Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 933, Isaac Henderson, New Jersey
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New Jersey   Henderson, Isaace    W. 933
                           Elizabeth
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5476.    Knoxville
Tennessee
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Elizabeth Henderson decd.
widow of Isaac Henderson
who served in the Revolutionary
N. J.
war, as a Private
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars 00 
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848, & end
26 Sept 1849, when she died
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Certificate of Pension issued the
19th day of July 18[cut off]
and sent to
J. K. McAna[cut off]
Rutl[cut off]
In[cut off]
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Payable to [cut off]
children
Recorded on Roll [cut off]
February 2, 1848,

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Reported
R H McManus
Oct. 28/56
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See letter 3 Sept 1831
to H Graham E

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20.309
East Tennessee
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Isaac Henderson
of Claiborne Co. in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Forman of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Ogden in the N. Jersey
line, for the term of three years
from 1776 to 1780
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Inscribed on the roll of East Tennessee
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to
commence on the 4th day of February 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 16th of February 1831 and sent to Hon. Pryor Lea, House of Reps.
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Arrears to 4th of March 1831           $8.17
Semi-anu'l all'ce ending 4 Sept "    48.-
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                                                           $56.17
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Acts March 18, 1818,}
{and May 1, 1820. }

Rec. Book D
Vol. 9. fol: 102,
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Deposition of
Edmund Maples
the case of the Petition
of Elizabeth Henderson
for a Pension &c
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State of Tennessee Granger County

Be it Remembered That on This fifth day of June 1846 personally appeared Edmand Maples a citizen of this County well known to me and after being duly Sworn on the Holy Evangelist and according to the Laws of this State and being duly cautioned to Speak the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth touching the matters of Elizabeth Henderson for a pension; deposeth and Saith as follows.  That according to the best of his knowledge he is aged about Seventy three years that he was present at the marriage of Isaac Henderson the Pensioner refered to in the declaratives Declaration, that he was the Person who went to Jonesboro and at the Clerks office got the Licence for them.  I was at that time neither a man fully nor yet quite a Boy but was just at the age to think myself a man; I think I was about Seventeen years old; so I  might have been turned into my eighteenth year.  They were married about the last day of May or first of June at her Fathers house; these facts I am positive in; and I know that was the Same year of the Tipton and Sevier Battle, under the Frankland Government, and on the best knowledge I have of the facts of my own age
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when the marriage took place.  One John Whiteacer a Baptis Preacher married them; The foregoing facts I performed; saw them and know them; both as to the facts of the Savier War with Lipton; and the Frankland Government.  The dates of which would be easy known from the History of those times compared with this my testimony and see if it does not agree as to date with the facts refered to.  I have reflected much on the whole Subject since I gave my Deposition two or three years since; and having then been taken without reflection, I am fully satisfied that I might have commited errors as to dates in my former Deposition but entirely unintentionally, having not then thought of the subject for many years before.  I know of nothing more that rekurs to me that will throw further light on the subject except by compareing this Deposition with my former one it will be seen that the Same Historchal facts are refered to; which fixes dates correct in both; and perfectly recoverable; futher this Deponent Saith not.  Sworn to and Subscribed before me the day and year first above written
  Edmand (his mark) Maples
Elijah Evans [ his seal]
Justice of the Peace for
Grainger County.
  And I further certify that the Deponent Edmand Maples is and has been for the last forty or fifty years well known to   .&.
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by me; and has a character entirely immpeachable for veracity, truth and integrity; and his statements upon oath is entitled to full faith and credit given under my hand and seal this fifth Day of June 1846
Elijah Evans [his seal]
Justice of the Peace for
Grainger County

State of Tennessee  )
Grainger County      ) 
I Edward Tate Clerk of the County Court of the County of Grainger and State of Tennessee do hereby certify that Elijah Evans whose name appears to the foregoing Deposition of Edmand Maples in relation to the application of Elizabeth Henderson for a Pension is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County and was at the time of signing the same duly commissioned and Sworn acording to the Laws of this State and full faith and credit should be given to all his acts as such, and that his Signature is jenuine, and in his own proper hand writing.  In Testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed my seal of office; at office in Rutledge this 11th Day of June 1846
Edw. Tate Clk
By Wm T. Tate DC
[seal affixed]
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Isaac Henderson
Pension Declaration &c.
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State of Tennessee  )   September Session 1830
Claiborne County    )   County Court

     Original Claim

  Declaration in order to be placed on the Pension list under the Act of 18th March 1818 -
  Clairborn County State of Tennessee, o the County second day of September A.D. 1830 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for Clairborne County, having the power of fine and imprisonment, Isaac Henderson, resident in said county being about Eighty years of Age - being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provenons made by the Act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820.  That he the said Isaac Henderson, enlisted for the term of three years on the ___ day of ___ AD 1776 in the New Jersey Red Coal Regiment belonging to the New Jersey line, commanded by General Maxfield And Colonel Ogston or Ogdon their christian names not recollected and that he served in the Company commanded by Captain Combs, a part of the time and then was transferred to the company commanded by Captain Barris in whose company he continued to served until the time of service, of the three years expired. And was then discharged from the service at a place called Baskanridge in
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New Jersey, And He further states that afterwards he entered into the Regiment of the Maryland Troops, or line commanded by General Smallwood and Colonel Peter Adams for and during the war.  That he served in the company commpany (commanded?) by Captain Woolford a part of the time, and afterwards in the company commanded by Captain Revelee in said Regiment and last in the company commanded by Captain Forman and that he continued to serve in said Regiment and company until the War terminated, and that he was then discharged from the service at Annapolis in the State of Maryland.  That he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension whatsoever, except the present.  That his name is not on the Roll of any State Except -  And that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension.  That he did not know until four or five years past, that he was entitled to one.  And that he has not been able to make the necessary proof of his having served in the war as above stated untill lately.  And in pursuance of the Act of the 1st May 1820 I do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the on the 18th day of March 1818.  That I have not since that time by gift, sale or otherwise disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to deminish it so as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled an Act
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to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the Revolutionary War passed the 18th day of March 1818 - And that I have not or has any person in trust for me any property, security or securities, Contracts or Deeds due to me - nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed.  That is to say -
Schedule of my property -
1 Cow worth - - - - - -$8.00
1 yearling Do - - - - - - 2.00
1 Bed and furniture - - 8.00
And a few arcles of
household furniture - - 4.00
                                    $22.00

That he is a Keeper of a Mill by Occupation but has no interest whatever in said mill.  And is now so Old and infirm that he is not able to perform the duties of a miller but from necessity has Will to try to do a little in order to get something to live upon.  And he further states that he believes he will have to quit attending the said mill owing to his inability to do it.  That he has a wife about seventy years of Age and very infirm.  And that they have no children living with them, nor have they anybody else to assist them in any way towards making a support that since the 18th of March 1818 there has been little or no change taken place in his property, that at that time he had nothing but a milch Cow a bed yearling and a very few articles of household
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furniture, that he has endeavoured to keep a milch Cow which he returned in his schedule as above together with her Calf which is now a yearling- Bed and furniture &c. as above this he states as this truth with respect to any change in his property since the 18th Day of March 1818.
  Isaac (my mark) Henderson
Sworn to in Open Court        )
22d day of September 1830  )
County Court Benj. Cloud Clk )
by his deputy Benj. F. Cloud   )
   The Court upon hearing the said Isaac Henderson on oath touching the foregoing statement and Schedule are of opinion that the whole are substantially correct all of which together with the opinion of the Court; It is ordered to be copied & Certified to the Secratory(sp) of War of the United States.  It is ordered to be certified the opinion of this Court that the property returned in the Schedule of Isaac Henderson at September term 1830 of this Court preparatory to his obtaining a pension from the United States is a true account of all the property the said Isaac Henderson had.  And that the value hereof is twenty two dollars.  And it further appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Isaac Henderson is a citizen of Claiborne County Tennessee.
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State of Tennessee
  I Benjamin Cloud Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Clarborne County do hereby Certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said Isaac Henderson did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceeding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of three years, under one regiment, on the Continental establishment, I also Certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court; And I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total Amount in value of the property exhibited in the annexed schedule is twenty two dollars -
[clerk seal]
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my and affixed my private seal (having no public Seal of Office at Office in Safewell) the 29th day of September A D 1830.
  Benjamin Cloud Clerk 

