Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14,908, Samuel Hill, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Hill, Samuel Anna
NUMBER _____
W. 14.908
CONTENTS

Ames Hills 1624
admitted
p 20 m. $66. \frac{66}{100}

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Indenture the Judge of said Court and that the signatures to the papers hereto an- nexed are true and genuine.
I further certify, that Warren Clawson is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly com- missioned and qualified, and that the three signatures of his name to the papers hereto annexed are true and genuine.
In testimony whereof, I do here- unto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, this twentieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
Chas. G. Prentiss, Register,

Consecration of Maria Smith Security of her estate. On this day in September in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, formerly appeared before the Court of the County of Middle for some reason Conner that a record of before  the  estate  in  the  estate family, eighty three  years years old living first and last according to law with, in her with the following statement, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 as to her estate, granting her half share since since her husband's death.
That she is the widow of a former the late of Bedford in said county, who was a private soldier in the war of the Re- bellion and a pensioner of the United States under the law of 1818. He belonged to the town of Mendon when he went into the service and the documents belonging to the same town, but her residence is no more known that she cannot that that particular service she was in. After the war they re- turned to the town of Dover in the State of Connecticut, where he obtained his pension pension; they afterwards removed back to the town of Bedford, and she now lives with a son in law by the name of John Henry in said Bedford. In the evidence of her husband's service as she has no docu- ments during the same, she respectfully refers to the rolls in the War Department and to the papers in her husband's case. She further declares that she was

married to Miss Sarah Hill at New- Bedford by Joseph Dorr Esquire, on the day of September, she cannot hold the day in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven. That her husband the ap- pointed Sarah Hill died at Lyndhurst in some country on the twentieth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and seventy six, and that she has since been married since That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and seventy seven, but at the time above stated.
Anne Hill
I want to send subscribers for  the Hill the day some year or mark how well in.
Before me Mr. Barton fully of the court of Probate for some county of Connecticut
The age and residence of the deceased are mentioned upon the birth and religious ten
Mr. Barton fully of the

John Henry of Boston in the County of Dor- chester and State of Massachusetts do affirm and say, that my wife is the daughter of Sam- uel Hill and Anna Hill his wife. Father Hill died on the twentieth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and thirty six, and after his death Mother Hill as his widow drew the balance of pension then due her. She remarried with me and has never been married since her husband's death John Henry
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of. Sept. 11. 1838 Sworn to before me and I certify that same Henry is of good faith a man of truth In Boston July 1. of Patriot for same Henry

"Seventeen hundred seventy-seven September."
"Marriages consummated by Joseph Dorr Esq. Just. Peace - Samuel Hill & Anna Hug- wara, both of Mendon, married."
State of Massachusetts & County of Worcester ss.
Town Clerk's Office Mendon Augt. 29. 1838
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record except the date which is expressed in fair legible figures as follows - "1777 Sept."
I Stephen T
Stephen Taft, Clerk of Mendon
I Stephen Taft, above named, depose and say: that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town, County and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Mendon with the exception above named as certified by me -
Stephen Taft, Clerk of Mendon
Sworn before me.
Warren Rawson, Justice of the Peace.

Anna Hill
Dear Mother Tuesday Sept 18 1888

I Dorrington Seagrave of Uxbridge, in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age, Depose and say, that I was well acquainted with Samuel Hill, now deceased a Revolutionary Pensioner - He died September 21 st 1836. I was present when he died - I am also acquainted with his Widow, Anna Hill; she is still alive, and is still his Widow.
Worcesters. Sept. 3: 1838. Dorrington Seagrave Sworn to before me - Warren Rawson Justice of the Peace
I Martha Smith of Mendon in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age, Depose and say, that I am well acquainted with Anna Smith  Hill . She is the Widow of Samuel Hill, who died about two years ago - I saw and conversed with said Anna Hill, this Summer, and she is still alive - I was also present when her Husband Samuel Hill died -
Martha her Smith mark
Worcesters - Sept. 3: 1838. Sworn to before me.
Warren Rawson Justice of the Peace

N o 103.
Samuel Hill.
- Application for Pension.
Washington County, Vt.
Copy.
[Large handwritten signature/initials] Sept 1817
268

