Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5433, for Henry Hurst, Virginia
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Va.                   

Hurst, Henry
Mary Ann           

NUMBER
R.5433

CONTENTS
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13704
Kentucky

Henry Hurst
of Scott Co in the State of Kentucky 
Who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Lucas of the Regimt commanded by Col Morrow in the Virginia line for 9 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 30 Dollars (no) Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of June 1833 and sent to Hon R.M. Johnson (illegible)

Arrears to the 4th of March.                      60- 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept          15-
$75--
                                                                                          {Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Daniel Boyd, Clerk
Book E Vol. 7 Page 12
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Henry Hurst

Soldier declaration
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State of Kentucky - Scott County SS
On this 20th of May 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Scott County Court then in session, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
Henry Hurst states that he was born in Frederec County Virginia August 30th 1755 & is now in the 78th year of his age. That during the Revolutionary war he lived in the County of Burkley that as well as he can now recollect, his memory is frail as well as his body he entered the service of the U.S. agt the British & indians in the fall of the year of 1778 for the term of ten months as a volunteer to go against the indians under Capt Lucas that the Regt was commanded by Col Morrow of Shepardstown in sd [illegible]
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that the service commenced about the last of Octr they continued out the whole winter & & till the expiration of sd six months about the last of April that he does not recollect the other officers. that part of the Regt was stationed at Pittsburg in the Beach bottom on the Ohio river below Pittsburg & at wheeling - then the Regt was at times & most of the time separated & stationed at those different places, he got an honorable discharge for the six months which was to opperate for two militia tours of duty of 3 months each as no militia man could be compelled to go beyond 3 months but he was a volunteer as aforesaid for a service which required a longer service than 3 months to be affective
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that in the spring of the year in the month of April 1781 he the sd Hurst was drafted for a militia tour of three months under Capt Wm Vestal, Robt Willis was Col. Thomas Scott was Lieut in the company Andrew McKinney was ensign Genl Lafayett & Genl Wedon commanded the whole corps, was stationed at Richmond most of the time & Cornwallis caused the forces to retreat from Richmond to Rachon the Rappahannock about 15 or 20 miles from Fredericksburg. that he was dismissed & got an honorable discharge about 1st of July having served the 3 months. that he has lost both of his discharges. that he was in no Battles
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That he now resides in Henry County & has for about one year he was previously a citizen of Scott County for 30 years & he makes his declaration in Scott on that sd court that he is not on the Pension list of the states or any state. he relinquishes all Pensions but under the act of 7th June 1832
Signed
Henry Hurst

Sworn to in Open Court
Att Ben B Ford Clk
Test
Rh M Johnson

We, J. T. Johnson a public teacher of Christianity, residing in Geo town Scott County and residing in same do certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Hurst who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be of the age stated by him that he
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reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion
Submitted & sworn to 
J. T. Johnson
Rh M Johnson

Sworn to in open court
Att Ben B Ford Clk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after puting the Interrogatorys 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 John T Johnson who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Scott and that R M Johnson who has signed the same is a resident in the County aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Ben B Ford clerk of the Court for Scott County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application for Henry Hurst for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 27th day of May 1833
Att Ben B Ford clk
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Louisville Ky
July 4th 1855
Sir
Enclosed herein I send you a document which I prepared in Dec 1853 in case of Mary Hurst dcd (widow of Henry) who in her lifetime applied for widows Pension as the widow of Henry Hurst from Henry Co Ky under Act July 1836

You will see that Mrs Hurst left two children at her death - When I prepared this document Mrs Stapleton the daughter was living and I was of the belief that she and the children of her brother Fielding would be entitled to receive the money due her at her death - I soon learned that a then recent decision would cut off the children of Fielding Hurst - and a few months afterward we heard that Mrs Stapleton was also dead (This report I presume is there but it must not be)

Now I am informed that by a recent decision the pension vest to other heirs when there are no children surviving - Is such the law?

