Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16289, Amos Hall, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Hall, Amos Phebe
W 162 89
CONTENTS

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,
By His MAJESTY's Special Command.
APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES.
O X F O R D:
PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS,
By W. Jackson and A. Hamilton, Printers to the University; And sold at the Bible Warehouse, Paternoster-Row, London.
CUM PRIVILEGIO.

has been since 1791 has been since April 30 1791 was going in marriage December 11 th 1791
= Enoch Augustine Hall Born December 21 st 1792
= David Saxton Hall was born September 19 th 1794
= Stephen Hall, Born May 18 th  1796 1796
= Emilia Catharine Hall Born April 22 nd 1798
5 Hiland Bishop Hall born July 3 rd 1800
6 th Jonas Hall. Born the 18 th July 1802
Hiland Hall Born 26 Aug 1804
above children baptized by

Albany 4936
Phebe Hall
widow of Amos Hall
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 28. Dec. 1827 of Ontario Co. in the State of N. York who was a Sergeant in the company commander by Captain Hall Conn. of the regt. commander by Col. Swift. in the Conn. time for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 120 Dollars ————— Cents per annu to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25. day of January 1840 and sent to Hon. F. Granger. H. R.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '39 420.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Jan. '40 60.00 $480.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838 }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2, Page 82

4995
Maria to Dec 1791 Husband died 28. Dec 1827
Cil Swift Ent 6 Feb 1777 Supt Sept 6. 1780
Cil Swift Capt am Hald Ent Mar. 6 Feb. 1777 War Supt Sept. 6. 1780
Admitted Supt 2 years
Report to Hon. J. Granger H2

State of New York Ontario County ss On this ninth day of March in the year one thou- sand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before Edward Bradley one of the Judges of the County Courts of the said County of Ontario in the State of New York aforesaid being a court of Common Pleas & General Sessions of the peace and of Record having a seal & Clerk Elected by the Electors of said County & being prevented by bodily infirmity from ap- pearing before the said court of Common Pleas & General Sessions of the Peace —
I the Hall a resident of West Bloomfield in the said County of Ontario aged Sixty Eight years who being first duly sworn ac- cording 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 7 th 1838 Entitled "An Act granting half-pay & Pensions to cer- tain Widows" That she is the widow of Amos Hall late of West Bloomfield afore- said deceased who was according to the best of her knowledge & belief a Musician & orderly Sergeant in the Revolutionary Army of the United States. That he enlist- ed as a Musician playing on the fife in the Month of May in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy six, or seventy seven for the term of three years and at the end of the said term of three years he en- listed to serve during the war and was regularly discharged from the Army on the sixth day of June in the year sev- enteen hundred & eighty three and his discharge which he then received was lost many years before his death, That he

Served as such orderly Sergeant to aforesaid from and after the time he enlisted to serve during the war. He was a volunteer & voluntarily enlisted & was not draughted & was not a substitute for any other person. He was a native of and enlisted in the Town of Guil- ford County of New Haven & state of Con- necticut and served under Captain Ste- phen Hall who was his father in the Sec- ond Connecticut Regiment commanded by Colonel H. Swift and it is believed his name will be found on the records of the War Department & the Muster Rolls there Deposited - That during the period of his service he marched through Connecti- cut New York New Jersey & parts of Penn- sylvania and was in the Battle of Mon- mouth Ballyborough & some others not remembered by the applicant -
She further declares that she was married to the said Amos Hall the Eleventh day of December in the year one thousand seven hundred & ninety one that her husband the aforesaid Amos Hall died on the twenty Eighth day of December in the year Eighteen hundred & twenty seven that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January sev- enteen hundred & ninety four, viz at the time above stated,
She further declares that she was married to the said Amos Hall at the town of Gran- ville in the now County of Hampshire & State of Massachusetts by Colonel Tim

thy Robinson then a Justice of the peace of the said town of Granville who is now dead & that there is not to her knowledge or belief any person now living who was present at the marriage. She further declares that there is not to her knowledge or belief any record evidence of her said marriage with the said Amos Hall unless it be an entry made by the said Amos Hall in his own proper hand writing on a leaf of a Bible hereto attached or so much thereof as remains or intended so to be, to be transmitted here with to the pension office at Washington soon after he and the said applicant com- menced keeping house in the year seven teen hundred & ninety two which Bible or what is now remaining thereof has rem- ained in the family until his death & since his death in the possession of the said applicant
Phoebe Hall
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year first above written before me Edward Bradley one of the Judges of the County Courts of the County of Ontario in the State of New York being Courts of Record and I hereby certify that Phoebe Hall the applicant who made & signed the

