Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16282, John Hall, Conn. N.Y.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.
N.Y.

Hall, John
Sarah

NUMBER
W.16282

CONTENTS
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Notification sent 27 Sept. 1822 to M.B. Hitchcock, Albany, NY 
16245
New York
John Hall
of Rome in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Burrill of the Connecticut line, for the term of One Year

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on 
the 30 of March 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 29th of Nov. 1819
and sent to Benjamin L Johnson Rome New York

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819             41.57
Semi-anl. all’ce ending Mar 1820  48.00
5 Mo 2/31 4/30                              $89.57

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818}

Continued
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Albany 4734
Sarah Hall
widow of John Hall
who was a pensioner under the Act of March 1818 and who died on the 26. Nov. 1832 of Chautauqua Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private Conn in the company commanded by Captain _____ of the regt. commanded by Col. Burrill in the Con. line for 21 months

Inscribed on the Roll Albany at the rate of 70 Dollars _____Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19. day of Dec. 1839 and sent to Hon. R.P. Marvin. H. R.

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. ‘39
semi=annual allowance ending [illegible] ‘40
245.00
  35.00
———-
$280.00

{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2. Page 82

Letter to Hon’ble. S.N. Clark H.R. May 5th 1842
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of April 6th 1838 from 4th Mar. to 18th Aug. 1840
Ag notified June 4th 1842
1897 Sept 26. SK Hall [?]
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John Hall private 
Burrill Reg 1776 to 7-
1 yr – Van Coutancy
1778 to 79. 9 months.
[strikethrough] Act of Rolls [strikethrough]
Burrill Con’t.
Admitted
[strikethrough] Admitted [strikethrough]
Claimant must prove the first [?] to entitle him to a pension – the 9 months Service as [?] The remainder is too faint to read
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State of New York
Oneida County} 

On this 30 day of March 1819 before me the Subscriber, one of the Judges of Oneida Common Pleas personally appeared, John Hall aged 62 years a resident in Rome, in said County who being by me first Duly sworn according to Law doth upon oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the provision of the late act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States during the Revolutionary War.” That he enlisted at Ticonderoga in the State of New York in Captain Downs company & Colonel Barretts Regiment for one year & continued to serve in said Corps until the winter when he was [?] & was stationed by the Regiment until the time expired when he was discharged with the [?] but Received No discharge in Writing. That he entered a Second time in the Spring 1778 the second New York Regiment (as a nine month draughtsman) commanded by Colonel Cortlandt, and Served in the first Company commanded by Lieut Weissenfels & Joined the army at Valley Forge and was discharged on the 6th Feb 1779. That he was in the battle of Monmouth, and at the battle of the Ciday when he was take prisoner & plundered by the Indians. That his health was unpained during his service and [blot on the paper] is now in Reduced Circumstances, has no [?] Estate, and his personal but very little more than sufficient to pay his debts, and stands in need of his countrys assistance for support-
John Hall

Sworn to & Subscribed before me this day & year aforesaid
Charles Wylie one of the Judges of Oneida [?]
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John Hall
aged 64 years

St. Lawrence, Co 1821
Col'o Burrill Cap't David 
Downey
daughter 12 years old
16,245  Mar `20

Cou
J.L.E.
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State of New York
St. Laurence County ss}
 On this fifth day of June 1821 personally appeared in Open Court being a Court of Record of the Said State, to wit, a Court of Common pleas held in and for the County of St. Laurence, John Hall aged sixty four years and upwards, resident in the town of Rossie in Said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary War, as follows, In the regiment commanded by Coln. Charles Burrell in a Company commanded by Capt. David Downs in the Connecticut line and that my Original declaration was made on the thirteenth daty of March One thousand eight hundred and nineteen and that I have  received a pension Certificate the number of which is 16245. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, And that I have not Since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my self within the provisions of an Act of Congress Entitled An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818. And that I have not nor has any person in [?] for me any prosperity or Securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto amended and by me subscribed.
(signed} John Hall

