Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33332, for Henry Impson, New Jersey
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SERVICE     
                                     
New Jersey        
Penn

Impson, Henry    

NUMBER
S 33332
      


CONTENTS
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4113
New Jersey Roll
Henry Impson
Capt Craig
N.J.S   Private 4
Pennsylvania line  1777   4 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of Eight dollars per month to commence on 14 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd of Novem 1818 and sent to John Johnson [illegible] Judge
Newton N.J.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818   37.60
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 March 1819  48.00
$85.60
Revolutionary claim
Act 18th March 1818
Cy of Sussex N.J.
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33,332
Levy Invalid
File No. 33,332
Henry Impson
Lic Rev War
Act 18th March 18
Index Vol 2 Page 208
Arrangement of 1870
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I certify that it appears by the payrolls of the Pennsylvania Line in the revolutionary war in this office that the name of Henry Impson is included as a private in the roll of the 4th regiment of cavalry and that he was paid for the years 1780, 1781, 1782, and to the third day of November 1783 - also that he received his gratuity having served to the end of the war - Witness my hand and seal of the Office of the Auditor General this 20 day of August 1818
Geo. Bryan Aud. Gen
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Henry Impson
Pensioner
Copy of Affidavit 
4113
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District of New Jersey
On this twenty first day of August in the term of August in the year of our LORD eighteen hundred and twenty, personally appears in open court before the Judges of the interior court of common pleas in and for the County of Sussex in the State of New Jersey, the said court being a court of record in said county constituted and established by the laws of this state, a court of record having a seal, proceeding according to the court of common law, having power to fine & imprison with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount in civil causes and keeping a record of its proceedings.
Henry Impson aged sixty six years, resident in the township of Walpack in said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare and say that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:  he enlisted on the 4th of July 1777 for a term to continue during the war, in a company commanded by Captain Craig being the second troop of a corps of cavalry commanded by Colonel Stephen Moylan of the Pennsylvania legion and continued to serve in said corps three years and a half and was then discharged at Lancaster in Pennsylvania.  And this declarant doth further say that he has received from the War Department of the United States under the seal thereof and the had of J C Calhoun a certificate numbers 41136 of his being inscribed on the pension list rolls of the New Jersey agency, at the rate of eight dollars be month, payment to commence on the fourteenth day of April eighteen hundred & eighteen.  And the said Henry Impson doth solemnly swear that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of
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March eighteen hundred and eighteen and that he hath not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of his property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as being himself within the provision of an act of congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818.  And that he has not, nor has any person in trust for him, any property or securities, contracts or debt due to him, nor has he any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by him subscribed.  And this declarant doth further say that he is sixty six years old by occupation a labourer, but by reason of his age and infirmity is unable to procure a living thereby.  That he is in such indigent circumstances as to require the aid of government, or of public or private charity for his support and that he, this declarant, has no family.  
Sworn to & declared in open court the 21st day of August A.D. 1820
John Ogden
Henry X Impson - his mark
Schedule of the property of Henry Impson
Necessary clothing and bedding excepted
A pension of forty eight dollars a year, allowed to him by the State of Pennsylvania by reason of his having been wounded.
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court, the 21st day of August A.D. 1820
John Ogden
Henry X Impson - his mark
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I, Ephraim Green [illegible] Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copies from the records of the said court.  In testimony, whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this thirtieth day of August A.D. 1820
E. Green  Clerk of the Court for the County of Sussex
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[illegible]
Not to be found on the register
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M Boyd
Henry Impson
J C Calhoun
War Department
Pension Office
Washington
[illegible]
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District of New Jersey, Sussex County on this fourteenth day of April eighteen hundred and eighteen before me [illegible] one of the judges of the court of common pleas of the county of Sussex in the said district personally appears Henry Impson, aged sixty five years evident in the county aforesaid in the said district to bring by me his worry daily according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision [illegible] by the [illegible] 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. That he, the said [illegible] enlisted in New Jersey under Capt. Jno Craig for the year {illegible] the war in the year 1777 in the Pennsylvania Line, the 4th regiment of sight Dragoons commanded by Col Stephen Moylan. That he continued to serve in the said corps until the end of the way or the time of four years and about six months when he was discharged from service in Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania, and that he was in the Battle of Springfield  in Jersey, at the blockhouse in Bergen Point and at the taking of Lord C Wallace, and that he is in adduced  circumstances and that is in need of the support and assistance of his country. That he is infirmed and much afflicted with the rheumatism and no other evidence now in his power of his said service except the certificate of Jno Light & his [illegible] Jno Craig herewith enclosed
Sworn and declared before me on day year aforesaid
John Johnson
Henry X Impson = his mark
I John Johnson Judge of the court for the County of Sussex do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Henry Impson did serve in the revolutionary war was stated in the preceding declaration against the common & I am satisfied of my own knowledge of the need of his country for support enemy and I now trammit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me.  to the Secy for the war department pursuant to the direction of the documentation Act of Congress April 14 1813
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[illegible] applicants wish [illegible] to my care. J Johnson
Sir, I have since had before me Henry Impson and made a little alteration in his declaration - and enclose a certif for the Auditor General of Pennsylvania that no doubt will be satisfactory
I am Jno Johnson
Judge
This is to certify that the bearer Henry Impson did belong to the 4th Regt of Light Dragoons of Pennsylvania Legion commanded by Col Stephen Moylan in our Revolutionary War.  And that he served unto the end of said war. I was personally acquainted with him at that time having served as Forage Master to the end of the war in said regiment or legion myself.  Given under my hand at Lancaster the twenty third day of August 1916.
John Light
John Craig
Lt Capt
L D [illegible]
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The National Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Bounty Land Warrant Record Card
Name Henry Impson Grade Private
Line Pennsylvania
Warrant Number 9701  Acreage 100
Issued June 24 1793
Thomas Russell
Assigner
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776 and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.