Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18,008, Daniel Hill, New Jersey
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New Jersey
Hill, Daniel
Hill, Mary
W.18.008
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[RIGHT SIDE]

New York 3969.

Mary Hill, deceased
widow of Daniel Hill
N.J.
who died on the 12th July 181829
of Saratoga Co. in the State of N. York
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Carhart of the regt. commanded 
by Col. Holmes in the 
line for 18 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 60 Dollars -- Cents per annum,
to commence of the 4th day of March, 1834.  To end
18th May 1838, when she died.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of January
1844 and sent to Wm. Valentine
Albany, N. York.

Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi=annual allowance ending
Payable to Nancy Morris, James Hill, Daniel Hill, William Hill, John Hill and Josiah Hill, children of [], under act of 1835 to a [].

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3}

Recorded by D Brown Clerk,
Book C Vol 1 Page 117
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V2890
Mary Hill 
widow of Daniel
N.York. [new york]
act 4 July ‘36
79-81 (pri 6 mo & 12 equals 18 mo)
[illegible]
18mo pri 
$60 from H Marsh 36 to 18may 38 the day of his death to Mary Morris - James Daniel - Whm. John + Josiah Hill Survs - biny [sp] children - Deduct what has been paid .
Hon Jost [illegible] [crossed out]
WM Valentino [illegible]
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State Of New - York, Saratoga County Clerk’s Office, } ss.
[raised seal directly below with dots, illegible]
I, Adolphus Goodrich, Clerk of the county of Saratoga, Do Certify, That Thomas J. Marvin  before whom the annexed affidavit purport to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signatures
Witness my hand and seal of Office, the 19th day of October 1837-
A Goodrich (illegible) [signature]
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State of New York
Saratoga County  SS: Be it known that on the 16th day of October A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty seven personally came and appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Mary Hill, who is unable from bodily infirmity to appear in open Court, and who being duly sworn doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 - that she is the widow of Daniel Hill who was a private during the Revolutionary War - that the said Daniel Hill her husband entered the service of the United States in the commencement of the said war, but she cannot state in what company - that she has heard her husband say that he belonged to and served in Captain Samuel Carhart's company of militia belonging to Col. Asher Holmes regiment of Monmouth County, New Jersey, during the year 1778 at least every other month alternately making at least six month actual service - that he continued to serve in the same company every other month until June 1779, when he joined a company of state troops raised by the said Capt. Samuel Carhart for six months, and served a tour of six months under the said Capt., beginning in June 1779, and ending in December of the same year, that in the year 1780, her husband the said Daniel Hill served in the said Capt. Carhart's company of militia every other month making at least six months actual service during the last named year - that in the year 1781 - the said Capt. Carhart raised another company of State troops for twelve months and her husband the said Daniel Hill joined the said company and served the said term of twelve months beginning
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in January 1781 - and ending in January 1782; that after this time he still continued to serve in the militia under the said Capt. Carhart as often as the militia were called out rserved which she thinks was at least three months in the year 1782 - that during all the above mentioned service the head quarters of the said company were at Mount Pleasant in the Township of Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, and their duties were to guard the shores frontier of Middletown aforesaid from the depredations of the enemy who were continually landing on the shores in small parties for the purpose of foraging and plundering the inhabitants - that a constant guard was kept up on said shore by the Militia and the state troops aforesaid - She thinks Peter VanDerhoef was the Lieut. of the said company - Thas. Hunn was major - Asher Holmes Col: and David Forman General - That the said Daniel Hill was born  on the twentieth day of March 1756 that he resided in Middletown Monmouth County New Jersey when he entered the service, and continued to reside until the year 1796 when he moved with his family to Greenfields Saratoga County, New York where he resided until his death and where this applicant now resides - that this applicant is now seventy nine years of age and upwards - that she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim, but refers to some pay abstracts of Col Holmes attached to the papers of Margaret Allen and Sarah Hier, and also to an extract from the margin of Thomas Henderson   Commissioner .
And she further declared that she was married to the said Daniel Hill on the Sixth day of June Seventeen hundred and Eighty - that her husband the said Daniel Hill died on the 12th day of July A.D. Eighteen hundred and twenty nine and that she has remained a widow ever since
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that period as will more fully appear by the proof here to annexed. Sworn to & subscribed before Judge as aforesaid the day and year above written.  The said Mary making her mark being unable to write
Thas. Marvin
Judge of [illegible] Com. Pleas.
[An x appears written to the right of this statement, surrounded by four words:] Mary Hill her mark.
State of New York
Saratoga County SS: Personally appeared before me a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Josiah H. Hill who being duly sworn says that Daniel Hill the husband of Mary Hill above named died on the 12th day of July A.D. Eighteen hundred and twenty nine and that the said Mary Hill has remained his widow ever since that period.
Sworn to & subscribed before me Judge as aforesaid this 16th day of October A.D. 1837 by the said Josiah H. Hill who is a credible person whose statement is entitled to credit -
Thos. Marvin
Judge of [illegible] Com. Pleas. 

Josiah H. Hill [signature]

State of New York Saratoga County SS: Personally came before [text inserted above crossed out text] me a Justice of the Peace of the aforesaid county [end inserted text] [crossed out text] Judge aforesaid [end crossed out text] who being duly sworn saith that he has examined the old family bible of the above named Daniel Hill and the following record of Marriage is truly taken and copied from the said bible to wit: "Daniel Hill and Mary Vanpelt was married June the Sixth in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty."
--Sworn and Subscribed before me a Justice of the peace fo the County aforesaid
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This 19th day of October AD 1837 by the said Harvey N. Hill who is a credible person and whole statement entitled to credit
Winsor Brown
Justice of the Peace
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 Entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."

State of New York
Saratoga County 

On this twenty second day of August 1840 personally appeared before John Willard Vice Chancellor of the fourth Circuit of the state of New York, John Hill a resident of the town of Wilton in the county aforesaid and Josiah H. Hill of the town of Greenfield in the aforesaid county who being first duly sworn according to law, do on their oaths depose and say that they are two of the surviving children of Mary Hill late of the town of Greenfield aforesaid, who was the widow of Daniel Hill who was a private in the army of the Revolution.  That the said Mary Hill was an applicant for a pension, and died during the pendency of said application. Viz. on the eighteenth day of May 1838. That she left six children surviving her viz. Mary Morris, wife of Joseph Morris, James Hill, Daniel Hill, William Hill, John Hill and Josiah H. Hill. That they verily believe their late mother the aforesaid Mary Hill was entitled to a Pension under the act of Congress of July 7 - 1838. for the proof of which they refer to the Declaration of the said Mary Hill and the proofs accompanying it now on file in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions.

