Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10841, Daniel Hill, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hill, Daniel
S. 10841
Carded
CONTENTS

10.070.
New Hampshire
Daniel Hill
of season in the State of N H who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain of the Reg t commanded by Col. Howe in the N H line for 6 Months Days
Mass. Line. Mich 22/05. Records corrected. S
Inscribed on the Roll of N H at the rate of 20 Dollars 44 Cents per annum. to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of Mar- 1833 and sent same Dana of Boston Mass
Arrears to the 14th of Mar 1833 $40.88 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept " 20.22 $61.10
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H Sp Blair Clerk Book Vol. 1 st Page 90

Daniel Hill
21.5511
New Hampshire Roll
Brewster
6 mo - 4 days
Adrian
N.H.
$20.44.
Sam Dana Esq. Gardner Mass

BRIEF in the case of Maslow
Daniel Heile in the State of New Hampshire (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 68 Years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     Aug In 17 80 " 2 27 Private Capt Frost Col Howe   Fall 81 " 3 27 " " Sage " Webb   6 mo - 4 day  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Cambridge  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Documentary proof for the last term, and a traditional evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? not properly attached 
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
See Bangs, certificate attached {
J. D. Addison Examining Clerk.

Declaration of Daniel Hill -
21554

please direct to Sam Dana Esqr Lynton Ms.

State of New Hampshire Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss. Hillsborough. Ss.
On this twenty seventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court, before the Honourable Judge of the Court of Probate, in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, now sitting, Daniel Hillborough a resident of Mason in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty eight 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, A. D. 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
1. In the year A.D. 1746: in the month of August he enlisted for three months to go to Rhode Island under Capt. Stephen Huest of Cambridge. Lieut. Samuel Whittmore. Ensign Nathaniel Baxter in the regiment of Col. Cyprian Howe. St. Col. He was mustered at Cambridge, marched to Rhode Island, was stationed at Butts Hill where he was employed in guarding & fatiguing, after he went up the Taunton river, boating wood on board the French ships, but he was principally employed in fatiguing & building a fort at Butts Hill, where he served out his three months and was dismissed. He does not know of anyone living, to prove this service.  2. In the fall of A.D. 1747 he enlisted for three months to go to West Point under Capt. Isaac Page. Lieut. Holdre of Stoneham, in the regiment of Col. Webb of Boston. Major Porter of Littleton. He was mustered at Little Cambridge, marched to Hartford, thence to Berk. Skille, where his company joined the army, was employed in fatiguing &c. marched to White Plain & other towns. He served out his three months, and was dismissed.
Daniel Hill
And the following interrogatories were proposed to him, to wit:
1. Where and in what year were you born?
Answer. In Cambridge (now West Cambridge), November 2 d . A.D. 1764.
2. Have you any record of your age?
Answer. I have a record of my age in my house.
3. When were you living when called into service &c.
I was living in Cambridge. In A.D. 1794. I moved to Nashua N.H. where I have since, and now do live.
4. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served?
I saw Gen. Grayson. Col. Brooks. Col. Scamuel & Col. Jacobson, at Berk. Skille.
5. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Rev. Mr. Hill. Dr. Willis Johnson. Lieut. Gilman. Roger Chester, Josiah Russell Esqr. Daniel Hill

6. When were you called into service: were you drafted did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom.
As soon I volunteered, I went into service of my own accord.
7. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so, by whom was it given, & what has become of it.
As soon I do not recollect, that any written discharge was ever given me.
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 any state,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Daniel Hill
Middlesex Co. ss County fr
We, Ebenezer Hill, a clergyman, residing in the Town of Mason County of Hillsboro and Nathaniel Cummings residing in the same Mason Co. hereby certify, that we are well ac- quainted with Daniel Hill who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; — that we believe him to be sixty eight years of age: that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Ebenezer Hill Nathl Cummings
Sworn and subscribed the day and year first Before me Saml Dana Justice
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 certify, that it appears to them that Ebenezer Hill who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in said Mason — and that Nathaniel Cummings who has also signed the same, is a resident in said Mason and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Edmund Patten, Judge of Probate
I Charles H. Hutchinson Hillsboro Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex , do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel Hill for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid at Amherst in said County on this thirteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
C. H. Hutchinson Reg. ss

Daniel Hill -

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Nov 26 1832.
* 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 Lemuel Hill is borne on a "Pay roll of Capt. Isaac Gage's company in the regiment commanded by Lt. Col. Joseph Webb, detached from Col. Dande's regiment of Militia to join the Continental army for 3. months in A.D. 1781. near West Point in the State of New-York" for the space of 3. months and 7. days, from the 8 th of September 1781.
Edward D. Bump Secy.

Certificate of E. B. Bangs Esq. for Daniel Hill.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Jan'y 18. 1833.
* 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
Daniel Hill is borne on a roll of Capt. Stephen Frost's company, in Col. Cyprian Hovey's regiment for service at Rhode Island, made up for two months, and twenty-seven days from the 6th of August  July 1760.
2. No. 27 days
brand.
Edward D. Bangs Secy

RECORDS.
CHANGES TO BE MADE.
COMPANY, REGIMENT, ETC., SHOULD INVARIBLY BE USED.
CORRECT.
Inv. orig. S. F. 10841
" ctf.
orig.
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Name Daniel Hill
Service Mars
Date filing _____ From _____
INCORRECT.
N. H.
P. O. address:
Southwaite

Rev War
10841 INVALID.
File No. 10,841
Daniel Hill
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 173
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Daniel Hall which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Yes XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Yes XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? Yes If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? — Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
† QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡ QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
¶ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.