Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16866, Malcolm Henry, N.C. S.C.
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SERVICE
N.C.
S.C.

Henry, Malcolm

NUMBER
S. 16866
Born in N.C.         Carded

CONTENTS
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29.882.
Missouri
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Malcolm Henry

Lincoln Co  in the State Missouri
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Col Byers of the regt commanded Col Neil (Neel) 
in the S. Carolina Militia 
for eleven months.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Missouri
at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of March
1835 and sent to L Rogers
Bowling Green Missouri.
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1835                    $146.66 5/7
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept '35        18.33 2/7
                                                                                    =====
                                                                                   $165.00
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Wm L Allison. Clerk,
Book E.   2  Vol 9 Page 61

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let
18 Oct
1837
C. Wheeler
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32.718
Malcolm Henry
Missouri.

from 1779 for
11(or 19) months
36.66/100


L Rogers
Bowling Green
Missouri

H R
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State of Missouri
County of Lincoln
On this 3rd day of November
in the year one thousand Eight hundred
and thirty four personally appeared in
open Court being the County Court within
and for said County of Lincoln, Malcolm
Henry of the said County of Lincoln in the
State aforesaid aged Seventy nine years on the
21st day of December next who being
first duly sworn according to law doth
on his oath make the following Declara
tion in order to obtain the benefit of
the provision made by the act of Cong
ress passed June 7th 1832 that

