Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4902, Robert Henson, S.C. Va.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
S.C.
Va.

Henson, Robert

NUMBER
R 4902

CONTENTS
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[ ink faded or a light copy but difficult to transcribe... this is  as accurate as possible]

Jesse Withers states that he enlisted in 1881 in the
18 mo service under Capt Anthony Kirkpatrick Col
[illegible] received a furlough_ whsit his brother  to  the
the South-- reported himself to Gen Green 1st June
1781. his company not having arrived, his line  [illegible]
to return to Fauquier County, he then found his company
in Virginia  under  [illegible] in the  [illegible] and
when encamped near Williamsburg he was reputed
by a unit Marshall unfit for duty and was discharged
 [illegible] September or first of October 1781 having served 4 mo
his company did not  [illegible] the period of his service
His service   [illegible] a tour of 3 month┃
in the Militia
Robert Benson testifies in the case of Withers that
he was drafted with Withers  Capt Bronough [sp?]
company of Militia in the Spring of 1781, that he was
the mess mate of said Withers that he march in company
with him to near Williamsburg when Withers was called
back to Fauquier Court house.   and not see him
again until  he met him hear Williamburg in the fall of
the same year having been drafted in the regular service for 18
months, that deponent remained in his regiment  of Militia_
He states also that he was in the Poor House his thigh having
been cut off and that he was  [illegible]_
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Thomas Graves enlisted for 3 years under Capt [illegible] Chilton and infantry  Capt. Alexander
Parke and he transferred to Major Posey detachment
After the expiration of his first enlistment he again
enlisted and served [illegible]the war. No mention is
made of his [illegible]
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This applicant would respectfully invite the attention of the Department to his peculiar situation having been closely confined in the poor house with his leg cut off for more than twenty years and blind during which period he has been deprived of all intercourse with his old acquaintances consequently does not know that he can furnish the testimony of any of his fellow soldiers to prove his services in the Revolution and establish his claim for a pension that he never fully received from his wound at Kings Mountain in the south that affliction having returned upon him after a few years and continued to distress him up to the time of amputating his leg.  He hopes however that the department will be able to find upon the rolls and on [illegible] and in his narrative satisfactory proof of his services as set forth in his application.  Doctor Thomson promised some ten or twelve years ago to set his pension for him and several other persons came to see him about his claims, but in consequence  of his long and close confinement he was unable to refer them to witnesses who could testify for him and that he supposes is the reason that his claim has never before been presented.  I would further say to the department that in preparing his declaration he got a friend to sign his name to the paper in the presence of the magistrate as he could see to write.
Respectfully
Robert Henson
By request.
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declaration which discharge was destroy
on my return to Virginia I had to waid
Smith river and said discharge
got wet & was distroyed in my first
tour of service in the Virginia Militia
I received a discharge from Capt
Allen from Cumberland County Va
and took it home with me but it
was afterwards distroyed or mislayed
or lost, and for my second time in
the Va Militia I Received no discharge
Ques 7
State the names of persons in your
present neighbourhood to whom you are
known and who can testify to your
character for veracity and their belief
of your services as a soldier of the
Revolution

Answer, Mr George
Crump  Mr Enoch Barber 
Captain Joseph Morgan 
Major Payton George
Captain William Bower 
Captain George Dutt
John P Willis, Gory W. Sinclair
Jeremiah Preston 
Lemuel T Oliver
and I T Suddoth 

Sworn to and
subscribed the day and year
above said Robert Henson [signature]

Before as the undersigned Justices
in and for the County of Fauquier ┃
Virginia and duly authorised
to administer Oaths
James Payne [signature]
Jos Thompson [signature]
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British Fleet in Hampton Roads
that he saw from the Steeple of the
Church at Hampton when said
Fleet  fired the signal to sail
from said Hampton Roads that 
the vessel in said fleet which find
the signal was different from the
others that being a large dark
looking ship. That in his second
term of Militia service he remembers
to have seen some British vessels
in the James River at Richmond and
the British encamped in [illegible]
Va that he recollect the names
of Capt Bronaugh and Capt Weaver
from Farquar & their companies and
Col.  Ramsey Company from Prince
William Va and remembers to have
not some of the regular troop at
cowpens [illegible]  below Wmsburg and
he does recollect the names of their officers, and he remembers there was 
an artilery Company at Richmond hit
did not form any acquaintance with
the officer and remember to have meet with
one company from Spotsylvania and an
other from Caroline County Va and
further [illegible] of his service he
beg leave to refer the department to 
his declarant
Ques 6 
did you ever receive a discharge
from the service and if so by whom
was it given and what has become
of it 

