Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43681, Uriah Hill, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Hill, Uriah
S. 43681
CONTENTS

State of New York, Ulster County } —
On this fifteenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, personally appeared in open Court, to wit, in the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Ulster in the State of New York, the said Court, being a Court of Record having a Clerk and Seal and the Common Law powers of fine and imprisonment and keeping a Record of their proceedings, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount. Uriah Hill aged seventy one years, resident in the Town of Olive in the said County of Ulster, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818, and the 1st. May 1820, that he the said Uriah Hill enlisted for the term of nine months on the first day of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven in the State of New York in the Company Commanded by Captain Lee in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Lewis Dubois in the line of the State of New York on the New York Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the first day of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight when he was discharged from the said service in the Town of Newburgh in the said State of New York - that he enlisted in said Company and served therein as a private until he was discharged, That he was in the Battle of Fort Montgomery, that he is in very reduced circumstances and feeble in health and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support, that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services - And in pursuance of the act of the 1st. May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March 1818; 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 18th 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. That my Family consists of myself my wife Mabel (who is now fifty seven years of age and is consumptive and in a very feeble state of health and has been so for the last ten years) my youngest daughter Sarah aged twelve years and my youngest Son Peter aged fourteen years -
That the reasons why I have not applied for my pension before are the following - That until lately I have been able to maintain myself and my family residing with me by my daily labour and by the products of the small farm I once had - that my farm has been sold by the Sheriff and I have been turned out of the possession of the same - That I am feeling the decrepitude of old age so much as to be unable longer to comfortably to support myself and family without the charitable assistance of my neighbours - which necessity and the advice of my neighbours led me to make an effort for my pension and inquire into the rights I had thereto -
That on the 18th of March 1818 I was in possession of a farm containing about 47 acres of land worth about $900. which I owned subject to a mortgage for about $500. given by me to Michael Coons in the year 1815 for money advanced by him to me that in the year 1814 or 1815 I became indebted to Valentine Durdree in the sum of $600. for money advanced by him for me, and to secure the payment thereof I gave him a Bond and Warrant of Atty with power to enter up a Judgment against me for said $600 and issue execution thereon against my property - That on the 18th March 1818 I was possessed of the following personal property, viz, 3 shoats worth $3. 1 old sleigh worth 50 cts - 1 cutting box worth 25 cts - 1 Pitch fork worth 6 cts - 1 Clock worth $5. - 1 Calf worth $2 - 1 Grind stone worth $1.50 cts - one old mare worth $5. - 1 old waggon & harness worth $9. - 2 Heifers worth $8. 1 pair of Steers worth $8 - 2 Cows worth $20.50 cts - 1 Sine and 1 Barrel worth $2 - 6 Tea Spoons worth 37 cts - 11 sheep worth $14 - 3 hogs worth $3 - 12 old chairs worth $3 - Milk Pot & Tea pot worth 18 cts -

3 Beds & bedding worth $20 - 1 wheel worth $2 - 1 other wheel worth $1 - 12 knives and forks worth 50 cts - 12 plates worth 25 cents - 2 Board Tables worth $3 - 3 Iron pots worth $2.50 cts - 1 Tea kettle worth 50 cts That in the year 1824 the said William Budree purchased of said Michael Coon the said mortgage he held against me, and entered up a judgment on the said Bond and Warrant of Attorney he held against me for $600 - and issued an execution thereupon and sold my said farm (which I left possession of very soon after the law compelling me to do) and all my personal property except the following articles, (which are exempt from execution by the laws of this State) namely - 1 Cow worth $10 10 sheep worth $14 - 3 hogs worth $3 - 12 old chains worth $3 - 3 Beds & bedding worth $20 - 1 Wheel worth $2 - 1 other Wheel worth $1 - 12 knives & forks worth 50 cts 12 plates 25 cts 2 Board Tables worth $3 - 6 Tea spoons worth 37 1/2 cents - Milk pot & tea pot worth 18 cts - 3 Iron pots worth $2.50 - 1 Tea kettle worth 50 cts and wearing apparel barely sufficient for myself and family - And that I have had no other property but that which I have stated except the earnings of my daily labor which was applied to the support of myself and family - And that there has not, nor was not any property owned possessed nor transferred by me since the 18th March 1818 to this date except what is heretofore in the foregoing declaration set forth - And that the value of all the property I now own or possess does not exceed the sum of $60.30 1/2 cts
Uriah Hill
Sworn in open Court the 15 th day of September 1829 before me -
A. D. Soper First Judge of said Court

