Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 661, Hendrick Hendrickson, New Jersey
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Service:  New Jersey
Hendrickson, Hendrick Francinka
Number 661
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28,03
New Jersey
Hendrick Hendrickson
Middletown the State of NJ
Who was a Private of (illegible) in the command of Captain Randall of the----- command in the NJ troop for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of N.J. at the rate of 100 Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence of the 4th day of March, 1831.  

Certificate of Pension issued on the 20 day of January 1834 and sent on  FF Schenck Cho of R.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833.               $250
Simi-ann allowance ending March 4, 1834. .50

                                                                     ______
                                                                     $300

                                        (Revolutionary Claim 
                                          Act June 7, 1832 )
Recorded by E.D. Bullock, Clerk 
Book E, Vol. B, Page 116
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5766
New Jersey
________________
Franceska Hendrickson
widow of Hendrick Hendrickson
who was a (illegible)
in the Revolution
New Jersey Service
Inscribed in the Roll at a rate of 100 Dollars ---Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of June 1844 and sent to J. M. (illegible) Esq
Freehold
NJ
Act of March 3, 1843
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1, Page 122
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10,113
Hendick
Francina Hendrickson
N. J.
Oct. 7,  July 38
M 81. d 40-
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County ⎬ ss:
     Be it remembered that on this 31st day
of May A.D. 1843, personally appeared before me, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, the Revd. Aaron A. Marcelus, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that he is the minister and Pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church of Freehold in said County, that he has in his possession the Register of the said Church, which contains a record of Marriages solemnized by the respective Ministers of said Church; that he finds recorded in said record the marriage of Hendrick Hendrickson & Francyntje Covenhoven by the Revd. Benjamin
Dubois, who was at that time the stated Minister of the said Church, and that the following is a true copy of the said record of marriage, which is entered in the words & figures as follows, to wit: May day 13th 1781, Hendrick Hendricks met Franccyette
Covenhoven-- which rendered into English will
read as follows: "May the 13th, 1781. Hendrick
Hendrickson with Francyntje Covenhoven".
Sworn & Subscribed before
me by the said Aaron A.
A A Marcelus
who is a credible person
& whose statement is entitled
to credit the day & year aforesaid
Thos C Throckmorton

A.A. Marcelus
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County ⎬
     On this twenty-second day of May A.D., eighteen hundred and forty-three, personally appeared before me the Subscribed one of the Judges of the Interior Court of Common Pleas of said County, Francinka Hendrickson, a resident of the Township of Middletown in the County of Monmouth, aged seventy-nine years and upwards, who is unable from bodily infirmity to appear in Court and who being first duly sworn according to the 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 7. 1838 entitled "An Act Granting Half Pay and Pensions to certain Widows." That she is the widow of Hendrick Hendrickson, who
was a Dragoon in the War of the Revolution, and who was a pensioner under the act of June 7, 1832.
     She further declares that she was married to the said Hendrick Hendrickson on the
Thirteenth day of May in the year Seventeen
hundred and eighty-one. That her husband, the aforesaid Hendrick Hendrickson, died on
the first day of December in the year eighteen
hundred and forty. 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.
Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year above written before me, Judge as aforesaid
William Morford

Francinka Hendrickson
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County 
     Be it known that on this 23rd day of May A.D. 1843, personally appeared before me a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County,
Janet D. Hendrickson, who being duly sworn saith that Hendrick Hendrickson, who was a pensioner of the United States, died at his residence in Middleton in said County on the first day of December A.D. eighteen hundred and forty.  And that he left a widow named
Francinka Hendrickson, who still remains
his widow.
(illeg) & subscribed before
by the said Janet D. Hendrickson
who is a credible person and
whose statement is entitled to credit
William Morford

J.D Hendrickson
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County

I (illeg) clerk of the Inferior County of Common Pleas aforesaid County, do hereby certify that William Morford, Esq., before whom the annexed proceedings in the matter of the application of Freaninka Hendrickson for a pension, were taken, to whom so described is now and was, at the respective dates thereof, a judge aforesaid cont. duly enrolled, qualified, and commissioned, and that his several signatures thereto are genuine.
     In witness thereof I have herunto set my had and affixed my seal of office this third day of June, A.D. eiteen hundred and forty three.  
Samuel Mais, Esq.
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27.820
Application of
Hendrick Hendrickson
for the Benefit
of
the Pension Act passed
June 8th, AD 1833
(illeg)