(Signatures)  J H Hill
                      John Hill

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written (the word "(illegible)" struck out & "Vice Chancellor"  inter (illegible) before sworn to) 

John Willard Ch. 4th A (illegible) State of N. Y.
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No. 7340
Mary Hill dec-d NY.
aeb 7.June 38
[followed by several short lines of crossed out words, illegible]
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State of New York
County of Saratoga

I Gidon M. Davison, Clerk of the court of chancery, 4th circuit, (the same being a Court of Record) do hereby certify, that at a Court of Chancery in and for said State before the Vice Chancellor thereof at Saratoga Springs on the 22nd day of August 1840, it was proved by the addition of testimony satisfactory to the said court, that Mary Hill, late of the town of Greenfield in said county died on the eighteenth day of May 1838; that at the time of her death she was an applicant for a Pension and that she left six children her surviving, named Mary Morris wife of Joseph Morris, James Hill, Daniel Hill, William Hill, John Hill and Josiah H Hill, who reside in the state of New York (the word "judge" struck out & Vice Chancellor" inserted)(the word "county" struck out and the word "state" substituted before executed).

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 22nd day of August 1840.

(signature) G. M. Davison, Clerk.
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State of New York
Saratoga County

I, Gideon M. Davison, clerk in Chancery for the 4th circuit, do certify that on the 22nd day of August 1840, John Willard was Vice Chancellor of said 4th circuit. Dated Aug. 22, 1840
(signed) G. M. Davison
Clerk
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FAMILY

BIRTHS
_______

Daniel Hill was born March the 20th 1756

Mary Vanpelt was born April 7th,1758

Mary Hill was born February 26th 1781

James Hill was born July 3rd 1783

Sarah Hill was born August 4th 1785

Daniel Hill was born August 3rd 1787

William Hill was born Nov 6th 1789

John Hill was born Oct 26th 1772

Josiah H. Hill was born April 6th 1738
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RECORD.

MARRIAGES.

__________

Daniel Hill and Mary Vanpelt was married June 6th in the year of our Lord 1780



Exhibit No. 1 ..  A. H. Scott of (illegible)
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Joseph and Mary Morris
Deposetions
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I Mary Morris hereby certify that I am a resident of the County of Saratoga & State of New York that I was born on the 26 day of February 1781 in the year One thousand seven hundred and eighty one and that my birth is recorded in a family bible in the handwriting of my husband Joseph Morris is a correct record that the said record was made in said bible upwards of forty years ago and that the same is coppied in an other family bible of later date & now is in my posession that I am a daughter of Daniel & Mary Hill deceased late of the town of Greenfield County and state aforesaid that the date of my birth was coppied from an original record then in the posession of my said parents 
sworn so subscribed before me
this 31st day of March 1843
Mary x her Morris
the reason of the said Mary Morris making her mark she said she could not write
Obadiah Green Justice Peace
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Joseph Morris was born November 14 1774

Mary hill was born February 26 in the year of four Lord 1781

Joseph Morris and Mary hill was maryed March 8 in the year of our Lord 1798

Nancey Morris and Sarah Morris was born March 24th 1799

Mary Morris was born January the 19 1801

Lyda Morris was born March the 23 1803

James Hill Morris born February 7 1805

Samuel Druman Morris born May 16th 1807

John (illegible) Morris born May (illegible) 1809
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This purports to be register of a man who died 1829
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State of New York
Saratoga County S.
Personally appeared before me A.M. Scott. A Justice of the peace of said county
Joseph H. Hill who being duly sworn smith that he has in his possession the original family Bible of David Hill and that he annexed Cafe Market Exhibit No 1 and signed by said Justice, was by this deponent taken from from the said Bible and contains the true record of Marriage of the said Daniel Hill and Marry his wife sworn to and subscribed before me a Justice of aforesaid this 7th day of March 1838 by the said Joseph H. Hill who is a credible person and whose statement is entitled to credit
Josiah H. Hill
A.H. Scott Justin

An envelope was placed under the handwriting and states as follows:
STATE OF NEW YORK
SARATOGA COUNTY CLERKS OFFICE
SS. I Alpheus Goodrich, Clerk of the county of Saratoga, Do Certify, that Alexander H. Scott before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature
WITNESS my hand and seal of Office, the 8th day of March 1838
AGoodrich Clerk
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A
Daniel Hills and Mary Vanpett was Married June 6th in the year of our lord 1780.
Daniel Hill was born in the year of our lord March 20th 1856.
Mary Vanpett was born April 7th in the year of our Lord 1788
Mary Hill was born February 26th 1781
James Hill was born July 3rd 1783
Sarah Hill was born August 4th 1785
Daniel Hill was born August 3rd 1787
William Hill was born November 6th 1789
John Hill was born October 26th 1792
Josiah H. Hill was born April 7th 
(This is the bottom of the page and the year of the last birth above was not legible)
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This is a page of what looks like a journal. It is more long than wide. There are two words on the top right side that is not legible. And may be foreign words. It is also upside down but can be read as such:  Family record October 25 , 1833
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Harvey N Hill
deposition
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State of New York
Saratoga County (underlined) Be it (not legible) that on the fifth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three before me Abel Meeker a Justice of the Peace of said county appeared Harvey A. Hill and made oath before me as follows I was well acquainted with Daniel Hill now deceased who married in the town of Greenfield in the county of Saratoga he was my grandfather I was frequently at his house in his life time his widow (my grandmother) Mary Hill after his decease came to my fathers house and brought with her among other things their family bible which I had often seen at his house in his lifetime that about ten years ago I copied from a record contained in said bible which copy is hereunto annexed marked “A”  the reason why I made the said annexed copy was my said grandmother gave the said Bible to one of her sons and she requested me to make the said copy for her to keep and preserve, (not legible) a note on the back of the said annexed paper I think I drew the said copy on the 25th day of October 1833

Harvey N. Hill
 
————————
Subscribed and sworn before me this 5th day of April 1843
A. Meeker Justice of the Peace

I certify that I am well acquainted I am well acquainted with the above named Harvey N. Hill tht he is of
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
Saratoga County Clerk's Office

