Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,235, Levi Hall, Mass

SERVICE
SERVICE Mass
NUMBER _____
W. 23235
Hall Levi Jane
CONTENTS
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12.099 R
Maine
Levi Hall
of _____ in the state of _____ who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Juffer of the Maine line, for the term of 3 Years
inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 of June and sent to W C Chase , Augusta Maine
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 88.23 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1818 70 27 4  153 6.23 30 35
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notification sent December 20. 1820 to B. B. Hall, Augusta, Maine

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Levi Hall. Private Col. Tupper's Mass h Reg 1777 to 1779.
3 years
On Roll
admitted
Proof - A Bradford, Colit.

I Levi Hall of Putnam, in the County of Lincoln, and District of Maine, a citizen of the United States, on oaths declare and say: That at North Yarmouth, in said District, on the seventeenth day of January, in the year 1777, I enlisted as a private soldier in the Continental establishment in the west of the revolution, for the term of three years: that in the company of Capt. George White of Topsham in said County, and the regiment of Col. Ebenezer Francis, which after his lamented fall was commanded by Col. Benjamin Tupper, in the Massachusetts line, I served out the full term of three years; and at least Point on the seventeenth day of January, in the year 1780, received a regular and honourable discharge; which for a particular reason I several years ago I placed in the hands of Mr. James Kavanaugh of Newcastle in said County of Lincoln. I have not had occasion to call for it since, and he is now absent from home.
Levi Hall

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Suffolk ss. On the fourth day of April, A.D.
1878. Before me Josiah Stebbins, a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Second Eastern Circuit, personally appeared Levi Hall after named, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Declaration by him subscribed. Josiah Stebbins.

Quint
We the subscribers Selectmen of the town of Rutnam hereby certify that Mrs Levi Hall has been poor and very infirm quite unequal to her labour and stands in need of pecuniary aid for her country which we presume she is put forth for best services rendered to her country
Dated at Rutnam the 17 Oct - 1818
William Witt } Selectmen Samuel Doe } of Rutnam

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Qu...
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Levi Hall , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Patnam , in the said County of Lincoln , in the District of Maine, on the fourth day of April , A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by said applicant are hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for his support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed, this seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Josiah Stebbins.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Kennebec ss.
I THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec , hereby certify that the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINS , Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln , Kennebec and Somerset ; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto this certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand:—Dated at Augusta , in said County of Kennebec , this nineteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
John Davis

Lincoln Co. Circuit Court of Common Pleas
August Term 1820
Received and filed
Attest Nat. Coffin, Clerk
A true copy
Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk
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Gen. Hall
12099
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Sept 1819
A. S. Vose, Augusta,
Maine.

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Levi Hall
12099
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Sept 1829
H. J. Vose, Augusta, Maine.

133 State of Maine.
Copy KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
ON this twenty fifth day of May , 1820, personally appeared before Nathan Weston Junr. Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Lewis Hall aged Sixty two years, resident in Putnam in the County of Lincoln within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain White and Regiment commanded by Colonel Tupper of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of Three years that he was in the battle of Monmouth , and at both the Battles at the taking of Burgayne
that his original declaration was made before Judge Stebbins on the fourth day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 12,099 . And I, the said Lewis Hall do further 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.
Lewis Hall
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz: A few articles of old household stuff, besides necessary bedding of the value of twenty dollars. I have no debts due to me, and I owe as much as fifty dollars for which I pay interest. I have no income from property, trade or profession. My occupation is that of a farmer; but from age and infirmity I am wholly unable to labor. My family residing with me consists of five persons; myself, my wife Jane aged fifty eight years, who is unable to labor, being subject to the Rheumatism; my son James aged sixteen, my grand child Catherine aged two years, and my grandson Benjamin aged two years, children of my daughter. Excepting the above and my necessary clothing and bedding, I have no estate, or income whatever.
Lewis Hall.

April 1.
Subscribed, sworn to, and declared, both the oath & schedule, on the twenty fifth day of May 1820.
Before me
Nathan Weston Jr. 67 6. 6. 6 Plevens
True copy Albert H. Davis Clk

Ans State of Maine.
I Nathl. Coffin Clerk, for the County of Lincoln of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Ken- nebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open 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, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is
Twenty dollars and cents  not cents and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property is the opinion of said Court, is dollars and Cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this thirtieth day of August 1820.
Nathl. Coffin Clerk of said Court for the County of Lincoln

No 652 Jane Hall wid of Levi me act 17 June '44
Mumford 1787
Husband died 27 June 1847
Adm o two years per, 1 / 2 $80. per annum from 27 June 1847,
Adm o act 48 $80 per ann.
G. H. Morton Augusta, Maine

