Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4361, Samuel Hendry, New Jersey
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New Jersey
Hendry, Samuel

S. 4361
{B.L.WA. 996_300_Capt.
Issued July 20, 1790
no papers
Carded
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Service Number
New Jersey. Hendry, Samuel. S. 4361
B.L.Wt. 996-300 (Capt. served July 20, 1790. No papers.) Carded
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Samuel Hendry
Burlington
134
ipd 12 Apl. 1818

C
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State of New Jersey. Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Burlington -

On this thirteenth day of July 1820 personally appeared before the said court being a Court of record proceeding according to the course of the common law -  with unlimited Jurisdiction in point of amount for the said county of Burlington Samuel Hendry aged sixty six
years resident in the city of Burlington in the said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served during the whole of the revolutionary war first in 1775 as a subaltern and afterwards as a captain in the second regiment in the New Jersey brigade whereof William Maxwell and Israel Shreve were colonels raised in 1775 by the continental establishment - and I do
by swear that I was a resident citizen of the 
United States on the 18th March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th March 1818 and that I have not nor has any having any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the following schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed - towit Deponent hath no real estate - he resides with his wife and two children Mary in her thirteenth and Elizabeth in her tenth year - Deponent being afflicted with the palsy is very infirm and incapable of any business- He has expended his substance in the maintenance of himself and family and would actually suffer but for the benevolence of his country which has afforded
him relief since the second day of April 1818 to the 4th of March of the present year 1820. The pension certificate is dated 12 April 1818-- & not numbered -- his personal estate (large bible necessary clothing & bedding excepted)
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consists of two tables 14 chairs 2 pair of andirons a warming pan a bake oven tea kettle & pictures and some kitchen furniture of little value, and one clock worth all the rest of his personal estate aforesaid-

Sworn to and declared
on the 13th day of July 1820 -
before the said Court
Joseph Budd president
of said court.  }.                  Samuel Hendry -

I Joseph McIlvaine Clerk of the inferior Court of common pleas of the County of Burlington do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule therein stated are truly copied from the record of said court and that the total amount of the said property therein stated is in the opinion of the said Court of the value of seventy dollars-

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of
the said court on this 18th day of
July 1820

J. McIlvaine
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New Jersey

Documents relative to
Captain Samuel
Hendry of the
Revolutionary Army

Samuel Hendry
is on the register as a
1st Lieut Capt Hollingsheads 
2d. N.J. regt appointed Jan. 1st '77
& promoted Capt. in July '79
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Burlington County State of New Jersey ss:

On the thirty first day of March in the year of
our Lord eighteen hundred and eighteen personally appeared before me Thomas Adams Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas of the said County of Burlington
Samuel Hendry, an Inhabitant of the City of Burlington  and County aforesaid to me long personally known who being duly sworn according to law did depose and say, that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five
he was an Ensign in the Company commanded by Captain James Lowrie in the second Regiment raised the State of New Jersey, on the Continental establishment of the army of the United States -- and continued to serve in 
the same Regiment from that time untill the close of the War of the Revolution in seventeen hundred & eighty three in the several offices of Ensign, Lieutenant Captain Lieutenant and Captain - . That the said second Regiment was successively commanded by Colonels Maxwell & Shreve-- That in seventeen hundred &
eighty three he received his discharge from the service of the United States in common with the other officers of the army- being then at the cantonment on Hudson's River. That from the year seventeen hundred and eighty three to the present time the Deponent has continually
resided in the State of New Jersey- and by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of the assistance of his Country for support-

Samuel Hendry

Sworn the 31 day of
March 1818 before me
Thomas Adams
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I Thomas Adams Esquire one of the Judges
of the Court of Common pleas of the County of
Burlington in the State of New Jersey do certify
that I am well acquainted with Captain Samuel Hendry, the Deponent within named and am satisfied that he served in the Revolutionary
War in the manner set forth in his Deposition -  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the thirty first day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen

Thos Adams

I Joseph McIlvaine Esquire Clerk of the
County Common pleas of the County of
Burlington in the State of New Jersey
do certify that Thomas Adams Esquire
whose name is subscribed to the aforegoing
Deposition and Certificate is one of the
Judges of said Court duly commissioned
Given under my hand and seal of office
the 2d April 1818

J. McIlvaine
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[left side:]
Nov. 8 - 1901
Jos. H. Perrin-Phila, Pa.
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1906 Oct. 3. History to
Miss Elizabeth C. Hendry
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[right side:]
[hand-written:]
4361
Rev War

[printed:]
INVALID.
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File No. [hand-written: ] 4361
Samuel Hendry
Capt. U.S. Army
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[printed:] Act  [hand-written:]  March, 18/18
[printed:] Index: -- Vol. [hand-written:} A, [printed:]  Page[Hand-written:]168

[printed:][Arrangement of 1870.]
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Phila. Nov. 2nd, 1901

Officer Pensions,
[on right:]. Owtn Rev War 
[stamp on left:] [illegible]VION 1901 ED.]

Dear Sir,

As it is necessary for me to know something
more of my great-great-grandfather and his wife in order to complete a record I have concluded to see whether you will not be kind enough.  [postal stamp:] PENSION OFFICE U.S. NOV 5 1901
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(1)
Phila Nov. 2nd 1901
Officer Pensions
OW & N
Rev War
(stamp on left)
VISION
1901
ED. 
Dear Sir,
As it is necessary
for me to know something
more of my great-great
grandfather and his wife
in order to complete a 
record, I have concluded to
see whether your [illegible]
will not be kind [illegible]
(round stamp)
U. S. 
PENSION
OFFICE
NOV 5 1901
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(2)
to furnish me with some
information or if unable to
do so will not advise me
where to go for it.
He was in the Revolutionary
Army Captain Samuel
Hendry a member of the
2nd Regiment Continental
Line of N. J.
Appointed Lieutenant 
Nov. 30th 1776 and
Captain July 5th 1779
He served to the end of the
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(3 )
war and received a pension
of H 1329. dying Oct. 15th 1823
I want to know
1st. In what town he
lived when he drew his
pension
2nd In what town he died
3rd [illegible] his widow
received a pension after his
death.
4th. His widow's name.
Any fee for this infor-
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(4)
mation will be cheerfuly 
paid and by giving it
you will greatly oblige 
Mrs. Joseph H. Parone
1825 Mount Vernon St.
Phila.

(square stamp)
O.W.
NOV 7 1
RECEIV
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1713 Berks St.
Philadelphia, Pa. Sept 22, 1906.
Gentlemen:
Presuming that the names
of the officers and men of the 
Revolutionary War who applied for, or
received pensions, are alphabetically
indexed. I contunue to apply to you
inquire whether the names of
following soldiers are in the
list of those who belonged to
State of New Jersey
Robert Chambers, Hunterdon Co.
John Hendry, Burlington
Captain Samuel Hendry Burlington
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(round stamp)
U.S.
PENSION
OFFICE 
A
SEP 
24
1906
Surgeon Thomas Hendry, Gloucester
Ezekiel Anderson, Forage Master
Hunterdon Co.
Ezekiel Anderson, Hunterdon Co.
Private in second regiment of
the Line. One of the three guides
who led Washington's army to the
camp of the British on the occasion
of the "Princeton Surprise;" and
participant in the Virginia 
Campaign of 1781.
The smallest item of information
that may be entered on the rolls
concerning these men will be of
the highest importance to me
Respectfully yours
(Miss) Elizabeth C. Hendry