I, Horace Goodrich, Clerk of the County of Saratoga, Do Certify, that Abel Meeker before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature. 
Witness my hand and seal of Office, the 11th day of April 1843.
Horace Goodrich, Clerk
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State of New York
County of Saratoga

I Joseph Morris hereby depose and say that I am a resident of the County and State aforesaid, that I am in the sixty ninth year of my age that I saw in the possession of Daniel Hill a [illegible] book containing a record of Daniel and Mary Hill's family and that I took from that record forty three or four years ago the following record.  Mary Hill daughter of Daniel and Mary Hill, born February 26th 1781 on of the children of the said Daniel and Mary Hill, that the said record is in my own hand writing was written by me in my bible upwards of forty years ago and it is a correct record.
[signed] Joseph Morris

Sworn and subscribed before me this 31st day of March 1843
Obadiah Green, Justice
State of New York
Saratoga County
I Obadiah Green Justice of the Peace in for said county hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Joseph Morris that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Morris and I have examined the said record above alluded to by him and verily believe the said record to be his hand writing and that the leaf containing said record was taken from the said bible now in his possession for the purpose of forwarding to the pension Department and I further certify that a copy of said record also now appears in another bible of later date also now in the possession of said Morris. I verily believe said records to be correct and original and that full faith should be given the said deposition of said Morris as above set forth.  In testimony whereof I have subscribed my name this 31st day of March 1843.
Obadiah Green. J. Peace
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
Saratoga County Clerk's Office

I, Horace Goodrich, Clerk of the County of Saratoga, Do Certify, that Obadiah Green before whom the annexed affidate purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits to be his proper hand writing and signatures. Witness my hand and seal of Office, the 11th day of April 1843
Horace Goodrich, Clerk
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page has no words, just 2 black boxes
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Middletown
Mister Hulse from 1776 - Cpt Carhart Ex
May 1778
June 1778-Jan 1779 said Captain Carhart 
Jun 1779, 6 mo Capt Carhart
1780 Alliant?
July 1781 1 yr Capt Carhart
John Lequier [?] 1779
July 1779 [?]
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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18008
Mary Hill
Wid. of Daniel Hill
Priv. Rev War
Act: July 4, 1836
Index: - Vol. [?] Page 336

(Arrangement of 1870)
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Surogates Certificate
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State of New York
Saratoga County
Surogates Court

I John w. Thompson surogate of said county do hereby certify that on this tenth day of March 1843 before said court at Ballston that in said county it was proved by the adduction of testimony satisfactory to said court that Daniel Hill late of said county died on the twelfth day of July 1829 and that Mary Hill his widow died in said county on the 18th day of May 1838 that at the time of the death of the said Mary she left the following surviving children Mary Morris the wife of joseph Morris now residing in said county of Saratoga James Hill now residing in Fulton County, Daniel Hill now residing in Jefferson County, William Hill who at the time of the death of the said Mary resided in the County of Onondaga John Hill and Josiah H Hill both of whom now reside in the County of Saratoga aforesaid all in the state aforesaid. And that William Hill one of the above named children died in said county of Onondaga on the sixteenth day of August 1840 and that the remaining five above named children are the only children of the said Mary now living and reside of aforesaid, and that each of them is over twenty one years of age. 
In testimony whereof I have thereto set my hands and affixed the seal of said court of the Village of Ballston in said County of Saratoga this tenth day of March 1843.
John W. Thompson, Surogate
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7340
Mary Hill dec'd
NY
Act 7 July 38
[illegible]
from 4 March to 18th May '38 to Mary Morris - James Hill - Danl. Hill, William Hill, John Hill and Josiah Hill only surviving children

Wm Valentine
Albany NY
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Josiah H Hill
Declaration
March 10th 1843
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State of New York
County of Saratoga
Surrogate Court

On this tenth day of March 1843 personally appeared before said court Josiah H. Hill one of the children of Daniel and Mary Hill deceased a resident of the county and the state aforesaid and having been first duly sworn in open court on his oath doth make the following declaration in order to obtain in behalf of the children of said Mary Hill the benefits of the Pension Act of the 4th of July 1836 and for proof of said Daniel Hills services in the Revolutionary and other matters relating unto he refers to the paper already on file in the pension office. He further declares that he is the son of Daniel and Mary Hill deceased that his father died on the twelfth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, and that his mother died on the eleventh day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight and that his said mother Mary Hill was married to the said Daniel Hill on the sixth day of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty and that her said marriage appears on a leaf of a family Bible taken from said Bible and forwarded to the pension department which record is correct in support of which he now offers other proof accompanying this his declaration.
Josiah H. Hill

I John W. Thompson surrogate of said county of Saratoga do hereby certify that the above named Josiah H. Hill personally appeared before said court under oath in due form of law to the [illegible] of the above declaration. In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this tenth day of March 1843.
John W. Thompson, Surrogate
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William Valentine Esq.
Office Dover Buildings,
Albany

Declaration Jonah H Hill
Oct 1843
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State of New York
County of Saratoga
Surrogates Court

On this fifth day of October one thousand eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before said court Josiah H Hill one of the children of Daniel and Mary Hill, deceased, a resident of the County and State aforesaid and being first duly sworn in open court according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain on behalf of the children of the said Mary Hill, the benefits of the pension Act of 4th of July 1836 and for evidence of the said Daniel Hill's services in the Revolution and other matters relating thereto he refers to the documents now on file in the Department. He declares that he is a son of the said Daniel and Mary Hill, deceased, that his said father died on the twelfth day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine and that his said mother died on the eighteenth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight and that his said mother the said Mary Hill was married to the said Daniel Hill on the sixth day of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty in support of which he refers the Department to the proof on file and also offers additional evidence accompanying this his declaration. He further declares that he has received on behalf of the said children, the pension due, under the Act of 7th July 1838. He further declares that he is informed and verily believes that the said marriage took place previous to the last of his said father services in the Revolution. 
Josiah H Hill

Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 5th day of October 1843.
The word "period" [illegible] before execution also the word  "eighteenth" written on and erasure before execution.
John W. Thompson Surrogate

I John W Thompson surrogate as aforesaid do hereby certify that the above named Josiah H Hill personally appeared before said court and made oath in due form of law to the above declaration. In testimony whereof I have the events set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Ballston in said County this 5th day of October 1843.
John W. Thompson, Surrogate
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Office of the Secretary of State
Trenton, New Jersey