that he enroled himself himself in
company of South Carolina Militia in the
month of June 1776 commanded by Capt
William Byers the Lieutenants name
was Wm Henry. the Ensigns name he
any not recollect  the company was attached
to the regiment commanded by Thos Neill 
there was a Thomas Ross belonging to said
Regiment. the troops [illegible] command
of said Col Neill were [illegible] into
service on Reedy River in the South Caro
lina at this place there were other
troops collected one regiment was commanded by a Col Thomas together with
a detachment of troops belonging to the
command of Col Richardson on there way
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our company commanded by Edward Hampton in the capacity of Lieutenant and belonged to the regiment of Regular troops under command of col Sumpter the whole troop he thinks were under command of Col Neill the troops were in a body desicted against the hostile Cherokee Indians and were marched to an Indian Town in the nation called Eastatoa at that place had a small engagement with the Indians and put them to flighte destroyed the Indian Town and all their coll this first engagement was he thinks in the month of august 1776 the troops under command of Neill as aforesiad were marched to another Cherokee town but a short distance from the first mentioned place both towns were situated on the Keowa River a branch of Savannah River at this place the troops burned the town and diestroyed the cover of the Indians the troops were commanded ofs Neill were engaged against the Indians untill the fall of the year destroying the Cherokee Towns and cover during the service a party was sent by Col Neill up Keowa River as a reconstring party and had a skirmish with some Indians this party he thinks was commanded by Capt Byers during the tour of the party several Indians were
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killed and several taken prisoners the prisoners were taken to Keowa and secured in some way or other during this service the troops under command of Neill as aforesaid were joined at Keowa by other troops under command of a Colonel Hammond the troops were marched back home to the place now called York District in the month of October of same year and were discharged this service he says occupied the space of four months 
afterwards he was engaged untill the fall of the year 1778 [crossed out] in scouting parties after the Torries and was during the time from 1776 to the fall 1778 was in several skirmishes with the Torries but during this service he and not belong to any regularly organised con of troops nor under the command of any particular officer as attached to any particular company but was so much engaged that he did not pretend to do any thing else and in the fall of the year 1778 he thinks in the month of October he enrolled himself in a company of militia in South Carolina in the now Pendleton District this company was commanded by Captain Richard Sadler the company belonged to Thos Snells regiment there was another company of said regiment
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commanded by Capt Ross the troops under command of said Thomas Neill aeneted their movements against the Creek Indians in Georgia the troops were marched to a place called white Hall the residence of General Williamson soon afterwards the company of captain Saddles was areused up the Savanna River about one hundred miles to the mouth of Tugaloe a branch of the Savannah the company was there stationed to guard the frontier and watch the Indians during there winter majr Pickens sent up the Tugaloe when Saddlers company was stationed a small company of horse under command of capt Wrens this horse company was  engaged in traversing the country watching the manouvers of the Creek Indians until the month of March the troops were marched to Fort Independence and there delivered up their arms and were permitted to return home This service he states occupied the space of Five months
afterward during the entire year 1779 he was engaged verry often in & country parties after the Tories frequently taking prisoners and delivering them over to the officers of the avecy but was not during this year under the command of any particular officer nor attached to any regularly organised core
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core of troops untill the month of May 1780 he was appointed a captain of militia and raised a company of volunteers his Lieutenants name was Gedion Robertson John Berry Ensign his company was attached to a regiment commanded by Col Graham this service commenced in South Carolinia near the line of South Carloina about this time the tories assembled in great numbers and bid fair to overrun the country the regiment was marched into South Carolina and succeded in driving all the tories to a place called Rocky Mount where the British had a fort & having learned that the British flag had been raised at a place called Ranisours mills Col Graham asceneted his march to those places distance about Eighty miles on south fork of the Catabaw upon reaching the vicinity of that place he this applicant took a party of his company select men in the night approached very near the British encampment and succeded in capturing some [illegible] is seven in number these prisoners were delivered up to genl Davidson at about this time the troops under Col Graham were joined by other troops commanded by Genl Rutherford Col Davidson
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belonged to his command the where troop was there under command of Retherford and were immediately marched toward Rannsoure Mill he and his company were sent in advance of the troops under command of Genl Retherford as aforesaid as an advance guard but before the troops reached the place other troops under command of Col Locke from Salsberry has commenced an engagement and had actually defused the enemy at that place in their retreat he this applicant suceeded in taking some prisoners this engagement was on the 22nd day of June 1780 as he thinks  soon after this engagement Sumpter came to that place he was not however in command at that place in a few days he marched his company down to Sumpters Camp not far from Rocky Mount under Col Graham as afsd soon after their arrival at Sumpters camp orders were received from genl McDowell to march all the troops from Sumpters camp to Green River distance about eighty miles and a short distance in North Carolina the troops were accordingly marched to that place and joined troops commanded by col Shelby col Sevier col Clark & Col McDowell and others of the militia in about ten days the whole troops belonging to Genl Retherford
3
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command were marched down Broad River to the Cherokee force from there the army marched to [illegible] bridge and near Enow River met a part of Taltores troops and the Tories under the command of Col Ferguson at which time had a severe engagement and in this battle considerable loss was sustained by both parties armory the wWhig officers killed was Majr Smith of Georgia the Whigs kept the ground and routed the enemy but on account of the great danger the troops withdrew without burying the dead and crossed Broad River at the Cherokee fesd and encamped in a few days the troops were marched to Lincoln county North Carolina on the south fork of Catabawa river and formed an encampment the army remained at that place a short time shortly after this time col Shelby concluded to cross the mountains to Hollston and took with him some part of the army leaving col Graham and his command at Catabaw but Forgeron pronounced Shelby and captured some of his men on the mountains about his period Gates was defeated and Sumpter was defeated which greatly discouraged the troops commanded by Graham and in afew days all the Whigs had collected together in Lincoln county and attached themselves to the different officers at that place
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in a short time col Shelby returned to Retherford county to Gilbert town he this applicant was sent to Shelby by Col Graham to know of Shelby where the troops under command should join them under Shelby It was agreed that all the troops should rendevous at the cowpens sixteen miles from the Cherokee ford on Broad River it was there expected there Forgeron and his Tories were there on the same evening col Graham marched to that place under this command and met the troops commanded by sol Shelby col Campbell col Servier col Cleaveland col Williams and other officers not recollected it was understood that Forgeson lay at Tates Ferry about sixteen miles off in the evening col Graham and sol Shelby came to him this applicant and told him to prepare his company to march that knight to Forgerons encampment accordingly he this applicant with his company and the company commanded by capt James Shelby marched about ten o clock in the night with others to attack Ferguson at Tates Ferry and to keep up the engagement with them untill the whole army came up on reaching Tates Ferry about day light discovered that Ferguson had gone his company and Capt Shelbys company remained there about two or three hours and the army came up
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the whole army was then formed into three divisions the left division was commanded by col Cleaveland the right by col Shelby the middle division by Col Campbell as he now recollects the arrangement He this applicant was in the front with his company as an advanced guard according to this order the army marched to Kings mountain and fought the memorable battle at that place 7th day of October 1780 He this applicant says there his company brought on the engagement and the first guns fired upon that accapron were fired by his company this was a bloody battle the result is known Forguson was killed and many others; in a few days after the battle Col Shelby and the others recroped the mountains taking with them the prisoners the Fought under Graham was permitted to aespises and return home this last service rendised in the capacity of captain occupied the space of Five months 
afterwards he removed to South Carolina and was nearly all the time engaged in leavling parties after the Tories and doing and performing such services as all the Whigs were bofesed to perform thorgh not in any regular company of troops untill peace was concluded and
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in answer to questions propoused to him by the court he says that he was born in the county of Ros
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no documentary evidence of of his services
in the war of the revolution but he says
that he has procured the Deposition
Samuel Watson who now resides in
Pike County Missouri distant forty miles
which will prove his services in part
there is no other person in Missouri that
he knows of by whom he could prove
his services. from the great age and
infirmity of Mr. Saml Watson he has
procured his [illegible] regularly certified
instead of attempting to procure his 
attendance at Court