William L. Dayton
Freehold
Monmouth Co., N.J.
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
     On this Nineteenth day of October A.D. 1833, personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas now sitting, Hendrick Hendrickson, a resident of the township of Middletown in the County of Monmouth, State of New Jersey, aged 75 years, who, being first only sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed 7th June 1832.
     That he entered the service of the United States under the following names, officers, and served as herein stated, that was drafted about the month of October 1776 in the Company of Capt. Holmes served for that month under him in keeping guard at Sandy Hook; that afterwards, he was enrolled in a troop of horse under the command of Capt. Randall and served under him till August 1777. And following, the month of January in the township of Middletown, during which time he served well, principally performed at and near the village of Middletown: the month of March in the Township of Shrewsbury at the (illeg) stations on the shore, Sandy Hook, Highlands and in scouthing through the borders of the adjacent townships;  the month of May at and in the neighborhood of the Falls and Shark Rivers, the month of July at Middletown Point, (illeg) and Shoal Harbor. In September, the troop in which he continued to serve was commanded by Capt. William Ransom;  that it was (illeg) by General Davis Forman and joined (illeg) army then in Pennsylvania; that at Bristol, before they had reached the point of destination, they fell in with (illeg), which had left Philadelphia
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Philadelphia, a short time previous to its capture by the British, and were ordered with others accompanying them to a place of safety. That from Bristol, they went to Trenton, thence to Easton, to Allentown and Reading, where they were dismissed and returned home.
That he afterwards served his regular monthly tours of duty under Capt Remson. Vis the month of November in guarding the shores from Amboy around to Long Branch, at the (illeg) around Middletown Point, Shoal Harbour, Highlands, Deal, and Shark River. The month of January 1778 at Middletown, Shrewsbury, the Falls and other places in the vicinity, March at Middletown point, Kanascunk, Shoal Harbour and the village of Middletown, that somewhere about the month of April, Capt. Remson resigned & was succeeded in command by Capt Jacob Conover, that shortly after, in April, he thinks, Capt Jacob Conover was made prisoner by a party of Refugees at Middletown Point when the command of the troop devolved upon 1st Lieutenant Rudolph Conover, under whom he served a part of the month
of May in the township of Middletown and
Shrewsbury when he died, and the 2d Lieut. Barnes Smock was invested with the command, under whom he served the remainder of the month of May; that upon the retreat of the British army from Philadelphia in June 1778, he was ordered out, and was engaged in the Battle of Monmouth with the troop under Lieut. Barnes Smock and after the battle followed in the rear of the retreating army on their way to Sandy Hook, skirmishing with detached parties and cutting off stragglers, that he served for the remainder of the war in the same troop and under Lieut. Smock
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Viz the month of July, September & November
In 1778 in gaurding [guarding] the shores at the various exposed points and in scouting through the interior; the months of January, March, May,
July, September & November in 1779 in the
townships of Middletown & Shrewsbury: January,
March, May, July, September, & November
in 1780 in gaurding [guarding] the shores from Amboy to Long Branch at the different stations at which gaurds [guards] were usually kept and wherever else necessity required; In 1781 he served the months of January, March, May, July, September & November at Middletown, Middletown point, Falls Shrewsbury & at various other places in the township of Middletown and Shrewsbury, In 1782, he served the month of January, March, May, July, September & November principally in Middletown, also at Shrewsbury, Highlands, Long Branch and at various other places. The above services were principally performed in the townships of Middletown and Shrewsbury except as above
stated and occasionally in the borders of Freehold. That from old age and consequent loss of memory deponant [deponent] is unable to specify his
services with any greater degree of exactness,
but they were not less than the several periods above set forth, that he was engaged in several unimportant skirmishes while serving in Middletown and Shrewsbury, but that from lapse of time the circumstances are almost entirely obliterated from his memory. That his field officers were Genl David Forman, Col. Asher Holmes, Lieut Col John Smock, Major Elisha
Walton, that in substantiation of his claims
he refers the department to the muster rolls
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of Leiut. Bares Smock's troop forwarded to them by Daniel B. Ryall, Esq., and that John L. Bennet and Barnes Smock are out (illeg) who can testify to his service, that at the time of his entering the service, he resided in the townshop of Middletown.  That he truly (illeg) his army claim to opinion except the present and declare that his name is not on the pension rolls of the agency of any state.  

