Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 26119, Henry Fisher, Penn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE   Penn.

Fisher, Henry
           Happy

NUMBER   R 26119

CONTENTS 
[blank lines]
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State of Tennessee  County of Hancock  } ss
On this 29th day of March AD 1861 personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within and for the county and State aforesaid, Happy Fisher, aged 83 years who after being duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath (to the best of her knowledge information and belief) make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 29th 1848 States that She is the widow of Henry Fisher Who was a private in        company commanded by Capt       in the 3d Regiment commanded by general Synclear  [St. Clair?] She further states from her information from the statements of her said husband that her husband the said (Henry Fisher) entered the Service at a place called Whealing [Wheeling] in the state of Pennsylvania in the [word crossed out] year 1780 for the war and served two years and six months to the end of the war and was Honorably discharged in the state of Pennsylvania and paid in the year 1782.

She further states that she was married to the
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said Henry Fisher, on or about the 7th day of February 1799 at the hous [house] of S. Gose by a Clergyman his name she does not recollect, in the County of Russel [Russell] and State of Virginia and that her husband, afor [afore] & said died at his house on the 3d day of February 1839 in the county of Hawkins and State of Tennessee his age at his death your witness is unable to state having no records of the same but from the best Calculation & from his statements and appearance he must have been about 90 years of age at death, your witness for this states that she cannot file herewith her said husbands certificate [word crossed out] of discharge, from the fact that her husband a short time before his death imployed [employed] one Lewis Clerk of Hawkins County to prosicute [prosecute] his claim for pension and gave all his papers to the said Clerk and since the death of her said husband the said Clerk has died and the papers is mislaid or distrawed [distroyed] and
cannot now be had, your witness further states that her nor her said husband never kept any record or other writing of the dates of their marriage and she knows of no Record of their marriage excep [except] it is of record in the office in the County where they were married and She is unable to say whether it exist or not
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from the memory and affliction of her head and date age and loss of memory more safely or more correctly fill the blanks or state the fact, only that [word crossed out] her name before her said marriage was Happy Riddle, and for further testimony she refers to the Record in the war department and testimony herewith enclosed and that she has not applied for or received her claim aforesaid for + Reason aforesaid.  She further states that the above statement that is made of her own knowledge is true and that on information she believes to be true and for the purpose of obtaining the same she appoints Wm. M. Strickland of Sneedville Tenn her true and lawful attorney to prosecute and obtain her certificate of pension and to examin [examine] all papers or documents on file at Washington City DC or elsewhere and to do all that I could or might Lawfully do in the Business  Witness my hand and Seal this day and year above mentioned
Happy Fisher  her X mark      seal

attest Z Miner  his X mark
Andrew Ingland   his X mark

Sworn to and Subscribed by Happy Fisher making her mark to the same in my presence and acknowledging the same before me on this 29th day of March AD 1861
J. D. Newel  J P
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[word crossed out] and She knows of no one that is now living who was at their marriage aforesaid, but further states that she had eleven children the eldist [eldest] Joseph was born in 1801 the youngest Polly was born in June 1820.  that her and her said husband lived together continuously from the date of their marriage aforesaid to the day of his death aforesaid,  Your witness further states as aforesaid that her husband made an application for his pension before his death by Lewis Click Esq as aforesaid but died before he received his claim and the reason why your witness has not hereto-fore made application for her claim is that she has been bodily afflicted so that she has been holy [wholly] unable to attend the court and is now unable to attend the Court, and she was advised that owing to the paper being mislaid or distrured [destroyed] that it would be very difficult unless she could get to court to set up for her claim, which she waited and hoped to be able to do till now and she has not been, and is not likely to ever be able to attend the court, it being some distance & a ruff [rough] way to the court house, and from afflictions she is wholy [wholly] unable to travel or attend the court, and that she cannot
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[illegible initials with a check mark written over them]

am

ABANDONED

(3-224.)
No. 26119
.................., Ex'r.

