Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,315, Aaron Hill, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hill Aaron Katharine
PP 21 315
CONTENTS

Rept by let: to n o Agent 28th: Apr: 43
Massachusetts - 857
Natharine Hill widow of Aaron Hill Mass who died on the 4th: May, 1818 of Boston — in the State of Mass: — who was a private in the ————— commanded by Captain ————— of the Regt: commanded by Col: Nixon — in the Massachusetts line for 16 months, 16 days — Increased from $27.34 per annum
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts the rate of 54 Dollars ————— Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th: day of 1843 and sent to Reuben Baldwin Boston, Mass:
Amounts to the 14th of March 1843 $648.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 11 Sept: 27.00
$675.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 d }
Recorded by V. H. Stetson Clerk. C Vol. 3 — Page 56

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk, P.
On this second day of February Anno Domini eight teen hundred and thirty seven, personally appeared before the Honorable Peter O. Thacher, Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, within the Commonwealth aforesaid, said Court being a court of record, at the residence of Martha G. Domett, in said Boston. Mrs. Katharine Hill now a resident in said Boston, but late of Framingham, in the County of Middlesex, in said Commonwealth, widow, aged Seventy Seven Years, who being "unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity," and being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836. That she is the widow of Aaron Hill late of Framingham aforesaid, Yeoman, who was a Soldier who served in the war of the revolution, as a private; - that said Aaron enlisted in the spring of the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy eight for nine months, then being in the town of Sudbury, in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid; that she was then unmarried and that her marriage was hasten- -ed on account of her husband (intended) having enlisted. That she was married on the fourth day of June Seventeen hundred and Seventy eight;

that her husband went from Sudbury to Framingham and from thence to join the army about the fifteenth day of June Seventeen hundred and twenty eight. that she does not know save from hearsay, the names of the Officers under whom her husband served; that she heard from him in the month of August of the same year, of his being extremely sick, heard again in September of same year of his being better, and he came home in the month of March in the year Seventeen hundred and twenty nine; and firmly believes he was honorably discharged, and that she has no documentary evidence, other than what is herewith, in support of her claim.
She further declares that she was married on the fourth day of June A.D. 1778: that her husband the aforesaid Aaron Hill died on the fourth day of May Anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. Her signature Katharine X Hill Mark. Patricia Miley Worn to subscribed
The day & Year above
written, 2 Feb. 1837,
before me
Peter A. Tracher, Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston.
Judge of the Municipal Court for the City of Boston Com- monwealth of Mass'tts

I hereby certify that the foregoing Declarant, Katharine Hill, is unable, by reason of bodily infirmity, to attend personally in Court. I further certify that she is a credible person, and that faith is due to her statement.
Boston, Feb. 2. 1837.
Peter O. Thacher Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston.

Aaron Hill and Katharine Hall both of Sudbury were married 4 of June 1788
A true copy of Record
Nahum Thompson Town Clerk of Sudbury County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss. Dec. 29 th 1836 - Then the above named Nahum Thompson made oath that the above is a true copy of the record. Before me Thos. Stearns Justice of Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office Boston February 1837.
I hereby certify that the within named Thomas Stearns, is now and has been for the year last past a justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex - in this Com- monwealth, duly constituted and appointed; & that the within attestation is in due form (and by the proper officer)
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed by name, and the Seal of the Commonwealth annexed, the day and year above named.
John P. Bigelow
Sec'y of the Commonwealth

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston June 13
A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Aaron Hill subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying document marked A together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
M Davis
} Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

Dead No 473 Aaron H. [redacted] private Mason map age 78 9 months 18 April 1818
grace [redacted] to as to claim ants circum- -stances
21 June 78 9 mo Mar. 18 Feb 79