I certify that Benjamin Cloud was Clerk as stated in the foregoing certificate at the date of it, and that there was no public seal of his office at that time, as I confidently believe - that the signature and certificate are in the hand writing of the son of the Clerk, who has been and continues in the habit of writing and doing other business in the Clerk's office for his father.  Oct. 12, 1830.
   Pryor Lea
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State of Tennessee  )
Grainger County     )
  On this fifth day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before me Jesse F Bealor a Justice of the peace in and for said County Elisabeth Henderson a resident of said County aged eighty four or five years; Who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provenon made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;  That she is the widow of Isaac Henderson who was a private in the Continental line of Virginia she thinks, and served in all the Campaigns in Maryland Pennsylvania New Jersey and New York from the year 1777 untill the year 1781 as well as she recollects under Genl Washington Genl Wayne Genl Mughlenburg and Stark and was in all the hard fighting and suffering during the time stated at Valley Forge Whiteplains at Stoney point Brandywine and many other places not now recollected as She is informed and believes, {interlineated: a part of the services referd to she knows of herself) and was wounded by a gunshot in both knees and was entirely a cripple in the latter part of his life for  many years before his death And received a certificate of pension she thinks in the latter part of the year 1832 and placed on the pension Roll at Knoxville in East Tennessee for payment at a full Pension for a private and she thinks the amount was either eighty or ninety six
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It may have been in 1833 when he was put on the pension list for her memory has much failed her since his death.  She thinks he was pensioned under the act of Congress (interlineated: 7th of June,) 1832 but of this fact she is not certain it might have been some former law; but that he was pensioned She knows the fact; She states that She then resided in Clarborne County and although his certificate come to hand some (interlineated: short) time before his death he never drew in his lifetime any of the money, for he was laying on his death bed when it come to hand, and died as well as She recollects about the first of September 1832; Some time, she thinks the following year she made the proper proof of her marriage to her said husband Isaac Henderson and, by power of attorney made to a Mr John Sharp drew the money due him up to the time of his death at which time the certificate of pension was returned along with her receipt by her attorney and power of attorney to the department with the record of the Court as she is informed and believes for the proof of her husbands services  She would refer the Commissioner to the testimony on which her said husband was pensioned; and for the facts relating to her having the money and her being his lawful widow She would refer the department to the record of the Court on file to the certificate returned and her receipt filed with them when she received the money by her attorney John Sharp whose
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deposition is hereto affixed and to which she would refer the department; the same testimoy will prove that she has remaind a widow from the death of her husband to the present day having never maried since;
  She states that her name before her marriage was Elisabeth Maples to her said husband daughter of William Maples who was a resident of Washington County in what was then a Teritory of North Carolina now the State of Tennessee and that part which is Carter County in this state on Walaugh River in the neighbourhood of the Taylors and Melvins and was then maried to her said husband under what was calld the Frankland goverment She thinks about four and a half years before the convention met at Knoxville to make the constitution for the State of Tennessee, and as her memory has much faild of late years and and no record to go by She is obliged to refer to some facts containd in the history of the times to arive at the proper date of her mariage it seems from the date of the convention which closed the 6th of February 1796 that she was moved in 1789 or 90 either four years and eight months before or five years and eight months before - she does not know which but she does know it was one or the other of the dates referd to; and she would here explain a seeming contradiction in her Declaration sent on to the board of war some time back and which has been returnd to her She stated that She was maried in June 1797 when She intended to say the convention met as she thought in 1797 and should there have stated that she was maried four
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years before that time; that is five years and eight months before or four years and eight months before the sitting of the convention for she knows that she was maried before the Election to elect the Members to Knoxville and she knows she was maried before Col Tipton and the other (interlineation; ?) party was about to have a war with each other about the Goverment and she knows it from this, that She spent many sleepless nights for fear her husband would be in a battle and might be killd; and from all of these circumstances She can safely say She was maried the last day of June or the first of July Seventeen hundred and ninety one or two for she was maried about the begining of the strife which was four or five years before it was setled; but She has not been able to procure any records of family register in proof and now obliged to rely upon her memory alone the depositions of Edmond Maples Prudence Hopson John Sharp and James Maples will show the time or nearly so; in accordance with her memory as to the time of mariage these persons saw her maried and She is willing as her memory has so much failed to rely on what they may and have said as to the time; She was maried by a licence from the Clerks office and one John Whitacor a Baptist preacher maried them according to the laws of the land at her fathers house in Washington County as stated above, at the time stated and lived in the same neighborhood some years then moved to south carolina and remaind there about four years and then moved to Clarborne County where she resided untill his death since which time I have lived in this County near the line and some
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times in Claiborne to the present, she States she has been somewhat tedious in a detail of his case but she has been so, so as to enable the department to ar[r]ive at the whole facts of her case and to satisfy her own mind as to the exact time of her marriage She further declares she was married to the said Isaac Henderson on the last day of June or first day of July Seventeen hundred and eighty nine or ninety,  that her husband the aforesaid Isaac Anderson
died in September one thousand eight
hundred and thirty two That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four Viz at the time and place above stated.
                her
Elizabeth  X Hendry
               mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day and
year first written before me.
Jesse F. Beeler
Justice of the peace
for Grainger County

And I Jesse F. Beeler do further certify that from infirmity and extreme old age and living a distance of fourteen miles from the court
house and a bad mountain to cross consider
it entirely impracticable to have attempted
to have carried Elizabeth Henderson the
forgoing declarant for a pension to the
Courthouse to have made her Declaration and if attempted might have been attended
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fatal consequences to her.  She is of good
moral character and respectable and I am fully of opinion her statements are true relative to the time of her marriage as to her being the lawful widow of Isaac Henderson the deceased pensioner has never been doubted and from the evidence before me consider her entitled
under the law of the United States of the 7th of July 1838 which is now before me given under my hand and Seal this fifth day of August 1843.
Jesse F. Beeler
Justice of the peace
for Grainger County
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State of Tennessee }
Grainger County }  Be it known that on this 26th day of May 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the said County & State aforesaid Edmund
Maples a citizen and resident of said County and being duly sworn according to law deposeth and sayeth as follows to wit Viz  That he is well acquainted with Elizabeth Henderson the present applicant for a pension and have been for the space of sixty years and knows of his own knowledge that she was married to
her late husband Isaac Henderson who was a pensioner on the United States and who is now dead he states that they was lawfully Married in the upper part of this State on Watauger River in what was then the County of Hawkins or Washington in the then territory of North Carolina mar[r]ied on a license by one John Whitacer a Baptist preacher about the first of June or first of July 1797 at her fathers house.

Quer. 1} Please state the time of Isaac Hendersons death and also if you know state whether or not the Elisabeth Henderson now present has since married and if she is a widow still or whether she was a widow on the 3rd of March 1843, and if you know her to be the wife Widow & Relict of the Identical Isaac Henderson the pensioner deceased and the same that died
near John Sharps in Claiborn County.

Answer } He died about eleven years ago and 
Elizabeth Henderson the present applicant has
not since married, and was a widow on the
third of March 1843 and I know her to be
the Identical Elizabeth Henderson who was the
wife of the deceased pensioner Isaac Henderson.
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Depositions of
Edmund Maples
and

in favor of
Elizabeth Henderson 
for a Pension


2191
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State of Tennessee  )
Grainger County     )

Be it known that on this 19th day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeard before me Jesse F Beeler a magistrate in and for the County and State aforesaid Prudence Hopson who being first duly sworn according to law the truth to speak the whole truth and nothing but the truth touching the matter of Elisabeth Henderson for a pension in right of her deceased Husband Isaac Henderson who was a soldier of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States Deposeth and Sayeth as follows Viz  That She is aged fifty nine years old  That She was well acquainted with Isaac Henderson the deceasd pensioner for forty years before his death; and was present at the house of William Maples when he was maried to Elisabeth Maples, the daughter of William Maples; who has made this declaration for a Pension.  I can State that they were lawfully maried in what is now the State of Tennessee then a Teritory of Northcarolina on the Watauger River either in Hawkins or Washington County or what was then a County of the Teritory; by one Parson John Whitacer a Baptist preacher for I was present when it took place as Stated above fifty two or three years ago and was but a small girl seven years old
Ques  ) Pleas State how long it has been since Isaac Henderson died and whether or not you know whether or not there
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the present applicant Elizabeth Henderson
is the Identical person you saw Mar[r]ied to Isaac Henderson the deceased pensioner to whom a certificate of pension was granted.
Answer }. I do know she is the Identical person which I saw Mar[r]ied to Isaac Henderson 
deceased pensioner and he died in the fall of
1832 about the first of September as well as I recollect.

Ques. 2 }  Please State whether she has remained a widow since his death, and is
she a widow still or at this time?
Answer}  She has remained a widow & is still a widow and has never been married since I know of my own knowledge and further this deponant sayeth not.
                 her
Prudence  X  Hopson
                mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day and
year first above written before me
Jesse F. Beeler
Justice of the peace
for Grainger County

And I Jesse F. Beeler further certify that the for[e]going named Prudence Hopson who deposed and have sworn to the above and for[e]going deposition and subscribed to the same stands fair for truth and integrity on oath
and I give it as my opinion full faith and credit should be given to her statements on oath I also certify that the for[e]going deposition containing Two pages was taken correctly down in my presence given under my hand and seal this 19th day of May 1843.
Jesse F. Beeler
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State of Tennessee )
Grainger County     )   Be it known that on this 26th day of May 1843 personally appeard before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the said County & State aforesaid Edmund Maples a citizen and resident of said County and being duly sworn according to law deposeth and sayeth as follows to wit Viz  That he is well acquainted with Elisabeth Henderson the present applicant for a pension and have been for the space of Forty years and knows of his own knowledge that She was maried to her late husband Isaac Henderson Who was a pensioner on the United States and who is now dead he states that they were lawfully maried in the upper part of this State on Watauger River in what was then the County of Hawkins or Washington in the then Teritory of Northcarolina maried on a licence by one John Whitacor, a Baptist preacher about the first of June or first of July 1797 at her fathers house
Ques 1 )  Pleas state the time of Isaac Hendersons death and also if you know state whether or not She Elisabeth Henderson  now present has since maried and if she is a widow still or whether she was a widow on the 3rd of March 1849 and if you know her to be the wife widow & relick of the Identical Isaac Henderson the pensioner deceasd and the same that died near John Sharps in Clarborne County.
Answer)  He died about eleven years ago and Elisabeth Henderson the present applicant has not since maried, and was a widow on the third of March 1843 and I know her to be the Identical Elisabeth Henderson was was the wife of the deceasd Pensioner Isaac Henderson
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Question 2}  Please State where she Elizabeth Henderson has resided since the death of his husband Isaac Henderson and how far from you.
Answer }  She has resided in Grainger and
Claiborne Counties for the last thirty years and never more than ten or twelve miles from me and further this deponent saith not.  
               his
Edmond  X  Maples
             mark

