Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7854, Joseph Hillsman, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Wa
Hillsman, Joseph
W 7854
or Jose
Elizabeth
B.L.Wt. 36729-160-55
CONTENTS

1616 Alabama State Elizabeth Wilson widow of Joseph Mills who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of August 1848. and sent to
B. T. Moore Mentaville Alabama
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848. Page 355 Vol. 3

233. 511
Act March 3/55
Jan. 30/56
Elizabeth Willsman widow of Joseph or Foster  Willeman Capt. Prin
Ent. Sir.
Pension. Rev. Mar. Act Feb. 2/48.
aka July 48-1614
ad: 16000000 Aug: 8/56 Bluffton
Hon. C. C. Clay Jr. U. S. Senate.
Vol. Hb = 2 - 11

Hillsman
to J. M. Burt
Commodore
St.
Sam. M. Seal 1.00 Cash 75 1.75

Know all men by these presents that we John Hillman and Blackburn Hughes are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency Henry Lee, regard- less as chief magistrate of the Commonwealth of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the sum of £50. current money; to which payment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves and heirs and executors jointly and severally firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals and dated this 17th day of Decr 1792.
The Condition of the above obligation is such that whereas a marriage is intended shortly to be had and solemnized between the said John Hillman and Elizabeth Moore. Now if there is no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage then this above obligation to be void else to remain in full force and virtue.
Sealed & delivered in presence of James Moore John Hillman (Seal) Blackburn Hughes (Seal)
This is to certify that we have given our free ap- probation for our daughter Elizabeth Moore to marry John Hillman. Given under our hands this 17th day of Decr 1792.
John B. Hughes Judith Hughes
Joseph Moore Susanah Moore
State of Virginia, Amelia County Set. I Ephraim G. Leigh Clerk of the County Court of said County of Amelia in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true transcript of the Deed entered into by John Hillman before his intermarriage with Elizabeth Moore and likewise the foregoing is a true copy

of this certificate, remaining filed, with the said Board, as they were first in my office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Board this the 15 th day of August A.D. 1839.
Eph s Leigh
State of Virginia, Scotia County set.
I James P. Burke, presiding justice of the County Court of said County in the state of Virginia, do certify that Ephraim B. Leigh, who has given the preceding certificate, is clerk of said Court; and that his said attestation is in due form.
Given under my hand, and seal this 15 th day of August 1839.
James P. Burke

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows."
The undersigned, a citizen of the United States, of the State of Alabama, do hereby certify that on this 8 th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before the undersigned Judge of the Circuit Court of the State, aforesaid, in and for the fifth Judicial Circuit of said State, Elizabeth Hillsman, a resident of the County of Madison in the State of Alabama, as aforesaid and in the Judicial Circuit aforesaid, aged about seventy-four years, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows;" that she is the widow of Hose Hillsman, deceased, who served in the Revolutionary Army of the United States. That she is unable to state the rank her husband held in the Army or to specify the services performed or the duration of his services, but she refers to the said husband's declaration long since made for the purpose of enabling him to receive a pension, if the same can be found and also to the papers and proof accompanying her Petition for a pension to Congress which said are as she is informed and believes in the Pension Office, in Washington City.
She further declares that she was married to the aforesaid Hose Hillsman on the twenty-fifth day of December in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-two, that her husband, the aforesaid Hose Hillsman died on the twentieth day of August, eighteen hundred and eighteen, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz, at the time above stated. her
Elizabeth Hillsman mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me,
George W Gano Judge of the 5th Judicial Circuit of the State of Alabama.

Elizabeth Heilman
283.511.
Hein. Lebolday, Jr. Agent.
entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid Probate Court is a Court of Record, having general jurisdiction.— I also certify, that I have no interest in the result of the case, and am not concerned in its prosecution.