I Aaron Hill of Framingham in the County of Middlesex & commonwealth of Massachusetts aged sixty five years do declare testify and say that I enlisted a soldier in the continental army in the month of May A D 1778 and served in the company commanded by Captain Thomas Barrs in Col o Hixons Regt called the 6th Massachusetts Regiment for the term of three months, and I was regularly discharged discharged at the expiration of said term, that I am now a citizen of the United States and in such reduced circumstan- ces in life as to need support from my Country Therefore wish to be placed on the Pension list of the United States agreeably to an Act of the Congress of the United States passed the 18th day of March A D 1818 entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War Aaron his Hill mark
Massachusetts District S t . Boston 18 April A D . 1818 Sworn to before me
M c Davis Dist. Judge Mass t District.
Debenezer Eaton of Framingham, testifies Debenezer Eaton of Framingham that he was one of the Committee of Three men who engaged the applicant as a soldier in the Continental Army and agreed with him to the County. This was later the March of 1778. That applicant went to join the Army. Wrote to his friend of his sickness and returned home, having been absent about ten months. Sworn before me M c Davis D J

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Aaron Hill a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
W File 21,315
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1775 8 mos. ✓ Edmund Rennie Whitcomb Mass   1776 ✓ Cronton & Gardner E. Brooks   May 1778 9 mos. Thomas Barnes Thomas Nixon 6 Mass.  
Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill. White Plains + Trenton Dec. 26, 1776. Residence of soldier at enlistment, 1775 Westminster Mass 1776 Sudbury Mass. Date of application for pension, Apr. 18, 1818. Residence at date of application, Framingham. Mass. Age at date of application, 65 yrs. Remarks: Sol. mar. Sudbury Mass. June 4, 1778 Katharine Hall; hed. May 4, 1818 + she rec all pens. on her appln. exec. Feby. 2, 1837 while 77 yrs. of age + a res. of Boston, Mass.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

A. S. BURBANK
PROCTORSVILLE, VT., Dec. 26, 1911
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C. Dear Sir.
Can you give me any information as to Military History in the Rev War of Saron Hill of Sudbury and Framingham, Mass. as private in Capt Benj Munroe Co from Sudbury, Mass. Also in Capt Buckminster Co. Col Burroughs Regt from Framingham Mass.
Do not know as to whether there was secession or not.
Yours truly A. S. Burbank
If any fee required will forward on notice.

I Ebenezer Eaton of Framingham in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify and say that I am eighty six years old & have always lived in Framingham as my home. In the year 1778 I was one of a Committee of the town of Framingham for hiring soldiers for the army and engaged Aaron Hill, who lived about half a mile from me, in the edge of Sudbury, to go into the army as a soldier; I paid him his bounty, & he went to join the army. The period of his enlistment was nine months, & I have no doubt that he served out that time - I remember that he was sick while in the army & wrote so to his friend; - when he came home I remember that his sickness had occasioned the loss of his hair - I understood, at the time & ever since, that he was honorably discharged, but do not know it personally - I understood at the time of said service that Mr. Hill served in Capt. Bums Company, & under Col. Thomas Nixon of Framingham.
I remember that at the time of said enlistment, which was early in the spring of 1778, said Hill was engaged to be married to a young woman, who had been brought up in the family of Deacon Tavor of Lincoln, and who came to live in Sudbury Framingham. I remember that they were said to be married sooner than they had contemplated, on account of the enlistment, & I know that they lived together as man and wife a few days previous to the departure of said Hill to join the army. After his return they lived together within a few rods of me, till the time of his death, at which scene I was present, about the time of his death, about a fortnight after he went with me to Judge Davis of Boston, & made oath to make his statement in order to obtain his a pension under the act of 1818. I am well acquainted with Mrs. Katharine Hill the widow, and know that she is the same person who was married to said Aaron Hill in the year 1778 - she has lived within a few miles of me till lately, & I understand she is now residing in Boston with her children, & very destitute of the means of living & in bad health.
Ebenezer Eaton

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss. January 31. 1837. Then Personally appeared Ebenezer Eaton of Framingham in said County, and sub- scribed the foregoing affidavit, and made oath that the same contains the truth, the whole truth, & nothing but the truth relative to the subject- matter thereof. And I do certify that I have lived in said town for thirty years last past, and that the said Eaton is a man of truth & entitled to full credit.
Josiah Adams { Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office Boston February 1 st 1837
I hereby certify that the above named Josiah Adams is now and has been for the year last past a Justice of the Peace (an of the Quorum for the County of Middlesex in this Commonwealth, duly constituted and appointed, that the above attestation is in due form and by the proper officer, and that the signature is his own genuine signature.
In witness whereof I have subscribed my name with the seal of the Commonwealth annexed the date above mentioned.
John P. Bigelow
Seal of the Commonwealth