Declaration. In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 17. 1844 entitled "an act to continue the Pensions of certain widows."
State of Maine.
Lincoln County S.S. On this twenty third day of September 1847, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, Jane Hall a resident of Washington in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine, aged eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 17. 1844. entitled "an Act to continue the pensions of certain widows." that she is the widow of Levi Hall who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the Act of March 18. 1818, that his Pension was last paid to him at the M. State Agency for paying Pensions in the State of Maine to the 4th day of March 1847. that she refers to a declaration made by him of his Services in the War of the Revolution supposed to be in possession of the War Department in support of her claim. She further declares that she was married to the said Levi Hall on the twenty third day of June in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty one that her

husband the aforesaid Levi Hall died on the twenty seventh day of June A.D. 1847 . that she was not mar- ried to him prior to his leaving the premises. but the marriage took place some time before previous to the first of January seventeen hours died and ninety four Vrs at the time above stated. Witness Robt E. Hicken June  his Hall X
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
Robt E. Hicken Justice of the Peace

in reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Levi Hall a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
wid file 23,235
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Jan 17 77 Jan 17 80 Jan 1 77 93 years 93 years Pri. George White { Ebenezer Francis Benjamin Tupper Mass.  
Battles engaged in, Monmouth & both bat of Stillwater Residence of soldier at enlistment, East No. Yarmouth, Me. Date of application for pension, Apr. 4. 1818. Allowed. Residence at date of application, Putnam, Lincoln Co., Maine Age at date of application, 62 yrs.
Remarks: Solomon Jones. June 1, 1781. Jane Jones. "both of  Damariscotta, Lincoln Co. Me." he died June 27, 1847, Washington, Maine  + she was allowed pension on her appln. exp. Sept. 23, 1847, while 85 yrs of age + a res.  of Washington, Lincoln Co., Maine. Son James 16 in 1820 is the only child whose name is stated.
Very respectfully

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no more not to the many of God the only photo mailed to Edna Hould be in the Fall 1848
Ref WIDOW, & Co.
File No. 23235
Jane Hall _____ wife of Levi Hall Brick Row was
Act Feb 22 1848.
Index: Vol. 4 Page 317
[Arraignment of 1848.]

Name Jane Hall. widow of Levi. who was a private in the Revs S
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1844.
27th June 1847
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of March 1849 and sent to
G. M. Morton Augusta Me
[Act of JUNE 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 4.

NOT.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by a. maced. 29/14/12
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Re me. Statement _____
Soldier Levi Hall
Service _____
Additional Service Rev.
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 191_____
No claim, combination records _____, 191_____
REMARKS:
No Sw. as above Wid. F. 23, 23 b { mass { in the No other Wid. of any service " — Regi " " "

DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION, COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
State Society Rooms, 816 and 832 Colonial Building, 100 Boylston Street.
BOSTON.
Mr J. L. Davenport,
Commissioner
Bureau of Pensions
Dear Sir: - Will you please give me a statement of the military history of Levi Hall Lincoln Co., Maine, a soldier of the Revolutionary War in his application for a pension granted I think in 1819. Very respectfully
(Miss) Mary A. Tread 11 Violet St., Lynn, Mass
Oct 24-1910
OCT 28 1910

I am Well for Merion Pension.
Due to p 96. by p 80 Per Am. Comy 1 July 1848
Geo W Morton Augusta Maine.

Washington, Maine
Hon. James E. Heath. March 4. 1851. Canner of Pension
Sir. I am at the present time a Pensioner of the United States under the Act of February 2. 1848. I am pensioned on account of the services of my late husband Levi Hall in the Army of the Revolution, who was at the time of his death a Revolutionary Pensioner under the Act of March 18. 1818, he died on the 27th day of June 1847. My pension is payable at the Agency in Portland State of Maine and has been paid to Sept 4. 1850. I hereby authorize George W Morton of Augusta, State of Maine to act as my attorney in establishing my claim to an increase of my pension.
Witness.
William H Root
her Jane X Hall mark

Sara Hall
Payment to be made at
Pittsfield
by
Wm Woodbury Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Maine
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2d, 1848, Page 13 Vol. 1
G. G. Perkins Clerk.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Jane Hall widow of Levi Hall who was a Private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars and _____ cents per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior this 31st day of March one thousand eight hundred and sixty nine.
A. Emory
Secretary of the Interior.
Examined and Countersigned.
J. G. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

