Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19,712, Calvin Hall, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass
Hall, Calvin Mercy
NUMBER
W. 19.712.
CONTENTS

New York
Mercy Hall widow of Calvin Hall
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832, and who died on the 17 th : November, 1833. of Oneida Co in the State of New-York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Clark — of the Regt: — commanded by Col: Powell in the Massachus lino for 21 months —
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 70 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th : — day of November, 1844 and sent to G. F. Yates at the city of New-York —
Total amount, $ 350.00 —
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Albany Clerk, Book D — Vol. 1 — Page 161

5709 Utica New York
Calvin Hall of Deerfield in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Clark of the Regt commanded by Col Powell in the Massachusetts line for 21 Months
Inscribed on the Roll of Utica New York at the rate of 70 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th day of Febru- ary 1833 and sent to Hon. S. B. H. Rep.
Arrears to 14th of Sept. 1832 $105.00 Pension allowance ending 4 Mar '33 35.00 $140.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Ino Cromwell Clerk, Book D Vol. 7 Page 157

State of New York Cornwall
On this ninth day of December 1832 personally appeared in open court before me William Eugene Van Cleave of the State of New York for the fifth Circuit at a Court of Chancery now sitting Caluin Hall of the Town of Cornwall County of Cornwall and State of New York now residing there aged seventy two 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 9 th 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States in the following named officers and served as herein stated -
That in the year 1777 he enlisted as a volunteer in the service of the Militia of the State of Massachusetts under Captain Wheeler of Leominster in said State and served the full period of three months - This service was principally performed at Fort Ann and Fort Edward
That in the years 1778 or 1779 in the summer of one of those years he enlisted as a volunteer in the service of the Militia of the State of Massachusetts under Captain Clark of Milfordtown Lieutenant Col. Miles Powell of Leominster and served the full period of three months - This service was performed at Red Bank - That in the summer of 1780 or 1781 he again enlisted as a volunteer in the Militia of the State of Massachusetts under Captain White and served the full period or term of three months - This service was performed at Fort Plain - Stony Arabia and Fort Stanwix in the State of New York -
That in the years 1779 or 1780 he entered as a volunteer in the service of the Militia of the State of Massachusetts under Captain Asa Paine of Leominster and served the full period of nine months - This service was performed at Bennington
That in the year 1778 he enlisted as a volunteer in the service of the Militia of the State of Massachusetts under Captain Peter Porter and served the full period of six months - This service was performed at Albany - The Company was then called Gen. Stark's Life Guard -

That the applicant stood as a minute man during the principal part of the Revolutionary war in which he was not engaged in actual service and as such minute man was frequently and sometimes 2 or 3 times a week was called out for drill - and for short periods on alarms which altogether employed more than a year of his time - That he was born at Fairfield in the State of Connecticut where he resided until he was about fourteen years of age & from thence he removed with his father's family to Lanesboro in the State of Massachusetts - That he lived at Lanesboro during the whole revolutionary war and continued to reside there or at Chester an adjoining town until about the year 1817 when he removed to Guilford in the County of Linneda where he now resides and has resided ever since - He has no record of his age - Lived at Lanesboro when called into service - never received any written discharge and never held a commission He has no documentary evidence of his services knows of no persons except Erson Gregory of Chautauqua County State of New York and Lyman Hall of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts who are particularly acquainted with his services and whose affidavits are annexed or acquainted with Abraham Williams a clergyman of Ulster and Sand Lake of Guilford who can testify to his character & reputation - 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 or agency of any State or Territory whatever - Calvin Hall sworn & subscribed this 7 th December 1872 - before me
C. W. Williams
vice Chancellor.

Onida Co.
10993 In the matter of the application of Mercy Hall widow of Calvin Hall under act of July 183
Declaration
17- any of version 1040.
W. H. Williams
Clerk
per. Charles G. Gentry
C. H. Hall Plff