answer    in my southern term
of service I received a discharge from
Doctor Mullino by directions from
Captain Duvall as stated in my
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the Department to said declaration for all the particulars in relation to the place of my residence when called into service I have always lived since the Revolution in my native county Fauquier Virginia in which I now live
Ques 4 How were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whm
Answer I hwas a volunteer in the south and was twice drafted in the Virginia Militia as may be seen by defernce to my declaration and was never a substitute for any one
Ques 5 State the name of some of the Regular officers who were with the troop where you served such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
Answer in my southern service I recollect the names of Capt Satterwhite Capt Duvall Capt Slaughter General Marion General Morgan and recollects that Captain Slaughters company served the whole time on the south with my company under Capt Duvall that Marion had command of the forces with whom he served and recollects to have been with militia armies in his southern tour but does not now remember the names of their officer he remembers in his first term of service in the Virginia militia the name of Col Carrington who had command of his company under capt Allen from Cumberland County Va and not recollect to have met with any continental or militia regiments during the said tour but remembers to have seen the
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Gospel and he [illegible] of the 
department to substitute in the room
of the Clergyman a respectable citizen
of his neighbourhood to wit M. Marshall Ruton

Sworn and subscribed the day and
year aforesaid 

Robert Henson [signature]


The following questions and answers were
this 17th day of March 1840 taken before
the undersigned Justices in the matter
of the application of Robert Henson for
a pension
Ques 1st 
where and in what year were you born

Answer 
I was born in Fauquier County Va
on the twenty fifth day of Dember 1757
as always understood from my father Robert
Henson

Ques 2
Have you any record of your age and
if so where is it? 

Answer 
I always
understood from my father that Par
son Craig Christened me and recorded
my name in his Parish Register
Parson Craig has been dead for many
years and I do not know what has
become of his Register

