Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15751, Daniel Bill, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Bill, Daniel
S 15751
CONTENTS
Scarded

22824 Connecticut. 22824
Daniel Bille
of Hartland in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the Comp y comman- by Captain Watson of the regim t comman- by Col. Hinman in the Connecticut line for
11 months 11 days — M c from $28.21.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 38 Dollars 21 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th day of Janua- ry 1838 and sent to E. Phelps, Ginsbury Connecticut.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept r 1837 $248.36 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 March 38 19.10
$267.46
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. McCurdy Clerk Book E 2 Vol. 3 Page 6.
Date of death not on A.B.

State of Connecticut - Hartford County - District of Granby. On this 28 th day of December 1832 Personally appeared in Open Court before the Court of Probate for the district of Granby now setting Daniel Bill a resident of the town of Northford in said Hartford County aged seventy four 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 th 1832 - that he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated viz That he enlisted into said service as a private on the first Monday of May 1775 under Lieut Theodore Woodbridge for the  not less than term of seven months and immediately after joined the Company at Canaan Connecticut under Capt John Watson - Marched to Albany thence to Lake George Ticonderoga Crown point and to St Johns and was at the taking of the latter place from thence marched to Chomble and was at the taking of that place and from thence returned to St Johns where he was discharged on some of the last days of December 1775 or first of January 1776 having served nearly eight months - That he again entered the service as a substitute for Jesse Gates a private under Capt Peter Curtis in August 1777 Marched to Albany and Stillwater and was at Troy at the time of the taking of Burgoyne and was dismissed in October 1777 having served two months - That he was drafted into the service under Sergeant Jonathan Emmons as a private in November 1777 went to Albany to Guard the Ammunition taken with the army of Burgoyne from Albany to Farmington Connecticut and served at this time four weeks

That he again was drafted into the service in July 1779 a private under Capt Thomas Giddings in Col. Meads Regiment went to Horse Neck and was dismissed after having served six weeks in August of the same year
He further states that at the time he rendered said services he was and ever since has been a resident of said Town of Hartford in Hartford County and that from all said terms of service he was honorably discharged but has not only written discharge to shew and that he has no documentary evidence of his services that he knows of no person whom testimony he can procure who can testify to his service except what is appended to this declaration.
Given & subscribed before me Joel Griffin Judge of Superior Court And to the interrogatories of the Court put in conformity with the prescriptions of the War Department the said David Bill upon oath answers as follows viz
1 st He was born in Bolton Connecticut June 21 st 1758 2 nd Has no record of his age 3 rd Lived in Hartford when called into the service and ever since 4 th Enlisted into the regular army the first term of seven months was a substitute for Ezra Gates a term of two months and drafted the other terms mentioned 5 th Recollects Major Elmore Gen Schuyler & Gen Montgomery at the north in 1775 also Ethan Allen -

6 He never received a written discharge
7 Samuel Benjamin William Selby Thomas Luzden Phelps Humphreys
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and dedens that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Daniel Bill
before me Joel Griffin Judge of Probate
We Samuel Benjamin and Eli Pardie both of Hartford in Hartford County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Bill who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age that he is reputed & resided in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to & subscribed the 28 th day of Dec 1832
Samuel Benjamin
Eli Pardie
before me Joel Griffin Judge of Probate

I Anni Linsley a Clergyman of Hartland in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Daniel Bill who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that I believe him to be seventy four years of age that he is a man of veracity and I believe his statement in the foregoing declaration to be true Dated at Hartland the 28 th day of December 1832
Sworn & Subscribed Anni Linsley, Pastor the day & year aforesaid of a church in Hartland Isaac Griffin Judge
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 based on his status, and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Samuel Benjamin and Eli Pardee, who have signed the preceding Certificate are Residents of the Town of Hartland County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, and that the Rev Anni Linsley who has subscribed signed the Subjoined Certificate is a clergyman and Resident of Hartland aforesaid, and that they are credible persons and their statement is entitled to credit
Isaac Griffin Judge

