Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,184, William Hall, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Hall, William
S. 44184
CONTENTS

11831
New York
William Hall
of Middlesex in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Crane of the Mapachy line, for the term of Three Years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 17 th of March 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th of June 1819 and sent to Stephen Phelps Esq Canandaigua New York
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1819. 44.93
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 5 Mo 15/30 $44.93
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued.

Notification sent June 14 th 1821, to Stephen Phelps Esq? Canandaigua, N. York.

Claims of William Hall
353/1
Stephen Phelps, Judge, Canandaigua N. Yk.
Rec? Mar. 30. 1819.
Admitted William Hall private
Colonel Cramers Regt Massachusetts line 1781 to 1783 discharge Enclos.
17 M 1819

State of New York Ontario County
On this 17 th day of March 1819 before me the Subscriber a Judge of Ontario Common Pleas Personally appeared William Hall aged fifty eight years Resident in the Town of Middletown in the said County who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declara- tion in Order to Obtain the Pension made by the late Act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain Persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War That he the said William Hall entered some time in the Spring of the year 1781 in the Town of Middletown in the State of Massachusetts for the Term of three years into the Continental Service and was Mustered and Served in the Company commanded by Capt. Thomas Seward in Colonel Cramers Massachusetts Artillery Regiment and that he continued to serve in said Corps or in the Service of the United States untill the twentysecond day of December 1783 when he received an honorable discharge from Service at West Point in the State of New York and that he is in Reduced Circum- stances and in need of the Assistance of his Country for Support and that he has no other Estate except what is herewith transmitted Now in his power of his said Services
Sworn to declared & Subscribed this day and year aforesaid before me
William Hall
Stephen Phelps a Judge of Ontario Com. Pleas

I, Stephen Phelps a Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Hall did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Pleas, for the term of nine months or more on the continental establishment, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress, And I also certify that he the said William Hall is in indigent circumstances and in need of the assistance of his Country for support. —
Canandaigua March 17 th 1819
Stephen Phelps Judge of Dist. Com. Pleas
State of New York
Ontario County ss Clerk's Office
In testimony that Stephen Phelps whose name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration and certificate is on this day of the date of the same a Judge of Ontario Common Pleas and that the same are his signatures I herewith subscribe my name and affix the seal of said County at Canandaigua this 17 th day of March 1819
John M c Neil Atty
The Honorable Secy of War if my claims are allowed will please to forward a certificate thereof to Stephen Phelps Esqr of Canandaigua who is authorized to receive the same for me — William Hall

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
William Hall Bomb. r in the Massachusetts Artillery Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York,
the Twentysecond Day of December
1789
By the General's Command,
Henry M c Lean
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Sam l Cooper Adjut.

Luther Hall of Newton Being duly sworn this 16 th day of March 1819 deposes and testifies that he was knowing of William Hall going into the Continental Service according to the best of his memory in the year of one thousand eight hundred and eighty one and that his continuance between two and three years
Middlesex 16 th March 1819 Sworn Before me Jeremiah Cookstock J. P.

Lease of William Hall Copy
600
11,831
Sept 19
Con L.L.B. in

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
On this Twenty first day of February 18 21 personally appeared in open Court, (being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, and constituted a Court of Record by proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, and recognized as such Court by the laws and judicial decisions of said State,) William Skill aged Sixty years, resident in the town of Newstead in said county, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
That he enlisted in the town of Middlebury in the State of Massachusetts in the Spring of the Year 1781 for the term of three Years in the company commanded by Capt. Thomas Jewett in the Regiment commanded by Col. John Crane in the Massachusetts line of Artillery and continued in said service until December 1783 and received an honorable discharge at West Point in the State of New York.
and that he made application for a Pension on the Seventeenth day of March 18 19 and that he received a Pension Certificate, No. 11,837 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 4th day of March, 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, viz.
  One Cow $ 10.00 Three Cows $10.50 $ 20.50   Seven old Hogs each 2.50   One age 150 One & small hog 1.25 2.75   Ten Sheep 12.00   $ 37.75 
And I do further declare and swear that I am by occupation a farmer and that by age and infirmities am unable to support myself by labour. And that my family consists of my wife aged fifty seven years in tolerable health for a woman of her age.
Sworn to in open court this 21 st day of February 1821 before me
Moses Stratton A Judge of Ontario Common Pleas
William Skill

ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
I, J. Van Lefson Clerk of said county, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I farther certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is Thirtyseven dollars and Twentyfive cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this Second day of March 1826
J. Van Lefson Clerk of the Court aforesaid, in and for said County.