ADDITIONAL BOUNTY LAND CLAIM FOR WIDOWS UNDER ACT 3RD. MARCH, 1855.
State of Alabama Madison
County, ss.
On this 4 th day of April
A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty- five
personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid Elizabeths Keillman aged eighty three years, a resident of Madison County , in the State of Alabama who being duly sworn, according to law, declares that she is the Widow of Joseph, or Jose  Keillman deceased, who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain
Regiment of Revolutionary war in the commanded by And that she is now a in the War with  Prisoner of the declared by the  United States , in the Roll of the Units that her husband  ville, Alabama , a private , under the on or about Act of 2 d Febuary 1848 A.D. for the term of
and continued in actual service in said War for the term of and was honorably discharged at
on the _____ day of _____
A. D.,
She further states that she was married to the said Joseph, or Jose  Keillman in Amelia County, Virginia on on  about day of _____ A. D., by one
and that her name before her said marriage was Elizabeth Moore and that her husband died at Madison County, Alabama , on the 20 th day of August A. D., 1818 and that she is now a Widow.
She further declares that she has heretofore  never made application for Bounty Land, under the Act approved September 28th, 1850, and  never obtained a Land Warrant for any number acres  which she has lo- gally disposed of and cannot be returned or is herewith surrendered.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved 3rd March, 1855, and hereby appoints Don. G. B. Clay Jr. of Huntsville, Alabama her true and lawful Attorney to prosecute her claim, and receive her Warrant when issued.
Elizabeth Keillman her mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written, and I certify that I have no interest in the above claim, and am not concerned in its prosecution.
J. M. Wilson J. P.

We John Seay and Ino G. Hillsman residents of Madison County, in the State of Alabama, upon our Oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Elizabeth Hillsman in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the Applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
John Seay John G. Hillsman
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day and year first above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
J. M. Wilson J. P.
STATE OF ALABAMA, } ss: COUNTY OF
I, _____ Judge of the Probate Court, in and for the County and State above mentioned, and Ex-Officio Clerk of said Court, do hereby certify that
whose genuine signature appears above, is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly Commissioned and Sworn; that all his official acts as such, are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid Probate Court is a Court of Record, having general jurisdiction.— I also certify, that I have no interest in the result of the case, and am not concerned in its prosecution.
Given under my hand and seal of Office at
this _____ day of _____ 185_____
I C. C. Clay, Jr. Member of the U. S. Senate certify that James M. Wilson is a Justice of the Peace in and for Madison County, Alabama, the foregoing signatures are genuine Washington City J. C. C. Clay, Jr.

Elizabeth Hillsman
April 13. 1842
Ref: to Com tee on Pen s
July 21. 1842
Bill reported No 529.
28 Bates,
Hon R. Chapman HQ Rev. Fannan
Report favour at h

To the Hon. the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled.
The Petition of Elizabeth Hillsman, of the County of Madison in the State of Alabama, widow of Dose Hillsman, late of the County and State aforesaid, deceased, represents that her late husband was a Revolutionary soldier, from the State of Virginia, that after the Re- volution he continued to reside in the said State of Virginia until the year, eighteen hundred and sixteen, when he emigrated to the state of Tennessee, in which state he resided some time over twelve months and then removed to the said County of Madison, where in the month of August eighteen hundred and eighteen he departed this life, in indigent circumstances. That previous to his death he had made ap- plication for a Pension, which application was forwarded to the War De- partment and returned for some amendment and that the said appli- cation has been lost or mislaid, so that the same cannot now be found. The said Dose Hillsman departed this life soon after he made his appli- cation under the then existing laws, and before intelligence was received that his said application required amendment.
Your said Petitioner represents that she is in indigent circumstances and by means of a fall received the year after her husband's death she is rendered a cripple. That she was married to the said Dose Hills- man in the State of Virginia in the month of December in the year seventeen hundred and ninety two, as well as she now recollects.
She files with this her Petition, the affidavit in writing of Richard Boice (also is entitled to be a highly respectable citizen) to show that your said Petitioner and the said Dose Hillsman were married as afore- said and that the said Dose Hillsman was a Revolutionary Soldier.
She also files the affidavit of Peyton Powell who was also engaged in the Revolutionary Army and is now receiving a pension as a Captain, a Lieutenant to show amongst other things that the said Dose Hillsman was a Revolu- tionary soldier in the Revolutionary War and the duration of his term of service, as within the knowledge of said Peyton Powell as and some of the battles in which he was engaged etc. which affidavits are made before Notaries of the Peace in the said County of Madison - She likewise files a state-