Augusta, Maine
Sept 21. 1848
Sir,
I herewith enclose a declaration of Jane Hall, widow of Levi Hall. In her case for pension in a letter written the Hon. Hiram Belcher dated the 18th of last May, you inform him that the service of her husband Levi Hall and the date of her marriage are satisfactorily established by the evidence furnished, but that her declaration should be assented before a Court of Record instead of a Justice of the Peace, she being unable to appear in Open Court Judge Rice took her declaration at her residence as will appear by the declaration included, and if satisfactory I would request you to allow her claim, and send me, as her agent, a Certificate.
Very Respectfully Yrs obed Servt Geo W. Morton
James L. Edwards Esq Bureau of Pensions Washington City.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,
May 10 th - 1819
BY THIS I CERTIFY, That it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department, that Levi Hall served as a Soldier in Capt. Whitch Company, and Col. Supers Regiment, (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the Continental Establishment,) in the American Army, in the War of the Revolution, from January first 1777 to Decr. 31 st 1779, being three years and  months.
Aben Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

I Joseph Rust of Washington in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine do hereby certify that for the space of about sixty years prior to the death of Levi Wall from which time to his decease I was acquainted with him knew him when he came from the Army recollect of hearing it reported of when he was married to Sarah Jones was married but once the said Levi Wall was a Pensioner of the United States and died in the said town of Washington June 1847 Sarah Wall now living in said Washington is his Widow they lived together to my recollection nearly or quite sixty years as husband and wife until the death of the said Levi They brought up a large family of children some of whom are now living the said Sarah Wall his reputed widow has remained unmarried ever since the death of the said Levi Wall and is this day living in the said town of Washington
Attest E. Cooke
Joseph L. Rust
State of Maine
Lincoln County ss on this 5th day of May 1848 before the subscriber Justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Joseph Rust above named well known to me to be the person described in and who made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed
Before me Robert E. Rian Justice of the peace

State of Maine County of Penobscot 3 rd
I, William M. Stratton, Clerk of the Judicial Court within said County, hereby certify, that Robert G. Pider and Elias Bailey are Justices of the Peace as stated in the annexed instruments and that their signatures are genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this fourth day of May, A. D. 1848.
W m M. Stratton

1781 May 18. A purpose of Marriage was published between Levi Hall and Jane Jones both of Pammasetta Pond so called in said County.
A true copy from the Records of Newcastle
Attest Joseph Curtis, Town Clerk of Newcastle
Lincoln Co May 1 st 1848 Personally appeared Joseph Curtis and made oath that the above copy from the Records of Newcastle is a true copy before me
Elias Bailey } Justice of the Peace

I Robert E Riden a magistrate in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine, do hereby certify that I was acquainted with the late Levi Hall who died in the town of Washington in said County in the month of June 1847, he lived in the same neighborhood with me for several years previous to his death and when he died, his relict widow Jane Hall who made a declaration before me on the twenty third day of September 1847 in order to be pensioned on account of her late husband the said Levi Hall's services in the war of the Revolution, is this day still living in the said town of Washington. The said Levi Hall to my knowledge was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, and from personal acquaint- ance I do hereby cheerfully certify that the said Jane Hall is entitled to full credit and belief.
Robt E. Riden Justice of the Peace

I am Wall
Geo W Martin Augusta, Maine

Declaration. In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress, passed June 17. 1844 entitled) An "Act to continue the pensions of certain widows" and act passed Feb 2. 1848 making further provision for surviving widows.
State of Maine.
Lincoln County, S.S.
On this 20 th day of September A.D. 1848, personally appeared before the subscriber Judge of the District Court of State of Maine. Jane Hall a resident of Washington in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine aged eighty-six years, 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 June 17. 1844 entitled an "Act to continue the pensions of certain widows" and an Act passed Feb. 2. 1848 making further provision for surviving widows of soldiers of the Revolution, That she is the widow of the late Levi Hall who was a Revolutionary Pensioner under the Act of March 18. 1818 which pension was paid to him at the U. States agency in the State of Maine to the 4 th of March 1847, from which time to the 27 th June 1847 she received the pension as his widow. that she refers to a declaration made by him of his services in the Army of the Revolution, which is supposed to be in possession of the War Department, in support of her claim. She further declares that her maiden name was Jane Jones, that she was married to the said Levi Hall on the first day of June in the year Seventeen

hundred & eighty one, that her husband the above said Levi Hall died on the twenty seventh day of June 1847, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but her marriage took place previous to January 1. 1794. Vis at the time stated within
her Jane H Hall mark
Subscribed and sworn to before me Richard D Rice Judge of the District Court Middle Dist. State of Maine
I hereby certify that Jane Hall the above declarant being unable to leave her residence in consequence of age and infirmary, subscribed and swore to the foregoing declaration, at her home in the town of Washington, county of Lincoln and State of Maine before me as above x dated, and that I have full confidence in the correctness and truth of the facts therein contained
Richard D Rice Judge Dist Court M.D., State of Maine
State of Maine
Kennebec ss - I the subscriber Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the county of Kennebec hereby certify that Hon Richard D Rice is sole Judge of the District Court for the Middle District of said State of Maine, and that the above written sig- natures purporting to be his are genuine. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this 21 st Sept r A D 1848
H. M. Stratton