Massachusetts 857
Katharine Hill
widow of Harmon Hill decd.
who died on the 4. May 1818
of Boston in the State of Mass.
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain _____ of the Hgt. commanded
by Col. Vison in the Mass.
line for 8 mos & 6 days
let to R Baldwin April 14 '43
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 27 Dollars 34 Cents per annum.
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of May 1837 and sent Patrick Niley Boston Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1837 $ 164.04
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept.  13.67
$177.71
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 a }
Recorded by H.H. Addison Clerk, Book A. Vol. 1. Page 52

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress approved July 14 th 1836!
I Catharine Hill of Boston, in the County of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged eighty four yrs, Being sworn, do on Oath testify and say that I am the widow and relict of Aaron Hill late of Framingham, Middlesex County in said Commonwealth deceased; and that my late Husband Aaron Hill aforesaid was a soldier, in the army of the Revolutionary War, and performed therein several tours of Military duty mostly in the Massachusetts Continental Troops during the continuance of said War 14. 12 th on First at the commencement of Hostilities in the year 1775, He said Aaron was then an Inhabitant of Westminster Worcester County, and was a Clerk in a Store at that place, when he enlisted into the service of his country for 8 months which term he faithfully served out in the vicinity of Boston, in Captain Edward or Edmund Beemis Company of Colonel Whitcombs Regiment, and he was in the Battle of Bunkerhill, and continued in service untill the close of the year 1775, when he again entered the service for the Town of Sudbury, and marched with the Troops to the vicinity of New York, and as I believe under Colonel E. Brooks Captain Grantons or Gardsens Company service during the Campaign of 1776, He was in the Battle of White Plains, and at the taking of the Hessians at Trenton New Jersey, and was discharged at the termination of his said service. Then again in the year 1778 & 1779, my husband performed a tour of Military duty of 8 or 9 months duration in Colonel Nixons Regiment as a substitute for Ebenezer Eaton of Framingham,

For which last mentioned service I am in the receipt of a Pension of $27 24 / 100 per. ann. under the act 4 th July 1836. My original certificate accompanies this application. I further testify that I still remain the widow of the aforementioned Aaron Hill, deceased.
Her Catherine Hill, Mark.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Suffolk County, } ss
Boston, March. 14, 1843,
Then personally appeared Mrs Catherine Hill, and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed, before me.
R. L. Porter, Just. of the Peace,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Secretary's Office March 16 th 1843
I hereby certify that at the date of the above Affidavit Royal L. Porter was a Justice of the peace for the County of Suffolk.
Witness the Seal of the State
John H. Dole
Secretary of the Commonwealth

Boston, March 16 th 1843.
Sir
I transmit herewith the supplemental declaration of Mrs Catharine Hill, widow of Aaron Hill deceased, accompanied by her original Pension certificate: for the purpose of obtaining an increased pension.
You will observe that the alleged service in 1776 is imperfectly set forth, owing to the advanced age & loss of memory of the applicant, but she together with her children confidently affirm that said Aaron Hill always affirmed that he was in the Battle of White Plains in 1776. The service referred to will not be insisted upon, unless the Rolls to which allusion is made, or the Town of Sudbury proceedings in regard to raising soldiers for that service should corroborate the same not should such proceedings be found amongst the Massachusetts documents in the Pension Office, and to which I would respectfully refer your attention.
Be pleased to give the above case the usual course of investigation, and transmit your decision to me at this place.
Very Respectfully Sir I am Your Obedient servant
Reuben Baldwin
James L. Edwards Esq Comm'r of Pensions Washington

apl 20 '43
See
your letter
Cath Hill Mass. Sept.
Washington
[Handwritten signature]
Prisoner of Penitence
Edward Egan

