Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4863, Abraham Hendershot, New Jersey
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SERVICE New Jersey
Hendershot, Abraham.
NUMBER R. 4863
CONTENTS
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33496
A. Hendershot
Ohio
Hon J. McLene H R
11 of November A.D. 1835
Thomas Reynolds
Clerk
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The State of Ohio
Delaware County on this fourteenth day of November A.D. 1835, personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Delaware now sitting Abraham Hendershot a resident of Marlborough Township in the said County
of Delaware & State of Ohio aged 81 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 [ILLEGIBLE] June 7 1832.
That the said Abraham Hendershot entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as follows.
I was born near Potterstown in Huntington County in New Jersey on the 21st day of October 1754 and and now 81 years of age. I have no record of my age except an entry in my bible.
During the Revolutionary War I resided near
Potterstown in Huntington County afore. Early
in the year 1776 before the Declaration of Independence I volunteered to serve one month as a private militia man and marched to [ILLEGIBLE] station at Amboy, and there served out my month. I cannot recollect the name of the officers under whom I served except while I was at Amboy I was under the command of Col. John Stephens.  I in the same manner served a number of other tours of one month each in the years 1776 & 77. The first tour was before the New Jersey Militia were [ILLEGIBLE], but my other tours were after that time, I cannot recollect all the particulars relative to these several tours.
In the fall of the year 1777 I enlisted at Potterstown into a company commanded by Capt. Porter in a corps called the Flying Camp for nine months, and in a Division of the army command by Lord Sterling. We were marched to a number of places
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our attempt the marching to Valley Forge where we joined the army under Genl. Washington in winter quarters. The next nine [ILLEGIBLE] march month into New Ferry and was at several places, which I do not now recollect their names, but I was in the Battle of Monmouth.  After I was discharged from the last mentioned tour of nine months I enlisted in a company commanded by Capt. (I cannot recollect) attached to Genl. Wayne's Brigade for the term of our year and in the regt(regiment) of Col (cannot recollect).
During this tour I was at a great many places in New Jersey & in the vicinity of New York
I was in a number of skirmishes and some
time in the year 1779 after I had served out my
full time of my enlistment (one year) I was discharged Genl. Wayne at Raritan.
After this I served a number of other tours
of one month each. I cannot recollect the names of all the officers under whom I served, but I recollect I served a number of tours under Capt. Thomas Jones and [ILLEGIBLE]. 
In one of these tours I was at the Battle at
Springfield and also in that at Elizabethtown
At the Battle of Springfield I was under Capt. Frome. While in one of these tours, and serving as guard at an outpost near Raritan Bridge South branch, a person of suspicions appearance came unexpectedly upon me. I hailed him and with the aid of one [ILLEGIBLE] McCartney, I took him prisoner. We took
him to the third quarters of Genl. Washington at [ILLEGIBLE]  Mountain, where a few days afterwards he was tried and was condemned to death.
In consequence of old age I cannot recollect all the particulars of my service as above stated, nor the precise length of time I served, but I can safely say that I served as above stated as a private.
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soldier during the Revolutionary War at least two years and a half, no part of which time was spent in any civil employment, and for which I now claim a pension.
All the discharges I received from my Revolutionary services have been lost or destroyed.  I have no documentary evidence and know of no person by whom to prove my services.
The following named persons residing in my present neighborhood can testify to their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution and as to my character
for veracity, to wit, Andrew Stroub, Esq., John Jones and Samuel Stroub.
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state. I am now receiving a pension of forty dollars per annum from the State of Pennsylvania for my revolutionary services; the retention of which is
hope is not inconsistent with my present application if so I relinquish it, in case my present application is granted.
I resided for some years after the Revolution at
Potterstown New Jersey. I then moved to the Wyoming Country [ILLEGIBLE] next to Mifflin
County, then to Huntington County, and from there I moved in the Jan 1831 to Delaware County where I now reside.
There is no clergyman residing in my present neighborhood.
Subscribed & sworn to the year & day afore
Abraham Hendershot
His Mark "X"
we Jacob Crawford & Thomas V. Powell residing in Delaware County & in the neighbourhood of the above applicant hereby certify that we are well acquainted ...
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with Abraham Hendershot who has subscribed & worn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty one years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & we concur in that opinion. Sworn & subscribed the day & year afore.
Thomas W. Powell
Jacob Crawford
And the Court afore do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories 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 there is no clergyman residing in the neighbourhood of the said applicant,
and that Jacob Crawford & Thomas W. Powell who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the said County of Delaware in the neighbourhood of the above applicant are creditable persons and that there(their) statement is entitled to credit.
I, Thomas Reynolds, clerk of the said Court
