Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3065, for Honyost Te-Wa-Han-Gar-Ah-Ken, New York
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Service: Indian (N.Y.)
Te-wa-han-gar-ah-ken, Honyost or Doxtator (Jenny)
Number: R. 3065
brother of the Captain (S.23019)
S died Mar. 29, 1838
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In the matter of the 
Application of Mrs. 
Jenny Doxtater widow of 
Thomas Tewahangarahken 
alias Doxtater for arrears of pension

Jus. B. Jenkins
Attorny
Oneida Castle, N.Y.
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The people of the State of New-York, by the Grace of GOD, Free and Independent: To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: Know Ye, That in pursuance of an act of our Legislature, passed the 6th day of April, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety; entitled "An Act to carry into effect the concurrent Resolutions and Acts of the Legislature for granting certain Lands, promised to be given as Bounty Lands, and for other purposes therein mentioned, We have given, Granted and Confirmed, and by these Presents Do give, Grant and Confirm unto Lieutenant Hanyost Tewahongerahken - All those two certain Tracts or Lots of Land, situate, lying and being in the County of Montgomery and known and distinguished on Maps of the Township in which they respectively lie, (filed by our Surveyor General, in our Secretary's Office, agreeable to Law) as follows, to wit, by Lot Number four, and lot number sixteen both in the township of Junius and each of the said lots containing six hundred acres; The said two lots together containing one thousand two hundred acres: 
Together with all and singular the Rights, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging, or in any wise appertaining, Excepting and Reserving to ourselves, all Gold and Silver Mines, 
and also five acres of every hundred Acres of the said Tracts or Lots of Land, for High- ways: To have and to hold the above described and granted Premises, unto the said Lieutenant Hanyost Tewahongirahken his heirs and Assigns, as a good and indefeasible Estate of Inheritance, for ever. On Condition Nevertheless, that within the Term of Seven Years, to be computed from the first day of January next ensuing the date hereof, there shall be one actual Settlement made on the said Tracts or Lots of Land hereby granted, for every six hundred acres thereof, otherwise these our Letters Patent, and the Estate hereby granted, shall cease, determine and become void. In Testimony Whereof, We have caused these our Letters to be made Patent, and the great Seal of our said State to be hereunto affixed: WITNESS our trusty and well beloved GEORGE CLINTON, Esquire, Governor of our said State, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the same, at our City of New-York, this twenty ninth Day of January in the year of our LORD One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-one and in the fifteenth Year of our Independence. 
Approved of by the Commissioners of the Land-Office, and passed the Secretary's Office, the 12th day of July 1792. 
[Signed] Robt Harpur, D. Sec'y
Geo: Clinton 

STATE OF NEW YORK,}
Secretary's Office.} 
I Certify the preceding to be a true copy of certain Letters Patent as of record in this Office, in Book of Military Patents No. 8 page 156 
[exd?] and of the whole of said patent as recorded in the said Book, Given under my hand and the Seal of this office at the City of Albany the 7th day of January A.D. 1853. 
[Signed] Archd. Campbell Dep Sec of State
[SEAL]
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State of New York }
Secretarys office} 
I have not been able to ascertain the date of the appointment of the within named Lieutenant, or how long he served, but I have no doubt he served for a considerable time otherwise he would not be entitled to bounty land 
[Signed] Archd. Campbell Dep Sec of State Albany January 7. 1853.
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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the acts of 
Congress passed May 18th 1828 Granting pensions 
to all who served to the end of the 
Revolutionary War, and 4th July 1836, 
Granting Pensions to widows of 
deceased Soldiers in 
Said War. 