The preceding declaration cannot from bodily infirmity attend the said Court to make her Declaration before the same Edward Madaly

State of New York Ontario County ss
David Parsons of West Bloomfield in the county of Ontario & State of New York being July sworn saith that in the year Seventeen hundred & ninety one he lived in the town of Granville in the now County of Hamp- den in the State of Massachusetts was well

acquainted with Phebe Hall & Amos Hall in the preceding & annexed declaration of the said Phebe named that the Maiden name of the said Phebe was Coe, that he was present at the publication of the bans of Marriage between the said Phebe & the said Amos pursuant to the then custom of Massachusetts, that they were reputed to have been married in the month of December of that year that he recollects the night they were said to have been married & that the next day saw them at a party at his brothers in Granville aforesaid when & where they were addressed as & reputed to be man and wife, That he lived with in eighty rods of them & that they left Granville for Bloomfield now West Bloomfield aforesaid in the month of February in the year seventeen hundred & ninety two where they soon after commenced keeping house & that in the year seventeen hundred ninety four he this deponent moved from Granville aforesaid to said West Bloomfield & purchased a farm adjoining the farm of the said Amos Hall, And this deponent further saith that from the year seven hundred & ninety one to the Death of the said Amos Hall which took place in the month of December in the year Eight hundred and twenty seven, he was well acquainted with the said Phebe & the said Amos, & knows they always lived together as & were reputed to be man and wife & were the parents of a large family of children & has been well acquainted with the said Phebe since

The death of the said Amos & that she is a woman of unblemished moral character And this deponent further saith that he is aged seventy three years David Parsons
Sworn to and subscribed this 10th 11th day of March in the year 1839 before me Edward Bradley one of the Judges of the County Courts of the County of Ontario & state of New York being courts of Records Edward Bradley
State of New York Ontario County ss
Enoch Auguskin Hall of West Bloomfield in the County of Ontario & state of New York aged forty six years being duly sworn saith He is the son and oldest child of Phoebe Hall & Amos Hall in the preceding and annexed declaration of the said Phoebe named & that he saw the Record of the marriage of the said Phoebe & the said Amos in the Bible mentioned in the said declaration of the said Phoebe in the proper hand writing of his father the said Amos & knows it to have been a re-

remained there from his Earliest recollections & that he fully believes & has no doubt that the said Record & Bible has always remained in the possession of the said Phebe & Annes until his death & since his death in the possession of the said Phebe
Enoch Augustine Hall
Sworn to & subscribed the ninth day of March in the year 1839 before me Edward Bradley one of the Judges of the County Courts of the County of Ontario & State of New York being courts of Record
Edward Bradley
State of New York Ontario County ss
Hiland Bishop Hall of West Bloomfield of the County of Ontario & State of New York Being duly sworn saith He is one of the children of the said Phebe & Annes Hall in the preceding declaration of the said Phebe named that he sometime last summer wrote to the Post Master of Granville in the State of Massachusetts to make search or cause search to be made in the records of said town & to ascertain whether any record of the marriage of the said Phebe & Annes could be found & this deponent further saith that he received from V. Holcombe the annexed letter M r H. A. stating that no Record of such marriage could be found and this deponent further saith

That he is informed & fully believes that there is no record of such marriage unless it be the family Record mentioned in the said declaration of the said Phebe
Island Bishop Hall
Sworn to & subscribed the ninth day of March in the year 1839 before me Edward Bradley one of the Judges of the County Courts of the County of Ontario & state of New York being courts of Record Edward Bradley
State of New York Ontario County ss
John Dickson of West Bloomfield the County of Ontario & state of New York being Duly sworn saith he was acquainted with the said Phebe Hall & Amos Hall in the preceding and annexed Declaration of the said Phebe named from the month of July in the year 1813 until his death & has been acquainted with the said Phebe that they were from the time he first knew them reputed to be man & wife & lived together as such that the said Phebe is a woman of good character for truth and veracity & in every other respect.

