John Hall--Montgomery County North Carolina--Claim #19971

The application for pension based on service in the Revolutionary War. "This day before me Perry W. Humphrey, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court in and for the State aforesaid came John Hall, an inhabitant in this county and state, now in the 67th year or his age, who being by the ...and lawfully sworn the truth to declare...declares and says that some time in the month of September, 1781 in the County of Richmond in the State of North Carolina he enlisted with a Captain Sharp who commanded a company in the regiment commanded by Colonel Archibald Lytle in the continental line. He enlisted for 18 months service. Immediately after his enlistment he joined the main Army,at Salisbury,which was commanded by General Greene. From there he, with the army marched to Ashley Hills in South Carolina, not far from Charlestown. He remained there a short time and marched to James Island, near the junction of the Ashley and Stono Rivers, where he remained until the month of September, 1782. When the Army was discharged, he being among the sick at the time, was sent round by water to Wilmington in North Carolina. On his passage he lost his discharge which was given to him on James Island. He was then so reduced by sickness as to be incapable of attending to anything and was obliged to be helped on board the vessels in which he was transported to Wilmington.

The twelve months in which he served under Captain Sharp was all the service which he rendered in the Army of the United States as a continental soldier. But he was in the time of the war in service on --, tours of duty all of which together with the service of --amounted to four years and six months. He further says there was no battle fought of any importance after he joined the Army under General Greene. While he was in the militia he was in --. No further evidence to offer of his service than his own declaration as aforesaid made. He is now destitute of property, has no means of subsistence but his own manual labor., which by reason of his age and infirmity he is incapable of performing as formerly and that he is in such reduced circumstances in life as to require and stand in need of assistance from his county for support."

Dated October 17, 1818.

There is no genealogical information in his record other than his residence, age and date of death.

John Hall died January 27, 1833 in Montgomery County, North Carolina. He was born in 1851.