State of New York
Oneida County ss; 
Be it known that on this 22d day of December in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two before the Hon. Ralph McIntosh a Special Surrogate in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Jenny Doxtator, a credible person belonging to the 1st Christian Party of Oneida Indians, aged Ninety One years, a resident of the Town of Vernon in the County and State aforesaid who is the widow of Honyost Ta-wa-hon-gar-ah-ken who was a Leutenant [sic] in the Revolutionary war, and she being duly sworn according to law make oath to the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of 15th of May 1838, and for the benefit of the 3d Section of the Act of Congress passed on the 4th day of July 1836. That her said husband the aforesaid Leut. [sic] Honyost, Te-wa-hon-gar-ah-ken alias Honyost. Doxtator was a resident of Oriskany in the County aforesaid when in the year 1775 sometime in the spring he volunteered or enlisted into a company of Indians as a Leutenant [sic] under Capt. Honyere Te-wa-hon-gar-ah-ken, an Indian Chief and Captain & who was brother to the husband of this deponent at one time in the Regiment of
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Continental Troops commanded by General Jacob Klock And at other times under other Generals not now remembered by this declarant, that he was in the battle at Oriskany, the battle of Fort Stanwix and other battles nit now remembered by her. That her said husband was stationed at Oneida with his said Company for the period of about 11 months in the year 1777, and that he continued to serve in said war to the end thereof when he was honerably [sic] discharged, but this discharge has been lost, that he received bounty in land of Twelve Hundred Acres Lots 4 and 16 situated in the Twenty six Township each containing six Hundred acres which was deeded to him by letters Patent bearing date sometime in or about the year A.D. 1791 or 1792. She further declares that the said Leut. Honyost Te-wa-hon-gar-ah-ken was also called and known by the white people Honyost Doxtator by which name he was called until he died & that this declarant on account thereof, has always been called Jenny Doxtator as will be seen by the proof hereunto annexed.
She further declares that she was married to the Leut. Honyost Te-wa-hon-gar-ah-ken  alias Honyost Doxtator at Oriskany in said County of Oneida by one [blank] on the 16th day of January in the year 1778 before the expiration of his Term of service who continued to live untill the 29th day of March A.D. 1838 when he departed his natural life at Oneida. That she has continued to live widow and unmarried since his death, as will be seen by the proof hereunto annexed. She further
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declaration is entitled to the to the fullest faith and credit- 
Oneida Castle Dec 22d 1852 
[Signed] Ralph McIntosh
Special Surrogate
[Signed] James B. Jenkins

State of New York
Oneida County ss.
William Johnson of Oneida a credible witness aged 94 years and Tagy [?] Johnson of the same place in the County and state aforesaid aged 85 years who being severally duly sworn doth depose and say, that in the year 1775 these deponents resided at Oriskany in the County of Oneida and that they were there well acquainted with Leutenant Honyost Te-wa-hon-gar-ah-ken alias Honyost Doxtator an Indian warrior who then and there enlisted or volunteered in the continental Line of New York State troops in the Revolutionary war into a Company commanded by Captain Honyeres Te-wa-hon-gar-ah ken alias Capt Honyeres Doxtator and continued to serve in said Company to the close of said war: that he was in the battle at Oriskany and Fort Stanwix and several other battles which these declarants are now unable to set forth. That they believe he was under General Herkimer at one time and at another under General Jacob Klock in the Regiment of New York Troops. That soon after the close of said war the said Leutenant Honyost received a bounty of 1200 acres in the 26 Township Lots No 4 & 16 which fact
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declares that she was never informed that she was entitled to a pension until she was lately informed of that fact by the Hon. T. Perkins M.C. that all the widows of Revolutionary Soldiers who were married while their husbands for engaged in the Military service of said war, that she has always been ignorant of the pension laws nor did she or her husband in his lifetime know that any person who was engaged in the Military service of said war were entitled to pensions on account of their services is the reason why she has not made application sooner. She therefore makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the aforesaid acts and for the back arrears of pension due her on account aforesaid. She further says that she is disabled by bodily infermity [infirmity] to appear in open Court. That on account of her infermity [infirmity] she was obliged to send for the Surrogate to meet her at the office of Hon. T. Perkins M.C. in Oneida Castle- 
Jenny (X her mark) Doxtator
Witness R. McIntosh

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22d day of December 1852, and I hereby certify that I believe Jenny Doxtator to be a credible witness, of the age above written and unable to appear in open court 
[Signed] Ralph McIntosh 
Special Surrogate 

