Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,338, Ambrose Hill, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Hill, Ambrose Lucy
W. 21.338
CONTENTS

Vermont 1060
Lucy Hill.
widow of Ambrose Hill
ms 25
who died on the Feb. 1816 of Addison Co. in the State of Vermont
who was a Lieut. Col. of Inf. in the Revolution commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the Revolution
    line for 1 month & 10 days Capt.  22.66    15 days Capt.  1.83    6 mos. Suppl.  30.00     $54.50    
Inscribed on the Roll of Vernon V at the rate of 5 1/4 Dollars 50 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of June 1837 and sent to Hon. Wm. Slade, Middlebury, Vt.
Bears to the 4th of March '37. 327.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1/2. Sep. " 27.25
$354.25
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 —
Recorded by D. Brown Book 1, Vol. 1 — Page 38

Lucy Bell
No. 561
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Amherst Hill
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Hon. W. Slade H. R.

State of Vermont Addison County
I Calvin Salton one of the Judges of Addison County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Judge in the matter of the application of Lucy Hill for a Pension, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the 5 th day of November A.D. 1836. Calvin Salton Judge of Addison County Court
State of Vermont
Addison County
I Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison do hereby certify that Calvin Salton before whom the foregoing proceedings were had; and who has attested the same is one of the Judges of said County and his name subscribed thereto is his own signature. And I further certify that Adlai H. Conant, before whom the foregoing affidavits of Ezekiel Culver, William Jones, Edmund B. Hill, Lydia Willard, Joseph Bird, and Electa Roane were made, was at the several times of taking the same a Justice of the peace for said County. His name legorally subscribed to the same is his own signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 5 th day of November 1836. Samuel Swift Clerk

State of Vermont On this 31 day of October A.D. 1836 personally appeared before me Calvin S. Dyer one of the Judges of Addison County Court Suzey Hill an resident of Sherburne in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged sixty years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836. Section Third. That she is the widow of Amos Hill late of Cornwall in the County of Addison deceased and who died his residence in the County of a private house in Lanesboro and during the Revolutionary War, that the said Amos Hill and the said Suzey Hill resided at Richmond in the County of Berkshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts during the Revolutionary War, and that in the month of April and May of the year 1775 the said Suzey Hill and Amos Hill her said husband and mother Amos Richmond joined as a sergeant in a Company of Massachusetts Volunteers the Boston State Guard the said Suzey Hill also received the pension of the Captain of which Company her said husband belonged and was on the Battle of Bunker Hill and that according to the best of her recollection the said Amos Hill continued to serve as a sergeant as shown on the muster roll until the British Troops left Boston on the 17 th day of the year 1776. and that soon after his return home to Richmond where she was then the said Suzey Hill also received the said Amos Hill her said husband was again in the service of his country as a sergeant according to the Massachusetts State Troops and that he returned home and continued to Newgate where she also got recollection of Company or Regiment to which the said Amos Hill

believed and that after the time of his indictment where he returned home to Richmond and found having been absent home here as a soldier as found according to his best recollection and belief between five and six months the exact time she does not recollect that as one period of the Revolutionary war he need a Captain of a Company of Massachusetts Militia and that he commanded a Company State Militia here Richmond agreed to Newhaven in the State of Connecticut when he served as a Captain something over three months according to the best of her the said Lucy Hill recollection that the year and part of the year she does not say recollect that he had a Captain's Commission and she also well remembered having seen it which she knew the color of the Revolution as that he was in the battle of Bunkerhill and Saratoga at that time in the capacity of an adjutant. During the battle which took place in August 1777 The said Combs was also in the battle of Saratoga in October 1777 at the surrender of General Burgoyne The said Amos Hill also served at Ticonderoga under General St Clair and was there at the time our troops was defeated that man knew in what capacity he served and the length of time he there and she does not now recollect and that according to her best recollection the said Amos Hill at some period during the Revolutionary war served in the Army in the State of Virginia - and the said Lucy Hill thinks in the capacity of Captain that he was there in a battle but as what time and when the said Lucy Hill does not recollect she well remembers of some Hessian or German officer at the time, and particularly a German officer who could not speak the English language and who was killed by her husband the said Amos Hill

and that he passed the hand of the said Deborah Hill in tokens of his Subjection to him as his prisoner as my husband told her on his return home from the Army. And the said Lucy Hill further says that during the period of her said husband's service in the Army of the Revolution as aforesaid she was left at home in charge of her family consisting of five small children and that she underwent much fear and alarm in consequence of the Tories which were numerous in that part of Massachusetts where she resided. And the said Lucy Hill further states that from her advanced age and consequent loss of memory she can not now state the length of her said husband's service in the Revolutionary War as aforesaid but that he was from home in the service of his country as aforesaid the greater part of the war, and she can fully state that in the whole he served at least three years. That she has no documentary evidence of his service in her possession. That his Captains Commission and his Pay certificates have been lost since a duty some years before the decease of the said Deborah Hill She thinks probably the memory of her said husband may inform her the Bills of the Massachusetts Treas. which she is informed are now in the War Office at Washington. But the Regiments and Companies she does not recollect in which he served as aforesaid. The said Lucy Hill further states that her said husband lost the principal part of his property during the war and that he had at the close was in Continental money which from its depreciation he also lost. That after the close of the war the said Lucy Hill and her said husband and family went from Richmond to Hancock from thence to Williamstown Massachusetts and from thence to Cambridge then

State of Vermont when her husband husband died, and from thence she moved to Sherburne Vermont where she now resides. Having resided at the latter place upwards of fourteen years past. She hereby acknowledges every claim whether to a pension or annuity except the present which she is entitled to from the surplus of the said Amherst Hill estate by the provisions of the act entitled, and declaring that the name of her said husband is not on the pension roll of the any of the States. She further states that she was married to the said Amherst Hill at Goshen in the State of Connecticut by an Eziquiel Brack, but she does not recollect his christian name she thinks it was John or Jonathan Brack by name of the place, on the 10 th day of October A.D. 1764. That the said husband the said Amherst Hill died at Cambridge aforesaid on the month of February A.D. 1816, and that she has remained a widow ever since that time as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herewith annexed. Given to said Subscribed on the day and year above written. Upon me Catherine Solan (Jug) of Adelphi, Cambridge
State of Vermont } I Calvin Latta one of the Judges of Chittenden County } Superior Court do hereby certify that there occurred during the sitting of said Court no bodily injury to any of the Judges or Justices thereof.
And the said Calion Saloon Judge as aforesaid above hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department that the above named effluence is widow of the said Compton Hill that the said Compton Hill was a Penitentiary in and officer and fine as she states, and the said Calion Saloon Judge as aforesaid further states that in effluence to him that Elizabeth Auburn William Young George Stone Compton Hill Lydia Hill and Sarah P and sister Compton and others

Redington who have made the following affidavits hereby consider are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit
Calvin Palmer Judge of Probate Court

State of New York County of St Lawrence: On this Eighteenth day of October 1836 before me Lemuel Buck one of the justices of the peace in and for the said County of St Lawrence, personally appeared George Sloan of the Town of Canton, in the of said County to me well known and being by me first duly sworn according to Law deposes and says that he is eighty nine years of age, and that he served above One year as a lieutenant in the revolutionary armies during the war of the revolution in the Militia and State Troops of Massachu- setts. At the commencement of the revolutionary war the deponent resided in the Town of Washington in the County of Berkshire State of Massachusetts, and was then and for many years afterwards well acquainted with Ambrose Hill who then resided in the Town of Richmond in the same county and State. The deponent marched with his company of volunteer militia, as lieutenant of the company, to Boston in the month of April 1775, and well recollects that the said Ambrose Hill as sergeant in another company, he thinks commanded by Capt. Porter, marched to Boston at the same time and was engaged as well as the deponent at the battle of Bunker Hill. The deponent dined at Cambridge, Dorchester & Boston until March or April 1776 when he went to his residence to enlist recruits for a new Regiment of State Troops to be raised to act with the continental forces. From the list of his recollections, the deponent believes that the said Hill served during the same time and under the same Regimental Field officers with the deponent, as sergeant in another company. The deponent well recollects seeing the said Hill at the service, repeatedly

