Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9,162, Benjamin Wilson, Continental (Penn.)
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Continental (Penn.) 
Wilson, Benjamin
Hannah
NUMBER
W.9.162
CONTENTS
res. at enl. York County, Pa.
d. July 12, 1825, in Nicholas County, Ky.
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6073
Pennsylvania
Samuel Vangorden in the State of Penn., who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Westbrouck of the regiment commanded by Col. Stroud in the New Jersey line for 9 months Private $30.
and Pa.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 30 Dollars [blank] cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of Feb 1833 and sent to Hon. M Ford, Home Reps
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $45.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 - 15.00
$60.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Viral Luce, Clerk,
Book D Vol. 4 Page 89
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G. Thomas and order to pay June 19, 1827
(witnesses required in vouchers of [illegible] signed by [illegible])
Order to pay 19 Oct 1837
Letter to Wm Herrick [illegible]
Death date not on A.B.
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Indiana - 3906
Hannah Wilson widow of Benjamin Wilson who died on the 12th July 1825 of Hendrick County in the State of Indiana, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Thomas of the Regiment commanded by Col. Hazen in the Pennsylvania line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Madison at the rate of 50 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of July 1843 and sent to Hon. T. R. Young, Marshall, Illinois.
Arrears to the 4th of March, 1836. $960.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept. $40.00
$1000.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3rd}
Recorded by Keith Stemant, Clerk.
Book C Vol. 3rd Page 201
Repo 25 July
Letter to Perine Agent 11 June 1846.
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5.690
Hannah Wilson of Benjamin
Indiana
Act 4 July 1836
M 80 d 25
Admitted
2 years private
80 
Capt. Thomas
Col. Hazen
Hon. T.R. Young
Marshall, Illinois
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State of Indiana
Hendricks County, SS.
On this 18th day of October in the year 1842, personally appeared before me, William Naylor, one of the associate Judges of the Circuit Court in and for the County of Hendricks and State of Indiana (said Court being a Court of record, having a Clerk and Official seal and so declared by the law creating it), Hannah Wilson, resident of said County, aged eighty nine years on the oath of March 1842, who being by me first duly 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 4th 1836: That she is the widow of Benjamin Wilson who was a private in the company commanded by Capt. Laird (she thinks, as well as now recollected), under the command of Col. Hazens in what was called Hazens' Regiment, in the Maryland line in the revolutionary war in the continental establishment.
The Regiment was composed of companies, she thinks, both from Pennsylvania and Maryland, but was under the command of Col. Hazens of the Maryland line. The service of the said Benjamin Wilson, she thinks, was principally in Pennsylvania, and that his services terminated in Pennsylvania. She cannot state precisely the day, month, or year that the said Benjamin Wilson entered the service, but she thinks it was in York County, Pennsylvania, about the year 1778. And that the said Benjamin Wilson served
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continually from the time he entered the service in 1778 until the year 1782, when he was discharged and left the service and returned home, she thinks, in the fall of the year 1782. She does not recollect the battles or engagements he was in, nor the County through which he marched, but recollects that the service was principally performed in Pennsylvania and Maryland. That the said Benjamin Wilson, resided in York County, Pennsylvania, at the time he entered the service, but cannot recollect how he entered the service, whether he was drafted, enlisted or volunteered. She believes he enlisted or volunteered but will not say certain which. She says that the said Benjamin Wilson was taken prisoner during his service, and his brother also, by the British while they were out with the teams belonging to the troop, and that they made their escape on horseback and were closely pursued in the flight for about 15 miles by the British horsemen, and with the relief of the American troops, they got back to their own company again. That the said Benjamin Wilson was frequently at home to see his family, on furlough, while in the service. That the said Benjamin Miller had a discharge in writing, from the service as aforesaid, a record of his age, and marriage hereinafter to be spoken of, and also, a certificate of their marriage, and a record of some of the births of their children, and that the discharge record and Certificate were all destroyed by fire, in the burning of their residence in York County, Pennsylvania, about the year 1786. She is therefore not in possession at any documentary evidence of the service of the said
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Benjamin Wilson, nor of her marriage to him as hereinafter specified. And that the said Benjamin Wilson resided in York County, Pennsylvania after his service as aforesaid and next in Nicholas County, Kentucky. She further declares that she was married to the said Benjamin Wilson, on or about the 15th day of November in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty, she believes in Harford County in the State of Maryland, by a Mr. Davis, then a preacher of the Gospel; that the marriage was by a license, she thinks issued in that County. That the marriage took place during the service of her said husband as aforesaid, and when he was the on furlough for that purpose, and that he served after their said marriage, in the Maryland line, and under the officers in the regiment aforesaid, as well as her memory now serves her. That her husband, the aforesaid Benjamin Wilson, died on the 12th day of July 1825 in Nicholas County, Kentucky. And that she has remained a widow ever since that period and is now living as the widow of the said Benjamin Wilson in Hendricks County, in the State of Indiana, and has resided there to the last eight years past, and previous thereto, in the County of Preble in the State of Ohio, and in Nicholas County, Kentucky, since the death of her said husband as aforesaid. She further declares, that she has no record evidence of her age, her marriage or the births of her children, that it was destroyed by fire, as above stated, and that since that period, there never was any other family record of their ages, births of their children, or marriage, ever made or kept by her or her said husband.
