Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10098, Isaac Herin, S.C.
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SERVICE
S.C.
CONTENTS

Herin Isaac
Herrin
Herron
Herring

NUMBER
W. 10098

Ann
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7269
Indiana.
Ann Herrin,
widow of Isaac Herrin
who was a private,
in the South Carolina line
S.C.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
40 Dollars -
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued this
4 day of Sept 1845.
and sent to T.S. & A.T. Smith
Present.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
& 17th: June, 1844.
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 2 - Page 218
to J.F. Cooper
Sept 10 47
to same Feb 3. '48
to same March 14th
48
Settle to How G.G. Dunn
Feb 28 1849
Letter to. ---allack
July 28/49
Let to Hon I R. Young
February 6/50
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From 6411.
Kentucky
to Indiana
Isaac Herin
of ------ in the state of Kentucky
who was a private - in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Marion of the So. Carolina
line, for the term of 9. months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 31st of October, 1818
Certificate of Pension issued'the 2. of Feby. 1819
and sent to Hon. W. Quarles
H. of Representatives
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 - 4 mo. 6/30 - 33.54
Semi-anl. all'ce ending v -
$33.54
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.
Continued
Pulaski County.
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Notification Sent June 23, 1824
Quarles, Esqr
Samendat TCG
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Pulaski County Court
to } (illegible)
Henin Isaac. Pension

6411
Mar 19
(illegible)
I.L.E.
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The Commonwealth of Kentucky Pulaski County Court Sct.
"Schedule"      March Term 1821
Pulaski County Court Sct.
  On this 26th of day March 1821 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record,  for said County established, by the Constitution and Laws of the State of Kentucky, having power to fine and imprison, and proceeding according to the Course of the Common law Isaac Herin of said County, aged 60 years and a resident in Pulaski County who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows. That he enlisted for the Term of Sixteen months in the month of March in the year [177?] in the state of South Carolina in the company commanded by Capt Mason, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Marion and in the Brigade commanded by Gen. Pulaski, and that he served out his full Term of service and was honorably discharged at GeorgeTown in South Carolina which discharge he has lost not thinking it any account. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th
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18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or an part thereof with intent thereby so as to dimish it or to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the law and moral demise of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or security contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed, no land, and mare of the value of $30  one mare saddle of the value of $12, Household furniture not worth more than $8 One womans Saddle of the value of $16,  He further states that he is a tiller of the earth, by occupation tho not able to work much from Infirmity. that his wife is almost entirely unable to labour that he has two children living with him, Isaac, aged about 30 years who was born blind and in addition to that misfortune is afflicted with the
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the while swelling, Lewis is about 19 years of age but unable to work from mental derangement, he produced his Certificate No. 6.411
Isaac Herrin  X his mark
sworn to and declared on the 26th day of March Before me Presiding Judge of the County Court aforesaid in open Court.
John Newby

The Commonwealth of Kentucky, Pulaski County Sct.

I William Fox, clerk of the Court holden for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, and 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 Sixty Six Dollars. In testimony whereof I have here-unto set my hand, and affixed my Private Seal, a Seal for said Court subject having been provided this 3rd day of April A.D. 1821.  and 29th year of [illegible] Commonwealth above mentioned.
[signature illegible]
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May 26 1845
[illegible]
Nancy Herring
To be filed with the paper of Nancy Herring  [illegible]
filed
T L & A Tho Smith
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State of No Carolina
Dobbs County  
Known all men by these present that we Isaac Herring & Arthur Herring All of the county of Dobbs are held and formerly bound unto his Excellency Alexander Martin Esqr Govener send the Just and full sum of Fifty Pounds specie to which payment well and truly to be made and done so bind our selves our [illegible] Jointly and severely by these presents for the 
Whole sealed with our Seals and Dated this [illegible] day of Febry  Anno Dom 1783.
The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the above Bonden Isaac Herring hath made applicants to Martin Caswell Clerk of Dobbs County Cort for a Licence to solemnize the rites of Matrimony Between him the said Isaac Herring and Nancy Gainey both Dobbs County and hath obtained the same now if it shall not appere at any time hereafter that their is not any lawfull cause to obstruct the said marriage that there and in such case the above obligation to be void other wise to be and remain in full force and virtue.
Sealed and Delivered 
in presence of
M. Caswell