during the summer and winter after the battle at Bunker Hill, and thinks he remained in the service until the British Troops evacuated Boston. On or about the 1st of June 1776 the deponent at Great Barrington mustered the recruits he had enlisted and at the same time I place joined Capt. Rowley his Captain who had enlisted other recruits and among them the said Andrew Hill as orderly sergeant of the company. Capt. Rowley resided in the said Town of Richmond I was a neighbor of the said Hill. The said Hill served in the same com- pany with the deponent as orderly sergeant, at New York and its vicinity until about the 1st of Jan- uary 1777 when the said Hill was discharged from the service his term of service having expired having served seven months. The deponent knows nothing of any other services of the said Hill than above stated. Given before me and Subscribed this 18 th day } George Sloan of October 1836 Lemuel Bush J. Pease
I the above named justice of the Peace do certify that I am well acquainted with the above named deponent George Sloan, and that he is respected and believed to have been a revolutionary officer, and that his statement is entitled to full credit, and that his character for honesty and veracity is un- doubted. Dated Oct. 18. 1836.
Lemuel Bush Justice of the Peace

State of New York St. Lawrence County } p: I Alvin Snow (Clerk) of the County of St. Lawrence do hereby certify that Lemuel Buck Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit, for perjury to have been made was at the time of taking the said affidavit, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly elected and sworn: And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the Certificate of said affidavit, is genuine
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County this 18 th day of October 1836
A C SWITH

State of Vermont On the 31 st day of October A.D. 1836 Andrew Paton before me Henry H. Denny one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Chittenden personally appeared Elkanah Culver of Shelburne in the County of Chittenden aforesaid to me well known, and being by me first duly sworn according to Law, deposes and says that he was eighty two years old on the 13 th day of August last and that he served as a private Soldier at various times during the war of the Revolution, and that on or about the 1 st of June 1776. He departed at Sards in the County of Rensselaer and Commonwealth of Massachusetts entitled under Capt Aaron Root in the Massachusetts State Troops and that George Slocum was Lieutenant of said Company and that Amos Hill of Richmond was Ordly Sergeant of said Company. That Captain Root's Company to which this deponent belonged as a private Soldier and Amos Hill as Ordly Sergeant marched to Weybridge and that this deponent served in said Company together with the said Amos Hill as Ordly Sergeant until the Company was disbanded having served out the term of our enlistment being six months - and according to the best of the recollection of this deponent our Company fired something like one month and one day six months enlistment making not less than four months have the term we left here to the term of our return. That since the Revolution near the said Amos Hill lived in Cornwall in the County of Chittenden aforesaid and died at said Cornwall not far from twenty years since having a widow Sarah Hill who now resides at Shelburne aforesaid and further the said Elkanah Culver deposes and says that she said Amos Hill was in the battle of Bennington with this deponent and further says that Elkanah Culver the 31 st day of October 1836 Henry H. Denny Justice of the Peace

I fully certify that I am well acquainted with the Rev. Ebenezer Dyer who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit and that he is a lawful notary public Edson H. Dyer Esq. of the Bar

State of Vermont On the 31 day of October A D 1836 Adrian Brooks. Upon my being H. Brewster one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Addison affirmed personally appeared William Jones of Shelburne in the County of Addison known to me well known and being by me first duly sworn according to Law do hereby and say that he is now of age thirty years of age and upwards. That he served as a soldier during the Revolutionary war at various times, and that according to the best of his knowledge William Jones mentioned in the month of August 1778. The deponent was a private soldier at New Haven in Connecticut that he belonged to Captain Downing's Company and Col. Paine's Regiment of Massachusetts Militia, and that Captain Hill from Roxbury in Massachusetts belonged to the same Regiment. and that the said Hill commanded a Company during the time the Regiment remained at New Haven which according to the best recollection of the deponent was between one and two months that he the said William Jones did not at that time know the Christian name of the said Captain Hill and that some time after the Revolutionary war the said Captain Hill who the deponent knew at New Haven as a soldier resided at Connell in the County of Addison Vermont. and that the said Captain Hill died at Connell some years since as the deponent was informed leaving a widow who now resides in Shelburne Vermont. and the said William Jones further deposes and says that at the time General M'Claymore moved with his Army from the north and after the evacuation of Ticonderoga he saw the said Hill at Kingsbury in the State of New York in the service of the United States who he then knew to be an officer in the Army commanded by General Schuyler but what officer he held the deponent does not know. and further the deponent saith
H. Brewster
Subscribed to and acknowledged this 31 day of October 1836
From me Henry H. Brewster Justice of the Peace

I fully certify that I am well acquainted with the author named William Jones and that he is a admirable artist. George H. Elliott Author of the poem

