Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 44146, Henry Dike, Va.
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Service/Va.  Dike or Dyke, Henry     Number/S 44146
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11.554 R
Ohio
Henry Dike

...who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Haws of the Virginia...
for the term of 2 years


....on the roll of Ohio 
at the rate of 8 dollars per month is commence on ...
....the 8 of Feb. 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 9 of June 19 
...and sent to E.M. Tupper
(?) ......Ohio

Arrears to 4th of Mar. 19                        7-3
Semi-anl. all'ce ending (4?) Sept 19       48-
21      4                                                 $55. 3
28        35
Revolutionary claim
Act 18th March, 1818

Notification sent November 14, 1820 to
Joseph G. Martin, Pike town, Ohio
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State of Ohio Gawa? (Geauga?) County
This day personally I am before me Thomas Rodgers one of the associate in days of the Court of Commissions Pleas of the County of Gallia state of Ohio Henry Dike aged sixty one years and (?) a resident of said county of Gallia who being duly (?) all or (?)ing to law doth upon his oath make the following declaration in (war?) to obtain the provisions of a late (law?) of the United States (?) an act to provide for certain persons engaged  in the (land?) of navel service of the United States in the Revolutionary War that he the said Henry Dike inlisted in Leesburgh in Loudoun County in Virginia for three years in Captain R(espess?) Company Col. Gunby(?) Regiment and was immediately marched to join Gen. Washtington in the north river at Stony Point and that he served out his term of service/or three years faithfully and Honorably discharged at Princeton state of New Jersey at the (?) of said service he does not recollect at what time he entered the service best he was in said Gundy Regiment said R(espess?) Company in the Battle of Brandywine in September 1777
That about six months after his discharge at the worth(?) he inlisted again in said Leesburgh for two years under Captain Brown and marched under him to the Southern 
When he served under said B(?) Brown in Col. Haws Regiment of the Virginia line and under Gen. Green that he was in the Battle of Eutaw Springs and in the Battle of Guilford where his said Captain Brown was issued(?) the Company  then falling under the Command of Lieutenant Tatum that same short time after this Battle he was discharged near the Ch(?) Hills in
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South Carolina in the fall of the year 1780. Captain Seldon commanding the company in which he was enrolled at the time of his (?) and that he has now no other (?) within his control(?) whereby he can/or(?) said service(?) and there he is in such (?) circumstances as absolutely to-
starve(?) in much(?) of the (?) of his County for his support.
Sworn to and subscribed before me

Henry Dike

State of Ohio- Gallia County- Gallipolis(?) Februrary 8th, 1819
This day personally appeared before me Thomas Rodgers an associate judge for said County of Gallia, the above named Henry Dike, who made oath before me to the truth of the foregoing declaration, and in my (?) subscribed the same; and I futher certify that from the character of the affiant(?) and the facts in his declaration contained I am well satisfied, that he served in the army of the United States in the Revolutionary war as in his declaration set forth- and I futhermore certify that from my (?) of the (?) together with the testimony of his neighbors, he is in poor and indignant(?) circumstances and absolutely stands in need of the (?) of his country for his support-
Thomas Rodgers associate judge

State of Ohio
Gallia County
I Francis Le Clereg, Clerk of the Court of Commisions Plead for the said County of Gallia. And hereby certify that the honorable Thomas Rodgers before whom the fogoing Declaration appeared to have been signed(?) and (?) to is one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas(?) for the said County of Gallia and that the foregoing is his signature

In Testimony wherof I have herunto let my name and offered the seal of S(?) Court at Gallipolis(?) this twelth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen and in the Seventeenth year of this State-
Francis LeClered
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Henry Dike

[illegible] $.50

Henry Dike private
Colonel Gunby Regt.(?)