Isaac Herring
Arthur Herring
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State of N Carolina} 
Lenoir County}
I W C Loftin Clerk of said County Certify foregoing to be a true copy as found of record in my Office in Testamony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of said A Kinston Apr
10th 1845.
W.C. Loftin Clk
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State of Kentucky Pulaski Circuit Court Sct
July Term 1818
The Affidavit of Isaac Herring sworn to & filed.  It is the opinion of this court that the said affidavit is his in point of fact and it is ordered that the said affidavit with this Court opinion be copied & certified to U.S. Secretary for the War Department.
Which affidavit reads in his words & figure following viz.
Isaac Herin states upon Oath in open court that he Entered in the Revolutionary War in the Continental line in the year 1779 in the State of South Carolina he served upwards of 9 months in the regiment of Col. Marion which was the 2d regiment he was in the Battle of Savannah & was there wounded & taken a prisoner. He states that he was never Discharged owing to his being wounded.  By furnishing another pension to serve in his plain - he states that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of the Gen. Government under this provisions of an act of Congress of this United
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States approved 18th March 1818 "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the States".  He states he has no means of proving his service other than his own Oath (illegible) in the State of South Carolina about 4 or 500 miles from his residence.
Isaac T Herin X his mark

State of Kentucky Pulaski Circuit Court Sct.  I William Fox Clerk of the Court aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the word of proceedings and also this affidavit touching the services of Isaac Herrin as a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

In testimony Whereof I have hereto set my name & private seal of office.  Not yet having provided any seal this 30th day of October 1818.  In the 27th year of this commonwealth
Will Fox.
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Pilaski
Herring Isaac
South Carolina
line
Col Marion
1779 upwards
of 9 months

Correct by (illegible)
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Isaac Herin
Private
79-9 months
Col Marions regt
So Carolina line
(30th October 1878)

Admitted
See
the date of declaration
identified within.
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State of Kentucky Act.
I do certify that William Fox 
is clerk of the Circuit Court of Pulaski
County and that his certificate hereon
made is in due form of law
Given under my hand as one
of the Judges in and for the State aforesaid
& presiding Judge of the Pulaski
Circuit Court this 30th day of 
October 1818. 
Thomas Montgomery
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I am well acquainted 
with the written named
Alexander Herron & E.B. Gainney - 
whose affidavits are 
given. They are both men of excellent character & standing - Any statement made by either 
of them is entitled to our
true confidence -
Geo. G. Dunn
Ho. Rep
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State of Indiana
County of Green
On this thirteenth day of February
in the year Eighteen hundred and forty nine, before me the subscriber
a Justice of the peace for the County and State aforesaid personally appears Alexander Herrin, who being duly sworn deposed and
says that he is a son of Isaac Herrin a soldier of the revolution
whose widow Ann Herrin was pensioned under the act of 7th
July 1838 at the rate of forty dollars per annum, and died on the
8th day of March in the year 1848 leaving Eight children
to wit Ann Herron John Heron Isaac Herron Desta Heron
Alexander Herron [illegible] Herron Joel Herron Lee
Herron as having nothing except this and the
He further declared and believes that his father Isaac Herrin
in addition to his service as private in the Revolutionary Army ┃
was also a Wagon Conductor or Wagon Master, and that there ┃
arrearages of Pension due to the heirs of said Isaac Herrin and
Ann Herrin, and he makes this declaration and affidavit for
the purpose of obtaining such arrearages for himself and the
other heirs
Alexander Kerron

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 13th day of February 1849
Frederick Elswick
Justice of peace
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State of Indiana Greene County. Sct

I Samuel R Cavins, Clerk of the Circuit Court, in and for said County, do hereby certify that Frederic Elswick Esq before whom the deceased affidavits were subscribed and swore to, was, at that time an acting Justice of this Peace in and for said County, duly authorised to administer such oath and that his commission was dated on the 7th day of January 1847 and will expire on the 7th day of January 18?2, and that the signatures thereunto purporting to be his are genuine.

In witness of which I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court, Bloomfield Februry the 13th day 1849
S. R Cavins Clerk
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State of Indiana
County of Green

On this thirteenth day of February in the year Eighteen hundred and forty nine, before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the State and County aforesaid personally came E. B. Gainey who being duly sworn deposed and says that he is well acquainted with Alexander Herrin the declarant in the annexed affidavit and that he is the son of Ann Herrin widow of Isaac Herrin pensioner of the United States -- That said Ann Herrin died in the 8th day of March in the year 1848 leaving besides the aforementioned Alexander Herrin the following children to wit--Ann Herron, John Herron, Isaac Herron, Desta Herron, Alexander Herron, Joshua Herron, Joel Herron and Lewis Herron who is dead and left no him except his brothers and sister and further saith not E. B. Gainey 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 13th Day of February 1849 
Frederick Elswick
Justice of the peace

The above sworn to by some disinterested before a proper officer and certificate of County Clerk  a member
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4971
Ann Herring
of Issac
Indiana

m 54-

Act 4 July 30
rejected

allow for 9 months
only
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State of Indiana}
Lawrence County}

