Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,989, David Hall, Va.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE                              NUMBER
Va             Hall, David       S. 37,989

CONTENTS
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                                    19,677
Virginia
David Hall
of Giles County in the State of Virginia
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Epps of the regiment commanded
by Colonel Buford in the Virginia
line, for the term of eighteen months
from the year 1779 to the year 1881

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 6th day of October 1826.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st of October
1826 and sent to D. French Esquire
Giles [illegible]. H. Virginia

Arrears to 4th of March 1827. $39.73
Semi-anl. all'ce ending
                                                 $39.73
                                            [Revolutionary claim,
                                             Acts March 18, 1818,
                                             and May 1, 1820.}
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Virginia Giles County towit
on this 30 day of May 1826 personally appeared
in open Court being a Court of record for the County of Giles which proceeds according to the Course of the Common law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of this proceeding
David Hall a resident in the County of
Giles aforesaid aged upwards of Seventy two years who being first duly Sworn according to
law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions madeby the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the first day of May 1820 that he the said David Hall enlisted on the _ day _ in the year of 1779 for the term of Eighteen months in the County of bedford in the State of virginia under Captn Epps in the Company commanded by the Said Captn Epps and was marched from the County of Bedford and State of virginia to hillsborough was attached to the regiment Commanded by Colo _ Buford in the line of the State of Virginia on  Continental Establishment and that the Said Regiment to which he belonged was attached to the brigade of Genl Gates and that he continued to Serve in the Said Corps Eighteen months the full term
of his enlistment when he was discharged
at Salisberry in the State of North Carolina
which discharge he has lost and that his occupation was a farmer while he was able to Labour and that [illegible] a wife to support & he has he has ^ one Son that lives with him named James about 35 years of age [caret is in unusual position; not sure how much of insert goes where indicated]
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which Son has a family of his own to Support and that he has some Small grandchildren to Support they being the children of an unfortunate dissipated Son who is unable to Support them and that he hereby relinquishes Every Claim whatever to a pension Except the present and that his name is not on the roll of any State Except the present application and that the following are the reasons for not makeing  earlier application for a [illegible, deleted] pension towit
altho he was in Indigent Circumstances and being in possession of but little property Either real or Personal and he conceives would have been entitled to a pension under the act of Congress passed on the 18th day of March 1818 If he had made application for the Same at that time (yet he [deleted word] was not willing to become burthingsome to his County while he was able to Support himself by his Labour as a farmer which was his occupation while he was able to labour and It is now with reluctance that he has thus called on his Country for Support and in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 I do Solemnly Sware that I was a resedent Citizen 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 so to demish [diminish?] it or to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for Certain persons ingaged in the land & Naval Service of the united States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18th day
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of march 1818 and that I have not nor has
any person intrust for me any property or Securities
Contracts or Debts due to me nor have I
any income other then what is contained in the
Schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed 
a Schedule of the property of David Hall as follows to wit
about 22 acres of Land worth about Sisety dollars 
one horse beast worth about $30
Sise herd of Cattle worth about $26 two Sows
and pigs worth about $5.00 one water pail
& Piggin two pots & one oven one pewter dish
bason & Sise plates & 6 Iron Spoons & worth of
ten dollars, and he the said David Hall
further States on oath that no material 
Changes have taken place in his personal