ment of M. Bentley, late a Captain of the Virginia Line during the Revolutionary War, on a part thereof, showing to wit that the said Dore Stilliman (who is in said statement, by mistake, called Ralph Stilliman) was a Revolutionary Soldier and the duration of his service as within the knowledge of the said M. Bentley.
Your Petitioner pleads that under the existing laws, she can obtain no aid from the General Government, but believing that she is entitled to some provision according to the spirit of the laws of the United States heretofore passed for the benefit of Revolutionary Soldiers and their widows, she humbly prays that such provision may be made for her as her husband would be entitled to were he now living and that such proceedings may be had in her behalf as Congress in its wisdom may deem just and equitable and as in duty bound will ever pray to be.
Respectfully, Gabriel Moore John Seay N.B. Burton
Elizabeth her Stilliman mark
State of Alabama } Before me David S. Kelley a Notary Public in and for the county of Madison do hereby certify that the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and who appeared to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, acknowledged that she executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed.
on this 21 st day of March 1842. David S. Kelley P.P.
Elizabeth her Stilliman mark
State of Alabama } I, Richard B. Ponder, Clerk of the Madison County Court do hereby certify that David S. Kelley is a Notary Public in and for the county of Madison and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine and I further certify that Francis E. Haines was on the 21 st day of May 1839 a Notary of the Peace in and for said county and that on the 11 th day of February 1840 Danvers Farris was a Notary of the Peace in and for said county both duly commissioned to

ment of Mr. Bentley, had a Captain of the Virginia Line during the Revolutionary War, on a part thereof, showing likewise that the said Dore Stillerman (who is in said statement, by mistake, called Ralph Stillerman) was a Revolutionary Soldier and the duration of his service within the knowledge of the said Mr. Bentley.
Your Petitioner pleads that under the existing laws, she can obtain no aid from the General Government, but believing that she is entitled to some provision according to the spirit of the laws of the United States heretofore passed for the benefit of Revolutionary Soldiers and their widows, she humbly prays that such provision may be made for her as her husband would be entitled to were he now living and that such proceedings may be had in her behalf as belong in the wisdom, may seem just and equitable and as in duty bound will ever pray to
Respectfully Gabriel Moore John Seay N.B. Burton
Elizabeth the Stillerman mark
State of Alabama } Before me David S. Kelley a Notary Madison County } of the Peace in and for said County, aforesaid This day personally appeared Elizabeth Stillerman, the petitioner aforesaid, and who is to me personally known and made oath in due form of law that the statements contained in the foregoing petition as of her knowledge are true and then stated from information she believes to be true. Subscribed and sworn before me this 21 st day of March 1842.
Elizabeth the Stillerman mark
David S. Kelley D.P.
State of Alabama } I, Richard B. Ponder, Clerk of Madison County } the Circuit Court of said County of Alabama do hereby certify that David S. Kelley is a qualified as also the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine and I further certify that Francis L. Harrison was on the 21 st day of May 1839 a Notary of the Peace in and for said County and that on the 11 th day of February 1840 David S. Kelley was a Notary of the Peace in and for said County, both duly commissioned &c.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County Court at Office in Huntsville, this twenty fifth day of March eighteen hundred and sixty two.
Rich d R. Purdom Clerk County Court of said County of Madison Alabama

ELIZABETH HILLSMAN.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 529.]
—♦— JULY 21, 1842. —♦—
Mr. FORNANCE, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, submitted the following
REPORT:
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Hillsman, report:
That Elizabeth Hillsman of the county of Madison, State of Alabama, represents that she is the widow of Jose Hillsman, a soldier of the Revolution; that she was married to her said husband in the month of December, 1792, and that he died in the State of Alabama, in August, 1818; that she is poor and indigent, and therefore prays the bounty of her country.
Richard Borum, certified by the justice of the peace to be a highly respectable witness, proves that the marriage between the said petitioner and her said husband took place in his presence, about the end of the year 1792, or beginning of the year following; that her said husband died in the year 1818; and that she has remained a widow ever since.
As to the service of the said husband, a time-worn certificate, dated the 27th day of August, 1818, and signed "W. Bentling, late a captain of Virginia line during the revolutionary war," says, that the said Joseph Hillsman served "in the regular continental army for two years, which term he served faithfully." This certificate is certified by Samuel Ford to be genuine.
Captain Peyton Powell, a captain of the revolutionary army, and now a pensioner of the United States, swears that Jose Hillsman went "in the regular continental army, under Captain William Johnson, and joined Colonel Morgan; but shortly afterwards he was placed under Major General William Heath, where he remained for three years, which term he served faithfully."
From the evidence, &c., your committee think the prayer of the petitioner ought to be granted; and they therefore report a bill.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
3 March 1849.
Sir:
I have to request the favor of you to state whether your records afford any evidence of an alleged marriage between Mr. Joseph Willsman and Mrs. Elizabeth Seay on _____ day of Dec. 1792, conformably with the regulations of the 6th of June, 1839, herewith enclosed.
I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
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Amelia County Office Tavern Amelia Co Va
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Virginia, Amelia Clerk's office 1843 April 1 st
In reply to the within enquiry I have to state that there is no file on my office the original marriage bond executed by Joseph Williamson to the Commonwealth upon which license was granted the 7 December 1792 to marry Elizabeth Moore.
A transcript has been made and collected.
E. G. Sough Clerk Amelia Co. Co. (Virginia)