State of Vermont } On the 4 th day of March 1836. Addison County } before me Henry H. Evans one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Addison personally appeared Eniah Pond of Shelburne in the County of Addison aforesaid to me well known and being by me first duly sworn according to Law deposes and says that he is twenty nine years of age and upward and that before and during the war of the Revolution he was acquainted with Amos Hill who lived both before and during the Revolution in Richmond in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. That according to the best of his recollection that he was at the house of the said Amos Hill in Rich- mond before the Revolutionary war, and that the said Amos Hill and his wife were at home and had something of a family of small children. and that he the said Eniah Pond further deposes and says that on or about the 1 st of June 1776. he enlisted into Col. H. H. H. Wendell's Company and Colo. Smith's Regiment of Massachusetts State Troops and indirectly marched from there through Great Barrington to New York. The term of his enlistment was six months, and that the said Amos Hill had also enlisted into the Company and was an Ordaladyja man and mounted with his department to New York and and that the said Amos Hill and the department lived at New York in the Company and Regiment and in the vicinity of New York until the expiration of their six months enlistment as aforesaid and that he and the said Amos Hill and the Company were discharged at Albany heights and then returned home and that according to the best of his recollection the discharge was in December after his enlistment. and that after the Revolutionary war the said Amos Hill with his wife and family lived in Amos in the County of Addison aforesaid when the said Amos Hill lived until his death. Some years since and that the widow of the said Amos Hill is now in Shelburne aforesaid. and that she is the same person who was the wife of the said Amos Hill and that

with the D Amherst Hall at Richmond opened when the disgrace  disgrace came the D Amherst Hall life and fully  fully before the Antislavery war and further the disgrace  disgrace says etc. Josiah Bone In our and  and  subscribed  subscribed to before me this 4 th day of November 1896 Adney H. Brewster Editor of the Sun
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Josiah Bone and that he is a credible witness Adney H. Brewster Editor of the Sun

I Nathaniel Redington of Richmond Berkshire County Mass do hereby certify that in the year 1778 I went to New Haven under the command of Capt Amos Hill, and that the said Capt Hill commanded the company in which I served as a private during a term of more of two months . That the said Capt Hill commanded a company of Militia a considerable part of whom went from this Town - in which place he resided at that time
Berkshire Oct 13 th 1836
Nath l Redington
Sworn and subscribed this thirteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six before me -
1 mo 10 dy 36 Ebenezer Williams Justice of the Peace
This may certify that I am well ac- quainted with the above named Nathaniel Redington and have been for twenty years past and have always considered him a man of truth and veracity and believe the above affidavit to be true
Ebenezer Williams Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire Co.
I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Berkshire do certify that Ebenezer Williams Esq. of Richmond is a Justice of the Peace within said County duly commissioned & qualified as such & that the above signature purporting to be his are genuine. In witness whereof
I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court this 28 th day of October eighteen hundred & thirty six
C. Sedgwick Clerk
fees 25 c

State of Vermont } on the 31 st day of October A.D. 1836 Addison County ss. } Upon me Sidney H. Everest one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Addison appeared personally before Lydia Willard of Sturbridge in the County of Franklin and declared to me well known and being my own first cousin sworn according to her oaths and says that she is forty seven years of age and that she is the daughter of Combs Hill late of Cornwell in the County of Addison and State of Vermont deceased and says Hill now of Sturbridge Massachusetts. She further testifies and says that her father Combs Hill died on or about the last day of February A.D. 1816 at Cornwell and that her mother Lucy Hill the widow of the said Combs Hill is now living in Sturbridge aged ninety years and of sound mind and that the said Lucy Hill her mother has remained a widow ever since the death of the said Combs Hill her said father. She further testifies and says that she has frequently seen her father's Captains Commission, and Serjeant's Warrants which were given to him during the war of the Revolution as he informed her and that she has not seen the said Commission and Warrants for some years since to her father's death. She further says that she has frequently heard her father tell of his being in the Revolutionary War that he was at the Battle of Bunker Hill, Bennington, Saratoga and at the surrender of General Burgoyne - and she thinks at one Battle in New Jersey. She further states that she has frequently heard her father state that he was in the Battle of Bennington and further that the said Lydia Willard says that Sworn before me an Subscribed this 31 st day of October 1836.
Lydia Willard
Sidney H. Everest Justice of the Peace The above named Justice of the Peace do hereby state

