Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 3792, Henry Fisher, Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.

Fisher, Henry or
John Henry
Mary
NUMBER
W3792
CONTENTS [blank]
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5460
Ohio
Henry Fisher
Penn private
at
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 Jany 1879
and sent to David Jennings
Steubenville, Ohio
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. 3 mon 10/31 4/30 27.64
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819. 48.00
15.64
[Total] $75.64
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
S
Notification sent November 14. 1820 to
Horace Potter Clk New Lisbon, Ohio
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Ohio
648.
Pittsburgh 
Mary Fisher
widow of Henry Fisher
who was a Private
in the Pa line
for 21 months
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 70 Dollars --
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30thday of June 1843 and sent to
John Smith
Cannons Mills
Columbiana County, Ohio.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1
Page 158.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of
Congress of the 7th July 1838, entitled ""An act
granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"
State of Ohio
Columbiana County
On this thirty first day of October in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before Daniel Harbaugh one of the associate Judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for said county, Mary Fisher, a resident of St Clair township, in the said County of Columbiana aged seventy seven years on the tenth day of November 1837 who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:" That she is the widow of Henry Fisher who was a regular soldier in the war of the revolution that he enlisted in Northumberland County in the State of Pennsylvania, in a company commanded by Captain Adam Crist and served
for at least two years and received a discharge from Col John Marshal. That the the said Mary and the said Henry Fisher were married on the twenty second day of April in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight, by John Moore Esquire, a justice of the peace in Northumberland county Pennsylvania. That they obtained from the said justice a certificate of their marriage which remained in their possession until the death of the said Henry Fisher. That the said Henry Fisher died
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in the year 1826 and in the year 1827 the
said certificate was found among other old
papers, that then she set down the time of their marriage taking the same from the said certificate in the presence of John Smith and Sarah Jones. That said certificate was then burnt with some other old papers, and the certificate of his servitude in the army was burnt at the same time. The said Henry Fisher died in the said County of Columbiana in the first day of May in the year 1826 and that she the said Mary has not been married since and still remains his widow. That all the service which the said Henry Fisher performed in the war of the revolution were performed before his marriage with the said Mary. That the said Henry Fisher was placed on the pension roll of the United States and received a pension from that time during his life, it being from the year 1818
she further declares that she was married to the said Henry Fisher on the twenty second
day of April in the year seventeen hundred
and seventy eight, that her husband the aforesaid Henry Fisher died on the first day of
May in the year eighteen hundred and twenty
six, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz: at the time above stated
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and
year above written, before [illegible] [illegible]

Daniel Harbaugh
Associate Judge
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State of Ohio
Columbiana County 
on this thirty first day of October eighteen
hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared
before Daniel Harbaugh one of the associate
judges of the court of Common of the said County of Columbiana John Smith, who being first duly sworn according to law saith that he has been acquainted with the said Henry Fisher and Mary Fisher for fifty years and that they lived and cohabitated together as man and wife and were reputed to be so. That the said Henry Fisher died on the first day of May in the
year eighteen hundred and twenty six That this deponant [sic] drew his pension for him four times twice at Chillicothe and twice at Pittsburgh. In the year 1827 this deponent and Sarah Jones were call on by the widow and William Gillmore the executors to examine the papers and in the examination they found the certificate of marriage of Henry Fisher and Mary Fisher, signed by John Moore as justice and attested by six Witnesses and was dated April 22d 1773 Jones told the widow to burn the papers and she entered the date of her marriage with the said Henry in her bible and then the burnt the certificate of marriage, the certificate of service of Henry Fisher and other
papers, and that this deponent has this day
seen the same entry in the same bible
the deponent further states that the said John Moore informed the deponent that he had married the said Henry
and Mary Fisher. And the deponent further
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Saith that the said Mary Fisher has not been
married since the death of the said Henry
John Smith

Daniel Harbaugh
Associate Judge

State of Ohio
Columbiana County
on this thirty first day of October 1838 personally appeared before the undersigned
authority, the Rev'd [Reverend] William Reed a
Clergyman of the presbiterian [sic] church who
being duly sworn saith that he has been acquainted with the above named Mary Fisher for eighteen years years last part, that she is a member of his congregation and respectable standing in society and that he believes that full faith and credit may be placed in the statements in the foregoing declaration that he has been acquainted with the above named John Smith for eighteen years last part and that full faith and credit is due to the evidence of the said John Smith
that he was acquainted with the said Henry 
Fisher and that he believes the said Henry
and Mary were man and wife. That the said
Mary has not been married since the death of the said Henry as he believes