10,000
Elizabeth Hillsman
Alabama
Act. 7. July 38.
m 92. d 18
adm?
2 yrs pri
80
Matthew M. Hillsman Huntsville Alabama

State of Alabama ) Before me, Dandridge Davis Madison County ) a Justice of the Peace in and for said County by me, personally appeared Richard Borum, of Madison County in the State of Tennessee, and made oath that he is well acquainted Elizabeth Hillsman widow of Dose Hillsman, who was a Revolutionary Soldier in the Army of the United States of America, that he recollects that said Dose Hillsman and the said Elizabeth (formerly Elizabeth Moon) were married in his presence in the County of Amherst in the State of Virginia, in the latter part of December in the year, sixteen hundred and seventy two (1792) or the beginning of the year follow- ing, that he is unable to state the circumstances at time of said marriage from the fact that in the year nineteen hundred and ninety one his father removed from Amherst County, as related to Madison County, in said State, his father's home was covered with shingles and that year at that time he said as present cut the year 1791 on the roof and that in the latter part of the year following he was about a youth in a visit to his friends in said County of Amherst and whilst there, the said Dose Hillsman and said Elizabeth were married, he being herein that said Dose Hillsman died in the County and State 1818 about the year 1818 as he believes and he also knows that the said Elizabeth has never married since and is still the said Dose Hillsman's widow Subscribed before me on this 14th February 1840
Rich: Borum
D Davis JP
Exd S. Dandridge Davis Justice of the Peace He as aforesaid do hereby certify that I have the most satisfactory evi- dence as from the testimony of Doct Edmund Sibley of said County, that the said Richard Borum is a highly respectable citizen and in every way matter to entitle, and that the said Dr Edmund Sibley is to me personally known and is a highly re- spectable citizen of said County of Madison
D Davis JP

I Peyton Powell late a captain in the Army of the Revolution and now a Pensioner of the united States of America, residing in the County of Madison and State of Alabama, do hereby make on oath the following statement. To Wit, That Jose Hillsman who died in Madison County State of Alabama in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen was a regular Soldier in the Revolutionary War. That he went from the eleventh Regiment, in Amelia County State of Virginia, in the regular Continental Army under Captain William Johnson and joined Colonel Morgan, but shortly afterwards he was placed under Major General William Heath where he remained for three years which term he served faithfully, he was in the Battle at Brandywine and also in the Battle at Germantown, to my certain knowledge.
I further certify that since he (Jose Hillsman) came to this State (Ala) he had all the necessary certificates prepared and sent to Congress for the purpose of establishing his claim as pensioner, but before the business was acted on, he (Jose Hillsman) died, which put a stop to the whole business given under my hand and Seal this 21 st day of May Eighteen hundred and thirty nine.
Peyton Powell

The State of Alabama } This day personally Madison County } appeared before me J. E. Harris, an acting Justice in and for the said County, Peyton Powell, who swears that the within Certificate is Just and correct to the best of his knowledge So help him God.
Peyton Powell
Sworn and Subscribed before me, this 31 st May 1859 J. E. Harris, J.P.