and will be acquainted with the above named defendant Lydia Hill and said that she is a reliable witness
Given 14 December 1896
State of Vermont On the 31 st day of October A.D. 1896 at St. Johnsbury, Vt. before Henry Stevens one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Caledonia afford personally appeared Edmund B. Hill of Sherburne in the County of Caledonia aforesaid to me well known and being my first duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he is fifty three years of age that he is the son of Amos Hill late of Conesville in the County of Caledonia aforesaid deceased and Lucy Hill late of Sherburne aforesaid, He further deposes and says that his father Amos Hill died at Conesville aforesaid on the month of February A.D. 1896, and that his mother Lucy Hill now aged upwards of ninety years is living at Sherburne aforesaid, and that she has remained a widow ever since the death of her husband Amos Hill. He said Edmund B. Hill further deposes and says that he has heard his father state that he was through most of the plantation here as a lad and officer. That he was at the battle of Bunkerhill Washington Heights at the white house at the plantation of Scituate - and that he was at Washington in Connecticut and that my father Amos Hill and my mother Lucy Hill lived with the said Edmund B. Hill in Connecticut for a number of years before his father's death - and that the children of the said Edmund B. Hill used to have the said Amos Hill's cottage Connecticut and large amounts of money with the said Amos Hill's Connecticut money to pay with - and the defendant supposes that his children must have received the said Connecticut & Vermont money - as he has not seen them for some years since the death of the said Amos his said father and further he says he is now and has been since the 31 st day of October A.D. 1896 Given 14 December 1896
Edmund B. Hill

I fully certify that I can well argue with the Dr Edward B. Hill who has submitted the following objection and that he is a credible witness
Ebenezer H. Densmore Editor of the paper

State of Vermont } On the 4 th day of November 1836, before Schuylkill County, } me Judson Haines one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Schuylkill do hereby affirm Electa Bower of Shenango in the County of Schuylkill aforesaid to me well known and being my own free act and deed doing to me known and says that she was fifty nine years of age on the 11 th day of February last and that she is the Daughter of Ambrose Hill late of Cornville in the County of Schuylkill and Lucy Hill now of Shenango and that her father having executed her last Will and Testament. That her oldest Brother Ambrose Hill is living now in the Town of Bethel in the State of Vermont and is twenty one years of age. That her Brother Wait Hill is living in Madison County in the State of Vermont and is aged sixty eight. That her Sister Betsey now deceased would have been sixty five years old on the 18 th day of August last. That her Sister Lucy now deceased would now have been of being sixty nine years of age. That her Sister Rebecca Dilon of Cornville would have been thirty three years old on the 30 th of April last. That her Mother S ister now deceased would have been of being of the age of sixty one years of age in February last. That her Sister Electa Bower of Shenango is now fifty three years of age. That her Brother Isaac Hill deceased would if now living be fifty six years of age. That Edmund Hill of Shenango her Mother is fifty three years of age. That her Sister Polly Haines is now fifty one years of age. That her Sister Lydia Haines of Shenango is now forty nine years of age. That her youngest Brother David Hill now living in Mountport in the County of Schuylkill is now forty seven years of age. That her father Ambrose Hill lived in Richmond during the Revolutionary war. She further deposes and says her father was born in the town of his birth according to the best of her recollection in the Revolutionary war, but that she was too young to have any recollection when or where. That she does recollect that she has repeatedly since her father Captain Haines has that she has not seen the farm in many years past. That she has frequently heard her father Ambrose Hill say that he was in the town of his birth as a soldier and Captain during a greater part of the war. That her father Ambrose Hill died in Cornville on the 14 th of February 1836.

That her Mother Mary who is now living in Shelton Ireland and is now ninety years old and upward and father the late Eliza Rose I am and subscribed to the Celesta Rose 6th day of November 1896 Yrs ever Sydney H. Rose
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Eliza Rose and that she is a credible witness Sydney H. Rose

Goshen Oct 17 th 1836
Dear Sir
I herein inclose the certificate you requested in yours of the 6 th inst. I shall inclose two forms & you can make use of which you see fit. The ancient records of this Town are not very explicit.
(Ambrose Hill & Lucia Beach were married October 10 th A.D. 1764.)
Litchfield County ss Goshen Oct 17 th 1836 I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of record.
Attest Willard Gaylord (Town Clerk)
(Litchfield County ss Goshen - October 17 th 1836.)
I hereby certify that it appears by the records of this Town that that Ambrose Hill and Lucia Beach were married October 10 th 1764.
Attest Willard Gaylord (Town Clerk)
As respects my bill of fees, you may do as much for some stranger when you have an opportunity.
Yours &c.
Willard Gaylord