Be it remembered that on this Ninth day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand and eight hundred and forty, personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in aforesaid County, Ann Herring, a resident of said County, aged Eighty-one 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 provisioning made by the act of congress passed July 4th 1836, & the act explanatory of said act passed March 3d 1837.  That she was married to Isaac Herring about the Eighteenth day of January in the year one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty Four - that he served the Revolutionary War as a soldier, battle for what length of time, & under whose command of the particularz of which she does not know, nor can she procure documentary or other proof, there being no pension without her knowledge who has any information in regard therefor that the said Issac herring died on the 23d day of (illegible) in he year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred thirty three and that she was a widow on the 4th day of July 1836 and has been ever since never having married the death of said Isaac Herring - that said Isaac Herring is the identical person who was named in an original certificate from the office
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fice of the Secretary of War of the United States
, which the said Isaac Herring
had in
his life time & by which he was entitled
to received a pension as a pensioner
of the United States that since the death
of said Isaac she has made diligent
search for said certificate, but can
not find it & believes that it is lost
or mislaid that the said Isaac Herring resided in Lawrence County
aforesaid, for twelve years before his
death & that previous thereto he resided in North Carolina & that she
was married to the said Isaac Herring
in the State of North Carolina and from the
great length of time that has since elapsed & her great distance from that State
together with her helpless condition, she has
no means of obtaining proof of said
marriage. that the said Isaac
recognized her as his wife, and that she has
had he him ten children seven of whom
are alive
Anna, John, Isaac
Desta, Alexander Joshua & Joel-- the youngest
Joel is about forty years old
Ann
her Herring
mark
Sworn to & Subscribe before me
this 9th day January 18 {illegible]

Dean Barnes [illegible]
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State of Indiana
Lawrence County ⎬
This day personally came
me Alexander Herrin
who being
duly sworn say that he is the son of
Isaac Harris, who is now deceased
that Ann Herring who has signed the
foregoing declaration was the wife of said
Isaac & is his mother, that she is eighty
one years of age and that the said
Isaac was at the time of his death, a
Revolutionary pensioner that he died
on the 23rd day of October 1833, and
that since that time he has had free
access to his papers left by him
and
that he recollects to have seen the original
certificate for the pension of the said Isaac
but that the same is lost or mislaid so
that he cannot now find it, although
he has made diligent search therefore
& further saith not. Alexander her son
Sworn & subscribed before me this
9th Day January 18[illegible]

Dean Barnes J. P. seal
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State of Indian
Lawrence County ⎬
I Robert Mitchell
Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County
aforesaid certify that Dan Barnes who
has signed the with is & was at that
time an acting justice of the peace in
for said County, duly commissioned &
qualified according to law that his signature is genuine & that full faith
& credit is due to all his official acts
Done at Bedford the 3rd day
of February 1840, as witness my hand & seal of 
office
Robert Mitchell clk
for L Mitchell
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Record Division 3-525
Revolutionary War Records Section
Aws. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
W. 100 98 BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C., __, 19__
In reply to your request of ___, received ___
for a statement of the military history of Isaac Herin or Herrin or Herring
or Herron
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (his widow's) application for pen-
sion on file in this Bureau. 
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
1778
1779
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
16 mos
9 mos
RANK.
Pvt.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN. 
Mason
COLONEL.
Marion
"
STATE.
S.C.
Battles engaged in, Savannah, where wounded & taken prisoner.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted in S.C.
Date of application for pension, Oct. 30 1818 - His claim was allowed. 
Residence at date of application, Pulaski Co. Ky.
Age at date of application, 57 years.
Remarks: He died Oct. 23, 1833 in Lawrence Co. Ind. Soldier married
Ann or Nancy widow of Meredith Gainey, who died May 28, 1782 her
maiden name was Shotwell. Soldier's marriage bond dated
Feb. 1, 1783 in Dobbs Co. N.C. She was al. fun. on her app. ex. Jan 9, 1840
while living in Lawrence Co. Ind. aged 81 yrs. She died Mch. 8, 1848.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
[number indecipherable]
Service used as soldier's declaration.
No proof of soldier's service as wagon conductor.
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WIDOW, &c.
File No.
10098
Ann Herrin
Wid of Isaac Herrin
Pri S. C. line
Act Mach. 3rd & June 17th
Index: -- Vol. A Page 325
Arrangement of 1870

1923 June 5 Hist to Mrs. Edith P Margrove.
See letter in claim John Herrin S 13377 chart
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Ann Herring
of Isaac 
Indiana
Suspended
See let. 23rd March 
1841 RW Thompson
Let to HL Livingston
Oct 30. 1844
Let to T. L. & A. T. Smith July 12 '45
Act 7th July 1838
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Ann Herring
of Isaac
Indiana
Suspended
See let. 5th Aug
1840 RW Thompson

Act 7th July 1836
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No 7633
Ann Herring
Widow of Isaac

