Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4470 1/2, John Hall, Penn.

SERVICE
Penn
Wall, John
NUMBER
R. 4470 1/2
CONTENTS

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No. 4470 1/2
_____, Ex'r. REJECTED
OLD WAR INVALID.
John Hall P. O. Inda
Pen te Col l Brodhead  Pa.
Service : _____
Enlisted : _____, 18 .
Discharged : _____, 18 .
Application filed : _____, 18 ,
Alleges : _____
Re-enlisted : _____
Attorney : _____
P. O.

35928
John Hall
Indiana
Surree Pen
Ath. June 32

State of Indiana } County of Johnson } ss
On this 11th day of November in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty four, personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate, now sitting, John Hall a resident of Union Township in the county of Johnson and state of Indiana aged to the best of his knowledge eighty or eighty one years old, 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 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
The names and rank of Officers under whom he served now recollects were Colonel Broadhead and Captain Robert Bell a Major Campbell is also recollects as an officer. Cannot recollect the day or month but thinks it was in the summer of the year eighteen hundred and twenty nine, he entered the service, and remained in the same more than one year that he served as a drummer during the whole period in the company of the said Robert Bell, at the time of entering the service he was living with his father at a fort or station called on the waters of Logal Paganur in the state of Pennsylvania about thirty or forty miles in a south east direction from Pittsburgh (cannot recollect town or county) he knows his father's consent was obtained by the said Robert Bell for him to enter the service but under what arrangement if he ever knew he has now forgotten, so far as he himself was concerned he was a volunteer, from the place where he entered the service he marched to Pittsburgh then called Fort Pitt where he remained at the fort during all the time of his service except two or three months with a party of men entering or repairing fort McIntosh, does not recollect continental regiments or companies if there were such with whom he served, or other officers than those mentioned above he cannot call to mind particular incidents and occurrences from the fact of his extreme youth and having been confined during his term of service a great portion of the time with small  by inattention small squads and camps from which he was very often taken home from service from Fort Pitt  Pittsburgh by his father and another brother of whom learns for him

that he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, whom can testify to his service.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Questions by the Court and answers of the said John Hall 1st When and in what year were you born
Answer In old Bedford county state of Pennsylvania, Thinks about the year nineteen hundred and sixty four,
2nd Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it
Answer none
3 Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live. Answer At Leavenworth fort in the state of Pennsylvania Shortly after the war the moved to the state of Kentucky Henderson county about fourteen years since moved to Johnson county Indiana where he has since and still resides
4th How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom
Answer. At about fifteen years old having learned to play on the drum one evening I was playing for a company of youths who were mustering when a company under Capt Bell was marched into fort Leavenworth. Capt Bell rode up to me and inquired if I had a father there, and where he lived, which questions I answered, and when I went home I found him at my father's. The two had agreed for me to go into the service as drummer in said Bell's company. I went accordingly as a volunteer
5th State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
Answer I recollect Colonel or General Broadhead Colonel Campbell and Capt Robert Bell, do not know whether they were regular or Militia Officers cannot recollect as to Continental or Militia Regiments. I was in the fort at Pitt during the time of my service except about two months at fort McEntosh. The latter part of the time I was in the service being sick I was taken to Colonel Broadhead's house and nursed in his family. cannot recollect other particulars

6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Answer I never had any discharge
7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer I am known to Godfrey Jones Wiley Jones Grumbey Picknell and David Heath
John his  I Heath mark
Subscribed and sworn to in open court this 11 th day of November A.D. 1844
Isaac Jones Clerk
We Godfrey Jones Wiley Jones Clergymen residing in the county of Johnson and state of Indiana, and Grumbey Picknell and David Heath also residents of the county and state of Indiana hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Heath who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Wiley Jones Godfrey Jones
David L. Heath Grumbey his Picknell mark
Subscribed and sworn to in open court this 11 th day of November A.D. 1844
Isaac Jones Clerk
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 Wiley Jones

and Godfrey Jones who have signed the preceding certificate an Clergyman residing in the county of Johnson and State of Indiana and that David F. Hutto and Grumbary Picknell who have also signed the same are residents of said county of Johnson and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Isaac Jones Clerk of the Circuit and Probate Courts of the county of Johnson and state of Indiana do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Probate Court of the county of Johnson aforesaid, In the matter of the application of John Hall for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this Eleventh day of November A.D. 1844
Isaac Jones Clerk S.P.C.

No. 26. 1844, John Hall, June 7. 1832, Md.
Hon. J. P. Edwards. Commissioner Washington City D. C.
Emerson Park 577
Mr. 26
611 West 79th Street

Nov. 26. 1844.
John Hale,
June 7. 1832,
Recd.
See
Hon. J. S. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions.
Washington City
D. C.
Impression papers
Nov 26
En
Franklin Ja Nov 19

On the subject of the inclosed application please correspond with the undersigned at Franklin Schu- mann co. Indiana.
Respectfully Gilderoy Hicks