See Rev. War Section.
November 9, 1914.
Mrs. Oscar W. Nettleton, 1344 Center Street, Racine, Wis.
Madam:
In response to your undated letter, received the 6 th instant, you are advised that the papers on file in the claim of Lucia Hill widow of Ambrose Hill, W. File No. 21,338 , Rev. War, show that Ambrose Hill was a resident of Richmond, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, when he enlisted in April 1775, and served fifteen days as a Corporal under Colonel Patterson; six months, as Orderly Sergeant under Captain Aaron Rowley, Colonel Jonathan Smith; one month and four days as Captain under Colonel Powell and was in the battles of Bunker Hill. Bennington, Stillwater, at the surrender of Burgoyne and evacuation of Ticonderoga.
He married at Goshen, Connecticut, October 10, 1764. Lucia Beach. He died at Cornwall, Vermont, in February, 1816, and she was allowed a pension for the above services on her application executed October 31, 1836, at which time she was a resident of Shoreham, Addison County, Vermont, aged "ninety years and upwards".

They had thirteen children who were described in November 1836. as follows.
  Reuben  aged 71 years,  resident of Catlin. New York.    Walt  " 68 years,  " " Madison Co. New York.    Roxana Delany (?)  " 63 April last "  " Cornwall, Vermont.    Achsa Vaughn  " 57 years "  " Sherchan, Vermont.    Edmund B.  " 53 years "  " " " "    Lydia Willard  " 49 years "  " " " "    Electa Roe  " 59 years "  " " " "    David  " 57 years "  " Bridport, Vermont.    Polly Hurndon (?)  " 51 years  - - - - -    Betsey deceased, if living would be 66 years old.    Lucy  " " " "  69 years old.    Seth  " " " "  61 years old last February.    Isaac  " " " "  56 years old.  
Very respectfully,
E. M. Saltzgaber.
Commissioner.

State of Vermont on the on the 20 th days of April Harrison County the At 1837 before me Viron H. D. Smith one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Addison County personally appeared Ebenezer D. Dyer of Shelburne in the County of Addison County to me well known and being my own just and lawful dear to Dyer appeared and said that he was at the time of age on the 18 th day of August last and that he the said Ebenezer Dyer as a private soldier at various times during the War of the Re- bellion, and that on or about the 11 th of June 1776, he enlisted his services in the County of Rutland and Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a private soldier under Capt. Aaron Root of the Massachusetts State Troops and that George Dyer was Lieutenant of the Company and Captain Hill of Richmond was Colonel of the Regiment and that said Company belonged to and served on Lake George and on the the Capt. Root's Company to which he the said Ebenezer Dyer remained while as Colonel Dyer and George Dyer as Lieutenant moved to Saratoga and that they there served on said Company and Regiment as aforesaid until after Saratoga was evacuated whereby said until the time of their enlistment being six months and that according to the best of his the said Ebenezer recollection they served something like one month more to six months notwithstanding nothing to have been done during that time the time they left home to the time of their return. That said the Regiment was near the said Amherst Hill and in Connecticut in the County of Addison County and that said Ebenezer out for about twenty years since having a letter from Hill who now resides in Shelburne and also that the said Amherst Hill was with him the said Ebenezer in the battle of Bennington. and further saith not Ebenezer Dyer
Sworn and Subscribed to the 20 th day of April 1837
Before me. Witness my hand and seal this 14 th day of Decr. 1861.
I firmly believe that the above named Elisha Cullen is a able artist. Edwin H. Herrick, Justice of the Peace.
Admiry H. Everest above named is a true of the press, acting under the authority of the State of Vermont, and the above signatures of his name are genuine April 20 1837 M c William Slade

