Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13399, Bartholomew Hill, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hill, Bartholomew
S 13399
CONTENTS
Carded

27763
New York
Bartholomew Hild Troy in the State of New York who was a sergeant in the com- commanded by Captain Danforth the regt commanded by Col Brewer in the for 8 months private Mass.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of Nov 1834 and sent to Kendrick Troy
Arrears to the 14th of Sept 93.31 Emi-ant. allowance ending March 13.33 $106.64
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Danl Lloyd Clerk, Book C 2 Vol. 4 Page 30

State of Vermont - 18 County of Rutland / 53
John Hill of the Town of Wallingford in the County of Rutland
State of Vermont being duly sworn saith that he is in the eightyfirst year of his age that he is a Brother of Bartholomew Hill of the City of Troy in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York who is an Applicant for a pension from the United States that he personally knows that the said Bartholomew Hill in the Month of May 1775 at the Town of Brookfield in the State of Massachusetts volunteered as a fifer in the Massachusetts Militia for eight months, and served as such in the service of the United States in the company commanded by Captain Jonathan or Joshua Danforth in Col. David Brown's Regiment belonging to General Heoth's Brigade for the said term of eight months he was stationed at Roxbury near Boston during the whole of his said term of service when this deponent visited him and frequently saw him the said Bartholomew on duty as a fifer or musician for the said company to which he belonged, that this deponent hath a perfect recollection of things which took place in those days and can perfectly recollect the services of his Brother Bartholomew in the service of the United States as he hath above stated
J. Hill
Sworn this day of January 1833 before me
State of Vermont Rutland County
At Wallingford this 16th Day of Jan'y 1833 John Hill personally appeared before me & made oath to the above affidavit
before me Howard Harris Justice Peace
State of Vermont Rutland County
I Robert Pigeon, clerk of the County Court, for the County of Rutland certify that Howard Harris Esq. is a Justice of the peace for said County duly Commissioned and that the above signature is his hand writing

State of Vermont - County of Rutland / 5
John Hill of the Town of Wallingford in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont being duly sworn saith that he is in the Eightyfirst Year of his age that he is a Brother of Bartholomew Hill of the City of Troy in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York who is on Application for a pension from the United States that he personally knows that the said Bartholomew Hill in the Month of May 1775 at the Town of Brookfield in the State of Massachusetts volunteered as a fifer in the Massachusetts Militia for eight months, and served as such in the service of the United States in the company commanded by Captain Jonathan or Joshua Danforth in Col. David Brown's Regiment belonging to General Heith's Brigade for the said term of eight months he was stationed at Roxbury near Boston during the whole of his said term of service whom this deponent visited him and frequently saw him the said Bartholomew on duty as a fifer or musician for the said company to which he belonged, that this deponent hath a perfect recollection of things which took place in those days and can perfectly recite the services of his Brother Bartholomew in the service of the United States as he hath above stated
J. Hill
Sworn this day of January 1833 before me
State of Vermont Rutland County
At Wallingford this 18 th Day of Jan y 1833 John Hill personally appeared before me & made oath to the above affidavit
State of Vermont Rutland County
before me Howard Harris Justice of the Peace
I Robert Rippon, clerk of the County Court, for the County of Rutland certify that Howard Harris Esq. is a justice of the peace for said County duly qualified and that the above signature is his hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Rutland this 21 st day of January A.D. 1833 R. Rippon

In the matter of Bartholomew Hall fund under the act of June 7. 1822
8614
0/80 26 66 2 3 13 33 1 3 40.00
acme
8 mo. paper
for S. Kendro Nov. 24 '72

State of New York County of Rensselaer
On the fourth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in Open Court before the Mayor's Court in and for the City of Troy in the County and State aforesaid now sitting Bartholomew Hill a resident of the City of Troy in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York aged sixty seven years 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. Says he was born in the Town of Brookfield in the State of Massachusetts on the first day of May 1765 that in the month of May 1775 at Brookfield aforesaid and soon after the Battle of Lexington he volunteered as a fifer in the Massachusetts Militia for the term of 8 months in the United States Service in the Company of Captain Joshua D. North and Lieutenant M c Neil in Colonel David Brown's Regiment and Major Davidson belonging to General Shattuck's Brigade of the Massachusetts Militia he was mustered with the said Company immediately on entering the Service to Roxbury near Boston and there joined the Army where he was stationed and served during the said 8 months he volunteered the British Army lay in Boston during the whole time he was there he was then at the Battle of Bunker Hill and the burning of Charlestown, the reason why he entered the Service so young was that he was a musician and that musicians were very scarce and had to be gotten at that time, he was regularly discharged at the expiration of the said 8 months which was some time in the month of January following and returned home to Brookfield his native place where he served as long as he had in that State, about 30 years ago he removed from Massachusetts to the City of New York and entered on board a North River Sloop as a hand and continued in that business until his age and infirmities compelled him leave it, about 12 years ago he removed
8 months