State of New York,
Ulster County } ss I Jacob Snyder Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas of the County of Ulster do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court; and I do further 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 sixty dollars and thirty cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this fifteenth day of September 1829—
Jacob Snyder Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County

20,126.
New York
Uriah Hill
of Ulster Co in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Lee — of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Dubois, in the New York line, for the term of nine months, from 1 April 1777 to 1 January 1778
Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 15 day of March 1830.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 st of March 1830. and sent to W. W. Woodworth, Kingston, N. Y.
Arrears to 4th of September 1830 $ 45.44 Semi-annual all'ce ending
$ 45.44
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
Rec: Book L. Vol: 5. fol: 98.

31 04 27 = 4.38 4006 4544

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Uriah Hill a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 543681.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr 1. 1777 9 mos. Pvt. Thomas Lee. General Dubois N.Y.                                                   
Battles engaged in, Fort Montgomery
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted in New York State
Date of application for pension, Sept. 15. 1829. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Ulver, Ulster Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, 71 years.
Remarks: In 1809 soldier was a resident of Marbletown, Ulster Co. N.Y. and had a wife Mary.
In 1829 soldier refers to his wife Mary as 57 yrs. Youngest son Peter as 14. Youngest dau Sarah 12 yrs. No further family data.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Rev Sec
St. Edward, Nebraska Dec. 18, 1921
Pension Department Washington D. C.
Gentlemen:
Please send me information concerning Uriah Hill, a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
Did he receive a pension?
He was probably from New York but am not certain.
Sincerely
Mrs. W. D. Fonda St. Edward
Nebraska

Uriah Hill 20.059
Dumion papus
[Faint, mirrored handwritten text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page. The text is mostly illegible but appears to be a continuous list or series of entries.]

State of New York Ulster County ss,
Be it remembered That on the third day of October in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred & twenty nine personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Commissioners of said County for taking the proof & acknowledgement of Deeds & C. James Schutt who being Duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is an inhabitant of the Town of Olive in the said County of Ulster that he has been seventy five years of age the thirtieth day of May last past. & that he is personally acquainted with Uriah Hill of the Town of Olive in the said County of Ulster. at present an applicant for a pension, that he is knowing to Uriah Hill having been a soldier in the Revolutionary War that he entered the service in the Spring of the year 1777. but does not know under what Captain, he enlisted, but has understood he was under Capt. Thomas See, but knows that he was in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Lewis Duane, & served therein for the term of nine months, and has understood he was discharged at Newburgh in the State of New York but was not present; & that he has seen the said Uriah Hill in the army aforesaid several times. And further saith that he is well acquainted with the pecuniary circumstances of the said Uriah Hill & verily believes from the best information he has been able to obtain that he does not more than to the value of fifty dollars, & further saith not. Sworn & subscribed before me the James Schutt Day of year first above written
Coenraet Brodhead Comr & Justice of the peace I the subscriber do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above deponent, that he is a man of truth & veracity of good standing in society, & a member in full communion in the Reformed Dutch Church in Olive.
Coenraet Brodhead

Ulster State of New York
Ulster County Clerk's office } I. do hereby Certify that Conrad Broadhead Esquire was on the days of the dates of the two foregoing affidavits (of Thomas Swartwout and James Schutt) - a Commissioner in and for said County and by the laws of said State author- ised to take affidavits &c - and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Commissioner and verily believe the signatures of Conrad Broadhead subscribed to the said affidavits to be his proper hand writing — Given under my hand and seal of office this third day of December 1829. —
Jacob Snyder Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County.