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

Answer I
was living in the County of Fauquier
Virginia until about the beginning
of the Revolution when I removed
to South Carolina and went into
service as before stated in my
declaration and [illegible]
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And the said justices 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 stats And the said justices further certify that it appears to them that Marshall Rector & William Rector who have signed the proceeding certificate are respectible citizen of the aforesaid county and that their statement is entitled to credit and the said justices further certify that the foregoing applicant cannot from bodily infermity attend the court that he has been an afflicted paupers of the aforesaid county for more than twenty years that he has but one by the other having been amputated because of a wound some seventeen years ago James Payne
Jos Thompson JP
And the foregoing declarent deposeth and saith that by reason of his confinement as an invalid Paupers of the poor house of Fanquier county Va for more than twenty years that he cannot furnish the certificate of a minister of the Gospel as the rules of the war department require that he has been confined as above stated and has not been able to travel during his confinement and therefore is not acquainted with a minister of the
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in the south were both in the regular service that the other companies in the south serving occasionally with his and Duvall and Captain Slaughters company were militia companies that he was never a substitute for any one that he has no documentary evidence in support of his claim that he does not know of any person none living whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state in the United States America Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Robert Henson
State of Virginia county of Fauquier county to wit
We Marshall Rector and William Rector residing in the neighbourhood of Mr Robert Henson certify that we are well acquainted with Mr Robert Henson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be ninety five years age as he states that he is reputed and believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur i that opinion Sworn to and subscribed this 17th day of March 1846 Marshall Rector
William Rector
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wounded and these men Groves and Withers were both pensioners of the United States and he bys that the deponent will refer to the papers of the said Thomas Groves and Jesse Withers if on file for further evidence in support of his claim for a pension and the said Jesse Withers from Fauquier county Va the same Jesse Withers who served as sergeant in Capt Slaughters company in the south as before stated the same Jesse Withers from Fauquier Va was with his company during his last term of militia service in Virginia under Captain Bronaugh That he was witness for the said Jesse Withers in his application for a pension and that the said Jesse Withers was to have been his witness to prove his services in said war That he put his claim for a pension in the hands of Doctor Thompson of Fauquier county some ten or twelve years ago that Doc Thompson promised to procure the affidavit of the aforesaid Jesse Withers to be witness in my claim for a pension and promised to propose my papers and attend to my claim for me and that he has been waiting in expectation of getting his pension as he remembers that Doctor Thompson who was a magistrate the said Doctor Thompason served said last year made him swear to a paper in declaration to his claim That he always considered his company under Captain Lewis would in the south and the said Captain Slaughters company from Virginia which said company under Slaughters served with his said company
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State of Virginia County of Fauquier  to wit
On this seventeenth day of March Eighteen hundred
forty six personally appeared before us the undersigned Justices of the peace in & for the said County
Robert Henson for Hanson) he says his name was 
formerly spels by some a citizen of the aforesaid
County aged ninety five years his last birth day
which was the twenty fifth day of last December (as
he always understood from his father Robert Henson) 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 the 7th 1832 so as to embrace his continental
services of Eighteen months under an enlistment
from the state of South Carolina & his Militia
service composed of two towns,viz- one of three & the other
of four months from the State of Virginia make
altogether nineteen months in the Revolution as
will be hereafter set forth. That he was born &
raised in the aforesaid County & continued a resident, 
of the same with his father Robert Henson
until sometime in the early part of the Revolution
when he & his brother Chapley Henson left Virginia &
went to his brother James Henson in the State of
South Carolina where he the said Robert Hinson
remained until he enlisted & entered the regular or continental service of the United States from the
said State of South Carolina as will be here
after mentioned that his brother James Henson with
whom he resided in the south lived about fifteen
miles from Ninety six Court House in the said state of
South Carolina & he remembers that before he
entered the Continental service from the said State of 
South Carolina as a soldier to have seen in service
in the said State several of his acquaintances from