State of New York County of Oneida } ss.
On this 18 th day of October 1843, personally appeared Philo Gridley Circuit Judge and Vice before me the Judge of the Court Chancellor of the 15 th Circuit of the State of New York to me known to be the person described in and who is the person described in and who is the person described in Hall a resident of the town of Deerfield in said County, aged Eighty Years, and she being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the ben- efits of the Provision made by the act Congress passed 7 th July 1838.
That she is the widow of Calvin Hall who was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832, and received until the day of his death an annual stipend of $80. That he departed this life on the seventeenth day of November 1833, leaving the declarant his widow him surviving. That this declarant since his decease has remained single and unmarried, and is still his widow.
And she this Decla- -rant further saith, that she was married to the said Calvin Hall in the town of Lanes- -boro, County of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts, by the Revd Dan Collins of said town of Lanesboro in the latter part

the month of August — in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two. That she this De- clarant was the daughter of Joseph & Hannah Barnes of the town of Lanesboro' aforesaid. That she has not any family-record after marriage, and knows of none in the possession of any other individual, and fur- ther that she knows of no record of any kind appertaining to her family, except the one hereto annexed — which contains a true statement of the time of her birth & of the births of her sisters & brothers — She further saith that she had by her said husband Colonel Hall four chil- dren, the oldest of whom named Luther was born on or about the first  10 th day of March  February 1783 and is now deceased years of age — The second child was named Jemima — and is now deceased — she was born on or about the 16 th day of June 1784 and if now living, would be fifty nine years of age. The third child named also Jemima is now living — and was born on or about the 29 th day of June 1786, & her fourth child named Lawry is now fifty-three — years of age, having been born on or about the 29 th day of May 1788.
And this Declarant further saith, that she is

May 1. 1788.
And this Declarant further saith, that she is unable to give a specification of the military services of her said husband Calvin Hall during the Revolutionary war. She remembers hearing her said husband during his life time, on sundry occasions, recapitulate some of his said services, and all the particulars which she can call to mind, are as follows — The principal scene of his military operations was in the State of New York at Johnston, Fort Plain, Stone Arabia & Fort Stanwix N.Y. He was with the troops that served in the Campaign in the Mohawk Valley under Colonel Brown , and was on duty under him when he said Col. Brown was killed by the British. The brother of this Declarant Aaron Barnes was in the same Campaign & also lost his life. The names of the other officers under whom said Calvin Hall served, which she can recollect, were Lieutenant Rindle
The said Calvin Hall previous to his entering the service of the United States in the army of the revolution, or at the time thereof, resided in said town of Janesboro . He also did duty at New Haven with the troops to which he was attached, and also at
She cannot now call to mind the names of any of his associate soldiers except Amos Pettibone and Moses Wolcott

And this Declarant further saith that said Calvin Hall, as she often understood him to say, served nearly if not quite two years - and was out after he first commenced serving, every year of the said term thereafter - and further she cannot say.
Subscribed & sworn - this 18 th day of October 1843, before me; and
Certify, that said Mercy Hall the Declarant is unable to attend Court by reason of bodily infirmity.
And I further certify that the interlineations & erasures contained between the 1 st & 7 th lines on the 1 st page of this Declaration, were made before the verification of this Declaration -
Philo H. Hillyer Chancellor & Circuit Judge of the Swift Circuit of the N. H. & M. Court.
In testimonium Veritatis, the Seal of said Court is hereto annexed, and the sign manual of the Clerk thereof, on this 19 th day of October 1843..
J. Watson Williams Clerk per J. S. Woodbury
[Handwritten signature: C. H. Hillyer]
10943 In the matter of the application of Mercy Hall widow of Calvin Hall under act of July 1833
Declaration

THE NEW TESTAMENT
OF OUR
LORD AND SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST,
TRANSLATED
OUT OF THE ORIGINAL GREEK:
AND
With the FORMER TRANSLATIONS diligently compared and revised.
MORRIS-TOWN:
PRINTED AND SOLD BY MANN AND DOUGLASS.
..... 1805.

Births
Hannah Barnes, born July 10 th 1749 Joseph Barnes, born May 2 nd 1751 William Barnes, born Feb y 19 1754 Mary Barnes, born March 7 th 1756 Lucy Barnes, born Nov r 5 th 1758 Moses, and Aaron, Barnes born Nov r 15 th 1760 Mercy Barnes , born July 27 th 1763 Jemima Barnes, born June 17 th 1767 Comfort Barnes born Oct r 18 th 1767
Deaths
Aaron Barnes was killed by the Indians at Fort Natchez, Oct r 19 th 1780
Jemima Barnes, died March 1785
Hannah Barnes, wife of Capt t Joseph Barnes died Oct r 5 th 1812 aged 86 years
Capt t Joseph Barnes died Feb y 13 th 1813 aged 87 years
Joseph Barnes Jun r died March 21 st 1819 aged 67 years Lucy Barnes died Oct r 22 1833