2565
3 rd March 43
Elizabeth Hillman
$80 per annum fund
B. J. Moore, Agent, Huntsville Alabama

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 3rd March, 1845, granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7, 1838.
The United States of America On this 8 th day of June State of Alabama, for Benjamin Howard and forty-three persons appeared before the undersigned, one of the Judges of the Circuit Courts of the said State of Alabama, Elizabeth Hillsman, a resident of Madison County in the State of Alabama, aforesaid, aged about seventy-four years, who being first 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 on the 3rd March, 1845, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Hose Hillsman, deceased, who served in the Revolutionary Army of the United States. That she is unable to state the work her husband held in the Army or to specify the service performed or the duration of his service. That she has received no pension under the act of July 7, 1838. but that she has this day asserted her claim under the act last aforesaid. She further declares that she is still a widow, and the widow of said Hose Hillsman, deceased.
Elizabeth Her Hillsman Mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me, George W. Lane Judge of the fifth Judicial Circuit in the said State of Alabama.
I, George W. Lane, Judge of the fifth Judicial Circuit in the State of Alabama, as aforesaid, do hereby certify that the aforesaid Elizabeth Hillsman, widow of Hose Hillsman, deceased, as aforesaid, is unable from bodily infirmity, to attend in court, for the purpose of making the declaration aforesaid. Given under my hand in Madison County in said State of Alabama, this 8 th day of June, 1845.
George W. Lane Judge of the fifth Judicial Circuit, in said State of Alabama.

State of Alabama, I William H T Browne clerk, Madison County of the Circuit court, of the County of Madison in the state of Alabama, do hereby certify, that, George W Lane, whose signature, is signed, to his certificate; as Judge of the fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Alabama; which includes the county of Madison therein, is, and was, at the date of his said certificate, Judge of the fifth Judicial Circuit, of the State of Alabama
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of my office, at office in Huntsville, this the eighth day of June A.D. 1813 & 6th year of American Independence W H T Browne clerk Cir. court
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9116 Jun 26/43.
Ely. Hillman
July 7. 1838
March 50 '43
Sta. 3
Rev. Joseph J. Edwards
Bank of Painesville
Washington City
D.C.
[Large stylized signature or monogram]

Huntsville, Alabama
June 1843.
Hon. Joseph L. Edwards
Commr. of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
Sir.
Enclosed I send you the application of Mrs. Elizabeth Hilderman for a Pension - the papers enclosed with them already on file, I hope will be sufficient to show that she is entitled to a pension - I shall be pleased to hear from her application as soon as convenient.
I am, Sir, my respectfully Yours obedt. Servt.
B. T. Moore.

I certify that Joseph Hillsman (now a Resident of the State of Tennessee) was a Regular Soldier in the Revolutionary War, that he entered the Service early, from the County of Amelia, State of Virginia, in the Regular Continental Army, for two years, which term he served faithfully; That after the expiration of that term, he again enlisted as a Substitute, and served as a Regular Substitute, the greater part of the War. That before he left Virginia his pecuniary circumstances rendered him a fit object for the bounty of the late Congressional Law remunerating Continental Soldiers for their revolutionary services. — Given under my hand in the State of Virg a . this 20 th August 1818
W m Bentley late a Capt d of Virg a Line during the Revolutionary War.

I certify that I have been for many years past well acquainted with the hand writing of Colo Wm Birtley formerly a capt in the Revolutionary war and I am confident that the within certificate with his signature is in his hand writing given under my hand this 31 st day of August 1848
Sam Wood
Certificate

W.D. [Signature]
Dear G.W. Cump
Washington City

Huntsville Ala July 12 th 1863
Dear Sir,
Your letter of date 23 rd May, reached me in due time, with the forms accompanying it; on the ninth June, I deposited in the post Office here, the declaration of my mother, as requested by you, which was in accordance, with the form furnished, since which time, no information has reached me on the subject.
At the request of my mother, and from the delay of hearing, I am induced to address you this, fearing that in probability, the letter addressed on 9 th June, might have miscarried by the mail, if so that I might have another forwarded to you as early as practicable, be pleased to let me hear from you soon
Permit me in behalf of my mother, to tender you my unfeigned thanks, for your kind attention to this matter, and be assured, that if by any circumstances, it should be in my power, to reciprocate the favour, it will cheerfully be done
Matthew M. Withersman