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his native county Fauquier in Virginia (to wit) Thomas Graves & Jesse Withers the former drum major & the latter sergeant in Captain Slaughters company That he was slightly acquainted with the said Slaughter before he left Virginia that Slaughter resided in Culpepper County Va before he the said Robert Henson went to the south & the said Graves & Withers of the said Slaughters company went from his native county Fauquier Va & before they went to the south always lived near neighbors to him & he was well acquainted with them & as before stated he saw them in service in the said state of South Carolina in Captain Slaughters company & they persuaded him to enlist in the service which he concluded & enlisted in the continental line under captain John Satterwhite or Satterwaite he does not now recollect which name he bore at ninety six court House in the said state of South Carolina for the term of three years but before entering the service as herein after continued the said Satterwhite or Waite resigned his commission & Captain Lewis Duvall took the command of the company & marched under said enlistment into service at Ninety Six Court House to the best of his recollection in the month of June 1779 & from Ninety Six his said company under Duvall & Samuel Rice was Lieutenant & William Hamilton was sergeant of the same & marched to Col Egills farm in the said state where the Tories had erected a sort of fort around the dwelling at said farm & his company Capt Slaughters company together with one other company under the command of Col Marion marched against said fort & killed & hung all the Tories in said fort about 50 or 60 in all That his said company under Duvall numbered sixty eight privates besides officers to the best of his recollection & he remembers the names of William Higgins Newton Higgins Thomas Anderson Isaac Davenport William Goggin William Creasy John Lindsay Thomas Saunders Tennor Hudson & Joseph Hall all of whom were privates in
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in his said company under Duvall & he does not know that any of these men are now living That his company marched from said fort to Ninety Six & had an engagement with the Tories at that place & dispersed them & halted a short time at this place & from Ninety Six his forces under Col Marion marched to Charlotte crossing the Saluda & Catawba Rivers & at Charlotte his forces had a skirmish with the Tories & killed some of them & from Charlotte after remaining a short time his men marched on as far as Guilford for the purpose of strengthening his forces & from Guilford his men retuned to Ninety Six & had a brush with Tartetons light house at Ninety six & killed a good many of them the remainder made them escape them were under Tarteton at the place as he understood about three hundred men & from Ninety Six his company under Duvall Capt Slaughter company together with 2 or 3 other companies under Col Marion marched to Eutaw & had an engagement with the Tories or enemy & he thinks his forces returned & the many killed about ten of his men this took place after he had been in service a long time but does not remember how long that it was after he had marched through the county to against many places some of which his forces halted a short time as & after his forces had had a great many skirmishes with the Tories & from Eutaw his forces of five or six companies marched on to Hanging Rock had a skirmish with the enemy under Taston and killed about twelve of their men at this time a deserter was found in his ranks who was being under the spot after remaining a short time to rest his forces marched on to Kings Mountain near the line between North & South Carolina & there they had a hot battle his forces were joined by a great many troops & his forces retreated in the onset but afterwards rallied & engaged the enemy General Musgroves army he thinks joined his forces in this battle there he was wounded by a ball in the leg & was carried with wounded from this place to Ninety Six Hospital & he understood that the enemy carried their wounded from this battle to Charleston & he was informed that
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that the killed & wounded in this engagement amounted to several hundred men That he had been on service when wounded at this place about sixteen months & a few days That he was as has been stated conveyed from said battle wounded to Ninety Six Hospital where he was confined of said wound seven weeks & a few days & was attended by one Doctor Mattan who extracted the ball from his leg & he recovered from said wound after being confined seven weeks & a few days in said Hospital & Doctor Mattan gave him a written discharge which he was directed to do by his captain Duvall in the event he recovered said wound & he had been eighteen months in service & said Hospital that is he had served sixteen months & a few days when wounded & was confined of said wound seven weeks & three days making eighteen months from the beginning of his enlistment to his recovery of said wound & as soon as he was able to walk he left said Hospital with his written discharge as before stated & went to his brother James Henson & staid a few days & then set off for Virginia That he remembers about this time to have heard of the battle of the Cowpens between the Americans & English That after leaving his brothers he set for Virginia Crossing over the Saluda & Catawba Yadkin Rivers touching at Charlotte Guilford & C & crossing Roanok River & Cohen he reached Cumberland County Va he stoped to rest a few days at the house of an old acquaintance & whilst there was drafted for the militia service That on his way