Sworn and subscribed before me in Open Court this 5th day of June 1821 -
M. B. Hitchcock Clk
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A Schedule of Prosperity - 
Real Estate - None - 

Personal Estate 
1 Small Yoke of Oxen - 1 Small Cow - 1-2 year Old heifer 1- Yearting Steer - 1 Calf - 3 Small Swine - 2 Chains - 1 Set Small drag teeth - 1 Sythe 1 Ax - 1 Old waggon out of repair - 2 Common beds and bedding for the same - 2 old tables  6 old chairs, 1 Water pail 3 Old bedsteads - 1 fine pail Kettle 1 small dish Kettle 1 tea Kettle 1 Spider, 1 pair fire dogs 1 Shovel & tongs 6 Knives 1 set forks 6 Spoons 6 tea Cups & Saucers, 6 plates & two platters

Wearing apparel - One Old Suit of Clothes belonging to applicant - One Old Suite of Clothes belonging to applicants Wife - 2 Suits of Clothes belonging to Applicants daughter - and that I have one daughter living with me about 12 years of Age - and I have an aged  & infirm Wife who is not able to do any thing towards her or my support, And that I have no other person living with me but my Said Wife and Daughter and that I am old and infirm - illy age and health is such that I am unable to labour but very little at my Occupation which Occupation is farming and that my above named daughter is now sick & has been a number of years
(Signed) John Hall
The Court appraise the Property in the Annexed Schedule at $85.50.
By Order of the Court
M B. Hitchcock ClK
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State of Newyork}
St. Lawrence County Clerks Office}
I hereby Certify that the above is a true Copy of a Schedule & affidavit on file in this Office - that the Original proceedings were had in Open Court, and the property contained in the Said Schedule valued by the Said Court as is above mentioned.
In testimony whereof I have here unto Subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of the Said Court this 6th day of June 1821
Myrtle B. Hitchcock ClK

{stamped seal}
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V2598
Sarah Hall
N. York
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State of Newyork 
Chautauqua County ss}
Reuben Reynolds of the town of Ripley in said county having Duly sworn Deposeth and saith that he was seventy years of age on the 22nd Day of July last and that he is a brother of Sarah Hall of Portland in said county that the said Sarah Hall is the widow of John Hall late of said town deceased that the said John Hall was married to the said Sarah Hall the sister of this Deponont, in the summer of the year 1781 but in what month this Deponent does not now remember it, that, they were married at the house of this Depononts father in the town of Pownal, in the state of Vermont, by Esquire Barber and that this Deponont was present, and saw them so married at that time and place. that the said Hall was a revolutionary pensioner and Died at Portland aforesaid in November 1832 and that his sister the said Sarah Hall has remained a widow ever since. And this Deponont further says that the same year the said John & Sarah were married in the fall of the year & said as this Deponont, now believes in the month of September the said Hall was Drafted or volunteered and went into the service of the rate or United States in the army and was at or near Lake Champlain and was gone as near or this Deponont  now recollects from two to three months but is not certain as to the extent of the time he then served. And this Deponont further says that he has
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always understood by the family of his father and has no Doubt that it is true that at another time after the Marriage of the said John & Sarah the said Hall was out in the army of the revolution as a substitute for the father of this Deponent who was unable to leave home but how long he was then out or at what place he went to this Deponont Does not recollect. That the said Hall resided in the family of the Depononts father for a considerable time after his marriage but how long this Deponont cannot now recollect
Reuben Reynolds

Subscribed & sworn to before me August 4th 1837
B Walworth Judge Chau Cour Pleas

I certify that Reuben Reynolds who has subscribed the preceding affidavit is a respectable citizen of the town of Ripley of apparently seventy years of age and that his said affidavit is in my opinion entitled to full credit
B Walworth
Judge Chautaugua
Cour Pleas
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State of Newyork
Chautauque County}ss
On this fifteenth Day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven before me Benjamin Walworth one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county personally appeared Sarah Hall a resident of the town of Portland in said county aged 74 years who bring first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 – That she is the widow of John Hall who was a private in the army of the revolution and at the time of his death a pensioner under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 that after her marriage with the said John Hall and in the fall of the same year her father was drafted for service in the northern frontier and that her late husband who was then residing with her father in the town of Pownal in the state of Vermont went for a substitute for her said father and was then out with the militia about [?]