Or (if it be proven that there are no children now surviving) would the
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grand children be entitled to the amount due up to the death of Mrs Mary Hurst August 1838

Please inform me and if they are let me know what county Mrs Hurst said that she was married in, in Virginia so that I can get an official certificate, as if we can get no public record of it I shall then rely on the accompanying

If there be no claim due in the case you will please return the proof document unless you think proper to file it. if there be any probability of there being a claim in this case in the course of a few years.
Yours Respectfully
C. H. Barkley

Hon L. P. Waldo
Commissioner
Washington D. C.
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I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 24th January 1837 and in the 45th year of the Commonwealth
Edmd Thomas C
By Ben Thomas D.C.
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State of Kentucky
Henry County
Be it known that Mary Ann Hurst of Henry County Ky aged 87 years this 14th day of January 1837 personally appeared before John P Force one of the Commonwealth's Justices of the Peace for said County and a member of the Henry County Court and being duly sworn according to law made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed July 1836

She states that she is about 82 years of age and that she is a resident of Henry County Ky and is the widow of Henry Hurst dec'd who died on the 29th Nov 1834 and who was a pensioner of the United States having been placed on the pension Roll for services performed in the revolutionary war.

She states that her said husband lived in Henry County about 3 years before he died and that his death took place in said county. She states further that she was married to her said husband as well as she remembers in the year 1775 and that the marriage took place at the house of his father in Barclay County Va. and that her maiden name was Mary Ann Wingfield. she states that her said husband did perform services
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in the war of the revolution as a soldier
after their said marriage and when she had
two children [illegible] but she cannot state
the particulars of his services nor has she
any evidence of them except his pension
papers on which his pension was granted so far
as she is now informed
she further states that she has remained
unmarried ever since his death and that
she is interm in body-
Sworn and subscribed the said 14th Jany
1837 -
Mary Ann
her
Hurst
mark
Henry County
State of Kentucky I John P Force a justice of
the peace for said County and a member of
the Henry County court hereby certify that the foregoing
declaration of Mary Ann Hurst was this day
made, taken, subscribed and sworn to before
me and I further state my opinion to be that
she is of the age stated by this in the above
declaration and I also further certify that I am
personally acquainted with her the said Mary Ann
Hurst and that she is the widow of Henry Hurst
deceased as above stated by her and that she has
not married since the said Hurst's death, and
I further certify that she is a credible person
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and that her statements are entitled to credit and that from her age she is quite infirm in body
Given under my hand this 14th January 1837
John P Force JP

State of Kentucky Henry County Sct
The affidavit of Fielding Hurst who states that he resides in Henry County Ky and is the oldest child of Mary Ann Hurst who has made the above declaration and her husband Henry Hurst - that he was born in Barclay County Va. on the 10th Septr 1776 according to the family record and from information given him by his parents so that he is now over 60 years of age - He states that his father died in Henry County Ky. on the 29th Novr. 1834 and was on the pension roll of the United States as a revolutionary soldier. He states that his mother has not married since his fathers death and that she is very infirm in body and that from the family record she is 82 years of age.
Fielden Hurst

State of Kentucky Henry County Sct
I John P Force a justice of the peace in and for the said county hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit of Fielden Hurst was this day taken subscribed & sworn
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to before me and that said Hurst is a respectable and credible person and his statements are entitled to credit. Given under my hand this 14th Jany 1837.
John P Force JP HC

State of Kentucky Henry County Sct,
I Edmund P Thomas clerk of the court for the county of Henry in the State of Kentucky hereby certify that John P Force whose signature appears to the foregoing certificates is a Justice of the Peace in and for Henry County, and a member of the court of which I am clerk and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 24th January 1837 and in the 45th year of the Commonwealth
Edmund Thomas C
By Ben Thomas D.C.
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Henry Hurst Act.
to what time paid
Pen Office
Apl 26 '57
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V1540
Mary Ann Hurst's
Kentucky
case

The department will please inform me of the steps taken in this case and if a certificate issues please send it to me directed to Owenton Owen County Ky
Sanford Johnson
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[letterhead]
E. T. Rose
S. G. Sample
Law Offices
Rose & Sample
Edna, Texas

[stamped]
JUL 20 '37
MAIL [obscured] DIV
VETS ADM
[illegible]

July 17, 1937

Commissioner of Bureau of Pensions
Revolutionary War Section
Washington, D. C. 