Sworn and subscribed to this day
and year last above written before
me.  John Bullard
Justice of the peace
for Grainger County

And John Ballard do further certify that the deponant Edmond Maples who deposed to the forgoing deposition and subscribed to the same is of good moral character and I give it as my opinion he is entitled to full faith and credit on oath. I also certify that the deposition above and for[e]going of Edmund Maples was taken down correctly in my presence.  Given under my hand and seal this 24 day of May 1843.
John Bullard
Justice of the peace
for Grainger County
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Amended Declaration
of Elisabeth Anderson
for a pension
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     Amended Declaration

State of Tennessee

On this eighteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty five personally appeard Elisabeth Henderson a resident of the County and State aforesaid before me Samuel B Day a Justice of the peace in and for Said County, and States that She is to the best of her knowledge and all the information she has been able to obtain about eighty or eighty one years of age.  Who being first duly Sworn according to the laws of the State doth on her oath make the following amended Declaration in order to obtain the provenon made by the Act of Congress passed the 7th of July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;  That She is the widow of one Isaac Henderson who was a private in the war of the Revolution and Served through Several Campaigns in the regular service in the State of Pensylvania New Jersey and New York During Several years all of which Satisfactory evidence is now on file with the department relative to which She deems it unnecessary to give particulars;  She will however advert to a few facts connected with his Services he was wounded in both his
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knees in one of the engagements he was in and became an entire cripple in all the after part of his life and much injured him all his whole life after receiving the wound referd to and after injuries while in the Service  I have a Personal knowledge of much of his Service as I have heretofore Stated on another occasion  Her Said husband was pensioned She thinks under the of 7th of June 1832 but of this She is not certain it might have been under some previous law for the benefit of the invalid of the Revolution  She is not able to give the exact date of her husands certificate but thinks it came to hand about the last of July or first of August 1832 but She will for that part of the proof refer the department to the Deposition of Mr John Sharp which is on file with the department Testimony more respectable cannot be from any source; he received it some short time before his death but never drew the monty during his life.  A Short time after his death which took place She thinks in the fall of 1832 She made the then necessary proof of her mariage and Mr John Sharp already referd to drew the money for her by Power of attorney, we then lived in Clarborne County on Mr Sharps land; and has resided in the County of Clarborne & Grainger County
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ever since his death living on the River which is the line between the Counties.

She states that she has no documentary
evidence relative to the time of her marriage but there is some facts recorded in the history of this Country which is adverted to by all the Witnesses which prove her marriage and fixes the date of her Marriage beyond a doubt to  in the year 1789 seal on the last day of June or first days of July of that year as she stated in her first Declaration she was married during the
strife between Col. Tipton and Governor Seveer and not long before the battle between them this fact she stated at first all the witnesses
advert to the same fact to fix the date of her marriage and for further proof would refer the department to Haywoods history of Tennessee; She would state that although the Witnesses
are all unlearned and have no records to fix dates they are respectable none moreso for veracity and truth as has been certified by the Justices who took their testimony; as to the error or blunder made in Edmund Maples
Deposition as to date she has learned that he never intended to say 1797 but meant to say at the time of the Seveer and Tipton War, and
stated he thought it was in 1797.
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when if he had of had any records to have referred to would have known, it was eight or nine years before the time for he adverted to the same historical fact which would have fixed the date at the time he now states.

She states herself and all her witnesses to the fact of her marriage as well as herself that she was married by oneJohn Whitacer a baptist preacher at her fathers house on the Watauger
River what was then Hawkins County Now Carter County in the State of Tennessee; at that time a Territory of North Carolina and while the Frankland Government was in force, the Records was during the political strife lost or destroyed mostly and licence bonds marriage returns are not nor cannot be found but in few cases and in consequence; The legislature of
this State passed a law as soon as it was organized into a state as she is informed and believes to Legalize all the marriages which took place under the laws of the Frankland Government in proof of which she would Refer the Department to Haywood Digest of the laws of Tennessee; Scotts Reversal of the laws of Tennessee and to Nicholas and Caruthers's Digest of the laws of Tennessee all of which she supposes and is informed and believes belong to the public library at the City of Kingston
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and she here would state that the testimony
of all the witnesses as to the fact of her
Marriage and date is perfectly reconcilable
They having no records to go by or dates, only from memory, taken at different times and places without any previous consultation all agreeing in the historical fact as to the date; all fixing the Tipton and Seveer was as the time all fixing the time of the Frankland government; as she is informed and believes according to all
legal decisions adds great credit to the
statements made by the witnesses that their agreeing in the historical facts which is part of the records of the County; although her own memory fails as to date and the witnesses may fail in dates by memory yet the recorded facts
of the time of the Seveer war fixes the date incontestably to have been in the year 1789
The last of June or first of July of that year and but that fact fixes her marriage some years previous to 1794 and the first day of January of that year.  She further declares that she was married to the said Isaac Henderson the pensioner the last day of June or first of July 1789 from the recorded facts already adverted to and that her said Husband Isaac Henderson
died about the first of September 1832. That she was not married to him previous to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four at the time and place stated above.   Sworn and subscribed to on the day and year before written before me Samuel B. Day  {seal}
Justice of the peace

                her
Elizabeth  X  Henderson
                mark
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And I do further certify that Elisabeth
Henderson the within and foregoing declarant
who has sworn and subscribed to the for[e]going amended Declaration is personally
known to me She is very old & helpless and entirely unable to go to the Court to make her declaration it is understood and believed that she is full the age she States if not older and I give it as my opinion from my acquaintance and the length of time I have known hers she is the lawful widow of Isaac Henderson the deceased Pensioner She is and has been always known as his lawful wife in his lifetime and his lawful widow since his death and believe she is entitled to full faith and credit in her statements on oath.  Given under my hand & seal this [blank] day of July 1845.
Samuel B. Day {seal}
Justice of the peace
for Claiborn County
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State of Tennessee }
Claiborn County }
I Thomas J.f Johnson Clerk of the County
Court of the County of Claiborne and State
aforesaid do hereby certify that Samuel B. Day
whose name appears to the forgoing amended
Declaration of Elisabeth Henderson for a pension is an acting Justice of the peace in and
for said County and was at the time of signing the same duly commissioned and sworn
according to the laws of this State and full faith and credit should be given to all his official acts as such and that his signature is genuine and in his own proper hand writing.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at office in Tazewell this 19th day of February 1846.
[seal affixed at left]

Thos. J. Johnston Clk
By his Deputy Wm. Neil
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Revy        WIDOW, &c.
------------
File No. 933
Elizabeth Henderson
Widow
Isaac Hender
Priv. Rev. War
------------
Act: Feb. 2. 1848
Index: -- Vol.- A , Page 323

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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To what time has the pension of Elizabeth Henderson, who was inscribed on the
Knoxville (Tenn) Roll, under the acts of July 7. 1838 & March 3d 1843 at $80 per Ann.
been paid?

Pension Office
June 28/50 
under act 17th 
March 1848.

pd. in full to 4th March 1844 and pd. in full June 1844 to 4th
B.L.B.
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No 11860     2
Elizabeth Henderson
widow of Isaac
Ten
A. Noel, Esq April 19, '45
Let. to Allen Hurst Aug. 26 '46
  "      "  Hon. W. Cooke Feb 18 '47
  "      "  J. R. McAnall  May 31 '47
  "      "  L. B. True Augt. 9 '47
act 7 July 1838
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No
Elizabeth Henderson
wid of Isaac
Ten.
act 2 Feby 48

admd, $80.00 p an.
from 4 March 1848
to 26 Sept 1849 the
day of her death
payable to Prudence
Hopson and William
Henderson only surviving children of
Elizabeth Henderson

J. K. McAnally
Rutledge
Grainger Co.
Tenn.
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State of Tennessee  }
Claiborne County  } County Court March Term 1858

Personally appeared in open court Wm Evans
and Herrod Hopson creditable witnesses and after being duly sworn (by the Clerk the Clerk of said Court) on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposeth and sayeth that they were well acquainted with Elizabeth Henderson whose daughter Prudence Hopson has made the
foregoing declaration. That said Elizabeth Henderson was widow of Isaac Henderson a Revolutionary Pensioner That said Elizabeth Henderson had three children, Edmund Maples, Prudence Hopson and William Henderson That said Edmund and Prudence are residents of this (Claiborn) County That the above named William Henderson removed from this County many years ago and they do not know what has become of him and have not heard of him for several years and cannot tell whether he is dead or alive They further swear that the said Elizabeth Henderson remained a widow until her death That she died on the 26th day of Sept.  1849 in the 7th civil district of Claiborne County Tennessee. And the aforesaid County Court  being satisfied that the above affiants are men of credit and that the foregoing statements are true order the same to be put to record.   In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office in Tazewell LS  This 4th day of March Anno Domini 1850

