Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15451, Joel Hill, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Bill, Joel
NUMBER
S. 15451
CONTENTS
carded

Vermont N o 20,370
Joel Hill
was a private in the State of Vermont was a private in the Cont ts commanded by Captain Webber of the Reg t commanded by Col. Powny in the Massachusetts for 6 1/2 months
28,396.
Entered on the Roll of Vermont the rate of 21 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of May 1834 and Hon. H. Hale, H. R.
Swears to the 1st of Mar. 1834. 64.98 Pension allowance ending 10.83 75.81
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk, B. Vol. 3 Page 72

Joel Hill's Apprentice for Pennia
30,883 -
Adm't a period 6½ mo. $ 21.41
Hon. H. Hall HSR Return to be made to White

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 State of Vermont Windham County District of Westminster
On the 23 d day of April A D 1834 personally appeared in open Court before the Probate Court for the District of Westminster in said State now sitting Joel Hill an resident of Gummerville in the County of Windham and State of Vermont. said Gummerville being in said Westminster District. aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th A D 1832 That he enlisted and entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War in the month of December A D 1776 for the term of three months That he at that time lived in the town of Cummington in the State of Massachusetts that he entered the service in a Company commanded by Capt. Tibber of Northampton Massachusetts That they marched through the towns of North- ampton & Danbury to Pikeskill on north River where they remained until about the first of March from there the Company to which he belonged marched to New Jersey and were stationed in the town of Hanover or Morristown where he remained until the time for which he entered expired when he was discharged but had no written discharge The Colonel of the Regiment to which he was attached was Pomeroy of Northampton. That the rest of the officers names he does not remember That he then returned home to Cummington where he remained until the month of August A D 1777 when he again enlisted

and entered the service of the United States in the said month of August A.D. 1777 at said Cummington into a Company commanded by Captain Joseph Warner of said Cummington. The ensigns name was Robert. He marched to Brattleboro Vermont and through Cambridge to Stillwater in the State of New York. He was at Saratoga at the taking of Burgoyne & his army and after the surrender of said Burgoyne, he marched down the River to Tarrytown & White Plains & Dobunsville where he was dismissed at the end of three months and one half month, the time for which he enlisted. He had at this time no written discharge; Col. Woodbury of South Hadley was Col. of the Regiment to which he at this time was attached.
That he was born in Middlesex Massachusetts A.D. 1758. He has no record of his age except in his Bible. That at the time he entered the service of the United States he lived in Cummington Massachusetts that after he left said service he returned to said Cummington where he lived until about 1795 when he removed to Marlboro Vermont & then lived about ten years when he removed to Jericho Vermont where he now lives. That at both times of his service he volunteered. The names of the officers under whom he served are as he has before stated Col. Pomeroy, Col. Woodbury, Capt. Hebley, Capt. Warner & Ensign White. That he never received any written discharge but was discharged verbally. That he never received any pension but served all the time as a private soldier. And he recalls name Charles M. Brown, Nathaniel Cheney, Alpheus Kellogg & Philip Spaulding as persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify as to his character for veracity and the belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.

He says that he knows of no living person by whom he can prove his service except Caleb Packard of Ashford Mass. whose deposition is herewith transmitted
He hereby relinquishes every every claim whatsoever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any state Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid Sworn to & subscribed the 10th of Oct 1811 day & year aforesaid
Peter B. Lapham Judge
We Charles M Brown a Clergyman residing in the Town of Jamaica and Nathaniel Cheney and Alpheus Kellogg
residing in the same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted Joel Hill who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy six years of age that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Chas M Brown Nathl Cheney Alpheus Kellogg
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Peter B. Lapham Judge
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Charles M Brown who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman residing in Jamaica and that Nathaniel Cheney & Alpheus Kellogg who has also signed the
same are residents in Jamaica & are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit
Peter B. Lapham Judge

State of Vermont I Epaphro. Ransom Westminster Probate District Clerk of the Probate Court within and for the District aforesaid do hereby certify that the within and foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Sara Hill for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of said Office this thirteenth day of April A. 1834.
Epaphro. Ransom Clerk

I, Caleb Packard of Ashfield in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being seventy three 73 years of Age do Testify and say that I was a private in the war of the rebellion, that in December in the year of our Lord 1876 I enlisted into the service of the United States for three months in a company commanded by Capt. Webber and into a regiment commanded by Col. Pomeroy, and marched to Danbury in the State of Connecticut, from there to Peeks Kill, and from there marched to Morristown in the Jerseys and continued there until some time in March 1877 when I was discharged. Riford Hill then of Cummington in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Mass, whom I well knew, enlisted at the same time under the same officers and continued in the service for three months, doing the duty of a private soldier and was dismissed the same time with myself. And I further testify and say, that again in the month of August in the year of our Lord 1878 I enlisted into the service of the United States into a company commanded by Capt. Warner of Cummington in a regiment commanded by Col. Woodbridge of South Hadley for the term of three months and a half, and marched to Bennington in the State of Vermont, and from there to Pawlet in same State

and then to Stillwater, and I was Saratoga when the British Army was there, and afterwards marched down the North river and was in the service three months and a half, and was discharged in the vicinity of White Plains and the above mentioned Job Hill entitled at this last mentioned time in the same company and regiment with myself and served for the term of three months and a half, to all of which I am well knowing. Adfield April 14.
✓ Caleb Packard
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin County ss.
On this fourteenth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, personally appeared before me Elijah Prine, Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Franklin the Partisan, signed to the above Affidavit and after being duly sworn, made solemn Oath that the same is true. And I further certify, that that the said Caleb Packard is known to me to be a person of truth and integrity.
Elijah Prine Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin ss. I Elijah Alvord Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said Commonwealth for the county of Franklin do hereby certify that Elijah Paine Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and sworn to, is a Justice of the Peace for the said county duly commissioned and qualified - and that his name subscribed to the certificate of caption aforesaid is his true and proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Greenfield in said county this sixteenth day of April A.D. 1834 E. Alvord Clerk

Admiral Powell B.M. 1881

No of Reps. May 21. 1834
Dr Sir
I enclose an Appt for a Pension of Jock Hill. - Would be glad of as early an examination of the case as may be pro- mote very respectfully &c Kirtland Hall
J L Edwards Esq

P 15451 INVALID.
File No. 15.451
Joel Hill Pri Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 174
[Arrangement of 1870.]