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year mentioned
William Reed

Daniel Harbaugh
Associate Judge

State of Ohio
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Columbiana County
I Daniel Harbaugh one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said county do hereby certify that the said Mary Fisher is unable to appear and make her declaration in open Court by reason of bodily infirmity.
October 31st 1838
Daniel Harbaugh
Associate Judge

The State of Ohio
Columbiana County 
I William C. Rupell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, hereby
certify that Daniel Harbaugh Esquire, before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, and where name appears thereto annexed
was at the time of having these proceedings, and still is, one of the Associate Judges in the Court of Common Pleas in and for said
County, to where Official acts as such Judge full faith & credits are due - And further that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
Witness my signature and the seal of said
Court at New Lisbon, Nov. 1st A. D. 1838
William E. Rupell Clerk,
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Henry Fisher Priv.
Mile's Penna Regt [Regiment]
Rev
1776 to 1778 20 May 1848
Correct
Certificates of Henry Fisher
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I Alexander Armstrong of Steubenville in the state of Ohio, Cooper, do on oath testify that I am acquainted with the situation of the aforesaid Henry Fisher and know him to be a man in indigent circumstances infirm and needing assistance from his country.
Alexr [Alexander] Armstrong

State of Ohio
Jefferson County
On this twenty second day of May AD 1818, personally appeared before me Benjamin Tappan president Judge of the fifth judicial district in the State of Ohio aforesaid, the aforenamed Henry Fisher and Alexander Armstrong and in my presence subscribed
and made oath to the aforewritten declaration and affidavit by them respectively made; and it appearing to my satisfaction that the aforenamed Henry Fisher served for more than nine months from the first of Jan 1777 to the first of June 1778 at one period of the war of the Revolution on the Continental establishment against the common enemy and that the aforesaid Henry Fisher is in necessitous circumstances, and standing in need of assistance from his country for support, I herby certify the testimony in the case and the proceedings thereon to the Secretary and the Department of war
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand
and the seal of said Court of the aforesaid County, this 29th day of May 1818
Benjn [Benjamin] Tappan
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Pennsylvania
Washington County

Be it remembered that on the 20th day of May A.D. 1818. before me John Buchanan, Justice
of the peace in and for said county. Personally appeared Col. John Marshall, formerly a Captain of an Infantry company of the 13th regiment Riflemen in the Penna Line commanded by Col Samuel Miles, in the revolutionary War. and having made Oath according to law saith that Henry Fisher, who is also personally present and known to be the man, was a private soldier of the aforesaid regiment in Captn. Christs [Christ's] company, in the year 1776. That on the reduction of the regiment it was again filled up and organized anew; in which the said Henry Fisher, became a Soldier in a Light Infantry company this deponent then commanded in the aforesaid regiment, then commanded by Col. Walter Stewart, and continued therein untill [sic] 
discharged at the Vally [sic] Forge having served one year and and nine months being the term for which he entisted: - and that during the service - was a good and faithfull [sic] soldier.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and date 
aforesaid
J Marshall
Before me
J Buchaman
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State of Pennsylvania 
Washington County 
I Alexander Murdoch Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, Do certify that John Buchanan Esq. before whom the within affidavit of Col. John Marshall was taken, is and was at the time a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Washington the twentieth day of May in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and eighteen
A Murdock
Prothy [Prothonotary]