State of Tennessee
Claiborne County   I, Thos J. Johnson Clerk of Claiborne County Court
And the said Court approve the act Wm Bullerd Esqr. one of the body of said Court who has taken the within declaration of Prudence
Hopson out of Court  The said Court do hereby Ratify and endorse the same.  In Testimony whereof I hereunto set hand and affixed the
seal of said  Court at Tazewell this 4th day of March 1850.
L. S

Thos. J. Johnson
Clk
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Declaration

Under the act of congress of 2nd February 1848 making further provisions for surviving widows of soldiers of the Revolution

State of Tennessee  }
Claiborne County  } On this 4th day of March 1850 Personally appeared before me Wm. Bullard a Justice of the Peace in and for the State and County aforesaid Prudence Hopson and makes the following declaration on oath in order to obtain the arrears of Elizabeth Henderson (her Mother) widow of Isaac Henderson Pension that was due said Elizabeth
Henderson Widow of Isaac Henderson under the act of Congress passed the 2nd of February 1848 Granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war That her mother Elizabeth Henderson was the widow of Isaac Henderson who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and received a Pension of $80 per annum at the East Tennessee agency for paying Pension at Knoxville That this affiants mother Elizabeth Henderson (as this affiant is informed and believes was inscribed on the Pension list under the acts of 1838 1843 and 1844) She further declares that her Mother the aforesaid Elizabeth Henderson widow of Isaac Henderson Died a widow on the 26th day of Sept. 1849 in Claiborne County Tennessee This affiant further swears that said Elizabeth Henderson had an Illegitimate son before she ever married
named Edmund Maples that sd Maples is now a resident of this (Claibourne) County that said Elizabeth Henderson after Marriage Bear this affiant Prudence & a son called William Henderson said William removed from this country many years since that this affiant does not know whether the said William is living or dead for she has not heard any thing about him for many years  She hereby declares that she is a child of the identical Elizabeth Henderson who was the widow of Isaac Henderson who drew a pension at Knoxville Tennessee all of which will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.  Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written before me
Wm Bullard
Justice of the Peace

                her
Prudence  X  Hopson
               mark

I certify the above affiant is personally known to me and is a creditable person I further certify that I was intimately acquainted Elizabeth Henderson this affiants mother and widow of Isaac Henderson who was a Revolutionary
Pensioner and that Elizabeth Henderson filed her claim for a pension and employed Dr. Noel to prosecute her claim and after the death of Dr. Noel she got James M. Anderson of Knox County Tennessee to attend to her claim for her But I am not aware that he obtained her pension for her or or if he did he never paid it to her.  Given under my hand and seal the 4th day of March 1850.
Wm Bullard  {seal}
Justice of the Peace
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No 11860
Sct. 43.9344

Elizabeth Henderson
Widow of Isaac
Ten
Act 7 July 1838
Married before 1794

Admd 2 years for
$80.00 per an.

Admd act 3 March 1843
and 17 June 1844
$80th per an.

S. B. True
Present
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10335

Tennessee
---------------------------
Elizabeth Henderson
Widow of Isaac Henderson
who was a pensioner under the Act of [blank]
and who died on the 12th July, 1831,
of Grainger Co. in the State of Tenn.
who was a private in the Compy
commanded by Captain Forman of the
Regt. commanded by Col. Ogden in the
Revolution ['line' crossed out] for 2 years
-----------------------------
Inscribed on the Roll of Knoxville
at the rate of 80 Dollars -----
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
-----------------------------
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of
August 1847 and sent to L.B. True Present
----------------------------
Total amount,                          $400.00
                                                  _______

[Act July 7, 1838.]

Recorded by Th. Lumpkin Clerk,
Book D  Vol. 1   Page 347

Reported
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[left side]
Reported
Letter to L. B. True Oct 18. 1847
Let. to same Jany. 6, '48
     "     Hon A. G. Watkins 16 Jan. 1850

[right side]
8248
Tennesee  Knoxville 
Elizabeth Henderson
widow of Isaac Henderson
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Husband died 12 July 1831.
---------------------------
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars ---
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
---------------------------
Certificate of Pension issued the
26th day of Augt. 1847
and sent to L. B. True
Present
----------------------------
[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844.]

Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2  Page 192
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the
Act of Congress passed May the 15th A.D. 1828, Entitled an Act for the benefit and relief of certain Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army

State of Tennessee }
County of Claiborne } SS
On this 23th day of Oct, A D. 1847 personally appeared before me Samuel Day one of the
acting Justices of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Elizabeth Henderson of said County and State, who being duly sworn according to the Laws of this State for securing Witnesses or Applicants deposes and says that she is the Widow of Isaac Henderson who was a private in the Revolutionary war in the New Jersey Continental Line, and that she is the Identical Elizabeth Henderson who has already filed an application in the War office at Washington for the benefits of the Acts of Congress of the 7th
of July A.D. 1838 and the 17th of June A.D. 1844; granting pensions to certain Widows; and that she hereby now applies in addition for the benefits of the above mentioned Act of the 15th of May 1828. That the pension due her Husband: said Isaac Henderson, under said
Act. from the 3d of March 1826, up to the date of his death that the same be allowed and paid to her as his Widow agreeable to the several provisions of Congress in such case made and provided.
                my
Elizabeth  X  Henderson
               mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me Samuel Day Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid on the day and year first above written in the above declaration and I further certify that the present Applicant Elizabeth Henderson is the Identical same
person who she states & declares herself, to be in the foregoing declaration and that I know this fact
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from her having been sworn to one or two Declarations before me heretofore as also from the fact of living near here for the last eight or ten years & I further say that she is wholly unable to appear in open Court from age & infirmity.
Samuel Day  {SS}
Justice of the Peace in and for
the County of Claiborn
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Deposition of Edmund Swinney
in the cause of the application of Elizabeth
Henderson for a Pension
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State of Tennessee Claibourn County
Be it Remembered that on this fourth day of
May in the year of our Lord 1846, personally appeared Edward Swinney a citizen of the County well known to me and after being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists and according to
the Laws of this State and being duly cautioned
to speak the truth and nothing but the truth
touching the matter of Elizabeth Henderson
for a pension deposeth and saith as follows: that according to the best of his knowledged he is aged about Seventy five years that he was present at the marriage of Isaac Henderson the Pensioner referred to in the Declaration; that himself went to Jonesboro and procured or assisted in & doing so of the Clerk the marriage Licens[e] for the said Isaac and Elizabeth Henderson: that he was well acquainted with both of them before and after their marriage: that Edward Maples went with this deponent after his marriage Licens[e]: and I myself was present when the marriage took place, between the Pensioner, & the present Applicant; and that the facts stated in her amended declaration are true within the knowledge of this deponent: that the marriage between the pensioner & the present Applicant took place 1789 or the first part of the summer of that year deponent thinks about the first of June; previous to the Savier and Tipton Battle which was as he thinks in the
year 1789. they were married by one John
Whitacre, a Baptist Preacher and that his
marriage took place under what were then
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called the Franklin Government.  It is now the present Applicant Elizabeth Henderson is the identical same person I saw married to the former pensioner Isaac Henderson: This Deponent thinks it was then in what was called Hawkins County but now a part of Carter City, while the Country was but little else but the virtue & foliage of the extended Landscape; Deponent is confident that this marriage took place previous to the year 1794. Deponent were then intimately acquainted with the family: and is yet well acquainted with the present Applicant & knows her to be the Widow & relict of Isaac Henderson the Deceased Pensioner
& have been and still is well acquainted with
their children; and this deponent will further
state that the present Applicant is a woman
whose character for truth & veracity is good
and unimpeachable; and further this deponent
saith not.  Sworn to and subscribed before
me the day and year above written.
               his
Edmund  X Swinney
             mark

Thomas Whiteted  {SS}
Justice of the peace
for Clairborn County
Justice of the Peace
for Claiborn County

And I further certify that I am well acquainted
with Edmund Swinney and have been for
several years and that he maintains a good
moral character & that I give it as my opinion that he is entitled to good faith & credit as a Witness: that his veracity is unimpeachable
given under my hand and seal this [blank] day of June 1846.
Thomas Whiteted {SS}
Justice of the Peace for Claiborn County
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State of Tennessee }
Claibourn County }
I Thomas J. Johnston Clerk of the County
Court of Claibourn County and State of
Tennessee, do hereby certify that Thomas
Whitead whose name appears to the foregoing
Deposition of Edmond [blank] in relation to the application of Elizabeth Henderson for a Pension is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County: and was at the time of signing the same duly commissioned and sworn;
according to the Laws of this State: and full
faith and credit should be given to all his acts as such, and that his signature is genuine and in his own proper hand writing:

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my seal of office at office in Tazewell; this 8th day of June 1846.
Thos Johnson
Clerk of said
Court
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County Court August Term 1843

State of Tennessee }
Grainger County }  Elizabeth Henderson Widow
Application for a Pension

From the evidence in this case exhibited before the Court on the original Declaration and the proceeding had before Jesse F. Beelar Esqr.
one of the members of this Court We fully approve of the proceedings had before said Jesse F.Beelar Esqr. and fully concur in opinion
that the said Elizabeth Henderson Widow &c.
is entitled to a pension from the United States
agreeable to the act of Congress.