Sworn and accredited the day and year aforesaid in open court.  William Lloyd
Frederick Hendricson

J. Barnes Smock, aged 77 years, residing in the township of Middletown, do hereby certify that I was well acquainted with Hendrick Hendrickson (who was subscribed and sworn to the above declaration) during the war of the Revolution, that I served with him in Capt. Randall's troop of horse, that he served in Capt. William Rensom's troop of which I was (illeg), that the period mentioned above, that he served in Capt. Connor's troops of which I was 2nd Leut. not (illeg) thatn the period avoe specified, that afterwards he served in the troop of which I had the command until the end of the war.  That he was in my troop at the Battle of Monmouth and was engaged in actual service, and that he was a good and faithful soldier of the Revolution.
Sworn and subscribed the year above written
John Patterson
Barnes Smock
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I, Jacob T. B. Beekman, a clergyman, residing in the township of Middletown, do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Hendrick Hendirckson who has subscibed and sworn to the above declaration, that I believe him to be 75 years of age and that he is reputed and believed in my neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that I concur in that petition.
Sworn and subscribed this 15th day of October, 1833.  The word "clergyman" being first initialed
Thos. C Throckmorton., Justice
J. T. B. Beekman
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I, John L. Bennet, aged 76 years, residing in the township of Middletown, do hereby certify that I was well acquainted with Hendrick Hendrickson (who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration) during the war of the Revolution, that I served with him in Captain William Remson's troop horse, not less than the period mentioned in his declaration, was with hi in the troop whne ordered to Pennsylvania as stated above. That I afterwards served with him in the same troop from the time that Leuit. Barnes Smock was invested with the command until the end of the war.  I was with him at the Battle of Monmouth, as detailed in his declaration that he regularly performed his monthly terms of service and that I believe him to have been a good and faithful soldier of the Revolution.
Sworn and Subscribed in open Court the day and year above 
William Lloyd
John L. Bennet

We, Daniel H. Ellis and Daniel Holmes, residing in the County of Monmouth, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Hendrick Hendrickson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 75 years of age; that he is respected and (illeg) in the neighborhood whre he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court.
Daniel Ellis
Daniel Holmes
William LLoyd
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Interrogations

1.  Where and in what year were you born?

Ans. At Middletown, 3rd May, 1758.

2.  Have you any record of your age and if you have, where is it?

Yes,  in the family Bible

3. Where were you living when called into service? Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?

At the same place in the Township of Middletown.

4.  How were you called into service? Were you
drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute and if a substitute, for whom?

Ans. Drafted.

5. State the names of some of the regular officers (who were with the troops) with whom you served; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.

Ans. See Declaration.

6.  Did you ever receive a discharge from the
service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?

Ans. No regular discharge, I (illeg) to serve
when my services were no longer required. 

7.  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood and
who can testify as to your character for truth 
and veracity and their belief of your services
as a soldier of the revolution.

Ans. Daniel H Ellis & Daniel Holmes
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Sworn and transcribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid
William Lloyd
Hendrick Hendrickson

  And the judge Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogatives (illeg) 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 Jacob T. B. Beekman, who has signed the (illeg) certificate, is a clergyman resident in the Township of Middletown, and in the immediate neighborhood of the said applicant, and that Daniel H. Ellis and Daniel Smock, who have also certified the same, a resident of Freehold and the other in Middletown, and on the (illeg) neighborhood of the said applicant, that they and other person, one being clerk  of this Court and the other late Sheriff of this County. And that this statement is entitled to full and implicit audit and belief. And also that John L. Bennet and Barnes Smock who testify as to their knowledge of said applicants service are respectable citizens of this County and that their statements are entitled to full credit. 
William Lloyd
John Patterson
John Hull