State of New York County of Ulster Co. On this 25 th day of May 1837 per- sonally appeared before me Lemuel Buck one of the justices of the peace in and for the county aforesaid George Sloan to me well known, a resident of the Town of Coeymans in said county and being by me duly sworn deposes and says that he served in the war of the revolution as disbanded of militia and was ordered to reinforce the continental army upwards of two years for which service he now receives a pension. That he made a deposition some time since as to his knowledge of the late Andrew Hill deceased formerly of the Town of Richmond in the State of Massachusetts, who also served as a sergeant in the revolutionary army. and now understands that he is now requested to depose more particularly as to the Regimental Officers under whom the said Hill served. That his memory, in conse- quence of old age and ill health is not so good as formerly and he cannot so distinctly remember names and events as when he made his application for a pension which is on file in the Pension Office. That the said Hill served in the same regiment with the deponent at Preston and the vicinity in the years 1775 and 1776 which he believes at least two Colonels - Col. Rositer and Col. Paterson, the said Hill serving in a different Company from the deponent. That the said Hill served in deponent's company at New York and the vicinity as orderly sergeant in Col. Jonathan Smith's Regiment. Col. Smith at some time during the deponent's service was sick and the Lieutenant Col. commanded the regiment, but he cannot remem- ber

be the precise time, or whether it was before the service of the said Bill expired. The deponent cannot remember distinctly enough to state any further particulars. He is now full and in declining health. But he well remembers the said Bill and that he said as he has stated in this and his former deposition.
Subscribed Then, before me this 25 th day of May 1837 } George Hoss L. Buck J. Pease
At Lawrence County So. I Samuel Buck Justice of the Peace before whom the foregoing deposition was taken & subscribed do certify that I am well acquainted with the said George Hoss the deponent that he is reputed & believed to have been an officer of the Pennsylvania Army & that he is a man of fair character integrity & veracity & his word to be given full credit to L. Buck J. Pease
State of the Tick At Lawrence County } J. Alvin Allen Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Samuel Buck before whom the foregoing affidavit pur- ports to have been made and whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was at the time of taking the said affidavit, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly elected & sworn. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice of the Peace & truly believe that the signatures to the said affidavit & certificate purporting to be his are genuine. Given under my hand & seal of Office at Canton this 25 th May 1837. J. Alvin Allen

Middlebury Vt. June 2 1837
Sir
I return herewith the papers in the case of Lucy Hill, with additional affidavits of George Roane, & Eleazar Cullen, setting forth the names of the Colonels under whom Ambrose Hill served, agreeably to the requisition contained in your letter of the 10 th of April.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant
William Slade
P.S. I am desired to ask you to give me information concerning the cases of Mary Jones , and Mrs. Pratt , sent from this County (Addison) some few weeks ago. W. S.
J. L. Edwards Esq

War Department Pension Office April 10. 1837
Sir,
I herewith return the papers of Lucy Hill, widow of Ambrose Hill. No part of the service set forth can be admitted, unless the rules be adhered to. The witnesses must give the names of the Colonels or other Field Officers who commanded the regiments in which the deceased Hill served.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your Obit. Servt.
J. L. Edwards
Hon. William Slade Middlebury Vermont

Middlebury, Vt. April 3. 1837
Sir
In reply to your letter of the 22 d ultimo, I have to say that I am authorized by Lucy Hill to "accept on her behalf, a pension certificate for as much service as is proved in 1776, and at other periods."
Please forward the certificate to me as soon as practicable, and at the same time inform me whether the amount due on it up to the 4 th of March last, will be paid by the Agent immediately, or whether she must wait to the 4 th of September next.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant
William Stade
J. L. Edwards Esq

Middlebury Vt. March 15. 1837.
Dear Sir
During the late session of Congress you reported to me the case of Lucy Hill, an applicant for a pension under the act of July 4. 1836. In your letter you stated that Mr. Hills name was found for two or three short periods of service, but said nothing with regard to the alleged service of 1776 which was proved by three witnesses and the names of the officers stated by them.
I returned the papers to you with your letter some time before the close of the session, at the office, with a verbal suggestion of the oversight as to the service of 1776.
Will you have the goodness to examine the case immediately and report to me at this place.
Very respectfully
Your obedient servant
William Slade
J L Edwards Esq

War Department Pension Office
January 26 1837
Sir,
I have made an unsuccessful search for the alleged service of Ambrose Hills, as a sergeant in 1775, and as an adjutant in 1777. The name of his Captain in 1775 is not given; one of the witnesses, however, thinks it was Porter. It is all important, in order to trace his service on the rolls that the names of the Officers should be furnished. I find that he served 1 month 10 days as Captain in 1779 in Connecticut, and that he served in July 1777, as sergeant in A Rathbun's Company, 13 days; and held a Commission as Captain, in March 1778; but no further trace of his actual service than that stated above. The papers remain on file.
I have the honor to be very respectfully your obed Servt
Hon William Slade, House of Representatives.
J L Edwards

