Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19,333, John Hill, Continental Mass.
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Continental | Hill, John | S. 19. 333
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CONTENTS
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10. 152
Massachusetts
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John Hill
Worcester in the State of Mass who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain --- of the Regt commanded by Col Brewer in the Mas. line for 2 years

Mass & Continental
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Inscribed on the Roll of Mass, at the rate of 80 Dollars -- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of Mar 1833 and sent to [next 3 words illegible]
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 | $160--
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " | 40--
| $200--

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by J. [illegible] Blair Clerk
Book [illegible]. Vol. 2nd. Page 31
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th A. D. 1832.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. F 1832

On this [four words crossed-out] fifth day of Sept AD 1832, personally appeared in open Court before me the subscriber a Judge of the Probate Court [crossed-out of Massachusetts in] in Worcester County; John Hill resident in Charthan in Worcester County and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being Eighty two years of Age who by first duly sworn, according to the law, doth on his Oath, make the following declaration; in order, to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th AD 1832. I John Hill served in the Army of the revolution thirty three months and one week. I first entered the service in April or May 1775. I enlisted at Barre in the County of Worcester into a Company commanded by Captain John Black of Barre. I enlisted for Eight Months, and served out the term of my Enlistment. I was stationed at Cambridge near Boston. I was in
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the Battle at Bunker Hill June 17th 1775. Geo Gates and [crossed-out Isaiah] W. [illegible] were by Lieutenants. In January 1776 I again enlisted into the Army of the revolution for one year, into a company commanded by Captain Tyler. J. [illegible] his Christian Name was Abraham. He belonged at [illegible] in Connecticut. after my Enlistment the company remained in the vicinity of Boston untill the British evacuated Boston. Then I marched with said Tylers company to Newton in Connecticut. Soon after the company embarked on board a vessel and [illegible] to the City of New York. I was in the Battle upon Long Island. I arrived at New York in April and left the city the fifteenth of September 1776. Our Troops relocated from the City to the White Plains and the British followed after. Soon after our Troops marched to West Point where the Troops were stationed a while. This years service ended in
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New Jersey. At the request of my Officers I remained five weeks after my [illegible], was out untill a next Recruit of [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]. A Mr Oleatt was my Lieutenant and was then prisoner at Long Island by the British after Olcott was taken prisoner a Mr Hayton acted as Lieutenant. Again in the spring or summer of 1777 I enlisted for six months into a Company commanded by Captain Eosla of Leicester in Worcester County, Isaiah Bannister of Oakham was Lieutenant of said Company and I marched with the company to Providence in Rhode Island. The company was stationed five weeks in the College in that place - soon after said Company marched to a place called Obdikes Newtown. [illegible] [illegible] the said Company marched to Pine Judah opposite Newport. Said company belonged to Col Danforth Kies Regiment. He belonged to [illegible] in Worcester County. Again in 1778, I enlisted for six months into the company of Captain Jeremiah Gage or Gager of [illegible] in the County of Worcester. This service of six months was performed in the
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State of New York [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]. Said Company was stationed a few weeks at West Point which is upon the West side of the Hudson River. A Fort of the [illegible]. I was stationed at the [illegible] [illegible]. This time of service I performed was [illegible] [illegible] for Doctor Garret in in the ranks of of Wellington in the State of Connecticut. Here I belonged to Col Hailes Regiment according to my best recollection. That service was with the Connecticut Troops. At Cambridge near Boston my eight months service was in the Regiment commanded by Col. Jonathan Brewer. The Lieutenant and [illegible] near Buckminster and He was wounded in his shoulder at the Battle of Bunker Hill June 17. 1775. In the year service I belonged to Col Huntingtons Regiment who belonged at Norwich in Connecticut. At Rhode Island I belonged to Col Danforth Kies Regiment.

[crossed-out John his mark X Hill]

I hereby certify that I do not know of any person now living who was [illegible] with me in the War of the Revolution.
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by whom I was prove the services sworn to in my declaration. [illegible] Caleb Allen who was [illegible] to six months service in the State of Rohde Island. The Officers under whom I served was all [illegible] [illegible] or served off to paths unknown. To [illegible] - I hereby relinquish, any claim whatever to a Pension or Annuity except the present, and declare that my name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State whatever.

John [his Mark X] Hill

Sworn to & subscribed the day and Year above
Before me [illegible] [illegible]
Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester

The following are the Interrogatories [illegible] to John Hill, an applicant for a pension for services, in the Army of the Revolution by me the subscriber a Judge of a Court of Records

1. When in and in what year were you born?
Ans. I was born August 26th AD 1750 at Bridgewater in Plymouth County.

2. Have you any Record of your Age, and if so, where is it.
Ans. My [illegible] told me that I was recorded upon the Town Records at Bridgewater
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3. Where were you living, when [illegible] into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
Ans. [illegible] after the [illegible] I lived a year or two in Wellington in State of Connecticut. Then I moved to Sturbridge a Town adjoining Chartham and lived thirteen or fourteen years, then I moved to Chartham where I now live.