State of Tennessee }
Grainger County  }   I Edward Tate Clerk of the County Court for said County Do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and perfect copy of an Order made by the
County Court of Grainger County aforesaid at their August Term in the year 1843 in the case of an application of Elizabeth Henderson Widow for a pension as recorded in the minutes of said Court in my Office.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and Seal of Office at Office in Rutledge the 24th Day of December 1844.
Edward Tate Clerk
[seal affixed at left]
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State of Tennessee } 
Grainger County }   I Edward Tate Clerk of the County Court for the County of Grainger aforesaid Do hereby Certify that Jesse F. Beelar Esqr. whose name appears to the foregoing Declaration of Elizabeth Henderson and affidavits thereto affixed and his name to the Deposition of Prudence Hopson and the name of John Bullard Esqr. whose name appears to
the Deposition of Edmund Maples and certificate thereto affixed and also the name of James S. Talbot Esqr. whose name appears to the Deposition of James Maples and affidavits of John Nance any John Perrin and certificate thereto affixed are all in support of Elizabeth Hendersons claim for a pension and hereto affixed are all acting Justices of the peace in and for said County duly Elected Commissioned and qualified according to the Constitution and Laws of the State of Tennessee and was at the time of Signing the same acting as such. And that all their official acts are entitled to full faith and credit. And that their signatures appear to be in their own proper handwriting and Genuine

In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and Seal
of Office at Office in Rutledge
the 24th Day of December 1844
Edward Tate Clerk
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Sir

In answer to your communication of the 12th, in relative to the pension allowed Isaac Henderson, a Revy. soldier residing in Tenn.
which, it is alleged he never recd.  I have to state that owing to his delay in obtaining witnesses to his identity & Service the pension certificate did not reach him until he was unable by his last sickness to execute the voucher to draw the pension due.  His widow in her application for pension, circumstantially states the above fact, adding that she applied for the unpaid pension which she recd. up to his death in Sept. 1832 & the pension for the widow has also been paid up to her death in Sept 1849.

\
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July 6, 1846
Amended dec.
Elizabeth Henderson

Bull Run Tenn.
June 19th                             20


Washington City
Mr. Jas. L. Edwards  Comr of Pensions
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Mr. Jas. Edwards Com. of
Pensions   Sir    I herewith send enclosed
for the Department the amended declaration
of Elizabeth Henderson for a pension for the services of her Dec. Husband Isaac Henderson who was an invalid Pensioner of [illegible] I need not here speak at this time of the evidence of that is fully made out and on file in the Department, but of the marriage and
identity of her of the widow and relict of the deceased Pensioner I think from the proof heretofore taken and on file in this cause together with the explanatory Deposition of Edmond Maples herewith enclosed and the new and additional Deposition of Edmand Swinney a citizen of Claiborne County Tenn. whose 
knowledge of the marriage age of their
children family pedigree, and of the date
of there [their] several circumstances: together
with his most exceptionable character for
truth & veracity, which could be sustained by numerous other persons beside Thomas
Whitad the Magistrate who makes & gives his certificate of his good character. I hope that this Deposition with that amended of Maples & the declaration with the proof heretofore taken in the cause will entitle the ap[p]licant to her certificate. So I hope to hear from you soon.
I will give you a note of explanation in relation to this and the case of Mrs.
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Nancy Johnston the Widow of the late Dec. 
Pensioner William Johnston whose ap[p]lication
was presented to the Department some 18 months or two years since in the case of Nancy
Johnston I first undertook for her and Mr. 
Alfred Noel came into it to assist me and you will see that it is presented through [illegible] 
the Att. or Agent of Mrs Johnston when in truth I am that person having a regular power of Att.  to manage and mature her application if possible:  under there [their] circumstances Mr. Alfred Noel has some four or five weeks since departed this life & is no more: so you will under this circumstance address Mrs. Johnston or rather my-self as her Att. at Bull-run P.O.
Grainger County Tenn. as it would be doing me
a very great injustice for the business to
proceed further under the control of his
Executor &c. So if you have addressed Noel
since you received the last proof and the
amended declaration of Mrs. Nancy Johnston
you will confer a favor on me by dropping
me a line informing me the purport of your
lines to him; and if you have not, you will as above requested address me at Bull run: and you will see that my self & Noel were both concerned in this case of Mrs. Henderson, but since the death of Mr. Noel she has employed me alone to attend this case refusing to have any further assistance of business with the [illegible] of Noel Dec. So for the future you will
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me on this case also in regard to any matters
relative to either of those cases: So I will expect a reply as early as convenient: under your press of official business and please advise me of any informality error or any thing of the kind as my practice is Short in this business.   Yours verry respt.,
June 13th, day 1846
Allen Hurst
Att. for Nancy
Johnston &
Elizabeth Henderson
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Tazewell Dec. 29th 1830

Dear Sir

I inclose you the papers of Isaac Henderson claiming a Pension. They have been sent on twice & returned for want of same more proof & Discrepancy in that made & the Declaration: 
if Isaac Henderson has served in the Maryland Line - his name cannot be found on the Rolls of that line.  Hendersons Memory is so impaired he cannot give the names of the officers in their due order - Regiment &c.  which causes the difficulty--

There can be no question but he served in the Revolutionary war. perhaps you can arrange it with the Secretary of War; if not you might be enabled to have him placed on the Pension list by Congress:

The old man is extremely Poor
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And it would be an act of charity in you to interest yourself in his favour. Judge White & the other members of our State would no doubt assist you.

Twenty Copies of the Message is Received
& one document from Judge White.  I remain yours
Very Respectfully H. Graham
Prior Lea Esqr.
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Enlisted for wWar April
10 1777 Capt. Forman
Col. Finneas Pepiwill [?]
N.J. service transferred to
Invalid July 31 1779
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State of Tennessee }
Campbell County }
This day personally appeared before me John
Crage a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Campbell John Todd and a resident of the same after being duly sworn on the Evangelist of Almighty God doth say that he knew a certain Isaac Henderson of Claiborn County State of Tennessee who is now applying for a Pension.  That he is the Identical Isaac Henderson whois now applying for a Pension.  That he is the identical Isaac Henderson who served in the Revolutionary War in the Maryland Line. that he served in Colonel Peter Adams (or under him) regiment in a company commanded
by Captain Revillee, and was afterward transferred to a company commanded by
Captain Foreman and continued to serve in said Company as aforesaid until the end of the war
and was discharged at the Town of
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of Annapolis in the State of Maryland and this Deponent was well acquainted with said Isaac Henderson and knows him to be the same man - and said Deponent is not in any wise connected with said Henderson, or interested in any way in the success of the present application for a pension from the United States  -and further this Deponent saith not---
John Todd

Sworn to and subscribed 
this first day of October
1830 before me
John Crage Justis of the peace
A Justice of the Peace
for Campbell County

I John Crage an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Campbell and State of Tennessee do hereby Certify that John Todd the Above named is a man of respectability and is entitled to credit given under my hand this first day of October 1830.
John Crage Justice for [cut off]
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State of Tennessee }
Campbell County } SS
I Joseph Hart Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of said County of Campbell
do hereby Certify that John Craig Esquire before whom the forgoing Affidavit of John Todd appears to have been taken and by him attested is and was at the time of doing the same a duly commissioned, qualified and acting Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid and that, as such full faith and credit
is and ought to be given to all his official acts.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Office in Jacksborough the 1st day of Octr. A.D. 1830 
and of American Independence the 55th.
J. Hart

State of Tennessee }
Campbell County  } I Abraham Hayter 
Chairman of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions in for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Joseph Hart whos[e] name appears to the forgoing certificate is the Clerk of our said Court and that as such full faith & credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts .
Given under my hand & Seal this 1st day of October A.D. 1830.
Abrm Hayter   {seal}
Chairman of the Court
aforesaid

of the peas
Cambell county
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Affidavit 
of
J. Jordan
--------------
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State of Tennessee }
Knox County       }  Be it known that this day
person[al]ly appeared Before me Elijah Johnson one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for the County of Knox aforsd, John Jordan, a Citizen of Knox County and after being duly sworn according to law upon his oath saith that he was a soldier of the Revolutionary war and that he is acquainted with a certain Isaac Henderson of Claibourn County Tennessee, who is making application for a pention [pension] he states that he knew the said Henderson in the army of the United States that said Henderson and this affiant did serve together in the United States army in the Revolutionary war that said Henderson was a soldier in the New Jersey Red East Regiment commanded by Col. Ogston and that he served part of the time in the Company Commanded by Captain Combs, this affiant states that he knows the above mentioned Isaac Henderson to be the Identified same man that he served with in the Revolutionary war as above stated this affiant further states that he is no way interested in the ap[p]lication made by Isaac Henderson for one and further this deponant saith not-

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 13 day
of April in the year of our Lord 1830.
John Jordan

Elijah Johnson
Justice of the peace
For Knox County

State of Tennessee } 
Knox County }  I, Elijah Johnson the Justice of the peace before whom the above affidavit was made do hereby certify that I am acquainted with John Jordan, the above affiant and believe that his statements are entitled to full faith and credit.  Given under my hand and this 13th day of April 1830.
Elijah Johnson
Justice of the peace
for Knox County
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I, Charles McClung Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions for the County of Knox in
the State of Tennessee, by my Deputy William Swan, certify that Elijah Johnston before whom the within affidavit was made was then and
now is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said county m duly commissioned and sworn.