Henry Fisher of the County of Columbiana and State of Ohio, Mechanic [a city], upon oath make the following declaration:
that the said Henry Fisher in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, enlisted as a private for the term of one year and nine months in Capt Christs [Christ's] company of foot, in Col. Samuel Miles Regiment of riflemen in the Pennsylvania line; that the declarant faithfully served in said Company untill [sic] the Reduction of the aforesaid Regiment; that upon the reorganization of the aforesaid Regiment the declarant again became a soldier in the light infantry company commanded by Capt John Marshall, in the aforesaid regiment then commanded by Col Walter Stewart: that the declarant faithfully served the whole of the aforesaid term of one year and nine months and was in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight honorably discharged at Valley Forge. That the declarant received written certificates of his discharge, and that he has lost the same by time and
accident. That the declarant is 64 years of age infirm, and from his reduced circumstances in life is now in need of assistance from his country for support; and that he hereby relinquishes his claim to every pension
heretofore allowed to him by the Laws of the United States
[illegible] [Ludwig?] Simpson
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142.
Henry Fisher
Application for a
Pension
(Copy)
5,460
19 Jan'y 1819.
Mar '19
Horace Potter, Clk.
New Lisbon, Ohio
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The State of Ohio
Columbiana County
Court of Common Pleas
On this 15th day of August AD 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for said County Henry Fisher aged sixty five, a resident of said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath aforesaid declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, six months in the regiment commanded by Col. Miles, in the company commanded by Capt Christ. Three months in the regiment commanded by Col Bull, in the company commanded by Capt Morrow and the remaining part of two years in the regiment command by Col Stewart, in the Company commanded by Capt Marshall, I applied for a pension on the twenty second day of May 1818 and obtained a pension certificate numbered 5460, and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of 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 passed the 18th of March 1818 entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States on the continental establishment in the revolutionary war, and that I have not nor has any person for me in trust any property contracts, securities
or debts due me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed
Schedule
19 acres of land, 1 Cow, 4 Hogs, 9 Pigs, 7 Sheep, 3 Lambs
1 Ten Gal Iron Kettle, 1 Stew pot, 1 Bake oven, 1 Frying pan, 1 Pewter dish, 2 Earthen dishes, 6 Pewter plates, 8 Pewter spoons, 6 knives and forks, 6 Coffee cups and Saucers, 1 Table
3 Chairs, 2 Chests, 8 chissels [sic], 3 Saws, 4 Plains amounting in the whole to $141.37 1/2
Henry Fisher
And the said Henry further saith that by occupation he is a carpenter, that by reason of old age he is unable to labour - That his family consists of four persons
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including himself viz-- Polly his wife aged fifty nine, able to labour but little, Peggy his daughter aged twenty six years, an idiot - Affy a daughter aged 18 years, healthy -
That he is indebted to the following persons in the sums annexed to their names viz
Simon Benage     $16.00-
Elizabeth Fisher     20.00
Hugh Wilson           6.00
Wm Steaman          4.00
Lindsey Cannon    11.00
M Christy                 1.00
Wm Gilmore            2.00
Ludwic Smith         11.00
Philip Queen          $5.00
George Fisher         5. 00
Saml Larwill            2.00
John Douglass       2.00
M Crawford            6.00
Wm Crawford        6.00
Saml Griswold     3.00
Henry Fisher
Sworn to and declared this 15th day of August AD 1820 in open Court
Horace Potter Clk

I Horace Potter Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Columbiana in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in
the aforesaid Schedule is one hundred and forty one dollars  thirty seven and a half cents in

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the
said Court this fifteenth day of August
A.D. 1820
Horace Potter Clerk
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22 [illegible] [April?] 1778
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19 Abril [April] 1792
Margaretha born Jan 19 ein [a] girl 1794

Anno Domm 1797
January [illegible]
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1801Jun 27 Abrill [April]
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Elizabeth born in [illegible] 29 [illegible]
Died 1780

Sarah [illegible] born in [illegible] 22 Abrill [April]
Died 1783 2 months 1783

[illegible] born in 29 November fore 2 months 1780

[illegible] born in 2 [illegible] 1782

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Johann in 1785
2 Abrill [April]

[illegible]is born [illegible] 1787

[illegible] is born [illegible]
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Elizabeth was born Sept. 29, 1780
? Chadavinna (or Chatazinna) was born Oct. 2, 1782
Heinrich was born April 2, 1785
? Anamarina was born Sept 9, 1787
Susanna was born Jan. 16, 17 - ?
? Calincin was born April 19, 1792
Margareth was born Aug. 10, 1794
Hans was born Jan. 4, 1797
? Liedin Fischer was born Jan. 22, 1799
Efa Fischer was born April 27, 1801

From German script
May 10, 1932
Sev. [illegible]
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May 10, 1932
BA-J/MCS
Henry or John Henry Fisher, W. 3792
am [initials]

Mrs. Mary Alexander Hendrickson
6570 Pinehaven Road
Oakland
California

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter requesting information in regard to Henry Fisher, a soldier of the Revolution.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 3792, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Henry of John Henry Fisher.
He enlisted in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, in 1776 or January 1, 1777, and served one year and nine months as private with the Pennsylvania troops under Captains Adam Christ, John Marshall and Morrow and Colonels Walter Stewart and Bull. He was
discharged at Valley Forge.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 22, 1818, at which time he was sixty-four years of age and was living in
Columbiana County, Ohio.
He died May 1, 1826, in Columbiana County, Ohio.
The soldier married April 22, 1778, Mary (her maiden name not given) who was born November 10, 1760.
She was allowed pension on her application executed September 10, 1838, at which time she was living in St. Clair Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, and she was living there in 1843.
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Henry or John Henry and Mary Fisher had the following children:

Elizabeth born September 29, 1780
Chadavinna or Chatazinna? born October 2, 1782
Heinrich born April 2, 1785
Anamarina? born September 9, 1787
Susanna born January 16, 17 --
Calincin? born April 19, 1792
Margareth born August 10, 1794
Hans born January 4, 1797
Liedin? born January 22, 1799
Efa or Affy born April 27, 1801

This is the history of the only soldier named Henry Fisher who served from Pennsylvania and later lived in Ohio that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.

Very truly yours,

A. D. Hiller
Assistant to the Administrator
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Hist. Wm M. Smith
City, No  F. L.

1929, Oct. 14, Evelyn Reed
adv. as to dates last
paymt [payment] pensions [illegible]

1932 May 10 hist to Mrs.
Mary A. Hendrickson

Revy [Revolutionary] WIDOW, &c.
File No. 3792
Mary Fisher ┃
Wid.
Henry Fisher
Pvt. Pa. line

Act: Mch 3rd/ 43
Index: -- Vol. A
Page 236 
{Arrangement of 1870.}
May 28/95
Kansas
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1798
Ohio Pittsburgh
Mary Fisher widow of Henry Fisher decd [deceased] who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 1st May 1826
of Columbiana Co. in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Compy commanded by Captain [illegible] of the Regt commanded by Col Stewart in the Pa. line for 21 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburg at the rate of 70 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of Feb. 1839 and sent Pensioner care of Jno [John] Smith Calcutta Ohio
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $175.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. 39, 35.00
[Total] $240.00
{Act July 7,
1838.}
Recorded D.D. Addison Clerk
Book A Vol. 2nd Page 217
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New Lisbon
Columbiana County Ohio
5th Dec 1838
Sir/
Enclosed you have the "leaf of the Family record" of the marriage of Mrs Mary Fisher which it is hoped will prove sufficient in sustaining her application for the benefit of the late Pension Act. Three weeks since when in your office. I was informed by your last communication to her, and which communication (or a copy, was shown me, that the accompanying "leaf" was all that was wanting by the department in addition to what had already been forwarded to make good her claim. We have already taken much trouble to procure for the old lady the benefits of the Law passed by Congress for her relief.
And we do hope, that the enclosure may complete her application. Should any thing further however be required you will please inform her. Direct to Mrs Mary Fisher. Calcutta Columbiana Co. Ohio care of Jno Smith Esqr

Respectfully your Obt [Obedient] Sert. [Servant]
Robt Whitacre

Hon J. L Edwards
Court of Pensions, Washington
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Cannons Mills, Col. [Columbiana] Co. [County] Ohio. April 10th 1843
Mr. Edwards

Enclosed I send you the declaration of Mary Fisher duly authenticated - Respectively -  You
will please inform me by form, the manner in which I can draw her pension and the place where, drawn -
I also send the certificate of 1838, of the War Dept Given to her in the previous Act.
Yours very Respectfully
John Smith
Act
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New Lisbon Ohio
11th Sept 1838
Sir
Enclosed is the petition of Mrs Fisher for the benefit of the act of 7th July 1838. If any additional Testimony be required you will please inform me forthwith, in order that Mrs Fisher may avail herself of the benefits of the act
referred to

Respectfully Yours 
Robt. Whitacre
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Payment to be made
at Pittsburg Pa
by M. Tiernan Esq.
Agent for paying pensioners,
in the Agency of
Pittsburgh
Payable on the 4th March
and 4th September in each
year. {First payment to be
made December, 1838.} [crossed through]
Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book A Vol. 2nd
Page 217 by D.D. Addison
Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Five years' Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Mary Fisher widow of Henry Fisher decd [deceased] who was a Private in the Revolution and died on the 1st day of May 1826 is entitled to receive five years pension at the rate of seventy dollars -- cents per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 8th day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine
J. R. Poinsett
Secretary of War
Examined and
Countersigned.