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Abraham Hendershot for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my name and affixed the seal of [ILLEGIBLE] Court of Delaware this the 14th day of November A.D. 1835.
Thomas Reynolds Clerk
33,494 A. Hendershot Ohio
Hon. J McLene
HR
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
April 12, 1929
Mary Hays,
1292 East Alder Street,
Portland, Oregon
Madam;
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 4863, it appears that Abraham Hendershot was born October 21, 1754, near Potterstown,
Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
He alleged that while a resident of said place he enlisted early in 1776 and served with the New Jersey troops at various times, amounting to at least two and one half years in all, as a private under Captains Porter, Thomas
Jones and Frome and Colonel John Stephens; he was in the battles of Monmouth, Elizabethtown and Springfield.
He applied for pension November 14, 1835 at which time he was living in Marlborough Township, Delaware County, Ohio, but his claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish
proof of service as required by the pension law.
In 1853 Ellen Reed of Wayne County, Indiana, stated that she was an heir of said Abraham Hendershot but she did not give the relationship.
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This is the history of the only Abraham Hendershot found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner.
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Suspended
See letter 6 Jan 1836
Hon. J McLene
Not found
4863
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New Jersey
Hendershot, Abraham
R. 4863
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
Abraham Hendershot Ref. 4863
R
1776
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
Served at various times 2 1/2 years.
RANK.
Pvt
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Porter
Thomas Jones
Frome
COLONEL.
John Stephens
STATE.
N. J.
Battles engaged in, Monmouth Springfield ElizabethTown
Residence of soldier at enlistment, near Potterstown, Hunterdon County N J
Date of application for pension, Nov 14 1835
Residence at date of application, Marlborough Twsp(Township) Delaware Co. Ohio
Age at date of application, born near Potterstown N.J. Oct. 2. 1754
Remarks:
The claim was not allowed for lack of proof of service
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On this 19th day of March AD 1853 Personally
appeared before me the signed a Justice of
the Peace within and for said County
Ellen Read who executed the foregoing Power of Attorney and made the within affidavit and and acknowledged the signing and Sealing thereof to be voluntary act and deed for the purposes therein specified. 
Given under my hand officially the day
and year first above written George Develin
J P at State of of Indiana Wayne County
I Andrew F Scott Clerk of the Wayne Circuit Court hereby certify that George Develin Esq.
before whom the foregoing Power of
Attorney was acknowledged was at the date of the acknowledgement thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected, commissioned and qualified and that the signature purporting to his is genuine.
Witness my name and the Seal of said Court this 21th day of March 1803
Andrew F Scott, Clerk
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Know all Men by these presents that Ellen
Read of the County of Wayne and State of Indiana ?? and legal representatives of Abraham Hendershot late a Revolutionary Pensioner do hereby nominate constitute and appoint Charles C. Tucker Esqr of the City of Washington District of Columbia a lawfull(lawful)  attorney in fact for us and in our name and for ??  to examine investigate and prosecute said Pension claim and also to examine investigate and prosecute any other and all claims for Pensions in our name and
for our use and for so doing this shall ?? his warrant and authority
In witness whereof we have hereunto set
hand and seal this 19th day of March AD 1853
Signed Sealed and acknowledged in presence of us. Ellen Read
Her Mark "X"
George Develin
Thomas Hunt
The State of Indiana Wayne County Personally appeared before me the Signer a Justice of the peace within and for said County Ellen Read
To me well known to be the person represented themselves to be who being sworn in due form of law declares that they are the identical persons who executed the foregoing Power of Attorney.
Ellen Read
Her Mark "X"
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 19th
day of March AD 1853
George Develin
The State of Indiana Wayne County
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Act of June 7. 1832
Abraham Hendershot
(Ohio)
Power of Attorney
to examine claim
Chas. C. Tucker
Atty
Present.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
August 12, 1927
Mrs. George C. Lewis
121 Main St.
Dansville, N. Y.
Madam:
I have to advise you that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 4863, that ABRAHAM HENDERSHOT was born October 21, 1754, near Potterstown, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
He alleged that while a resident of said place he enlisted early in 1776 and served with the New Jersey troops at various times, amounting to at least two and one half years in all, as a private under Captains Porter,
Thomas Jones and Frome and Colonel John Stephens; he was in the battles of
Monmouth, Elizabethtown and Springfield.
He applied for pension November 14, 1835, at which time he was living in Marlborough Township, Delaware County, Ohio, but his claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service as required by the pension
law.
In 1853 Ellen Reed of Wayne County, Indiana, stated that she was an heir of said Abraham Hendershot, but she did not give the relationship.
This is the only Abraham Hendershot that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau and there is no record of Jacob and William Hendershot, searched under all spellings of the name.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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Rev. War Section.