Gentlemen:
RE: REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION CLAIMS OF MEMBERS OF THE HURST FAMILY FROM THE STATE OF VIRGINIA [underlined]

A number of years ago, I sent you $1.15 to pay for photostatic copy of papers in the Pension Claim of Revolutionary War pensioner, Henry Hurst, No. S 30504, who served as a private in said War with the Virginia Troops from Shenandoah County, Virginia.

I am now desirous to procuring copies from your office of other Revolutionary War pension claims of other members of the Hurst family from Virginia, particularly of the Hursts who joined the army from Shenandoah and Culpepper Counties, Virginia.

Will you please use the enclosed stamped envelope and give me the first names of the Virginia Hursts who participated in said War, and give me the cost, or approximate cost, of procuring copies of such records from your department. Please let me hear from you soon.

Very truly yours
E.T. Rose [signature]
E.T. Rose.
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August 25, 1937

BA-J/AWF

Mr. E. T. Rose
Edna
Texas

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you state that a number of years ago you obtained photostatic copies of papers on file in Revolutionary War claim for pension, S. 30504, based upon service of Henry Hurst of Shenandoah County, Virginia, and you now would like to have such copies of papers in other Hurst claims, especially those of Shenandoah and Culpeper Counties, Virginia.

The records have been found of two other soldiers with the surname Hurst who served in the Revolutionary War from the State of Virginia, those of Henry and Richard. The papers in those claims, R. 5433 and S. 9593, respectively, have been examined very carefully for you and the data found in regard to family, residences, itinerancies, service, etc. have been incorporated in separate reports herewith.

At the present time, such reports are made quite full, hoping they will serve the need of the correspondents who request copies and thus, in a great measure, protect the valuable old documents.

The preparation of photostatic copies necessitates much more handling and must of course be more or less injurious to the fragile papers.

If the reports enclosed are insufficient, further consideration will be given your request.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Henry Hurst
R. 5433
BA-J/AWF

Mr. E. T. Rose
Edna
Texas

Dear Sir:
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, R. 5433, based upon the military service of Henry Hurst in the Revolutionary War.

Henry Hurst was born August 30, 1755 in Frederick County, Virginia. The names of his parents were not stated.

While a resident of Berkeley County, Virginia, Henry Hurst volunteered sometime in October 1778, served six months in Captain Lucas' company, Colonel Morrow's Virginia regiment, against the Indians, and was stationed on the Ohio River near Pittsburgh and at Wheeling. He enlisted sometime in April 1781, served three months in Captain William Vestal's company, Colonel Robert Willis' Virginia regiment.

He moved to Scott County Kentucky, where he lived about thirty years and then moved to Henry County, Kentucky. He was allowed pension on his application executed May 20, 1833, then a resident of Henry County, Kentucky, where he had live about one year.

Henry Hurst married in Berkeley County, Virginia, in the year 1775, Mary Ann Wingfield; they
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were married at the home of the parents of the soldier, Henry Hurst.

The soldier died in Henry County, Kentucky, November 29, 1834.

The widow, Mary Ann Hurst, was living in 1833 in Henry County, Kentucky. She was born January 14, 1755, place not shown, nor were the names of her parents given. She died in August, 1838.

Their oldest child, Fielden Hurst, was born September 10, 1776 in Berkeley County, Virginia, and in 1837, he was living in Henry County, Kentucky. Their daughter, "Mrs. Stapleton" was referred to; both Fielden Hurst, and Mrs. Stapleton were deceased in 1855. It was stated that the said Fielden Hurst left children at his death, their names were not shown, and Mrs. Stapleton's given name was not designated.

Enoch Wingfield, brother of the widow, Mary Ann Hurst, was seventy-seven years of age in 1837, then living in Versailes, Woodford County, Kentucky.

The papers on file in this claim contain no further data relative to family.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator