Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8922, Andrew Hensey, Conn.
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Conn.   Hensey, Andrew   W. 8922
                          Sarah
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4843 Iowa Territory
Sarah Hensey
widow of Andrew Hansey
who [line crossed out]
and who died on the 30 Nov 1792
of Dubuque in the Terrty of Iowa
who was a private in the compy commanded
by Captain Parsons of the regt commanded
by Col Webb in the Connt
line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Wisconsin Agency
at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of Jany
1840 & sent to James Crawford, Dubuque, Iowa Territory

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1839 $280.00
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Mar '40  40.00
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                                                    $320.00

{Act July 7, 1838}

Recorded by D Mc Curdy Clerk,
Book A, Vol. 2, Page 228


March 27th 1840 see let. to Geo W Jones, Court agt
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6210
Sarah Hansey
Iowa Territory



no papers
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Territory of Iowa
Dubuque County ss.}

On this nineteenth day of September AD 1839 personally appeared before the Hon. the District Court within and for the said County of Dubuque the widow Sarah Hensey resident of said Dubuque County aged seventy eight years, being first sworn according to law, doth on oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit f the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" that she is the widow of Andrew Hensey, alias John Andrew Hensey deceased, who was a soldier of the war of the Revolution, and according to her best recollection and belief served as follows, he enlisted at the town of Voluntine in the State of Connecticut about the month of April 1781 and went into the army as a private soldier in the regiment commanded by Col Webb of the Connecticut line- Col. Grovenor was the Lieut Col, as she understood, the Capt & other officers under whom the said Hensey served she is not able to state, and would refer the Commissioner of Pensions to the rolls and records of the said Col. Webbs Regiment, now remaining in the War Department for more particular proof, and that according to her best recollection and belief the said Hensey continued in the Army untill the close of the war and the declaration of Peace, she further says that she has understood and believes that the said Hensey was at the taking of Cornwallis, she further testifies and says that she was married to the said Andrew Hensey, in the town of Voluntine State of Connecticut in the month of March after the close of the Revolutionary war, by James Gordon Esq. a Justice of the Peace, and that she lived with the said Hensey in said town of Voluntine and Plainfield, about six years and had three children by him, and that the said Hensey about the year 1789 or 1790 enlisted again into the United States Army
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commanded by Gen. St Clair, and was killed in battle with the Indians, called St Clairs defeat, for the proof of which she would again refer to the rolls and records now remaining in the War Department, and that since her said husband's decease she has remained a widow, she further says that she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim.

Sarah Hensey

Territory of Iowa
County of Dubuque} ss. United States District Court September Term AD 1839

Present the Hon. Thomas S. Wilson, Judge, personally appeared Sarah Hensey on this nineteenth day of September, being the fourth day of said Term, and in open Court made solemn oath that the foregoing declaration by her subscribed is true according to her best knowledge information and belief.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 19th day of September AD 1839

Geo. Wilson
Clerk D.C. of U.S.
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6210
Sarah Hensey
of Andrew
Iowa Territory


admitted

Pr 2 yrs $80
Cap Parson Col Webb, Con. line

died 3d Nov 1792

Act 7 June 1838

James Crawford
Dubuque
Iowa Territory
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Revolution Connecticut Lieut
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 8922
Sarah Hensey
wid. of
Andrew Hensey
Pri. Conn. line

Act: July 7 '38

Index:- Vol. A, Page 324

[Arrangement of 1870]
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State of Connecticut
Windham County} ss.

I Daniel P Tyler Clerk of the County Court in & for the County & State aforesaid, do certify that Francis B. Johnson Esq is a Justice of the peace in & for sd County, duly commissioned & qualified, that his commission is dated June 1839 and will expire the 20th day of June 1840, and that his signature above written is genuine. Given under my hand & the seal of said County Court this 2d day of August AD 1839.

Daniel P Tyler Clerk

State of Connecticut
County of Windham} ss.

I Joseph Eaten [unk] Chief Judge of the County Court in & for the County of Windham aforesaid, so certify that Daniel P Tyler is Clerk of sd Court and is the proper person by law to make out & authenticate records of sd Court & to give certificates under the Seal of sd County Court he having the care & custody thereof.

Joseph Eaten Judge of the County Court for Windham County
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on roll
Cap Parson Col Webb
[unk] from Mar 15, 1787 for 3 yrs
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I Elisha Potter of Voluntown in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut, being of lawful age, and duly sworn do depose and say that I was duly chosen and sworn, and am now the Town Clerk of the aforesaid Town of Voluntown, and having examined the Records of said Town, I do not find the marriage of Andrew Hensey and Sarah [unk] recorded thereon and further the Deponent saith not.

Elisha Potter Town Clerk


State of Connecticut, Windham County ss.
Voluntown July 20th 1839

Then personally appeared Elisha Potter Esq the subscriber f the above Deposition, and being duly sworn, made oath to the truth of the facts therein contained,
and I hereby certify that he is Town Clerk as sworn to by the same Elisha Potter Esq in the above Deposition, and that he is a witness entitled to full faith and credit.
Sworn before,

Benjamin Gallup one Justice of the Peace


Probate Office ss. Plainfield District July 29th 1839

This may certify that Benjamin Gallup 2d of Voluntown is a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Windham & that full faith and credit is to be given to his acts as such and that his signature to the above certificate is in his own proper hand writing.

attest John F Gordon Clerk of Probate for the District of Plainfield

This may certify that John F Gordon Esq whose name is above subscribed in his own proper hand is a legal Clerk of this Court of Probate for Plainfield District and that the seal above appointed is the true & proper seal of said Court.

Joseph Eaton Judge of Probate for Plainfield District
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Comptrollers Office
Hartford July 30 1839

I certify that on application for evidence of the services of Andrew Hansey, who claims service in the Revolutionary War, I have examined the records of settlement made with the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army, and find his name in a settlement for the year 1780 where he is entered as a private and commenced service March 1781 [unk] of settlement Dec 31 1781 having served ten months. There is no record evidence in this office of any settlement being made with the Connecticut Line subsequent to the year 1780.

Henry Kilbourn Compt
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I Reuben Bryant of Plainfield in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut, being duly sworn do depose & say, that I was seventy six years old in the month of May last past, and that in the year of 1781, I enlisted into the Continental Army for three years and that I belonged to Col Dirgy's Regiment during the remainder of the Revolutionary War, and was discharged at West Point in the State of New York; and I well knew John Andrew Hansey, commonly called & written Andrew Hansey, that he was a Hessian and belonged to the army of Genl Burgoyne, and was taken prisoner, as I then understood at Bennington in the State of Vermont, that soon after he came to reside in the family of the late James Gordon Esq. then living in the Town of Voluntown in sd Windham County and that he continued to reside in his family untill the first of March 1781, when he enlisted into the Continental Army for three years, and that he belonged to and served in the Regiment commanded by Col Samuel B Webb, that I frequently saw him when in service and was often with him when on guard at various times and places in the State of New York, principally in what was called the high lands. I further depose and say that when the army was discharged at West Point in the State of New York the aforesaid Hansey was then in the Regiment of Col Webb and was then and there discharged with said Regiment & I often saw him and continued acquainted with him after he returned and lived again in the family of the aforesd James Gordon, and I then was informed, and understood that he married a woman living in the same family, and I knew of their living together as man and wife, and that they had several children, and, so continued to live together as such and were so living in this Town of Plainfield, untill he , as was said, enlisted in the Indian War, then carried on in the western Country, and now returned, as the report was and always has been
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that he was killed in what was called St Clair's depot, and I further depose & say that the late Thomas Grosvenor of Pomfort in this County, was at the time above referred to Lieutenant Col in the aforesaid Regiment.

Rueben Bryant

State of Connecticut
Windham County} ss.

Be it remembered that on this 29th day of July 1839 personally appeared Reuben Bryant signer of the above and foregoing affidavit, who is personally known to the subscriber as a witness whose testimony is entitled to credit, and made solemn oath to the truth of the facts contained in said affidavit. Before me