April 30, 1937.
Miss Leone B. Hall Green River Road Williamstown, Massachusetts.
BA-J/ILL Calvin Hall W. 19712
Dear Madam:
The data given herein were found in pension claim, W. 19712, based upon service of Calvin Hall in the Revolutionary War.
Calvin Hall was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, the date not given, and moved when about fourteen years of age with his father's family to Lanesboro, Berkshire County, Massachusetts; the names of his parents are not shown.
While a resident of Lanesboro, Massachusetts, he enlisted in the year 1777, served at different times in each succeeding year as late as 1781, amounting in all to almost two years, as private in Captains David Wheeler's, Samuel Clark's, William White's, Peter Porter's, Asa Barnes' and John Spurr's companies, in Lieutenant Colonel Miles Powell's and Colonel John Brown's Massachusetts regiments; during the period of his service, he was at Fort Ann, Fort Edward and Stillwater, served in the vicinity of Albany and West Point, was at New London, Connecticut, and at Fort Plain and Stone Arabia in the campaign against the Indians, and on short alarms.
He moved about the year 1817 from Lanesboro, Massachusetts, to Deerfield, Oneida County, New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed December 7, 1832, at which time he was aged seventy-two years. He resided then in Deerfield, New York.
Calvin Hall died November 17, 1833 in Deerfield, New York.
The soldier married in Lanesboro, Massachusetts, Mercy, the

daughter of Joseph and Hanah Barnes of Lanesboro; they were married the latter part of August 1782 at her father's home by the Presbyterian Minister. Mercy was born July 27, 1763, given also as August 27, 1763.
Mercy Hall, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed January 28, 1839 at which time she resided in Deerfield, New York.
Calvin Hall and his wife, Mercy, had four children, shown in 1839 as follows: Luther, born in the fall of 1783; Jemima, born June 16, 1784, deceased; Jemima, born June 29, 1786, living; and Lawry, born about May 29, 1788. Luther was deceased also in 1839, Lawry was living.
In 1832, Lyman Hall of Lanesboro, Massachusetts, stated that he was acquainted with Calvin Hall when he served in the Revolutionary War; in 1843, William Hall, Jr., was Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Lanesboro. No relationship to the family was stated.
In 1843, Comfort Barnes, Mercy Hall's brother, was a resident of China, Wyoming County, New York. One Aaron Barnes resided in Deerfield, New York, in 1839; no relationship to the family stated.
Change next time (do not use) The following is recorded as the names and births of the sisters and brothers of Mercy (Barnes) Hall:
Hanah ..... Barnes born July 10, 1749. Joseph ..... " " May 2, 1751. William ..... " " February 19, 1754. Mary ..... " " March 7, 1756 Lucy ..... " " November 5, 1758 Moses and Aaron " " November 15, 1760. Mercy " " July 27, 1763. Jemima " " June 17, 176- (torn) Comfort " " October 18, 1767.
----- DEATHS (written on same sheet)
Aaron Barnes was killed by the Indians at Stone's Robie, Oct. 19, 1780
Jemima Barnes, died March 1785.
Hanah Barnes, wife of Capt. Joseph Barnes, died October 5, 1812, aged 86 years.
Captain Joseph Barnes died Feb. 13, 1813, aged 87 years.

DEATHS-concluded-
Joseph Barnes, Junr., died March 24, 1819, aged 67 years. Lucy Barnes died October 22, 1833. -----
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of Mercy Hall, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following:
Mercy Hall, widow of Calvin Hall, Certificate #6327 Issued November 1, 1844 Rate $70 per annum Commenced March 4, 1843 Act of March 3, 1843 New York Agency.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Nov 4. 44
G. H. Yale
Write to him
at New York
the W. D.
rich
FREE
J. L. W.
Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

New York City October 30 th 1844.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm ee of Pensions.
Sir.
I wrote yesterday soliciting the favor that the pension certificate of Mercy Hall widow of Calvin Hall, under the act of 7 th July 1838, should be sent to me at this place. I shall be here till the 15 th Nov- next, and desire that the certificate of Mrs Sarah Potter , & all communications in reference to any of the claims I have pending before you, be sent to me addressed to New York city .
I am very respectfully
Your mo: OBT Servt
J. L. Edwards.

Q 831 405
Mary Hall
accepts
J. L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.
[Handwritten flourish or signature]

Schenectada NY. Oct 28- 1844
Sir.
I have received your favor of the 19 th inst, in relation to the case of Mary Hall widow of Calvin Hall.
I obtained from the office of Secretary of State, Massachusetts documentary evidence which showed service of Hall beyond the 8 months & 28 days you had previously specified as proved in the case. But I may not have forwarded it to your office, or it may have miscarried. If I remember right it showed very little more than a month in addition. But no matter about it.
The widow expresses so much anx- iety about the claim, that she will accept a pension for the service proved; and as I am desirous of giving her the benefit of her pen- sion at the earliest possible moment, you will much oblige by forwarding the pension cer- tificate to me at New York City .
I am yours very respect- fully
G. H. W. D.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Committee of Pensions

J. L. Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions

J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
Sir.
I send herewith the application of Marcy Hall widow of Calvin Hall for a pension under the act of 7 th July 1838. I send back also (as I thought you would prefer it) the old defective papers made out in this case.
All the requisitions made in your letter to the Hon: Mr Clark, I think, are now fully complied with. That letter is also enclosed.
I am now respectfully
J. L. Edwards.
Schenectada NY. May 19 1844.

Marcy Hall widow of Calvin Hall Act of 1838
Certificate of Secy of State Mass.
E. H. Wells - Atty.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Secretary's Office, May 18 1816
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Calvin Hall is
8mo 14      turned upon a pay roll of Capt Wm Little 1.    —      from March 11. 1776. Fourteen days, at 4. 9      Taunton; upon a pay roll of Capt David 1. 12     Wheeler, Col Brown's Detached Company 3. 10     June 30. 1777. Six days; upon a pay roll of — 12      Capt Josiah Dorr, Col. Brimble's guard, from 18. 27 pr Aug 22. 1778. Twenty nine days; upon a pay roll of Capt David Clark of Berkshire Co. from July 22. 1779. Sixteen days at New Haven; 5mo 30 pr upon a pay roll of Capt Wm White of Berkshire Co. from July 18. 1780. Twenty ten days at Stone Arabia; upon a pay roll of Capt Asa Barnes, from Berkshire Co. paid Nov 13. 1780. Twelve days date of service not given; upon a pay roll of Capt Jordan Parker as Sergeant, at the Eastward from July 1. 1781. Sixteen
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457 And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone: and that said application and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances which tend to satisfy me of the identity of the party described in the application with the individual who rendered the service.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Pease; Secretary of the Commonwealth.

State of New York County of Schenectady } ss.
I, Giles F. Yates of the City of Schenectady in said County, do declare & say, that according to an analysis I have of the papers on file in the office of the Commissioners of Pensions of the widow of Calvin Hall , the following facts are the only ones that appear. She was married to him in August 1782. He died in Nov. 1833, a pensioner under the act of 7 th June 1832 at the rate of $80 per annum. The proofs she exhibited in her declaration & accompanying papers related mainly to the marriage. She says he served under Lieutenant Prindle & others in the State troops & militia & he served a great deal in the State of New York . Amos Pettibone & Moses Walcott were associate soldiers. He came from Lanesboro' , in the County of Berkshire Massachusetts. The Commission of Pensions will allow only for 8 months & 28 days' service, whereas she is satisfied that he served for a much longer period, term or terms but she cannot give a specification of his terms of service, names of Officers &c.
Subscribed & sworn this 18 day of July 1844 before me
M. C. Myers Commissioner of Deeds
Giles F. Yates Attorney for widow.

New York Mercy Hall let to Thos. E. Clark 25 June 1839 Paper returned " Hon. L. Ellis July 20. '44
Act July 1838

4649
Mercy Hall, N. York
Set. to T. E. Clark, 25. June, 1839.
(Papers returned,
" " Hon. C. Ellis. July 20 (19) 1844
" " G. F. Yates Oct. 18. 1844
act. July 7 th 1838.

State of New York Columbia County ss
Aaron Barnes of Deepfield County of Columbia being duly sworn deposes and saith that he is well acquainted with Mercy Hall who now and at the time of Calvin Hall's death was that this respondent was not present at their marriage but knows from general reputation & from conversations with their families and connections that they were married as early as the year 1782 and from that time to the time of the death of the said Calvin Hall in 1833 the said Mercy Hall served together as man & wife and the said Mercy Hall still is living now at Deepfield aforesaid and has not been married since the death of the said Calvin Hall her said husband - That said Mercy Hall was married as aforesaid to the said Calvin Hall in Lenox in Berkshire County & State of Massachusetts and this respondent has within the present month of January 1839 visited the Town Clerk's office of Lenox aforesaid and made a diligent search for the record of said marriage but that no such record can now be found - That the Rev Daniel Collins of Lenox aforesaid married the said Mercy Hall as this respondent is informed and that the said Daniel Collins is since dead and none of his family now reside in Lenox aforesaid or in that vicinity - and no written record of said marriage can now be found to the knowledge or belief of this respondent. This respondent further saith that the said Calvin Hall as this respondent is informed was a revolutionary soldier & a pensioner at the time of his death -
Aaron Barnes

