Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13292, Caleb Hall, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
★ Wall, Caleb
S 13292.
Carded
CONTENTS

142 New York
Caleb Hall
of Fleming in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Peachers & others of the Regt. commanded by Sedgwick & others in the Cont. State line for Eleven months and ten days.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 3 1/4 Dollars 75 Cents per An: to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of October 1832 and sent to A. Gould
  Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832.  $ 56.75    Pension, allowance ending 4th Mar. 33  18.88         $ 75.63  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by G. H. Ennis Book D Vol. 5

Rev War
13292 INVALID.
File No. 13 292
Caleb Hall Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1, Page 434
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Plainfield Conn

Caleb Hall
N o 1802.

State of New-York,
Cayuga COUNTY, ss. On this 15 th day of August A. D. 1832
personally appeared in open Court , before me the first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga and state of New-York, now sitting , Caleb Hall a resident of Fleming
in the County of Cayuga and State of New-York, aged 73 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 act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832: - That he entered the service under the following
named officers, and served as herein stated: - That on the fifth day of December A D 1776 as he believes at the town of Plainfield in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut he was drafted as he believes and entered the service of the United States in the company of militia commanded by Captain Andrew Beckus & Lieutenant Stephen Clark in the that he marched with said company to Providence in the State of Rhodeisland from there to Point Judith where he was stationed and continued to serve until the 15 th day of March A D 1777 when he was discharged and returned home, that his Generals name was Douglass, that his Colonel was a resident of Rhodeisland but his name he does not remember. He further declares that in the Month of May A D 1777 at the town of Plainfield aforesaid he was again drafted and entered said service for a term of two months in the company of militia commanded by Captain Abraham Waterman that he marched with said company to Groton Banks opposite New London where he was stationed during the whole of said term of two months when he was discharged that he was engaged in building fort Griswold on Groton Hill during said term, that the name of his colonel was Ledyard as he believes, it was either Ledyard or McLallin. He further declares that about the last of December 1777 or first of January A D 1778 at the town of Plainfield aforesaid he was again was drafted and entered said service in the company commanded by Captain Moses Branch. that he marched with said
"name are of  to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that
M. P. Myers

company to Providence in the State of Rhode Island where he was stationed under the command of Gen Spence for a term of two months when he was discharged - He further declares that about the first of July A D 1778 at Plainfield aforesaid he was again entered drafted and entered said service for a term of two months in the company commanded by Captain Joshua Botton in Col Sedgwick's Regiment that he marched with said company to Mystick about three miles below Fort Griswold where he was stationed & continued to serve a term of two months when he was discharged - He further declares that about the first of December A D 1781 at the town of Plainfield aforesaid he again entered said service as a substitute for one Ezekiah Spalding in the company commanded by Captain --- Clough in Col McAllen's Regiment that he marched with said company to Fort Griswold where he was stationed for a term of two months when he was discharged that he received a regular written discharge signed by said captain but has lost the same - that he never at any time served with any continental Regiment - that during said war he saw and knew the following named officers to wit, Gen Washington, Gen Putnam, Maj Cleff- ton and others - that he has not the proof of any living witness to said services and cannot procure it -
He hereby relinquishes all claim to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state or territory Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Caleb Hall
J. L. Richards first Judge of Court
We, Samuel M Plumb a clergyman residing in Fleming in the County of Coeymans and John Groves residing in Auburn  residing in in Coeymans do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Caleb Hall who has subscribed and sworn to the preceding declaration; that we believe him to be 73 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

J. L. Richardson First Judge of Cayuga
We, Samuel M. Plumb a Clergyman residing in Fleming in the County of Cayuga and John Grover residing in Auburn residing in in Seneca county do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Caleb Hall who has subscribed and sworn to the preceding declaration; that we believe him to be 73 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
J. L. Richardson First Judge of Cayuga
Samuel M. Plumb John Grover
And the said we  Judge do hereby declare their  his 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 Samuel M. Plumb who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in Fleming and John Grover who has also signed the same, is a resident Justice of the peace residing in Auburn and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. We further certify that the said applicant is unable to attend Court by reason of bodily infirmity & that Auburn joins the town of Fleming.
I, Michael S. Myers Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga and State of New-York, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court  Judge in the matter of the application of Caleb Hall for a pension.
I further certify that the said Joseph I Richardson before whom the foregoing declarations and certificate were made and by whom the foregoing certificate was made was on the day of the date thereof and still is the first judge of said Court duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity. that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said judge & believe his signature to the said declarations & certificates to be genuine In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court & subscribed my name the fifteenth - day of August A D 1832
M. S. Myers