Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3,3303, Joseph Hill, Continental (Mass.)
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Service: Continental (Mass)
Hill, Joseph
S33303
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8,490
Massachusetts. 4
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JOSEPH HILL, FST.

of Hingham in the state of Massachusetts and was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Greaton of Massachusetts for the term of one year.
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Subscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month to commence the 13 of April 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22, of March 1819 and sent to John Davis, Judge Boston, Massachusetts.
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819-----------$85.83
semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819-----$48.
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------------------------------------------$133.83

oms: 18/30
& 4/31

{Revolutionary claim, 
Act 18th March 1818}

Continued

(written on left side of certificate)

Date of death not in aB

(written perpendicular on left side of the certificate)
Notification sent October 24. 1820 to John B. Thomas Plymouth, Massachusetts
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I Moses Sprague of Hingham make the oath that the within declaration is true to my knowledge, as I was the first seargeant in the within named company at and during the within mentioned year.
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United States Mass District

Joseph Hill of Hingham Mass a resident citizen of the United States maketh oath that he enlisted in the year of the Revolution on the Continental establishment in Capt Charles Cushing & Col John Groton Regiment Gen Health;s line on the first day of Hanuary A.D. 1776 and served there as a private soldier until the end of the year; that he was honorably dismissed from the service but receive no discharge in writing; that by reason of reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his county for support  I went to New York and Canada,

Joseph Hill (signature)
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Joseph Hill 1st
84 yrs,

22 Marc 19
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
COUNTY OF Plymouth ss

On this seventeenth day of July 1820 before the Circuit Court of Common Please for the Souther Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine, imprisonment and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said County Joseph Hill aged 70 years, resident in Scituate in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary was as follows, viz. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 8th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift sale or in any manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it is as to bring myself within the provisions of 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." passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities contracts, or debts, due to me ; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.

I Joseph Hill have the infirmities inability in  persons of my age am able to do but very little labour have no family I do further declare that I have no property either real or personal excepting my wearing apparel.

Joseph Hill 


Sworn to and declared on the 17th day of July A.D. 1820 before Nahum Mitchell Justice of Court 

I John B. Thomas clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is No dollars and -- cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this Seventeenth day of July 1820

Jno B. Thomas
Clerk pf the Court for the County of Plymouth
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RA-J/EEL, 
Joseph Hill - S.33303

Mr. R. A. Holbrook
The Sponge Rubber Products Company
Derby Connecticut

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Joseph Hilll, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, who applied for pension March 30, 1818

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S-33303 based upon the military service in that war of Joseph Hill.

The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Joseph Hill are not shown in the papers in the pension claim

Joseph Hill enlisted, place not shown, January 1, 1776 and served as a private in Captain Charles Cushing's Company, Colonel John Greaton s Massachusetts Regiment: length of service, one year,


He was allowed pension on his application executed March 30,1818, while residing at Hingham Massachusetts, where he had then resided for seventeen years, but, it was stated, :belonged to Abingdon." In 1820 soldier was aged seventy years and then resided in Seituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

There are no data as to soldier's family

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of their Revolutionary War pensioner, Joseph Hill (S.33303) you should address the Comptroller General General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following data

Joseph Hill, 1st Certificate No. 8490, issued March 22, 1819, rate $8 per month, commenced April 13, 1818, Act of March 18,1818, Massachusetts Agency

Very truly yours

A.D/ Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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Department of Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Office of Commissioner.

33.303 Rev.

Mr. Wooten, Chief of the O.W. & N. Div:

Please comply with the request of writer for military history of Jos. Hill, of the Revolutionary War.

D.S. Muyl
Commissioner.

File
Dec 2, 1896
Commissioner
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33.303
Revy INVALID.

File No. 33,303
Joseph Hill
Pri  Rev War 

Act: 18r March 18r
Index:-Vol. 8, Page 188
[Arrangement of 1879.]

Dec 3 90 To
Mrs C N Ballard
Taunton Mass

1934 - Apr 18. Hist
to R A Holbrook - EEL
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(LETTERHEAD0
THE SPONGE RUBBER PRODUCTS CO
DERBY CONNECTICUT

April 4, 1934

(stamped Received)

U. S. Pension Office
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs:

I desire official confirmation to the fact that Joseph Hill served in the Revolutionary Forces. According to my information he applied for a pension March 30th, 1818 based on service as a Private in the Massachusetts Troops during the Revolutionary War, serving under Captain Charles Cushing and Colonel John Greaton .  If the records show that his Wife's maiden was Susanna Stowall, confirmation of that name would also be of interest.

Very truly yours

R. A. Holbrook (signature(
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No 395
Joseph Hill
76-1 year
Gratons Maj.ths
Regt.

Judge certificate as to claimants circumstances wanted

Admd
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This may certify that I Joseph Hill entered the Army of the U. States of America Jany 1, 1776. - that I enlisted in the Company of which Charles Cushing of Hingham was Captain, that said Company was attached to the Regiment of which John Greaton Esq. was colonel - that I served in said Company at Cambridge until the British evacuated Boston - that the regiment then marched to New York, and there making a short state marched again for Canada to the relief of General Arnold, and that such Regiment while on the march received news of Arnold's defeat and returned to Ticonderoga and then mad a stand _ and that I continued to serve in said company untill [sic] the end of the year. - 

Joseph Hill
Hingham 30th. March 1818.-

Massachusetts District Ss}
Boston 13. April 1818}
Sworn to before me, Jno Davis Dist. Judge Mass [illegible]

I hereby Certify the above to be correct as I was the first Sergeant of sd Company at that time

Moses Sprague

We the undersigned hereby certify that the above named Joseph Hill in consequence of his age & bodily infirmities & indigent circumstances greatly needs the aid of his Country as an old Soldier for the support of himself. He has lived in Hingham about seventeen years but is not an Inhabitant. He belongs to Abington and has receiv'd assistance from said Town. -

Moses Sprague Jr}
Caleb Gill} Selectmen
Perez G Whiting}

Hingham, April 6th 1818

Daniel Kain appeared before me and supports the declaration by his testimony

J Davis DJ
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MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss

1 March 1819

I AM satisfied that the above named Joseph Hill by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his Country for support.

M. Davis
District Judge U.S. 
Massachusetts


 TO THE SECRETARY OF THE 
DEPARTMENT OF WAR
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MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT ss.

Boston June 17, A.D. 1818


 with this certificate