State of Connecticut Hartford County ss District of Hartland
On this 25 th day of March 1837 Personally appeared in Open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Hartland now sitting Daniel Bill a resident of Hartland in said District aged 78 years Who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in addition to and alteration of one heretofore made to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 viz That in said former declaration he erroneously stated the length of the term of service in the year 1777 under Capt Curtis to be two months as he is now satisfied from recollecting the time of year in which the service commenced and the time he was discharged that it could not have been less than four months that he erroneously stated the given name of Capt Curtis to be Peter whereas he now knows it to have been Eliphatet that at the time of making his said former declaration he believed it was Eliphatet Curtis but was informed by those in whom he placed much confidence that there was no such officer That in said former declaration he stated that the colonel of the regiment in which he served was Col Ledgwick whereas Mr Dudley Hages a witness whom he has recently discovered states that it was Col Cook that he is unable from his own recollection to say whether it was the one or the other Sworn & Subscribed this day and year aforesaid Daniel Bill
And the said Court does hereby declare it to be their Opinion after the investigation of the matter that the above named applicant served as he now states the said term of four months in the summer

and fall of 1777
Phelps Humphreys Judge
I Benjamin Giddings Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Hartland do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the Application of Daniel Bill for an increase of Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 25 th day of March 1837
Benjamin Giddings Clerk
I Benjamin Giddings Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Hartland do hereby certify that Phelps Humphreys is on this 25 th day of March 1837 Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Hartland aforesaid duly appointed Commissioned & sworn and that full faith and credit are to be given to his official acts as such & that his signature herein is genuine Benjamin Giddings Clerk

March 16, 1938
Daniel Bill S. 15751 BA-J/AWT am
M. Eliot 803 E. Market Street Bloomington, Illinois
Dear Madam ,
Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of Daniel Bill of Connecticut.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 15751, based upon the military service of Daniel Bill in the War of the Revolution. This is the record of the only Daniel Bill or Bills found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Daniel Bill was born June 21, 1758 in Bolton, Connecticut. The names of his parents were not stated.
While residing in Hartland, Hartford County, Connecticut, Daniel Bill enlisted "the first Monday" in May, 1775, served about eight months as private in Captain John Watson's company, Colonel Hinman's Connecticut regiment, was in the battles of St. Johns, and Chambly. He enlisted sometime in July or August, 1777, served four months as private in Captain Eliphalet Curtis' company, Colonel Cook's Connecticut regiment. He served again  in 1777  as sergeant  as sergeant in Sergeant's guard, under Sergeant Jonathan Emmons, guarding ammunition, taken at the surrender of Burgoyne. He served from sometime in July, 1779, six weeks as private
He was as Sgt's guard

in Captain Thomas Giddings' company in Colonel Mead's Connecticut regiment,
The soldier, Daniel Bill, was allowed pension on his application executed August 13, 1832, then a resident of Hartland, Connecticut, where he had lived ever since the Revolution, and where he was living in 1837.
The papers on file in this claim contain no reference to family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and furnish the following data:
Daniel Bill Certificate # 22824 Issued January 6, 1838 Rate $38.21 per annum Commenced March 4, 1831 Act of June 7, 1832 Connecticut Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

15751 INVALID.
File No. 15751
Female Bill
Pat. 1880
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 98
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Connecticut 22.824
Daniel Bill
Wartland in the State of Conn was a Private in the Conn commanded Captain Watson of the Regt. commanded Kirtland in the Conn troops for 8 mo 11 days
acted on the Roll of Conn rate of 2/8 Dollars 2/1 Cents per annum, commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of Nov 1833 and sent J. B. Jewett Granby Conn
years to the 14th of Sept '33 $ 75. 52 mutant. allowance ending 14th Mar '34 19. 10
$ 94. 62
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
recorded by C. Gaurie Clerk, book E Vol. 3 Page 49
E. Phelps June 23. 1837
To same November 21, 1837.

