Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2301, William Hendrickson, Md.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE     Md.

Hendrickson, William

NUMBER     S. 2301
carded

CONTENTS
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Ohio 13215
Pittsburg
William Hendrickson
of Richland Co in the state of Ohio who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Manse of the Regt commanded by Col Griffin in the Maryland line for Militia 7 mo 10 days.

Inscribed on the roll of Ohio at the rate of 24 dollars 43 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of May 1833 and sent to J. Purdy Mansfield Ohio

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $48.86
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept 33 $12.21
$61.07

{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Geo B Whiting Clerk
Book E Vol 8 Page 113

Paid at the Treasury Dept under the act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 Sept 1836 to the 4 Sept 1837 Agt notified 20 Junee 1838
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State of Ohio
Richland County:
On this seventh day of September AD 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Supreme Court of Richland County Ohio now sitting William Hendrickson a resident of McMillian Township Richland County, Ohio aged 75 years the 23rd day of December 1832 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 June 7th, 1832. 
That in the latter part of July 1776 at Fredericktown, in the State of Maryland, where he then resided, he entered into the service of the United States as a private soldier in a rifle company of which Peter Manse (or Mance) was Captain, Adam Crush was Lieut. and Peter Adams was second Lieutenant. Capt. Manse was afterwards promoted to Major and Lieut. Crush to Capt. of the company.  Reazin Bell or Beal was Brigadier General, Griffin was Colonel, Schryhawk was Lieutenant Colonel and Peter Manse aforesaid was Major- Adams was Brigade Major Martinjay Bailey was adjutant- From Frederick with the company to Annapolis and then went with his company after Gov Danmore, 13 days and returned, from Annapolis he went by water to the Head of Elk and landed and marched to Wilmington from then by water to Philadelphia, then marched to New York when he (illegible) under the officers above mentioned three days before the place was evacuated by the American Army.  He left the city with
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army and camped between the city and Fort Washington, and was in a battle fought there about the middle of September he thinks. Some time after the battle he was removed to what was then called the Tuckahoo Heights- From there he was marched to the White Plains.  Then crossed the River, and marched down the west side to Fort Lee and Fort Constitution and was then when Fort Washington was taken.  From there he went to Brunswick in New Jersey and from there to Princetown retaking before the British.  He had entered the service for the term of five months which (illegible) when the army was about 3 miles from Brunswick, but at the request of the Capt the company kept in order until they arrived at Philadelphia where he was dismissed having fully and faithfully served and his Term of five months an some few days over.  He does not recollect the exact day he was discharged but knows it was about Christmas.  He received a written discharge but not knowing that it would be of any consequence he took no care of it, and does not recollect that he has seen it since about tha time.  The corps to which he belonged was called the Maryland Flying Camp.  
In August 1777 still residing in Fredericktown Maryland he again entered the service as a corporal in the Maryland Militia at Fredericktown under Captain William Duvall, Thomas Flemming 1st Lieut, Peter Gephart 2nd Lieut Jos Hill (illegible) Benjamin General Smallwood Copl Lockett and all the field officers whose names he hnow distrustly recollects. He marched to Baltimore, Then Johnston Ferry five miles
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from the month of the Susquehanna, and
there crossed the River, and was engaged in
the Battle of Paoli just after Gen. Wayne had been [illegible]. From them marched across
the country and was in the battle of German
Town and akeshunt Will. After the Battle
he was marched to Lancaster, then to Little
York Pa them to Fredericktown where he
was discharged but does not recollect that ┃
it was in writing if it was he has long since
last it- He does not recollect the date of his
discharge but knows it was in cold
weather and that he served ten weeks
fully and faithfully. He turned out on a
draft was not drafted. The officers
called for volunteers and he and others
turned out in sufficient numbers to make
up to quote called for in the corps to which
he then belonged-
He was born in New Jersey in a little Lane
about 30 miles from New York called Middletown
Saint in the year 1757 - a record of my
age made by himself in his Bible and no
other. He has lived since the revolutionary
was about 20 years near Fort Cumberland
Maryland to which place he remained day
the Revolutionary war - them he remained
to Indian Wheeling Creek now this State, and
from that place he removed to his present
Residence, having stopped a short period at
Danville in Knox Co Ohio
Sarah Drake and Margaret Drake on
testify that he was a soldier in the Revolution
Jared Irwin
any war, and Griffith Johnson Esqr a
Justice of the Peace and John James a Clergyman
and Pastor of the church to which he belongs
can testify as to his character for truth and
veracity and their belief of his services as a
soldier of the revolution
He knows of no person now living who can testify
particularly to his service in the militia second
by above stated
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He 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.