And this Deponent further saith that he is well acquainted with David Parsons in the preceding affidavit of the said David named & has been for more than twenty years & that he is a person of good character for truth & veracity and in ev- ery other respect John Dickson
Sworn to & subscribed the ninth day of March in the year 1839 before me Ed- ward Bradley one of the Judges of the County Courts of the County of Ontario & State of New York being Courts of Record Edward Bradley

Dear Sir
After the most diligent search of all the records of this town I regret to say to you that I am unable to find any record of the marriage in question. It is almost certain that for some it was never entered on the town books. Col. Simonds Robinson performed many marriages about that time but no records of any of them are to be found - the most probable reason of which is that he used to keep a private Diary in which he entered all his transactions & that was destroyed by fire in the destruction of his house some years since 1791. All other marriages solemnized by other magistrates and clergymen of the time are recorded. David Robinson was Town Clerk in 1791. but made no record of the Publick marriage as I can discover. Col. Parsons of whom you speak is dead. but there are other persons now living who were acquainted with the deceased  late Father & Mother & by whom I presume the marriage can be proved. You will please instruct me upon the subject & I will adopt any method calculated to promote the object.
I am Sir Most & Respectfully Yours &c V. Holcombe
A.
24.

Dear Mr. Holcomb P.M.
Hiland B Hall Esq
West Bloomfield
W. Granville Mp } Sept 11 th }
New York

State of New York
Ontario County, ss. On this Twelfth day of March in the year eighteen hundred & thirty nine, personally appeared before Edmond Puellich one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Ontario, the same being a court of Record in said County & State Joseph Gilbert of Bristol in said County aged eighty four years who being first duly sworn doth on his oath make the following declaration that he was a fife Major in the Revolutionary army during the war of the Revolution most of the time was in the company of Col. Stephen Hall Regiment of Col. Herman Swift and Brigade of Gen. Jeremiah Huntington and now receives a pension for his services during said war. That he was personally acquainted with Amos Hall late of Bloomfield, deceased and with his widow Phoebe Hall whose declaration precedes and is annexed to this, that her husband the said Amos Hall entered the service about the month of May in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy seven in the company of his father the said Stephen Hall in the same Regiment and Brigade in which this declarant served. That he well recollects of the said Amos Hall being in the battle of Germantown and that they quartered through the winter at Valley Forge, that he was also in the battle of Monmouth. That oftentimes they made some fortifications near West Point where they for some time at Morristown and often at Newark New Jersey that most of the first three years of his service the said Amos Hall was a fifer under the charge and instruction of this declarant, and therefore he well recollects his being there, and this declarant further says that the said Amos Hall was made and served as an Orderly Sergeant

in or about the year Seventeen hundred & eighty. That at this time he had enlisted during the war but the exact length of time he served as Orduly sergeant this deponent is not able to tell but has no doubt he served through the War of the Revolution. That after the said war he knew the said Amos in Bridgewater, now Granville in the State of Massachusetts that the said Amos Hall was then married to Phebe Coo that the said Amos Hall and Wife removed to Bloomfield in the County of Ontario and State of New York where they resided until the time of his death and that his widow the said Phebe Hall now resides there that this deponent removed to the same section of the country about the same time they did, and has been intimately acquainted with them since that time.
Joseph Gilbert
Subscribed and sworn this Twelfth day of March in the year Eighteen hundred and Thirty Nine before Edward Bradly a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Ontario County in the State of New York the same being a court of Record and I also certify that I am acquainted with the above named Joseph Gilbert and that his character for truth and veracity is good.
Edward Bradly a Judge of Ontario Co. Courts
State of New York Ontario County Clerk's Office J. Thomas Hall Clerk do hereby certify that Edward Bradly Esq. whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Affidavits and certificates is a Judge in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified - that his term of Office commenced on the 5 th Feb. 1836 and will expire

Esq. whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Affidavits and certificates is a Judge in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified — that his term of Office commenced on the 5 th Feb. 1836 and will expire
on the 5 th Feb. 1841 — and that his several signatures subscribed to the above Affidavits and certificates are genuine
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this 13 th March 1839 at Canandaigua.
Thomas Hall. Clerk.