State of New Jersey
I James D Westcott, Secretary of State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that I have carefully examined the files in this office, and have not been able to discover among said files, any original company rolls, either of the militia or of the state troops of the county of Monmouth in this state during the war of the revolution.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the city of Trenton in said state, this first day of March, in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and thirty eight. (1838)
James D. Westcott
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Freehold Nov 3, 1837

Sir,
I herein the enclose the papers of Mary Hill widow of Daniel Hill. He served 6 mo in 1779 - see affidavits of Hulse Van Pett [illegible] 1 year in 1781. see affidavit of Wm Van Pett and that Thos Henderson. [illegible] He served 6 mo in militia from June 1778 to June 1779. see affidavits of Hulse & Wm Van Pett. He also served 6 mo in 1780 in militia see same affidavits.  To show that Carhart Company was in service during those periods, I refer you to Col. Holmes pay abstracts attached to the paper of Margaret Allen & Sarah Hyer - and also to Henderson, Margin - I hope you will examine this case soon, for the old lady is very impatient, and she had the misfortune of having her papers lost last winter by the fire at the post office as is supported. She resides in New York, but you will be good enough to forward the certificate to me. 
Yours Respect etc
JM Hartshorne
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace of said county Matthias Halse who being duly sworn saith that he is a surviving soldier of the Revolution aged eighty years & upward that he was well acquainted with Daniel Hill in the Revolutionary War, and knows that the said Daniel Hill belonged to & served in Capt. Samuel Carhart's Company of Militia of said county during said war. That this deponent was taken prisoner in the early part of the war and remained such prisoner until the month of May 1778, when he returned home, and found the said Daniel Hill a private in the said Capt Carhart's Company that the said Daniel Hill served in the said Company under the said Capt. at least every other month in tours of one month each from June 1778 until June 1779, making at least six months actual service. That this deponent cannot state the exact day of the beginning & ending of each monthly tour, but this deponent knows that the said Daniel Hill, served as aforesaid for the deponent belonged to the same Company and served the same tours with the said Daniel Hill. That in the month of June 1779 the said Daniel Hill joined a company of state troops for six months under Capt Samuel Carhart and served a tour of six months under the said Captain beginning in June 1779 and ending in December of the same year. This deponent belonged to the same company and served the same tour of six months with the said Daniel Hill. That in the year 1780 the said Daniel Hill belonged & served in the said Captain Samuel Carhart's Company of militia at least every other month in tours of one month each making at least six months service during the year last mentioned. That it is impossible to state the exact
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time of the beginning and ending of each monthly tour, yet he is positive as to the service aforesaid for this deponent belonged to & served in the same company the tours aforesaid with the said Daniel Hill. That during all the above mentioned service their head quarters were at Mount Pleasant in the Township of Middleton, the shores and frontiers of which township they guarded and defended from the depredations of the enemy. That a continual guard was kept up along said shore by the militia and state troops during the Revolutionary War. That Thomas Hunn was mayor, Elisha Holmes Col & David Forman General. He further states that Daniel Hill was married to Mary Van Pett as it was reputed and believed in the neighborhood, and as he verily believes during the Revolutionary War and that they lived together as man and wife while they lived in the county. That said Daniel Hill with his wife and family removed from this county to the state of new York upward of thirty years ago. 
His mark    x
Matthias Hulse

Sworn to & subscribed before me Justice of aforesaid this Second day of November A.D. 1837 by the said Matthias Hulse who is a credible person & whose statement is entitled to credit.
Thomas J. Bedle Justice
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County

Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace of said county, William Van Pett who being duly sworn deponent and saith that he is a surviving soldier of the Revolution aged seventy seven years & upwards that he was well acquainted with Daniel Hill in the Revolutionary War, and knows that the said Daniel Hill belonged to and served in Capt Samuel Carhart's company of militia at least every other month in tours of one month each from March 1778 until June 1779. for this deponent belonged to the same company during the same period and served the said tours with the said Daniel Hill making at least seven months actual service during the said period above mentioned. That the head quarters of said company were at Mount Pleasant in the township of Middletown, the shores and frontier of which township they guarded and defended from the ravages of the enemy. Previous to March 1778 this deponent belonged & served in another company. That in the year 1780 the said Daniel Hill belonged to & served in the said Captain Samuel Carhart's company of militia at least every other month in tours of one month each from January of that year until January 1781. Making at least six months service in the year 1780. This deponent belonged to the same company & served the tours aforesaid with the said Daniel Hill. That their head quarters and duties were the same as above mentioned. That Hurme was major, Holmes Col., Forman General and he further states that in June 1779 the said Daniel Hill joined a company of state troops under Capt Carhart & served a tour of six months commencing in June 1779 and ending in December same year, that this deponent served in the same company the same tours of six months with the said
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Daniel Hill & that their duties & officers were the same as above mentioned and he further states that in January 1781 the said Capt Carhart massed a company for one year and that the said Daniel Hill enlisted in said company & served a tour of one year commencing in January 1781 & ending in January 1782 that this deponent belonged to the same company & served the said term of one year with the said Daniel Hill and that the served frontier duties & officers were the same as above mentioned.
William Van Pett

Sworn to & subscribed before me  Justice as aforesaid this 21st November 1837 by the said William Van Pett who is a credible person & whose statement is entitled to credit. 
Thomas J. Bedle Justice