I, Daniel Ellis, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, do (illeg) certify that the foregoing contain the (illeg) said court in the matter of the application of Hendrick Hedrickson for a pension.
That William Lloyd, John Patterson, John
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Hall, are respective Judges of the said Court of Common Pleas, and Thomas C. Trockmorton, a Justice of the said County, duly commissioned and sworn that their names are severally enrolled in my office as such. That full faith & credit are due to their official acts. That I am acquainted with their handwriting respectively and believe their signatures to the annexed papers are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of office, this twenty-third
of October A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty
three. 
D. Willis
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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 661
Franciaka Hendricks
Widow
Hendrick Hendrickson
Priv. of Cavalry Rev. War.
Act: Mar. 3, 1843.
Index: -- Vol. H, Page 323
Arrangement of 1870.]
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10.113
Francinka Hendrickson
N.J.
let to J.M. Hartshorne, Aug 5, '43
Act of 7 July 1838
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Rept Oct 17
1816
New Jersey
Francinka Hendrickson
widow of Hendrick Hendrickson
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 1st Dec., 1840
of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey
who was a Pri. (illeg) in the Company
commanded by Captain Randall
Regr. commanded by Col. in the 
N. Jersey line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 100 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day
of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th
day of
Oct. 1843 and sent to J. M. Hart's home Freehold, N.J
Total ammount, $500
(act July 7, 1838)
Recorded by Tho. Lumpkin, Clerk, Book D, Vol. 1, Page 197
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Freehold, N.J. June 3rd, 1843
Sir,
     I herewith enclose the papers on the application of Francinka Hendrickson, widow of Hendrick Hendrickson, who was a private of Cavalry in the Revolution & received a pension of $100.00 per annum under the act of June 7, 1832.
     She applies for a five-year pension under the act of July 7. 1838.
     And also for the one year's pension under the act of March 3, 1843-
Yours Most Respectfully,
J.M. Harthorne

J. D Edwards, Esq
Com. of Pensions-
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Sir
Freehold, N.J., Nov. 10th, 1843
I herewith enclose to you the declaration of Francinka Hendrickson, widow of Hendrick Hendrickson, for a pension under the act of March 3d 1843.
Please send me the certificate
-
I am most respectfully &c
Your obt. sent
J. M. Hartshome

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions
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to
admit
2 years
private of Caverly
$100

F F Schenck
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J. L. Edwards, Esq
     Enclosed is the Declaration
of Hendrick Hendrickson Pension.
     I have taken much pains to (illeg) by this case with the testimony of credible
Witnesses and the certificate, not only
of a Clergyman, but of two of the most respectable citizens of your county-- The offices they heard in the certificate of the Court and ample vouchers for their respective characters.
     I trust I may hear from this (illeg)
speedily and may, moreover, be informed of what has been done with the case of Wm. McKee, Peter Patan, Aaron Chamberlain & Jacob Lane, forwarded to the Department long since.
     When these cases are disposed of, I hope most directly never to be troubled with any such business again.
Very respectfully,
Your officer, 
Wm L. Dayton
Freehold, Monmouth Co., N.J.
Oct 23d A.D. 1833
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Freehold Aug. 25, 1843
Sir,

     I herewith enclose to you the supplemental declaration of Francikna Hendrickson.  widow of Hendrick Hendrickson, setting forth her knowledge & information as to the service of her husband, as required in your letter of the 5th of Aug. 
     She refers to the declaration and evidence
of her husband, already on file in support of
her claim, and surety as the evidence was
sufficient to allow him a pension 10 years
ago. It ought to be sufficient on the present
application when he and all his witnesses
are dead.
     If, from the evidence on file, you judge
that the application should be made under
the act of July 4/36, she is willing to act
under your advice in relation to that matter. And I perceive by your circular that your rules do not prevent you from giving such
advice. You have all the information & the
proof to enable you to judge.
     In answer to your remark about the certificate of the Judge, I have to state that, upon looking at the act of July 8, 1838, I perceive that the
Sec. of War is to adopt such regulations as the President may prescribe. Among the rules which you say were prescribed by the President and adopted by the Sec: I find that the judge is required to certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the court.
     The Judge has to certifed in both cases, and if there have been any additional rules prescribed, requiring the Judge to certify any
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further facts, you will be good enough to send me a copy.