April 28, 1919.

Honorable Reed Smoot,
United States Senate.
My dear Senator:

In response to your letter dated the twenty-fifth
instant, requesting information for Mr. F. J. Hendershot of Ogden, Utah, I have the honor to advise you that in the papers in the claim of Abraham Hendershot R. File No. 4,863 Rev. War, he stated that he was born October 31, 1754 near Potterstown, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, where he resided when he volunteered in 1776, and served at various times in 1777, 1778 and 1779, as a Private, under Captains Porter, Thomas Jones and Frome (?), and Colonel John Stephens; that he was in the battles of Monmouth, Springfield and Elizabethtown, and was discharged at Raritan, by General Wayne.

He stated further, "I resided for some years after the Revolution at Potterstown, New Jersey, I then removed to the Wyoming Country Pennsa, next to Mifflin County, then to Huntington County, and from thence I removed in the year 1831 to Delaware County, where I now reside. "

On November 14, 1835, in Delaware County, Ohio he applied for pension on account of the above services, but his claim was never allowed for the reason that he failed to furnish proof of his alleged services as required by the pension
law of June 7, 1832 under which he applied.

In 1853, Ellen Reed of Wayne County, Indiana
claimed to be an heir of the soldier, Abraham Hendershot, but she did not state the date of his death or give any further family data.

The above, is the only "Hendershot" of the
New Jersey troops, found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

Very truly yours,
[hand-written signature:]. G.M. Saltzgaber
Commissioner.
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December 23, 1936
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/McS
Abraham Hendershot, R.4863

Mrs. Pearl Caldwell
Milton
Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldier, Abram Hendershot, found on the 1840 List of Pensioners, as residing in Wayne County, Indiana.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, R. 4863, based upon the military service of the only
Abraham Hendershot that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office. There is no record of an Abram Hendershot.

Abraham Hendershot was born October 21, 1754, near Potterstown, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The names of his parents were not given.

While living in Marlborough Township, Delaware County, Ohio, he applied for pension on November 14, 1835. He alleged that while residing near Potterstown, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, he enlisted early in 1776 and served with the New Jersey troops at various times, amounting to at least two and one half years in all, as private under Captains Porter, Thomas Jones and Frome and Colonel John  the battles of Monmouth, Elizabethtown and Springfield. His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of the alleged service in
accordance with the requirement of the pension law.

For some years after the Revolution he lived at Potterstown, New Jersey. From there he moved to Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, from there
to Mifflin County, then to Huntington County, and from there to Delaware County, Ohio, in 1831.

