reported and believed to have been a soldier in the Revolution by the neighborhood generally. The said Robertson can also testify as to my character for veracity.

/Daniel Hill/

Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid

/Wm S Wisdom/ clk of McNairy County Court Tenn.

I Frances Beard a clergyman residing in the county of McNairy and State of Tennessee hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Daniel Hill who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that I believe him to be seventy six years old next September that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that I concur in that opinion.

/Frances Beard/

Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid

/Wm S Wisdom/ clk of McNairy County Court Tenn.

I James Robertson residing in the county of McNairy and State of Tennessee, hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Daniel Hill who has subscribed and sworn the above Declaration ever since the year 1781 that I believe him to be seventy six years old next
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in the land office of North Carolina which I have never heard of since.

Question. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

Answer. I have been acquainted with Parson Frances Beard of my neighborhood for a number of years he can testify as to my character for veracity and his belief of my services and also the neighborhoods belief of my services in the Revolution. I am also well acquainted with James Robertson of McNairy County and have been acquainted with him since the year 1781 he can testify that I did do and perform the two last tours mentioned in my Declaration and also that it is his belief that I performed the other tour mentioned and also that I have always been reported and believed to have been a soldier in the Revolution by the neighborhood generally. The said Robertson can also testify as to my character for veracity.

/Daniel Hill/

Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid

/Wm S Wisdom/ clk of McNairy County Court Tenn.

I Frances Beard a clergyman residing in the county of McNairy and State of Tennessee hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Daniel Hill who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that I believe him to be seventy six years old next September that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that I concur in that opinion.

/Frances Beard/

Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid

/Wm S Wisdom/ clk of McNairy County Court Tenn.

I James Robertson residing in the county of McNairy and State of Tennessee, hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Daniel Hill who has subscribed and sworn the above Declaration ever since the year 1781 that I believe him to be seventy six years old next
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September. I further certify that the said Hill did do and perform the second and third tours mentioned in his declaration myself being out in the same campaigns and know that he is the identical same Hill and served said two tours as he states. And that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion.

/James Robertson/

Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

/Wm S Wisdom/ clk McNairy County Court Tenn.

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after their investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above names applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he stats and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Francis Beard who has subscribed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of McNairy and that James Robertson was has also signed the same is a resident in the same county and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

/Lany Moore JP/
/Joseph Smith JP/
/L. D. Pace JP/

I William S. Wisdom clerk of the court of please and quarter sessions do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of application of Daniel Hill for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office in the town of Purdy this 24 day of June in the year 1833 and 57th year of American Independence.

/Wm. S. Wisdom clk/
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December 8, 1930

Rev.& 1812 Wars Section
MCS:MLB

Mrs. George A. Brewer
4301 Edmondson
Dallas, Texas

Dear Madam:

You are advised that is appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 1670, that Daniel Hill was born September 4, 1757 in "the Jerseys". A few years later he moved with his father to Loudon County, Virginia.

While a resident of Washington County, North Carolina, which was later, Tennessee, he enlisted in the fall of 1780 and served three months as private in Captain James Wilson's company in Colonel John Sevier's North Carolina regiment, and went on an expedition against the Cherokee Indians. He enlisted in 1781 and served three months as private in Captain James Wilson's company in Colonel John Sevier's North Carolina regiment. He enlisted in 1782 and served three months as private in Captain James Wilson's company in Colonel John Sevier's North Carolina regiment and went on an expedition against the Cherokee Indians.

He was allowed pension on his application executed June 24, 1833, at which time he was referred to as Daniel Hill, Senior. He was then a resident of McNairy County, Tennessee.

There are not data relative to wife or children.

The above noted is the history of the only soldier names Daniel Hill, who lived in Mc Nairy County, Tennessee, that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.

Very truly yours

E. W. Morgan

Acting Commissioner
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June 21/94 Mil. Hist to Ewing Hill, 316 Union Trust Blvd., St. Louis, Mo.

1922, Mar. 20 hist to Mrs. A. R. Davis

1926 Dec. 7 Hist to Hon. Wm. J. Harris (see cor in Joel Hill w 23288)

1930. Dec. 8. hist to Mrs. George A. Brewer. M.C.

Rev. War.

Invalid.

File No. 1670

Daniel Hill
Div. N. C. Line

Act: June 7, 1832

Index: - Vol. A, Page 171

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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St. Louis, May 24th, 1894.

Hon. Wm. Lochran,

Commissioner of Pensions.

Dear Sir: —

Will you please give me the military history of Daniel Hill, a soldier of the Revolutionary War who served from North Carolina, and drew a pension while living in Tenn. His name appears on the Pension Roll of 1835, 23rd Cong. 1st sess. sen doc vol 3, and oblige,

Yours etc.,

Ewing Hill
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Commissioners of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Revolutionary War Section;

Dear Sir:-

Please send me all the data your office contains regarding the following Revolutionary war pensioners:

William Bell, Sumner County Tenn., age 82, 1840

Daniel Hill, McNairy County Tenn., age 83, 1840

Yours very truly,

/Mrs H Davis/

Mrs. A. H. Davis
402 Morgan St.,
Harriman, Tenn.

Feb. 16, 1922.
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Dallas Texas
Nov 7 1930

Mr E W Morgan
Acting Commissioner
Dept. of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:-

Daniel Hill born 1750 died Nov 1 1848 buried in Rose Hill Cemetery 3 miles from Bethel Springs, McNairy Co. Tennessee, soldier 1755-81. Wife Ellen buried by his side. His son Abraham & Wife Martha also buried there. Abraham soldier War 1812. (These facts & dates cut on tombstones.)

After Revolutionary War Daniel Hill lived on _ River East Tenn. Jefferson Co. Sold a farm to Baldwin Harle
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1803 on Chuckey river about 8 miles from Morristown Tenn. also 1833 took 100 acres land entry takers office under Gov Wm Carroll of Tenn. 9This was on Chuckey rivers, north side.

Please send record of Daniel Hill - his war record -

Sincerely,

May Hill Brewer

Mrs. Geo. Brewer
4301 Edmondson

Think he came from N.C. to East Tenn, want to know.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR .
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C. , Mar. 20 ,1922

In reply to your request of ___, received___
for a statement of the military history of Dan'l Hill Sr. no [illegible] a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S.1670

[Chart below with following column headings]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT or  APPOINTMENT LENGTH OF SERVICE
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
STATE.

Dates: Fall 1780
Length of service: 3 mos
Rank: Pvt
Officer: Capt. Jas. Wilson, Colonel Jno. Sevier 
State: NC

Dates: 1781
Length of Service: 3 mos.
Rank: [left blank]
Officers: Capt. Jas Wilson, Colonel Jno Sevier
State: NC

Dates: 1782
Length of service: 3 mos.
Rank: [left blank]
Officers: Capt. Jas Wilson, Colonel Jno Sevier
State: NC

Battles engaged in, Skirmishes with Cherokee Indians
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Washington Co. N.C. (later Tenn)
Date of application for pension, June 24, 1833, al.
Residence at date of application, McNairy Co. Tenn.
Age at date of application, b. Sept 4. 1757 in 'the Jerseys" [added note] moved a few yrs later with his father to Loudon Co. 

Remarks: No fam. data
 
Respectfully,
commissioner.

6-2856