Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,472, Daniel Hall, Conn.
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SERVICE                                     NUMBER
Conn.             Hall, Daniel          S.30.472
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15.134
Massachusetts
Daniel Hall
of Berkshire in the state of Mass. who was a Private in the compy commanded by Captain Robinson of the Regt commanded by Col. Baldwin in the Connecticut line for 8 mo & 24 days

Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 29 Dollars 33 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of July 1833 and sent to H. W. Bishop
Lenox Mass.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $58.66
Semi-Anl. Allowance ending 4 Sept 14.67
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$73.33

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by J. .W. Clagett, Clerk, 

Book E vol 2 Page 33

Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6th April 1838 from 4th March 1838 to the 6th Apl 1838, the day of his death.
Agt notified 7 Aug 1839.
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23068
Danl Hall
Mass

Private
8 mo 24 days
[illegible]

H. W. Bishop
Berkshire Mass
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
183

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: } ). you will, when you return you papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, showing the Service of Daniel Hall, Berkshire Co Mass.

[column names]
Period when the service was rendered
Duration of the claimant's service
Rank of the claimant
Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served
Names and Rank of the General and Field officers
Battles in which the applicant was engaged
Country through which he marched
Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period
Evidence by which the declaration is supported

1776 2 months, Priv., Capt Robinson, Col Baldwin, New York, 83 years
1776 1 month, same.......country - Kingsbridge

1777 1 month, Colonel Cook, Country New Haven, Place of abode Durham Connecticut
1777 1 month 12 days, Colonel Arnold, country White Plains

1778 2 months, Captain Norton, country White Plains

1779 1 month 12 days, Captain Robinson, Col Cook, country New Haven, Peekskill N. York, New Haven

Evidence - Traditionary Evidence 11 Witnesses
Total time 8 months 24 days

I am, respectfully
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army and to include under the terms "Continental Line", "State troops", "militia", and "volunteers", all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of
County of }ss.
On this ____ day of _________ personally appeared (a) before A.B. a resident (b) of ______ in the county of ________ and State, Territory or District of ____aged (c) __________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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) _____, with ______ and served in the ________ (e) regiment of the ________ line,, under the following named officers:
(Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.)

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of _________.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.    A.B.

(And then will follow the certificate of the Court)
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I ________ of the Court of ___________ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of __________ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this __________ day of __________ &c.

If on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declarations, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the ___________ and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with ______, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _________ 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 days and year aforesaid.
(And then will follow the certificate of the Court.)
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the ______ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, __________ Clerk of the Court of ______ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of __________ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this _____ day of _________&c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the applicant.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produces such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. {To a Soldier {Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
{To an Officer {Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your service as a soldier of the Revolution.
The court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons - one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declarations before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of state or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter. 
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(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(d) The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year ___ months and _____ days, I served as a ______. For _______ months and ________ days, I served as a ___________; and for such services I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the years, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the services was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not emplo9yed in any civil pursuit.
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the court is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signatures of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificates must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service
(j) In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from (a) to (i) are all equally applicable to the exam of Militia men, Volunteers and state Troops. The proof required by rule in case (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k) This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
(l) If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
(m) The answers in the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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Daniel Hall
Richmond, Ms
Application for Pension

23068
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

County of Berkshire, ss.
On this second day of January AD 1833, personally appeared in open Court, before the Honorable WILLIAM P. WALKER, Judge of the Court of Probate, within and for said County of Berkshire, now sitting, Daniel Hall a resident of the town of Richmond, in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged eighty three 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 June 7 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That he was born at Guilford in the County of New Haven & state of Connecticut in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty nine on the first day of June in said year as he was informed by his parents. In 1752 when three years old he moved to Durham in said state of Connecticut and there resided at the breaking out of the war of the revolution. That at said Durham near the middle of August in 1776, he was called into the army and volunteered his services and was enrolled in the company of Captain James Robinson of said Durham and attached to a regiment commanded by one Colonel Baldwin. That he marched with said company from said Durham to New Haven, in the state of Connecticut and went by water from New Haven to the city of New York. That he was at New York with the British troops landed & entered the city. That he remained there three weeks as near as he can recollect and was employed occasionally as a guard. That he with the regiment to which he was attached marched to Kingsbridge when about the middle of October he was dismissed & returned to his home at Durham. He knows that he was out two months on his tour of duty, but through his
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great age and decay of his powers of memory he is unable to state the exact date of the commencement & termination of this term of service & has no documents in his possession or within his reach by which it can be ascertained. He recollects that he saw in the course of this tour of duty General Wadsworth who had the command of the troops to which heh was attached. He is not able to state with certainty the names of any of the other general officers whom he saw.

In the month of November 1776 the day of the month his imperfect powers of memory do not enable him to state, he again volunteered into the company commanded by said Captain Robinson at said Durham. He marched from Durham aforesaid with said company through New Haven, Fairfield, Norwalk to a place called Horse Neck & there to White Plains in the state of New York. He reached White Plains soon after the battle was over and was not in the engagement. He recollects having seen Generals Washington & Putnam and other general officers whose names he does not now recollect. Having served for the term of one month, he was dismissed & returned home. His company belonged if he recollects to the regiment of Col. Baldwin and Cook, though he does not know that it was actually annexed to said regiment. On the fifteenth day of April 1777 at Durham aforesaid he volunteered as a soldier & was enrolled in the company of said Captain Robinson on the regiment commanded either by Col Cook or Col Baldwin, and marched to New Haven and having stayed at said place a few days & having learned that Danbury had been burnt by the British troops he was ordered with his company to that latter place, after having marched within
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about five miles of Danbury he learned that General Wooster was killed, that the British had retreated. We pursued the British as far as Norwalk when they took shipping. The British were commanded by Gov. Tryon. At the latter place he was dismissed having served one month. He recollects having seen General Wadsworth on the occasion & Col. Arnold who was also from said Durham.

He again volunteered into the company of said Capt Robinson at Durham aforesaid near the first part of October 1777, it being then understood that the British were coming down from Canada. His company was attached to the regiment commanded by said Colonel Arnold who was under General Wadsworth at that time a Major General. He was marched from Durham to Peekskill & thence to Rhinebeck in the state of New York. Where he saw General Putnam and was at his quarters several times while there he heard of the capture of General Burgoyne having been out on this town six weeks, he was discharged & returned home.

In the summer of 1778 at Durham aforesaid he volunteered his services to guard the shore in the neighborhood of New Haven & Guilford and was out on the service two months constantly employed. He was attached to the company of Capt Charles Norton. He does not recollect that he saw any general officers
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out. In the course of the term of service the British landed at [illegible] Island & burnt the dwelling honor of one in Sat who at that time occupied it. For evidence of his service on this tour as well as for his services in the first tour mentioned in this declaration he refers to the deposition of Capt Charles Norton which is hereto annexed. He further states that Durham aforesaid the town in which he resided at several times in which he engaged in the service of the Revolution was then within the county of New Haven aforesaid. That he has no documentary evidence by which his service may be proved and that he can find no persons who served within him except the aforenamed Capt. Charles Norton whose testimony he can procure. He believes that those who were acquainted with him in the army are dead and that said Norton testimony can extend to no other tours of service than are below stated. He has no record of his age. If he recollects right he always entered the service as a volunteer. He never received a discharge as he recollects but was at the expiration of his terms of service usually dismissed. Having always served as a solder he never received a commission. He further states that he is not able to recollect with particularity the dates or precise days at which he was called into the service, but does recollect that
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no time of service as have been stated. He further states that in the year 1784 he moved from said Durham to Richmond aforesaid where he has ever since resided & that he is well known to James Hall, William S. Leadbetter, Eleazer Williams & Erastus Rowley Esquires & Revd Edwin W. Dwight, who reside in his present neighborhood and who can testify as to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier in the revolution.

