Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13364, Robert Hill, New York
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(3-1776)

Service New York
  
Hill, Robert

Number S13364

Contents    Carded
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13374
Invalid.
File No. 13.364
Robert Hill
Priv Rev War
Act: June 7" 1832
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 170
[Arrangement of 1870]
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[LEFT COLUMN]
20.152
New York
Robert Hill
of Tioga in the State of N. York
who was [illegible] in the Comp. commanded
by Captain Livingston of the Regt. commanded 
by Col. Phelps in the N. York 
line of 9 month

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 37 dollars 44 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831,

Certificate of [illegible] the 2 day of Apr,
1833 and [illegible] Wm Bacon
Candor Tioga

Arrears to the [illegible] $93.60
[illegible] owing 18.72
$112.32
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Go C Stiles Clerk
Book C Vol. A Page 91


[RIGHT COLUMN]
Letter to 3d August Saml Crittenden
30. July 1838.
Paid at the Treasury under
the Act of the [illegible] April 1838
from 4 March 1838 to 24
Aug 1838 the day of his
death. Agent notified 19. Aug 1839
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Treasury Department.
Second Comptroller's Office, 
Aug: 3d, 1839.

Sir: 
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled " An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The children of Robert Hill, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N. Y. Agency, at the rate of thirty seven Dollars and forty four Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1838, to the 24th Aug: 1838, the day of his death.

Respectfully, yours, 
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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Robert Hill's 
Declaration 
Answer to be given to William Bacon 
Candor Tioga Co NY 

Admitted 
Private 9 mo
Artillery

416
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Declaration
[illegible]
12th [illegible]
the United States under the following named officers and served as [illegible] April AD 1782.  He entered the service as a substitute [illegible] William & [illegible] the head [illegible] went from thence directly to [illegible] where he was [illegible] as a soldier, that was one of the [illegible] that his Captain's name was Lexington [illegible] was absent and the company was commanded by [illegible] and 25 or 30 others of his company were placed under a sergeant's command and sent to [illegible] Point, where they [illegible] he and that detachment went to sit under the command of Capt. Moody of the artillery in whose company [illegible] was Lieut. [illegible] regiment was commanded by Col. Danek. does not recollect the name of the rest of the [illegible] officers. [illegible] garrison duty [illegible] 1783.  When the person for which he substituted having died he was discharged by a written discharge signed by Lieut. Col. Stevens
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who was as he believes of the [illegible] line; that about nine years thereafter he sold his [illegible] to his [illegible] and delivered [illegible] a person whose name he has forgotten.
That he is writing that he served this campaign as a private believes for a period not less than nine months. That [illegible] knew [illegible] & Putnam [illegible] Patterson and Col. [illegible]; that he never was in any battle that [illegible] to the best of his knowledge he was born on the 2nd [illegible] AD 1703 in a town there called New Rutland [illegible] Barry [illegible] county Mo. believes there is a record of his age in that parish but never saw it. that he lived in the town of Cambridge aforesaid where he entered the service. that he now lives in the town of Candor aforesaid and has resided there for [illegible] five years past, that next previous thereto he resided in [illegible] NY and previous to the last in Bennington VT.  That he is acquainted with William Bacon of the said town of Candor and with
and that this declaration together with the following certificates, deposition and opinion is the best evidence which he can admit.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to   pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the [illegible] of any state.
Robert Hill
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year [illegible] above written [illegible signature] Clk of Tioga co.
At the same time and place personally appeared [illegible] of the town of Candor aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he is sixty nine years of age; that he knows Robert Hill who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration; that he knew him in the
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In the summer of 1782 at West Point and that he then and 
there did military service with him in the aforementioned Capt.
Moody's company, that he does not know the exact period.
of time he served but verily believes he served as he has
stated in the foregoing declaration.
Sworn and subscribed the
day and year aforesaid
A. S. Diven Dep. Clk of
Tioga Co.
[signature] Joel Strong

I Thomas Hewitt a Clergyman residing in the
town of Candor aforesaid and I William Bacon residing
in the said town of Candor hereby certify, that we are well
acquainted with Robert Hill, who has sworn and subscribed
to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
seventy years of age; that he is reputed and believed in
the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier
of the Revolution; and that we concur in that
opinion
Sworn & Subscribed the
day and year aforesaid
A. S. Diven Dep. clk
of Tioga Co.
[signature] Thomas Hewitt
[signature] William Bacon

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion
after the investigation of the matter and after putting
the interrogations, prescribed by the War Department,
that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier
and served as he states. And the court further
certify that it appears to them that Thomas Hewitt
who has signed the proceeding is a resident of the town
of Candor aforesaid and is a Clergyman that William
Bacon who has signed the same And Joel Strong
who as sworn and subscribed the foregoing application
are each of them residents of the said town of Candor, and are
credible and that their statement is entitled to credit.
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I Greene M. Tuthill Clerk at the Court of [insert] common pleas of the County of
[illegible] to certify that
the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the same court in the
matter of the application of Robert
Hill
In testimony [illegible]hereof, I have herewith set my hand & seal
of Office this 12th day of June. AD 1833
Greene M. Tuthill C/R