Sworn & Subscribed this 28 th day of January AD 1839 before me
W. H. Prall Clerk of the Court

State of New York Oneida County ss
I, Nancy Hall of the Town of Deerfield in the County of Oneida State of New York being duly sworn Mak. oath that she is was seventy five years of age on the 27 th day of August A.D. 1838 that she has lawfully married to the late Calvin Hall of the Town of Deerfield in the County of Oneida and State of New York in the Month of August A.D. 178 th & there being in my mind last year that I lived with him as his wife until the day of his decease which was on the 17 th day of November A.D. 1833 that the said Calvin Hall was a Revolutionary Pensioner at the time of his decease under the Act of 1832 at the rate of Eighty Dollars per Annum as will fully appear by the certificate now on file in the War Department of the United States and that I am now his widow and have not been married since the death of the said Calvin Hall Nancy Hall
On this 28 th day of January A.D. 1839 the Above named Nancy Hall to me known as the widow of the late Calvin Hall appeared before me and being sworn examined then made oath to the above deposition and subscribed the same in my presence
W. H. Prall Justice of the Peace

Henry Pettibone of Lansborough in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a Revolutionary Soldier, being seventy seven years of age, Depose and say, That I was well acquainted with the late Calvin Hall of Deerfield in the County of Oneida & State of New York, and knew him to be a revolutionary soldier and that the said Calvin Hall married Mary Barns (then of the town of Lansborough aforesaid) about fifty six years ago, as I was married fifty three years ago next March and the said Calvin Hall and Mary Barns married 3 years or four before me, and they lived together until the decease of the said Calvin Hall about five years since, and your deponent further says that he has known the said Calvin and Mary living together as man and wife for the term of about fifty years before the decease of the said Calvin and further your deponent saith not
Henry Pettibone more full - living
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire ss. Jan'y. 11 th A.D. 1839 Then the above named deponent was sworn, cautioned and examined and subscribed said deposition before me,
Henry H. Ballard Just Peace
1839 54 1785
1843 57 1786

4649
admitted 21 mo pri 704 -
also at 3 mark 43 $70
G. F. Yates New York City
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State of New York Cimera county ss
I John D Leland of the Town of Deerfield County of Cimera being duly sworn maketh oath that he is well acquainted with Mrs Mercy Hall of the Town of Deerfield and County of Cimera who is the widow and relict of Calvin Hall late of the Town of Deerfield County and State aforesaid deceased. That this Deponent was well acquainted with the said Mercy Hall and her then Husband Calvin Hall as early as the year 1793 and that the said Mercy & Calvin then had three children the eldest of which was then eight or nine years of age. That the said Mercy Hall cohabited with the said Calvin Hall from 1793 to Nov 1833 when the said Calvin Hall departed this Life at Deerfield aforesaid. That said Calvin Hall was a Revolutionary Pensioner and received a pension since the act of 1832 of Eighty dollars per year down to the time of his death and that this Deponent prepared the papers and annexed thereto the said Calvin Hall's pension certificate for the purpose of procuring the the fractional part of said pension which amounted to about $100.00. Sept 1833 & Nov 1833 on said certificate and actually obtained said fractional part of said pension thereon for the period entitled thereto and that said Mercy Hall is now unmarried and never has been married since the death of the said Calvin Hall - and now resides with this Deponent at Deerfield aforesaid.
John D Leland Sworn & subscribed before me this 28 th day of January A D 1839
W. H. P. Clerk Justice of the Peace

Church Office, Oneida County, N.Y.
I, Joann Dean,
Clerk of the said Society, certify, that William H. Peck Esquire was on the 24 th day of January 1829, a Justice of the Peace of the said Society, duly elected and sworn. And that the signatures purporting to be his to the journals of the foregoing officemates of Farm Brooks, Liberty Hall and John D. Leland (one of each) are genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office, this 28 th January 1829.
admitted 28 mo pre 1829
also act 3 mo 1829 1829
Joann Dean
G. F. Yates New York
4649
Mercy Hall Oneida Co

