Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3247, for John Huy, Pennsylvania
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Huy, John W. 3247
Margareth
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WIDOW, &c.
Rivy 
File No. 3247 Margaret Huy Widow John Huy Maj Pa. Line
Act : March 3rd 1843
Index : - Vol. A, Page 302 [Arrangement of 1870]
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Pennsylvania - 1779 Margaret Huy widow of John Huy - who was a prisoner under the act of 7  June 1832 and who died on the 25 June 1837 of Berks in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Sgt. Maj. in the company commanded by Captain Huy of the Reg. commanded by Heister in the [Penns?] time for 6 months.
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Penna [Pennsylvania]
John Hoy Lt [?] Maj $103.33 Oct 7 June 1832 to what time po Pen Office March 2, 1839
Died 25 Jany. 1837 Paid to the day of his death
3d aud office - [Asa]
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In the NAME and by the AUTHORITY of the FREEMEN of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
The SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL of the said Commonwealth,
To John Huy Esquire
-
WE, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct
and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be
Major of the second
Battalion of Militia, in the County of Berks
You are therefore carefully and
diligently to discharge the Duty of Major
by doing and performing all
Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And We do strictly charge and require all Officers
and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as Major
And you are to observe and follow such Orders and
Directions as you shall from Time to
Time receive from the Supreme Executive Council of this Commonwealth, or from your
superior Officers, according to the Rules and Discipline
of War, and in Pursuance of the Acts
of Assembly of this State. This Commission to continue
in Force until your Term, by the
Laws of this State, shall of Course expire.
GIVEN under the lesser Seal of the Commonwealth, at Philadelphia, this
Seventeenth
Day of May
in the Year of our
Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven
Hall Harton [?]
Attest [Ty] Matlock [?uy]
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4208
Margaret Huy
$103.33
H. Addams
Sinking springs
Berks Co
PA
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State of Pennsylvania
Berks County 
On this 12th day of August one Thousand eight hundred
and forty three before me Charles H Addams Justice of the Peace
in and for the County of Berks in the State of Pennsylvania
personally appeared Margaretta Huy Widow of John Huy dec'd 
a Resident of the County of Berks in
the State of Pennsylvania Aged Seventy Six years, who
being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath
make the following Declaration in order to obtain the
benefits of the pension made by the act of Congress,
passed the 3d March, 1843, granting Pensions to
widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of John Huy who was a
Lieutenant and Major in the war of the Revolution
and that the annual amount of the Pension which
she received under the act of July 7 1838 was
One Hundred and Twenty Dollars.
She further declares that she is still a widow of
said John Huy and that she has never intermarried
but continues his widow
given to and subscribed
On this 12th day of August AD 1843 before me
Charles H Addams

her mark 
Margareta Huy

I Charles H Addams a Justice of the Peace in
for the County of Berks in the State of Pennsylvania
do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Margaretta Huy the applicant above named and
am a near neighbour of her know of my certain knowledge that she is the potential widow of John Huy decd who was a pensioner of the United States and
that the applicant Margaretta Huy above named is now John Hu's widow and that she has never intermarried and in Testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year
aforesaid.
Charles H Addams
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Berks County ss
I Daniel Young Prothontory of
the Court of Common Pleas in
and for the County of Berks in
The State of Pennsylvania do hereby
Certify that Charles H Addams Esqr
before whom the foregoing Declaration was made to the foregoing affidavit and Certificate and by him subscribed in the matter of the
application of Margaretta Huy widow
for a Pension that the said Charles H. Addams is a Justice of the Peace in and
for the County of Berks Penna and that
he is duly commissioned and authorised
to administer Oaths and that the signature
To the foregoing and purporting to be his
are all of them his Genuine Signatures
and in Testimony whereof I have hereunto
affixed the Seal of the said Court
and
Subscribed my name and justify
On this 12th day of August AD 1843
Daniel Young Prothy
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AD
4208
Aug 1843
PA Mar 3 1843 Margt Huy

Free
Hon. James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Sinking Spring Berks County and State of 
Pennsylania August 12, 1843
Hon. James L. Edwards
Sir I have
herein enclosed the Declaration
of
Margaretta Huy widow of John Huy dec'd
for a Pension under act of
3d March AD
1843.
as soon as the case is finally acted
upon please report the result to me & oblige
I Remain Respectfully Your
Obedient Servant
Charles H Addams

Hon. James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

P.S. Please address Sinking Springs port
office Near Reading Berks County Penn
Charles H Addams
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Sir
allow me to forward the case of
Margaret Huy, claiming a pension
Your obd't ser't
Geo M Kenn
[HofR]
Febry 26 1839
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25977
Pennsylvania
John Huy
of Bucks Co in the State of PA
who was a [?] Maj in the Company commanded
by Captain Huy of the Reg commanded by Col Heister
in the Pennsylvania
line for
4 mo [?]
53.33
2 " Majr
50. 00
$103.33
Inscribed on the Roll of Penn
at the rate of 103 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
is commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of Feby
and Sent to
Hon H.A. Muhlenburg Pa
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 258.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mch '34 51.66 1/2