He hereby relinquishes any claim
[illegible] to a pension. or an annuity
except the present and he Declares that
his name is not on the pension Roll
of any agency in any state. or (if any)
only on that of the agency of the State of
South or north Carolina

Malcolm Henry [signature]

Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
in Open Court Nov'r 3rd
A.D. 1834
Francis Parker  [signature]    Clerk

We Thomas Bowen a clergyman
of the Baptist  church residing in Lincoln
County and B G Martin residing in the
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he was called into the service as a volunteer
militia man he never was drafted
he never was a substitute for any person
the names of the officers regular and
Militia he has also mentioned as fully as 
he can recollect them who were with the
troops where he served the regiments of
Militia he has also mentioned as fully as
he can recollect them the general
circumstances of his service in the capacity
of private and as an officer are et
out on the foregoing pages as fully as he
can recollect them he never received
any written discharge from the service
as before stated he says their in may
1780 he was commissioned a Captain who
signed the commission or by what
authority it was made out he cannot
now say the commission was given
to him by his Col   Col Graham he
does not know what has become of it
supposes it lost many years ago he
says he is known to Thomas Bowen
and B. G. Martin of his present neighborhood who can testify to his character  for veracity and their belief of his services
as a soldier of the Revolution, and he says
now that by possibility he may be (from his
great age and bodily infirmity and Consequent
loss of memory) mistaken as to the precise
times and dates of his services but that
during the war of the Revolution he and
perform the services set forth he is positivity
certain and further he says there he has
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[illegible] County Do hereby certify that we are
well acquainted with Malcolm Henry
who has subscribed and sworn to the above
and foregoing declaration: these we believe
him to be seventy nine years of age 
that he is reputed and believed [illegible]
he [illegible] to have been a soldier of
the revolution and that we concur
in that opinion

Thomas Bowen
Barzillar G Martin

Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year afores
in open Court Novr 3rd
A.D. 1834

Francis Parker Clerk ⎬

And the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigation of the matter
and after putting the Interrogators prescribed
by the war department that the above named
applicant was a revolutionary soldier and
served as he states and the court further
certifies that it appears to them that Thomas Bowen
who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman
residing in Lincoln County and that Barzellar G.
Martin who has also signed the same is a resident in
the same county and is a creditable person and
that their statement is entitled to credit, and the Court
further certifies that it appears to the satisfactory that
Samuel Watson whose Deposition taken in Peter County Mo.
on 21st day of October 1834 head to us is a noble
person & his statement entitled to credit
William Young [illegible]   Justices of County Court
Caleb Mc Farland CLK
Geo. W. Zimmerman J.C.C. L.C.
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I Francis Parker Clerk of the County
Court of the County of Lincoln in the
State of Missouri  Do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains the original proceedings
of the said County Court in the matter of
the application of Malcolm Henry
for a pension

In Testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand
and seal of Office this third
day of November Eighteen
hundred and thirty four

Francis Parker Clerk [signature and seal]

SEAL
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S. 16866

Rev. and 1812
War Section

July 22, 1926

Mrs. G. A. Pauly, Jr
936 Laurel
St. Louis, Mo.

Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim S. 16866 it ap-
pears that Malcolm Henry was born December 21, 1755 in Rowan County, North Carolina.