We the undersigned do hereby certify that we have been well acquainted with Jenny Doxtator for many years, and we believe her
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Whereas my husband Lieutenant Honyost Te-wa-hon-gar-ah-ken alias Lieut Honyost Doxtator was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary war to its close, and was therefore entitled to a large annual allowance of pension under the Act of Congress passed 15th May 1828 and that I am entitled as his widow to a pension on account thereof under the 3d section of the Act of Congress of 4 July 1836, and to a large amount of back arrears, therefore, Be it known by these Presents that I Jenny Doxtator of Vernon in Oneida County and State of New York, do hereby irrevocably make constitute and appoint Jas. B. Jenkins of Oneida in the County and State aforesaid my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name place and stead to prosecute my said claim for a pension and arrears of pension due me as aforesaid, giving and granting to my said attorney and agent full power and authority to present and prosecute my said claims before the proper officers of the Government of the United States, and in the prosecution of the same to do any act or thing which I might lawfully do if personally present - And for the purposes aforesaid, to appoint or substitute agents or attornies [sic] under him or in his place and stead; thereby ratifying and confirming whatever my said attorney may do or his agent or attornies [sic] shall lawfully do in the premises, and to receive from the proper officers of the government all sums of money that may be due me, and any pension certificate that may be issued, and give the necessary discharges therefor -
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In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 22d day of December  1832. 
Jenny (X her mark) Doxtator
[SEAL]
[Signed] R. McIntosh 
[Signed] H. Lauder [?]

State of New York 
County of Oneida ss. 
On this 22d day of December AD 1832 before the subscriber a Special Surrogate in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Jenny Doxtator above named and to me well known, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year last above written. 
[Signed] Ralph McIntosh
Special Surrogate
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State of New York
County of Oneida ss.
Stephen Parkhurst of Oneida Castle in the County and State aforesaid aged [blank] years who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he has been well acquainted with Jenny Doxtator for the last fifty years, and that he was well acquainted with the person known and called Lieutenant Honyost Tewahongarahken in his lifetime for many years, who died on the 29th day of March 1838 at Oneida which fact this deponent well remembers that he was married to said Jenny before this deponent became acquainted with them and that they lived togeather as husband and wife until he died on the day afore said leaving Jenny his widow aforesaid who continued to live unmarried up to the present time and that she is still a widow, he further says that he after Leut. Honyost left the service of the Revolution who is reputed to have served to its close was also known and called Doxtator that being the English of the Indian Tewahongarahken. And that he thereafter to the knowledge of this deponent has known as Leut Honyost Doxtator. And that Leut. Honyost Te-wa-hon-gar-ah-ken and Leut. Honyost Doxtator were one and the same individual-- This deponent further say that he is entirely disinterested in the application of said Jerry Doxtator for Arrears of pension and for a pension certificate .
[Signed] Stephen Parkhurst 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22d
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day of December 1852. And I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Stephen Parkhurst and believe his affidavit as good as any other men and that he is of the age above written 
[Signed] Ralph McIntosh
Special Surrogate 

We the undersigned do hereby Certify that we have been well acquainted with Stephen Parkhurst whose genuine signature appears above and that we know his affidavit is intitled to the fullest faith and credit.
Oneida Castle 22 December 1852
[Signed] O. B. Marsh 
C. M. Jenkins 
H. T. Jenkins 
Jas. B. Jenkins
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State of New York 
County of Oneida ss.
I Ralph McIntosh Special Surrogate in and for the County and State aforesaid, in my capacity as such surrogate do declare my opinion to be after the foregoing proceedings had investigation made that Lieutenant Honyost Tewahongarahken and Lieutenent Honyost Doxtator are one and the same person and that Jenny Doxtator is his widow and that she has remained a widow since his death, that said Lieut. Honyost Tewahongarahken alias Doxtator died on the 29th March 1838 and that he served in the Revolutionary war as stated in the pension [?] declaration, and that Jenny Doxtator was married to said Honyost in the year 1778 and that she did not make application sooner because she did not know that she was entitled to a pension or arrears of pension- 
In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Surrogates Court this 3d day of July 1853. 
[SEAL]
[Signed] Ralph McIntosh 
Special Surrogate 