Caveat. Wm Hall. N.Y. Rec d 5 Feb. 1822.
To The Honorable John C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington
FREE

To The Honorable John C Calhoun Secretary of war Dear Sir we the under Signers do send To your honor the Affidavit of Jeremiah Cornstock Esqir to inform you of the illegal Way in which William Hall in the town of Middlesex and County of Ontario and State of New York as a Revolutionary Soldier has obtained a pension from the United States We as citizens of the United States think it a Duty we owe to our selves and to our Country at large to inform your honor hereby Hoping that your honor wil Put a stop to Such illegal Proceedings that he may not Get any more Money from our General Government and if your honor wants any More information your wil Please to direct a letter to the undersigned living in the Town of Middlesex County of Ontario and State of New York
Lewis H Waklee Peleg Briggs

In the matter of William Hall a Petition suspended.
Set papers in Cause of W. Hall

This indenture Made and Concluded this first Day of May in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and Twenty one Between John Hall of Middlesex in the County of Ontario of the one part and W m Hall of the same place of the other part Witnesseth that the said John Hall as well in cons Consideration of one Dollar to him paid at and before the sealing and delivering hereof by the said W m Hall as of the rents conveyants and agreements herein after reserved and contained on the part and behalf of the said W m Hall his Executors administrators and assigns to be paid kept and performed hath deemed granted and to let unto the said W m Hall his Executors administrators and assigns one acre of land where the said W m Hall now lies the said acre of land to contain the House and garden to gather with free liberty of in- gress and egress to and for the said W m Hall his Heirs and assigns to have and to hold all and singular the said premises above mentioned with the appurtenances unto belonging unto the said William Hall his Executors administrators and assigns from the day of the date hereof for then during the term of Ten years there next and ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended and also to have free toleration of travel with- out any molestation or interruption from the party of the first part provided the party of the second part doth not damage the party of the first part by traveling,

Through cultivated lands such as are sown with grain or meadow lands such parts the party of the second part are not to trespass on with- out the knowledge and consent of the first part and also that the said Wm Hall shall not nor will not at any time during the term here by Granted do or commit or per- mit or suffer to be done any wilful or volun- tary waste or spoil or destruction in or upon the premises or any part there of then by Granted and the said John Hall for him- self his Heirs Executors administrators and assigns doth covenant with the said Wm Hall his Heirs executors and administra- tors by these presents that the said Wm Hall his heirs executor administrators and assigns shall or may at all times have hold occupy possess all and singular the said premises here by demised and every part and parcel there of and the said — Wm Hall for him self his Heirs Execu- tors and assigns doth agree to pay unto the said John Hall his Heirs or a- ssigns the just and full sum of Ten Dollars for each and year he shall occupy the above demised premises in witness where of we have here unto set our hands and seals This first day of May in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty one Isaac Seer witness John Hall Wm Hall Jr William Hall Ls Joseph Seer

State of New York Yates County ss Isaac Lewis of the town of Middlesex in said County being duly sworn deponeth and saith that a certain lease of which the foregoing is a true copy was duly executed by John Wall and William Wall to which execution this deponent signed his name as attesting at the same time the said lease was by consent of both parties left in the hands of this deponent for safe keeping and that this deponent hath no knowledge of any other lease since between the said parties
Sworn the 25 th day of October 1823 before me Alexander Southerland J.P.
This may certify that I am well acquainted with the above described premises it is an old Log house hardly fit to live in and but very small and in my opinion is worth as much ten Dollars as a week as it would be worth for a year Alexander Southerland

Discharge hereinafter Sept 15, 1904 16
60 days within
in letters to pensioner Agent - 6 Feb 1892. see letter to Hon. D. Marrin H. R. Jan. 29. 1894.

J. 44.184 William Hall.
Mar. 17, 1819 - 58 - Middlesex Ontario Co. N.Y.
Enl. Middlebury Mass. Apr. 1781
Bomb er Capt Thomas Seward
Colt's Crane Artillery Bat
Massachusetts Service.
dis Dec. 22, 1783 at West Pt. NY
no bat men -

11831
402 Main St.
Ann Jan 24
U.S. Commissioners of Pension Will you kindly give me the record of service of W m Hall who was born in Middlebury Mass. in 1760. He moved to Seneca St. and enlisted sometime between 1876 & 1883. He moved to Ontario Co. N.Y. where he died in 1826. He drew a pension of $8.00 per month He died in Yates Co. for Ontario was divided. Also of James Taylor who enlisted at Montgomery Orange Co N.Y. in 1861.

sewing as a private in Captain Daniel Denton's Company. Pension was granted his widow Elizabeth-Thompson Taylor living in Benton N.Y.