STATE OF VERMONT.
COUNTY OF WINDHAM ss.
At the County Court, begun and held at New-Fane, within and for the County of Windham, on the second Monday of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.....
PRESENT—Hon. PHINEHAS WHITE, Esq. Chief Judge. Hon. JOHN ROBERTS, Hon. GILBERT DENISON, Esqrs. } Assistant Judges.
ON this 20 th day of June, A. D. 1820, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the said county, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a civil jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having, in certain cases, the power of fine and imprisonment, Samuel Hild aged 68 years, resident in New-Fane 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: Commencing with the commencement of the war in 1775 in Capt. Nathan Hild's Company in the Vermont State Regiment, and served one year and was discharged in January 1777
That he has received a pension under the act of the Congress of the United States of the 18th March, 1818, that the number of his pension certificate is 21187 and the date of his original declaration is dated the 10 th day of April 1818
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 whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: 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.
SCHEDULE of real and personal estate, necessary clothing and bedding excepted.
In New-Fane and Windham and East Dorset in the house hold stuff and personal estate which is situated in the town of New-Fane in the County of Windham and State of Vermont and is the real estate of Samuel Hild
AND I do also swear that my occupation is that of farmer the amount of my pension is one hundred and twenty five dollars and health poor my daughter Eliza aged 27 my son Samuel aged 25 unable to do any kind of labor my 3 rd daughter Lucinda aged 21 third daughter aged 19
SWORN to and DECLARED in open court on the 20 th day of June, A. D. 1820, Before John Roberts JUDGE.
I James Elliot Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windham, in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the files and 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 Thirty two dollars, and twenty five cents.
IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, in open Court, on this twenty first day of June 1820.
James Elliot CLERK OF THE COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF WINDHAM

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My Edwards Nov 1848 Secretary of War Washington D.C.
Dr. J. M. C. Nov 1848
Nov 1848

Samuel Hill of Dover in the county of Windham and State of Vermont a citizen of the United States deposes, testifies and declares that in the month of April A.D. 1775 he enlisted into the army of the United States for eight months and served in Captain Andrew Pitcairn's Company in Colonel Joseph Read's Regiment until the term of his enlistment had nearly expired when he enlisted again into the army of the United States for one year and served the whole term of his enlistment in the same Company and Regiment and in the fore part of January 1776 was regularly dismissed by his Captain and left the army he further testifies that at the time of leaving the army aforesaid it was by permission of his officers and not by desertion and that he does not recollect taking any written discharge - and that the term aforesaid was in the Continental Establishment in the war of the revolution against the common enemy he further testifies that he has no real estate and but a very scanty pittance of personal property that he is sixty one years old that he has a family to maintain and has no means to provide for them but by hard labor and that from his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance for support and he further testifies that the term aforesaid was in the Massachusetts line
Samuel Hill
Sworn to and declared this 17 th day of April 1818 before
Mr John Roberts Judge of Windham County Court State of Vermont

State of Vermont
Windham, on this 14 th day of April 1818 before me John County ss } one of the Judges of the County Court within and for the County of Windham in the State of Vermont personally appeared the above named Samuel Hill who being by me first duly sworn batt on his oath made the foregoing declaration in order to obtain the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" I John Roberts Judge as aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Samuel Hill did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the foregoing declaration for the term of nine months and more against the common enemy and the Constitution establishment and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and laid before me to the Secretary of War - pursuant to the directions of the said act of Congress
John Roberts Judge of Windham County Court State of Vermont
State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerk's Office, Brattleborough, May 21 st A.D. 1818.
I certify that the Honorable John Roberts, Esquire, is one of the As- sistant Judges of the County Court afore- said, and that the signatures of the foregoing certificates are in the hand writing of the said Judge.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand, and aff- ixed the Seal of the said Court, the day and year above written.
Attest James Elliot, Clerk

State of Vermont
Windsor County ss On this 20th day of Oct r 1818 Before me John Roberts first Judge of Windsor County court personally appeared the afore named Samuel Hill and being duly sworn maketh oath that the regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Pierce in which he served as a soldier in the army of the United States as stated in the foregoing Declaration was in the Massachusetts lines and that the mention of the same in the foregoing declaration was omitted by mistake -
Sworn to and acknowledged this Samuel Hill twentieth day of October 1818 before me John Roberts Ass d Judge of Windsor Co Vermont
I John Robert Judge of Windsor do hereby certify from my personal knowledge that the forenamed Samuel Hill in reduced circumstances for passing little or no property I therefore transmit the papers heretofore taken to the Secretary of War - John Roberts Ass d Judge of Windsor County Vt