{There is an attached portion of paper covering a portion of the text – the paper reads}
The Bearer John Hall one. Of the Nine Months Draughts in the Second New-York Regiment, having finished the Time of Service for which he engaged, is hereby discharged and permitted to return Home to Scheeren in the County of Litchfield. Given under my Hand at Wkurefring this fifth Day of February 1779
Lieut Weissenfels & Co

[The remaining original document]
That the pension certificate of her late husband was as she believes transmitted to the War Department with other papers to enable her to obtain the arrears of payment due therein at the time of his death. 

She further declares that she was married to the said John Hall at the house of her father in
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John Halls 
Discharge from the Nine months
Draft
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State of Newyork
Chautauque County}ss
On this fifteenth Day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven before me Benjamin Walworth one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county personally appeared Sarah Hall a resident of the town of Portland in said county aged 74 years who bring first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 – That she is the widow of John Hall who was a private in the army of the revolution and at the time of his death a pensioner under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 that after her marriage with the said John Hall and in the fall of the same year her father was drafted for service in the northern frontier and that her late husband who was then residing with her father in the town of Pownal in the state of Vermont went for a substitute for her said father and was then out with the militia about [? eurborough] and Lake Champlain for one or two months but that she does not recollect or did not know under what officers he then served that she had no personal knowledge except by information derived from him of his serviced previous to her marriage that the only documentary evidence in relation to it is a discharged found among her late husbands papers and which is hereunto annexed.

That the pension certificate of her late husband was as she believes transmitted to the War Department with other papers to enable her to obtain the arrears of payment due therein at the time of his death. 

She further declares that she was married to the said John Hall at the house of her father in
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Town of Pownal in the state of Vermont on the seventh day of June 1781 by Esq Barber that there is no record to her knowledge of her said marriage and she knows of no one now living who was thereunto her marriage except her brother Reuben Reynolds now residing at Ripley in this county.

That her husband the aforesaid John Hall died at Portland aforesaid on the 26th day of November 1832 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sarah Hall

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
B Walworth
Judge Chautauque
Court of Pleas

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the widow Sarah Hall who has subscribed the preceding deposition and that she is unable from eye and bodily infirmity to attend a court of record and that she is a respectable person and that full credit is due to her said deposition.

B Walworth
Judge Chautauque
Cour Pleas

State of Newyork
Chautauque County ss}
Samuel Hall of the town of Portland in said county being duly sworn Deposeth and saith that he is a son of Sarah Hall who has subscribed the [?] Declaration and of the age of fifty four years that his father the late John Hall and his said mother resided with him at the time of his said fathers death on the 26th day of November 1832 and that his said mother has continued to reside with him ever
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since that time and since the death of his said father her remained and is yet a widow that he has frequently hear his said father converse about his Revolutionary services and believes and has no doubt of knowing him speak of being out in the service of his marriage
Samuel Hall

Subscribed and sworn before me Aug 15th 1837
B Walworth 
Chautauque
Common Pleas

Chautauque County ss
Maria Hall of the town of Portland in said county of the age of twenty nine years being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is a daughter of Sarah Hall who has subscribed the preceding declaration and that she has very often heard her father the late John Hall talk of his service as a soldier in the Revolution and has frequently heard him speak of his being out as a substitute for his father in law after his marriage with the said Sarah Hall and that he said he went under an arrangement that his said father in law was to take care of his wife the said Sarah Hall during his service
Maria Hall

Subscribed and sworn before me August 15th 1837
B Walworth 
Judge Chautauque
Common Pleas

I certify that I am acquainted with Samuel Hall & Maria Hall who have subscribed the above affidavits and that they are reputable persons and that full credit is due to their said statements
B Walworth Judge Chau. Com Pleas
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State of New York
Chautauque County}
I George W. Tew Clerk of said county do certify that Benjamin Walworth Esq. was on the several days when the above proceedings bear date & now is a Judge of the County Courts of said county, and that the several signatures B. Walworth, subscribed as aforesaid, and his genuine signatures – In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office, this 19 August 1837
G.W. Tew Clerk