State of New York 
County of Oneida ss. 
I Othniel S Williams Surrogate (proper) of Oneida County after the investigation of the foregoing claim I do declare my opinion to be that Jenny Doxtator was married to Lieutenant Honyost Tewahangarahken alias Leut Honyost Doxtator in the year 1778 and that he died 29th March 1838 leaving a widow, Jenny Doxtator aforesaid who has remained unmarried ever since said Honyost's death, and that she is still a
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widow. That said Lieutenant Honyost Tewahangarahken and Lieut Honyost Doxtator were one and the same individual and that he served in the Revolutionary war as a Liuetenant to the close of said war. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 3d day of January 1853.
[SEAL]
[Signed] Othniel S Williams 
Surrogate
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Left side:
In the Matter of the Application of Jenny Doxtator widow of Honyost Te-wa-hon-gar-ah-ken alias Honyost Doxtator for a pension & arrears of Pension.
Jas. B. Jenkins
Atty.
Oneida Castle
Oneida Co. N.Y.

Right side:
No.
Application of Jenny Doxtator widow of Honyost  Tewahangarahken decd.
N.Y.

Upside down:
Jenny Doxtader 
3065-
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Oneida Castle 

OB Marsh 
Jas B. Jenkins 
H G Witmere

State of New York 
Oneida County ss: 
Adam P. Campbell of town of Vernon in the County and State aforesaid a credible witness aged seventy seven years who being duly sworn says, that he was well acquainted with Lieutent Honyost Tewahangarahken from his earliest recolection while the time of his death which was on the 29th day of March A.D. 1838 which fact he well knows, that said Lieut Honyost was always reputed to have been a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary war by all who knew him, and this deponent was often informed many years ago by persons who served with him that he served as a Lieutenant during the whole period of the war, which fact this deponent verily believes true, that he has also been well acquainted with Jinney Doxtator his widow & was well acquainted with her from the year 1780 or ever since he can remember any thing and that she then lived with the said Lieut Honyost as his wife and they continued to live togeather thereafter as husband and wife until his death, and that the said Jenny has lived unmarried ever since, and that she is still a widow, this deponent further says that the said Lieut Honyost Tewahangarahken was also known and called on Honyost Dox[tator]
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[Dox]tator and that he knows the said Lieut. Honyost Tewahangarahken & Lieut. Honyost Doxtator be be one and the same individual 
This deponent further says that his entirely disinterested in the application of said Jenny Doxtator for a pension and arrears of pension, & furth deponent saith not 
[Signed] Adam P. Campbell 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23d day of December 1852 - and I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Adam P. Campbell: that he is a man of strict integrity, and entitled to the fullest faith and credit and of the age above written. 
[Signed] Ralph McIntosh 
Special Surrogate
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State of New York 
Oneida County ss. 
Peter Daxtator and Henry Powles of Vernon in the County and State aforesaid, aged respectively 65 and 72, years who being duly sworn according to law doth upon their oaths depose and say that they were well acquainted with Lieutenant Honyost Tewahangarahkan in his lifetime and was well acquainted with him from their earliest recollections to the time of his death which took place on the 29th day of March in the year 1838 which fact they know by being present at his death and burial, that in his lifetime he frequently told these deponents that he was a Lieutenant in a Company of Indians under Capt. Honyere his brother and that he fought in the battle of Oriskany and Fort Stanwix and many other battles and was under General Herkimer who was shot at the battle of Fort Stanwix and under Gen Jacob Klock and other officers: that these deponents are also well acquainted with Jenny Doxtator his widow who is a very old and feeble woman, and that they always from their earliest remembrance, understood that said Lieut Honyost was married to the said Jenny in the year 1778 which these deponents verily believe true, that they always lived togeather as husband and wife and as such they were always reputed so to be - that ever since the death of
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Lieutenant Honyost the said Jenny had remain a widow and is still a widow and they verily believe the reason why she did not make application sooner for a pension and arrears of pension is because she did not know that she is entitled to a pension and arrears of pension. That her husband Lieutenant Honyost Tewahangarahken was called by the white people Lieut. Honyost Doxtator by which name he was called until he died, and that his widow has we since been called by that name. That whether his names was properly Tewahangarahken or Doxtator the said Jennie above named is his widow. These deponents further say that they are entirely disinterested in the application of said Jennie Tewahangarahken Alias Jenny Doxtator for a pension and arrears of pension and further these deponents say not 
Peter (X his mark) Doxtater
Henry (X his mark) Powles
Witness
H.T. Jenkins
R McIntosh