J L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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1798
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add. [additonal] proof
Mary Fisher
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State of Ohio
Columbiana County
On this Fourth day of December 1838 personally appeared before the undersigned, one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said
County Mary Fisher who being duly sworn saith that the paper hereunto attached to is the leaf of the family Bible on which was entered the date of the marriage of the said Mary Fisher with Henry Fisher and which Bible and entry is mentioned in the depositions of this deponent and John Smith taken heretofore and forwarded to the war office and that this deponent has this day cut the said leaf from said bible. And this deponant [sic] further saith that the other leaf hereunto attached is taken from the same bible and contains the correct ages of the children of the said Henry and and kept by their father Henry Fisher.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
[illegible] [illegible] Ferguson
Daniel Harbaugh
Associate Judge
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State of Ohio
Columbiana County 
I do hereby certify that the within named Mary
Fisher this day appeared before me and made
oath to the things contained in the within deposition and that the leaf hereto attached
was taken from the bible in possession of said
Mary Fisher in my presence. I do further certify
that I believe all the statements made by said Mary Fisher are true, and that the said Mary is unable to appear in open court by reason of bodily infirmity. 
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Fourth day of December 1838
Daniel Harbaugh [seal]
Associate Judge

The State of Ohio
Columbiana County
 I William E. Rupell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Columbiana aforesaid hereby certify that Daniel Harbaugh Esquire, before whom the foregoing deposition was taken and where certificate is above attached, was at the time of
the taking the said deposition and the making the said certificate and still is, one of the Associate Judges of said Court for said County
of Columbiana duly commissioned and sworn to all whose official acts as such Judge full faith and credit are due.
Witness my signature and the seal of said and this fifth day of December AD. 1838, William E. Russell Clerk
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State of Ohio Columbiana County
On this fifth day of April A.D. 1843. Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for Columbiana Co and State of Ohio, Mary Fisher a resident of St Clair Township, County and State aforesaid, aged Eighty three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the
following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d March 1843,  granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War -
That she is the widow of Henry Fisher a private
Soldier of the Revolution enlisted in Northumberland Co Penn and discharged from service by Colonel John Marshall, and that she recd [received] under the act of July 7th 1838-- Seventy dollars Annually and she further declares that she still remains a widow 
[illegible] [Mary Fisher]
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
before me, 
Philip March
Justice of the peace

I do hereby certify that I was personally acquainted with Henry Fisher the husband of Mary Fisher the declarant and am still acquainted with his widow the said Mary
Fisher (declarant) and know her to be the same that she represents herself to be in above declaration
 
Philip March
Justice of the Peace
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State of Ohio
Columbiana County 

I William E. Russell Clerk of the Court of Common pleas within and for said County certify that Philip March before and by  whom the within affidavit of Mary Fisher was taken, was at the time of taking the same and still is an acting Justice of the peace for said County duly elected commissioned and sworn as such and to all whose official acts as such Justice full faith and credit are due and should be given. And also that the signatures purporting to be that of said March are genuine. In testimony of which I hereunto set my signature & affix the seal of said
Court at New Lisbon this 5 April 1843.
William E. Russell Clerk
By J M Laughlin Dpt. [Deputy] Clk
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1457
Mary Fisher
Ohio
died 1st May
1826 Pension list
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The State of Ohio
Columbiana County ss. 
On this tenth day of September A.D. 1838
personally appeared before the undersigned authority in & for said county, Mary Fisher a resident of St. Clair Township in the County and State aforesaid, aged seventy seven years the 10 day of November last past, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"; That she is the widow of John Henry Fisher who was a Private an enlisted soldier in the Revolutionary War, and who drew a pension from the year of our Lord A.D. 1818 to the year A.D 1826 (reference being had to the War Department will more fully appear)
She further declares, that she was married to the said John Henry Fisher on the 22nd day of April, A.D. 1779: That her husband the aforesaid John Henry Fisher, died on the first day of May in 1826: that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz, at the time above stated.
Sworn and subscribed to on the day and year first above written.
Mary Fisher
Given under my hand & Notarial
Seal at New Lisbon
J. G. Williard Notary Public

The State of Ohio, 
Columbiana County
Personally appeared before the undersigned authority in & . for said County John Smith Esqr of St Clair township in the County and State aforesaid, who being duly qualified according to law deposeth and saith, that Mary Fisher the above named individual an applicant for a pension is the widow of John Henry Fisher (or commonly called
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Henry Fisher, that this deponent was personally known to them the said John Henry Fisher and Mary his wife the above applicant for nearly fifty years that they lived together as man and wife, that he is satisfied that they were lawfully married. That the said John Henry Fisher died in the year A.D. 1826. Since which time Mary Fisher widow of the said John Henry Fisher, has not married, but still remains the widow of the said John Henry Fisher This deponent is well satisfied, that the said John Henry Fisher or more commonly called Henry Fisher drew a pention [sic], from the fact of this deponent having drawn his pention [sic] at four different times at the Agency of Chilicothe O [Ohio] and twice at the agency of Pittsburgh Pa - And further this deponent saith not.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 10th day of September 1838
J. G. Williard Notary Public
W 1167.