[there is an impressed seal and ribbon]
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., ---, 19---

W.F. 16282

In reply to your request of ---, received --- for a statement of the military history of John Hall a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow’s) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

6 column table
|DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. |LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. COLONEL. | STATE. |

|1776| 1 year | Pvt. | David Downs | Burrall | Conn. |
| Spring 1778 | Feby 6 1779 | --- | Lieut. Weisenfelt | Cortland | N.Y. |

Battles engaged in, the Cedars where he was taken prisoner and Monmouth
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension, March 30 1819, His [cl may ali ?]
Residence at date of application, Rome, Oneida Co, N.Y.
Age at date of application, 62 years.
Remarks: He mar. in June 1781 at Pownal Vt. Sarah, daughter of Caleb Reynolds and died at Portland N. Y. Nov. 26,  1832. She was al. pens. On her app. ex. Aug. 15, 1837 & was a resident of Portland N. Y. 74 years. Children in 1837 Samuel aged 54 & Maria aged 29

Respectfully,
Not sent
Commissioner

6-2856
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I Charles Wylie Judge & c as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Hall did serve in the Revolutionary was as stated in his affidavit Nine months one time against the common enemy – and as I suppose on the Continental Establishment – I am acquainted with the said John Hall and I believe that his circumstances are such as to require a pension & I now transmit the paper to the Secty War pursuant to the act –
Rome Oneida. Co. March 30 1819
Charles Wylie One of the Judges of Oneida Com Pleas

Clerks Office
Oneida County }ss

I Certify that Charles Wylie was a Judge of the County at the time of making the foregoing Affidavit & Certificate and that his Signature to the same is appeared to be of his own proper hand County [?] the Seal of said County this twenty first day of October 1819 – 
Francis A Moodgood Ch
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State of New York
Delaware County ss}
Be it remembered that on this twenty ninth day of October one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. Samuel Johnson to me well known to be a person of Respectability and veracity – who being by me first duly sworn, deposeth and saith – That he is acquainted with John Hall a private in Capt’n David Downs Company in the the Regiment Commanded by Charles Burril Col. that said Hall enlisted for one year & served the same; & was a faithful soldier – Deponent held an [?] Commission under Congress – Signed “John Hancock Resident “ during the same time
Samuel Johnson
Subscribed & Sworn to this 29th of October 1819 before me 
Isaac Ogden – First Judge of Delaware County

In testimony that Isaac Ogden is first Judge of the County of Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Delaware and that he Subscribed his name to the written certificate or affidavit I have set my hand and affixed the Seal of the court of Common Pleas of said County this 30th October 1819
H R. Phelps 
Clk
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State of New York
Oneida County } ss
On the 5th day of August 1819 before me Thomas H. Hamilton a Judge in & for the said County of Oneida personally appeared Joshua Hamilton and after being duly sworn according to law did say that he was personally acquainted with John Hall before and in the year 1776 – that John Hall enlisted in a Company commanded by Cap’t David Downs in Com’t. Charles Burrells Reg’t (in the Connecticutt line) in the year 1776 for one year – that the said John Hall did serve in said Corps until the said Corps was discharged that said John Hall was in the battle of the Seeders in the province of Canada and was taken prisoner by the enemy & was soon after released by an agreement between Gen’l Arnold & the commanding officer of the enemy then joined his Corps which was marched to W [Little?] where he was discharged in March 1777 – and further saith not
Joshua Hamilton

Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above written before me - -
Th H Hamilton Judge

I certify that Joshua Hamilton the above deponent is personally known to me and that he is esteemed a person of truth and veracity
Th H Hamilton Judge
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Clerks Office
Oneida County } 
I certify that Thomas H. Hamilton was a Judge of the County at the time of making the written Certificate & Affidavit and that his Signature to the same appears to be of his own proper handwriting. Witness this Seal of said County the thirty-first day of October 1819
Francis Moodgood Clk

{there is a stamped seal}
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War Department,
PENSION OFFICE, No. 16,245
27 Sept 1822

SIR:
You are hereby informed that the Schedule of your property has been examined, and the Secretary of War has directed your name o be continued on the Pension Roll.