I am very respectfully
Your Obt Serv.
J. M. Hartshome

L. L. Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
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10, 113.
Francikna Hendrickson
N. J.
Act July 7, '38
Adm C
2 years
Private of Cav.
$100 per anum
J. M. Hartshorne
Freehold
N.J.
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Supplemental affidavit on the application
of Hendrick Hendrickson
for a pension under the Act of July 4th, 1832
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Supplemental affidavit of Hendrick Hendrickson of the township of Middletown, Monmouth Co., N.J., in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832.
Monmouth Co ss. Hendrick Hendrickson, being
duly sworn before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, upon his oath,
saith - That he knows of no peculiar facts explanatory of his service except the following. That in the fall of 1776, before the Militia laid down their arms, he remembers in one of his towns that he marched under Leut. Koertenius Schanck to the Hook, where they took the Lamps and a large quantity of oil and brought them to the town of Middletown, to prevent the British ships off the coast from having the benefit of the lights.
     He remembers the march to Bristol stated his declaration & distinctly. He remembers many trifling circumstances unimportant to state. He remembers distinctly the skirmish with the 1500 at Middleton in the summer of 1781, & it was at the time of his monthly service. He remembers the attack of the refugees & British upon some of the hoof quartered in a Barn at Middleton, from the fact that when
he mounted his horse, he was immediately thrown from his horse. He knows that he served
his regular tours, because he did not hire a substitute (or have and fine for) a single month during the whole war. His father's house was one of the most expensive sections of the County & he not only served his alternate monthly tours but acted as a minuteman. He is
certain that he served his monthly tours as
detailed in his declaration, although there
may be mistakes as to the specified month
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That the move of calling out the troop was
certainly one-half each month. That he can
not now recollect anything particularly important not already stated.

Sworn & Subscribed the 20th Dec
A.D. 1833, before me
C. Bennet Justice
Hendrick Hendrent
Monmouth Co ss. John L. Bennett, aged 75-
being duly sworn upon his oath saith, He distinctly recollects that Hendrick Herrickson, the above applicant, served as a private during the Revolution in the same troop under Captains Randall, Ramson, and Conover - that he knows he and Hendrickson were together at Tinton Falls. Middletown, Freehold & on the shared many monthly tours, but he cannot remember any particular circumstance
as except one, viz., that while on one of the
tours under Connors, when they were quartered in a Barn at the Town of Middletown, they were
attacked by a party of British Refugees &
in the skirmish that followed, said Hendrickson by the stumbling of his House was thrown over his head and lost his Cap & Carbine. Witness recalls this little circumstance because he was
not more than a few feet distant from him.
     This witness distinctly remembers that at the time the troop was marched to Bristol in the year 1777, a short time before the Battle of Germantown, that Hendrickson served a tour at that time, and was in the company at that march. They went, and this happens at Bristol & guarded there first to Trenton, then to Easton, thence to Allentown, then to Reading & they were ordered to join Genl Mifflin. Witness is certain that said Hendrickson was returned a regular (illeg), & served his alternate months for the usual way for 50 days of the war - One half of tour served each month.
to & subscribed the 20th Dec.
John L Bennet
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Monmouth County ss: Lewis Conover, aged 81 years,  of Freehold Township, in said County, upon his oath saith that he, the Deponent, is himself a pensioner, and that he distinct recollects that he, himself, was an orderly
was a Sergeant in the Troop commanded by
Captain Benjamin Randall and afterwards Capt William Ransom, and afterward by Capt. (illeg) during the Revolutionary war, and the witness further distinctly recollects that Hendrick Hendrickson, the above applicant, served as a private in said troops, commencing in the beginning of the year 1777, just after the Hessians were taken at Trenton, and continued to serve as a private in said troops for a long time, but this witness cannot state the exact length of time.
He remembers of being frequently at Tinton Falls together with him, but he cannot specify the precise times. The witness is old & his memory much impaired, but he distinctly remembers said Hendrickson serving regularly as a private and was ever considered a good soldier that the regular service of the Troop was
one half, every month, and the whole of
was liable to be called out on all emergencies
and the frequently were so called out, being considered "minute men". The applicant's father and family were all considered good Whigs.
Sworn & subscribed 
Lewis Cowenhover
Dec. A. D. 1833 before me
The 1th & 7th lines first interlined ⎬
L. Bruen,  Justice
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Monmouth County ss. Barnes J. Smock, aged 77, a pensioner, being duly sworn, upon his oath saith, that he recollects distinctly that Hendrick Hendricks the above applicant, was a private in the troops commanded by Capts. Randall, Ramson, and Conover, and this witness as Lieutenant under said Conover-- And after Conover was taken prisoner.  He served as a private under this Deponent, though a Lieutenant took the command of the of the troops.
That the pay-roller forwarded by this Deponent through Danl B. Ryall, Esq, was very imperfect, and the witness is not the less certain, and indeed, he is absolutely sure that said (illeg)
Hendrickson served regularly as a private in said Troop, and that the terms of service as aforesaid by the proof were one-half every other month. That this witness recollects of said Hendrickson being in the troop under this command at the fight in the summer of the year 1781, at Middleton & they drove off about 1500 Brittish & Tories.
Hendrickson was certainly in this skirmish.  He was perfectly willing to say that said Hendrickson was a regular and good soldier, and performed his regular tours because, although the witness can not specify particular times or peculiar facts he distinctly recollects his service, and even the members the very horse he rode (a Brown Horse called Dipper). He served throughout the war, &c, as stated & testified to in the original declaration, although this witness cannot attest to the accuracy of the particular months.
Sworn & subscribed this 20th
of Dec. A. D. 1833 before me
C.Brunner,  Justice
Baron J Smock
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Monmouth County ss: James Wall, aged 77, a pensioner, of said County, being duly sworn, upon his oath saith, that he was out with him, Hendrickson, in the troop commanded first by Randall, the month he thinks by Green, then by Ramson then by Jacob Conven, and lastly by Lieutenant B. T.Smock. That this witness & Hendrickson entered thereunder Randall in the month of January or February 1777, just after the Militia again took up arms. He knows that they served this first tour together, & Randall was stationed at Tinton Falls, where they joined him. They served one or two other tours under Randall together in that spring at Tinton Falls & on the Middleton shores. He knows that they served under Capt Ramson in said Troop until this witness left the Troop in June 1779 (and he thinks) to join the foot. He cannot specify any particular town, except one in which they marched to Bristol &c, as
before stated, in company. He knows of one other tour that they performed together at Toms River in guard of the shores &c, & both were there in the fall of 1777.  He remembers the law at Toms River, because they were stationed there when they heard of the capture of Gen. Burgoyne's army &c they remembers that after this one town and he thinks more, they performed together at the town of
Freehold. He remembers that they were out
together on many tours, the number he cannot state at Middletown, and as a guard on the Middleton shores. He cannot recollect anything which stamps other particular tour on his
mind, but he is certain that said Hendrickson was always esteemed a regular and good
soldier, & that all the tours above, particularly
specified were under Ramson, except the first
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That the Troop, while he served in it were called
out one half every month, and he believes that
Hendrickson served his regular tours, that Hendrickson was familiarly nicknamed in the
troop, "Ducky". Deponent cannot recollect
anything further, except that they served one other tour together at Mount Pleasant
in said County and acted as a guard
for one Major Thomas Hurr and this
was, he thinks, in the spring of 1779 & under Capt Ramson.