State of New Jersey Monmouth County:
Personally appeared before me Judge of the court of common please in and forsaid county James M Hartshone who being duly sworn saith that he hath examined the margin of Thomas Henderson Esq [illegible] to settle with the militia of the county of Monmouth at the close of the Revolutionary War, now in the office of the Treasurer of this state, and that the following extract is truly taken and copied from the said margin:
[illegible] 44
Daniel Hill
L 33.0.10
May 1st, 1784
which margin is the same margin of Thomas Henderson mentioned in the affidavit of Hon J. D. Wale attached to the papers of David Baird. Sworn to & subscribed before me Judge as aforesaid this 3rd Nov. 1837 by the said James M Hartshorne who is a credible person and whose statement is entitled to credit.
Thos C Throckmorton
J. M. Hartshorne
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
Personally appeared before me Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Please of said county John Lequier who being duly sworn deposed and saith that he is a surviving  soldier of the Revolution. That he was well acquainted with Daniel Hill the husband of Mary Hill in the Revolutionary War, and he knows that the said Daniel Hill belonged to and served in Capt. Samuel Carhart's company of militia of Col. Holmes regiment for a tour of six months commencing in June and ending in December in the year 1779. That this deponent being quite a lad was taken prisoner by the enemy in the spring of 1779 and when he returned home in July of the same year he found a company enlisted under Capt. Carhart for six months and stationed at Mount Pleasant in Middletown as their head quarters and that the said Daniel HIll was a soldier in said company and enlisted for the term aforesaid as he was then informed, and the deponent frequently saw the said Daniel Hill in the said company during the said tour of six months, equiped and under arms as a soldier. and he has no doubt but that the said Daniel Hill enlisted in said company & served out his full tour of six months as aforesaid. That he recollects the said Daniel Hill after the six month tour, still continued to serve in Capt Carhart's company of militia in the year 1780, as often as the militia were called out which he thinks was at least every other month for this deponent frequently saw him in said company and served therein with him during the said time, that the duty which they performed was to guard the shore and frontier of Middletown which was much exposed to the enemy. That the said Daniel Hill continued to serve in said company until the close of the war
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County

Personally appeared before me Judge of the Court of Common Please of said county John C Van Pett who being duly sworn saith that he is the brother of Mary Hill an applicant for a pension who is the widow of Daniel Hill. That he is sixty nine years of age and upwards. That he recollects being present and witnessing the marriage between the said Danile Hill and his sister Mary at the house of the deponent's father in the month of June 1780. That this deponent was then upwards of twelve years of age & recollects that they were married by Peter Scheuch Esq Justice of the Peace of the County of Monmouth. That the said Daniel Hill & Mary his wife lived together as man and wife ever after that period and were reputed & believed in the neighborhood to be so. That the said Daniel & Mary Hill removed from New Jersey into the state of New York upwards of thirty years since, where they have lived together until the death of the said Daniel Hill. And this deponent further knows that the said Daniel Hill frequently
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went out into the service in Capt. Carhart's company and knows that he was reputed and believed in the neighborhood to be a good soldier and ever has been so reputed since that period. 
John C Van Pett

Sworn to & subscribed before me Judge as aforesaid Sept 28th, 1837 by the said John Van Pett who is a credible person and whose statement is entitled to credit.
Joseph Goodenough

State of New Jersey Monmouth County:
I Daniel H. Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of ________________the county of Monmouth and state aforesaid do hereby certify that Joseph Goodenough before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the dates then a Judge of the said court duly enrolled in my office and commissioned and qualified as such and that his signature thereto are genuine. 
And I do hereby further certify that Thomas J Bedle, before whom the annexed affidavits were sworn is now and was at the dates thereof a Justice of the Peace in aforesaid county duly enrolled commissioned and qualified as such, and that his signatures to the same are genuine. And I do hereby further certify that Thomas C. Throckmorton before which the annexed affidavit of J. M. Hartshorne was sworn is now and was at the date thereof a Judge of the said court duly enrolled, commissioned and qualified as such judge and that his signature to the jurat of the said affidavit is genuine. 
In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal of office this 3rd day of November A.D. 1837
DD. H. Ellis
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State of New York
Saratoga County
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Pease for said county Josiah H. Hill & John Hill who being duly sworn say that the marriage record taken from the Bible of Daniel Hill & sent to the Department was copied from a Record in an old Psalm book now in the possession of widow Mary Hill about the year Eighteen Hundred Seventy Six but by when these deponents cannot say. And further these deponents say that the said Psalm Books was rebound some years after the said record was copied from it. Their doing this the said record which was all a blank leaf at the end of the book was lost or destroyed. 
And these deponents further say that they have seen the record in the said Psalm book believed the source to have been in the hand writing of said Daniel Hill, that they have also seen the copy of the same in the Bible & Believe it to be a correct copy of the original. 
Josiah H Hill
John Hill

Sworn & subscribed before me this 16th day of May A.D. 1838 by the said Josiah H. Hill & John Hill who are credible persons & whos statements are entitled to credit.
Ransom Cook, Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF NEW YORK
Saratoga County Clerk's Office
I Alphous Goodrich, Clerk of the county of Saratoga, Do Certify that Ransom Cook before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature. 
Witness my hand and seal of office, the 23th day of September 1838
A. Goodrich, Clerk
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James Hill
Deposition
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State of New York
County of Fulton

I James Hill hereby depose today that I am a resident of the aforesaid county & state that I am in the sixtieth year of my age that I am a son of Daniel and Mary Hill deceased late of the town of Greenfield County of Saratoga and state aforesaid that I have in my possession a certain Hymn book formaly in the possession and the property of way said parents that it has been in my possession about five or six years that the said book has been newly bound and that sometime previous to its being so bound I believe it to have contained a certain family record and part of said record has been lost by so binding and part still remains in said book and I am confident that the part which remains is the aforesaid Daniel Hill hand writing and the said part agreed with the record contained in the Bible. 
James Hill

Sworn & Subscribed
before me this 24th day
of March 1893
Allen Burr Justice of the Peace

State of New York
County of Fulton
I Allen Burr Justice of the Peace in & for said county hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named James Hill & that he is of good moral character & a competent & credible witness & that I verily believe full forth & credit may be given to his deposition as [illegible] set forth and I further certify that the Hymn Book above alluded to by him I have examined & I find that it to have been newly bound & that there is as I believe new blank lines in it & the [illegible] have been inserted therein at a much later date than the other part of the book. And I further certify that his entire [illegible] I hereby believe is entitled to the most [illegible] confidence in witness through I have hereto set my hand this 24th day of March 1843.
Allen Burr Justice of the Peace
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Fulton County 
I certify that in the written affidavit that the word fifty-ninth in the third line was erased & that of sixteenth inserted before execution.
Allen Burr Justice
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State of New York
Fulton County Clerk's office
I Stephen Wait Clerk of the said County of Fulton do hereby certify that Allen Burr the person before whom the forgoing affidavit of James Hill purports to have been taken and who subscribed the said affidavit and the certified following the same as Justice of the peace, was at the date and time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, dwelling therein, elected and sworn, and by the laws of the State of New York duly authorized to take the same, and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe that his name subscribed to the same is his genuine signature. In testimony whereof I have herunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of same county this first day of April 1843.
S. Wait Clerk
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State of new York
City & County of Albany
On this 6th day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty five, personally appeared before me Gerrit Gates. A Justice of the Justice Court in and for said city & county Josiah H Hill, who being first duly sworn according to law, deposeth that he is one of the children of Mary Hill deceased, late of Saratoga County, and is now on a temporary visit to said city. That he now makes this deposition for the purpose of soliciting the pension Department to [illegible] the pension case in which he was one of the children named in the pension certificate issued to the children of the said Mary Hill. He further deposeth that the reason for asking a reinvestigation of the case is that he has been informed & believes that there has been filed in the pension office sufficient record or other evidence to have entitled the claimants to a full pension. If so, he now asks the Department to grant the difference between the amount which has been allowed to that which the said children may be entitled to.
Josiah H Hill