Comptrollers Office October 29 th 1833.
I Elisha Phelps, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut do certify that it appears by a list of discharges of Wooster & Hinmans regiments in the Northern Department in 1775, that Daniel Bell was a private in Capt. Watsons in Col. Hinmans Regt. company & was discharged by General Schuyler on the 19 th day of November 1775.
(By the records of the State, it appears that Col. Hinmans regiment was raised in May 1775, & to serve seven months.)
I have not found any muster or pay roll of Capt. Watsons company, & the above is all the evidence within my knowledge of the service of Daniel Bell.
E. Phelps

I Joshua R. Scott Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Grimsby Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original Proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Application of Dennis Bill for a Pension — In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand Seal of Office this 10. Day of October 1893 — Joshua R. Scott Clerk
I Joshua R. Scott Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Grimsby Do hereby certify that Paul Griffin Esq. is Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Grimsby aforesaid — and also a Justice of the peace Within & for the County of Harford in the State of Connecticut, duly appointed, commissioned & sworn — I have full faith & credit in the said Paul Griffin in his official acts as such Judge & Justice — and also that his signature hereon is genuine In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand Seal of Office this 10. Day of October 1893 — Joshua R. Scott Clerk

I Timothy Tiffany of Barkhamsted in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut of lawful age being duly sworn do depose and say that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five in the Month of May I enlisted into the continental army. that Daniel Bill then and now of Hartford in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut enlisted about the same time into the same company that said Company was commanded by Capt John Watson that we enlisted for the term of seven months that we marched to Ticonderoga - Crownpoint and St Johns and was at the taking of the latter place - that said Bill served said term of seven months and was dismissed at St Johns at or soon after the expiration of said term and your Deponent hath ever since been acquainted with said Bill and understood that said Bill served two other terms in the army of the revolution but had no personal knowledge of the same Timothy Tiffany
State of Connecticut Hartford County ss Hartford August 10 th 1832 Personally appeared Timothy Tiffany who after being duly cautioned made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me Phelps Humphreys Justice of peace
I hereby Certify that the above named Timothy Tiffany is a man of veracity and a Credible witness Phelps Humphreys Justice of peace

June 18th 1887 Samuel D. Allen
I Joshua D. Scoble Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District do hereby certify that Charles Humphrey D. before whom the within deposition was taken is a Justice of the peace within the District and that the signature purporting to be his is his genuine signature
Joshua D. Scoble Clerk
(Handwritten oval mark)

State of Connecticut - Hartford County - District of Granby On this 13 day of August 1832 - Personally appeared in open court before Joel Griffin Esq. Judge of the Court of the County of Probate for the District of Granby now sitting - Daniel Bills a Resident of the Town of Hartland in Hartford County aged Seventy four Years who being first duly sworn according to law both on his oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of January 27th 1832 - That he is the  has been the true and the writer thereof under the following circumstances He enlisted on the first Monday of May 1775 at Roxbury  enlisted stated - that he entered the service under Capt John Watson of Canaan in Conn. by voluntary enlistment for a term of eight months went to Albany, Salem, Groton, Litchfield, & Greenpoint. He lay there until June then Dr. John, was at the taking of St. Johns. Was at the taking of Chamblee - was discharged at the end of eight months returned to John Chamblee 1776 that he again went into service under Capt Peter Burts in July 1777 on a term of two months, went to Albany Still Water I saw at Saratoga in Sept 1777 term of two months and I was discharged That he again went into service in Nov. 1777 under Lieut Genl. Putnam went to Albany & heard the demolition taken from Genl. Burgoyne from Albany to Saratoga in Conn. Was in the service at this time at Saratoga  about  at Fort Schuyler -

I Joshua A. Scott Clerk of the court of Probate for the District of Grady do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the court in the matter of the application of Daniel Bills for a Pension - Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand Seal of Office this 13 day of August 1832 Joshua A. Scott Clerk
Daniel Bills Declaration No 4000
I do hereby certify that Joel Griffin Esq is Judge of the court of Probate for the District of Grady & that the above is his genuine signature
Attest Joshua A. Scott Clerk

That he again went into 1 st Service under Capt Thomas Giddings in 20 th March 1879. Went to Hornsby Hill a term of six weeks & was discharged as that Man after serving 1 st term fully out —
The further State that at the time he joined the Officers Service he was a President in Town of Hardin in Hardin County — & that from all the Officers Service he was honorably discharged but has not any further discharge to show — that he has no Documentary Evidence of his Service as above stated —
The undersigned being sworn to a Pension or Annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency of any State — sworn to Subst. the day & year above — before me Daniel Bell
Sub Griffin Chicago

