Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8,030, Henry Arnot, New Jersey New York
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New Jersey.
New York

Arnot, Henry

S.8030

carded.
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6180-
Virginia

Henry Arnot
of Monroe in the State of Va:
who was a pr: in the company commanded.
by Captain Weasner of the Regt.commanded by Col Nichols in the New Jersy line for 10 mo: from 1771

N.J. and N. Y. Sept. 8, 1904
Records completed

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Feby:
1833 - and Sub-Hon: R.
Craig. Ho: Reps

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1832   49.99
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33  16.67
$66.66

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Nathan Rice - Clerk,
Book D Vol. 7 Page 90

Let. agent, payt. us Oct 21 1881
Jn Hutchson Jr.
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At. Court of Quarter Session Continued & Held for the County of Monroe at the Court House on Wednesday the 22nd day of August 1832 and in the 57th year of the Commonwealth
State of Virginia
Monroe County}
On this 22nd day of August personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the said County Henry Arnott a resident of said County and State aforesaid aged seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as therein-stated, He enlisted in he next year after the battle of Bunkers Hill which was July, 1776 in the county of Sussex in the State of New Jersey under Capt. John Weasner commanded by Majr. Logan and Col. Nichols for a five months tour and was discharged at Peekskill in the State of New York. During said tour he was marched from Sussex to Florida in York. He joined the company and was marched from there to New Windsor on Hudson River, the troops then took water and went to West Point; and from there to Kingsbridge above New York. After that he was marched to White Plains; from there to Peekskill where he staid until he was discharged.  He was in no general engagement but was in a skirmish in a place called Morris Send in New York, near a place called Hell Gate.  After getting his discharge, he brought it home, and gave it to his father, at which time, he was only fourteen years of age.  Afterwards he served one month in the room of his father who was drafter in the militia from the County of Sussex State of New Jersey commanded by Lieut. Erskine at Paramus above New York.  During this tour he was not in any battle.  Afterwards he served as a substitute for James Ellis of the County of Sussex
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and state of New Jersey for one month and was commanded by Lieut. Arnette Col Toward and Genl. Winds he was marched from Sussex in New Windsor on the Hudson River, then to Morristown Princeton and Woodberry in Jersey, where he was discharged. During this tour he was not in any battle. IN 1782 or 1783 the last year of the War, he substituted: the militia was classed and one of the classes hired him for three months in the county of Orange state of New York: he served under Capt Gordon Maj. Logan and Col Wisenfelt, was marched to West Point, Fort Albany, Johnstown, Saratoga, and then to Albany where he was discharged at the time peace was made. He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the roll of the agency of any State and further declares that he was in no battle, or knows of no person that he can prove the facts of his being the service as he left that country many years ago 
Sworn and transcribed the day & year first written
[signature] Henry Arnot
I James Christy a clergyman residing in the county of Monroe and State aforesaid and Samuel Clark of the same place do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Arnett who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be seventy one years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid}
Jas Christy
Saml. Clark
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after pulling the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he stated. And [illegible] Court further certifies, that it appears
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to then that James Christy who has signed the proceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Monroe and State of Virginia, and that Samuel Clark who has also signed the same is a resident in the said County & State, and is a creditable person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I John Hutchison Jr. Clerk of the Court of Monroe County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Arnett for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office at Union this 3rd day of September 1832 & in the 57th year of the Commonwealth
Jno. Hutchison, Jr.
State of Virginia
Monroe County} SS
At c Court held for the County of Monroe at the Court House on Monday the 17th day of December 1832 and in the 57th year of the Commonwealth
On this 17th day of December 1832 Henry Arnott the declarant who made the foregoing declaration in the said County Court of Monroe, on the 22nd of August last, again, personally appeared in Open Court, and being sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following additional declaration.  He declares that he served the full term of five months as stated in his said Declaration, Afterwards the full term of one month, then one other month, and then the term of three months, making in all the full term of ten month which he faithfully served his country in the capacity of a common soldier as stated in his said declaration; he further declares that he heard of peace being made, at Saratoga, and after rejoicing upon that occasion, was march to Albany where he received a written discharge from the service about the last of November in that year, but he does not recollect by whom his discharge was signed. he declares that he was born the 12th of March 1768, as appears from the record in the family bible which is in his possession, in the State of New York Orange County. His Father moved, with him, from the State of
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New York, in Sussex County in the state of New Jersey about the year 1772, from New Jersey this declarant moved to the state of Virginia.  He has resided in the County of Monroe for more than thirty years, and now resides there.  He states that he is well acquainted with hundreds of persons by whom he could prove his veracity some of whom are Col. John Hutchison Col. Richard Shanklin, Col Andrew Beirne and member of the senate of Virginia Henry Alexander Esq a member of the house of Delegates of Virginia, Isaac Caruthers, William Erskine & Maj. William Vass; that he was acquainted with Gen. Games Clinton Col Nichols, Maj. Logan, Adjutant Thompson Capt. Weasner Lieutenant Dolson & James Gore who belonged to the regular army. He has forgotten the numbers or names of the Continental or Militia Regiment with which we served.
Sworn to & subscribed the date above.
Henry Arnott
I John Hutchison Jr. Clerk of the Court of Monroe County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original and subsequent proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Arnott for a pension that the interlineations made in the foregoing additional declaration were made before he signed the same.
In Testimony whereof I have hhereunto set my hand & seal of office at Union the 18th day of December 1832 & in the 57th year of the Commonwealth
Jno Hutchison Jr. Clerk
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Revolutionary War Records Section.

3-325
G.F. 8.030

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON, D.C., _________. 19______

In reply to your request of ____________, received ________________ for a statement of the military history of Henry Arnot a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

The following in set up as a table.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment
July 1776
*1777
1781, 1782, 1783

Length of Service
5 mos.
1 mo.
1 mo.
3 mos.

Rank
Pvt.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED

Captain
John Weasner
Lieut. Erskine
Lieut. Arnett
Gordon

Colonel               State
Nichols                   NJ
Domards
Weisinfelt               NY

Battles engaged in Skirmish at Morrissana
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Sussex Co, NJ 
Date of application for pension,  August 22, 1832
Residence at date of application, Monroe Co, Virginia
Age at date of application, born March 12, 1761 in Orange County, NJ
Remarks:  There is no data on file as to his family.

Respectfully,
Commissioner

*Mud Island Fort engagement was in 1777.
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8030
INVALID.
File No. 8030
Henry Arnot
Act:  June 7th 32
Index: Vol.    , Page    

{Arrangement of 1870]

1917 Aug. 8 Hist to Fairfax
K. Dillon
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Dec. 26
Henry Arnot,
reinginia
from 1776 
10 months.
3333

Lewis Cafe
Secretary of War
Washington
H. R Craig
No: Repost
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Henry Arnot-
I the undersigned Henry Arnot. in pursuance
of the [illegible] of the Secretary of War. Make the planing re. declaration of my services in the war of the Revolution to Act.
I am a native of Orange County New Jersey. In or on
March 12. 1761. deed land with my father in Sussex county
N Jersey during the war of the Revolution._ His [illegible]
after the war commenced & when the British troops occupied
long Island(. I can't tell in what year) I Enlisted in Sussex
county N. J. for five months. My company under the 
command of Capt. Jno Weasner rendezvoused at Flerriday
New York. (Dobsen & Gire were Lieutenants of the company) and
was there [illegible]- We marched to New [illegible]
to Hinge bridge. at the latter place my company was attached
to Col Nichils Rept Genls. Clinton & Scott. commanded its
brigades (two in number) at Ship Bridge we remained at
its latter place until joined by Gens. Washington army
when its while under his command. Marched to the white
Plaines_ at the latter place the two armies had an engagement
._ but my brigade was not in the engagement.- after the 
Battle my Reg't. was stationed at the Peak [underlined twice] Hill on the
Hudson rem. where we remained until my tenure of Enlistment
at (5 months) expired. I got home on christmas day. was at
least five months in actual service_. I think I was
in my fourteenth year of age when I Enlisted. I went into
the Service as a waiter to my Captain_ but immediately 
after getting to [illegible]- as alive states. I took my
gun and done all the duties of a [illegible]
5 th[underlined twice] litter_
Sometime after the last preceding * (perhaps the next succeess 
in summer) I can't tell in what year) I served a tour of one
month at Paramus. in the [illegible] _ I cant more recollect
the names giving Capt. but_ Stagg was pnt St. &_ askins
1 20[underlined twice] St. _
in the fall of the year in which Mud Island was taken
by the British (I cant lett the year) I served a tour of one month
in the [illgible] at the Red Banks.)_ I cant now recollect the names
of my Captain_. Arnot was my St. I was attached to Col. Sword's
1. Rept. & Genl. Uender Cruzade._
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in the same full in which [illegible -ally] & his army  [illegible] captain at [illegible] [illegible] Virginia - I served a three month tour in militia and Capt Gordon & Capt Sterling - at Saratoga & in that region of country - & this ended up since.  I found my [S - illegible] as by reputation only. - Henry Alexandar unto my declaration to be when I gae it to  [illegible] marative in substance now given - he charged me nothing - In [illegible] of all which I hereto subscribe my name.  September 5, 1835.

[illegible]                       Henry Arnot [ in between first and last name his HA mark
J W Kelley


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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Hutchison Arnot which require further proof or explanation.

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes

II. Did the declarant make a declaration in the county where he resides? -

III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason as signed for his not doing so? yes

IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes

V.  *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?
No. Should state whether he served the whole of the times for which he was engaged in his different tours, and the date at which he received his las discharge.

VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under who he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes

VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes

VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion? yes

IX.  Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes

X.  Is the Clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes
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XI.  Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes

XII.  If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? -

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes

XIV.  [cross symbol] If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? - 

And is the official character and signature of the magistrate certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? - 

XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such as age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? - 

XVI.  [double cross symbol] Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes

XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the war Department answered satisfactorily?  And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 1.2.5. 6 .7

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EXPLANATORY NOTES

QUERE V.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:  
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less that the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:  For _______ year _______ _______ months and __________ days.  I served as a _____________.  For __________ months and ____________ days, I served as a _____________ _________: and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the a pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.

QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiments, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses , and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.

In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece o tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.