property from the 18th day march 1818 until
the present until one horse beast dead the
other property Some what the Same.
and that he has Sold and convey to [Hen???]
Chapman one hundred and fourteen  acres of
poor broken high land for the Sum of one
hundred dollars which Sum the said Chapman
has paid me and which money has all been used 
for the necessary support of myself & Family
Sworn & subscribed to in open Court the 30th
day of may 1826
I David French Clerk of Giles County
do Certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the
Court that the said David Hall did Serve in  
the revolutionary war as Stated in the preceding
Declaration against the Common Enemy
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for the term of Eighteen months under  one 
engagement on the Continental Establishment I also
Certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule
there to annexed are truly are truly Copied from
the records of the Said Court and I do further
Certify that in the opinion of the [illegible] Court that
the total amount in value of the property 
Esehebitted [exhibited] in  the aforesaid Schedule 
is one hundred and thirty one dollars 
In testimony whereof I [illegible] here unto Set my hand 
and affixxed the seal of the Said Court on
this first day of June 1826
David French CGC
[illegible seal]
[bottom of page written vertically] on roll Page 344.
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37989
Revy
INVALID. Our
File No. 37989
David Hall Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index:- Vol. 2, Page 210
[Arrngement of 1870]
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Giles County to wit
Be it known that before me Thomas Kirk a Justice of the peace
in the county of aforesaid personally apeared William Chapman 
(who is the acting partner of the Firm of Isaac & William Chapman, 
and a Clerk in the House of Johnston & Chapman from the year 1807 
untill the Desolution of the Firm of Johnston & Chapman in the war 1819)
and made oath that a Mr. James Hall, son  of David Hall, a young man
living in  the family of his Father. delt [dealt] in the store of said
Johnston & Chapman between the years 1813. & 1819 to the amount
Seventy three Dollars and fifty seven Cents for wearing apearel
and other necessities for the use of the family and that on 
the 5th day of October 1819 a Settlement was made by said
Firm with said James Hall and there was due said Firm by said 
Hall the sum of Fifty six Dollars and Seventy Cents
for which he then Executed to Johnson & Chapman above for the 
said Sum, and on or about the fist day of Nov. 1819
the firm of Johnson & Chapman was dissolved (and, at the same time 
Isaac Chapman Took William Chapman into partnership) and the Bond of James Hall fell to Isaac Chapman, and an or about the month of March 1822. 
Isaac & Wm Chapman brought suit against the said James Hall
as the aforesaid bond Executed to Johnson & Chapman as 
also for the sum of Eleven Dollars and Thirtyfour & [illegible] Goods bought
of Isaac & William Chapman; and that shortly after the writ was executed on James Hall Mr. David Hall Came forward and Entered security for the
bond Executed to Johnston & Chapman which he had afterward to pay the Greater part of- David Hall delt [dealt] Himself in the store of Isaac & William Chap-
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-man in Leather and other nessessaries [necessaries]  for the use of his Family between the year 1819 & 1823 to the amount of Eleven Dollars and forty Two Cents which said sum the said David Hall paid us in the years 1823 & 1824. I understand that the said David Hall had to sell a part of his land to a Mr. Henley Chapman to raise the money to pay the aforesaid debts Given under my hand ^& seal^ this 29th day of June 1826
Thomas Kirk J.P.
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Virginia Giles County Court to wit
I David French Clerk of Giles County Court
do hereby Certify, that Christian Snidow before 
whom the affidavit of Henry Chapman was taken .
and Thomas Kirk before whom the affidavit of 
William Chapman on was taken and William Chapman 
before whom the affidavit of James Hall was taken, 
which Several affidavits accompany the declaration 
and other papers of Daniel Hall praying to be placed 
on the pension list of the United States for Revolutionary 
Services by him performed, that the aforesaid Christian 
Snidow Thomas Kirk and William Chapman  before whom
this affidavit aforesaid were taken were at the time of 
Subscribing the Same, and now are Justices of the peace 
for the County of Giles aforesaid duly commissioned by
the Government of Virginia and Sworn into office 
 agreeable to the laws of virginia and that due forth is 
& ought to Given to their official acts given under my 
hand & seal of office this 6th day of October 1826
David French CGC
[round illegible seal attached]