I Edward Bradley, the Judge of the county court of the County of Ontario in the State of New York, being a Court of Record hav- ing a seal and a clerk elected by the Elec- tors of said county, before whom the an- nexed statement, application & affida- vit of Phebe Hall, widow of Anna Hall an applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress of July 7 th 1838 and the statements & affidavits of David Parsons, Enoch Augustine Hall, Hland Bishop Hall John Dickson and Joseph Gilbert, also hereto annexed, were made, taken & sworn to, hereby certify that I am acquainted with the said Phebe Hall, David Parsons, Enoch Augustine Hall, Hland Bishop Hall John Dickson and Joseph Gilbert and that their character for truth & veracity at the time the statements and affidavits were made & sworn to were & now are good and that each one of them was then & is now a credible person & entitled to full faith credit & belief in all courts & places
Seated December 9 th 1839 Emma Bradley

State of New York
Ontario County
Morris Hall of West Bloomfield in the said county of Ontario and state of New York aged thirty five years, being duly sworn saith that he is a son of Abner Hall same Hall in the preceding and annexed declaration of the said Abner named, that from the earliest recollection of this deponent the said Abner & Phebe lived together as man & wife until the death of the said Abner and this deponent lived with them & that since the death of the said Abner this deponent has lived with the said Phebe.
And this deponent further saith that he saw the record of the marriage of the said Phebe & the said Abner in the bible mentioned in the said declaration of the said Phebe more than twenty five years since, that the same is in the proper handwriting of the said Abner Hall his father, and has always since he first saw it been in the possession of the said Phebe Hall.
Morris Hall
Subscribed and sworn this 2 nd day of January in the year 1840 before me Isaac W. Phillips a Commissioner of Courts in & for the county of Ontario in the state of New York. And I also certify that I am acquainted with the above named Morris Hall & that his character for truth & veracity is good.
I. W. Phillips

State of New York Ontario County Clerk Office
I, Thomas Hall, Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Isaac W. Phillips Esqr. before whom the within affidavit was taken was at the time of taking said affidavit a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said County dwelling in the said County duly commissioned and qualified and authorized to take the same And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such commissioner and that his signature to the within affidavit is genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County (my official seal) this 3 rd day of January A.D. 1840
Thomas Hall. Clerk

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16289 Abie Hall Widow of James Hall Sergt New Hampshire
Act July 1 st 38
Index: Vol. a , Page 312
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Guilford Conn

House of Reps.
20 th January 1840
Sir
I have this moment received a letter from the Hon: John Dickson requesting information as to the application of Phebe Hall widow of Genl. Amos Hall for a pension.
Be pleased to inform me whether the papers are satisfactory & if not what are the deficiencies.
Respectfully yours
H. Stanger
J. A. Edraids Esq. Com te of Pensions.

J. H. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

West Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York,
June 13 1848
J. L. Edwards Esquire, Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir
I herewith turn you the papers of the  deed Heall with the the  affidavit of Edward Bradley Judge to, before whom all all the affidavits given the new  one now forwarded to were taken with tying fully as to the credibility of the persons so sworn.
Re referring to the application of the widow Mrs. Hall, you will find the state  swear that enclosed Record. was "an entry made by the said Anna Hall in his own proper hand writing on the leaf of a Bible her attached or so much thereof as uninjured after her & the applicant married Benjamin in the year 1792 which Bible or or  or now remaining thereof has remained in the family until his death & since his death in possession of the applicant, Enoch Angustine Hall now aged 46 years, swears he is the eldest child of said Phebe & Anna, that said Record is in proper hand writing of his father & has known it from his earliest recollection and that he fully believes & has no doubt the said Record has always remained in the possession of the said Phebe & Anna until her death & since his death in the possession of the said Phebe."
I now enclose the additional affidavit of Morris Hall son of said Phebe & Anna aged 35 years, who swears, "he saw the

Record more than 25 years since that there is in the proper handwriting of the said Mrs Hall & has always since her first saw there in the possession of the said Phoebe Hall. The Record will be found about the middle the remainder of Bible enclosed
That the testimony will be ample as to the keeping of the Record.
Mrs. Hall could hardly have sworn more fully & her husband said, no better witnesses could be found than her two sons.
As to the service of Anna Hall, please refer to my former letter & the Roll of the Revolutionary Army in the War Department.
A early decision as convenient is earnestly solicited
Very Respectfully Yours &
John Dickson