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day of March 1845.
Gerrit Gates, Justice & Court of Deeds

I certify that Gerrit Gates is one of the Justices of the Justice Court of the city of Albany and that his signature to the above informent is his own proper hand writing. In witness hereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court this 6th day of March 1845.
David Holt, Clerk
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Ref by letter to Page
May 23rd '43
Wm Valentine May 30, 1843

No 7282
New York
Mary Hill, deceased, who died 18 May, 1838, widow of Daniel Hill
[crossed out] who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the 12th July 1829 of Saratoga Cty in the State of New York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Carhart of the Regs commanded by Col Holmes in time for 18 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 60 Dollars --Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. Terminating on the 18th May, 1838, the day her death.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd day of May 1843 and sent to Wm Valentine Albany New York.
Total Amount, $127.32
(Act July 7, 1838)
Recorded by Wm Stewart Clerk
Book A Vol 2 Page 84
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Hon: Jos F. Randolph
Ho: of Representatives
Washington City
D.C.
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March 15th 1838

D. Sir
In Mr. Edwards letter to you of the 16th Feby. last, he says that to sustain the claims to service in Col. Holmes regiment, the original payroll must be produced. There are no original pay rolls of that regiment to be found as will appear by the certificate of the Secretary of State and the Treasurer of New Jersey herewith enclosed, and also by the affidavit of John M. Holmes attached to the papers of Margaret Allen & Sarah Hill. The originals being lost, the abstracts of payrolls made in the hand writing of Col Holmes himself are certainly good evidence (see abstracts attached to the paper of Margaret Allen & Sarah Hill)
The claimant Mary Hill, claims for 6 months in Capt Carharts company in 1779 beg in June & ending in Dec  - proved by Hulse & Van Pett - and supported by Col. Holmes abstracts - also for 1 year 1781 under Carhart proved by a survivor Van Pett and supported by the margin of Thomas Henderson (see certificate of Treasurer herewith enclosed, brother of Senator Southard who can vouch for his signature re: if necessary). the above were under enlistments in state troops. 
She also claimed for 6 months in militia from June 1778 to June 1779, and 6 months in 1780, both of which are fully [illegible]. [written above] by the writing of Col Holmes abstracts.
I herewith transmit the certificate of the treasurer and the bible leaf containing marriage record, as requested by W. Edwards letter. For further particulars in this case I refer to my letter heretofore sent to the department.
You will please attend to this and oblige.
Your friend,
J M Hartshorne

Hon: Jos F. Randolph
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[written on the side]
NJ. Oct 3
Add: Proof
Mary Hill
of Daniel

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington City D.C.
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[illegible] Sept 29th 1888

Sir,
I herewith enclose some additional evidence respecting the marriage of Mary Hill widow of Daniel Hill. It appears by this evidence that the original record of the marriage was recorded in an old Psalm Book by Daniel Hill himself & was copied from that upon the bible leaf now on your files, by whom it was copied is not known probably some years since. From your last letter of March 21, 1838 the only objection is as to the proof of marriage. 
The service claimed for is 6 months, coms in June & ends in Dec 1779. 6 months in 1780. Proved by Wm Van Pett & Matthias Hulse survivors & the abstracts of Col. Holmes sent to the department with the paper of Jane Vanderbelt, copies of which are attached to the papers of Margaret Allen & others. 
1 year in 1781 - proved by Wm. Van Pett a survivor and by Thomas Henderson's margin in which there was due him $33.0.10 New Jersey currency equal to $88 [scribbled] at the close of the war. 
Service generally & reputation as a soldier proved by John Lequier & John Van Pett.
The marriage independent of the records is proved by John Van Pett who was present. 
Yours Respectfully etc
J. M. Hartshome

J. L. Edwards Esq
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It is possible that the record may have been made ten years ago, but in all such cases there should be evidence as to the time when it is probable that the record was made, and by whom.
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No. 44
Daniel Hill
$33.0.10
May 1st 1784
I Isaac Southard Treasurer of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing is truly copied from the original margin of Thomas Henderson Esquire Commissioner affidavits by the Legislature of New Jersey to settle with the militia of the County of Monmouth at the close of the Revolutionary War which margin now remains in my office. And I do hereby further certify that there are no payrolls of the militia or state troops of the county of Monmouth relating to the said war, now remaining in my office.
Witness my hand (having no seal of office) at Trenton this ninth day of March AD. 1838
Isaac Southard, Treas.
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[written in different directions on the page]

May 2 1840
NY & NJ
M. Hill

J. L Edwards Esq
Commissioner & Treasury
Washington

Hon Aaron Brown
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[illegible] May 1st 1840

I send you the attached for your consideration
Respectfully yours
Anson Brown
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commisioner of Pensions
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Greenfield Centre June 27 1840
To. J. L. Edward Esq