Given under my hand & Seal of Office at office, the 13th day of April 1830-
Chas McClung
Wm. Swan

I, James Park Chairman of the Court of pleas and quarter Sessions  for the County of Knox and state of Tennessee, certify that Charles McClung is clerk of said Court ,that William Swan is his Deputy, & that the foregoing certificate of the Clerk is in due form of law. Given under my hand the 13th April 1830.
James Park
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Land Office Annapolis January 24th 1831

Sir,

Yours of the 18th Inst was received; In answer
to which, I have to inform you, that I have carefully examined the old pay and muster Rolls, as also the Army Ledgers of the 
Revolution, and the name of Isaac Henderson does not appear on any of said records as ever having served in the Revolution, he must 
therefore certainly be mistaken about his having belonged to the Maryland line,

I have the honor to be,
Yr. obt. svt.
George G. Brower

Prior Lea Esqr
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Sparta Tenn. Oct 9 1836

Hon. Commisioner of Pensions

Dear Sir

The undersigned Attorney for the heirs of Isaac
Henderson a revolutionary Pensioner decd. of Claiborne Co. Tennessee. A Pension
certificate was made out by sd Department
in favor of his widow Elizabeth Henderson
Commencing the 4th of March 1843 & ending
the 4th of March 1848. It appears from the
Agency books at Knoxville Tenn. that the Certificate of Pension was received without any specification of time to be paid to the heirs of
Isaac & Elizabeth Henderson. William Henderson and Prudence Hopson and it also
appears that a portion of the money amounting to One hundred & Twenty four dollars & eighty
cents was drawn by one M.B. McMahon Atty. for the heirs.    The sworn deposition of Prudence Hopson shows, that her Mother made but one draw of sixty Two dollars before her death, and that was through James McAnley-That she had previous to that time employed James Anderson, and at another time, Alfred Noel, neither of them ever drew any thing, or
if they did she (her mother) never received 
any of the money. That with exception of the sixty two dollars, and also the three persons  named, she had never drawn any pension nor had she authorized any person to draw it for her.
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In regard to the facts stated she was positive 
that she was correct because her mother
lived with her up to her death.  The undersigned presents the substance of the sworn deposition of Prudence Hopson in order to show that Persons to which Elizabeth Henderson and also her heirs William Henderson were entitled have never been drawn by them, nor legally for hem. As the Pension Agency can give no further information on the subject the undersigned wishes to know whether are any duplicate receipts signed by John Cox or M.B. McMahon are on file in the Pension Office. Hoping the request will meet prompt attention. I have
The Honor to be Very
Resptfully &c.
R. H. M. Manus
Atty for the
Heirs of Isaac
Henderson Decd.

P.S. Is there on file in the Pension Office a duplicate receipt, of Elizabeth Henderson and the heir's William Henderson & Prudence Hopson.
Respt &c.
R H McManus
Atty
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Deposition of
John Sharp
in favor of
Elisabeth Henderson
for a pension
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State of Tennessee of }
[blank] County } Be it known that on this
Sixteenth day of May one thousand eight
Hundred and forty three personally appeared
before me Jacob Cloud a Justice of the peace in and for said County and State aforesaid John Sharp who first being duly sworn on the holy evangelist of Almighty God the truth to speak the whole truth and nothing but the truth touching the matter of Elisabeth Henderson for a pension in right of her deceased husband
Isaac Henderson who was a pensioner of the United States deposeth and saith that he is aged forty nine years old or thereabouts and that he was acquainted with Isaac Henderson the deceased pensioner and his wife widow and releck [relict] Elizabeth Henderson the present applicant for a pension for the space of thirty years or thereabouts and that some time in the
year 1832 about the [blank] of the month of August a pension was granted to him by the war department under I believe the act of Congress June 7th 1832 or it might have been some previous law for the sum of eighty per an[n]um whose certificate as well as I recollect issued some short time before the said Hendersons death which took place about last of July perhaps eighteen hundred and thirty two or
there abouts, some short time after his death his widow the present applicant Elizabeth Henderson made the proofs of his death and mar[r]iage in the
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County Court of Claiborn County in 
East Tennessee and made a power of attorney to draw the pension due the deceased pensioner up to the day of his death which was paid to me by Robert King their  agent for paying pensions in Knoxville for which I gave my receipts and which I suppose, is filed with the war department.  The year and month I do not recollect positively.

Question 1.
Pleas[e] State if you know whether she has ever been married since the death of her husband Isaac Henderson and if she has remained a widow ever since and if a widow still.
Answer - She never has to my knowledge and is a widow still.  I may be mistaken in point of date, for it may have been a year sooner or later than stated; or a different month and further this deponant sayeth not.   
John Sharp

Sworn and subscribed to the day and year first above written before me.
Jacob Claud. {seal}
Justice of the peace
for Claiborn County

And I further certify that John Sharp who was sworn and subscribed to the orgoing Deposition is a man of good Moral Character and full faith
and credit is due in my opinion to his statements on oath. I also certify that the forgoing Deposition was
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State of Tennessee
I Willy  Huffaker Clerk of the County Court of Claiborne County in said State do hereby certify that Jacob Claud whose name appears to the foregoing deposition of John Sharp is now and
was at the time of signing the same an acting justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified as such and that due faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such both here and else where and that the signature thereto attached purporting to be his is genuine.

In Testamony whereof I have hereunto
set my name and affixed the seal
of my office at office in the Town of
Tazewell this 20th day of May 1843 & of
the Independnce of the U.S. the 67.
Wiley Huffaker Clerk
[seal affixed at left]

[following is all crossed out:  'Note in taking the deposition from the {illegible}/ State of Tennessee Grainger County } I Edward Tate Clerk of the County Court for said County Do hereby certify that Jesse F. Beelar Esqr. whose name appears to the  declaration of Elizabeth Henderson for a Pension [illegible] Hopper hereto performed and that John [illegible] Esqr. whose name appears to the deposition of Mapl Edmund Maples are both acting Justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid and duly elected  commissioned and qualified according to the Constitution and Laws of the State of Tennessee and that their several Signatures appear to be in their own proper handwriting & 
that full faith & credit is due their official acts as such.  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set 
my hand and affixed my seal of Office at 
Office in Rutledge the 10th day of {cut off} 
1843.  And of American Independence the 67th.  Edward Tate Clerk']
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Deposition of
James Maples
& affadavit
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State of Tennessee ]
Grainger County ]
Be it known that on this 22nd day of October one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally appeared before me James D. 
Talbott a Justice of the peace in and for said County James Maples a citizen of said County aged seventy one years who first being duly sworn on the holy evangelist of Almighty God the truth to speak the whole truth and nothing but truth touching the matter of Elisabeth
Henderson for a pension in right of the Revolutionary services of her deceased
husband Isaac Henderson who was a
pensioner of the United States Deposeth
and sayeth as follows to wit Viz That he is well acquainted Elisabeth Henderson the present applicant and has been acquainted with her from his earliest infancy to the present time her name was Elizabeth Maples before her mar[r]iage to the said Isaac Henderson that he was well acquainted with Isaac Henderson also all his life after his marriage and was present at the mar[r]iage at my Fathers house on Walauger River in that part of the Country
which is now Carter County in the State of
Tennessee. At that time Washington County in the Territory of North Carolina about the time of the Frankland Gover[n]ment which as well as I recollect was in the year 1788 or 1789 the mar[r]iage took place about the last day of May or the first of June in one of the years last
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refe[r]ed to; she was married by one John
Whitacer a Baptist preacher by a licence under the Frankland Goverment as well as I recollect, but I know it was a lawful mar[r]iage according to the laws of the land.

Question 1st}  Mr Maples pleas[e] State if you
could be mistaken in the present applicant
and that of the dead pensioner Isaac Henderson being the Identical persons you saw
Married in the County of Washington about
the line between what was then Washington
and Hawkins Counties on the Watauger River
In Tennessee Then a Ter[r]itory of North carolina.
Answer} I cannot be mistaken in either of them having known Isaac Henderson since the marriage and Elizabeth Henderson who was Elizabeth Maples from my infancy and have known Isaac Henderson untill his death and know Elizabeth his wife to the present day and know them the Identical persons I saw married at the time stated above and the same she
represents herself to be in her declaration for a pension-

Ques 2d}  Mr Maples pleas[e] State if she is a widow still of Isaac Henderson the deceased pensioner and if she has ever married since his death so state and if she remains a widow still.
Answer}  The present applicant is the widow of Isaac Henderson deceased pensioner beyond all doubt and remains a widow untill this good day.

Ques 3}  Mr Maples pleas[e] State if you
recollect how old you was when the
Marriage
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took place.
Answer}  I was just begin[n]ing to conclude
I was a man about the time of the Marriage
somewhere between sixteen and twenty
years old as well as my recollection serves me.