We Samuel Benjamin & Isaac Newell both now residing in Hardland in Hampshire County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Bell who has tuberc. I swear by the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age, that he is respectable & beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that Opinion
Samuel Benjamin
Isaac Newell
Hardland
August 12. 1832
Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid before me
Isaac Griffin Not public
And the above does hereby declare it to be their Opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogations proposed by the War Department that the above named Officer was a soldier of the Revolution I see as he states - & the found further certifies that it appears to him that Samuel Benjamin & Isaac Newell Esq are both residents of Hardland in Hampshire and are credible persons that the statement is entitled to credit —
Isaac Griffin Judge

I Asa Candler of Halloway County of Halloway and State of Connecticut aged Seventy four Years of age and say that I well know that Daniel Bell of Halloway aforesaid was in the Army of the Revolution that in the month of July 1779 that he belonged to Captain Thomas Giddings Company and Colonel Meigs Regiment - at Halloway that the said Bell joined the Service in July 1779 and was discharged in August following having served the term of six months discharged at Halloway 1779 the deponent having belonged to the same Service at the same time well knows that the said Bell served and was discharged as aforesaid Halloway Dec 28 th 1832 Asa Candler
Sworn and subscribed the Day and Year aforesaid before me
and I certify that Asa Candler is a credible witness. Isaac Giffin Judge of Probate
I Joshua R. Smith Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Litchfield do hereby certify that Isaac Giffin by before whom the above deposition was taken is Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Litchfield only Grafton said as such and the signature written is his genuine signature Joshua R. Smith Clerk

for Ira Canedy Dear Dick
I Joshua R. Scott Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Granby do hereby certify that Isaac Griffin Esq. is Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Granby & is also Justice of the peace within for the County of Hartford. informed & duly qualified as such & that the Signatures, presiding where his is his Commission Signatures. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office the 28. day of March 1833 for Joshua R. Scott Clerk

227.26 19.60 248.36
Payments to be made at Hartford Court by Mrs. W. S. Pr. Bank Agent for paying Pension- ers in the Agency of Connecticut
Issued new certificate for $38.21 1/4 viz 11mo. 11.00 per
E. Phelps Mishawaka Cont Jan 1. 1858.
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E Vol. 3 Page 49 by C. Laurie Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Daniel Billo of the State of Connecticut, who was a Private during the Revolutionary War is entitled to receive Seventy eight dollars and twenty one cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 14th day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three
L. W. Chap Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

Simsbury June 30 th May 1837.
Sir
I transmit the supplemental application of Capt. Bill & evidence, for an increase of pension. I am not informed whether this part of his claim was rejected or not.
I am very respectfully Yours &c P. Phelps

We Ammi Linsley a Clergyman residing in the Town of Hartland, County of Hartford and State of Connecticut and Darrow Humphrey residing in the same Town County and State hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Bell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 75 Years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides, & have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion Ammi Linsley, Pastor Sworn to & subscribed of a church in Hartland the day & year aforesaid Darrow Humphrey Jacob Griffin Judge of Probate
and the Court do hereby declare it to be their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogation proposed by the War Department that the above named Applicant was a soldier of the Revolution and sworn as he states - and the Court further certifies that it concurs with them that Ammi Linsley who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman Residing in Town of Hartland & that Darrow Humphrey who has also signed the same is a Resident of Town of Hartland, and are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit. —
Jacob Griffin Judge of Probate

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State of Connecticut Hartford County
On this 10 th day of October 1833 personally appeared in Open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Granby now sitting Daniel Bice a Resident of the Town of Walland in said County and State aged 75 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 on the first Monday of May 1775 it being the day of Company Exercise, that Lieut Woodbridge best of fort volunteers that the applicant turned out and enlisted under Lieut Theodon Woodbridge of said Hartland and marched to Norfolk thence to Canaan in Connecticut, when the Company Mustered under Captain John Watson, thence marched to Albany, thence to Lake George, Tienderoga, Crown point, where he was stationed and there joined the Regiment under the Command of Col. Hinman and Major Elmore, thence marched to St. Johns, and marched about and around the fort at St. Johns and Major Elmore Commanded the party which laid siege to the fort on the Northern part, and the fort surrendered to Gen Montgomery who had the Command of this body of Troops the Garrison surrendered in the Month of November 1775 that he was discharged at St. Johns in the Month of December following having served not up than seven months that he was selected to attend to the Sick and Wounded and continued here on Month and was discharged in January following afterwards and then returned home

