PENSION: Benajah Hall; Niles, Cayuga Co., NY

Contributed by: Sharon Goff Garrett [skye523@webtc.net]

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Extracts
from Pension Claim of Children of Benajah Hall, taken from a photostatic copy 
furnished by the National Archives, Washington, D.C. from the Records of the 
U.S. Veteran's Adminstration Revolutionary War S-22814 Benajah Hall:

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832.

State of New York
County of Cayuga : SS

On the 23rd day of September 1846 personally appeared before the court then in 
Session holden at Auburn in and for said County Chloe Powers of Spafford in
the County of Onondaga and State aforesaid aged fifty-two years, who being
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  7th 1832. That this deponant is a daughter of the late Benajah
Hall late a fifer  in the War of the Revolution and who resided at the time of
his performing the Service in Dutchess County, New York; that the said Benajah
Hall died on the 4th day of November (1840) eighteen hundred and forty leavng
no widow and that at his death he left the following children him surviving
and that each of them is of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, to wit:
Isaac B. Hall of Crawford County, Pa.
Phebe Gurnee of Wayne County, New York
Chloe Powers of Onondaga County, New York , and
Nancy Williams of Cayuga County, New York

This Declaration and application is made for the purpose of obtaining for the 
surviving children of the said Benajah Hall the pension due to him at his 
decease under the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and that the reason the 
said That he had too much property to be allowed a Pension under the act of 
March 18th 1818 and that before the passage of Act of June 7th 1832 he became 
insane and fancied himself very wealthy and still retained the impression that 
he was not entitled to a Pension unless by reason of his reduced circumstances 
in life he should be in need of assistance from his Country for support and
that the said Benajah Hall continued in that insane state of mind until he
died and for that reason he could not be prevailed upon by his friends to make 
application for a pension.

Chloe Powers
Subscribed and sworn to before the
Court of Common Pleas in open
Court the day and date last within
written before

J.L Richardson

First Judge of Cayuga

The Court certify that the within named Chloe Powers is a respectable person
and her statement entitled to full credit.

J. L. Richardson

First Judge of Cayuga

The affidavit of William F. Cooper of Niles, Cayuga County, N.Y. aged 45
years, sworn to October 8, 1846 allows that he was a practicing physician in
1840, and that he attended Benajah Hall during his last illness, his last
visit being made November 3, 1840, and that said Benajah Hall died Nov. 4,
1840.

[note: according to the descendants of this Benajah Hall's son, Benajah Hall,
he was also a surviving child but not named in the pension claim. It is
thought he may have been estranged from the family and/or had no contact with
his siblings]