Sir
Your letter to Mr. Brown of the 4th [illegible] respecting the claim of Mrs Hill to a Pension, has been forwarded to me. By it I perceive that the claim has been rejected from doubts as to the authenticity of the family record sent to the Department in support of the Declaration. If there was anything wrong in relation to that record it should be attributed to the circumstances under which it was procured and sent, and not to any intention of the claimant or her representatives to impose on the Department.
Mr. J. H. Hill who undertook to procure a Pension for his Mother is unacquainted with business of this kind, and having unfortunately for him been induced to employ a very respectable attorney in New Jersey where most of the witnesses reside it is not strange that many mistakes and omissions should happen which might have been avoided had Mr. Hartshorne been present where he could have known all the circumstances. More the manner in which the record was referred to in the depositions which accompanied the declaration and from the tenor of Mr. Hartshornes letter calling for the family record, Mr. Hill supposed that it was required as it then stood, and procured and forwarded it accordingly without the explanation afterwards given. Had the record been intended as the original family record it would have been sent with the declaration. As to the credibility of the witnesses who testified in relation to the record, it can be explained by the depositions of very many of the first respectability.
This is a case of peculiar hardship. Here where Mrs. Hill and her family are known, no doubts to the justness of the claim
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exist, but [crossed out] and the Declaration is corroborated by the age of the claimant and the ages of her children and by the fact that one of her descendants of the fourth generation is now a soldier in the service of the United States. Her son who undertook this business is a poor man, obliged to support a numerous family by his daily labour. For this reason the claim has lingered for several years. Having once at considerable expense procured the testimony and forwarded it by its miscarriage or probably by the burning of the general Post Office he was obliged to go over the whole again, and to do this he was under the necessity of appealing to the sympathy of his neighbours. 
Even should the record by thrown wholly aside they have with the deposition of a credible witness who was present at the marriage which fixes it at or near the time stated in the declaration.
In regard to the second paragraph of your letter, I cannot perceive why the testimony shows more conclusively that the marriage took place before Jan 17984 than that it took place on the 6th June 1788. If however the commissioner still decides against the claim, and the heirs of Mrs Hill (as she is now dead) can obtain what she would have been entitled to under the act of 1838. Mr Hill wishes the instructions of the department as to the course to be pursued to obtain it.
With the greatest respect your obl. servt.
C. G. Pettit
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Greenfield Centre Sept 7 [blotted out]
Sir
Enclosed is the application of John Hill and Josiah H Hill for the pension with their Mother would have been entitled to under the act of July 1838 and the certificate of the clerk in chancery for the fourth circuit.
Although they still believe their mother was entitled to the benefit of the act of 1836, from the circumstances of the case they are induced to apply under the act of 1838 and with a confident hope that the papers now sent may prove satisfactory and that a speedy decision will be made they submit it to the commissioner. 
On the 15th of July I enclosed the certificate of the comptroller of this state in relation to the claim of Susannah Allen widow of James Allen, to the department. If that certificate has not reached the office, will you have the goodness to inform me.
Respectfully your Obt Servt
C G Pettit
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Sept 10 - 1840
NY
[illegible]
Mary Hill
[postal seal in black to the left, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Sept 8]

Hon J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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J. L. Edwards Esq
comm of Pensions
Washington city D.C.

Mary Hill
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[illegible]
April 22 1842

Sir
In your letter to me of the 25th June 1839, you state that "unless the alleged marriage (of Mary Hill with Daniel Hill) "can be established by a very high grade of proof she will not be allowed a pension under the act of 4 July 1836". This was in relation to the application of Mary HIll widow of Daniel Hill. I Inferred from the tenor of your letter that a pension under the act of July 7 1838 would be granted to her under that proof of the marriage. Will you be good enough to inform me whether the proof of the marriage now at the pension office will be sufficient to allow her a pension under the latter act. I make the enquiry now in order to save her the trouble and necessity of making a new application in case the decision should be against her. I know that I may perhaps be considered premature in this application and in a court of justice the objection might be successfully urged, but in a Department of the Government, which professes to act upon liberal and enlayed principles and which is not tied down by any technical rules, I do not consider the objection a
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good one. The applicant lives in the state of New York and I do not wish to subject her to the expense of another declaration if your decision should be against her. And in making her new declaration she would merely refer to the proof now on file in your office, and you can just as well make the decision now as then.
Yours Most Respectfully 
J. M. Hartshorne

J. L. Edwards Esq Com of Pensions
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Albany April 13th 1843
J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir
I herewith enclose the declaration & additional proofs in the case of the children of Mary Hill, widow of Daniel Hill, both deceased late of Greenfield, Saratoga County, N.Y. It appears by letters from the Dept. in 1839 & 40 to J. M. Hartshorn of N. J. and C. G. Pettit Esq of Saratoga Co N. Y. that the claim was rejected under the Act of 4th July 1836 for want of satisfactory evidence as to the date of the marriage.
I would now offer the enclosed additional proof in the case, and verily believe that the Dept will discover that the alleged date of the marriage is correctly & honestly asserted.
I would here remark that in the last claim of the deposition of James Hill relative to part of a certain record, it was intended to have stated that the date (not the hand writing) of the certain  part agreed with the one in the bible, meaning to refer to the record forwarded to the previous office.
I have forwarded the Hymn Book that contains the original record in order that the Dept may be perfectly satisfied that it has blank leaves inserted evidently more new than the others thereby showing that others have been in their place & also from the fact that what does there appear in this shape of record perfectly agrees as to the date with the record attached to the deposition of Harvy N Hill herewith enclosed.  It will also be observed that the record of Joseph Morris also agrees with the record of said H. N. HIll.
If I am correctly informed, it appears in evidence already.
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on file in the Dept that the leaves containing the original record of their marriage was lost when at the binder.
In conclusion, should the records herewith furnished harmonise as I believe they will, with the one on file the evidence will be irresistable & no doubt so considered by the Dept.
I am Yours very respectfully 
and Obt. Servt.
Wm Valentine

P.S. Please return the Book
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Potter Johnson
&
Elihu Wing
Deposition
Apr 14th 1843
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State of New York
Saratoga County

Potter Johnson having duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is a resident of the Town of Greenfield in said County of Saratoga and that he was well acquainted with Daniel Hill and Mary his wife, late of the Town of Greenfield deceased and was acquainted with them all the time they lived in the said Town of Greenfie4ld until their death and that the said Daniel Hill came into the said Town about the time this deponent did, and that is forty years or more, and that the said Daniel Hill and Mary his wife did live together as man and wife, all the time they did live in said Town and until they were separated by death, and that they had a family of children and a number of them were born before they came into said Town. Mary, James, Sally, William, Daniel & John were the names of said children, whom I am acquainted with, and states he was informed by the said Daniel Hill in his lifetime that he came from the state of New Jersey and tis deponent saith that his age is sixty six years past.
Potter Johnson

Subscribed and sworn before me April 14th 1843
John William Justice of the Peace

Saratoga County I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Potter Johnson above named and that he is a man of truth and veracity and that his declaration can be fully relied in April 14 1843
John Williams Justice of the Peace
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[handwritten on top and then partially obscured with a typed section]
Saratoga County
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Potter Johnson above named and that he is a man of truth and veracity....