You will be paid, at the ensuring semi-annual payment in March next, the sum that may be then due from the time of suspending your pension.  Funds for the purpose will be transmitted at that time; but no arrearages will be paid previous thereto.

I am, respectfully, 
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards

To Mr. John Hall
U. S. Pensioner of St. Lawrence Co
Care of M. B. Hitchcock, Esq
Albany, N. Yk:
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State of Vermont
Bennington County } Pownal Oct. 8, 1838
I Elihu Dutcher depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the Town of Pownal, County of Bennington, & State of Vermont.
Elihu Dutcher, Town Clerk

Subscribed and Sworn to the day and date above written by the said Elihu Dutcher, before me Pliney Morgan Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that, prove the acquaintance I have, with the original records of the Town of Pownal and the manner of their having been Left that they are imperfect – As early as 1783 and previous the marriages in town were not all recorded.
Elihu Dutcher Town Clerk
Pownal Oct 8, 1838

State of Vermont
Bennington County
I Henry Robinson Clerk of Bennington County Court hereby certify that Pliney Morgan Esq was at the date first above mentioned, & State is a Justice of the peace in & for the said County of Bennington, & that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & believe the above to be his signature –

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of Our said Court at Bennington this 19th day of October A.D. 1838
Henry Robinson

{There is an impressed seal}
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John Hall N.Y. act March 18, 1818 
To what time paid?
Pen: Office
Nov 1, 1837
John Hall 1st Died 26th Nov 1832
JH
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Fredonia Aug 19, 1839
J.L. Edwards 

Sir,
Enclosed I send you additional documents in the case of the application of Mrs Sarah Hall for a pension. Please attach the enclosed to those on file in your office and give an early attention to the matter & oblige
Yours & c
B Walworth
By Chas F. Matteson
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6492

Register under act 7. July ‘38
Adms
21 mo ser
70$
No direction
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State of New York
Chautauqua County }ss
Sarah Hall now of the town of Westfield in said county being duly sworn deposeth and says that she has resided in the said town of Westfield for about two months last past and that she formerly resided in the town of Portland in said county. that she is the widow of John Hall who was in his life time a private in the army of the Revolution and who was at the time of his death a Revolutionary Pensioner. That she is the identified person who has hereto made an application to the War Department of the United States for a pension under the third section of the Act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836 in consequence of the services of her late husband as a soldier in the war of the Revolution which application in now on file in the pension office of the War Department as she is informed and believes And this deponent  further says that understanding that she has failed to make satisfactory proof to the War Department of the services of her late husband in the Army of the Revolution subsequent to the time of her marriage with him she therefore hereby relinquishes her claim to a pension under the third section of the [?]  and now asks that the said application be taken and deemed by the War Department to be an application under the Act of Congress granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows approved July 7th 1838
Sarah Hall

Subscribed & sworn to before me November 17th 1839
B Walworth Judge Chau Com Pleas
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State of new York
Oswego County ss.
Benjamin Reynolds being duly sworn says that he resides in Granby in the said county of Oswego and is sixty nine years of age and formerly resided in Pownal in the State of Vermont which was his native place. And that during the Revolutionary War and about the time of the Battle of Monmouth he this deponent became personally acquainted with John Hall at the place last aforesaid and that said John Hall was lawfully married to Sarah Reynolds daughter of Caleb Reynolds & sister of this deponent at Pawnal aforesaid in the month of June (1781) in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred eighty one or about that time.
And this deponent further says the said marriage of the said John Hall to the said Sarah Reynolds was solemnized at the time and place aforesaid by and in the presence of a Justice of the Peace of said town by the name of Barbon and in presence of this deponant, Solomon Wright, Abel Dunnell, also the father & mother of this deponent and the other members of the family.
And the deponent further says that the said John Hall of the said marriage was for some time engaged in the service of the United States as a soldier. And was a pensioner at the time of his decease and that said John Hall from the time of his said marriage to the time of his decease continued to live with his said wife Sarah and that said John Hall died at Portland in the county of Chautauqua in the state of New York about six years since leaving his said wife Sarah a widow
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and that she has not since been married and continues to be at this time the widow of said John Hall as this deponent is informed and believes. Further the deponent saith not.
Benjamin Reynolds