Ontario ss } Personally appeared before the subscriber hereof County } one of the of said County Justices, and being duly sworn according to Law, Deposeth and saith that on the first day of February One Thousand eight hundred and twenty one He the said Deponent did make out a Deed for Fifty acres of Land from William Hall to John Hall his son and a Life Lease from the said John Hall To William Hall and his Wife for their sup- port During their Life time is and further saith not.
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 22 nd day of June 1821 —
Jeremiah Cornstock
David Southland J.P.

State of New York Ontario County ss
In testimony that David Southerland whose signature appears to the within certificate was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this 22 d day of January 1822
Yasin S. Nicholas Atty

State of New York Ontario County ss on the fourteenth Day of June 1822 Before me Philip Robinson one of the Justices of the Peace for said County came Isaac Secor fifty five Years of Age to me known and on his Oath Saith; that Some time in the Winter of 1819 or 1820 he this Deponent Understood by Mr. William Hall that he Purchased the Land his Sons had that he had given his Sons William and Seth Deeds for their parts and that John was then of Age and and he was About to give him a Deed of the remainder of the Lot Agreeable to contract With his Sons for that they had Paid for it, and further this Deponent Saith Not
ISAAC SECOR
Sworn and Subscribed to
this 14 th Day of June 1822
Before me Philip Robinson J.P.

State of New York Ontario County, On the fourteenth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, Before me Philip Robinson one of the Justices in and for said County of Ontario, came David Southerland to me well known to be the same person and being duly sworn Deposeth and saith that at the Last Election for a Governor of this State that William Hall of the Town of Middlesex in said County presented a vote for Governor was challenged as having no Right to Vote as he had or was about to obtain a Pension from the United States, for his Services in the Revolutionary War and that he the said William Hall was rejected as not being a freeholder and that he the Deponent was at the Time alluded to was Supervisor of said Town of Middlesex and one of the Inspectors of said Election, and this Deponent further saith that from his knowledge of the said William Hall's family they are not in his belief able to support the old gentleman and his wife and not able to pay Just Dam- ages against them as they yet owe him and other Money Lent them some years ago and seem to have enough to do to maintain themselves, and further saith not.
Sworn and Subscribed before me the day and year above Written
Philip Robinson J.P.
David Southerland

State of New York Ontario County ss on the fourteenth Day of June 1822, Before me Philip Robinson one of the Justices of the Peace for Said County Came William Hall Jnt. thirty five Years of Age to me Well Known and on his Oath Deponeth and Saith, that about 13 years ago Last March his father William Hall Purchased a Lot of Land in the Town of Middlesex in Said County, of 168 Acres and that his father told him his Brothers Seth and John that if they wold go to Work and Pay for the Land they Shold have it; and this Deponent further Saith that he and his Brothers did Work but by the month and by the Day and on the Land and turned their Earnings in towards the Payment of Said Land, and that he the Said Deponent Received a Deed of his father for 30 Acres About Here or ten Years Since and About 3 years after he Received a Deed of his father for 30 Acres more and a year or two after this he gave the two Deeds Up to his father and Took one Deed for the two Pieces of Land, and he this Deponent Saith further that about Six Years ago his father gave his Brother Seth a Deed of fifty Eight Acres, and further this Deponent Saith that his father told his Brother John that he Shold have a Deed for the Remainder of the Lot When he Came of Age and further this Deponent Saith not. William Hall Jnt Sworn and Subscribed to this 14th Day of June 1822 Before me Philip Robinson Justice of the Peace

State of New York } Ontario County } Clerk's Office } p 3
I certify that Philip Robinson whose name appears thrice subscribed within, and which I verily believe to be his proper hand writing was on the fourteenth day of June 1822 a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Ontario duly commissioned and sworn — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 3 rd day of July A. D. 1822 —
Human Norton Dep: Clerk

Sept. 15, 1904 Visit to 402 Main St. Pittsburgh Pa.
44 184 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 44 184
William Hall
Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 212
[Arrangement of 1870.]