Ind
Act 7 July 1838
AM 12 Mo Pri
$40.00 per ann
Adm act march 1843

TL of A Thos Smith 
Present
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9596
Indiana
Ann Herring widow of Isaac Herring, who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818, who died on the 25 October 1833, of Lawrence Co in the State of Indiana who was a private in the _______ commanded by Captain ________ of the _________commanded by __________in the So Carolina line for 12 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Madison at the rate of 40 Dollars __Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th; day of September 1845 and sent to T.S & A.T. Smith, Present
Total amount $200.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by M M Stewart Clerk,
Book D Vol. 1, Page 425.
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State of Indiana}
Greene County }
On this twentieth day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally come before me Lewis Chapman one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Greene aforesaid Ann McDowell a resident of said county, aged fifty five years on the 2nd day of June 1844 who being by me first duly sworn according to law on her oath says her maiden name [illlegible] she was married to William McDowell deceased was Ann Herrin that she is a daughter of Isaac Herrin and Ann Herrin the persons named in the declaration of Ann Herrin hereto attached as appears to have been made before Lewis B Edwards associate Judge of Greene County Indiana.
That this affiant was born in Duplin County North Carolina that her father and mother the said Isaac and Ann Herrin removed from North Carolina to Pulaski County in Kentucky about 1808 where he the said Isaac Herrin applied for and drews a pension at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum at Lexington and about the year 1824 he the said Isaac Herrin removed into Lawrence County in the State of Indiana, and was transferred from Kentucky pension agency to Indiana pension agency
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and drew his money at Corydon in Indiana
until the time of his death which was the 23rd day of October 1833. in the aforesaid county of Lawrence after which some arrearages were drawn by his widow, the said Ann Herrin in the winter of 1833. which was due the said Isaac Herrin at the time of his death. And that this affiant was a witness to his death and burial. That her father the said Isaac Herrin and her mother the said Ann Herrin had nine children, to wit.  Sarah who is dead this affiant John, Isaac, Dista, Alexander, Joel who we know nothing of and Lewis who is dead. Also this affiants mother Ann Herrin had three children by a former husband Merideth Gainey, to wit. Susan, Aden, who is dead and Elizabeth who is also dead; and this affiant says the only knowledge she has of the marriage of her said mother to either of her said husbands or ages of their children she derived from and old family Bible which was kept a record of their marriages and the birth of their children of which record she has had a knowledge from her first recollection until the death of her said father the said Isaac Herrin; and from the connexion and old neighbors of who she has always
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learned that her mother the said Ann Herrin was formerly married to Merideth Gainey, and after his death to Isaac Herrin with whom she lived until his death then being recognized as husband and wife and ever lived together as such; And this affiant believes the above mentioned record to have been genuine as therein stated and that the said Ann Herrin is the identical widow of the said Isaac Herrin who was a pensioner as stated in the foregoing declaration and that she is now a resident of the county of Greene and Sate of Indiana and has remained a widow ever since the death of the said Isaac Herring; And further saith not
Subscribed and sworn to 
before me this 20th day of
July 1844
Lewis Chapman, J.P.
Ann McDowell
I Lewis Chapman the Justice of the Peace before who the foregoing deposition of Ann McDowell was made this day do certify that the said Ann McDowell is a person of truth and veracity and credibility and that her statements are entitled to credit, which I certify from my own personal knowledge Given under my hand this 20th day of July 1844
Lewis Chapman, J.P.
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State of Indiana
Greene County Set ⎬
I Samuel R. Cavins, Clerk of the Circuit
Court, in and for the County of Greene and State of Indiana
do certify that Lewis Chapman Esq before whom the
foregoing affidavit of Ann McDowell was subscribed and sworn
to was, at the time of making the same are
acting Justice of the peace in and for said County
duly commissioned and qualified as such, and that
full faith and credit are due to all his official acts
as such Justice of the peace, and that the foregoing [illegible]
purporting to be his is genuine
witness my hand seal of said Court at 
Bloomfield this 27th day of July A.D. 1844
SR Cavins clk