3 years

Found Henry Dykes

34.2.8

Admm...(?)
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State of Ohio Pike County Court of Common Pleas of the term of service in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty

On this twenty first day of June 1820 personally in open Court of Common pleas in the County of Pike in the eighth circuit of the State of Ohio Henry Dyke aged sixty one years resident in this County of Pike who [illegible] duly sworn. According to law doth on [illegible] oath declared that he served in the revolutionary war some time in the month of August in the year 1776. As clear as he can now recollect he inlisted for the term of three years in Louden County Virginia in the Company commanded by Captain Andrew Russell in the regiment commanded by Colonel Haws the 7th Virginia Regiment on Continental establishement, that he continued to [illegible] in Laid(?) and or/ for and during the term of three years when he was honorably discharged from said [illegible] at Harlem(?) New Jersey about six months after this applicant was discharged again  inlisted into the Company Commanded by Captain Brown at Louden County Virginia in the Regiment Commanded by the Colonel Haws in 7th Virginia Regiment on Continental establishment and was honorably in 1781- the applicant has recieved a pension and now holds a pension certificate Number 11554 And I do solomnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not lived that time by gift (la la?) or in any manner disposed of my property of any pact(?) thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisians of an Acto of Congress unless(?) an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and
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Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and I have not nor has any in trust for me any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained herein annexed and by me subscribed — I have not real estate of any kind.

One Old Horse Beast — $10.00
One Cow Only — 18.00
One Bed with the necessary bedding — 5.00
One Iron Pot and a few other cooking utensils — 4.00
The Applicant is a common laborer by profession, is unable to perform much labor by reason of old age and the infirmities incident thereto, has no other family than a wife who is also Old and infirm
Signed Henry Dyke
Signed on to in open court this 21st day of June 1820 Joseph S Martin Clerk

State of Ohio 
Pike County 
I Joseph S. Martin clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record 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 aforesaid schedule is thirty dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 14th day of July 1820 and in the year of the State the 45th.

Joseph S. Martin Clerk
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44 146
Revy. INVALID.

File No. 44146
Henry Dike
Pvt. NC Line

Act: 18th March 1818

Index – Vol. 3, Page 129

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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To the Honorable the Secretary of War
City of Washington

Henry Dike
Pike Co., O.
No. 11354
June 1819

Joseph S. Martin
Pike Town, Ohio
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State of Ohio Pike County Court of Common Pleas of the term of June in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty 
On this this twenty first day of June 1820 personally appeared in open court  Court of Common pleas for the County of Pike in the eighth Circuit of the State of Ohio, Henry Dyke aged sixty one years, of age who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and first of May 1820, that the said Henry Dyke enlisted for the term of three years, some time in the month of August in the year 1776 as near as he can now recollect in the state of Virginia in Loudon County in the Company commanded by Captain Andrew Russell in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Haws of the 7th Virginia Regiment of troops of the Virginia line on Continental establishment, that he enlisted to serve in said Corps for and during the term of three years, when he was honorably discharged from the said service at Trenton, New Jersey — about six months after this applicant again enlisted into the Company commanded by Captain Brown at Loudon County, Virginia in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Haws, 7th Virginia Regiment on Continental establishment and was honorably discharged after serving two years at the Eutaw Springs in the year 1781 — that he was in the battle of the Eutaw Springs
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Brandywine and Guilford Courthouse and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services except what is here exhibited, and in pursuance of the Act of the 1st of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the
provisions of an act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not now, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than
what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed
made by me, subscribed — No lands nor real estate of any kind —
One old horse beast — $10.00
One cow only — 10.00
One bed and the necessary bedding — 6.00
One iron pot and a few other cooking utensils — 4.00
the applicant is a common laborer by profession, is unable to perform much labor by reason
of old age and the infirmities incident thereto, has no other family than a wife who is also old
and infirm. - Henry Dyke
Sworn to and declared in open court the 21st day of June 1820
Joseph S. Martin, Clerk
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State of Ohio
Pike County
I, Joseph S. Martin, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, that the foregoing oath and the schedule here annexed are duly certified from the records of said Court, do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the above schedule is thirty dollars. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 14th day of July 1820 and in the year of the state the 18th.
Joseph S. Martin, Clerk