Sworn & subscribed this 20th
of Dec. A. D. 1833 before me
C. Burr, Justice

I, Daniel H. Ellis, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of Monmouth Co. N. J. do hereby certify that the annexed papers contain the supplemental proceedings had in the matter of the application of Hendrick Hendrickson for a
Pension. And I further certify that in
Bruen, before whom the five affidavits herein.
The attached were taken is a Justice of the Peace in for said County duly commissioned and sworn, and that his name as such is enrolled in my office according to Law. I further certify that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and believe his several signatures to said affiants are genuine. In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty-sixth of Dec. A.D. 1833-
D. A. Ellis
Close
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State of New Jersey Monmouth County SS:
On this twenty-fourth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-three, personally appeared
before me, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, Francikna Hendrickson, an aged and infirm person, and who, from bodily infirmity, cannot attend the Court, and who, being first duly sworn according to Law
doth on her oath make the following
supplemental declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act
granting half pay and pensions to certain widows". 
    That she is the widow of Hendrick Hendrickson who was a private of Cavalry in the Revolutionary War. That he died from old age and the consequent loss of memory, she is entirely unable to give a detailed statement of the particulars of the Services of her said husband. That she has no knowledge whatever of the services of her said husband, except what she has heard him say, and she cannot now remember the particulars of his service as she has often heard him relate them; but she was informed and always believed that her said
husband entered the militia of Monmouth
County in the Beginning of the Revolution
in the year 1776 (but whether in the Horse
at first, she cannot say) and served therein
as she believes at least every other month in
tours of one month each until the year 1781.
That is to say, during the year 1776. 1777. 1778, 1779, and 1780. And she has frequently heard her husband say that part of the time, the exigency of the service
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was such as to require the service of his company all the time. That he was in actual service all the time and every month during some portions of the period above stated, but she cannot pretend to state the different times of the particulars of the service. Nor can she state with any accuracy the names of the officers under whom he served. Though she recollects frequently having heard him mention Capt. Jacob Covenhaven and Lieut. Barnes Smock, who commanded a company of Light Dragoons, and she thinks that most of his service was performed in that company. She has also heard of Capt. Renden or Randolph, who at one time commanded a troop of horse in Monmouth during the War, but she cannot state whether her husband belonged
to his company or not. She believes that
Asher Holmes was Col: & David Forman General. She is not able to state whether all the services of her husband were performed in the Cavalry or whether part were in the infantry. To ascertain which, she must refer to his papers and the evidence already on file in the pension office.
She further states that she has been informed
and believes that the Militia of Monmouth County were not called out in the service as frequently in the years 1781 & 1782 as they had been before (except in some parts of the "County). And she cannot now, from her own knowledge or information state, whether her husband performed any service in the years last named, nor does she know whether her husband, on his application, stated or proved
any such service, nor has she any evidence
in her knowledge or power to prove such service-
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She further states that shortly after the death of her husband, an application was made on her behalf to James M Hartshorne of Freehold to ascertain whether she could obtain a pension for life, and his advice was that under the circumstances, there was no prospect of success in obtaining such a pension, inasmuch as the Department required strict and positive proof of service after marriage. And inasmuch as she had no knowledge or evidence of such service, nor any knowledge of the contents of the declaration of her husband or the evidence connected within, and no means of obtaining any information concerning the same, she abandoned the idea of applying
for a pension at that time.
     She further states that she thinks it probable
that her husband may have been in the service
after the marriage, but having no information
or knowledge or evidence of such service, she was advised subsequently to apply for the five
years' pension, and make the declaration required under that act, and she gives this
as an explanation of the circumstances
under which her declaration was made.
     And she further declared that owing to
her infirmities and loss of memory she cannot
state any thing farther in relation to the services of her said husband, and for further
particulars and proof of service. She refers to the papers and evidence on the application of her husband, on file at the Pension Office.