He further states that in 1779 he volunteered as a soldier & was attached to a company commanded by said Capt Robinson & marched to New Haven. While there he heard of the burning of Fairfield and was marched to that place. But before he reached there the British troops had evacuated the place & returned to their [illegible]. General Wadsworth was at this time our Major General & if he mistakes not Col. Cook was the Colonel of the Regiment to which his company was attached. He was out on this tour six weeks as near as he can recollect. He knows of no one who can testify to the term of service. Those whose names he recollects are either dead or reside in places unknown to him.
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Personally appeared before me, the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within & for the county of Berkshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Daniel Hall of Richmond in said county who being duly sworn, deposeth & saith, that, by reason of old age & the consequential loss of memory, he can not positively swear as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned in the foregoing declaration, viz for nine months, and always as a private soldier.
Henry W. Bishop Justice of the Peace
]for said county of Berkshire
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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.
Daniel Hall
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
W. P. Walker J. Probate

We Edwin W. Dwight, a Clergyman, residing in the town of Richmond and Henry W. Bishop residing in Lenox hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Daniel Hall who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty three 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.
E. W. Dwight
Henry W. Bishop
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
W. P. Walker J. Probate

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories, prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Edwin W. Dwight who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the town of Richmond in the county of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that Henry W. Bishop who also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Lenox in the county of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
W. P Walker, J. Probate

I, Henry W. Bishop, Register of the Court of Probate within and for the county of Berkshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Daniel Hall for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office of said Court of Probate, this second day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
Henry W. Bishop Register of Probate
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30472

INVALID.

File No. 30,472

Daniel Hall
Pri Rev War

Act June 7 32
Index vol. 2, Page 172

(Arrangement of 1870)

Guilford Con.

1932 Jan 19 - Mrs Lillian Reice adv. rel. to residence and family. See Corres in Rev War Claim 
R. 4460 Asa Hall M. N. F
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptrollers Office
August 1st 1839

Sir:
Under the acct 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 Daniel Hall, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of twenty-nine Dollars and thirty three Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, 1838 to the 6th Sept 1838, the day of his death.

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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State of New York
Monroe County ss}
Charles Norton of said County of Monroe being duly sworn depose and says that in the year 1776 he knew, and was well acquainted with Daniel Hall of the town of Durham in the county of New Haven, State of Connecticut. That this deponent was in the revolutionary army at New York in the said year 1776, and served as an ensign; that while there he knew the said Daniel Hall, who was also in the army at that place as a soldier in Capt. Robinson's company Col. Baldwin's regiment of the Connecticut Militia.
This deponent further says that he was at the said city of New York as an ensign for two months, and that during that time the said Daniel Hall also was there and served as a soldier. This deponent further says that in the year 1778, according to his best recollection and belief, he had the command of a company of militia at Guilford in the state of Connecticut, that his company was in actual service there for two months, and that the said Daniel Hill served under this deponent for two months as a solder, at the said town of Guildford; and that he was a faithful and trusty soldier. This deponent further says that he knows that the said Daniel Hall was frequently called out in the militia in time of alarms; that he was so called out a number of times; but it has escaped this deponents recollection, as to the particular times or duration of such service.
Charles Norton

Subscribed and sworn before me the 3rd day of September 1832 by Charles Norton, a man of truth & veracity.
G. H. Munsford
Commissioner of Deeds
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State of New York
Monroe County
I certify that George H. Mumford, Esquire, before whom the within affidavit purports to have sworn, was at the date of the same a commissioner of deeds in & for said county, and duly authorized by the laws of the state of New York to take the same, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily that his name subscribed to said affidavit is his proper hand writing and signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the court of common pleas of said county this third day of September 1832.
Leonard Adams Clerk