That in the Month of August 1777 he again Entered the Service as a Substitute for Jeph Gales as a private under Captain Peter Quilley. The Lieutenant was Elijah Can the Regiment and the Colonel (he was attached to a Regiment) he cannot remember that he marched from Watlands to Albany Thence to Stillwater and was at Troy at the time of the Surrender of Gen Burgoyne, and was discharged in November 1777 at Troy, having served not up than two months.
That in the Month of November 1777 he was Drafted and went under the Command of Sergeant Jonathan Enmore as a Sergeant's Guard to guard the ordnance taken with the Army of General Burgoyne from Albany to Farmington in Conne- -cticut and served in this term one month as a private
That in the Month of July 1778 he was Drafted into the Company of Captain Thomas Giddings of said Watlands and Marched from said Watlands to Hoosick and then joined the Regiment Commanded by Col Mead and was then stationed for the term of six weeks and was discharged in the Month of August 1778 having served in this term not up than one and a half month.
That he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State.
Daniel Bell
Sworn to and subscribed the day and Year aforesaid
Isaac Griffin Judge of Probate

To The Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department and put by the Court The applicant gives the following answers—
1 st He was born in Bolton Co., June 21. 1758 2. He has no record of his age 3. He lived in Scotland when called into service and when he has lived since and when he now lives 4. He enlisted first time for 7 Months and served 8 Mo— second time was a substitute for Capt. Galt 2 Mo— 3 rd time was drafted — 1 Mo— 4 th time was drafted — 1 st Mo— 5 He recalls Majors Elmore Gen Schuyler General Montgomery, Col Ethan Allen 6 never received a written discharge 7 The names of persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify as to his character for veracity and the liability of his services as a Soldier of the Revolution are, Samuel Benjamin William Allen Thomas Lyden Dwylyp Wright and Phelps Humphreys
Dec 11 1833
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Isaac Griffin Judge of Probate

Oct 4
Salisbury affidavit to Daniel Billo supplemental
add p/b David Billo 22. x 24
J. L. Stevens Esq Barnes & Jones Washington D. C.

Comptroller Office Sept. 29 th 1837
Comptroller Office Sept. 29 1837
I hereby certify that it appears by the books of the late Pay Table of the State of Connecticut, under date August 27 th 1777, that the following charge was made, viz, "Capt. Ephraim Curtis D r " To order on Treasurer as advance pay of 20 s each " his company militia detached, ordered to join " the Northern Army for rest. £50, 0, 0," that none of this company has been found or other evidence of the dismission of his service, except the following order of the Gov t & Council of Safety under date July 30 th 1777, viz, "Orders were " given to the several Brigadiers General to order " to put the militia of this State into readiness " to march on the shortest notice to any place " that may be attacked. This 29 th day of September 1837-
also an order under date July 5 th 1777 " viz "also an order one quarter of the brigade " under his (Brig d Gen. Esek Hopkins) command " to be properly drafted & equipped with suitable " officers there appointed & to hold themselves in " readiness to march on the shortest notice.
I believe, from the information given me, that the above Capt. Ephraim Curtis belonged to Simsbury, is dead, & lived within the limits of the brigade commanded by Brig. Gen. Esek Hopkins.
Hartford Sept 29 th Sept 1837.
In the absence of the Comptroller
Jeremiah Brown, Treasurer, of the State of Connecticut.