Ques 4th}  
Pleas[e] State if there is any particular circumstance that enables you to know that the
Isaac Henderson here refer[re]d to is the same
man that was the pensioner.
Answer}   because he was wounded as I 
understood by a bullet in both knees & was lame during his life and is the same man that died at John Maples in Claiborne County East Tennessee.  Further this deponant sayeth not.
            his
James  X  Maples
           mark

Sworn and subscribed to the day and
year first written before me .
J.S. Talbott
Justice of the peace
for Grainger County

I further Certify that James Maples who has sworn & subscribed to the forgoing deposition is a man of good moral character and I give it as my opinion that his statements on oath is entitled to full faith & credit he is known to
to me and for several years past
given under my hand & seal this 22nd day of
October 1841.
J.S. Talbott    {seal}
Justice of the peace
for Grainger County
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State of Tennessee }
Granger County    }    Personally appeared
before the Subscriber James S. Talbott one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County John Nance and John Perrin
Respectable citizens and made oath in due form of law that that [sic] they have been acquainted with James Maples the deponant who has sworn & subscribed to the faicts contained in said deposition forgoing and that they would give his statements on oath full faith and credit Sworn & subscribed to this 22nd 
day of October 1844 before me.   
J.S. Talbott                  }  John Perrin
Justice of the peace
for Grainger County
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State of Tennessee }
Grainger County   }
On this fifteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally appeared before the subscriber
a Justice of the peace in and for said
Elizabeth Henderson a resident of the said County Grainger and State aforesaid aged eighty four or five years who being first
duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the 3d March 1843 granting pensions to certain widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war and
the benefits of the provision made by the act of June 17th 1844-  That she is the widow of Isaac Henderson who was a private in the war of the Revolution and the annual amount of the pension she is entitled to receive under the act of July 7th 1838 is eighty dollars per annum
She further declares she is a widow still or still a widow sworn to and subscribed to the day and year first above written before me.
               her
Elizabeth  X   Henderson
              mark

Jesse F. Beeler  {seal}
Justice of the peace
for Grainger County
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and I Jesse F. Beeler do further certify that
Elizabeth Henderson who has sworn and subscribed to the forgoing or within declaration is the Identical person she represents herself to be having known her for many years and cannot be mistaken in her identity given under my hand   and seal this 15th day of November 1844.
Jesse F. Beeler {seal}
Justice of the peace
for Grainger County
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Claibourne County
May the 11th 1847
Sir,
I have made J. K. McAnally my attorney to attend to making my proof in order to secure my Pension for me.
Yours &c
x her mark
Elizabeth Henderson
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Comm of Pensions
[paper torn] st H. E. Farmer[?]
Rutledge May the 12th 1847
Sir,
By the above you will see that Mrs. Elizabeth Henderson wants me to assist her in trying to get her claim to a Pension.
Please write what proof she lacks in sustaining her claim &c.
Respectfully Your Obdt Servt
J. L. Edwards Esqr 
Jas. K. McAnally
Forward your answer to Rutledge [Illegible]
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[Written bottom right corner] Red Hill Post Office [Paper torn bottom right corner, illegible]
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State of Tennessee
Grainger County
3rd of January 1845

Dear Sir 

I now enclose you the Declaration of Mrs Elizabeth Henderson with a great deal of Testimony, all concurring in point of facts and agreeing  generally as to dates; the case has been a long time on hand to try to place it beyond dispute as to the Justice of her claim the small discrepancies of the Testimony in point of time is I think perfectly reconcilable that of a number of witnesses all taken at
different time and places concurring in the General I think according to all the rules of evidence goes much to their credit.  The old lady is extremely old and in dotage and her
memory I have no doubt is much impaired as such I think we should look much more to the evidence in regard to the facts than the old ladies memory.  I hope she will have by you a considerate investigation and measure to the old lady the justice she is entitled to without regard to any technical errors in law and send her certificate to me at this office if allowed.
With great Deference
Yours Truly
A. Noel

J.L. Edwards Esqr.
C. of Pensions
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Oct 15 '47
Mr. Evans
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The Certificate in the matter of the Claim of Elizabeth Henderson  widow of Isaac Henderson of Tenn. Claiborne County has been some time since forwarded by me to Hon. Mr. Crozier of Knoxville Tenn. but the Post Office address was not given.

The power attorney to prosecute claims given 
to me by said Mrs Henderson dates Claiborne
Co. Tenn., & was forwarded from another Co.

Will the commissioner have the politeness to cause the Post Office address of Mrs H. to be
given that the same may be forwarded to Mr Crozier & oblige.
Very respectfully
Yr. Obedient Servt.
L.B. True

Col J. L. Edwards
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State of Tennessee } County Clerk's Office
Knox County }     Knoxville, Oct. 8th 1846
I, Geo. W. C. Cox, Clerk of the County Court of said County, do hereby certify that I have made due and diligent search among the files of Marriage Bonds and Licenses in my office, for the marriage Bond and License of Isaac Henderson and Elizabeth Maples, and that I have not, thereby, been enabled to find either the marriage bond or License of the aforesaid persons; and I do further certify, that from my own knowledge, there has been great neglect and failure on the part of those legally authorized to solemnize the rites of Matrimony to make return of the Marriage License into the Clerk's office as required by Law.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at office in Knoxville this 8th day of October 1846-
Geo. W. C. Cox, Clerk
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Deposition of Henry Sharp
in Elizabeth Hendersons
Application for a pension
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State of Tennessee }
Claiborne County |
Be it remembered that on this 22d day of
October A.D. 1846, personally appeared Henry
Sharp a Citizen of Claiborn County well known to me, and after being duly Sworn on the Holy Evangelists, and according to the Laws of this State for taking and administering oaths: and after being duly cautioned by me to speak the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth,
touching the premises and matter of the
Application of Elizabeth Henderson for a pension; for the services of her deceased
husband Isaac Henderson, deposeth and Saith as follows: that according the best of his knowledge he is aged Eighty years that he was not present at the marriage of Isaac and Elizabeth Henderson nor does he know positively where they ware [were] married or who by; but deponent will state most positively that he has been well and long acquainted with
the present Applicant and her husband Isaac Henderson deceased: that he was acquainted with them fifty Seven years ago that they then lived and cohabited together as man and wife and that they were then known and from then 
untill the death of Isaac Henderson as man and wife: that he never heard the marriage of these parties questioned or controverted during that whole time.
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Deponent further states that from all the time of his long acquaintance with those two persons, the relation manner and mode of living and cohabitation  the number and age of their children and universal acknowledgement of all
who knew them: that they were man and wife; that deponent has not ever can he entertain a doubt but that they were legally man and wife;
And Deponent will further state that his first acquaintance with these persons was before the organization of this Country into the State of Tennessee & our present Counties; and while this was yet called the Frankland Government, being a Ter[r]itory of North Carolina; and further this deponent saith not. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written
before me.            Henry Sharp
Thomas Whiteted     {seal}
Justice of the Peace for
Claibourn County

I further certify that I have been acquainted with
Henry Sharp the above deponent for a long
time of years at least forty two and that he has all that time maintained one of the best and most exceptional character of any citizen of the State of Tenn. and that his statements upon oath or otherwise are entitled to the most implicit confidence & credit.  given under my hand and seal the day & year last above written Thomas Whiteted
Justice of the Peace for Claibourn County
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State of Tennessee }
Claiborne County  } I Thos. J. Johnson Clerk
of the County Court of Claiborne County do hereby certify that Thos. Whiteted whose 
name appears to the foregoing certificate is
an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and Sworn as the Law directs and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all of his official acts as
such.

Witness my hand and seal of office at office in Tazewell the 23d of October 1846.
Thos J. Johnson
Clerk
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Bull Run Tenn.
Octr. 30th
un[illegible] unpaid. }. Paid 25

Washington City Pension office
To:  The Honorable
J.L. Edwards Comr. of Pensions



Nov. 13 1846

[illegible] case
Elizabeth Henderson
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Bull Run Tenn
Oct 30th   }    Paid 25
[illegible] and unpaid

Washington City Pension Office
To The Honorable
To.  The Honrable
J.L.  Edwards Comr. of Pensions