Sworn and subscribed before me, Judges aforesaid on the day and year first
written William Morford

Francinka Hendrickson
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
    I, Samuel Mairs, Clerk of the Inferior Court
of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that William Manford Esq, before whom the foregoing declaration was made, is now and
was at the date thereof a Judge of the said
Court, duly qualified and sworn, and that
his signature thereto is genuine.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office
this twenty-fifth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-three.

And I do further certify that Thomas C. Throckorton Esq, before whom the annexed affidavit was executed, is Judge of the said Court duly Commissioned & Sworn and that his signature thereto is genuine.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this twenty-fifth day of August, Eighteen hundred & forty-three.
Samuel Mairs, Clerk
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County ss
    James Hartshorne being duly sworn (illeg) and Saith that shortly after the death of Hendrick Hendrickson in the year 1840, he was applied to on behalf of Francinka Hendrickson, Widow of said Hendrick Hendrickson, for advice in relation to obtaining a pension for life. And this Deponent further saith that after considering the circumstances of her case, he was of the opinion that such an application would fail, and his opinion was based upon the following ground, to wit: that she had no evidence within her knowledge or recollection to prove service after the marriage. That she had no memoranda or knowledge of the contents of her husband's declaration, or the evidence produced by him, and no means of obtaining any such information, as the Department have refused to give copies in such cases. And this deponent further saith that subsequently, he advised an application under the act of July 7.1838.
Sworn and subscribed before me by the said James M. Hartshorn, who is a credible person and whose statement is entitled to credit, Aug 25, 1843
Thos C Throckmorton, Judge of the Court Common Pleas of said County
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6084
Francina Hendrickson
N. J.
Act 3 March 43
$100
J.M Hartshorn
Freehold
N. J.
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State of New Jersey 
Monmouth County SS: 
    On this first day of November in the year eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before the Subscribed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, Francikna Hendrickson, a resident of the Township of Middletown, in the said County of Monmouth, aged Seventy nine years and upwards, who is personally known to me and 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 on the third day of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Hendrick Hendrickson, who was a private of Cavalry of Col. Asher Holmes' Regiment of Monmouth Militia during the Revolutionary War, and that she received a pension of one hundred dollars per annum under the Act of July 7, 1838, and she further declares that she is still a widow.
     Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year above written before me Judge as aforesaid.
William Morford
Francinka Hendrickson


New Jersey, Monmouth County SS: 
I, Samuel Mairs, Clerk of the Inferior Court Common Pleas in & for said County, do hereby certify that William Morford is now and was at the date of the above declaration a Judge of the said Court duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature thereto is genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court this tenth day of November A.D., eighteen hundred and forty-three, Samuel Marrs, Clerk