to the City of Troy where he has resided ever since his extreme poverty is such that he has been ever since he has resided in the City of Troy that it has prevented him from mingling with Society and forming acquaintances with the Clergyman of the place or they with him and therefore has the mortification to confess that he is not known to a single gentleman of that profession in the place, and begs leave to supply the deficiency with the testimony of two gentlemen laymen who are equally entitled to credit, he has no documentary evidence of his services nor does he know any person whose testimony he can procure who is personally knowing to his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any State or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of Massachusetts
Bartholomew Hill
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Archibald Bull Clerk
County of Rensselaer ss. Joshua Harkham and Samuel Rundink residing in the City of Troy in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York being duly sworn do hereby testify and say that they are well acquainted with Bartholomew Hill who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that they believe him to be sixty seven years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution that they cannot say as to the truth of the truth of his statement, and further their deponents say that the said Bartholomew Hill is extremely poor and a family dependent on charity for support

that his age and infirmities are such that he cannot labour and humanity requires that the prayer of the Petitioner should be granted him Given and Subscribed this day and year aforesaid Archibald Dull Clerk
Joshua Hargreaves Samuel Kendrick
And the said Board do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after perusing the Submissions presented by the War Department that the above named Applicant was a resolution ary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that there is no clergyman residing within the City of Troy who is known to the Applicant that Joshua Hargreaves and Samuel Kendrick who have signed the preceding certificate reside in the City of Troy aforesaid and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit
I Archibald Dull Clerk of the Mayor's Court of the City of Troy do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Board in the matter of the application of Bartholomew Hill for a pension The Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this fourth day of September in the year 1832
Archibald Dull Clerk

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Mr. William J. Kendrick City of Troy N.Y.

Boston Sept r 1 st 1834
Gent.
Yours of August 27 th to the Secretary, was handed us we have examined & have found the service claimed by Bartho le Hill. Our fee is two dollars, which on receiving we will send a Certificate signed by the Secretary You will please direct to us, to the care of the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts. (post paid)
Yours Respectfully Ebenezer Hemen Henry White

New York Revo:
Bartholomew Hill
Rejected
let Hendrick, Troy N.Y. 25 June 33 let. Mfrs. Tillman & Hendrick 19. Aug. 1834
Act. June 7. '32

In the Matter of Bartholomew Hill for a Pension Bartholomew Hill addl proof W.Y.

State of New York Rensselaer County } ss
Bartholomew Hall of the City of Troy in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York being duly sworn saith that previous to his entering the Army of the Revolution as set forth in his application on his application for a pension he learnt to play on the fife of his two Brothers who were older than himself and who were Musicians, that under their instruction he became a good performer on the fife so much so that some time previous to his entering the said Army Captain Rufus Putnam who then commanded a Company of Militia in the Town of Berkshire the widow of this Deponent used to employ this Deponent with his two Brothers to play for him at all his Company trainings, that Captain Putnam was appointed first Colonel in the Regiment which this Deponent belonged to in the Army and he being a family connection of this Deponent he obtained the consent the Father of this Deponent to take him with his Regiment and promised to take care and protect him, that for the above reason and also that that the two Brothers of this Deponent were going and did go and serve in the same Regiment, his said Father consented to the said application, that whether it was an enlistment or that he went under the denomi- nation of a volunteer this Deponent is not able to say but now thinks on reflection it must be a Volunteer Service as Volunteer, if a willing obedience to his Father's commands can be called such, and this Deponent further saith that he was regularly mustered with his Company as Musician and always called at roll call and was subject to Martial Law the same as the rest of his fellow Soldiers, and further this Deponent saith that his said two Brothers who entered the Service with him one of them died in the Service and the other soon after he was discharged from the Service so that he is deprived of the benefit of their testimony, nor does he know any person