Subscribed and sworn the 10th day of August AD 1839.
Before me.
E. Hibbard a Judge of Oswego County Court Commission &c.

I certify that Benjamin Reynolds who has sworn to the above affidavit before me is a man of truth & veracity and entitled to credit.
August 10th 1839
E. Hibbard Judge of Co cc &c.

State of New York
Clerk's Office
Oswego County}ss
I Daniel H. Marsh Clerk of said county hereby certify that Enoch Hibbard whose name is subscribed to the Jurat of affidavit above set forth and the certificate thereto, is a Judge of the court of Common Pleas of said county of Oswego which court is a court of record and that he was a judge thereof at the date of said Jurat & certificate. And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe that the [strikethrough] Jurat & car [strikethrough] signatures to the above Jurat & certificate to be his proper hand writing Given under my hand and the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said county this 10th day of August 1839.
D. H. Marsh Clerk
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State of New York
Oneida County ss. 
Mary Brackney being duly sworn says that she resides in the town of Rome in the said county of Oneida, and is sixty seven years of age and formerly resided in the town of Pownal, in the state of Vermont which was her native place, and that after the commencement of the Revolutionary War she this deponent became personally acquainted with John Hall at the place last aforesaid. And that the said John Hall was lawfully married to Sarah Reynolds daughter of Caleb Reynolds and sister of this deponent at Pawnal aforesaid in the month of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred eighty one, or about that time, and this deponent further says that the said marriage of the said John Hall to the said Sarah Reynolds was solemnized at the time & place aforesaid by & in the presence of a Justice of the Peace of said town by the name of Barbor, and in the presence of this deponent, William Johnson, Solomon Wright, Wouton Ellsworth, also the Father & Mother of this deponent and other members of the family. And this deponent further says that the said John Hall, after the said marriage and previous to the close of the Revolutionary War was for some time engaged in the service of the United States as a soldier and was a pensioner at the time of his Decease, and the said John Hall from the time of his marriage to the time of his Decease continued to live with his said wife Sarah, and that the said John Hall died at Portland in the County of Chautauqua & State of New York not far from six years since, leaving his said wife Sarah a Widow and that she has not since been Married and continues to be at this time the Widow of said John Hall as this deponent is informed and believes. Further the deponent saith not.

Mary Brackney 
X her mark

Witness 
Abner B Blair
Martin Rowley
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Subscribed & sworn this 13th day of August 1839.
Before me.
Martin Rowley, Justice of the Peace of the County of Oneida.

I certify that Mary Brackney who has sworn to the within affidavit before me is a woman of truth and veracity and entitled to credit. & that she subscribed her name by making her mark to the within affidavit August 13th 1839 at Rome in the county of Oneida State of New York.
Martin Rowley, Justice

State of New York
County of Oneida}ss.
I James Dean Clerk of the said county certify that Martin Rowley Esq is a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county duly elected and qualified, that his commission is dated on the first January 1837 and will expire on the thirty first day of December 18040. & that the signatures above written purporting to be his are genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of the said county August 14 1839. James Deal, Clerk 
By James Edgar Depy Clerk
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V
Sarah Hall
New York
Suspended
See Letter 2d Nov 1837 B. Walworth
Let. to B. Walworth 24 Oct. 1839 to Hon. R.P. Marvin 9 Dec 1839
1847
April 13 Arad Joy

Act. 4. July 1836
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Fredonia Chautauqua County N.Y.
August 15th 1837

Sir
I send you herewith the application of the widow Sarah Hall for a  pension her pecuniary  circumstances are such that an early attention to her application on your part would be very desirable
Yours & C
B. Walworth

