Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5,530, Humphrey Hill, Va.
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Va.   Hill, Humphrey  S.5530
carded
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121
Virginia
Humphrey Hill of Culpepper Co. in the State of Virginia who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Scott of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Green in the Va line, for the term of 18 months from the year 1780 to the year 1781

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of Sixty Dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of July 1832 and delivered to Col. Jos. Watson Presenter

Arrears to 4th of March 1832                 60.00
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept. 1832    30.00
                          $90.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Acts 7 June 1832.}

Recorded Book D: Vol 7 Page 10

(right panel, written vertically)
Dup. cert issued April 11 1833
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(illegible) in July 23

2 (illegible)  
Paid 25

Col. Joseph Watson
Washington City D.C.
For Mail
$60 per ann.
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    Woodville Culpeper County, Va  July 23rd 1832

Col. Watson,
Dr Sir,
     I herewith send you the claim of Humphrey Hill a soldier of the Revolution, who was an eighteen month man, prepared according to the form from the War Department.  You will please let me hear from you (paper is folded) this claim as soon as you ascertain the necessary information respecting of it. I forwarded by mail some claims prepared by the form which you first sent me which I expect are at hand on this.  You can please give this your attention and likewise inform me as soon as you can whether they will answer in the present form.
             (illegible)             
             Your ob)dt. Servt.
             Wm. Walden

Recd. 28th July 1832, having been absent.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1932.

 State of Virginia }  S.
 Culpeper County }

     On this 16 day of July 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the justices of the Court of Culpeper, now sitting, Humphrey Hill resident of the County of Culpeper and State of Virginia, aged sixty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7 of June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served
 as herin stated  he was detailed or drafted as the man, which his class was required to furnish, under a Law of the State of Virginia or of Congress for and during the term of
eighteen months, the Militia of the State being divided into Classes, as well as his recollection serves him, of twelve men each, and each class was required to furnish a man for and during the said Term of eighteen months; that he entered the service in Captain Scott’s Company, which was made up from drafts raised in the same way, and for the same length of time in the year 1780, the day and month not now recollected, and that he was discharged some time in the month of November 1781. that he resided in the County of Middlesex in the state of Virginia, when he was drafted or detailed as the person which his class was bound to furnish, that his service was rendered altogether in North Carolina and
South Carolina and Georgia,
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 that when first called out he marched with his company to Chesterfield Court House Virginia and quartered there a short time, and from thence to North Carolina, that shortly after he was engaged in taking Thompson’s Fort in North Carolina, a place occupied principally by tories, with a few British Soldiers, that he was at the investment and Siege of Ninetysix in North Carolina and engaged in the Battle at Guilford Courthouse  in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Green of Culpeper County Virginia, which Battle
 was fought under the command of General Nathaniel Green. Colonel Green’s Regiment was detailed that day as a reserve, and covered the retreat of the army after the engagement 
and afterwards was in the Battle of the Eutaw Springs in the same Regiment, commanded by
Col. Green, that he was discharged at Salisbury, North Carolina in the month of November 1781, in Captain John Anderson’s Company, in said Green’s Regiment; and that his discharge has been lost, never supposing its retention would be of any service to him. The fact of his belonging to Green’s Regiment which were of eighteen month’s men, he can prove by two respectable witnesses now living who were in
 the Southern Campaign of 1781, to wit Muscoe Newman and John Breedlove the latter named person resides in Madison County, and is very infirm, and he fears he cannot avail himself of his testimony if it is required, that he should attend a Court of Record to depose to the fact, that he has no documentary testimony to prove his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
     Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
                          Humphrey Hill
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We Daniel Brown residing in the County of Culpeper and State of Virginia and Thomas Hill residing in the county of Culpeper hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Humphrey Hill who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration;  that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age;  that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
     Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
                            Daniel Brown
                            Thomas Hill