Which Still + Wife To Michael Coons
Rec d 11 Febr 1830

Registered for and at the request of Michael Coons on the eight day of March one thousand eight hundred and nine A. Register of a Mortgage made the fourth day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven Between Uriah Hill of Marbletown in the County of Ulster and Coats his wife of the first part and Michael Coons of the same place of the second part For all that piece or parcel of land hereafter des- cribed viz: Situate lying and being within the limits and bounds of Marbletown at a place called Ashokan on the north east side of the Esopus Creek being part of a lot of land that Samuel Waters formerly purchased from Tobias Dubois Beginning at a bridge across a small brook or run of water about thirty rods distance southeasterly from the said Samuel Waters now dwelling house thence with a straight line down said Creek to a heap of stones on the bank of the Esopus Creek then down the same to a heap of stones at a corner of a lot of land formerly belonging to Joseph Huntly then eastward as said Huntlys line runs to a heap of stones at the north east corner of said lot of land to the bounds of land formerly belonging to Hendrick Crispell and along said Crispells bounds as it runs to the south east corner of said Samuel Waters land to a heap of stones then northward as said Waters line runs to his north east corner at another heap of stones and from thence with a straight line to the afore- said bridge being the place of beginning Containing forty- seven acres and nearly three quarters being bounded to the north east and north west by land of Samuel Waters to the south west by the Esopus Creek to the eastward by said lot formerly belonging to Joseph Huntly and the land formerly belonging to Hendrick Crispell With a proviso or condition in the said Mortgage contained to the following effect that if the said party of the first part do well and truly pay to

the said party of the second part his executors administrators or assigns the sum of One hundred and fifty dollars lawful money of the United States on or before the fourth day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and eight according to the condition of a Certain bond or Writing Obligatory bearing even date with the said Mortgage and executed by the said Uriah Hill to the said Michael Coons then the said Mortgage and the estate and interest thereby granted shall cease determine and be void — And in case of the nonpayment of the said sum of One hundred and fifty dollars or any part thereof at the time above limited for payment thereof then and in such case it shall and may be lawful for the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns and the said parties of the first part does hereby empower and authorize the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns to grant bargain sell release and convey the said premises with the appurtenances at public vendue or auction and on such sale to make and execute to the purchaser his heirs and assigns forever good ample and sufficient deeds or conveyance in the law pursuant to the act in that case made and provided rendering the surplus monies if any to the said parties of the first part or to their executors administrators or assigns after deducting the costs and charges of such vendue and sale as aforesaid.
Acknowledge by the said Uriah Hill and Mary his wife on the eight day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and nine before Jonathan Hasbrouck Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas for Ulster County who Certified that the said Uriah was to him personally known and that the said Mary his wife was to him the said Judge Satisfactorily proven

by the oath of Abraham H. Ladem and by the said Judge allowed to be registered. — A true Register
Geo. Tappan D.Y. Clerk
Ulster County
Clerk's office ff: I do hereby Certify the foregoing to be a true Copy of the Register of a Mortgage entered in this office in Book of Mortgages N o 11. on Pages 513. & 514. —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County this fourth day of February 1830.
Jacob Snyder Clerk of Ulster County

State of New York
Ulster County ss;
Be it knowned that on the third day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine personally came before me Cornelius Bradhead one of the Commissioners of said County for taking the proof & acknowledgement of deeds De Thomas Swartswout who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is an inhabitant of the Town of Olive in the County of Ulster. That he has been twenty three years old last March. That he is personally acquainted with Ulrich Dill of the Town of Olive in the said County of Ulster, at present an applicant for a pension. That he is knowing to the said Ulrich Dill having been a soldier in the Revolutionary War that he entered the service in the Spring of 1777 under Captain Thomas See as he now recollects, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel David Dubs of New York Troops, in General Clinton's Brigade; & that to the best of his recollection served nine months. & has understood he was discharged at Newburgh in the State of New York. & that he has seen the said Ulrich Dill in the army aforesaid, while lying at Fort Montgomery. & after the British took said fort. And further saith that he is well acquainted with the pecuniary circumstances of the said Ulrich Dill and verily believes that he does not now, nor has he for some time past, held property of any encumbrance to the value of fifty dollars, & further saith not.
Sworn before me the _____ day of _____ in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine Cornelius Bradhead Com. & Justice of the peace
I the undersigned do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above deponent. That he is a man of truth & veracity, and of good standing in society; and a member in full communion in the Reformed Dutch Church at Olive.
Cornelius Bradhead