J L Edward
Com of Pensions
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John Hall        

FREE

Hon Richard P. Marvin
House of Representatives
Washington

[postal stamp] FREEDONIA N. Y. NOV [illegible]

Hon R. P. Marvin
HR
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Fredonia Nov 28th 1839

Sir, I enclose to you the new application of the widow Sarah Hall. Her son Saml Hall Esq of Salem Cross Roads wishes you to use it at your discretion first, [?] for what reason if possible the first application was not allowed. Her husband was a man of respectability, and was a member of the Legislature of Vermont and subsequently of this state but left his widow very poor. I supposed the proof of his services after the marriage was now [?] several witnesses deposed that he left home and went into the army as a substitute for his father in law and was gone two or three months before he returned. But I now understand that the Department requires the evidence of someone who was out in the service with him [?] they find it in Hollsion impossible to get as they never knew any one that was out then with him. I mentioned to you that their might be a difference in the appearance of her signatures from age and infirmities is unable to write her name legibly and signs by holding the pen while someone else directs it. This you can explain to the department.
Yours
B. Walworth

Hon R P Marvin
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE
May 23d, 1842.
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," the children of Sarah Hall, deceased, late a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, New York, Agency, at the rate of Seventy Dollars and --Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th July 1838, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 of March, to the 18th August 1840,
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
COMPTROLLER
To the Commissioner Pensions,
Present.
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Rev Widow, &c.

File No. 16282
Sarah Hall
Widow of 
John Hall
Pri Rev War

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Feby, 17 1900
Miss A.D.Hall
Mt. Clems Mich
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This Bureau can furnish military records of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.

Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary war and the war of 1812 are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary war may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.

3-076.

Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington, D.C. January 20 [strikethrough] 189 [strikethrough] ]1900

O. W. & N. Div.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR.

Madame;
In reply to your communication of a recent date, you are informed that the courtesy of furnishing information relative to Revolutionary war soldiers, on account of whose service pensions were granted, is extended by the Bureau only to their descendants and to them only when it is desired for historical or genealogical purposes.

In view of the large number of inquiries now being made, and of the length of time required to make a proper search of the records in each case, information will not be given to any applicant concerning more than two soldiers. 

In order that the claim of the soldier concerning who you desire information may be identified, it is requested that you furnish as much as much as possible the data called for below.

Very respectfully,

Commissioner

Miss A.D. Hall
Mt. Clemens
Mich,

Full name of soldier, John Hall

Place of residence before service, New Hamshire, I think
(Town, county, and State.)

Place of residence after service, Preston, Chenango Co. New York
(Town, county, and State)

Approximate date of death, about 1833

Given name of widow, Adelya, I think

Did either the soldier of his widow receive a pension? Both

Additional information, According to family tradition my ancestor Dr. John Hall fought as minute man at Lexington and Bunker Hill. Afterward he enlisted in the regular army as surgeon and was with Gen Washington when he crossed the Delaware.

Signature, Miss A.D. Hall (Mrs. or Miss to be prefixed if a lady signs.)

Genealogical purposes
Post-office address, including street and number, town, county, and State,  142 Cass Avenue Mt. Clemens Michigan
Macomb Co

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John Hall
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Ovid N.Y. March 20 47
Sir
I enclose my inquiry in the case of Sarah Hall of New York, under law of 1836. her papers are on file, they alledge that she was married Feb 1. 1778. the widow having died Dec '38 under service is shown after her marriage, of course the case falls to the grown -  the widow now being dead. I am not able to get a history and I submit it to you, to say whether a pension is justly due or not. will you please report to me.
Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Arad Joy

Hon G Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington
DC
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To
J L Edwards

I assign my agency to N Leake Esq
Arad Joy
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To Hon J.L. Edwards Com of Pensions Sir I have appointed Arad Joy of Ovid New York my true + lawful agent for me to investigate the claim to a pension of Sarah Hall of New York  act of '36
Dated Dec 1846
Lucy Hall

Witness
Norman Rowe