$310.00
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by P T [?]rayon Clerk,
Book E 
Vol. 5
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3169
Pennsylvania [?]
Margaret Huy
widow of John Huy
who was a Sgt Major
in the Penn. line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
103 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
4th day of Dec 1843
and sent to
C. H. Addams
Sinking Springs
Berks County, Pa
Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1
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Major
John Huy

Cumru
4 Mo Lt
2 ' Maj
1
Adm'd by order
of the Commissioner

Hon H.A. Muhlenberg
P
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Pennsylvania Berks County
Personally appeared Major John
Huy in open Court of Common pleas held at Reading in and for
the County appeared Before the Hon'ble Garrick Mally Present
and his appointed Judges, who upon his solemn oath doth depose and say. That he is about eighty years of age that he
hath no record of his age that he was born in Maiden Creek Township County aforesaid that in the year 1776 he was elected
Lieutenant in Company commanded by Nicholas Shaffer that
in the same year he marched as Lieut. under the command of the said Capt Shaffer from Maiden Creek Township aforesaid to Amboy and served a term of two month and upwards at the time Captain Joseph Heister was taken prisoner at Long Island that in the
year 1777 he marched in a company commanded by his brother Abraham Huy as Leiut. in New Town Bucks County and served
a tour of two months, in the Militia in the Revolution War that
in the year 1777 he was elected Major, as appeared by the commission dated the 17th day of May 1777  + 
that he marched from Maidencreek Township in the same
year in the regiment commanded by Col Joseph Heister to German
Town that Col Heirsters regiment was on the right hand of
the Army at the time the Battle was at German Town
that he remained in said regiment two months and afterwards
that the regiment was discharged at the White Plains. That
he is the Identical John Huy named in the Commission
above mentioned that his commission as Lieut. he does not
recollect what has become of them hereby relinquishing every claim whatever to [?] or an annuity except the present and
that he at present resides in Cumru Township County aforesaid
Sworn Subscribed                        John Huy
in Open Court
Nov. 14. A.D. 1833
Jac. Hallade Proth'y
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Pennsylvania
Berks County Pa
On the tenth of January AD 1834
Before me the subscribed one of the Justices of the peace in and for said came henry Huttonston a credible witness who upon his solemn oath doth depose say that he resides in
the Township of Maidencreek in the County aforesaid hath resided in said Township for upwards of forty four years aged in his seventy year, that he is well acquainted with John Hue the applicant for a pension for upwards of fifty years that the said John Hue was recruited in the [?] as a Lieutenant belonging to Capt. Huy's company of the malitia of the state aforesaid in the Revolutionary War
Sworn + Subscribed
coram me
Henry Ben
Henry Hottenstein 

I certify that Henry Hottenstein and Anthony Shroeder
named as witness in the case of John Hue are personally known to me and are credible witness
Hen A Muhlenberg
M C. from Penna
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Pennsylvania
Berks County Pa
Personally appeared Anthony Shroder
of the Township of Roscommon in the County of Berks and
State aforesaid who upon his solomn Oath doth depose and
say that he is seventy seven years of age. That he is well
acquainted with John Huy the present applicant for a
Pension That in the year 1777 this deponent marched in
a Company of Militia commanded by Isiah Davis in Col
Joseph Hiester's Regiment that the said John Huy was Major in the
said regiment that said Regiment lay near [?]lower Town
about four miles from German Town this was at the time
when the Battle was there
Sworn + Subscribed
in open Court Nov
11th AD. 1833
Jac Lallade Proth'y

Anthony Shreoder

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that
John Hue the applicant for a Pension was a Revolutionary
holder and served as he states.
Garrick Mallery
[?] Judge
Matthias Richard
a Judge of Berks Co
J Jacob Sallary Parthonotary of the Court of Commander of
Berks County do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains the original proceeds of the
said Court in the Matter of the applicant
John Hue for a pension In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this
day of Jan'y AD 1834, I do hereby further certify that
that Herby Bete before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken is and [?] a
Justice of the peace in and for the County and that by named Henry Bale [?]
subscribed is his own proper [handentory]
Jac Pallade Prothy
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State of Pennsylvania
Berks County Pa
On this 14th day of February in One Thousand eight hundred and
thirty nine personally appeared before me William Addams a Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Berks, in
The State of Pennsylvania, Margareth Huy widow of John Huy and
a resident of said County and State aforesaid Aged 72 years rather
being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her Oath make this
following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
provision of the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 Entitled an
act granting Pensions to certain Widows. That she is the widow of
John Huy late deed of the Township of Comru, Berks County
and State of Pennsylvania and that her Husband John Huy
was formerly a Lieutenant and a Major in the service of the United States
of the Penna Militia in the Revolutionary War and that her
said Husband was in the receipt of a Pension annuity from
the United States as will more fully appear by his Declaration
made and remains of file in the War Department Pension Office
in the City Washington, she therefore humbly requests the Commission
of Pensions to have reference to her said Husband Declaration
on file as aforesaid, in order to find the amount of time rendered
as an officer in said War by having reference as aforesaid will
fully appear. She further declares that her Maiden Name was
Margareth Germand, and that she was lawfully joined
in the Holy Bonds of Marriage with the foresaid John Huy
on the Sixteenth day of October One Thousand Seven hundred
and Eighty six by the then Pastor William Boas of the German
Reformed Congregation, of the Borough of Reading in the
County of Berks Pena and that her said Marriage is recorded
in said Congregations Church book of Marriages by the said Pastor
William Boas then Pastor as will fully appear by the affidavit of
William Purili the present Pastor of said Congregation reference
Said proof hereto anexed and that her said Husband
John Huy Died on the 25th day of June 1837 in the Township
of Cumru in the County of Berks in the State of Pennsylvania
and that she has not intermarried but continues the widow
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of the aforesaid John Huy, reference the proof hereunto anexed
and that she was not married to him prior to his leaving
the services but that said Marriage took place previous to
the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four
viz That she was married as aforesaid on the Sixteenth
day of October Seventeen hundred and Eighty six
Sworn to and subscribed Margareth Huy Widow