Lucy Hill Wid of Amos Hill
Recd. 23. 197. 48

Amherst Hill
2111 22nd Street
1775 Pierska Hill (Supt)
1776 York - 5 or 6 mo.
Aug 13 to 20 1777. Bal Ben Adjt, Genl 7 d. (rolls / N. 22.117)
" Saratoga - none 7
July 8 1777 Ticonderoga - none - Col Ralston 19 days Newbury
1779 Capt. 1 mo 10 d. (rolls / 1 10 21 08
Geo Sloan, likely to the service in 1775 & 76, does not appear the Capt named
12 mo. - and at York went Aug 77 7 mo
Elizabeth Culver - likely that in June 77 Hill was only left in Aaron Rowley, Co and moved to Mt. Cemo -
Wm Jones, likely to 2 mo Capt W 79
Jones Pond, at Cap Rowley Co at  Smith March 1775
Cannot find the same yet H.H.L.

Jan. 24. 1837.
Dear Sir
Lucy Hill, widow of Ambrose Hill is an applicant for a pension under the Law of last July.
From what you said to me about two weeks ago, I had reason to expect that the case would have been examined & reported to me before this
Will you have the goodness to cause it to be done soon
Yours &c Wm. Slade
J. L. Edwards Esq

Shedun Nov 7 th 1836.
Sir
I hasten to the affection of the widow Lucy Hill of Shedun for a Pionier. She thinks the Pionier Capt. was seen as grants to be given to me as part of the plan
Yours Respectfully E. B. Hill P.M.
LL Edward Esq Counselor of Pionier

Middlebury, Vt. June 17. 1837
Sir
Yours of the 9 th instant relative to the case of Mrs. Lucy Hill, applicant for a pension, is rec d . - and I am authorized to say that she consents to receive a certificate for the amount which you say is allowed, namely,
  1 month  4 days  as Captain     15 days  " Corporal    6 "  — — —  " Sargent  
You will please forward the certificate to me
Very respectfully
Your obedient servant
William Slade
J. L. Edwards Esq

June 1914 Mich. Hist. Co. Fred M. Steele, 3815 C Ellis Ave., Chicago. Ill. 1914 Nov. 9. Hist. to Mrs. Oscar W. Nettleton. C
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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21338
Lucy Hill Widow of Ambrose Hill Capt. Rev. War
Act July 4th 1838
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How Comm'r Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir Thanking you for the reply to a similar request some months ago, May I again ask if from the records of Rev. Service of early New England Patriots in hands of the Govt, You can give me any information in regard to the two following
Joshua Harrington, of Worcester (or vicinity) Mass (said to be a Capt.)
* Anbore Hill, of Richmond Mass, possibly from Conn also said to be a Capt n
I doubt if they were pensioners
Thanking you in advance
for your courtesy
I am with great respect
Your obed servt
Richd. Steele
3815 Ellis Ave

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Pension Department Messrs Please send me the no of page book & folio of the record where Lucy Beach Hill wife of Capt Ambrose Hill of the Revolutionary war drew a Pension from 1836 until 1840 & oblige
Mrs Oscar W Nettleton 1344 Center St Racine Wis

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS, WASHINGTON, D. O.,
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Ambrose Kill , a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     The widow's pension was allowed for the services of her husband as follows:   15 days as a corpl.   6 mos " Sgt.   1 mo & 4 da. " Capt.   all in the Mass Troops but details of service not stated.  
Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill, Brimington & Saratoga Residence of soldier at enlistment, Richmond Mass Date of application for pension, by widow Oct 31, 1836. Residence at date of application, of widow Shoreham Vt Age at date of application, of widow 90
Remarks: Soldier married Lucia Beach on Oct 10, 1764, and died in February 1816. It is probable that you may find a more satisfactory record of his services in the Revolutionary archives of the State of Massachusetts. No record found of Joshua Harrington Very respectfully, Commissioner. Mr. Fred. M. Steele.  Hostetter Stewart Ave 3815 Ellis Ave. Chicago Ill.