     And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier as proved by the positive testimony of Muscoe Newman a credable (sic) witness who testified to the fact of service of the said Humphrey Hill.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Daniel Brown, who has signed the preceding Certificate resides in the County of Culpeper, and that Thomas Hill, who has also signed the same is a resident of the aforesaid County are credible persons and that their statements is entitled to credit. 
     I Francis T. Lightfoot clerk of the Court of Culpeper County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Humphrey Hill (seal is over words.)
(seal)
     In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and Seal of office this 20th day of July 1832.
            F.T. Lightfoot
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Know all men by these presents;  that I Humphrey Hill of the County of Culpeper, in the State of Virginia do hereby constitute and appoint Col. Joseph Watson of Washington City my true and lawfull attorney with the power of substitution, for me and in my name, to receive from the United States the amount of pay now due to me under the act entitled "An Act supplementary to an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution, approved the 7th June 1832 as a private in Capt. John Andersons Company, in the Regiment Commanded by Col. John Green in the line of the Army of the Revolution. 
Witness my hand this 20th day of July 1832.
               Humphrey X Hill
                  (X his mark)

Signed Sealed and Delivered in presence of
Wm Walden

Before me William Walden a justice of the peace in the county of Culpeper in the State of Virginia personally appeared this day Humphrey Hill whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of attorney, and acknowledged the same to be his act and Deed, and also declared that the same was not given by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment, levy, seizure by any legal process whatever of the pay therein authorised to be reasoned but that the said pay is intended to issued wholly to his personal benefit.  Witness my hand, this 20th day of July 1832.
                      Wm. Walden  (seal)
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I Francis T. Lightfoot Clerk of the Court of the County of Culpeper, in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that William Walden, before whom the foregoing power of attorney was acknowledged is a justice of the peace.
(seal) 
     In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this 20th day of July 1832.
              F.T. Lightfoot
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Rev War
5530
INVALID.
OWN

File no. 5530
Humphrey Hill
Pri Rev War

Act:  June 7th 32
Index:- Vol. M, Page 172

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Know all men by these presents; that I Humphrey Hill of the County of Culpeper, in the State of Virginia do hereby constitute and appoint Col. Joseph Watson of Washington City my true and lawfull attorney with the power of substitution, for me and in my name, to receive from the United States the amount of pay now due to me under the act entitled "An Act supplementary to an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution, approved the 7th June 1832 as a private in Capt. John Anderson's Company, in the Regiment Commanded by Col. John Green in the line of the Army of the Revolution.
Witness my hand this 20th day of July 1832.
Humphrey X Hill
(X his mark)

Signed Sealed and Delivered in presence of
Wm Walden

Before me William Walden a justice of the peace in the county of Culpeper in the State of Virginia personally appeared this day Humphrey Hill whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power
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power of attorney, and acknowledged the same to be his act and Deed, and also declared that the same was not given by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment, levy, seizure by any legal process whatever of the pay therein authorized to be reasoned but that the said pay is intended to issued wholly to his personal benefit. Witness my hand, this 20th day of July 1832.
Wm. Walden
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Humphrey Hill an applicant for a pension forwarded to Col. Jos. Watson of Washington City, his declaration &c. to apply to the pension departments to be placed on the List of Pensioners through me, That I received from Col. Watson sometime in the month of September or October last past, information that the claim has been allowed and that the department would forward directly to me Hill's certificate that I never received such certificate and I am perfectly satisfied that Hill never received it.  Col Watson informed me that he saw the certificate later it was made only that he had it in his possession, but returned it or gave it up and that he of course has not the said certificate.
                Wm. Walden
           Washington City, April 6 1833
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Payments to be made at Richmond, Virginia by the Presd. U.S. B. Bk Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Virginia

Recorded by H.G. Glynn
Clerk, in Book D  Vol 7, page 101.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
     I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June 1832, Humphrey Hill Culpeper County of the State of Virginia who was a private in the U.S. Army is entitled to receive Sixty dollars per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
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     Given at the War Office of the United States this thirtieth day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
                             John Robb
                             Acting Secretary of War
Examined and
Countersigned.
     J.L. Edwards
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Send cert: to W. Walden Esq. Woodville, Culpeper Co - Va - & send S.H. Smith Esq. an order to Hy. Hill's pension &c.
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