In 1853 one Ellen Reed of Wayne County, Indiana, stated that she was an heir of said Abraham Hendershot but she did not give the relationship. There are no further data relative to family.
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This office has record of federal pensions only. In the event that the Abram Hendershot in whom you are interested received a state pension, it is suggested that you consult the archives at the capital of the state from which he served.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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REED SMOOT.
CHAIRMAN.

United States Senate,
COMMITTEE ON
EXPENDITURES IN THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT

April 25, 1919.

The Commissioner of Pensions,
Interior Department.

Dear Sir:

I am inclosing a letter just received from Mr.
F. J. Hendershot, and kindly request that you advise me if it is possible to secure the information he desires.

With best wishes, I remain

Yours truly

[hand-written signature:] Reed Smoot

Inc.
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Dansville N.Y. April 11, 1927

To the Pension Bureau
Washington D. C

An extract from the Army register of the Hendershott family in the Revolutionary war shows that Jacob Hendershott Captain 1st
Battalion, Bradford Co. Pa.
Micheal C. Hendershott Private
Sussex Co., New Jersey, Reg.
William Hendershott, Private
Sussex Co. New Jersey. Reg.
Abraham
 Hendershott, Private
Sussex Co. New Jersey Reg.

Has there ever been pension granted to relatives of their men and and [crossed out:  
'cand'] can
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you tell me to whom they were granted.


My father was Prof. David H Hendershott, for thirty five years a teacher in the [text crossed out] public schools of Hornell, N.Y. (formerly Hornellsville). His father was Samuel Hendershott one of the early settlers of the Canisteo Valley

I am desirous of getting a line from this family to gain membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution and I feel quite sure that the men mentioned are of the same family.

Michael Hennerschid Von Hayderschatt arrived in New York in 1710 from Germany. He died in "West Jersey Society Lands" Hunterdon County N.J. on January 19, 1749. William Von Schall Hendershott IV Esq. died April 1, 1867 as plain William Hendershott as the name is today.

If I can be helped any way by your organization in connecting this family up I& shall be very thankful.

Most Sincerely
Mrs George Grant Lewis
121 Main St
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REV. ISRAEL HATTON, PASTOR
RIVERSIDE PARK M. E. CHURCH
INDIANAPOLIS
[remainder of letter is hand-written:] 
1348 Chicago St.

Feb. 2, 1911.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir:-

A very important matter makes it necessary to find the record of one Abraham Hendershot, a Revolutionary War soldier.

He drew a pension to the time of his death. I write to ask if your dept can give me his record;-- what state he lived in when he drew a pension, the time, from which and to which he drew the same, and his record as a soldier, what state, regiment, &c, he was from, what commander he was under &c.

I find the name of Abram Hendershot as enlisted from Hunterdon Co. New Jersey
He may be the one, but his mere name is all I can find.

Thanking you in advance, for this help, for which I shall be very grateful,

I am Very sincerely yours,
Israel Hatton
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1292 E. Alder St.
Portland, Oregon
April 2- 1929

Pension Dept U.S. Army
Washington, D.C.
War Dept.

Will you please send me the Record of the Pension of Abraham Hendershott, (or Henderschott) who enlisted in Pennsylvania
and served as private in the
Revolutionary War.

He lived in Westmoreland Co. Pa and also in 1824 he lived in Mifflin Co. Pa.

I shall be greatly obliged for any information about him.

Very truly,
Mary Hays

[postal stamp underneath signature:  PENSION OFFICE APR 11 1929 U.S.]

[stamped on left bottom:  ASSISTANT & CHIEF CLERK
APR - 8 1929
WAR DEPT.]

[stamped left bottom:  
28 RECEIVED A.G.C. APR 9 1929]

[stamped right bottom:  RECEIVED APR 9 1929
OLD RECORDS DIVS.]
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Veterans Administration
Rev War Records Div.
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs-

We are very anxious to learn the revolutionary service of Abram Hendershot listed on 1840 pension list as residing in Wayne Co.
Indiana at that time.

Sincerely yours
Mrs Pearl Caldwell
Milton
Ind.

[stamped on left bottom:  RECEIVED Oct 31 1936 MAIL SUB-DIV. {illegible} Adm. 34 {illegible}]