Sworn and subscribed before me this 22d day of December 1852. And I hereby certify that I believe Peter Doxtator and Henry Powles to be credible persons and entitled to full faith and credit and of the ages above written.
[Signed] Ralph McIntosh Special Surrogate 

We the undersigned do hereby certify that we have been well acquainted with Peter Doxtator & Henry Powles for many years and that we believe them entitled to the fullest faith & credit 
Oneida Castle Dec. 22. 1852  
[Signed] C. M. Jenkins 
[Signed] O. B. Marsh
[Signed] H. T. Jenkins
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Honyost Doxtator (it being) the day before they were to start they did not go as they anticipated hence they were delayed on account of his death. These deponents further say that since his death they have been well acquainted with Jenny Doxtator his widow and that she has remained unmarried ever since her said husbands death and that she is still a widow; that she and her husband lived together as husband and wife from and after they were married as aforesaid up to the time of his death in the year 1838. These deponents further say that they are entirely disinterested in the application of said Jenny Doxtator for arrears of pension &c & further these deponent say not 
Wiliam (X his mark) Johnson
Peggy (X her mark) Johnson
Witness
[Signed] Jas. B. Jenkins
[Signed] R McIntosh

Sworn to and subscribed this 3d day of January 1853 before me, and I hereby certify that I believe the said William Johnson & Peggy Johnson to be credible persons and of the ages above written
[Signed] Ralph McIntosh Special Surrogate 
We the undersigned do hereby certify that we have been well acquainted with Wm Johnson & Peggy Johnson for many years past and that we believe their affidavits entitled to the fullest faith and credit
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these deponents were informed at the time and which they knew to be true - that said Leut. Honyost Tewahangarahken he was known and called by that name among the members of his party and among all Indians until a few years after the war he was called Luet. Honyost Doxtator name given to him and his brother by one Stephen Parkhurst a resident of Oneida Castle and from and after the time he was so called Doxtator he was so known and called among the whites and all the Indians who knew him hence these deponents say that Honyost Tewahangarahken and Honyost Doxtator are one and the same person of their own knowledge - that these deponents were also well acquainted with Jenny Doxtator and that she was married to the said Leutenant Honyost Doxtator in the second or third year of his service in said war - they do not remember definitely the time but that it was four or five years before he left the service aforesaid but they believe it was in the month of January in the year 1778 - that the said Leutenant Honyost Te-wa-han-gar-ah-ken alias Leutenant Honyost Doxtator departed his life on the 29th day of March in the 1838. They remembered that he died on the 29th day of March 1838 from the following facts in the year 1838 - on the 1st day of April a large Company of Indians were going to Buffalo and Green Bay and that they had been preparing for sometime to leave Oneida in the aforesaid day, but in consequence of the death of Leutenant Honyost Tewahangarahken alias Leut.
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Washington, Sept 5th 1853 

Sir,
We herewith enclose additional testimony in the case of Jenny Doxtader, New York, Act 4 July 1836, Suspended. 
Very respectfully 
Evans & Fant. 

Hon L. P. Waldo
 Comr of Pensions.
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Washington June 24 1853 

Dear Sir, 
We herewith enclose additional evidence in the case of Jenny Doxtader, an Oneida Indian, under the act of July 4th 1836. We expect by the time the case shall have been reached to have further testimony. It is a claim upon the suspended files of New York. 
Very respectfully 
Evans & Fant 

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Comr of Pensions
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In the matter of the application of Mrs Jenny Doxtator widow of Honyost Terwahangarahken, decd for arrears of pension 