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from the south to Virginia he found it necessary to waid Smiths River & got his discharge wet & distroyed That after reaching Cumberland County Va on his way from South Carolina he was drafted for the term of three months in Captain James Allens company of the Virginia militia & Nathaniel Carrington was first & Samuel Rice 2nd Lieutenant & Samuel Creasy was sergeant of the same & marched from Cumberland Court House under Col Joseph Carrington Major Martin Richardson to Richmond Va where his company and then arms for the serve & then marched on to Williamburg and walted a short time to have the guns repaired & then his said company under Allens marched on to Hampton crossing the James River at Ruffins Ferry & his company was stationed at Hampton about two months and whilst at Hampton he saw the Brithis Fleet lying in Hampton Roads that he went upon the steeples of the church at that place & saw the vessels of said Fleet & could distroy wish one large blacks looking vessel from all the rest & this ship fired a signal & all the Fleet set sail & he saw them destinety when they left his waters & he understood that then were about three dunlon vessels in said Fleet that after said Fleet left said Hampton Roads his company continued to Williamsburg & halted about three weeks & then marched on up to Richmond & gave up their arms & then returned to Cumberland Ct House & were discharged after serving out the tour of three months & he remembered the names of Luke Creasy William Goggin Robert King & Robert Brown all of whom he believes are now dead
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that he does not remember to have met with any of the regular troops or regiments in this town of three months from Cumberland & his company did not meet with any Militiamen except two companies which his company met with between Hampton & Richmond on his return from Hampton That after his discharge from this term of three months in Cumber Land which was in the spring of 1781 he came on to Fauquier County Va to his fathers Robert Hensons & [illegible] after reaching his fathers he was drafted in the militia & served a tour of for? months under Captain Thomas Bronaugh Joseph Tulloss was Lieutenant & Rodham Tulloss was ensign of the said company under Captain Bronaugh & marched under Col Armstead Churchill major O Bannon for an major Joesph Blackwells in the said county of Fauquier in the summer of 1781 & went on by Fredericksburg to Richmond when said company drew their arms for the service & then marched on to Williamsburg & then to Hampton & was stationed more than two months at that place & then returned back & halted about three weeks at Burrwells Fesys on the James River thar his company met with major Ramsays detachment from Prince William County Va at Headknchs Tavern in Northumberland county Va & said detachment came on with his company from said Tavern to Williamsburg & found the British in possession of said Town & had a snake fleet in the James River at said town & his forces together with Major Ramseys detachment & several other companies retreated from said enemy & were persued by the British from said Town up to Richmond & he remembers in this engagement as Williamsburg thus
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William Hambrick of Captain Weavers company was wounded in the leg & William Hume of said company was wounded in the shoulder in said engagement at Williamsburgh & Benjamin Bullet of his Captain Bronaughs company was killed in said engagement That when his said forces reached Richmond on their retreat from the enemy at Wmsburgh the enemies Fleet was lying in the James River at Richmond & the enemy had encamped in Manchester on the opposite side of the River the enemy fired upon his forces from their vessels but as the banks of the river were high did not damage his forces much & whilst incamped in Richmond he remembers that an Englishman was manuvering about on the water as if offering a challenge to his men when one of the artilery men (as there was an artilery company in Richmond at this time) broched a sword & shot said Englishman through the millde & killed him on the spot & he recollects another circumstance which occured whilst at Richmond There was a large Kettle & men engaged taring cables ropes & the procss was so great to witness the operation that the men crowded against a stack of arms while filled one of the guns fired & shot a man by the name of Dowdle from Prince William County Va belonging to Major Ramsays detachment from said county & Dowdle died in less than two hours there after That he understood all the companies & detachments & regiments in Richmond at this time were under the command of General Waden of Virginia that his company met with some of the regular troops in this tour of four months under capt Thomas Bronaugh at Nupirs Noose between Hampton & Williamsburgh & that he met with a great many
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troops in Richmond & a militia Company
from Spotsylvania & another from Caroline
County but made no acquaintance with
them that Captain Tillman Weaver
company from Fauquier County Va started
from Major Joseph Blackwells with
his company & continued together
throughout the entire tour of four months
that the companies from Spotsylvania
Caroline come as a relief to his compa
my under Bronaugh & Captain Weavers
Company that his company was detained
in service one month over the draft
waiting as it was stated for a company
to retire them That he remembers the
names of Jesse Withers Cain Withers
Lewis Jennings William Bronaugh
Peter Conway George Cusley Andrew O
Bannon John Whitton Jonas Williams
first Sergeant of his Captain Bronaugh
company & that he does not know that
any of these men are now alive
that this his last tour in the Revolution
[illegible] some short time before the
siege at York this term expired whilst
his company was stationed at Richmond &
after serving out four months his relief came
& his company was marched up to Fauquier County 
& discharged   That he remember [illegible] that
during the whole of his service at the South in the
continental Line from South Carolina that
his acquaintances Thomas Groves & Jesse Withers
of Captain Slaughters company was with his
company under Duvall that they went together
at Egells farm at ninety six at Charlotte
marched together to Hanging Rock to
Eutaw & to Kings Mountain When he was
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[this document was very light and difficult to read.... transcribed but may not be accurate]