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she further declares that his name was Hannah Morrison before she was married to the said Benjamin Wilson and that she lived with him as his wife and companion from the time at their said marriage as aforesaid until his death; and that she had borne in wedlock with the said Benjamin Wilson the following named seven children to wit. Jane, her first and eldest child, born on the 11th day of September in the year 1781; next twins, John and Elizabeth, born 3rd September 1783; Polly, born 1st June 1785; Robert, born about the 1st of August 1787, anonymous, born dead in 1789; Hannah, last, born 22nd July 1793, now living in this County, and intermarried with Benjamin Lawrence, all of which will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. She further declares that her said husband never drew any annuity or pension nor was he ever placed on any pension Roll or agency of the United States, or any of them.
Hannah Wilson [her mark]
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th day of October 1842.
William Naylor
Associate Judge
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I, William Taylor, the associate Judge before whom the foregoing declaration of Hannah Wilson was on this day made, subscribed and sworn to, do certify, that I have attended at the residence of the said Hannah Wilson in the County of Hendricks and State of Indiana on this day, where and when, her said declaration was made; and that it is my opinion that the said Hannah Wilson is unable to attend in person at and before a Court of record, in and for the said County of Hendrick, on account of her advanced age and bodily infirmity, and that I believe her to be the age of eighty nine years, as she states. Given under my hand this 18th day of October 1842.
William Naylor
Associate Judge
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State of Indiana
Hendricks County, Sct.
On this 18th day of October, 1842, personally appeared before me, William Taylor, one of the associate Judges of the Circuit Court, in and for the County aforesaid, Polly Smith, a resident of said County, aged fifty seven years past, who being by me duly sworn, upon her oath says, that she is a daughter of Benjamin Wilson and Hannah Wilson. That the said Hannah Wilson, her mother, is the same for person who is named in and sworn to and subscribed the hereto annexed and foregoing declaration on this day. That the said Hannah William is now living in the said County of Hendricks, and is now the widow of the said Benjamin Wilson, and that the said Hannah Wilson has never intermarried with any other person since the death of the said Benjamin Wilson. That the said Benjamin Wilson, her father, died on or about the 12th day of July in the year 1825, in Nichols County, Kentucky, as she is informed and believes. That her father, the said Benjamin Wilson, removed from York County, Pennsylvania, to Nicholas County, Kentucky (where he died) about the year 1789 or 1790, as well as she is informed and believes, and that the said Benjamin and Hannah lived together as man and wife from her earliest recollection until the death of the said Benjamin as aforesaid, and had the following named children, to wit: Jane, John and Elizabeth, twins, Polly (this affiant) Robert, one born
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dead, and Hannah, who is intermarried with Benjamin Lawrence. That she has frequently heard her father say, in his lifetime, that he had served in the Revolutionary war, and lived at the time in York County, Pennsylvania, and that his service was under Col. Hazen - the captain's name she does not recollect. And that the said Hannah, her mother, has resided since the death of her father in Nicholas County, Kentucky, and [illegible] in Preble County, Ohio, and lastly in Hendricks County, Indiana, where she now resides, and where she has resided for the last eight years past. This affiant further saith not.
Polly Smith [her mark]
Sworn and subscribed before me this 18th day of October 1842
William Naylor
Associate Judge
State of Indiana
Hendricks County, Sct.
On this 18th day of October 1842, personally appeared before me William Naylor, one of the associate Judges of the Circuit Court in and for the County aforesaid, Benjamin Lawrence, a resident of said County, aged forty-two years, who being duly sworn on his oath, says that he is the husband of Hannah Lawrence, the youngest daughter
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of Benjamin and Hannah Wilson, named in the body of the hereto annexed declaration of the said Hannah Wilson, made this day before the said associate Judge, that he was married to the said Hannah on the 6th of November 1823, in Nicholas County, Kentucky. That he became acquainted with the said Benjamin and Hannah Wilson, his wife, about a year previous to his marriage. That he has frequently heard the said Benjamin Wilson say in his life time, that he was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and that he resided in York County, Pennsylvania, at the time be entered the service, and that he served in Pennsylvania and Maryland under Captain Laird, as well as he now recollects, and that he has heard the said Benjamin Wilson say that he had served three or four years and that he had been taken prisoner by the British when out with the teams during his service, and after being pursued fifteen miles, was rescued by his own troop. That he cannot recollect the battles or engagements he said he was in but has frequently heard him tell of them that he does not know the name or number of the regiment to which he belonged, but that the Regiment was composed part from Maryland and part from Pennsylvania. And as well as his memory serves him, his Colonel's name was Hazen, or some such name. That he is informed, and understood from the said Benjamin Wilson and family, that they removed from York County, Pennsylvania, some thirty years before he was married as aforesaid, and that
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the said Benjamin Wilson, deceased, on the 12th of July 1825, in Nicholas County, Kentucky. That he was present and witnessed his death, and burial. That his widow, Hannah Wilson, has resided in Nicholas County, Ky, since his death, next in Preble County, Ohio, and now resides in the County of Hendricks and State of Indiana, and has resided there for the last eight years past and is the same person, and widow (of the said Benjamin Wilson), who has this day made the declaration hereto annexed. Further this affiant sayeth not.
Benjamin Lawrence [his mark]
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th day of October 1842.
William Naylor
Associate Judge
I, William Naylor, the Associate Judge before whom the foregoing depositions of Polly Smith, and Benjamin Lawrence were this day taken, subscribed and sworn to, do certify that the said Polly Smith and Benjamin Lawrence, are persons of truth and credibility, which I certify from my own personal knowledge. Given under my hand this 18th day of October 1842.
William Naylor
Associate Judge
Hendricks County, Indiana
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State of Indiana
Hendricks County, Sct.
I, James M. Gregg, Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County of Hendricks and State of Indiana, do Certify that William Naylor, whose official signatures appear to the foregoing declaration of Hannah Wilson, and to his certificate of bodily infirmity, and to the depositions of Polly Smith and Benjamin Lawrence, and to his certificate of their credibility, respectively, now is and was on the date thereof, one of the associate Judges of the Circuit Court, in and for the said County of Hendricks, duly commissioned and qualified as such, that full faith and credit are due his Official acts, and that his said signatures thereto, are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said Court at my office in Danville this 18th day of October 1842.
James M. Gregg, Clerk
By F. Cranford
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Pennsylvania
York County Ss.
I, William Ilgenfritz, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, certify that William Coulson, Esquire, before whom the within Deposition was taken, is, and at the time of signing the same, was an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned & qualified; and that the within signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court.
May 8th, 1843
W. Ilgenfritz, Prothonotary
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State of Pennsylvania
York County, SS.
On this fourth day of May A.D. 1843, personally appeared before me, William Coulson, one of the justices of the peace in and for said county, Samuel Morrison, a resident of said county, who being by me first duly sworn according to law upon his oath, says that he is in the seventy-ninth year of his age, that he is a brother to Hannah Wilson, who now resides in Hendricks County in the State of Indiana, that his sister Hannah is ninety years old in March and that his sister Hannah Wilson was married to one Benjamin Wilson in the year 1780 in [illegible] County, Maryland, and said Benjamin and Hannah resided at the time in York County, Pennsylvania, and [illegible] the Maryland line and went to [illegible] Kentucky to get [illegible] that the said Benjamin Wilson was a soldier of the Revolutionary war at the time of their marriage and was out in the service after their marriage [illegible], he thinks, [illegible] of the war, that his sister [illegible] as he then understood it was in the [illegible] he belonged to same troop [illegible] in [illegible] the Maryland line [illegible] officers he thinks one was the [illegible] Hazen M. Hughes, or some such names as he heard it talked of at the times, Wilson was at home several times while he was in the service before and after he was married and that after the war, the line [illegible] in the county [illegible] County, Pa., then removed to Nicholas County, Kentucky, where Wilson died in the year eighteen hundred and twenty five and since that time, his said sister, Hannah, the widow [illegible] of the said Benjamin Wilson, removed to [illegible] County in the State of Indiana, where she now lives as he is informed and believes.
Samuel Morrison
Sworn and subscribed before me this 4th day of May A.D. 1843
William Coulson, J.P.
I, William Coulson, the Justice of the Peace before whom the above deposition was taken, do certify [illegible] Samuel Morrison, the deponent, is a person of respectability and credibility. Given under my hand this 4th day of May A.D. 1843.
William Coulson, J.P.
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Revy. WIDOW, &c.
File No. 9162
Hannah Wilson, Widow of Benjamin Wilson
Private, Pa. Line
Act: July 4, 1836 Sec. 3rd
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 340
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Hannah Wilson of Benjamin
Indiana
Suspended
See letter 2nd Nov 1842
Timy. R. Young
Dec. 29. 1842 to R. M. Young
Act 4 July 1836
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LAND OFFICE,
ANNAPOLIS, June 22nd 1842
I certify, that it appears by a Depreciation Pay Roll, remaining in my office, that Benjamin Wilson, a private in Hazen's Regiment of the Maryland Line, received L. 85, 12, 0 Depreciation Money, issued to the Maryland quota of troops on Continental Establishment, on the 21st day of October, 1782.