Mr Cole
ok ok Hunt Valley Md 1892
Hon. S. L. Edwards.
Com r of Pensions Washington City D. C.
FREE

Huntsville, Alabama Wednesday 2 d August 1848.
Hon. S. S. Edwards, Com te of Pensions Washington City D. C.
Sir,
I herewith enclose to you the declaration (duly authenticated), of Mrs. Elizabeth Hellman, of This (Madison) County, made in order to enable her to receive a pen- sion under the act of Congress, of the second of February last, and shall be pleased to hear the result of her application as soon as may be convenient.
I shall be obliged to you if you can furnish me with a copy of the rules and regulations adopted for the purpose of guiding appli- cants under the act aforesaid.
I am, Sir, very respectfully Your obedt. Servt. B. T. Moore.

1362.43
Hillman Ala
May 25. 46
PAID
Mr Evans J. H. Edmund, Commissioner of Pensions, 733 Washington St New Orleans La

Huntsville May 18 th 1846. Mr J. C. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Dr. Sir
Since the 1 st of March last I have with Mrs Johnson, made application to the Agent of Pensions at Tuscaloosa for my mother's pay and can not get it by Power of Attorney or otherwise the agent is so particular he will not pay you will please give him instructions that he may pay it as soon as it is ready to send to Tuscaloosa, always for the pay & then can not get it - and should like to know when I shall apply and to whom as he will not pay it -
Yours Respectfully H. M. Harkness

PAID
Doct r G. W. Crump Washington City at the War department D. C.

Huntsville Ala Feby 18 th 1847.
Dear Sir
I write you a few lines by the request of my Mother Elizabeth Hillsman, respecting her pension, there is at present three payments due her on the 1 st day of March next if she should live and Congress will shortly Adjourn, she wishes if there should be any new Arrangements made respecting the forms of a Widow's Pension Papers you will please forward a copy of it to me as you did before, although the funds have not yet come to hand, I dare it will be any to make further statements as you will know from the above remarks what is required please inform me for my Mother &c - and receive the assurance of my but return.
Yours Afft Servt M. M. Hillsman

Smithville Ala Feby 15 th 1847.
Dear Sir
I write you a few lines by the request of my Mother Elizabeth Hillsman, respecting her pension. There is at present three payments due her on the 1 st day of March next if she should live and Congress will shortly Adjourn. She wishes if there should be any new Arrangements made respecting the forms of a Widow's Pension Papers you will please forward a copy of it to me as you did before, although the funds have not yet come to hand, I deem it unnecessary to make further statements as you will know from the above remarks what is required please inform me for my Mother &c and receive the assurance of my but Entero.
Yours Afft Servt M. M. Hillsman

Mar 6 1843
ala
Eliz Hillyman
How Joseph J. Edwards
Emr of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
[Faint handwritten mark or signature]

Huntsville, Alabama
24th April 1843
Wm. S. L. Saunders
Comt. of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
In closed I send you a Transcript of the Marriage bond of Sam Stillman, deceased, which I am informed, it is important should be filed with the application of Mrs. Stillman, (widow of said Sam Stillman, dec'd,) for a pension - No record of the marriage license can be found in the Clerk's office, but the fact of her marriage was proved in the papers accompanying her petition to Congress for a pension which has been referred to your office.
I am, Sir, very respectfully
Your Obedt Servt B. T. Moon

admitted
B. T. Moore Huntsville Ala.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2 o February 1848, entitled an act making further provision for pensioning widows and soldiers of the Revolution.
The State of Alabama } On this second day of August, Madison County ss } eighteen hundred and forty eight, person- ally appeared before me, David E. Kelly, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Elizabeth Hillmons (who is to me personally known) a resident of the County and State aforesaid, aged about seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed on the second day of February, eighteen hun- dred and forty eight, granting pensions to widows of persons who served dur- ing the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Rose Hillmons who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution and she here refers to the declaration heretofore made by her to make her to become a pension- er, that she received a pension of eighty dollars per annum under the act of 17 th June 1844, and that she drew a pension under the act of the third of March eighteen hundred and forty three. She further declares that she is still a widow sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me David E. Kelly, J. P. } Elizabeth law Hillmons mark
I, John W. Clay, Clerk of the County Court of Madison County in the State of Alabama do hereby certify that David E. Kelly before whom the foregoing affidavit was made is now and was at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commission- ed and qualified, that full faith and credit are due to all his of- ficial acts and that the signature aforesaid purporting to be his is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County Court, at office, in Huntsville, this the second day of Au- gust, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty eight
John W. Clay Clerk