H 3 681
INVALID.
Rev
1916 Apr 29: history to Mrs A.D. Torreyson M.B.K. 1922 Jan 12 Hick to Mrs. H.D. Fonda.
File No. H 3 681
Abiah Hill
Rev Rev Rev
Act: 15 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 227
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Two one ct stamps received, m.l., 2-1 ct. stamps returned C.W. R.W.S.
The Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D.C. Recd. Sec.
Dear Sir,
Kindly let me know if either of these Rev. soldiers Capt. Uriah Hill or Andrew Hill or their widows or family were allowed a pension for their service of Dutchess or Delaware Co. New York.
Thanking you for a reply
Very truly -
Mrs. A. B. Larrey son -
Ballston Spa.
Apr. 21-16

Revolutionary claim
pen. to com. 15 March 1890
Free
March 15-
J. L. Edwards Esquire
War Dept. Pension Office Washington

Kingston Ulster County 10 th March 1830
J. S. Edwards Esquire
Sir
I herewith send you an affidavit of Will explaining the discrepancy you mentioned in your letter to me of the 20 th ultimo & which I trust will be satisfactory I also send you a certificate of the Sheriff of this County Respecting Mr. Hill Character & circumstances.
I am very Respectfully Your ob st servant -
M. M. Woodworth

20.059
Uriah Hill Act March 18, 1818
Perchman Class
New York
Suspended See letter 30 Jan. 1830 to W m W. Woodworth Esq New Kingston N.Y. do. 19 Feb. 1830
J. M. Eaton
Secy of War
Rec 23 Jan. 1830.

Kingston, Ulster County NY. 18 th January 1830
Hon J H Eaton Sec of War
Sir
I herewith send you again the papers (in the case of Uriah Hill an applicant for a pension) with corroborating evidence of his statement respecting the disposition of his property since March 18 th 1818. I should have sent the proof to you when I first sent the papers, had I known it to have been requisite. I trust now the papers will be satisfactory. If there should yet be any deficiency in the papers please inform me what it is, and I will endeavour to supply it but I hope they are correct -
Please let me know the result of the application
I am Respectfully Your obt. Servt
M m M c Woodworth

Uriah Hills
pension papers

Affidavit + Certificate in the Case of Wm Hill

State of New York
Alster County Sp. Merial Hill of the Town of Olive An applicant for a pension, being duly sworn deposes and saith, that in Respect to the discrepancy in the statement in his declaration concerning the date and amount of the mortgage to Coons and the Copy afterwards sent to the War Department that he is well aware that the mortgage is for only $150 and was given in the year 1807 - but that in making out the declaration he must have got the mortgage statement confounded with the statement of the judgment in favor of Bradner  Bradner and further saith that he was not aware that he had stated in his declaration that the mortgage was for $500. and was dated in the year 1815 until he was informed of it by Mr Woodworth Esquire who made out his papers - that he had no intention whatever of any kind of making any misstatement concerning his property, and that the said discrepancy must have arose in manner above mentioned and not otherwise - And the said Merial Hill further saith that at the time his papers were made out, the Courts of Common Pleas of said County was about rising, and it became necessary to be very expeditious in making out his papers so as to have them ready to present them to said Court - and further saith not -
Sworn & subscribed to this 10th March 1830
Merial Hill
The word "Bradner" inserted before oath taken before the
Edwards O'Neil, Commissioner, to take of Affidavits