William Hendrickson

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in Open Court before me.

Euzry Hedges - Clerk

We Jared Irwin and George McClure of Vermillion, Township Richand County Ohio and John James a minister of the Gospel and a current preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church in said county and residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Hendrickson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be about 77 years of age that he is a man of truth and veracity and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Jared Irwin
George McClure
John James

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Euzry Hedges - Clerk S.C.R.O.

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department and reading the depositions of Sarah Drake and Margaret Drake to them presented that the above named applicant was a revolutionary solder and served as he states - And the court further certifies that it appears to them that John James, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the Mansfield in said county of Richland and that Jared Irwin and George McClure are residents in Vermillion township in said county and are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.

I Euzry Hedges Clerk of the Superior Court
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11406
William Hendrickson
Pension Papers
Richland Co.
Ohio
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of Richland County and state of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Hendrickson for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said court this 14th day of September AD 1832.

Euzry Hedges - Clerk

SEAL
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2301
Revy
INVALID

File No 2301

William Hendrickson
Private Rev War

Act June 7, 1832

Index Vol A Page 167
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
June 15, 1838

Sir

Under the act of the 6th of April 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain pensioners and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States" William Hendrickson a pensioner on the roll of the Pittsburg Agency at the rate of twenty four dollars and forty-three cents per annum under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this department from the 4th of Sept 1836 to the 4th of September 1837.

Respectfully yours

Albion K Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pension
Present.
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Mansfield Ohio Mail Stamp - Mar 23

FREE

To the Secretary of War
Pension Office
Washington City

Pension Papers

Ohio Ret'd
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Mansfield Ohio March 22nd 1833

To the Secretary of War

Yours of the 28th of Feb containing the Pension Papers of William Hendrickson were rec'd and I have sent to Hocking County and have the depositions retaken and certified according to the requisition of the department - and also procured the seal of our court to be perfectly attached to the papers which were all the defects painted out. The seal of the court was to have been affixed to the depositions at first but I was wholly [illegible] of the requisitions of the office and supposed that if a court were satisfied of the facts stated that would be all the evidence required.

Two of the certificates which I have rec'd are payable at Pittsburg and at Cincinatti - It would be much more convenient for pensions in this part of the state to receive their pensions at Pittsburg - and if no arrangement or your office [illegible] I hope the others will be made payable there.

Yours Respectfully

J Purdy
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State of Ohio Holmes County

Personally appeared before e Griffith Johnson a Justice of the Peace of said county on the 18th of March AD 1833 Sarah Drake who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is about seventy years of age and that she perfectly remembers of Willaim Hendrickson (then a resident of Frederick County in state of Maryland and now a resident of Richland County and State of Ohio) enlisting in the revolutionary war in America and that he served in the same about five months - that he left the neighborhood in a rifle company composed of the citizens of Frederick and state of Maryland further this deponent saith not.  

Sarah Drake 
Her X Mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me.

Griffith Johnson 
Justice of the Peace

State of Ohio
Holmes County

Personally appeared before me Griffith Johnson a Justice of the peace in said county on the 18th March of 1833 Margaret Drake who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is about sixty-four years of age and further that she perfectly remembers that Williams Hendrickson then a resident of the county of Frederick and state of Maryland now a resident of the county of Richland and state of Ohio served a tour as a soldier in the revolutionary war in America.

Margaret Drake
Her X Mark

Sworn & subscribed before me.

Griffith Johnson
Justice of the Peace
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State of Ohio
Holmes County

I Griffith Johnson a Justice of the Peace in and for said county do hereby certify that the above named Sarah Drake and Margaret Drake subscribers the above depositions in my presence and were duly sworn to the truth of their content and I further certify that I have been personally acquainted with them about twenty-five years and they are credible persons and their statements are entitled to full credit. Given under my hand and seal this 18th day of March AD 1833.

Griffith Johnson - Justice of the Peace.

The State of Ohio Holmes County

I Robert K Enos Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county hereby certify that the above named Griffith Johnson Esq before which the within affidavits were made and who has signed his name to the above certificate thereof is an acting Justic of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified as such according to the constitution and laws of said state of Ohio and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such.

In testimony of the above I hereto sign my name and affix my seal of office at Millersburg this 18 day of March AD 1833.

R K Enos - Clerk
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The National Archives

Bounty Land Warrant Records Card

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name: Hendrickson, Cornelius
Grade: Private
Line: New York
Warrant Number: 7268
Acreage: 100
Issued: Sept 27, 1790
to Abrm Oothoudt - assignee