Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18821, Nicholas D Hill, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. H.
Will, Nicholas D.
S. 18821
carded
CONTENTS

No 5426 -
Nicholas D Hill -
Private in Role in Nicholas Dudley Hill Capt - Chandler's Legn Col Myrmans Regt N.H. F 9: 18: 00 in Role Capt Pages Co (in Dudley Hill) March 4th 1777 F 7: 5: balance due 9: 58.
Adm J L G
19 Months service
John Kelly Esq Agent N. Hampshire

BRIEF in the case of Nicholas D Still of Northwood — in the State of New Hampshire (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 73 upwards  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 1776 July — to Dec or Jan following As a Private Gen. Col Chandler Col Senter & Weyman   Summer of 1778. He believes July or Augt to Jan 1778 — — —  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Northwood — N.H.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living witnesses — certified to be credible  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? correct 
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Sam P Potts Examining Clerk.

New Hampshire Nicholas D Hill
of Northward in the State of N H who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Chandler of the Regt commanded by Col Dester in the N H line for 1 Year from 1776
Inscribed on the Roll of N H at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of October 1832 and sent to John Kelly Executor N H
  Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832  $ 60 --    Semi-annual allowance ending 2 Mar 33  20         $ 80  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by G H B Clark Clerk, Book D Vol. 1 st Page 160.
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Nicholas D Hill
No 5426.

State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for said County of Rockingham do hereby certify that the Hon John Harvey is Judge of Probate for said County; — that the Court of Probate of which he is sole Judge, is a Court of Record having by law a seal and Clerk who is designated Register of Probate; — that John Kelly is Regis- ter of Probate for said County and the Clerk of said Court of Probate; — and that the signatures of the said John Harvey and John Kelly attached to these sheets are their genuine signatures In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Superior Court of Judicature this 10 th day of August AD 1832.
P Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rockingham County

State of New Hampshire } County of Rockingham } ss
On this sixteenth day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting at Exeter in said County Nicholas D Still a resident of Northwood in said County and State aged seventy three years and upwards 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 7. 1832: That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as follows stated to wit: That in the month of July AD 1776 he enlisted into the Company commanded by Captain Chandler of Epping and Lieut. William Wallace of Northwood and marched with said Company from Northwood through Charlestown called N.H. NHampshire and through Vermont to Mount Independence near Saratoga where he was stationed and remained with said Company till he was regularly and honorably discharged in the month of December or January next following his enlistment when the period for which he enlisted expired. During his service at Mount Independence Capt. Chandler died and the Applicant's father Benjamin who was also in the service died. Capt Chandler's company was a part of the regiment commanded by Col. Wyman, Lt Col McIntire but whether it was on the Continental establishment or designated as New Hampshire militia or otherwise the applicant doth not know
The applicant and deponent further states

That in the summer of 1778 he behaves in the month of July or August he again enlisted into the company commanded by Capt Page Lieut. Blandell and Ens. Hott in the regiment commanded as he thinks by Col Senter and was marched with said company through Concord & Providence Rhode Island, to Warwick where & at Little Compton he remained in said company till he was regularly & honorably discharged in January 1779 the term of his enlistment having expired. He knows not whether this Regiment was on the Continental establishment or was designated as New Hampshire militia or otherwise.
The Applicant & Deponent saith that under each of his said enlistments he served the full time for which he enlisted as a soldier in the service of the United States & was regularly discharged but has no documentary evidence thereof and doth not know the precise periods of his service but believes that his first enlistment was for five months and his second enlistment for four or five months; — that he was born in the town of Ossipee in the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire in the month of March 1759 as he hath been informed & doth believe but he hath no authentic record of his age; that when he first entered the service he resided in Northwood aforesaid and hath ever since resided there excepting when in the service; — that his said services were on his voluntary enlistments; and 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 the agency of any State.
N D Hill
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid John Kelly Regt Robt
I Simon Batchelder of Northwood aged 74 certify and depore that I have been well acquainted with the above named Nicholas D Hill the Applicant from our youth to this time — and served in the same Company with him at Mount Independence in 1776, enlisted and marched together & returned together after the term of our enlistment expired. I also served with him at Rhode Island in 1777 in the same company commanded by Capt Page, enlisted served and returned together and his statements in the pension declaration relating to his service in Capt Chandlers & Captain Pages Companies are true.
Simon Batchelder
Providence to Probate Court at Exeter in said County August 16. 1832
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court John Kelly Regt Robt

We Samuel Haley of Offspring aged 73 John Bickford of Northwood aged 72 and John Johnson of Northwood aged 74 certify and depose that we were acquainted with the foregoing Applicant Nicholas D Hill and served with him in Capt Rages Company in 1777. and that his statement in his foregoing declaration relating to his service in that company is true.
Samuel Haley
John Bickford
John Johnson
Rockingham Probate Court at Exeter in said County August 16. 1832
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court John Kelly Reg.
And the said Court hereby declares its opinion that after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named Applicant Nicholas D Hill was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to the Court that the before named Simon Bickford Samuel Haley John Bickford and John John Johnson are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit
C. S. Hill
John Harvey Judge of Probate

I John Kelly Register of Probate for said County of Rockingham and Clerk of said Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter by the application of Nicholas D Hill for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this sixteenth day of August AD 1832 John Kelly Reg: Probate

INVALID.
File No. 18821
Nicholas D Hill
Pr. Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 452
[Arrangement of 1870.]