Boston, Massachusetts
April 17 th 1843
Sir
Your communication, dated 14 th Instant - relating to Mrs Catharine Hill's claim for increase of pension, is to hand, and I am instructed to say that as Mrs Hill is very feeble & cannot in all probability survive many weeks longer, she with her family will be content to accept of the benefit for the service of the said Aaron Hill as is already allowed, including that specified in your last letter. They consent to this the more readily as much time & money has been expended in search of testimony to establish service supposed to have been performed by said Aaron Hill during the years 1776 & 1777 - but without success, notwithstanding traditional testimony was strong in favor of such service. Be pleased to issue the certificate, & forward the same to me.
Our new Secretary of State - being a Third Rate Lawyer - appears to feel the importance of his station, in prescribing rules & regulations in order to ensure a search of the Revolutionary Rolls in his post-vision. He requires in addition to a power of Attorney duly executed by the aged claimant - authorising the call for a search he but  But  that that she shall give a full detail of all the service of her late Husband & name his Officers; and the Rolls to which she alludes will be searched and None  Other ; which in most cases is utterly impracticable, to the full extent required.
Very Respectfully Sir I am your Obedient Servant.
Reuben Baldwin
James L. Edwards Esqr Commssr of Pensions Washington

Boston February 2. 1837.
Sir:
Herewith I have the honor to transmit the accompanying testimonials of Mrs. Katharine Hill of this City, widow of the late Aaron Hill of Framingham, in the State of Massachusetts, for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the 3 rd Section of the Pension act of July 4 th 1836.
Mr. Hill was never on the pension roll, having died while his case was proceeding on the 12 th of May 1818, as appears in the deposition of Ebenezer Eaton, and Mrs. Hill.
I believe every thing has been complied with, which the law and the regulations of your Department demand.
You will perceive that there is a declaration made by Mr. Aaron Hill, in the month of April 1818, before the Honorable John

Davis, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachu- setts, and which, by the kindness of the District Clerk, Francis Pickett Esq. I have been enabled to procure from the files in his Office.
I did not deem the last necessary , yet wishing, that all evidence should be placed before you, I have concluded to send together with an accompaniment thereto, paper marked A.
Your usual promptitude in the disposition of your business is respectfully requested. Will you please enclose the answer and such other papers as may be intended for Mrs. Hill to
Very respectfully
Your obliged and humble servant
Patrick Riley
Mrs. J. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions. Washington.

Payment to be made at Boston Mass. by First Commonwealth BK. Agent for paying Pen- sions in the Agency of Massachusetts
on Nixons Regt. 8 mo. 6 ds. Vol 14. 12. Bemis. 8
for new Certificate 16 mo. 6 ds $54
Reuben Baldwin Boston Mass
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A Vol. 1 Page 53 by N. H. G. Addison Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States of the 4th July, 1830, Katharine Hill of of Massachusetts widow of Aaron Hill dec d who was a Private in the war of the Revolution is entitled to receive Twenty Seven dollars and Thirty four cents per annum, during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, in the 4th of March and 4th of September.
Given at the War Office of the United States this 16th day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty- Seven
J. R. Poinsett Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. } J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

1181
Katharine Hill widow of Aaron Mass.
Married 4 June 1778. Tolls. Atkinson ref. 24 June 78. for 9 mo. discharge 16 July 79 viz 8 mo. 6 days
original no deduction
Alma Smob days pri
Patrick Riley Boston

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency EDWARD EVERETT, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.
To all whom it may concern:
Know Ye, That Peter O. Shucker Esq d is Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, County of Suffolk.
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commission- ed, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court; that the within Attestation is in due form, and by the proper Officer; and the within signature is his genuine signature.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this second day of February A. D. 1837, and in the sixty first Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor.
John P. Bigelow Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Edward Everett

Rev
1912 Jan. 3. Hist. to A. S. Burlank &
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21315-
Katharine Hill
widow of
Baron Hill
Dis. Rev War
Act: July 4 th 86
Index:—Vol. A , Page 336
[Arrangement of 1870.]