Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13,273, Abner Hall, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn
Hall, Abner
S 13273
Carded.
CONTENTS

Vermont, 18.734
Abner Hall, 2 nd
of Addison co. in the State of Vermont who was a private Inf. in the Comp y . commanded by Captain Hall of the Reg t . commanded by Col. Cook. in the Conn. ma. line for 7 mo. Priv. In. 4 " 17 Priv. Cav.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 42 Dollars 32 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Sept 1832 and sent to D. Wooster. Middlebury. VT.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '33 $105.80 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar. '34 21.16 $126.96
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Ele Brown Clerk, Book E. Vol. 3 Page 69
del to agent suspending pay A. B. Worcester 19 Feb. 1835 See Mr. Garrison Agent Oct. 5. 1833 see 1833 same name Attest: George W. ...

del to agent suspending pay to D. Wooster 19 Feb 1835
See let to Plinian Agt
Oct 5. 1835
See 1835 same name
1835 - 5 - 1835
Book 2, Vol. 3 - Page 69 Recorded by DeMolay Clerk
{ } Extravagant Exp. } Nov June 7, 1832.
$126.96
Debits to the 4th of Feb 33 Semi-ann. allowance ending Mar. 34 $105.80 21.16
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Feb 1833 and sent to R. Wooster Nicholsburg Vt.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 42 Dollars 32 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Alma Mater 2nd of Addison co. in the State of Vermont who was a private in the 1st Vt. Inf. commanded by Captain Hall of the Regt. commanded by Col. Cook in the Conn. Mass. line for T. M. M. Inc. Inc. line for 4 ... 17 ...
Vermont 18.734

Morseleys Halls affectionate

We Joshua Stockwell and Elizer Peck of Cornwall in the County of Addison and State of Vermont of lawful age depose and say that we have been acquainted with Henry Hale of said Cornwall (who is about making application for a pension under the act of Congress of June 7 th 1832) for about 30 years and consider him a person of truth and veracity and that he is reported to have been a soldier in the service of the United States during the revolutionary war in the neighborhood where he resides
Joshua Stockwell Elizer Peck
State of Vermont } Addison County } Subscribed and sworn to this 11 th day of July 1833.
before me William Hamilton Justice Peace
I certify that the above named Joshua Stockwell and Elizer Peck are persons of creditability and would be entitled to credit in a court of justice Doratus Wooten Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont Addison County
3. Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that William Hamilton, before whom the within affidavit of Joshua Stockwell & Eliza Park was made, and Jonathan Wooster who has subscribed the within certificate were at the time, Justices of the peace for said County and their respective names thereto subscribed are their own signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court, this 18 th day of July 1833.
Sam d . Swift Clerk

I Mosely Hall of Wallingford, County of Rutland and State of Vermont of lawful age testify and say that I am well acquainted with Hener Hall of Cornwell in the County of Addison and State aforesaid that I knew him in Wallingford Newhauen County and State of Connecticut, and know that he was drafted as a soldier into the troops of the said State of Connecticut in the revolutionary war, that he was drafted as aforesaid on or about the 10 th day of April 1780 and served the United States from that time to the latter part of November then next ensuing, when he returned home to said Wallingford and further say that in the forepart of May of the year 1781, he went again into the said service and remained therein I should say about three months when he again returned home and in the year following to wit 1782 sometime in the summer of said year, he again performed a tour of duty in said service for about the same length of time as last before mentioned, and further say not
Mosely Hall
State of Vermont Middlebury June 20 th 1833 Addison County then personally appeared the above named Mosely Hall and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth Before me Dorathus Wooten Just. Peace

I certify that Mosely Hall who subscribed and made oath to the foregoing affidavit is a person of good reputation and would be considered credible in a court of justice Dorasting Wooster Just of Peace
State of Vermont, Addison County ss. I, Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that Dorastus Wooster before whom the foregoing affi- davit was made was at the time a Justice of the peace for said Court, and his name sub- scribed thereto and to the above certificate in his own signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this 18 th day of July 1833.
Sam. Swift Clerk

