Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21,736, George Dill, Continental (German)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (German)
Dill, George
S. 21.736
CONTENTS

George Dill Discharge in the State of New York who served in the Company of Captain Newcomb of the Regt. of Col. D. Dill in the New Hampshire for 8 months
Entered on the Roll of New York the rate of $33 Dollars 28 Cents per annum commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Nov. 1833 and settled in: Marcella (Elmira)
Due to the 14th of Sept. 33 $83.20 Due for allowance ending 4th Mch 34 16.64
$99.84
5 Revolutionary Claim, R. Mch June 7, 1832.
Recorded by G. Dill Clerk Book E. Vol. 4. Page 96
order to pay letter of Fleming. P. agent 25 March 1832. do. to J. Arnot & Co. L.P. agent June 13. 1836 — do. to all. P. Agent 29 Dec. 1836 —
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1835 from 4 Sept 1837 to 4 Sept 1838. Ap notified 5 June 1839.
Due to Pensioner May 22 1838
To Account from 4 Sept 1844. — 26 May, 1845. Note of creation to William A. Prather Miscellaneous
665 6 160 11 83.20

At a Court of Common Pleas held at Elmira for the County of Tioga in the State of New York, on the 3 rd day of September 1833, the same being a Court of Record having a Clerk and Seal.
Present.
Hon. John R. Drake First Judge
Darius Bradley
George Fisher
Elijah Shoemaker
Joseph L. Darling
Esq. Judges
State of New York,
Tioga County ss. On this 3 rd day of September 1833 per-
sonally appeared on open court before the Judges above named George Dill aged seventy five years and upwards, a resident of Lefferson Township Tioga County, 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 7. 1832.
That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the month of July 1782 at Kingsbridge in the State of New York, in a company of Cavalry (raised from the Germans who had deserted from the British Army) commanded by Capt. Van Hare and Lieut. Van Hagen, who were Pennsylvanians, and acquainted with the German language - for the term of Eight months. That he continued in service at Kingsbridge the neighborhood engaged in scouting, riding as express & such service as the Cavalry was required at the time to perform. For sometime, when the Company was ordered to Elizabeth Town in New Jersey where in the neighborhood they continued in similar service until they were ordered to go into winter quarters at Goshen in the State of New York where they continued until his term expired in March following when he was discharged at Goshen aforesaid. Genl. Washington then lay at Newburgh with the army. That the Company to which he belonged was not attached to any particular Regiment, to his knowledge - if it was he was not acquainted with the fact from his

entire ignorance of the English language.
In answer to the interrogatories directed by the War Department to be propounded to pension applicants, he states,
1 st That he was born in Hepp-Capel in Germany in the year 1758 as near as he can ascertain. The time of the year he cannot state. The manner in which he arrived at his age is that he came to America with the Hessian Troops in 1776 when he was seventeen years of age - 2. He has no record of his age - but has been told by his parents that it was kept in the records of the Church in the town where he was born 3. That he was raised in Hepp-Capel & came to America in 1776 attached to a company of Grenadiers under Capt. March or Martz in the Regiment under Col. Count Donop who was killed at Red Bank - remained with the Hessian Troops until the month of June 1782 when he deserted from them and enlisted as above stated at Kingsbridge. 4. That after his discharge from the army he went to Montgomery in the Orange County N.Y. where he continued about 4 years. that he continued to reside different places in the County of Orange until about 15 years since when he removed to Catharine in the County of Tioga where he remained until about 7 years since when he went to reside with his son in the Township of Jackson where he yet resides - 5. From his ignorance of the English language at the time he cannot give the names of any other officers than those under whose immediate command he served. 6. That he received a written discharge but has lost it -

7. The persons to whom he is known and who can testify as to his character & their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution, are Joseph L. Darling Esq. one of the Judges of this Court, Josiah Merrill Esq. one of the attorneys of the same Court, and Lucas Trewiliger & John L. Trewiliger of the Town of Elmina in said County of Tioga -
He appears at this Court as the person to whom he is best known resides in the neighborhood and having lived many years in the Orange County from whence most of the early settlers of Tioga County emigrated - & the Township in which he now resides having been recently settled -
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 any agency in any State.
George Dill
Sworn to & subscribed In open Court this 3 rd day of Sept 1839 before me G. M. Tutbill CLK
We Lucas Trewiliger of Elmina Tioga County N.Y. and William W. Jackson of Katharine in said County attorney at law - do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the above named George Dill, that we believe him to be of the age he represents: that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he has resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Lucas Trewiliger W. W. Jackson  at the time it was set from his
Sworn & subscribed the 3 rd day of Sept 1839 In open Court before me G. M. Tutbill CLK
he was not acquainted in

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The waffle
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states - and that it appears to them that Lewis Smith & Hiram W. Jackson Esq. who have subscribed their names to the foregoing certificate are residents of the town of El- mira and Catharine in said County and are credible persons whose statements are entitled to credit.
I Green M Tuttle Clerk of the said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of George Price for a pension.
Witness my hand & seal of office the 7 day of September 1833.
Green M Tuttle Ck
Daughter of Benjamin, Esq.
of Amity
The Maxwells agent
Elmira N.Y.
Mrs. Dice