April 17, 1937.
Miss Leone B. Hall Green River Road Williamstown, Massachusetts.
BA-J/ILL
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Calvin Hall of Lanesboro, Massachusetts, and Phineas Stewart of either Connecticut or New York, also, information in regard to Asa Daniels of Ruggles, Ashland County, Ohio, a Civil War veteran.
There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of any Phineas Stewart, under any spelling of that surname. The record of Calvin Hall is furnished herewith from pension claim, W. 19712, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Your letter has been referred to the proper official for reply in regard to the Civil War soldier.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

1937-April 30-Hist. to Miss Lena B. Hall- JLR.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19712
Mercy Hall Widow of Calvin Hall Mir. Rev. War
Act: Mar. 3 rd 1873
Index:—Vol. 28 , Page 314
[Arrangement of 1870.]

0327 New York
Mercy Hall widow of Calvin Hall who was a pirate in the Massachusetts line
Date of death not on A.B.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 70 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of November, 1843, and sent to G. F. Yates - now in N. York
[Act of March 3, 183.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 77

Oct 16 44
Con.
Macy Hall N.Y.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Schenectada N.Y. Oct 14 th 1841.
Sir:
In the case of Mercy Hall widow of Calvin Hall I have recently forwarded documentary evidence to show that Hall served more than eight months & 28 days, that being all that the papers before you proved according to your letter of 25 th June 1839 to the Hon. Thos. E. Clark Esq. of Utica N.Y.
Since that time the widow has made her declaration before a Judge of the U. S. Court, to whom the widow is well known as a lady of much respectability. From the Record evidence furnished of the ages of the Children, & the circumstantial parole testimony adduced in the case, the date of the marriage has, I trust, been made out to your satisfaction.
It will be impossible to produce more full or positive testimony in the case than is now before you.
I am yours very respectfully
E. H. Mills.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions.

Mercy Hall widow of Calvin Hall
act of 7. July '38
Aff of Amos Pettibone v. Rev. Wm. Hall Jr. " " Levi P. Chase Your Clk of Lancaster

I Amos Dethbore of the town of Lanesborough in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged eighty-one years being duly sworn, Depose and say that I was well acquainted with Calvin Hall who resided when he entered the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution in the town of Lanesborough Massachusetts, and who at the time of his death lived in Deerfield in the County of Oneida in the State of New York. I know well enough that the said Calvin Hall married Merry Barnes of said town. I was myself married fifty-seven years ago last March or in the year 1786. and I well know that said Calvin & Merry were married at least three or four years before us, and as I believe in the year 1782, that they lived together as husband & wife & reared up a family of children the eldest of whom if now living must be at least fifty-nine years of age & that they the said Calvin & Merry lived together then as husband & wife until the time of his death or for at least fifty years, and I further declare that said Calvin Hall was a Revolutionary Soldier & according to the best of my own knowledge & belief he served at the following places and under the following officers and for the following terms viz. At Fort Werba three months under Capt. White he was there at the time that Col. Brown was killed Also at Fort Knox under Capt. Wheeler and during the march to Stillwater and at the taking of Genl. Burgoyne and also at Fort Stanwix - and further I cannot specify - Amos Dethbore
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire County ss. October 23 d 1843 -
Then the above named deponent was sworn cautioned and examined and subscribed said Deposition before me
Frederick H. Daboll justice of the peace

I William Hall Jr of the town of Lumsborough do here with declare that I am the pastor of the Presbyterian Church in this town for nearly or during the year 1782 under the charge of the Rev. Daniel Collins, that I have faithfully examined the records of said Church and cannot find thereon any entry of the marriage of Calvin Hall with Mary Barnes alluded to have been solemnized in August 1782 and that no marriages are record- ed on said records, & then records made by the Rev. Mr. Collins are supposed to have been lost William Hall Jr.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire County ss. October 24 th 1843 - Then the above named William Hall Jr personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed
Before me Stoddard Shubbell justice of the peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire County ss. town of Lanesboro October 23 d 1843 I Levi P. Chase Clerk of said town being only sworn say that I have examined the Records of said town and do not find therein any entry of the Marriage of Murray Barnes and Calvin Hall, alleged to have taken place in said town in the month of August 1782, that there are no Marriages recorded on said town Records previous to the year 1781 and but three in that year -
Levi P. Chase Town Clerk of Lanesboro:
Subscribed & sworn the day above written
Before me Stoddard H. Habbell justice of the peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire ss I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do certify that Stoddard Habbell Esq before whom the foregoing deposition of Amos Robbins The Certificate of Levi P. Chase & the annexed deposition of William Hall Jr were sworn to, at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace within said County duly commissioned qualified & that the several signatures purporting to be his are genuine - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 25 th day of October 1843. Charles Sedgwick Clerk.