4. How were you [illegible] into service, were you drafted. did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?
Ans. The above questions, are all answered in the above declarations subscribed and sworn to by me.

5. State the Names of some of the [illegible] Officers, who were with the Troops where you served - such Continental and [illegible] Regiments, as you can [illegible] and the general circumstances of your service.
Ans. A part of the time I was with the Connecticut Line with [illegible] Officers and a part of the time with the Massachusetts Troops, as I have stated in my above declaration. I am unable to state whether the Troops were Continental or not.
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6. Did you receive a Discharge from the Service; and if so by whom was it signed and [next 4 words illegible] of it?

Ans. I never received a Discharge from [illegible] [illegible] any service to my [illegible]. If had any, they are lost.

7. State the names of persons to whom gave are known, in your present Neighborhood and who can testify to give character for veracity and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution.

Ans. Drs. Ebenezer H. Phillips, Dora Lamb, Jolene [illegible] and John [illegible] Esquires all of whom will testify to my character for veracity and their belief that I was a solder in the Revolution - as stated in my declaration.
John [his mark X] Hill

Signed and sworn to the day and year [illegible]

We John [illegible] Jr, a Clergyman residing in Charthom and Ebenezer H. Phillips [crossed-out illegible] of  same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Hill, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty two years of Age; That he is respected and believed, in the Neighborhood where he resides to have been a solder of the Revolution and that the [illegible] is that opinion.
John Wilder Jr.
Ebenz H. Phillips
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Worcester [illegible] 14 [illegible] 1832

Then John [illegible] Jr and Ebenezer W. [illegible] who signed the within certificate in my presence personally appeared and made solemn oath that the same is true before me
[illegible] SS Bottons, Just [illegible] 

And we said court do hereby declare their opinion that after the Investigation of the [illegible], and after pulling the Interrogatories presented by [illegible] the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court [illegible] [illegible] it appears [illegible] John Walder Jr. who signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Charlton [crossed-out illegible] is an that Ebenezer A. Phillips who has signed the same is a resident in the Town of Charthm and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled as correct.
[illegible] [illegible] Judge of Probate for the Court of Worcester

I [illegible] Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Hill for a pension, and that [illegible] W. Bottom before whom the annexed affidavit was made is a Justice of the Peace in & for the said County of Worcester, in full credit & that he signed the same.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my and and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 5th day of September in the year of our Lord. 1832
Theophiles Wheeler Regr of said Court of Probate

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10.029
John Hill

Private
7 years

[illegible]

$80--

Theophilus Wheeler E
Worcester
Mass
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10.029

BRIEF in the case of John Hill County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts
(Act 7th June 1832.)

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

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
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3. How old is he?
82

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 1775 April | - | 8 - | private | Capt. J. Black Lfs. Gates & Patrick, Col. J. Brewer
Enlisted 1776 Jany. | 1 |   | 35 | do. | Capt. Tyler, Lieut. Olcott, [illegible] in Huntington
" 1777 Spring | | 6 | do. | Capt Earl, Lieut. [illegible] Col. Danforth Kies
Serb. 1778 | | 6 | | do. | Capt. Gage or Gaver, Col. Hales


5. In what battles was he engaged?
Bunker Hill, Long Island

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Worcester Cty. Massa.

7. In his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Traditionary & a witness

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Correct

I certify that the foregoing statement and answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

F. Waugh Examining Clerk.
Feb 9, 1833.
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I Caleb Allen of Sturbridge in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being seventy seven years old - declare that I know that Mr. John Hill [illegible] of [illegible] [illegible] six months in the year 1777 - He belonged to Captain [illegible] [illegible] of [illegible] in Worcester County [illegible] [illegible] of [illegible] in said county [illegible] Lieutenant Louis Earle, Company belonged to Col Danforth Keg's Regiment. I belonged to the same Regiment which Regiment belonged to Massachusetts Troops. This service was performed in the State of Rhode Island. Said Regiment was stationed a few days in the College in Providence - said Regiment was stationed a while at Obdikes [illegible] and a while at Fivestore. I belonged to the same Regiment and know that said Hill served six months as above stated - further the deponent saith [illegible].
Caleb Allen

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester ss. Augt 6 1832
Then personally appeared before me Caleb Allen who signed and sworn to the above affidavit that the same is true before me.
[illegible] [illegible] Just Peace

I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Caleb Allen who signed the above affidavit many years and he is respected to be a man of honesty.
[illegible] [illegible]
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Heill which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
yes

V. * Has he mentioned 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 amout of pension he is entitled?
yes

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
yes
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
yes

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
yes

XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
yes

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And if not, which of them is not so answered?
yes

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EXPLANATORY NOES.

* QUERE V. 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 _____; for for such service I claim a pension.
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INVALID.
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File No. 19. 333
John Hill
Pri Rev War
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Act : June 7 [illegible]
Index : - Vol. 2, Page 185

[Arrangement of 1870.]