While residing in York District of South Carolina,
he enlisted in June 1776 and served four Months
as private in Captain William Byers' Company, Colonel Thomas Neel's  South Carolina Regiment; from the fall of 1776 to fall of 1778, he was out in scouting parties, 
no officers stated; and from [illegible] 1778, five
months as private in Captain Richard Saddler's 
Company, Colonel Thomas Neel's Regiment.

After this he moved to Lincoln County, North Carolina, and in 1779 and 1780, served in scouting parties, no officers stated; May 1780, he was ap-
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pointed Captain of North Carolina Militia, and served
under Colonel Graham, and was in the battles of Rem sour's Mill and King'a Mountain; and after this he served in scouting parties until the close of War.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 3, 1834, while a resident of Lincoln County, Missouri.

In 1805, he moved from Tennessee so Buncombe County, North Carolina, and represented that county one session in the State Legislature.

He died April 24, 1840, leaving a widow, her name is not stated, and there is no further data on 
file relative to her; and no date on file as to children.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SC0TT
Commissioner•
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[left side]

16.866
INVALID

File no. 16.866
Malcolm Henry
Capt  Rev War

Act June 7th 1832

Index: - Vol. 1, Page 171
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[right side]

1911 Mar. 9  Hist to  
Mr.  Joseph A Mudd

1926 - July 22 - Hist. G. A.
Pauly Jr awf.
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Henry, Malcolm
N.C.
S.C.
S16866
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29882
Missouri
________________________________________
Malcolm Henry
of  Lincoln Co in the State of Missouri. 
who was a Capt & Pri in the Compy commanded
by Capt --- of the Regt commanded
by Col Neill in the So. Ca
5 months  Captain
6.      "          Private
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Inscribed on the Roll of Missouri 
at the rate of 120 Dollars 00  Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of July 
1838 & sent to Charles Wheeler   Troy Lincoln Co Mo.
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1838                $840.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept            60.00
                                                                                    =====
                                                                                 $900.00 
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

[Stamp
[[illegible]
Recorded by D D Addison Clerk,
Book E.  2 Vol 9 Page 61

[illegible]  from $36. [illegible

[left side]

let 17 Augt 1838
Wheeler
dead.

[Page torn.. transcribed
 legible script]

Paid at the Treasury under the
t of April 6th 1838 from 4th Mar
April 26th 1840. Agent notified
27th 1842
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State of Missouri
County of Lincoln} Be it Remembered that on this eighth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven before one the undersigned a justice of the peace within and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Malcolm Henry of the county and the state aforesaid who being duly sworn on his oath says that he is at this time receiving a pension from the United States as a revolutionary pensioner at the rate of thirty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum by certificate bearing date the 30th day of March 1835 which is for his services as a private in the war of the revolution; and that he also served in said war as a captain as stated in his Declaration for a pension now on file with suspended cases at Washington that according to written instructions from the war Department of the 3d of February 1835, it appears necessary that he this deponent should obtain further evidence of his having served as a captain as in his said declaration mentioned in order to entitle him to draw a pension for such services; but owing to his very feeble state of health he had delayed writing to his friend in South Carolina until the present year to obtain the deposition of Andrew Floyd, the only person now living as far as he knows by whom he could prove his services as captain as aforesaid that some time last spring he this deponent cause a letter to be written in his name to his younger brother Francis Henry in the District of York and State of South Carolina requesting him to call on said Floyd who is living in his neighbourhood to obtain his deposition respecting the services this deponent and has received the one hereunto annexed marked (A) taken on the 28th day of July 1837 before Frances Henry JP in the District of York and state of South Carolina the said Andrew Floyd when this deponent moved from that part of the country was a man of property and respectability, and this Deponent since he left there has never heard any thing but that the said Floyd still retains in his old age the same good character he bore in earlier life that said Andrew Floyd served with this deponent a 