State of New York 
Madison County ss; 
Before me personally came David Welch a credible and disenterested person now a resident of Munnsville, in said County an Invalid Pensioner of the United States, who being duly sworn doth depose and say, that he has been well acquainted with Jenny Doxtator ever since the 1780 & well and intimately acquainted with her husband Lieutenant Honyost Tewahangarahken alias Doxtator who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary war of his own knowledge, and that he served from said year to the close of said war of his own knowledge that he knows the same from the following facts, this deponents father Served 7 years in said war under Col. Jacob Klock who in 1780 had charge of Fort Timmerman [Zimmerman], on the Mohawk Flatts at which time his father took this deponent & his mother to said Fort, and that all the Indian officers took their wives there; that at the same time Col. Peter Bellinger commanded at Fort Nellis a distance of (9?) Miles from said Fort Timmerman. That Col. Bellinger expected an attact  [sic] upon his Fort & sent for Col. Klock & his Regiment who went to Fort Nellis & left no one but the
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women at said Fort T, that the day following Fort Timmerman was attacked by a large party of Mohawk Indians & the said women defended it by firing through the Post Holes. That said Jenny was there this deponent & his mother at which time this deponent was three years of age & which he well remembers, he well remembers seeing said Lieutenant Honyost at that time and many times thereafter, & often saw him in the actual line of duty, that he served to the close of said war under his brother Captain Honyery Tewahangarahken & Lieutenant Col. James Wakarantharans; that said Lieut. Honyost & Jenny always lived together as husband & wife were so reputed to be & as such raised a family of children; this deponent often heard his father & mother say that said Lieut Honyost & Jenny were lawfully married & that they were present the time they were so married in the winter of 1778 which this deponent believes to be true. That soon after the end of the said war said Lieut Honyost received two lots of land each containing 600 acres in the 26 Township of Junius in the State first above written, that said Lieut Honyost Tewa&c. died at Oneida in the said state on the 29th day of March 1838, to his knowledge and that said Jenny has remained a widow ever since & now lives at Oneida at the age of Ninety three years he believes. This deponent further says that he is entirely disenterested [sic] in the application of said Jenny Dox[tator]
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[Dox]tator or in any wise interested in the result of this case. & further deponent saith not 
David (X his mark) Welch 
Attest
[Signed] M Temple 
[Signed] J. D. Gorry 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22 day of August 1853. And I hereby Certify that I know David Welch that he is entitled to full credit & that I have no interest in the result of this case or interested in its prosecution.
[Signed] M Temple Justice 

STATE OF NEW-YORK,} 
Clerk's Office, Madison County,} ss.  
I, LUCIUS P CLARK, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that M. Temple Esqr whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected or appointed, and qualified, and authorized by the laws of said State to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe the signature to the said certificate is genuine, and that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of said State& that I have no interest in the within claim. 
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, the 22 day of August 1853.
[SEAL]
[Signed] Lucius P. Clark Clerk
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Hon. Jas E Heath 
Comr of Pensions 

Sir 
Be pleased to put on the files of your Office the enclosed paper in the Application of Jenny Doxtator for a pension and arrears of pension.
 I am Respectfully 
Your Obt Sert 
Jas. B. Jenkins 
Oneida Castle Jan. 11. 1853. 

P.S. Hon. T. Jenkins M.C. is well acquainted with all the persons mentioned in the enclosed papers & knows them all to be credible persons J.B.J
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No. 7924
Jenny Doxtator widow
of Honyost Tewahangarahken 
alias Doxtator
[illegible]
N.Y.

Letter to
Jas. B. Jenkins 25th May 1853.
Evans & Fant Sept 1/53
same October 12, 53
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3065.
Jenny ["Doxtader" stricken] Doxtator
widow of
Honyost Te-wa-hon-gar-ah-ken
alias Honyost Doxtator
REJECTED
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In the matter of
 the application 
of Jenny Doxtator 
for a Pension and 
arrears of Pension 

Certificate of Court
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In the matter of the application of Jinny widow of Lieutenant Honyast Tewahangarahken deceased for a pension and arrears of pension

State of New York
Onondaga County ss.
I Israel S Spencer Judge of the Onondaga County Court do declare the opinion of said Court to be, after a full investigation of this case, and satisfactory evidence adduced to said Court, to wit, the testimony of Peggy Johnson, Mattayou Hulet [?] & other aged and credible persons, that Jinny Doxtator is the widow of Lieut Houyast Tewahangarahken decd. Who was a Lieutant in the Revolutionary war, and that she was legally married to him on the 16th day of January, 1778, and that they continued to live togeather thereafter as husband and wife until said Honyast deed; that said Lieut. Honyast the husband of said Jenny Doxtator served in said war from the forepart of the same to its close in 1784, and that he received a bounty from the State of New York of 1200 acres of land known as Lots 4 & 16 in the 26th Township of Junius, that said Lieut Honyast died at Oneida on the 29th day of March A.D. 1838, that said Jinny has continued to live at Oneida & unmarried ever since. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this 25th day of August 1858. And I hereby
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certify the I have no interest in the result of this case or interested in its prosecution.
[Signed] Israel S. Spencer Judge
Onondaga County Courts Counsellor &c.
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In the matter of
the Application of
Jenny Doxtator
for a Pension &
arrears of Pension