The State of Ohio
Columbiana County S.S. 
I J.B. Williard Notary Public in & for said County, do hereby certify, that I am personally acquainted with John Smith Esqr, the person named in the above deposition, that he is a man of probity and respectability, and that the utmost confidence can and ought to be placed in his declaration.
Given under my hand and Notarial seal at
New Lisbon this 10th day of Sept 1838
J G Williard
Notary Public
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The State of Ohio
Columbiana County
I William E. Russell Clerk
Pro Tem [for the time being] of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County hereby certify, that said [illegible] [J.] G. Williard, Esquire before whom the forgoing acknowledgment & affidavits were taken, was at the time of taking the same, and Still is a Notary Public in and for said County duly Commissioned & Sworn to where official acts as such Notary, full faith & credit are due, and I further certify that the forgoing signatures purporting to be his are
genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my signature Office, & the seal of said Court this 10th day of September AD. 1838.
William C. Rupell
Clerk Pro Tem
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OFFICE OF SECRETARY.
[seal] SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 1776 1883
cert 5460
Missouri Society.
Bethany, Mo., May 14 1895
Hon Wm Lochren
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir,
Will you please give me the military history of
Henry Fisher, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, who was placed on the pension roll Jan 19th 1819, while a resident of Columbiana Co
Ohio
I desire this information for Wm M Smith Esq of Kansas City Mo.
Respectfully
Henry Cadle
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Eagle Grove, Iowa
August 7, 1929.

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Will you kindly inform me of the address to which the last pension was sent to Henry Fisher who served in the third Pennsylvania Line during Revolution, and who died in Columbiana County Ohio May 11. 1826?  Also, if possible, would you tell me of the name of his widow and last address of hers? I wish to complete records for genealogical purposes.
and would appreciate any information you may be able give me.
Thanking you, I am,
Sincerely yours
Evelyn Rudy
I will pay a fee if there is any charged.

[stamp] U. S. PENSION OFFICE
AUG 9 1929
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6570 Pinehaven Road
Oakland, California
April 18, 1932

U.S. Dept of Interior
Bureau of Pensions.

Gentlemen:

I am searching for further data on two of my great great grandfathers who were Revolutionary soldiers, I recall as a matter of family history, that one of them came out to Ohio and settled there in the wilderness, on a grant of land awarded him by the United States government, or possibly by the State of Pennsylvania, as part compensation for his services as a soldier under Washington. His name and record are as follows:
Henry Fisher [crossed through]
Henry Fisher, a private in Captain Daniel De Turck's Berks County Associators, July, 1776. See p. 139, Vol. 5, Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth series. (I can find no Berks County. Other branches of the family came from Bucks County Penn. Could this be a mistake for Bucks County?)
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2.
That he was at Valley Forge with Washington, is also a matter family record.
I wish to know whether there is any record of him, in connection with this grant of land in Ohio or in reference to any pension received. If the land grant record would naturally be in another U. S. department, or bureau, will you please forward this letter to the proper office? His descendants later lived in Newcomerstown Tuscarawas County, Ohio, but his grant of land
may have been in what is now another county.
Also, I should like to know whether you have any record of the following Revolutionary soldier, other than this:
Dr. Henry Buck, Surgeon's Mate (Assistant
Surgeon) of the Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Miles, having enlisted as a private in Capt. John Marshall's Company on duty at Amboy Aug 1, 1776.
I shall appreciate any information you could furnish me; either from your office, or leading to enquires elsewhere.
Very truly yours
(Mrs.) Mary Alexander Hendrickson
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
MCS /  HMM
October 14, 1929.

Evelyn Rudy
Eagle Grove,
Iowa.

Dear Madam:

I advise you that in order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of Henry Fisher, who died May 1, 1826, and that of his widow, Mary, and the addresses to which they were sent, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., citing the following data:
Henry Fisher
Certificate Number 5460
Issued January 19, 1819
Rate, $8.00 per month, commenced May 22, 1818,
Act of March 18, 1818
Ohio Agency.

Mary Fisher
Certificate Number 648
Issued June 30, 1843
Rate $70 per annum, commenced March 4, 1843
Act of March 3, 1843
Pittsburgh, Ohio, Agency.

No charge is made for this service.

Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.