Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4462, George Hall, New Jersey
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SERVICE
New Jersey

Hall, George

NUMBER
R.4462
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N 9964
George Hall

Rejected
Rolls of New Jersey
On rolls- deserted Apl 10
1777

Pensioner
Salisbury
Conn.
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BRIEF in the case of George Hall
County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut
(Act 7th June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Open Court [Handwritten]

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
[No Answer]

3. How old is he? 
66 years [Handwritten]

4. State his service, as directed in the [illegible].
[column headings: Period, Duration of Service. Years, months, Days. Rank. As a. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Gen.] 11th Jary in 1777. 3 - years [blank] [blank] [blank] Capt Baldwin. Col Matthias. Col Ogden. Gen. Maxfield.  Entered 31 Janey ‘77 deserted 10 Apr. ‘77

5. In what [illegible] was he engaged?
Brandywine, Germantown

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? 
Morristown New Jersey

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by inciden[illegible], or by the rolls?
Traditionary

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct
[following words crossed out]. The papers are not attach?to another [illegible][illegible]

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

Nathaniel Cutts
Examining Clerk
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State of Connecticut ss Litchfield County Probate District of Sharon, Sep 3. AD 1832.

At about of Probate for the district of Sharon holden at Salisbury on the 3rd day of September AD 1832.  Present Samuel Church Esq Judge.

On this 3rd day of September AD 1832 Personally  appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate within and for the district of Sharon now sitting George Hall a resident of the Town of Salisbury in the County of Litchfield in a State of Connecticut aged eighty eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832 that he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers once sworn as herein stated.

I was born in the town of Stafford in the County of Tolland in the State of Connecticut on the 1st day of November AD 1744. I have no record of my ap nor do I know of the existence of any record which it might be on the records of the town of Stafford.  When I entered into the service of the United States in the Army of the Revolution I was living in the town of Morristown in the State of New Jersey and
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Since the close of the Revolutionary war, I have lived and resided generally in the County of Litchfield & state of Connecticut a part of the time in Colbrook in said County but generally in the town of  Salisbury where I now reside and where and where I have under entirely for the last thirty years

On the 10th day of January 1777, I enlisted as a private in the Continental Army for three years into a line being commanded by Capt. Daniel Baldwin of [illegible] or Hanover in the County of Morris State of New Jersey, the Lieut. was [illegible] Where I enlisted I think was Rohection but the Luitenants and other officers were shifted several times during my term of service, I belonged to the first New Jersey Regiment commanded by Col. Mathias or Matthew Ogden of Elizabethtown, he was always called Col. Mat. Ogden & so I do not exactly know his Christian name. Lieut Colonel William DeHart of Morristown I think he was called Billy De Hart sometimes lawyer De Hart. Major Daniel Platt was I think major a part of the time. I was attached to the Brigade of General William Maxfield. The first battle in which I was engaged was at Brandywine, I was engaged in that battle & General Washington commanded, I was next engaged at the Battle of Germantown on the 4th day of October 1777.   Germantown was about six miles from Philadelphia. On the 27th I believe of June 1778 I was again engaged in the battle of Moumoth [crossed out] a great distance from the Monmouth Court House in New Jersey. The winter before the battle of Monmouth I was with the army at Valley Forge. Our Regiment wintered the next winter
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After the battle of Monmouth at Elizabethtown in New Jersey. The next summer our Regiment was detailed under General Sullivan and marched thru the Indian Country there were four brigades of us one from New Jersey, one from Pennsylvania, one from New York and one from New Hampshire I think, after the return of the troops from their expedition our troops hutted at Morristown, during the expedition by General Sullivan I was engaged in a battle with the Indians at a place there called Riotown, Brandt commanded the Indians and Tory Butler commanded a Regiment of Tories there.
The Army lay at Morristown when I left it; served out faithfully my whole term of service of three years which was the term for which I enlisted, and at the [illegible] time of the time on the 10th day of January I left the Army in the year 1780.  I had a certificate of my enlistment from Captain Baldwin, he was wounded and lost his leg at Germantown battle & never joined the army afterwards.  I understood I was returned as having enlisted during the war, but this was not true, it was either a mistake in the enlisting officer or something else. One George Minthorn made affidavit of the time of my enlistment before Justice Brookfield showing the time I have been for three years only and when application to General Maxfield he gave me a written furlough until further orders, at this time my family resided at Morristown near where the army lay, and I resided at home in my own family
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Within a few miles of the Army from January until June next, and was frequently in the County & known to the officers and no one considered me as a deserter.  When I left New Jersey after the death of my wife it was on the far part of June 1780 and I then came openly and with the entire knowledge of all my neighbors and the officers of the army to the County of Litchfield in Connecticut where I have ever since resided. I had with the certificate of Captain Baldwin the affidavit of George Minthorn, and the furlough of General Maxfield and was never called for not requested to do duty tho I was ever ready to perform at if called for. 
I have since understood that my name has been returned to the war office as a deserter.  This must have been a great mistake or great injustice to a faithful soldier. The forementioned papers I retained for many years but they have long since disappeared an I have been a poor man & have never kept papers with care, not can I now tell nor do I know what has become of them, they were considered useless.  

I am known to General Elisha Sterling, Lot Norton Esq., John M Holley Esq. Samuel Church Esq. John Coffing and many in this town who can testify to my character for veracity & their belief of my services as a Soldier of the Revolution. And I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or amnesty except the present & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid George X [his mark] Hall Samuel Church Judge of Probate
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We Lot Norton and Abidjan C. Pect hereby certify that we have been acquainted with Mr. George Hall who has subscribed the foregoing declaration for many year, we believe him to be eighty eight years of age; he is entirely blind and is unable to walk without assistance, his mind and memory are astonishingly vigorous. The character of Mr. Hall for truth and veracity is good and we have no doubt that the facts stated buy him in his aforementioned declaration are strictly true and ought to accrited. Salisbury Sep 6 AD1832.
Lot Norton Abijah C, Put Clerk
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid Samuel Clum Judge of Probate And the said Court doth hereby declare its opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and also that the said applicant left the service of the United States in the manner stated by him and not as a deserter. By the Court. Abijah C, Put Clerk
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I Abijah C. Put (Clerk of the Court of Probate for the district of Sharon do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of George Hall for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto to put my hand and Seal of Office at the Probate Office in Salisbury this 6. day of September AD 1832. Abijah C, Put Clerk
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4462
P.O. [blank]
George Hall
Service: [blank]
Enlisted: REJECTED [stamped], 18 
Discharged: [blank], 18
Application filed: [blank], 18
Allergies: [blank]
Re-enlisted: [blank]
Attorney: [blank]
P.O. [blank]
Stafford Con
[blank] Recognized. [Check mark] Contract.
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George Hall
Connecticut
Act. 7 June 1832

Rejected See letter
to Clk: June 10 1833 ——“——“——

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