88 1/4 To Massachusetts from Vermont.
Samuel Hill,
of Dover, in the state of Vermont, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel J. Reed, of the Massachussetts line, for the term of twenty months . 14. 1818 1820
scribed on the Roll of Vermont, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 17. of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17. of March, 1819 and sent to John Roberts, Judge Brattleborough, Windham Co. Vt.
Arrears to 4th of March, 1819. 84.76 emi. and all'ce ending 4. Sept. 48. " Tmo. \frac{14}{30} } 1819. } $122.76 8 \frac{4}{31} }
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Transferred to Mass. 17. April 1830. Notification sent to Wm Hastings Esq. Mendon, Mass.
See letter to W. White Vt. agt. Apr. 8. 1831. See letters to G. Greene, Pen. Agt. 12. April 1831 & to W. S. Hastings

Let. Elijah Clark. August 23. 44
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W. S. ...
Mina Hall widow of Samuel Mitchell who was a prisoner under the Act of 1815 and who died in the Jail Sept. 1836 of Worcester in the State of Mass. who was a ... in the ... commanded by Captain ... Mass. of the ... commanded by ... in the ... line for 20 months
Inscribed on the Roll of ... at the rate of 66 Dollars 67 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836 20th September 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of ... 1838 and sent to ... Worcester Mass.
Arrears to the 14th Sept 1838 $166.67 Semi-annual allowance ending 14 Mar 39 33.33 $200.00
Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by ... Clerk, Book ... Vol. ... Page ...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Worcester ss. — on this twenty sixth day of January in the Year Eighteen hundred and forty four, Personally appeared before me Benj t Davenport Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Worcester, Philena Henry Resident of Northbridge in said County of Worcester fifty one years of age, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration for herself and in behalf of her three Sisters, Anna Cumnstock, Loucinda Sparks, & Emily Staples, Children of Anna Hill late of Mendon deceased in order to obtain the amount of Pension which she claims from the fourth of March 1836 to the 20 th of September 1836 from which period her said Mother has been already paid under the act of the 7 th July 1838 and the declarant further alleges that her mother remained a widow up to the day of her decease, which took place on or near the Eleventh day of of September in the year Eighteen hundred & forty three, being the widow of Saint Hill who was a private in the Revolutionary war, that her said Mother's Pension was allowed at the rate of Sixty Six Dollars & Sixty Seven Cents per annum and since paid to her at the agency at Boston in the State of Massachusetts, and further she saith Not
Philena + Henry her Mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
Before me Benj t Davenport Justice of the Peace

Worcester ss Northbridge Jan y 21 1844 I hereby certify that Philena Hovey who has subscribed the foregoing declaration by making her mark, has ever been reported to be the daughter of Samuel and Anna Hill late of Mendon Mass s - and I believe her to be a person worthy of Confidence
Perry Davenport Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston February 15 th 1841,
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Benjamin Davenport was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester,
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

Mass.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14908
Anna Hill
Widow of
Samuel Hill
Rev Rev. Socy
Act: July 7th 1858
Index:—Vol. a , Page 335
[Arrangement of 1870.]

William Hall of Dover in the County of Windham and State of Vermont maketh oath that he has was a sergeant with Samuel Hild when he was in the army - and he was then a soldier in Colonel Joseph Reed's Regiment he has known him since he came to reside in Dover which is about fifteen or twenty years that he has ever been a very poor man and is not now worth more than fifty dollars in his estimation - and further the deponent saith not.
Wm Hall
Sworn to before me this 17th day of April 1818
John Roberts Judge of Windham County Court

Pension Office
June 12. 1871
Newdon Ms. Apr. P. -
Free
For
War Department
Pension Office
Washington (City)

I Samuel Hill testify & say that I resided in Dover in the County of Windham in the State of Vermont for about thirty years previous to Oct. 1829, when I removed to Mendon in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where I have resided ever since. That soon after the battle of Lexington I enlisted into the company, com- manded by Capt Andrew Peters, in the Regiment commanded by Col Joseph Reed in the Massachu- setts line of the Revolutionary Army, for eight months, that at the expiration of that enlistment I again enlisted and served for a year in the same com- pany, regiment and line. My last enlistment was in the latter part of 1775 or the beginning of 1776 - That I served out both enlistments in the years 1775 & 1776. That I have a Pension Certificate under the law of the 18 th March 1818, entitling me to a Pension of eight dollars per month - dated the seventeenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen & numbered 8874. That by an order from the War Department under date of April 17. 1830 I was transferred from the Vermont Agency to that of Massachusetts
Worcester p. Apr. 2. 1831
Subscribed & sworn to
before me Wm Hastings Secy of the Peace -
Samuel Hill
(Turn over)

Mendon Ms.
Apr. 8. 1831.
J. L. Edwards Esq Pension Office
Sir I send herewith the statement on oath of Samuel Hill, Pensioner, stating the facts, requested in yours of the 29 th ult. This statement will, I think, satisfy the Department, that there are no objections to the payment of Hill's Pension - that the objection must apply to the other Pension- er of the same name - If that be so, I will thank you to give the proper order for the payment at the Pension Office in Boston of his pension due March 4. 1831
Respectfully Yours &c Wm A Hastings

APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
State of Massachusetts } County of Worcester } ss.
On this fifth day of April 1830. before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Worcester personally appeared Samuel Hill who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Andrew Sibley in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Read in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Vermont from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State, ( District or Territory ) of Massachusetts where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future. The following are his reasons for removing from Vermont to Massachusetts that Mendon, Mass. where he now resides is his native town & birthplace, and that he expected to be able to support his family better in Mendon than in his former place of residence, Vermont .
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, } the day and year aforesaid. }
Wm. J. Hastings
Justice of the Peace
Samuel Hill
¶ The oath to be taken before a duly qualified Magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated. The county Clerk, Secretary of State, or some other officer, must certify, under his seal of office, that the officer who administered the oath is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, Mayor, Alderman, or Notary Public, as the case may be, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
¶ The oath must be supported by the testimony of some respectable person, as to the Pensioner's identity. He must swear, that the person who has taken the above oath is the person described in the affidavit. The Magistrate must certify, that the witness is a person of veracity; and the affidavit must also be authenticated in the manner above directed.
(See page 1)

I Enos Taft of Mendon in the County of Worcester testify and declare, that the person, who sub- scribed and swore to the within affidavit is the person described therein, & is none other than Samuel Hall who served with me in the Revolutionary Army in the Company commanded by Capt. Andrew Peters in the Regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Read in the Massachusetts line.
Enos Taft -
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Worcester p. Mendon Apr. 5. 1830. In re personally appeared the above named Enos Taft and made oath, that the above certificate, by him subscribed in my presence, is true before me - And certify that the said Enos Taft is a person of undoubted truth and veracity Wm. S. Hastings, Justice of the Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester ss. I Abijah Bigelow Clerk of the Judicial Courts, holding within and for the County of Worcester, do certify, that William S. Hastings Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said

County of Worcester, duly qualified to act in said Office, and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to all his acts as such Justice of the Peace, and that his signatures to the foregoing certificates are in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Court, this twelfth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty.
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk.

Brighton February 15. 1844.
Dear Sir,
I enclose to you herewith the drawing of the new steam engine, which is now in the hands of the mechanics. I hope that you will be able to see it which will be the case as the engine is now under the roof of the engine.
Respectfully Yours C. L. Pease Elijah Hook
Dear Sir,
1000 Washington, Providence R.I. Washington City D.C.

Enrolled Office Nov 30 1830
Virginia County of
Pension Service Office
Enrolled
To the Secretary of War Washington D. C.

Vermont Pension Agency
Weybridge October 28 - 1830
To the Secretary of War, Sir
In compliance with your letter of April 17. 1830. directing Samuel Hill, Sergeant, a Revolutionary pensioner , on the roll of this agency to be transferred to the Massachusetts Agency, from and after the 4 th day of March 1830, (he was so injured). There being two Samuel Hill, on the Roll, it now appears that Samuel Hill Sergeant Now Resides in Chittenden County and is on the Vermont Roll, he has applied for his pension from the 4 th day of March 1830. to the 4 th day of April 1830. September 1830, (I have presumed to pray him). it also appears that Samuel Hill on the Windsor Roll lately Resided in Windham County Vt. but has removed to — Massachusetts, but this Samuel Hill was not entered on the Books of this Agency as a Sergeant, as Samuel Hill Sergeant now Resides in Chittenden County, I presume that Samuel Hill, late of Windham County is the

Pensioner went to to be Transferred to — Massachusetts as his Voucher paid last March stated that he Resided in Massachusetts I have accordingly Entered Samuel Hill late of late Windham County Transferred to Massachusetts from the 1 st of March 1830. — I am Sir Very Respectfully your O bt Servant M c Whorter Agent

Newburyport Feb. 5. 18 th 1838.
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Samuel Hill Bap. Act March 18. 1818 To what time paid?
Rev. Effie
Nov 29. 1838.
Since 20 th Sep 1836 p st to that period
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, Charles G. Prouty Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court, that Anna Hill, widow of Samuel Hill was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of _____ ; was a resident of the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and died in Northampton in said County in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two near or on the eleventh day of September , and that she left four children only, to wit: Philena Henry, Anna Comstock, Emily Staples and Sarah Staples .
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Worcester, this thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
Chas. G. Prouty Register.