[seal on left]
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APPLICAION FOR A TRANSFER
State of Indiana
County of Lawrence
88.
On this fifteenth day of February 1826, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Lawrence personally appeared Isaac Herin who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Mason in the regiment commanded by Colonel Morrison in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Kentucky from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state of Indiana where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future; and that his reasons for removing to the state of Indiana are that some of his children reside there, and he prefers living, with them.
Sworn and subscribed to, before me the day and year aforesaid.
Rollin C. Dewey J.P..
Isaac Herin (his mark)
Notes. - The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be authenticated by the certificate of the proper officer, setting forth that the person taking the testimony is a Justice of the Peace Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
The pensioner's oaths must be supported by evidence of another person as to identity  the person must swear that he well knows him to be the same person described in the above affidavit.  The magistrate must certify that the dependent is a person of veracity. This oath must also have the authentication as above required.
(over)
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State of Indiana}
Lawrence County }
I John Lowrey Clerk of said county,
do certify that Rollin C Dewey, Esquire is a magistrate as within stated, and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his, is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office at Bedford and inscribed my name, this 15th day of February A.D. 1826.
John Lowrey  Clerk of the Court of said county.
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State of Indiana}
Lawrence County}
Sct. February 15, 1836
On this fifteenth day of February 1826 before me the subscribed, a justice of the peace within and for the county of Lawrence, State of Indiana, personally appeared Aden Gainey, who on his oath declares that he had been acquainted with Isaac Herin upwards of thirty years, that the said Isaac Herin, who has this day, on the preceding page hereof, taken and subscribed his oath of identity in the application for a transfer, is the identical person named in the pension certificate which he has exhibited before me number 6411 and bearing date at the war office the second day of February 1819; that the said certificate was originally issued for him; that he now holds the same in his possession, and claims all the benefits arising therefrom.  Given under my hand at Bedford in said county on the day and year above written.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 15th day of February 1826; and I do further certify that the above named Aden Gainey is a person of veracity.
Rollin C. Dewey, [Seal]
Aden Gainey

State of Indiana}
Lawrence County }
I John Lowrey clerk of said county, do certify that Rollin C. Dewey, Esquire, is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office at Bedford in said County and subscribed my name, this 15th day of February A.D. 1836
Jn Lowrey Clark of the Court of said County
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[illegible word] to the length of time [illegible]

[illegible word] not having an opportunity to have heard this for a long time and which she could not state from personal knowledge.  She [illegible word] that ?? Isaac Herrin was wounded at the engagement of Savinina and was taken [illegible] to Charleston from [illegible] where he soon taken by his father and that [illegible] a man to serve [illegible] .
She does not recall his name. 
She found [illegible] she was married to Mr. D. Isaac Herrin any 1783 in Duplin County, South Carolina [illegible] by [illegible] that she was married by Benjamin Hatfield, Justice of the Peace of that County [illegible] that has [illegible]. 
Isaac Herrin died on the 23 day of [illegible] in Louisiana County [illegible]. That she was not married to him. [illegible] A marriage took place [illegible] to the 1st day of January 1794. [illegible] at the time shows [illegible] before she declares that she had born in wedlock with [illegible] Isaac Herrin, 9 children. [illegible] (where she died at 18 months old) [illegible] John Isaac [illegible] who she has not heard from in a number of years or Lewis who is dead. [illegible] that she has a family record of [illegible] or of [illegible] of her marriage or of the birth of his children by the loss [illegible] . [illegible] but declares she had a family record of all these events, which was in an old family Bible which her oldest daughter, by her first husband, Susan McDonald got at the time of the death and burial of her last husband as aforesaid which[illegible]. [illegible] she is informed is lost or destroyed [illegible] hopes yet be found. She also declares that she does not know of any living witness by whom she can prove the actual celebration of her marriage to the [illegible] Isaac Herrin, and that.
COMMENT: TEXT BELOW IS MACHINE GENERATED
ed to him prior to his leaving the
he took them previous to the day of
of
Jany 1794 South at the time above
the declares that she had born in wedlock
Ira Fern G. Children it is
at 18 math on John Isaac Hite
John Joel who she has not heard power in a
of years the further declares that she has no family record of the her age of the of his marriages of the lists of her children and
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she cannot prove the name other than by her own declaration and the deposition of Ann McDonald, Hugh L. Livingston and Samuel R. 
Cavins, hereunto subjoined, and by whom she can prove a general expectation of her marriage to Isaac Herin and they they lived together as such; all of which will more fully appear by a reference to the proof hereto annexed & that she is now a widow and has not intermarried since the death of the sd Issac Herin as aforesaid
her mark
x 
Ann Herrin
Sworn to the subscribed  
before me at the said             
County of Green this
13 day of April
1844
Lewis B. Edwards
Appellate Judge

I Lewis B. Edwards, one of the appellate judges in & for the County of Green before whom the foregoing declaration of Ann Herrin was this day made, subscribed & sworn to do hereby certify that I have attended at the residence of the widow Herin is the County of Green in the State of Indiana as this day and for the purpose  of taking & executing [illegible] declaration, and that the said Ann Herrin is unable to attend at & before a court of record in and for sd County of Green, on
account of her advanced age, general disability, weakness and bodily infirmity .