I Dudley Hages of Granby in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut depose and say that in the latter part of June or fore part of July I joined the company of Militia commanded by Capt Eliphalet Curtiss as a substitute for a private. This was in the year 1777. We marched from New Hartford Connecticut to Albany and I well recollect that Daniel Bill of Hartland Connecticut was a member of said company. We marched from Albany to the junction of the Mohawk River with the Hudson and crossed over the Mohawk to Half Moon & from thence marched to and encamped at Stillwater. We were in the action of the 19 th of September when I received a wound in my thigh and was carried to Albany - After that I had no personal knowledge of said Bill until after we were discharged but have no doubt from information received at the time and various circumstances that said Bill remained in the service until the company was discharged. The term of service according to my best recollection was four months. I had a brother in the company and am confident that the company was not discharged until after the surrender of Burgoyne. The regiment we served in was commanded by Col Cook Dudley Hages
State of Connecticut, Hartford County ss District of Hartland January 17 th 1837 Personally appeared Dudley Hages above named in open Court and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition before me. And I hereby certify that the said Dudley Hages is a credible witness. Phelps Humphreys Judge of Probate

State of Connecticut } ss District of Hartland Jan 11 th 1837 Hartford County }
I hereby certify that Phelps Humphreys before whom the foregoing deposition was taken is Judge of Probate for this District duly commissioned and that his signature affixed to the foregoing certificate is genuine In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court the day and year above mentioned
Benjamin Giddings, Clerk

1 G Bill de fencore

THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS
1938
Veterans Administration Washington DC

Feb 28-1938
Gentlemen - Seryt Daniel Bill 98 th served in the Amer. Rev. in Capt Wm Stanton's Co., Conn. Troop 1776. Did Daniel Bill receive a pension for his service and if so will you please give me all the information contained in the pension record. Thanking you I remain respectfully yours 803 E Market St Bloomington, Ills. M Eliot

CHAS. B. HERVEY PRESIDENT
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LOS ANGELES, CAL. May 7, 1929.
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear sir:
only
In the list of pensioners in Sen. Doc., 1st Sess., 23rd Congress, 1833-34 is the name of Daniel Bill. In one record he was numbered 19, with an annual stipend of $60.
I would like the date of his birth and death, of his marriage and to whom, where he lived and where he died. And any other information that relates to him. Was he an officer, a sergeant or lieutenant in the Rev. War. When was he pensioned.
Thank you for any information you can give me.
Yours very truly,
H. H. Harriman

February 25, 1932
BA-J/AWF
Mrs. A. J. Bush 107 Stella Avenue Kenmore, New York.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Daniel Bill, S. 15751, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 15751, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Daniel Bill.
He was born June 21, 1758 in Bolton, Connecticut.
While residing in Hartland, Hartford County, Connecticut, he enlisted the first Monday in May 1775, served as private in Captain John Watson's company in Colonel Hinman's Connecticut regiment, was at the taking of St. John's and Chambly and was discharged in January 1776. He enlisted in July or August 1777, served four months as private in Captain Eliphalet Curtis' company in Colonel Cook's Connecticut regiment and was in the battle of Stillwater, September 19, 1777; and later in the same year he served four weeks as private and sergeant's guard under Sergeant Jonathan Emmons. He enlisted in July 1779, served six weeks as private in Captain Thomas Giddings' company in Colonel Mead's Connecticut regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 13, 1832, then a resident of Hartland, Connecticut.
There are no data concerning his family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section MEK/eel
August 15, 1929
Mr. H.H.Harriman Hotel Stowell Los Angeles, California
Dear Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 15751, it appears that Daniel Bill was born June 21, 1758, in Bolton, Connecticut.
While residing in Hartland, Hartford County, Connecticut, he enlisted the first Monday in May, 1775, served as a private in Captain John Watson's Company, Colonel Hinman's Connecticut Regiment, was at the taking of St. John's and Chambly and was discharged in January, 1776. He enlisted in July or August, 1777, served four months as a private in Captain Eliphalet Curtis' Company, Colonel Cook's Connecticut Regiment and was in the battle of Stillwater, September 19, 1777; later in the same year, he enlisted and served four weeks as private and sergeant's guard under Sergeant Jonathan Hamons; he enlisted in July, 1779, and served six weeks as a private in Captain Thomas Giddings' Company, Colonel Mead's Connecticut Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 13, 1832, while a resident of Hartland, Connecticut, where he had lived ever since the Revolution.
There are no data concerning his family.
The above noted is the history of the only soldier by the name of Daniel Bill that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.