State of New York County of Wyoming 3 ds .
I Comfort Barnes of the town of China in said County, aged 76 years, being duly sworn saith, that he is a brother of Mercy Hall widow of the late Calvin Hall deceased, now an applicant for a pension. That he remembered the said Calvin Hall as long ago as the year 1776, and six years previous to his marriage to his sister the said Mercy Hall. That he well recollects the time said Mercy & Calvin were joined in wed- lock. That he was at the time when the day said marriage took place at the house of my Father — in the town of Lancaster, Massachusetts, & recollects that the said marriage was solemnized by the Rev d Daniel Collins at that time pastor of the Presbyterian Church in said town. That said marriage according to the best of his recollection took place in the month of August 1782, when his sister the said Mercy was a little over nineteen years of age. That said Mercy & Calvin lived together as man & wife until the day of his decease, which occurred about ten years 1833 and reared a family of children the oldest of daughters whom named Mirna Hall would if now living be sixty — years of age.

on at least fifty nine — years of age — and further that said Calvin Hall was ever reputed to have been a revolu- tionary soldier. Comfort Barnes
Subscribed & sworn this 11 th day of October 1843, before me; and I certify that the Deponent the said Comfort Barnes is a credible witness —
L. D. Davis Justice
Oneida Co
State of New York } County of Wyoming } Clerk's Office } ss.
I Nelson Wolcott Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that Lorenzo D. Davis Esq whose name appears to the jurat of the preceding affidavit, was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace — in and for said County, duly appointed & qualified as such; and that the signature to said jurat purporting to be his, is genuine. Witness my hand & official seal, this twenty sixth day of October — 1843.
Nelson Wolcott Clerk

Wheeler. ————— 1 mo Clark ————— 1.12 White. ————— 3 10 Barney ————— 12 Porter. Serg. 5=
4.9

War Department
Pension Office
June 25. 1839
Sir,
The papers of M rs Mary Hall, widow of Calvin Hall, an applicant for a pension under the act of July 7. 1838, are herewith attached . The claimant will renew her declaration in a Court of Record, and produce a certificate from the Town Clerk of the Town of Lansborough showing what evidence, if any, there is in his possession of the marriage; & a like certificate from the Rev. Mr. Collins, or his successor. The claimant's husband was allowed a pension under the act of June 7. 1832 for twenty one months service. Since then the rolls of the militia and State Troops of Massachusetts have been obtained, whereby only a part of the service in question is established ; viz. eight months and twenty eight days, which is all that can now be admitted upon the proof on file.
I am respectfully
Your obed. Servt.
J. L. Edwards
Thos. E. Clark, Esq r .
Utica
N. York

Feb. 1839
cl: Mr. Mercy Heale
July 1838
L. Edwards commemoration of Penns Washington
Thos. E. Clark, N.Y.

In I enclose you Mrs. Mary Hall's Application for a Pension
Will you advise me whether the Papers of Mrs Hall which I forwarded some time ago have been acted on
March 30 th Jany 1839 Yrs Thos E Clark
1838 53 1786

Onondaga County State of New York
Esbon Gregory of the Town of Hannan County & State aforesaid, being Duly Sworn Saith that Calvin Hall of Onondaga County was in the Revolutionary Service with this deponent in Seventeen Hundred and Seventy eight he served under Capt Peter Foster & Many, and called General Stark's Life Guard and was discharged by the said General at the expiration of nine months service.
In Seventeen Hundred and Seventy nine, this deponent found said Calvin Hall in the service under Capt Asa Barnes at Center Hook and mar- ched from there to Albany and was discharged
And in Seventeen Hundred and eighty this deponent found the said Hall in the service at Fort Plank under Capt John Spaulding and Colonel Brown's Regiment.
And further this deponent saith that the whole length of time said Calvin Hall served at the different times mentioned, about eighteen months and believes he was in other services during the war.
Esbon Gregory
Sworn and subscribed before me the 28 th day of November 1832
O. Adams J.P.
I hereby certify that I am personally aqua- -ainted with Esbon Gregory and believe him to be a man of truth & veracity
O. Adams Justice

Chenectada Aug t 19 th 1844.
Sir,
I send enclosed some additional documentary evidence of the services of Calvin Hall in the Revolution, to be made available in the case of his widow Marcy Hall under the act of 7 th July 1838.
Besides the family record & the circumstantial proofs already adduced I find it impossible to adduce any new testimony relative to the marriage.
In regard to the documentary proof now furnished, note that Calvin Hall served (as alluded) a great deal in the State of New York , hence in addition to the
  8 months & more already allowed, the service at Fort     { at New York in 1777 for  1 mo    { at Stone Arabia N.Y. in 1780 for  3 mo & 10 days    in all four months & ten days  4 mo & 10 days    must, I think be deemed applicable to the case before us; and as to the other services, to wit in 1778 of 4 mo & 9 days, in 1779 of 1 mo & 12 days, in 1780 of 12 days & in 1781 of 5 months, in all 11 mo & 3 days these will, I doubt not also be adjudged applicable

to the claim of Mrs Hall, on a reexamination of & comparison with his papers. In the aggregate more than 23 months.
I am very respectfully
Your M st O bed Serv t
G. H. GATES.

I Lyman Hall of Lanesborough County of Berkshire to State of Massachusetts of Lawfull Age do testify to say That I was well acquainted with Col. John Hall during the Revolutionary War, that he enlisted under Capt. Dows for three Months & went to Fort Ann in the fall part of the year 1777 - & that he was with me in the service at Edie. Haven three Months in the summer of 1778 or 1779 under Capt. Clarke - & Lieut. Col. Niles Russell - & that he was at Fort Plone. Stone Anabon. & Fort Stowdyg in the summer of 1780 - or 1781 three Months under Capt. White - & Col. Brown I can recollect of seeing him in Albany in 1779 - or 1780 & I have always understood it was for six Months service & I have no doubt but it was for that length of time - all the intervals during the whole War when not engaged in the four mentioned places he served as minute Man & for the the disposition with that - Lyman Hall
Berkshire ss
Lanesborough Sep. 15 th 1832
Personally appeared the above named Lyman Hall & made oath that the above Certificate by him subscribed was true
Wm H. Syle Justice of the Peace
I am well acquainted with the above named Lyman Hall & William H. Syle, I have no doubt that foregoing signature are in their own handwriting.
They are both Gentlemen of respectability & honest unimpeachable character for truth.
20 Dec 1832
G. N. Briggs
(M.C.)

Calvin Hall Utua
Minutes Service not the case of admitted for 5.12.1892 70
unpeaceful service as a minute man disallow ed
admitted 21. no priv.
70 125 not for 149 152 v 8. 208 21 — 190 not for

We Abraham Williams a clergyman residing in Utica and county of Oneida and Onondaga  David Babcock residing in Henry  Onondaga and county of Oneida hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Calvin Hall who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy two 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  I sworn & subscribed before me this 7 th day of December 1832. Abraham Williams  David Babcock  Henry
And the said Court hereby declare their opinion after investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the new department that the above named applicant is a a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states And the Court further certifies that that it appears to them that Abraham Williams who has signed the foregoing certificate is a clergyman residing in the town of Utica - County of Oneida and that  David Babcock  Henry who has also signed the same is a resident of the town of Henry  Onondaga County of Oneida and is a credible person and also that Lyman Hall and Elkanah Gregory whose affidavits are annexed are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.  Abraham Williams  Henry
James Watson Williams, Clerk of the Court of Common- Pleas of the State of New York for the Fifth Circuit, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of

Calvin Hall for a pension.
In testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this seventh day of December, C.H.
J. Watson Williams: Clerk in Chancery 5th Circuit V.A.
Calvin Hall  Utica
My initial disbursements and chs. etc.
1842 July 1st 76.90
Unpaid services as a private man disbursements
Admitted
21. the prior
  Adm 17 70 125 not for a d 3 m. m. m. 1778   149 do 1779   132 v R. 20 do   Adm 17 190 190 for 

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hall, Casa GRADE Private LINE Delaware
WARRANT NUMBER 10784 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED September 2, 1789 to not shown
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hall, Ceasar GRADE Private "in the LINE Corps of Invalids"
WARRANT NUMBER 13231 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 12, 1792 To - not shown -
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.