Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3216, Henry Eberly, Penn
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Penn       Eberly, Henry        R. 3216
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3216
Henry Eberly
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The deposition of John Gritton Seign taken at his own house this 3rd day of July 1839 to be used in (favor) of the application of Henry Eberly for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. Deponent being eighty four years old deposeth and saith that he has been well acquainted with Henry Eberly ever since the year seventeen hundred and seventy four that the said Eberly on this first acquaintance lived in the county of Westmoreland in the State of Pennsylvania and in the spring of the year of seventeen hundred and seventy five the said Eberly volunteered and joined the company of Captain Oliver Drake (in said county) who commanded a troop that belonged to the Pennsylvania line and belonged to Col. Broadheads regiment and said Eberly continued in said company as long as the deponent lived in said county which was until the fall of seventeen hundred and seventy nine at which time the said deponent left the said county and left the said Eberly still in service in said company and as they belonged to the troop and considered minuet men they were obliged to perform service when ever called for which call was generally made early in the spring and they were continued principally through the spring summer and fall months in actual service ranging the mountains sometimes at Fort Segonier [Ligonier?] between Pittsburg and Bedford and sometimes upon Big and little Conamaw [Conemaugh?] Rivers, The said company had several skirmishes but deponent does not recollect of the company being in any general battle, The deponent considered said Eberly a valiant and faithful soldier never during his acquaintance shrinking from duty, and he believes he and the said Eberly were more than one half of their time in the service of their country from the spring of seventeen hundred and seventy five until the deponent left the said company, the deponent does not know how much longer the said Eberly continued in the said company after he left it, as shortly after he left the said company he came to Kentucky, He knows the said Eberly does now and have for many years lived in Mercer County KY and further saith not
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                                 John   X   Gritton
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State of Kentucky
Mercer County
         The foregoing deposition was this day sworn to and subscribed by John Gritton an aged man before me the undersigned justice of the peace for the County of Mercer and State aforesaid and I certify the said Gritton is a man of good moral character and a person of truth and veracity
         Given from under my hand this 3rd day of July 1839
Armstead Downing
State of Kentucky
Mercer County
           I Thomas Allin (Allen) clerk of the court for the county afs. do certify that Armsted Downing Esq. whose name is subscribed to the above certificate is an acting justice of the peace in name for the county afs. duly commissioned and qualified and as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given to every of his official acts as such and that his said signature is genuine
In testimony thereof than
hereunto set my hand and
seal of Office this 3rd day
of  July 1839     Tho Allin  Clk
Mercer County Court
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Harrodsburg K 
July 3rd 1839


Sir

 I enclose you herewith a declaration and a deposition in the application of Henry Eberly for a pension under the act of the 7 June 1832, for your examination and decision.
I am very respectfully
your (servant?)
James Harlan




Col J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of President
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(document with hand writing in several directions)

May 18.1842

Ken

Henry Eberly


Hon. J. B. Thompson,
HR

(written from top to bottom sideways on page)

Col. J. L. Edwards
Treasury Department
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Washington.   May 18 1842

Col. Edwards-The within letter is from Henry Eberly I think (??) (??) (??) his, with you (??) kind as to inform me how what our petition was made of the case & why rejected-I have received n returns from the said man & must answer it for ward him
Yours
J. B. Thompson
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34.867
Henry Eberly
Kentucky
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State of Kentucky
Mercer County / SS
             On this the first day of July 1839 personally appeared in open court before the court of Mercer County now sitting Henry Eberly a resident of Mercer County and State aforesaid aged seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 7th 1832 That he entered the service of his country in the war of the Revolution in the County of Westmoreland in the State of Pennsylvania sometime in the spring or summer of the year seventeen hundred and seventy five under Captain Oliver Drake who was a Captain of a company of Pennsylvania Troop, said company belong to Colonel Broadheads regiment He the said declarant continued in said company from the spring or summer of seventeen hundred and seventy five until the year seventeen hundred and eighty one, during the said period of time the deponent was bound and did render service whenever called for which was very frequently particularly during the spring summer and fall in each year. The deponent is now old and his memory has very much failed him and being illiterate he was unable to keep the dates of his tours of duty and more particular when the troop was so frequently called into service,  He the declarant was during these tours of duty generally ranging with said troop on the frontiers in the state of Pennsylvania frequently at fort Segonier (Ligonier) where the company would remain for some weeks and out and upon the Big and Little Conowa (Conemaugh) Rivers. The declarant was a volunteer and private soldier during his whole term of service, and is confident that he was more than one half of his time out on duty with said troop during the spring summer and fall months of seventeen hundred and seventy five to seventeen hundred and eighty one inclusive, he can say positively that he was more than three years in actual service of his country during the above specified time. The reason why I have not applied sooner for my pension was that I considered I had assisted in gaining my liberty and having a sufficiency for any support I thought I would not apply. But fortune has turned and I am now much in need and no one to work for me, therefore I call
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upon the government for that support she has so justly and generously given to others for the same kind of service I have performed,. The declarant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
        Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
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Henry X Eberly
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I John Head clergyman residing in the county of Mercer and State of Kentucky and, Jesse Head, Rob B. McAfee, & Tho  Allin residing in (the same) hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Eberly who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
 Jesse Head
Rob B. McAfee
Tho Allin

I have known Henry Eberly the foregoing applicant for a pension under the act of 7 June 1832, for many years and have no hesitation in declaring that he is a sober, upright and honest man _ that his statements on oath or otherwise are entitled to as much belief as that of any other Person. I have conversed with him upon the subject of his age and Services, and believe his Statements in the foregoing declaration to be true. July 1st 1839
James Harlan

Sworn and subscribed to in open Court the date above mentioned.

Though. Allan, Clk.
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At a Court held for Mercer County in the State of Kentucky at the Courthouse in Harrodsburg on Monday the 1st day of July 1839

This day Henry Eberly the applicant for a pension here so Came into Court and Sevone to a subscribed to the same And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after posting the interrogation prescribed by the war Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and Served as he states and the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Henry Eberly ? Signed Jesse Head who has Signed the Preceding Certificate is a Cleryman resident in the County & State aforesaid and that Robert B McAfee, Thomas Allen and James Harlan whose names are Subscribed to their respective Statements are Dredible Persons and that their Statements are entitled to Credit

I Thomas Allin Clerk of the Court of Vercer County do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Eberly for a pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
Set my hand and seal of office this
1st day of July 1839

Thos. Allin Clk
Mercer County Court
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans’ Administration Archives

NAME Ebert, Henry.  GRADE Private LINE Hazon’s Regiment


WARRANT NUMBERs 12722 and 13042. ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Yearly 7, 1789 to —not shown—

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of “Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800” which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.