Given under my hand at the
 said County of Green this 13 th day of  April 1844  
Lewis B. Edwards
Appellate Judge
Green County
Indiana
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State of Indiana}
Greene County
]

I Samuel R. Cavins Clerk of the Circuit
Court in and for the County of Greene and State of
Indiana do certify that Lewis B. Edwards whose offical signatures
appear to the foregoing declaration and certificate
of bodily [illegible] of Ann Herrin now is and was on
the day of the dates whereof one of the [illegible] Judges of the Circuit Court in and for 
the said County of Greene duly [illegible] issued and
qualified as such and that full faith and credit are due
to his official acts, as such [illegible] Judges and that the
signature purporting to be his as genuie.  And I do
further certify that such Circuit Court is a Court of
Record

In testimony of where of I have herunto subscribed
my name and affisced the official seal of
said Court at my office in Bloomfield
this 13th day of April 1844
S R Cavins Clerk
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State of Indiana
Green County }
In the Pension Claim of Isaac Herrin
This day personally came before me Elisha P Cushman a Justice of the Peace in and for sd County of Green, Samuel R Cavins & Hugh L Livingston, residents of sd. County, that sd Cavins living aged 52 years on the 28th day of Sept last past & who was first duly sworn depose & testify as follows towit:
That since the year 1825, they have been acquainted with Isaac Herrin & family, knew him {illegible] been a revolutionary pensions & was acquainted with him at the time of his death, that he died in Lawrence County Indiana, That he & the sd Ann Herrin lived together [illegible] husband & wife from the year 1825, up to the time of his death, That in the neighborhood where they resided they [illegible] & respected husband & wife, & as such were  recognized by all who knew them, And also that sd. Ann Herrin mentioned as the wife of the said Isaac Herrin and that the said Ann Herrin still continues to be the widow of this said Isaac Herrin      S.R. Cavins swore to & subscribed before H L Livingston me this 29th day of July 1844,
Elisha P. Cushman  J P
I Elisha P Cushman the Justice of the peace before whom the foregoing depositions of Hugh L Livingston & Samuel R. Cavins was made this day do certify that the sd Livingston & Cavins person of trust & veracity and credibility & that these claimants are entitled to credit which Certify from my own personal knowledge. Given under my hand & seal this 29th day of July 1844.
Elisha P. Cushman  J P  [Seal}
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State of Indiana
Greene County }
I Samuel R Cavins, Clerk of the Circuit Court [illegible] and for said County, do hereby certify that Elisha P. Cushman Esq. before whom the foregoing depositions of Samuel R Cavins and Hugh L Livingston were taken, was at the time of taking the [illegible] and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such, Justice of the Peace  and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have herein attest my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court.  Bloomfield July the 29, 1844.
S R Cavins Clerk
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Declaration of Ann Herring in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Lein grief of the 7th July 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows"
State of Indiana|
County of Lawerence| SS
On this the twenty fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty, personally appeal before this undersigned, Olley Crooke, one of the Justices of the peace in and for said county of Lawrence, Ann Herring, a resident of said county, aged eighty two years who being first only sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838, entitled " an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows" That she is the widow of Isaac Herring who was a private in the army of the Revolution, - that she is unable to say how long he served or at what time he entered the army, but from the best of her recollection she is able to state that he was in the regular service, and served under Count Pulaski at the siege of Savannah, in Georgia, and was wounded at said siege, in the leg, on the 9th day of October 1779- (For more satisfactory proof however, of this, she refer to the declaration and pension paper of said Iasac Herring which are now on file in the war department of the United States, he having been a pensioner under the act of lengres hents fore passed since about the year 1818 or 1819, at which time he resided in Pulaski Count in the state of Kentucky, From the length of time which he elapses and from the that what she knows of the services of said Isaac Herring she only obtained from what she heard said by him and others - she is unable to make any positive statements in repass to them - but she states from
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the best of her knowledge and belief what is here before stated, and that she believes that he was in but one engagement, and that after he was wounded at Savannah, he was taken to Charlestown in the State of South Carolina where he was placed in the Hosptial & there remained some length of time in and had the ball extraction from his leg - that he was draughted into the service in the county of Duplin in the state of North Carolina, - she cannot state more fully, from this cause above named, what his services [illegible] [illegible] .
She further declares that she was married to this said Isaac Herring on the tenth day of January in the year Seventeen hundred and sixty eight that her husband the aforesaid Isaac Herring, died in said county of Lawrence (to which county he had moved from Pulaski County Kentucky where he had lived about seven or eight years before his death) on the twenty third day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, that she has had nine children by him, seven of whom are yet living & that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety 
four viz at the time above stated and that she is now his widow- that there is a record of her said marriage but that the same is in Duplin Co. North Carolina & that is also a record of the births of sd children but that she has not got it  and can she now [illegible] it  + Ann Herring 
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written before me a Justice of the peace as aforesaid was the said Ann Herring being unable from bodily infirmity to attend the sitting of the court of record - said county
+ Olly Crooke JP ss
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State of Indiana
Lawrence County }
Be it known that before me the undersigned, as Justice of the Peace in and for said County this day personally came, Aden Gainey, and Susan McDowell, who being by me duly sworn, according to law, say , that they were acquainted with Isaac Herring, late of said County, deceased, and that they know
the said Ann Herring to have been married
to the said Isaac Herring previous to the first
of January Seventeen hundred and ninety
four, though they were not present at the
marriage - and that said ANn Herring has never
married since the death of her said husband.
X Aden Gainey
X Susan McDowell

Sworn to and subscribed before me the 24th
day of December 1840
x Olly Crooke J. P.