Evans & Fant
Attorneys
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In the matter of the application of Jinny widow of Lieut Hanjast Tewahangurahken for a pension and certain arrears of pension under any act under which she may be entitled 

State of New York
Madison County ss. 
Before me personally appeared Jacobus Powles a resident of Lenox in said County a credible person aged 82 years & Peggy Johnson a credible person aged 85 years a disinterested person, who being severally duly sworn doth depose and say, that they are well and intimately acquainted with Jenny Doxtator & was well acquainted with her deceased husband said Lieutenant Hanjast Tewahangenahken alias Doxtator that said Lieutenant Hanjast Doxtator married said Jinny, on the 16 day of January 1778 when he was in the military service of the war of the Revolution they know of their own knowledge; that these deponants were children but they remember the same from the fact that he said Lieutenant Honjost had been in said war about two years they believe when he returned & married said Jenny & took her with him to Fort Zimmerman on the Mohalok [Mohawk] Flats near Fort Nellis, that these deponents parents were in said service & that all the Indian Officers took their wives with them to said Fort which was commanded by Col. Jacob Klock & that they were present at said marriage & knew that they were lawfully married; that they lived
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togeather thereafter as husband and wife & had several children all of whom are now dead, these deponents further say that said Lieutenant Hanjast died on the 29th day of March 1838 of their own knowledge & that they were present at his funeral & that said Jinny has remained a widow ever since and is now a widow whose age is 93 years, that her husband served to the end of said war to wit to December 1784 & was honrably discharged as they have always understood and believe true, that the reason why a record was not kept of their marriage is because they could not read or write, and it was not customary for Indians so to do - that they verily believe the reason why said Jenny did not make her Application before is because she could not read or write and was therefore ignorant of the existence of her claim. These deponents further say that they have no interest in the result of this case or interested in its prosecution.
Jacobus (X his mark) Powles
Peggy (X her mark) Johnson
Attest [Signed] Thomas T. Loomis

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th day of August 1853. And I hereby certify that I know Jacobus Powles & Peggy Johnson, that they are credible persons & entitled to the fullest credit, that I have no interest in the result of this case or interested in its prosecution 
[Signed] Thomas P. Loomis
Justice of the Peace
in & for Madison County N.Y.
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State of New York 
County of Oneida ss;
I P. Sheldon Root County Judge of the County Court of Oneida County do declare the opinion of said Court to be after a full investigation, that satisfactory evidence has been adduced to said Court, to wit, the testimony of David Welch, Peggy Johnson & Jacobus Powles aged respectfully 78, 83 82 years respectable & credible persons resident of the towns of Stockbridge & Lenox in the County of Madison & State aforesaid, that Jenny Doxtator is the widow of Lieutenant Honyost Tewahangarahken who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary war from the forepart of said war to its close thereof, & that she was lawfully married to said Lieut. Honyost on the 16th day of January Seventeen hundred & Seventy Eight. & that they lived together thereafter as husband & wife until said Lieut Honyost died on the 29th day of March 1838 at Oneida N.Y. & that said Jenny has continued to live at Oneida aforesaid, & unmarried ever since & is now the widow in fact of said Lieut Honyost & that her late husband is the same Lieutenant Honyost Tewakangarahken who received Lots No 4 & 16 each containing 600 acres situated in the 26 Township of Junius N.Y. as land bounty from said State, & I certify that this court has no interest in the result of said Jennys claim or interested in its prosecution
 Given under my hand & seal of said Court this 31st day of August 1853.
[SEAL]
[Signed] P.S. Root
County Judge of Oneida Co.