On this 14th day of February
AD 1839 before me W H Addams Judge of Berks County

I William Addams a Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for the County of Berks in the State of Pennsylvania
have the highest satisfaction of my own personal knowledge
Margareth Huy widow
that she is not able to attend the Court of Justice of which
I am a Judge on account of Bodily infirmities and further that
she labours under nearly the loss of her eyes fight I do therefore
Certify that I have under these circumstances in pursuance
of the act of Congress attended at her place of abode and
administered the foregoing oaths in pursuance of the act
of Congress in such cases made & provided for and in
Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
Subscribed the same in the Township of Cumru in the
County of Berks in the State of Pennsylvania on this
14th day of February AD 1839                 
the words Margareth Huy widow
in the 4th line was interlined, first
before signing Wm Adams
State of Pennsylvania
Berks County ss

Wm Addams a Judge of Berks Co.

Be it Known that on this 14th day of February AD 1839
before me William Addams a Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for the County of Berks in the State of Pena
personally appeared Samuel Jones a resident of said
Township County and State aforesaid and a near Neighbour to
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said applicant Margareth Huy widow who being first
duly sworn according to Law doth depose & say that
said Margareth Huy widow has never intermarried
but that she continues the widow of above named John
Huy dec'd
Sworn to and subscribed
Samuel Jones
the day & year aforesaid
before me
Wm Adams a Judge Berks County

I William Adams a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
in and for the County of Berks, in the State of Pennsylvania
do hereby certify that I am fully acquainted with the parties hereunto
who have sworn and subscribed their respective names to the foregoing
Namely Margareth Huy the applicant and Samuel Jones
the are credible persons and respected as such and that on
their respective oaths & statements by them made credit is are
and ought of Right To them be given and in Testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and subscribed the same
in the Township of Cumru in the County of Berks Pena
On this 14th day of February AD 1839
Wm Addams Judge of
Berks County
I William Pauli Pastor of the German Reformed
Congregation of the Borough of Reading in
the County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania
do hereby certify, that it appears on record
in the said Congregations Church book of Mar
[?], that Margareth Fernand, was lawfully
joined in the holy Bonds of Matrimony
with John Huy, on the sixteenth day of
October Seventeen hundred and eighty six
by the then Pastor William Boas of said
Congregation, 16th day of October AD 1786
February 18th 1838
William Pauli Pastor
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I William Pauli Pastor, before named depose and
say that I am the Pastor of the said German
reformed Congregated in the Borough of Reading
County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania and that
foregoing is a true extract from the Record of
said Church book of Marrages with the exception
that the record is made in fair legible figures before
named and a certified by my
Sworn & subscribed Feb. 1839 William Penti
Before me

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Jac Lallade
Justice of the Peace
●
4455
Berks County Pa
[?] $103.33
March 2
7 July 1838
Hon. G. M. Kevin
Reading Pa

State of Pennsylvania
for the County of Berks, in the State of Pennsylvania
for the Court of Common Pleas for the
the said County of Berks he being duly comm[?]
Certify that William Addams Esq. is a Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas in any for the
the said County of Berks he being duly commissioned and authroised to administer oaths and that to all acts by him
done in that capacity credit is due him and of Right ought to be given
and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine I further Certify
That Jacob Sallade Esqr before whom the affidavit of
William Pauli Paster was made, is a Justice of the Peace duly
Commissioned & authorised in and for Berks Cnty Pennsy to administer Oaths and his signature
To the foregoing affidavit is truly genuine I further certify
That the foregoing contains the original procedings in the
matter of the application of Margareth Huy widow for a
Pension and In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed
the Seal of the said Court and subscribed my Name + quality
On this 18th February AD 1839
Benjamin Tyson
Porthonotary
hs and his signature
To the foregoing affidavit is truly genuine I further certify
That the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the
matter of the application of Margareth Hay widow for a
Pension and In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed
the Seal of the said Court and subscribed my Name + quality
On this 18th February AD 1839
Benjamin Tyson
Prothonotary