Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17999, Caleb Hall, Mass. N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass. N. 16.
Hall, Caleb
S. 17999
CONTENTS
carded

735
New Hampshire
Caleb Hall
of Chester in the State of New Hampshire who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded by Col. [blank] in the N.H. & M.H. line for [blank] Motion May 1778
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of October 1832 and sent to Hon. D. Bills Chester N.H.
  Arrears to 4th of Mar - 1832  $52.99    Semi-annual allowance ending 1 st Mar - 1833  18.33     $73.32  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. H. Blair Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 127 Page 168

17999 INVALID.
File No. 17999
Robert Hall
Br Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 166
[Arrangement of 1870.]

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this ninth day of August Anno Domini 1832
Philemon Clark of the Court Rocking County
Caleb Hall. 5872.

State of New Hampshire Rockingham county ss.
Chester August 4 th 1832
On this fourth day of August, A.D. 1832 personally appeared before William M. Richardson Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Justice for the State of New Hampshire at Chester in said County of Rockingham Caleb Hall resident of Chester in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged ninety three years in the month of November last past, 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 entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated, he the said Caleb Hall, on hearing of the Lexington battle, marched from said Chester on the twentieth day of April 1775 and arrived at Mystick, now Medford, in Massachusetts on the twenty first day of April 1775 and there remained in the service of the United States nineteen days under Captain Stephen Dearborn of said Chester, Lieutenant Daniel Weatherston and Ensign Jerzey Hoit of said Chester who were Militia officers of the company in which he resided at home in said Chester. He then returned to Chester aforesaid and remained about ten days, and heard there were enlisting orders out. He then marched to Cambridge in Massachusetts and enlisted as a private soldier, towards the last of May 1775, in Captain Thomas Coggsuell's company and Colonel Samuel Greenliff's Regiment for eight months and was in Bunkerhill battle and remained in said company until January 1776. Colonel Loammi Baldwin commanded said Regiment after Bunkerhill battle, he further declares he was discharged from said Captain Thomas Coggsuell's company at Brookline in said Massachusetts in January 1776 and received eight months' pay. He further declares that he enlisted as a substitute, for John Colley, of Newbury in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the term of two months, the first of October 1776 in Captain John Illesly's company and Colonel Coggsuell's Regiment of Massachusetts State troops or Militia, Lieutenant Hale and Ensign Noyes were subaltern officers under said Captain John Illesly, at the time he served, he marched immediately on said engagement with said company to a place called Rye near White Plains in the State of New York and remained in said company until the first of December 1776 when he was dismissed at said Rye near the city of New York about three hundred miles from the place where he enlisted. He further declares that he enlisted at said Chester in the month of August 1778, as a private soldier for the term of one month in Captain Joseph Dearborn company and Colonel John Colley's Regiment of New Hampshire State troops or Volunteers and marched to Rhode island and served out said enlistment in said company and Regiment and was discharged at said Rhode island. He further states that he resided in said Chester when he entered the service. and.

and has no documentary evidence of his service, he declares that Jacob Elliot and Joseph Long now of said Chester, served as private soldiers in the same company with him in the campaign of 1775 in the vicinity of Boston. also that B. Pike Chase Esquire now of said Chester, who lived a near neighbor to his residence in Chester during the Revolutionary War, probably knows of 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 any State.
Caleb
X pres Heall mark
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid
Wm M. Richardson
We Benjamin P. Chase residing in the town of Chester aforesaid and Samuel Aiken of the same Chester hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Caleb Heall who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be ninety three years old least November; 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 day and year aforesaid
B. Pike Chase
Wm M. Richardson
Samuel Aiken
I Benjamin P. Chase aforesaid testify that I am seventy years old in the month of June last past and I lived in Chester in the year 1775 within half a mile of the residence of the aforesaid Caleb Heall and have ever since lived within half a mile of his residence, and that said Caleb Heall went from Chester in April 1775 immediately when the news of the alarm, by Lexington fight, came to our neighborhood, with Capt. Stephen Durborn and several others now deceased. Jacob Elliot and Joseph Long living in a different part of the town of Chester also went - said Caleb Heall was gone from Chester until January 1776, except he came home and stopped a few days in May 1775 and have always understood from him and others that he served as a soldier in the Revolutionary Army in the vicinity of Boston during his absence. I well remember that said Caleb Heall engaged my father Wells Chase, now deceased, to attend his mill through the summer and fall of 1775, which he did. I further testify that I well remember said Caleb Heall engaged as a substitute for a soldier in Newbury Massachusetts two months in the fall of 1776, in the Revolutionary Army and was gone more than two months, and returned to Chester, and in the winter of 1777 said Caleb Heall gave my father Wells Chase aforesaid an order on Captain John Hlesly of Newbury, Vermont, for two months pay as a soldier, said Caleb Heall saying that he did not receive his pay when he was discharged, my father was going to Newburyport to Market and when he returned, said, he received said Caleb Heall's pay as a soldier from Captain Hlesly and paid it over to said Caleb Heall in my presence
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
W. M. Richardson
B. Pike Chase

I Joseph Long of Chester in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire and I Jacob Elliot of the same Chester testify and say that we served as private soldiers in the Army of the Revolution in the year 1775 and went from said Chester the next day after Lexington battle and arrived the second day after said battle in April 1775 at Mystic, now Medford, in Massachusetts and remained there until May as volunteers and enlisted in May 1775 in Captain Thomas Coggeswell's company in Colonel Samuel Gerrish's Regiment. Colonel Loammi Baldwin commanded said Regiment after Bunkerhill battle. Caleb Hall of Chester in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire then and, always since, well known to us went down at the same time we did and served in said Captain Thomas Coggeswell's company with us until the first of January 1776.
Joseph Long Jacob Elliot
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
W. M. Richardson
I hereby certify that the before named Caleb Hall is by reason of his great age and infirmities unable to attend court
Wm M. Richardson
I am of opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. There is no settled clergymen in the parish in which the applicant resides, but the above named witnesses Benjamin P. Chase, Samuel Titcomb, Joseph Long and Jacob Elliot who all reside in the same town with the applicant, are well known to me, are all credible persons & their statement is entitled to credit.
Wm M. Richardson

No. 1 I Peter Chadwick clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that William M Richardson whose signatures appear to the last within certificates is Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature for the State aforesaid; and that the foregoing are the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Caleb Hall for a pension had before the said Chief Justice of said Court
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this ninth day of August Anno Domini 1872
P Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rockingham County
Caleb Hall 5872
I Peter Chadwick clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Rockingham aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings had before of the the  Hon. William M. Richardson Chief Justice of said Superior Court of Judicature in the matter of the application Caleb Hall for a pension and that William M Richardson aforesaid is Chief Justice of said Court
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this ninth day of August Anno Domini 1872
P Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rockingham County

5872
Caleb Hall
Private 11 Months
Adm d J.L.E.
Hon. J. Bell Charles N.H.

BRIEF in the case of Caleb Hall of Chester — in the State of N. Hampshire (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Before a Justice of the Superior Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? Unable to attend court by reason of old age & infirmities  3. How old is he? 93  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1775 May ~ 8 ~ Private Gen. Gerrish. Regt. Mass.   1776 Oct ~ 2 ~ " " Col. Gageville " "   1778 Augt ~ 1 ~ " " Col. Dufresne " P.H.   11 Mos.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None mentioned  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Chester N. Hampshire  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By the testimony of 3 witnesses who served with him & Col. Dufresne to be credible  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct in all respects 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
B. L. Dull
Examining Clerk.