Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4491, William Hall, New York

NUMBER _____
R. 4491
CONTENTS

No 37539
William Hall Pn
Let to Sam. Neotelen
Sept 4. 47 Let to How. J. Needley Fely. 2. 1850. with Copin
4491
August July 1852

REJECTED
449
P. O.
William Hall
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized.
_____ Contract

Aug 2, 1897
Adams' Post Office McLean, Va. Ch. Chas. 25 cts
Free
Memphis 1 Pension Washington City
DC

Hon S L Edwards Comm missin of Pensions
Will you please examine the enclosed application for a pension and if the papers are not properly drawn instruct me how the old man must proceed to keep the benefit of the pension loyal
Yours &
Sam H. Hinton Mercer Penn a July 29. 1847
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House of Reps.
Washington Jan. 31./50.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm. of Pensions }
Dear Sir
I am requested to obtain from the Pension Office the papers of David Hall of Mercer County Pa. in order that they may be laid before the Committee on Rev. Pensions. Have the goodness to send them, or copies of them to me as soon as convenient.
Respt. Yours
John Freeland

No 37539 William Hall Pr at 7 June 1832

State of Pennsylvania Mercer County ss
On this 27 th of July 1847 personally appeared in Open Court before the court of Common Pleas of said county New Sitting William Hall of said county of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania, 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, in the militia of the State of New York in the company of Ebenezer Boyd Captain and under Colonel Samuel Drake in Westchester County in the State of New York and served in said company as a volunteer from about the first of October 1779 until until the army was disbanded in the Spring of 1783. That he served as a minute man in said company during said period and was frequently on night duty to protect the property of the citizens from the looser refugees or tories who were with the British army in New York. Your deponent further states, that the company in which he served was divided into companies of fifteen men in each company and that this deponent's father Daniel Hall commanded one of the companies. Your deponent during said period was in several skirmishes, on one occasion he assisted in taking twelve men prisoners who were deserting from the American army on another occasion he assisted in taking forty horses that were stolen. Your deponent was born in said West. Chester County and resided there for thirty six years and has resided in Pennsylvania nearly ever since -

the deponent now believes he is in the eighty second year of his age sworn & subscribed before me his July 27. 1847
M. C. Frost Pw
William H. Hall Mark
I M. C. Frost Deputy of the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer County Penna do hereby certify the above deposition was made in open court as above stated M. C. Frost Pw

King's County. ss.
Daniel Hall being duly affirmed deponeth and saith that he is a clergyman of the Baptist denomination, now residing in Williamsburg N. Y. in the seventy eighth year of his age, and the brother of William D. Hall. The deponent further saith that during the Revolutionary war, he resided in Peekskill Westchester Co. N. Y. that his father Dan Hall was Captain of a company called a patrolling company, and served as a patrol a considerable time about the period of Burgoyne's surrender & afterwards; that his brother William D. Hall was a member of said company, & served in the same under his father; and to the best of deponent's knowledge & belief did sometimes command the said company when his father was absent;
He further states that said company were engaged in a skirmish with the enemy in which they took two prisoners, & the deponent assisted in carrying them to the American camp; & he believes that said company was organized and served under the orders of Colonel Samuel Drake, and further deponent saith not.
Sworn and subscribed before me This 5 th day of April 1847 Daniel Hall William Hughes Justice of the Peace
State of New York } County of Westchester } ss-
Abigail Jenkins being duly sworn deponeth and saith that she is the sister of William D. Hall, above mentioned & of Rev. Daniel Hall the above deponent, in the eighty third year of her age; that she distinctly remembers the patrol above mentioned, which her father Dan Hall commanded, & that her brother William D. served under him on many tours of duty, & for a considerable time. She remembers the skirmish in which prisoners were taken, by the said

patrol, as she saw the flashes & heard the reports of the guns. She recollects that Benjamin Leveridge & John Jones also belonged to said company, & that John Jones was wounded in that skirmish, & that her father commanded at that time & her brother William was present in the skirmish, & went to take the prisoners to the Camp; & that the tour of service of that Company continued for several months, as many as six to the best of her recollection & belief. And further deponent saith not.
Sworn & subscribed before me } this 28th. day of May, 1847 } Before me Knapp R. Harrington
Abigail Jenkins
Justice of the Peace