State of New York Rensselaer County } ss: I certify that Daniel H. Stone Esquire before whom the within Declaration purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same & is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Rensselaer that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his signature to said affidavit Declaration to be genuine Witness my hand & seal of Office at Troy the 19 th day of July 1833 —
Henry R. Bristol Clerk of said County

Bartholomew Hill
answ? Sept 13- requiring Bangs certificate

To G. W. Crump Esq
Schaghticoke Sept 8 th 1834
Dear Sir,
You will recollect that during the last Session of Congress I had the care of the application of Bartholomew Hill for a pension. Messrs Fillmore & Kendrick of Troy had forwarded his papers to the pension office. The only difficulty in his case was his age or rather, want of age when he rendered the services. He was a fifer (I believe) & you will remember that I insisted that boys at 10 years of age would often play as well upon that instrument as adults.
It seems that the Commissioner of pensions has lately required the evidence of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts. Messrs Fillmore & Kendrick have written to him & have received the enclosed letter signed by two persons (probably Clerks in the office) stating that they have found the service claimed by Hill & that upon receiving $2. they will send a

certificate. It is certainly an imposition if not extortion to exact money from poor business for such services. I advised Messrs Tillman & Kendrick to suspend writing for the certificate un- til I could hear from you on the subject. You They have written to Mr. Edwards & I enclose their letter to him. I hope you will deem the letter of the Secretary's Clerk sufficient especially when you consider that the service has been sufficiently proved without it.
Truly Yours
J. Pison

July 31.
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John H. Stevens Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington the City
Bartholomew Miller

1834 City of Troy NY July 26th
J. L. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir
Mr Purson wrote us
last Winter that you had again taken up the papers of Bartholomew Hill on his application for a Pension. Since which we have not heard any thing on the subject, we wish to call your attention to the affidavit of his Brother who swears to the sum of the applicant to his own knowledge we think this must place his claims beyond a doubt, this is the last application we have and as we think the plaintiff now we have had and certainly the most deserving. the old gentleman has become sick and just labour and depends on the charity of his neighbours to support him & his wife, and therefore hope you will give the application immediate attention it is nearly 3 years since it was first made, if any further testimony is required as to credit to be given to Mr Hill statement & his character for truth & he can furnish it by the affidavit of our most respectable citizens Yours Respectfully William Hendricks

Free
Edwards Esq. Pension Office Washington D.C.
W. H. Holman (Recd)

J. L. Edraies Esq. Sir
We are happy in having it our power to dispose of the only objection made to the Claim of Bartholomew Hill for a pension for his service, that is, his infancy at the time of the alleged enlistment for which pension we now enclose the Certificates of Edward D. Bangs Subt. Massachusetts - Most respectfully
William St. Andrews
Fry Oct 20. 1834

Bartholomew Hill ad. evi. True
J. S. Edwards Esq. Commission of Pension Washington D. C.

J. L. Carrico Esq.
Sir -
On the receipt of yours suggesting that information might be derived from the Secretary Office in Massachussetts respecting Bartholomew Hill's services - we immediately wrote to the Secretary (post paid) and have this moment rec d the enclosed. Hill is a town pump, we volunteered our services, have already advanced some money without any prospect or expectation of remuneration, we are ignorant of the manner in which these things are done but consider the sum and of two dollars an imposition and hope you will consider the answer from them as sufficient to establish his services, added to the testimony already before you.
With respect
May 24 th Sept. 4. 1834
William Hendrick

8674
room
City of New York
Miss J. Williams & Co. Inc.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Sept. 1 st 1834.
* hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Bartholomew Hill, as a Sifer, is borne on a muster-roll of Capt. Jonathan Danforth's company, in Col. David Brewer's regt. where he is allowed from the 7 th of May to the 1 st of August 1775, for services and travel three months and two days. m. d. 3: 2 Bartholomew Hill claims for further services under the above mentioned Officers, in 1775, but the roll after the 1 st of August in 1775, is not found in this Office.
Edward D. Bangs: Leg

Rev. War
13399 INVALID.
File No. 13,399
Bartholomew Hill Tifer Row War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 174
[Arrangement of 1870.]