Dear sir I hope the Certificates now forwarded to your office 
will be satisfactory and that the old man will obtain a warrant. 
I know of no man more needy, Should Secretary place him 
on the pension list and If [illegible] to base dole on his first
application which was in Jany last & direct his warrant to me.
David French
The Hon ble Secretary of war
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Certificate of 
Justices with County
Seal
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Virginia 
Giles County To wit
This day Henry Chapman 
personally appeared before me Christian Snidow a justice
 of the peace for the County aforesaid and made 
oath that about the 23rd of June 1823. he was
informed by David Hall that he was indebted to
Isaac & William Chapman in a sum at this time 
not recollected, & that they were about to press
him for the money. This affiant had some small promissory 
notes on different persons & agreed to let the
said David Hall have them provided said Hall 
would Give a deed of Trust on that part of his 
land afterwards sold to this affiant, to secure the sum 
then advanced to said Hall. said Hall
agreed to do so. And the affiant advanced to said Hall 
in promissory notes and in money the sum of 
fifty dollars and took a deed of Trust on that part 
of said Halls land afterwards sold to this affiant.
and allowed said Hall some time to pay the money, 
thus advanced  The said Hall afterwards 
Informed this affiant that he was apprehensive
that he could not make up the money to discharge 
the said Deed of Trust, and agreed to sell the 
Land on which this affiant had the deed of 
Trust to him this affiant at the sum of One hundred dollars 
and which this affiant agreed to Give for said 
Land and afterwards said Hall & his wife conveyed  
the said Land by deed to this affiant. At the time 
this affiant purchased the said Land
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fifty dollars with the interest from the date of the deed of Trust until the sale of said
Land, was due to this affiant together with the costs of drawing and recording the said deeds of Trust. And which sums together with the fee for recording the deed from this Trustee releasing the Land conveyed to him in Trust. were deducted from the One hundred dollars leaving a sum of about forty dollars to be paid to said Hall and which sum this affiant afterwards paid. a part of this sum this affiant thinks he paid to the Sheriff of Giles County for taxs he had against Said Hall and perhaps some other small claims not now and then was no fraud but a far contract between the parties particularly recollected . And further this affiant saith not.
Given under my hand this 28th day of June 1826
C Snidow JP
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D Hall & wife
to Copy Deed
Henley Chapman
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This Indenture made this twenty seventh of October in the year
of our Lord 1824 between David Hall and Sarah his wife of the
County of Giles and State of Virginia of the one part and
Henley Chapman of the County and State aforesaid of
the other part [ink appears darker] Witnesseth [/ink appears darker] that the said David Hall 
and Sarah his wife for and in consideration of the hundred 
dollars to them in hands paid by the said Henley Chapman
before the sealing and delivery of these presents the
receipt whereof the said David Hall and Sarah his wife
do hereby acknowledge they have given granted bargained
and sold and by the presents do give grant bargain
and sell alien and Confirm unto the said Henley Chapman
his heirs and assigns forever a certain piece of parcel of
land containing one hundred and fourteen Acres be the
same more or less being a part of two tracts of lands one
tract being for thirty six Acres and patented to Thomas
Hugh Napier who i now deceased and which patent bears
date the twelfth day of September in the year of our Lords
1793, The other tract calls for one hundred Acres and 
was patented to Patrick Napier Jr. according to Statement
in said patent and which patent bears date the
17th day of July 1800. Which said tracts or parcels of
land are lying and being in the county of Giles on the
West side of Walker's Creek and are adjoining to
each other, the said piece or parcel of land containing
one hundred and fourteen acres be the same more or
less and hereby sold and conveyed to the said
Henley Chapman and his heirs forever is bounded
as followeth to wit [ink appears darker] Beginning [/ink appears darker] at two black oaks being a corner to an old tract formerly owned by Thomas Hughs Napier
deceased but which is now conveyed to Henley Chapman
On the bank of Walker's Creek a little above the mouth of the hollow
where Nancy Drake formerly lived and nearly opposite the 
upper end of an Island in the Creek the running West 80 poles with 
a line of the thirty six Acre tract to a black oak and
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and small white oak corner to the thirty six Acre tract of land also being a corner to the one hundred Acre tract of land thence leaving the thirty six Acre tract and running with the one hundred Acre tract South 62° West 60 poles to a black oak on a ridge, thence S3º W188 poles to two blacks in the line of the one hundred acre tract thence leaving said line N57°S24 poles to a chesnut [sic] and white tree in the head of a hollow thence N44E144 poles to two black oaks on the bank of Walkers Creek rather above the mouth of the hollow first below David Hall's bottom field thence down the Creek with the meanders thereof and binding thereon 144 poles to the beginning with all and singular the appurtenances there unto belonging to have and to hold the said piece of parcel of land with its appurtenances unto the said Henley Chapman his heirs and assigns forever and the said David Hall and Sarah his wife for themselves and their heirs do covenant and agree with the said Henley Chapman and his heirs the said piece or parcel lands containing one hundred and fourteen Acres as above described be the same more or less with it's appurtenances unto the said Henley Chapman his heirs and assigns free from the claim or claims of them the said David Hall and Sarah his wife or their heirs and of all and every person or persons whatsoever shall and will forever warrant and defend unto the said Henley Chapman and his heirs and assigns forever. In testimony whereof the said David Hall and Sarah his wife have hereunto set their hand and affixed their seals the day and year first above written