OLD WAR WIDOW.
Happy Fisher [check mark]
P. O. ..........................
Widow of Henry Fisher
Private Genl Sinclair  3 Regt.
Revolutionary War

Died at .........................
Feb 3 - 1839
1 - 0    other claim

..................., 18    . 
...........................
Clerk. 

Application filed: April 8, 189 61.
Attorney:   chnt
P. O. ..........................
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Free

Sneedvillle Tenn
April 4th 

On official Business

Hon Commissioner of Pensions,
Pension Office
Washington City
DC

PENNSYLVANIA 
APR 8 1861

Henry Fisher
1818 - Pa [illegible]
1818 - Wid. application
from Tenn - 
File this case
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Private 
3 Regiment
Gen'l Sinclair
Enl. Wheeling Penn.
1780
Two yrs & 6 mos service

Disc 1782
Married 7 Feby 1799
Married in Va

Died Feby 3, 1839
at Hawkins Co. Tenn.
Ate about 90 at death

11 children
Polly the youngest
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41535

Widow
3792
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PENSION OFFICE APR 8 1861

[seal of Hancock County stamped]

Happy Fisher vs U S
Declaration and power 
& affidavits filed by
Wm M. Strickland
Sneedville Tenn

this March 29th 1861
for pension under
act of July the 29th 1848
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State of Tennessee  Hancock County } ss

at the same time personally came Z. Minor aged about 61 years and Andrew Ingland aged 56 years two credible witnesses  Z Minor's residence of my county and State and Andrew Ingland a resident of the adjoining settlement in the County of Scott and State of Virginia  Z Minor states on his part that he has known Henry Fisher and wife about 25 years previous to his death and up to the date of his death and the said Andrew Ingland states that he has known them, about the same length of time and that they each state on their oaths that the said Henry Fisher & Happy Fisher both lived together as man and wife so conducted and behaved from their first acquaintance and up to the day of his death and that they know nothing of this marriage but know that they had Eleven Children and all [illegible]ent in his name, and we further state that [word crossed out] Henry Fisher was reputed to be originally from Pennsylvania State and a soldier in the Revolutionary War in that State and was generally reputed and respected as such which we believe it was the fact.  the foregoing Declaration was sworn to
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subscribed [word erased] in our presence by Happy Fisher making her mark to the same and we further certify that we believe her to be the identical person she therein represents herself to be and that we are not interested in her claim as attorney or otherwise.  [text crossed out] and we further assert that we have known the widow Happy Fisher ever since the death of Her said husband and that she has not intermarried but continues the reputed and respected widow of the said Henry Fisher aforesaid  witness our hand and Seal this March 29th 1861       
A Miner  his x mark      seal
Andrew Inglant   his x mark  seal

attest
Owen Sizemore

State of Tennessee   Hancock County } ss
I John D Heid a Justice of the peace in and for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing Declaration was Sworn to and subscribed before me by Happy Fisher makeing [making] her mark to her name and witnessed by Z. Minor and A. Inglant making their marks to their names and there came Z. Minor of my County and Andrew Inglant of the adjoining
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settlement in the County of Scott and State of Virginia  Each credible witnesses and made the foregoing affidavit in my presence and Sworn to and subscribed by them making their mark to the Same.  I Further certify that I knew the declarant Happy Fisher for Ten years before the Death of the Reputed Soldier Henry Fisher and know that he was reputed and Respected as a Soldier of the revolutionary war and that he was general reputed and Respected as such, and that during my acquaintance they lived together as man and wife were so reputed and respected by the neighbors generally and that She has not intermarried but continues the reputed widow of the Soldier Henry Fisher.  and I further certify that they are or were each about the age they are represented to be, and that the declarant is old and of dotage and infirm & afflicted so that she is unable to attend the Court and that I am not interested in her Claim as attorney or otherwise  witness my hand this the 29th day of March 1861
J D Mears   J P
for Hancock County