State of New York
Saratoga County Clerk's Office
I, Horace Goodrich, Clerk of the County of Saratoga, Do certify, that John Williams before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and seal of Office, the 19 day of April 1843
Horace Goodrich Clerk
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State of New York
Saratoga County
Elihu Wing of the Town of Greenfield in the County of Saratoga being duly affirmed deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Daniel Hill late of the Town of Greenfield aforesaid deceased and that he has been acquainted with him and his wife Mary ever since they came into the said Town being thirty five years or more and that they had several children when they came into the town and that the said Daniel Hill & Mary his wife dc'd live together as man and wife until they were separated by death, and that the names of the children belonging to them at the said time they came into the said Town is as follows: Mary who married Joseph Morris, James, Sully, William, John & Daniel all of which I am well acquainted with and further this deponent saith not.
Elihu Wing

Subscribed and affirmed to before me April 14th 1843
John Williams Justice of the Peace

Saratoga County
The above named Elihu Wing is a resident of the Town of Greenfield and that I am personally acquainted with him and that he is a person of truth and veracity and that the most implied confidence can be placed in his declaration.
John Williams Justice of the Peace
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[written on the side]
May 29 48
Mary Hill
NY ------------38

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City
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Albany May 26th 1843

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
In the case of the children of Mary Hill, a pension certificate under the Act of 4 July 1838 has been rec'd.
Relation to which may I be permitted to enquire if the case was not intended to have been paced under the act of 4th July 1836. If not so intended, the  reason of its rejection under said Act, was the date of marriage insufficient or is there no proof of service subsequent to the marriage on file in the Dept.
I am Yours very respectfully and Obt Servt
Wm Valentine
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Deposition for 
David Lambertson
& 
John Laguier
Sept 29th 1843
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
On the twenty ninth day of September 1843. David Lambertson appeared in person before this subscriber a justice of the peace of said county and being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is a resident of this township of South Amboy in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey that he is eighty two years of age and upwards and acquainted with Daniel Hill and Mary Van Pett before their marriage. Knows they were married by common reports. Knew them while they lived together as man and wife and they were reputed to have been lawfully married. Knows said Daniel Hill was in native service. As an American soldier during the revolutionary war and after he was married knows it from the acquaintance he had with him said Hill served out his own time and then hired as a substitute for some others. Recollects said Daniel Hill was one of a company who took a small boat from the traders with the enemy and brought her to Middletown Point and said that this last circumstance was toward the close of the war and after he was married. Thinks said Hill continued in the service until the end of the war. Said Hill lived near the line of Monmouth and Middlesex counties and was always considered as ready to go into active service at every alarm. 
David Lamberson

Sworn and Subscribed as above stated
David Warner Justice

David Lamberson is reputed to be a man of truth [illegible]
James Rogers
Minister of [illegible] Church
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County

On the twenty ninth day of September eighteen hundred and forty three. John Laguier appeared in person before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said county. And being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he is a resident of the township of Middletown in said county. That he is seventy eight years of age and upwards. Was acquainted with Daniel Hill and Mary Van Pett before their marriage. Knows that they were married by common reports. He deponent living as neighbor to them knows that they lived together as man and wife and were always reputed to have been lawfully married. Said Daniel Hill and wife lived in the neighborhood with deponent till some time after the cloes of the war. Said Hill and deponent were frequently out together in watching the enemy. Knows that said Hill done service after his marriage from the facts that deponent had his leg broken in the year 1781 or 82 and that said HIll had deponents gun while deponent was confined. When said Hill and wife remove from the neighborhood of deponent he understands they were going somewhere above Albany. Said Hill and wife lived together as man and wife the whole time of their residence in his neighborhood thinks they had some children before they removed. Does not recollect how many. Deponent is of the opinion that said Daniel Hill was in service during the whole or nearly the whole of the war. He knows him to do anything else for a living during the war. 
John Laguier

Sworn and subscribed as above stated
David Warner Justice
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
I, Samuel Moris Clerk of the Court of Common Please in and for said county, do hereby certify that David Warner, before whom the several foregoing depositions were taken, was at the time of taking the same, and now is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said county of Monmouth, duly commissioned and sworn and enrolled in said office, and that full faith and credit is due and owing to all of his official acts as such. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Freehold this twenty ninth day of September A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
S. Moris Clerk

I have known John Laguier the within named deponent some fifteen years and his general reputation for truth and veractiy has always been as it now is - good. 
David Warner
Justice of the Peace
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Letter
Oct 4th 1843
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Albany Oct 4th 1843

Sir
I herewith enclose the declaration and additional evidence in the case of the children of Mary Hill, deceased, under the Act of 4th of July 1836---
It is believed, and I trust by the evidence now furnished with that which appears on file, the case will be decided fully established, and thus admitted by the Department. I would remark that, a few weeks since, a certificate was issued under the Act of 4th July 1838

I am Yours very respectfully
and Obt Servt
Wm. Valentine

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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Sept 16 44
Hill

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Albany N.Y. Sept 12th 1844

Sir
In the case of the children of Daniel and Mary Hill deceased to whom a pension certificate was opened under the Act of 4th July 1836 on the 22nd of January last I am informed as the opinion of the children that there was at last two years service established by word evidence. I therefore have thought proper to enquire if the proof on file shows that to be the fact, it appears by the amount allowed per anum that only eighteen months service was allowed, it was named to me at the time but I had supposed it was their mistake, but as they seem to insist upon it that more than eighteen months was established I have thought proper to make the enquiry.
I am yours very respectfully,
Wm Valentine

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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[written on the side]
D.C. Mar 17
Mary Hill N.J.
add-proof

E. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington City

Hon Jos F Randolph
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Sir
I enclosed some additional [illegible] from W. Hartshorn in the case of Mrs. Mary Hill. be so good as to then attend to.

Yours
Jos. F. Randolph
March 16, 1838

J. L. Edwards Esq
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Albany N.Y. July 1st 1845

Sir
I herewith return the deposition of Josiah H. Hill with the amendment required by your letter of the 2 of May last.
I am yours very respectfully
Wm Valentine

J. L. Edwards Esq
Court of Pensions
Washington
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Albany N.Y. March 9th 1845
Sir, I herewith enclose the Declaration of Josiah H Hill one of the children of Mary Hill, deceased, for an increase of pension, 
I am Your very respectfully 
M. Valentine

J.S. Edwards Esq
court of pensions
Washington