George G. Brewer,
Register Land Office, W. S. Md.
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State of Maryland
Harford County, to wit:
I, Henry Dorsey, Clerk of Harford County Court, the same being a Court of Record and of probate, hereby certify that it appears from the Records of said Court, that on the fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty, a certain Benjamin Wilson and Hannah Morrison made application to the Clerk of said Court for and obtained license to be joined in holy Matrimony.
In testimony whereof, I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of Harford County Court this eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty-two.
Henry Dorsey, Clerk
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Washington City Dec. 24, 1842
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
Enclosed I send you the amended declaration of Hannah Wilson of Hendricks County, Indiana, for a Pension as the widow of Benjamin Wilson, deceased. Will you please examine the papers and let me know the result as early as may be convenient.
Very respectfully, &c
Richard M. Young
U.S. Senate
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Marshall, Clark Co., Ills. Oct 22, 1842.
Hon. J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
Enclosed please find the application for a pension of Hannah Wilson, widow of Benjamin Wilson, deceased, with the certificate (of Register of Land Office in Maryland) of service of deceased in copy of payroll and the certificate of the Clerk of Harford County, Maryland of license for marriage of deceased and this applicant.
Please direct your communications on the subject to me at this place.
Respectfully your obedient servant,
Tim R Young
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Madison, June 6, 1846
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
Herewith I hand you Voucher for Balance of Pension due Hannah Wilson, deceased.
The Attorney resides in this City.
Respectfully,
Isaac C. Lea
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Hon. R. M. Young
Senate U.S.
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State of Indiana
Hendricks County, Sct.
On this Seventh day of December in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Forty Two, personally appeared before me ,Joel Hodgin, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, Hannah Wilson, a resident of said County, aged 89 years past, who being by me duly sworn upon her oath says that she is the widow of Benjamin Wilson, deceased, who was a private in Hazen's  Regiment in the Maryland line on Continental establishment in the revolutionary war. That she is the same identical person who made her declaration before the Hon. William Naylor, one of the associate Judges of the circuit court in and for the said County of Hendricks on or about the 18th 19th or 20th day of October 1842 for a pension as the widow of the said Benjamin Wilson under the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 and that she cannot state positively whether the troop to which her said husband belonged ever was stationed in Maryland or not after their said marriage about the 15th November 1780. But she thinks it probable that they were at Hagerstown in Maryland for a short time after they were married and, as well as her memory now serves her, that her husband came home once and stayed a short time, perhaps two or three days, when the troops were on their march either to or from Hagerstown to Philadelphia in Pennsylvania in while the troops lay at Hagerstown and she is not certain which, she resided then in York County, Pennsylvania, which was in the fall of the year 1781, as well as she can now tell, she believes that the greater portion of her husband's service was in Pennsylvania and Maryland and that the troop was stationed at Philadelphia a part of the time and that at the time he was taken prisoner, as stated in the original declaration, it was near Philadelphia when he was out with a team and that all the team she thinks was taken at that time. She is positive his service terminated in Pennsylvania and that the Regiment was composed of companies both from Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Hannah Wilson [her mark]
Sworn to and subscribed before me this Seventh day December AD 1842.
Joel Hodgin, J.P. [seal]
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State of Indiana
Hendricks County, Sct.
I, James McGregg, Clerk of the court in and for the county of Hendricks aforesaid, do certify that Joel Hodgin, Esq., whose official signature appears to the foregoing amended declaration of Hannah Wilson as having been subscribed and sworn to before him was on the day of the date thereof one of the justices of the peace in and for said county of Hendricks, duly commissioned and qualified and that his said signature thereunto is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said county at my office in Danville this tenth day of December AD 1842.
James M. Gregg, Clerk
By R. Crawford, D.C.
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James L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.
Dec 18
2862
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Mr. Edwards will connect the foregoing with the papers filed by me for Mrs. McNabb. The signature of my brother is known at the office and therefore I wish to save the clerk's fees which would be unnecessary. Mrs. McNabb is so aged and infirm that it is hardly proper to administer to her an oath when not [illegible]. The proof of Mr. Taylor, ostensibly another 3 month tour that was not before known, indeed, the case could be made out for more than two years' service if she were in a situation to attend to it. But she is not. You will be pleased to give me the result and favor her on the [illegible] agency.
Respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
John Blair
Cal Carter will give you any certificate as to the integrity and established character of Mrs. Taylor, the witness, as also the official character of Wm. Blair, but that is known at the department.
J.B.