Jesse Withers states that he enlisted in 1881 in the
18 Mo served under Capt Anthony Kirkpatrick Col
[illegible] received a furlough to visit his brother
in the South-- reported himself to Gen Green
1781, his company not having arrived, he was  [illegible]
to return to Fauquier County - he then found his company
in [illegible] 
when encamped near Williamsburg  he is reported
by a [illegible] Marshall unfit for duty and was discharged
September or first of Oct 1781 - having served 4 mo
his company did not leave[illegible] in the hand of his service
His service on Cap Bronaugh [illegible] of 3 month
in the Militia

Robert Henson testifies in the case of [illegible] that
he was drafted with Withers  in Capt Bronaugh 
company of Militia in the spring of 1781, that he was
the mess mate of said Whiters, that he march in company
with him to near Williamburg when Withers was called
back to Fuarquar Court House, and not see him
again until he met him near Williamsburg in the fall of
the same year having been drafted in the regular service for 18
months, that deponent remained in his request of Miilitia
He states also that he was in the Poor House his thigh having
been cut off and that he was [illegible]
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Thomas Grover enlisted for 3 years under Capt Clift
Chilton and [illegible] Capt. Alexander
Parke and he transferred to Major Porey detachment
After the expiration of his first enlistment he again
entered and served during the war. No mention is
made of his [illegible] Cap Duval  or [illegible]
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No 37249
Robert Henson
_________________
M. N. Walton, June 8, '46
same Aug 10, 1846
to same March 15 '47

4902
Act 7 June 1832
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Fauquier County Feby 1st 1847

Sir

I forwarded to you on the 25th of last
month from Warrenton Fauq. Coty Va.   Mr. Robert Hensons application for
pension approved before the Court
accompanied by the affidavit
of Mr. John Cason proving the identity
required in your letter.

Accompanying this
I send you a letter from Mrs_
Catharine Jones of Orange County Va
please give me information upon
these two subjects at Barnett Mills
Fauquier County Va    oblige

your obtsvt
 M. N. Walton [signature]
Jan 28, 1847.
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No 37279
Robert Henson
Va
Act 7 June 1832



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Mr. J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington 
D.C.
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Fauqu County Virginia 18th March 1840

Sir 

I send you the declaration of Mr.
Robert Henson of this County please send
me a copy of the decision after the case
shall have been acted upon. direct to me
at Burnetts Mills Fauqu Va & oblige Yos truty
M N. Walton

Barnett Mills,       Va
Culpepper C.H.   Va
Warrenton   Va
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Robert Henson
Sping 1779 18 Mo, /in Capt Saterwhite & Duvall
winter 1781    3  "       "  Capt. Capt Allen Col
                                            Curringtin of Cumberland Co
Spring  1781    3 "      "  Capt. Bronaugh

Enlisted at 96, June 1781 was in the battles of Eutaw Sept 1781
Guildford Court House March 1787 and Kings Mountain Oct 1788 where he was wounded
[illegible]
[illegible]
No such Captain in the militia [illegible] as
[illegible] Durall or Satterwhite-
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Fauqr County Virginia 18 June 1846

Sir

I have seen Mr Robt. Henson since the return
of his papers he says that he can only reiterate
what he stated in his declaration that he enlisted in the State of South Carolina for the term of 3 years
in the year 1779 under Capt. Duvall in the Con
tinental service and had the engagements set forth
in his papers with the Tories Tarleton forces that
his forces constituted a kind of scouting party of
from one to three hundred that his company was
stationed a considerable time of the first little brush
with the Tories at Col Egills farm at a place he
thinks called Berryhill, that his forces did go to
Guilford Ct House during the tour & before the engagement at Kings Mountain where he was wounded that
Thomas Groves & Jesse Withers were in the South and
in the continental service that he is sorry that
it is his misfortune to be unable to furnish any proof
in support of his service. that he did not mean to be
[illegible]this narrative that he was in the Battle at Guilford
fought between Green and Wallace neither did he wish
it understood that he meant the Battle at Eutaw Spring
fought in 1781 by Genl Green but he was in an engage
ment at that place before he was wounded at Kings Mountain 
and that he would be glad to know if it was not upon his
affidavit that Jesse Withers established his claim for pension
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and W Henson says that before his leg was amputated
there was a day set for Thomas Groves to accompy him
to the Court House to testify to his services & that he called
at Groves house according to appointment to take him a
long to Warrenton the County seat of Faugr but unfortunately
Groves who was addicted to habits of intemperance
had been drunk and lying out during which time a
Spider or some poisonous Insect had better him which
produced alarming swelling and loss of phisical strength
so that he could never walk afterwards Mr Henson can
casely furnish evidence to show that he is the same
individual who gave an affidavit in 1833 and
that he is still blind and in the poor house and
that his by was in part amputated for the wound
recd in the Revolution, Mr. Henson does not in his 
delaration for to or mention the name of Thomas Grives the
name is so spelt 3 times in an answer but refer to
Thomas Groves. You state that his papers were returned
that they might be presented to the Court for its approval
if he is required to furnish the testimony of
persons serving with him before his claim will be
admitted & he states his inability to furnish it
I suppose it to be needless to forward his papers again
and you further required the certificate of the Auditor of
public accounts at Richmond showing that he
recd pay in the Virginia Line. but no Henson
states that he was in the Continental line and does
know that he was at any time in Va State Line
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Will you have the goodness to give me
information immediately in relation to this
matter as the old gentleman is anxious
to know whether he stands any chance
to get any thing
Respectfully Yrobtsvt
M. N Walton  {signature]