Alabama-7462
July
Elizabeth Hillsman widow of Joseph or Jose Hillsman 1 Virginia Leg. who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died in the year 1818 of Madison Co in the State of Alabama who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Bentling of the Regt: - commanded by Col. Morgan in the Virginia - line for 2 years -
Inscribed on the Roll of Huntsville - at the rate of 80 - Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d - day of July 1843 and sent to Matthew M. Hillsman, Huntsville, Alabama
Whole amount due $400.00 -
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Colt Stewart Clerk,
Book 4 Vol. 2 Page 203 -

Elizabeth Hillsman
Alabama
mt to Hon. R. Chapman 3. March '43.
" B. T. Moore May 24. 1843
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at 7. July 38

1362
Alabama - Huntsville
Elizabeth Williams
widow of Joseph or Jose Williams who was a Private
in the Virginia line for 2 years
Letter to M c M c Williams 26. May 1846
Rep Aug 5 th
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of August, 1843 and sent to
B. V. Moore, Huntsville, Alabama
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 237
Capt. Lowe P. A.

Sir Sir.
The Papers of Hillsman were found in the office of the Clerk of the Ho: Reps - where they had been sent by order of the Secy of the Senate - I rejoice that they are found & take great pleasure in enclosing them to you.
Very respectfully
Your obed Servt.
D. M. McDonald
½ past 7. o'clock. Wednesday
Am W Chapman

House of Rep.
March 13 th 1843
Mr. Crump;
I send you the papers in Mrs. Williams case withdrawn from the files of Com. under a Res- -olution of the Senate that "her claim to a pension being fully made out will be allowed on application to the proper Dept." I have to request you in behalf of your old friend Mrs. W. to write to the clk of the proper Co or counties in Va for the certificate of marriage and send me the certificate at
Southern Sta. Yours truly Robert M.

5 36729
5 New Years

May 23 1843
Hon. Joseph T. Edwards.
Ala
Comr. of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Huntsville, Alabama.
Saturday 13 May 1843.
Hon Joseph L. Edwards Chair of Pensions Washington City D. C.
Sir
Mrs. Hillman is anxious to hear the fate of her application for a pension. Her Petition was before the last Congress and as she has been informed was referred to you, the Committee on Pensions in the Senate believing nothing was wanting to establish her right to a pension except the Certificate of her Marriage, she has endeavored to obtain the Certificate from the Clerk of the Court in Amelia County, Virginia, but could obtain nothing more than an authenticated transcript of the marriage bond. The information from Mrs. Dastel, Mrs. Chapman, says Dr. Gassup, an old acquaintance of Mrs. Hillman's husband, was to write in her behalf to the Clerk in Amelia County aforesaid, but I presume he will have no better success in procuring an authenticated transcript of her marriage than has been had hitherto. The fact of her marriage was proved by the testimony accompanying her petition to Congress. Will you have the kindness to let us hear from you at your convenience, after the receipt of this letter?
I am, Sir, very respectfully Your Obedt Servt B. T. Moore.
A transcript of the marriage bond has hitherto been forwarded }

233. 511.

Washington City Jan'y 26 th 1856.
Sir
I enclose you the papers of Elizabeth Hillman & Mother Mr. Hillman made in conformity to the act of 3 rd March 53, as evidence of their claim for Bunker Land. You will see that they have imposed on me the duties of an Agent. Hence I must ask you to enclose to me the acknowledgments of their claims having been presented.
Yr. attention will oblige Yr. ob t Serv t
C. C. Clay Jr.
Dear Genl. Mitchell Commr. of Pensions.

1838 May 5 Ref to Yn John S. ... for Mrs. Howard C. Jones (all the ... in chn. of Robt Allen p. 3766 N ...
Revolution
WIDOW, &c.
ew
File No. 7854
Elizabeth Williamson
Widow
Joseph Williamson
Brit Rev War
Act: Feb. 3 rd 1848
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 334
[Arrangement of 1870.]