Territory of Wisconsin County of Milwaukee ss.
On this twenty ninth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and forty five before me Timothy Wainwright a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Milwaukee aforesaid personally appeared George Gill, who on his oath declared that he is the identical person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Ben Heber in that Regiment, commanded by Colonel (whose name deponent does not recollect) in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of New- York as will appear by an original certificate now in his possession, numbered 24243 and dated at the War Office of the United States the 16th day of November A.D. 1833 and signed S.W. Pals, Secretary of War. That he formerly resided in the Town of South Port in the County of Albany in the State of New York, where he resided for the space of ten years, and from whence he removed to the Town of Jackson, in the County of Tioga and State of Pennsylvania where he resided for the space of one year, and from which last mentioned place he has lately removed to the County of Milwaukee in the Territory of Wisconsin, where he intends to remain, and makes his pension to be there payable in future.
The foregoing are his reasons for removing from Jackson Tioga County Pennsylvania to Milwaukee County Wisconsin, viz, that his children have remained to the last mentioned place, and he is unable to maintain himself without their aid.
Subscribed and sworn to before me on the 29 th day of March A.D. 1845 Timothy Wainwright Justice of the Peace
George Gill

City of Milwaukee County of Milwaukee
I George Dill Junior of the County aforesaid being duly sworn depose and say that I have been acquainted with George Dill the person who subscribed and made oath to the foregoing affidavits for more than forty years last past, and know him to be the person therein named and referred to in the Pension Certificate No. 24243 now in this possession
George Dill
Sworn and subscribed to before me on the 29 th day of March AD 1845 Timothy H. Cummings Justice of the Peace
City of Milwaukee County of Milwaukee
I Timothy H. Cummings
Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with George Dill whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affi- davits of identity, and that he is a person of veracity, and entitled to full credit.
Given under my hand at Milwaukee this 29 th day of March AD 1845
Timothy H. Cummings Justice of the Peace

State of Wisconsin Milwaukee County
I, Cyrus Hawley Clerk of the District Court within and for the County and Territory aforesaid, do hereby certify that Timothy McGrath whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavits and certificate, is a Magistrate, duly elected and qualified commissioned, and authorized by the laws of the Territory to administer oaths, and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal at Milwaukee in said County the Sixteenth day of April in the Year One Thousand Eighteen Hundred and forty five.
Cyrus Hawley Clerk Dist. Court Mil. Co.

Michl & Farmer's Bank Albany Pension Agency Dec 7. 1. 1836.
James L. Edwards Esq., Commissioner of Pensions, Sir,
George Dill a Pensioner under the Act of June 7. 1832, claims pay upon the enclosed Vouchers, from 1 st March 1834, to 4 Sept. 1836. Shall we pay him?
I am, Sir,
Very Respectfully Your ob td Serv t
R. M. Court Pst. & Pen Ap
On our Books there is a memorandum that the above named Pensioner, must be transferred to Pennsylvania. Has he been actually transferred? —

Yours sincerely
(Wisconsin) April 30. 1845
Sir, I herewith enclose you the application of George Hill, a Division of the Resolution, for a transfer of the payment of his pension, from the New York to the Wisconsin Agency - I understand from Mr. Hill that he has been paid up to September 1844, and being in needy circumstances, he is desirous that the transfer should be made at as early a period as possible -
Yours respectfully & Friend
William A. Doolittle
W. A. Doolittle Comd. of Division Washington D. C.

Alma May 31 1834
To the Pension Office
Enclosed we send you Genl Dill Paper for two years pay arntg to 1815 which you will share the goodness to order paid - and enclose it to us Very Respectfully Yours John Amick Jr. for W. H. Lacy

June 6.
24742
Free
Gen. Ditt My wife.
Pension Office Washington D.C.

May 26 1845 Mr. Adams
James L. Edmunds Esq. Comm'r of Pensions War Dept. Washington City D.C.

MECHANICS' & FARMERS' BANK,
Albany Decatur Street.
May 24 th 1845
JAMES L. EDWARDS, Esquire, Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 23 d inst I have to state, that George Hill a Pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 33 28/100 Dollars per Annum as was last paid to the 4 day of September 1844
I am, Sir,
Very Respectfully,
Yours obed serv t ,
Thos W. Olcott
PRES'T AND PENSION AGENT.
per J. Jenkins.

Revocation
21736 INVALID.
No. 21736
George Dill
Franklin Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index: Vol. 2 , Page 109
[Arrangement of 1870.]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office.
May 15 th 1839.
Sir:
Under the act 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," George Dill, _____ a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.Y. Agency, at the rate of thirty three Dollars and twenty eight Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept., 1837, to the 4 th Sept., 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
J. S. Scudder acting Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions Present.