PS please direct to
Barnetts Mills Faug Va
.
X
to
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June 22 1846

Recd
Robert Henson

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Barnett Mills
June 20


J L Edwards,Esq
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington 
DC
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State of Virginia
County of Fauquier to wit

The declaration of Robert Henson under act of
June 7th 1832 taken before Joseph Thompson
James Payne Esq both justices of the peace
for this county was this day received in open
Court and being approved of is certified to the
War Department at Washington City
State of Virginia
County of Fauquier to wit:
I Wm H Jennings Clerk of the County Court of
Fauquier County do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains the original proceedings
of the said Court in the matter of the application
of Robert Henson for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of Office
this 25" day of January 1847
Wm H Jenning

[Seal appears to be present, illegibe]
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Fauquier County Virginia
I John Carson a Citizen of the said County certify under oath
that I was elected & took charge of the Poorhouse in said
County as superintendent of the paupers of said County in 1833
& have continued to act as superintendent of the same nine years
have resided since I left said establishment until now
close in the neighborhood of the same Robert Henson was
in 1833 a pauper in said poorhouse with his leg cut off
I was present and held his head whilst the Doctors performed
the operation & amputation in 1826 or 7 & he was then a
pauper in said poorhouse I saw him some few months ago
- a short time before the last Christmas of 1840 he was then
a pauper in said poorhouse & blind he is the only person 
bearing his name in said establishment in 1833
It was generally believed that he was a soldier of the Revolution
& several persons came to see him about his claim for
a pension I concur in the general opinion that he was a soldier
of the Revolution he told me when I last saw him that he
would be 96 years of age as Christmas of 1846
John Cason [signature]


Fauquier County to wit
this day personally appeared before me the
undersigned a justice of the peace in & for the said County John
Cason & made oath to the truth contained in the foregoing certificate & he is a man of respectability. Given under my hand this 21 day of January 1847
James Payne J P  [signature]
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State of Virginia County of Fauquier to wit
I Alexander J Marshall Clerk of the Court
of Fauquier County certify that the before
named James Payne and Joseph
Thompson are acting Magistrates of this
County and the signature annexed are
genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal
of Office this 19th day of March 1846
A. J. Marshall, Clerk [signature]
of Fauquier County Court

{illegible Seal]
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State of Virginia County of Fauquier       to wit.
we the undersigned Citizens neighbors and acquaintances
as of Mr Robert Henson a citizen of the said
county certify to the Court of said County or to
the war department that we have been 
acquainted with him for many years and have
always  found him though poor to be a man
of truthfulness & respectability and believe him
to have been a soldier of the Revolution
John P. Willis  [signature]
Gory W Sinclair  [signature]
Jeremiah Preston [signature]
James T. Suddoth. [signature]
Lemuel T. Oliver  [signature]


the under signed Justice of the peace
in and for the aforesaid County certify
to the war department that the above
named John P. Willis Gary W.
Sinclair Jeremiah Preston John T. Lund
Samuel Oliver are respectable citizens of
this County and their statement is entitle
to credit Given under our hands this 17th
day of March 1846
James Payne  [signature]
JosThompson JP. [signature]
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REJECTED
4902
P.O.
Robert Henson
Service:

Enlisted:          , 18
Discharged:         , 18
Application filed:    , 18

Alleges:     
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O. _
_____Recognized.   _____Contract.
Cert.  of  Dis.        Searched for, 18