State of Indiana}
Lawrence County}  ss

I Olly Crooke, a Justice
of the Peace in and for said county certify
that Aden Gainey and Susan McDowell
who have signed and sworn to the above
 affidavit are credible persons and of
reputable standing in society-
Given under my hand & seal this 27th
day of December 1840.
Olly Crooke J P ss
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State of Indiana
Lawrence County} SS
I Robert Mitchell Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County of Lawrence, certify that Olly Crooke, whom name appearing on the foregoing, may at the time of signing this same and yet is acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified according to Law, that the foregoing signature are genuine and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such [illegible]
In Testimony whereof I have hereinto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Bedford in said County on the 13th of January A.D. 1841.
Robert Mitchell clerk
Lawrence Circuit Court

7655 Ann Herring of Isaac 
Indiana
m1783 - d '33
on rolls
9 mo. S. C. Line
husb died 23 Oct 1833
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Isaac Heren
[illegible]
[illegible]
Rollins C. Dewey
Bedord
Indiana

Bedford In.}
July 15 - }

Gn Hon. Secretary of War
Washington City
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Bedford, Lawrence Co. Indiana
February 15, 1826
Sir,
I enclose Isaac Herin's application for a transfer from the Kentucky agency to that of this state. He says that his last draft was made a year ago last Sept. at Lexington Ky and does not know whether he is to draw the arrearages there, or in this state, and wishes to be informed respecting it.
I am very respectfully your obedient servt.
Rollin C Dewey
Hon. Secr. of War
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Bedford Feb. 3 1840
Return communication adres-
sed to the undersigned.
R.W. Thompson
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[illegible] Aug 12 1944
Inda
July 4 1836
Ann Herrin

[illegible] [illegible]
Aug 3

J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington City

Free
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Bloomfield July 29th 1844.
Dear Sir
enclosed I send you the
pension application of Ann Herrin the
widow of Isaac Herrin (formerly of Lawrence
County but now of this County) Mr Herrin was a revolutionary pensioner who died in
Lawrence in 1833 & Mrs Herrin his widow
who was married previous to 1 Jan
1794. in virtue of her widowhood as the
Widow of the Herrin under the provision
of the act of Congress of July 4th 1836 &
several acts amendatory thereto, granting
pay to certain widows
please give the case the
necessary examination and at as
early a date as possible inform me
of the result & should any further
proff of her marriage or Identity be
required please communicate the same
and should her claim be allowed if
convenient send her a check on the
Branch at Bedford of the State Bank
of Indiana I am his
Respectfully your to
H. L. Livingston
J L. Edwards
Commissioner
of Pensions
P.S. Please direct your communications to this
office to the care of F.P. Stark
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Washington DC
2 August 1845
Sir, 
Your letter of the    also in relation
to the claim of Mrs Ann Herring widow of Isaac
Herring of Indiana, formerly of the South Carolina
line, has been received.
As the evidence is satisfactory in regard 
to the marriage and to the services of Herring for twelve 
months, we respectfully request that certificate may
be issued for what is proven, and upon the production
of additional evidence of service, if such can be obtained
we will apply for an increase.
We are very respectfully 