State of New York,
Ulster County 3/4: I. Jacob Snyder Clerk of the County of Ulster and clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County do hereby certify that Edward Oriel Esqr. was on the day of the date of the within affidavit a Commissioner and by the laws of said State authorized to take affidavits and further that I am acquainted with his handwriting and believe the signature "Edward Oriel" to be genuine ————— And I do further certify that I am well acquainted with Derrick Dubois Esquire Sheriff of Ulster County and do verily believe his signature and seal to the annexed Certificate to be genuine —————
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court and County this 10 th day of March 1830.
Jacob Snyder

State of New York,
Ulster County S p .
I Derrick Dubois Sheriff of the County of Ulster do hereby Certify, that I am well acquainted with Uriah Hill of the town of Olive in said County and have been so for a great number of years, that the said Hill is a man of integrity and truth, and now is very poor, and I believe him to be in want of the assistance of his Country for his support, and I do further Certify that I believe the said Hill has never in any or manner whatever disposed or transferred his property or any part of it in order to obtain a pension from Government.
Kingston March 1830
In Presence of Jacob Snyder
Derrick DuBois

State of New York Ulster County - ss.
I do hereby certify that Edward O'Neil was on the day of the date of the annexed affidavit a Commissioner in and for said County and by the laws of said State authorised to take affidavits &c. — In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County and of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Ulster this eighteenth day of January 1830. — Jacob Snyder Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County —
See Br

State of New York Ulster County p)
Valentine Dredge of the Town of Hurley in the County of Ulster being duly sworn deponeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Uriah Hill an Applicant for a pension - that in the year eighteen hundred and fifteen or sixteen the said Uriah Hill became justly, honestly and bona fide indebted to this deponent in the sum of six hundred dollars for money paid for the said Hill to his creditors and was actually applied for the payment of his debts - And this deponent further saith that the said Hill gave him a Bond & Warrant of Attorney for the said $600- with power to enter up a Judgment therefor - that this deponent did enter up a judgment on said Bond & Warrant of Attorney and on the year twenty second day of May in the year 1824 I had the property of the said Hill (that is his Real Estate) sold at Auction by the Sheriff of the County of Ulster - And this deponent further saith that He also sold on or about the same time all the personal property of the said Hill and which is the same mentioned in the Annexed in the schedule of the said Hill to which this Affidavit is affixed - And this deponent further saith that he purchased the mortgage mentioned in said schedule for the purpose of making his title good under the Sheriff's sale - And He further saith that all the transactions above mentioned were done in good faith and for a bona fide & valuable Consideration And further this deponent saith not -
Sworn & subscribed this 12th of January 1830
Before me -
Edward O'Neil, Commissioner
Valentine Dredge

State of New York Ulster County } p. I Philip Newkirk of the town of Kingston in the County of Ulster former Deputy Sheriff of Ulster County do hereby certify that on the twenty second day of May 1824. by virtue of an execution issued in favor of Valentine Budree against Miel Chill Fitt of the County of Common Pleas in & for the County of Ulster for about the sum of $500. I levied upon the property of the said Chill both personal & Real and which is the same mentioned in the annexed application for a pension of the said Chill and sold the same at public Auction to satisfy the said execution - And I do further certify that I believe the said Chill to be in want of the assistance of his County for support - And that his character for honesty and integrity is perfectly fair in every respect - And that his said debt to Budree was a bona fide one and that he is now very old, infirm and in very poor circumstances - In Witness whereof I have hereto set my hand & seal at Kingston Ulster County the fourteenth day of January 1830 -
Philip Newkirk former Deputy Sheriff of Ulster County
Ulster County Clerks office } p. I Jacob Snyder Clerk of the County of Ulster and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County Do hereby certify that Philip Newkirk was on the 22 d day of May 1824. a Deputy Sheriff of Ulster County and further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Deputy Sheriff and verily believe that the seal and signature of the said Deputy Sheriff subscribed to the above Certificate is the proper act of the said Deputy Sheriff - In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court and County this 18 th day of January 1830. Jacob Snyder Clerk of said Court & County