State of Vermont Addison County. On this 22 nd 21 st day of July A D 1833. personally appeared in open court before the court of Probate within and for the District of Addison Hener Hall a resident of Connecticut in said County aged 69 years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by Congress passed June 7 th 1832 - That he volunteered as a soldier when about fourteen years of age in the year 1778 in the month of June of that year into a company of light horse commanded by Isaac Hall in the Connecticut State Troops. Madias Cook being his colonel and Isaac Cook his major That he served six weeks in said company in the said year at the end of which term of service he was dismissed, and that he then resided at Wallingford in the State of Connecticut and further states that in the year 1779 he entered again the said service in the same company on the the first day of August of that year and continued in said service two months, during which time we took twenty four tories which were going to the British. Our our principal business was to watch the enemy and cow-boys so called. Our head quarters were at Stanford in said State, having served the said term was again dismissed. In the year 1780 he again entered the said service by state in the month of April of that year about the 15 th at said Wallingford

under the command of Capt James Peck whose boat was the same as before mentioned that he continued in the said service until the last days of November of that year, having served some days more than seven months his service was principally confined to recon- noitering and quartering were at Blacksmith near Newhan and the coasts from Norwalk to Seabrook watching the motions of the enemy and their boats took 200 sheep and six tons which were going to the enemy and took one Jethro Jackson with smuggled goods, which goods were confiscated and sold for public use On the last of said November he was again discharged and he returned home to said Wallingford In the year 1781 and in the month of January or February of that year he again entered into a company of horse commanded by Capt John Beadle whose boat as above named, and continued in said service eleven weeks, during which time he and his company were employed in reconnoitering and watching along Long Island Sound as above mentioned, at the expiration of which term he was again discharged or dismissed In the year 1782 in the month of June of that year he again entered the said service and was employed in the same manner as above described and continued in said service for two months when he was again discharged and was not in the said service any more during the war except one day in November 1782 he was called out to repair at the Port of New York, he further states that he was born in

Wallingford in the state of Connecticut and suppose the day of his birth was recorded in said town a copy of which is not in his possession, he states he was born on the 28 th day of April A D 1764, that he resided in said Wallingford when he entered the service and remained to reside there after the said war until 1787 when he removed to Wallingford in Vermont, and removed from there to Cornwall where he now resides and he further states that he has no other evidence of his service except the affidavit of Moses Hall which is hereto annexed. He relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
And the said Abner Hall further states that in the years 1778 & 1779, his service was performed, as a waiter to Captain Hall, and he was employed also in carrying messages & despatches from one place to another. - That in the year 1780 when he was sixteen years of age he was enrolled in the militia and drafted as above mentioned.
Sworn Halson the day & year aforesaid, Abner Hall Sam l . Swift 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 & served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Joshua Stockwell & Elizer Peck who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the town of Cornwall aforesaid, and are credible persons, and their statement is entitled to credit.
Sam l . Swift, Judge

State of Vermont
District p. 3
I, Harvey Bell, Register of the Probate Court for the said District of Addison, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Abner Hale for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 18 th day of July 1833. Harvey Bell Register.
Abner Hale
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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 Abner Hall a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ( or his widow's ) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. S. 13273
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     June 1778 6 mos. Waiter Isaac Hall (Col.) Frederick Cook Conn.   Aug. 1, 1779 2 mos. " " "   Apr. 15, 1780 7 mos. Private Isaac Hall   Jan. 1, 1781 11 mos. John Read   June 1782 2 mos. " "  
Battles engaged in,
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Wallingford, Conn.
Date of application for pension, July 12, 1833. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Cornwall, Addison Co. Vt.
Age at date of application, Jan. 23, 1764, Wallingford, Conn. where he resided until 1782 when he moved to Wallingford, Vt. & thence to Cornwall, Vt.
"Recruited for enlistment" in 1778, he went as a "waiter" to Capt. Isaac Hall - no relationship stated.
There is no reference to family.
Respectfully,
Full Name: Abner Hall and his wife, Mary Hall (widow).
Commissioner.

1915 Nov. 16. Hist. to Mosely E. Hall - $
Reborn
132 2/3 INVALID.
File No. 13.273
Almer Hall
Phil. Pa. 1832
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 434
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Almer Hall
Wallingford Conn t Records. OK March 27, 1906. F.S.

Rev Lee H
Jefferson Iowa Nov. 10 th 1915
Hon. Commissioner Ransom Dear Sir
Will you please inform me what military service, if any, is shown by the records of your office to have been rendered in the Revolutionary War by the following. Isaac Hall. Abner Hall. Wallingford Conn. place of residence Norman or Normans. Berrell of Farmington Conn. and greatly oblige
Yours sincerely Moseley E. Hall
P.O. address Jefferson Greene Co. Iowa Route 55