J.L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions.
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Raleigh N C
Compt Office
I William F Collins Comptroller of Public
Accounts in and for the State of South 
Carolina do hereby certify that the name
of I. Herring appears of record in this office
as having had a Specie certificate
issued in his Name for Military Service
for Twenty Pounds five Shillings (L 20 5)
See Book No 26 page 22 given under
my hand and seal this 12th day August
AD 1847.
WM. F. Collins Compt
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Marshall,  Clark county Ills.
Aug. 21st 1847.
Hon J.L. Edwards   Comm of Pensions
Sir,
In the Pension claim of Mrs. Ann Herrin, (or Herring,) of Indiana, widow of Isaac Herrin, of the Revolution, her claim was allowed in 1845 for $40. a year, at my request upon the proof in her husbands papers, for one years service.
The proof required in your letter, of the 12th July 1845 in this case from N. C. could not be obtained to obtain the further allowance for the alleged service of her husband until now.
Some inattention on my  part and over sight of the Comptroller General with great delay in our correspondence procrastinated the delay in the proof required.
I have this moment received from the comptroller the required certificate as per your letter of the above date, which I now herein enclose to you, and ask of you the goodness to make the additional allowance of her claim upon the proof contained in the certificate; It is for the payment by N.C. of £20. 5 & [illegible], equal I [illegible] to something like $100.
Please enclose the certificate for the allowance to me at this place, early as convenient.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt servant
J P Cooper
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Official Business
free
Hon J. L. Edwards, Comm of Pens.
Washington City
D.C.
(Postage Date Stamp: Marshall, Ill   
Aug 21)
Ann Herrin of In.
Proof of Additional Allowances.
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Marshall Ills. Janry, 13th 1848.
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Court of Pensions
Sir,
Yours of the 10th Sept. 1847 in reply to the application of Mrs. Ann Herring of Indiana widow of I Herrin who was a pensioner for Revolutionary service, for an increase of Pension, was duly received and I have again had a conference with the old lady. Relative to it, & to your letter which says the claim of her husband was for services in the Regular army in the South Carolina Line.
The old lady still insists upon it , that her husband served in North Carolina troop at least a portion of his time.  And if her husband Isaac Herrin, served in the South Carolina Line, one year as a part of his Revolutionary services, she had forgotten it, yet if he did serve in South Carolina, he also served in North Carolina, & of this she is not mistaken. And if her husband in his application for his pension set out a term of his service in South Carolina Line, it was then only a part of his service in that war, and which was sufficient above for him to set out in order to entitle him to a pension under the act of March 18, 1818 under which he was pensioned & that neither her husband, nor herself, as his widow, has been
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allowed a pension for his services in the North Carolina troop, which was rendered beyond doubt, which she knows certain from his own statement of it, & from others who know of it and conversed with him about it in his life time. She also knows it from the fact that her first husband Gainey & herself both knew of his service in the North Carolina troop.  She does not wish to be impertinent in her application nor of insisting in its prosecution, but insists upon it as her rights as she says, she is certain it is right. The old lady seems so strenuous upon the truth of her statements, and insists upon the further application for an increase of her pension. I hope I shall be pardoned by the Dept. from again presenting the matter for further investigation & consideration. Perhaps the examining Clerk may have misconceived the extent of her husbands service from the fact of his only setting out his service in the South Carolina Line, it being sufficient under the act of 1818.
You will please correspond with & unclose to me at this place.
I have the honor to be with great respect, your most Obet. Servant,
J.P.Cooper
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[illegible, Illinois Feby 15 1848

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions

Yours of the 3rd last is [illegible] in
reply to the claim of Ann Herring for an additional allowance
for her husbands services in North Carolina.  You say
"That Isaac Herrin claimed [illegible] service in North
Carolina and his widow Ann Herrin cannot [illegible] 
his statment made under oath."
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his widow having the benefit of his service that he afterward rendered in North Carolina: And that she has done what she had a perfect right to do, I.E. set out and prove his service in North Carolina; And that in doing so, she has not in the least, "controverted his statement made under oath."
Her husband claimed for a part of his service only, which was sufficient for his purpose but certainly, because he only set out a part of it, & that part in the South Carolina Line, & that only which really fit the low of 1818, it is no bias to his  widow setting out the balance "under oath" which in no way "controverts" his statement of another portion of his service.
Please have the goodness to look at this claim again, & let the widow have her Rights, "Justice be done, even if the Heaven's fail."
With great respect I have the honor to be yours,  Most Respectfully
J.P. Cooper
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Col James L Edwards.
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I enclose you the 
application of the heirs of Isaac Herrin, a Rev-
olutionary Soldier whose widow was pensioned 
under the act of July 7 1838, for arrears of Pension
for service of their father as a Wagon Conductor
with Revolutionary War in addition to those 
of a private.
If the records in your office
do not afford the evidence acquired in this case,
if is believed it can be found in the State
Department.
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Washington  July 22 1849
Jas L Edwards [illegible]
Dr Sir
Will you be pleased to inform me whether my application has been made at your office for increase of the pension to Ann Herrin of Indiana widow of Isaac Herrin Dec & if so by whom it was made when made & what facts are given in the application thereof. This inquiry as made on behalf of Mrs Herrin,
Respectfully
I am obt svt
Chas P Wallash
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Rev. War Section.
January 5 1938.
Mrs. Edith P. Margrive,
320 S. 13th Street,
Herrin, Illinois.
Madam;- 
In addition to the military history of the Revolutionary War pensioner Isaac Herin or Herrin or Herring or Herron W. 10098, you are furnished the following data to his children;
Sarah died at age of 18 months, Anna aged 55in 1844, married William McDowell; John; Isaac, Desta, Alexander Joshua and Joel aged about 40 years in 1840.
very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.