Signed sealed acknowledged}
and Delivered in presence of}

David his X mark Hall [hand written seal]
Sarah her [line] mark Hall
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At Giles October Court 1824
This deed of bargain seals from David Hall & Sarah his wife to Henley Chapman was acknowledged in Court by the said David Hall & Sara his wife she the said Sarah being first privily Examined as the law directs relinquished her Right of Dower which is ordered to be recorded
[illegible] David French CGC

Virginia Giles County to wit
I David French Clerk of Giles County do hereby Certify that the foregoing is a true Copy of a deed from the records of my office given under my hand this 23rd day of June 1826
David French CGC

Virginia to wit I David French Clerk of Giles County ^Court ^ do hereby Certify that the written Copy of of a deed Exhibitted  by David Hall with his declaration & other papers praying to be placed on the Pension test for revolutionary Services is truly Copied from the records of my office given under my hand and Seal of office this 6th day of October 1826
David French CGC

[seal affixed at bottom of page]
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Giles County To wit
Be it known that before me William Chapman a Justice of the peace
in the County aforesaid personally appeared James Hall (son of David)
the applicant for a pension and made oath that He lived with his father
about thirteen years after he became of age of Twenty-one years and
labored on the Farm, and all that was raised on said Farm went to support
his (David Hall) Father, Mother & himself and that he did not think that
they could have made out to Live with out his labour, and that all
he Received of his Father for the said thirteen years Services was the amt 
of a debt paid Isaac & Wm. Chapman, which debt he Contracted to
Certain merchants under the Firm of Johnston & Chapman between the 
years 1813. & 1819,  but the greater parts in the year 1817 being a suit
of wearing Clothes, these was [illegible] leather and [illegible] purchased of
the said Merchants which leather [illegible] was used in common in the
Family which Debt on  the 5th day of October 1819 amounted to the 
sum of Fifty six dollars and Seventy Cents and on that day that he
Executed a Bond to the said Merchant for the above amt. to [illegible]
an Interest from the Date of said Bond- And that in the Spring
of 1822 Isaac & Wm. Chapman merchants who held the said bond broug[ht]
suit against him and that his Father Entered his security for said
Debt. Interest and Cost and that his father had to pay said debt amt
was not in his power to Do so, without leaving of him 
and [illegible] acct to Raise the money and had he have done so the old
man would have been Compelled to have hired Some other
person to have Laboured and the farmer which he was not well able to do 
that during the 13 years  that he lived with his father that he Recd. his 
course wearing clothes and [illegible] as one of the family
Given under my hand & seal this 8th day of July 1826
Wm Chapman J.P. Seal