Francis B Johnson Justice of the Peace
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I John F. Gordon of Plainfield in the County of Windham & State of Connecticut being duly sworn do declare & say that I am sixty eight years old in August next, & that I lived in the Town of [unk] in said County, till about the year 1786, when my father (the late Genl James Gordon) moved with his family to Plainfield in said County and I am well acquainted with Mrs. Sarah Hensey wife of John Andrew Hensey late deceased; that she sd Sarah, was brought up in my father's family from a child, that the said John Andrew Hensey was a [unk] in Burgoynes Army, and was taken prisoner at the capture of said Army and that said J. A> Hensey came to live at my father's, soon after his being made a prisoner & lived there about three years, when he inlisted & went into the Continental Army & after the Peace returned to Voluntown to my fathers and was married by my father (then being a Justice of the Peace) to Sarah Wylie, the aforesaid Sarah Hensey & lived as man & wife in my father's family for some time after; & that afterwards the sd Hensey & his wife moved to Plainfield & lived there some time thence; that they had three children, named Andrew, Polly, and William (the two latter children being dead) & that the said J A Hensey left his family & as was reported, enlisted into the Army, under command of Genl. St. Clair, & was killed in an action with the Indians; called St Clairs defeat; that the said Sarah Hensey came again to live at my fathers & brought with her an infant child (William) & the two older
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ones being put our to [unk] to be brought up and continued to live in my fathers till about the year 1821 when my fathers house was destroyed by fire, after which period the said Mrs Hensey moved into a house of mine in the same neighborhood till she moved to the westward with a granddaughter of hers, say this or thereabouts. The said Gordon further deposeth & says that he understood his father kept a Register of the persons her married, but his fathers house being burnt, it is supposed it was lost in the conflagration , that the said Sarah Hensey is about 85 or 90 years of age, & now lives with Caroline Dexter, a granddaughter of hers in the Iowa Territory.
He further deposeth & says that the said Hensey's name was John Andrew Hensey, but he went by the name of Andrew Hensey, as my father had two Germans live with him, the other an associate of sd Hensey was named John Frederick Tone, and was called John Tone, and furthers says not.

John F Gordon


Windham County ss. Plainfield July 29th 1839

Personally appeared John F Gordon, the subscriber of the above deposition & being duly sworn, made oath to the truth of the facts therein contained, and I hereby certify that John F Gordon, the above deponent, is a credible witness & that his testimony is entitled to full faith & credit.

Before me
Francis B Johnson Justice of Peace
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Oct. 15, 1839
Iowa Territory
7 July, 1838


Hon, J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Dubuque Iowa Terr, Sept 23d 1839

Hon. J L Edwards;

Dr Sir

I herewith transmit to the Pension Department of the U.S. the declaration of Sarah Hensey for a pension. The evidence in support of her claim has been, or will soon be forwarded to the Department from New England, where she formerly resided, I would ask that her case may be acted on as soon as the convenience of the Department will permit, the applicant being in needy circumstances, and that the result may be communicated to me, at this place.

Respectfully your obt servt

James Crawford
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Oct. 30, 1839
Iowa Terty
addl proof
Sarah Hensey
6210
Oct 15


Hon. J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Dubuque Iowa Territory Oct 15th 1839

Hon J L Edwards

I lately forwarded to the Pension department, the declaration of Sarah Hensey, made to enable her to obtain a pension for services of her late husband in the Revolutionary war. In my note accompanying said Declaration I stated that I expected the evidence in support of her claim would be forwarded from New England, but it has been sent to me, and I now forward it and would respectfully solicit the early consideration of her case, she being in very dependant circumstances, I wish the results to be communicated to me at Dubuque Iowa Territory.

Respectfully yours

James Crawford
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The affidavit of Esther White of Putney in the County of Windham and State of Vermont aged 62 years, who being duly sworn testified and saus that in her childhood she lived in the town of Plainfield in the state of Connecticut, and was well acquainted with Sarah or Sally Wylie (as she was then called) who lived with her deponent's mother, about six months which, according to her best recollection and belief was in the year 1780 or 1780, and that about two or three years after, the said Sarah or Sally was married to Andrew Hensey a German, and that for two or three years, after they were married  the said Hensey and wife lived in a house near her mother's in Plainfield, and that she, deponent, used frequently call to see Mrs. Hensey whilst they lived together as man and wife, and she further testifies that whilst Hensey and his wife lived together, in Plainfield, they had two or three children. And she further testifies that she moved from Plainfield in the year 1799, at which time Mrs. Hensey, wo was then a widow, was living in the family of Gen. Gordon. It was said that Hensey was killed sometime previous, in the Indian War, under Gen. St. Clair. And she further says that she used frequently to hear said Hensey relate his adventures, as a soldier, in the American Army, in time of the Revolution, and of his being with the army at the capture of Cornwallis and his army. And further saith not.

Esther White

I certify that Mrs. White above named is a person of undoubted truth & veracity.

P. White Justice of Peace

State of Vermont
Windham County ss.} August ? 1839 subscribed & sworn to in due form before me,

Phineas White Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerk's Office
New Haven August 8th AD 1839

I Marshall Miller, Clerk of said Court, do hereby certify that Phineas Phite is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature within written is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court the day and year above written.

Attest
Marshal Miller, Clerk