Nov. 13 1846
[illegible] case
Elizabeth Henderson
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Mr. J.L. Edwards Sir your lines of the 26th of Aug. were duly recd. by your strange friend the favor of which I am glad to acknowledge; though the information contained therein is not so favorable to my Applicant as she & I had expected, or desired; and hence I have taken the utmost care & means within the knowledge of the Applicant to still further satisfy and inform the department of the justness of this claim had I not been well satisfied of the
equity of this claim myself I would from the opinion of the Agent in the last letter; have abundance at once this claim, but being well convinced from all the information which I can
gather on the subject; that the present
Applicant is clearly entitled to a pension under the acts of Congress, and seeing her frail and [illegible] State of person her extreme poverty and scanty means of subsistance. I could not think of abandoning her wrights while any hope of success was indicated from the department.
the opinion of the department seems to be based partly upon the fact that the two last Depositions offered were assigned only by the Witnesses making their mark it is true. they were thus assigned but one of those Witnesses
could have written his name though badly & therefore it was wrote for him
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at his request: it is further alleged that the
Affidavit of Mr. Maples differs some this may be so though in the main it is likely they support the same facts: The first depo. was taken by Mr. Bullard in great haste and probably may have been incorrect in some particulars; but you leave me some hope in conclusion of your favor of the 26th, Aug. '46 saying that these two Witnesses agree in the main as also the Applicant on the subject of the marriage of those parties and say that their statements cannot be admit[t]ed without the production of the certificate of the Clerk of the Knoxville County Court which I have proceeded to get and herewith transmit it to the department with
two other depositions that of John Hammock
and Henry Sharp two of the oldest & most respectable citizens of the County in which they live; and let me here say that the Affidavit of Henry Sharp is wrote in his own hand in the true German hand which I thought but from the hint in your last favor; this being the only manner
in which he can write his name. I merely name this that the department may not be at a loss: for the manner of writing this name; you will see that there to last depositions prove only the family pedigree of those parties: which alone seems to be sufficient to entitle the claimant to
recover at least such testimony would if Henderson was living acquit them of
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a charge of Lredness; or entitle the children
of these parties to the recovery of a Legacy
out of the estate of Henderson if he had been
so fortunate as to have left any.  So I conclude my lines confidently expecting an early examination of these papers and equally confident of the Issue and transmitting of the Applicants  Certificates, so please let me hear from you at the earliest possible time.
Yours most respectfully Allen Hurst
Oct 30th, A.D. 1846
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Depo. of John Hammock
in the care of Elizabeth
Henderson Application for
a Pension
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State of Tennessee Grainger County
Be it remembered that on this [blank] day of
October A.D. 1846. personally appeared John
Hammock a citizen of Grainger County well known to me, and after being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelist and according to the Laws of this State for taking and administering oaths, and after being duly cautioned by me to speak the truth and nothing but the touching the matters of the application of Elizabeth Henderson the Widow of Isaac Henderson for a pension deposeth and saith as follows that according to the best of his knowledge he is aged about Seventy and years: that he was not
present at the marriage of the ap[p]licant with Isaac Henderson, nor does he certainly know where they were married but that affiant knew them more than fifty four years ago that they lived then in what was called Affiant believes
Hawkins County the then territory of North Carolina while this whole Country East Tennessee was under and called the Frankland
Government: that at that time Affiant knew
the present Applicant and Isaac Henderson
that they then and from that time until the death of Isaac Henderson lived and cohabited together as man and wife: that they ware known
and recognized as such; that during all the time which affiant knew-
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the present Applicant and her husband Isaac Henderson: he never heard their marriage controverted nor brought in question: that they were universally known and recognised as man & wife, as far as they ware known at al[l]; Affiant has no doubt from his long acquaintance with these parties that if they had been living together otherwise than Legally they would during that time have been detected and exposed: and that from the manner and time of
their cohabitation together and the number
and age of their children. Affiant most naturally and conclusively was bound to recognize them as man and wife; and further deponent saith
not.  Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written before me me.
John Hammock

Elijah Evans {S.S.}  
Justice of the Peace for
Grainger County

I further certify that John Hammock the
deponent in the foregoing deposition is personally and well known to me that as to truth
and veracity he has a good and impeachable
character; that I as a magistrate or jurist
would be bound to give him the fullest faith
and credit given under my hand and seal the
day & year first above written.  Elijah Evans [S.S.}
Justice of the Peace for Grainger County
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State of Tennessee }
Grainger County }    I Edward Tate Clerk of the
County Court for said County do hereby certify that Elijah Evans Esqr. whose name is signed to the foregoing affidavit is an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County of Grainger 
aforesaid duly Elected commissioned and qualified according to the constitution and Law of the State of Tennessee. And that his signature appears to be in his own proper handwriting, And that full faith and Credit is due his official acts as such.

In Testamony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of Office at Office
in Rutledge the 27th Day of October
1846.

Edward Tate Clerk
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Washington DC Nov 23d/47

Col J L Edwards

Sir,
Enclosed is the application of Elizabeth 
Henderson, Widow of Isaac Henderson, deceased of Tennessee for the Pension due her husband said Isaac H. under act of May 15th 1828. The Certificate for the same when issued
you have the politeness to deliver to the undersigned as the agent for Claimant & oblige.

Very Respectfully
Obedient servt.
L.B. True

Col J. L. Edwards
Commissionr. Pensions
Present
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Isaac Henderson, East Tennessee, act 18 March 1818
at $96.00 pr ann

To what time was he last paid?

Pension Office
August 24th '47

G.C.A.
Died 12th July 1831
Paid to his death
B.S. Bryan
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House of Reps.
Washington City
Feb 15th 1847.

Sir,

I am requested to ascertain what is the condition of the claim of Elizabeth Henderson Widow of Isaac Henderson deceased, and what proof is yet deemed necessary to establish her claim.

With great respect
Your Obt Servt
Wm. M. Cocke
-
Hon J. L. Edwards
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July 31 '47
Elizabeth Henderson


Col. Edwards
Commissioner Pensions
Present
Page 102

July 29/47

Col. Edwards

Sir: In the matter of Elizabeth Henderson
Widow of Isaac H. - whose claim has been reported upon by the Department as wanting
only of certain trifling evidence necessary to being allowed & which "call" has been complied 
with by the production to your office of said Evidence, had since been reported upon by your Office that the Original Declaration was in the hands of Hon. A. V. Brown who declares
he never had any knowledge of the existence, of this claim & certainly never had the Declaration mentioned.

Said widow belongs to the State of Tennessee, and desires me to examine her papers to know if the Declaration be there and also if certain other papers examined be there. Will you Sir have the politeness &c.
Very respectfully
Commr Pensions
L.B. True
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Washington D.C.  Aug. 10/47

Col. Edwards

Dear Sir,  In obedience to your [illegible] request I would specifically state that is the [illegible] Elizabeth Henderson widow of Isaac Henderson the Declaration was returned evidence as required by your office also the Declarations of Edward Mapes, Henry Sharp, Jno Hammock & Edward Swinney &c. were [illegible] as requested.  Upon the reception of the [illegible] the Office reports that the usual certificate of the clerk having charge of records of County Court that no evidence of a marriage license [illegible] appears upon said records for thte county in which said marriage was solemnized was in a [illegible] required before the claim could be adjusted and allowed [illegible] record plainly that upon the receipt of the same the claim would be allowed.
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But upon reception of same to the Office, with annexed papers above specified the Office reported that the original declaration was then 
in the hands of Aron V. Brown of Tenn. who states in a subsequent letter that the [illegible]
had no knowledge of the Existence of this claim.  The report was this day received from your office - states said Brown to have had the papers of Elizabeth Henderson & John Henderson [illegible] the mistake.

My enquiry now is if those papers above 
Specified especially the Clerks certificate
have been received at the Pension Office & if the same had been filed with the papers of the widow of Isaac Henderson & not with those of John [illegible] also if said papers have been received & so filed what further requisitions the office has to make before they can consent to allow this poor woman to have her rights by the laws, as now modified.
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require only such evidence of Marriage as will satisfy a Court of Justice & equity.

It will be made obligatory upon the office to show the nature & amount of evidence already furnished upon the point of Marriage in the case if not allowed access the Papers filed.

If any such be desired I will exhibit to the office proper authority & Powers to act as Agent & atty. in this case.

Very respetfully
Yr. Obedient Servt
L.B. True

Col J. L. Edwards
Commissioner Pensions
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Add: Evid;
Case
Elizabeth Henderson wid.
of Isaac

8248
43 Ten.

3d Aud. June 28/50

Free

Rutledge Tenn.
March 16/33
Col. J. L.  Edwards
Washington City
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Rutledge Tenn.
March 1833

Free

Col. J.L. Edwards
Washington City

8248
43 Ten.

3d Aud. June 28 28/50
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Grainger County Te 10 March 1850
Honorable Sir
Inclosed I send you the proof of Prudence Hopson heir[underlined] of Elizabeth Henderson Widow of Isaac Henderson Claiming her Stipend under the Act of Congress passed February the 2- 1848 Extending the pensions of certain widows for life with proof the death of said Elizabeth Henderson and of her Children &c Please transmit the Warrant the same to my Address Rulledge Tennessee     I have the honor to be
with respect you Obt Servt
James R. McAnally
Col J L Edwards
Washington City
DC
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House of Reps Jan 19th 1830

J. L Edwards Eqr

Sir

I enclose you the letter of James R. Mc Anally asking certain information concerning the pension claim of Elizabeth Henderson Widow of Isaac Henderson Deced Such information as you can give me will be thankfully rec'd Please return Mr Mc Armally's letters

J. L. Edwards Esqr  | Respectfully your
Com of Pensions   | obt servant

A. G. Watkins
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8.7 [erased text]
9 33 Elizabeth Henderson   n g [handwriting different from letter text]

White County [hand drawn line drawn between words in next line]

Peeled Chestnut. [hand drawn line from above line] Tenn
Nov 12th 1889

Hon Green B. Bavin

Care of [illegible]
Washington D.C.

Sir there is a widow Lady here that Sais her Grand Father one Joshua C. Henderson, was a pensioner of the Revolutionary war and had his pension papers fixed up and for some cause never got his money. Sais she is informed that it is still owe his heirs he is now abroad and she is the only heir Can you find any information
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about if so please write me what she can do about it 
much oblige

S.W. Johnson, P.M.
Peeled Chestnut Tenn. [stamped]