[stamped in left margin
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
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great part of the Revolutionary War, and acted as adjutant a part of the time This deponent further says that he received during the Revolutionary War two commissions as captain signed by the colonels as mentioned in his declaration above refers to in the same manner as other captains in that part of the state were commissioned as far as he knows and believes the Governor was at a great distance and frequently out of the state that he always supposed he was legally commissioned that he held the commission of captain received and gave orders as such and always commanded a company after receiving the first commission until the close of the war whenever on duty and when at the battle of Kings Mountain when at the head of his company he attached the right wing of the British and Tories and that more than one third of his men in the space of one hour if then he was fighting without legal authority he has at least the consolation that it was in the cause of justice he therefore wishes if aggreable to laws he may receive a pension proportionable to his services and further that he lives about six miles from the seat of justice in the county and is unable to travel to go before a court of record to make this affidavit & known and subscribed to this 8th day of September AD 1837 Charles Wheeler JP} Malcolm Henry
State of Illinois
County of Lincoln} SS I Francis Parker clerk of the county court within and for the county and state aforesaid certify that Charles Wheeler whose name is officially affixed to the foregoing certificate of qualification is and was at the time of affixing his name thereto an acting justice of the peace within and for said county and full faith and credit are due all his official acts In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at office this ninth day of September AD Eighteen hundred and thirty seven
Francis Parker Clerk
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Henry, Malcolm
NC S 16866
SC



Henry, Malcolm
N.C. - S.C.     S 16866
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State of South Carolina
York District
I Francis Henry a Justice of Pease in and
for the District aforesaid do certify that I have
been formally acquainted with Andrew Floyd
whose name is subscribed to the within affidavit for the
period of about fifty years partly and that he is Francis Henry J.P. a creditable person
and that his statement is entitled to credit

South Carolina
York District
I John Moore Clerk of the Court of General Sessions of Common Pleas
for York District & State aforesaid do hereby certify that Francis
Henry is an acting Justice of the peace and that due faith & credit ought
to be given to to all by official acts and that the above signature is genuine
being written in my presence - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand & affixed the seal of office this fifteenth day of January 1838.
John S Moore
Clerk of the Court of Common pleas
& General Sessions
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South Carolina
York District
Personally appeared before me Andrew Floyd and upon with
oath saith that he was intimately acquainted with Malcom Henry during the
Revolutionary War and up to time that the said Malcom Henry removed from
the State of South Carolina, and that the said Malcom Henry held a Captain Commission
during the greater part of the time he was in service and that 
he listed two and
three years of the time. Deponent also states that the said Malcom Henry was in the
Service as a Soldier or Captain during the whole war, in North and South Carolina
Deponent also states that the said Malcom Henry served under Colonel Graham of
North Carolina and Colonel Moffitt and Colonel Hambright of South
Carolina, and that the said Henry and him was in the battle of Kings Mountain together
and that he the said Henry commanded a company in that battle. Deponent also states that
that he said Henry had a commission but who signed it he does not know exactly, commissions
were given by Superior Officers frequently as the Governor was often out of the State -
Sworn to and subscribed by me this 28th day of July 1837
Andrew Floyd
Francis Henry J.P.
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State of South Carolina
York District
I Andrew McWhorter Clerk of the
Court of General Sessions and
Common pleas of York District do hereby
certify that
Francis Henry is a magistrate as above and that
due faith and credit is and ought to be given to
all his official acts and that the foregoing signature
purporting to be his is genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed my seal of office this 31st day of July AD 1837
A McWhorter
Clerk of Court Common Pleas
& General Sessions
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Troy Lincoln County Mo
Septr 9th 1837
Mr Edwards, 
Dear Sir, at the request of Malcolm Henry of this county I enclose his affidavit and the deposition of Andrew Floyd of South Carolina, which he has lately written for and received in order for him to draw a pension as Capt in the Revolutionary War it was indicated in your letter of the 3d of February 1835 that he ought to prove that his commissions were signed by the Governor of the state, which cannot be done, as they were signed by Colonels as he thinks were all commissions of that grade in that part of the state at the time Mr Henry is one of our most respectable citizens in this part of the state & was the member from this county in the convention that formed our state constitution; but is now quite old and infirm, though very anxious to obtain a pension for his services as a captain in that war says that five years ago there were ten or twelve men living who belonged to his company in the war who are now dead except this Mr Floyd who was raised in his neighbourhood and was with him most of the time during the war and he thinks served under him a part of the time but cannot say positively about it I do not know as this application is made in proper form if not on the return of the papers will endeavour to comply with the requisitions if the proof is sufficient I am very respectfully yours XC
Charles Wheeler
JL Edwards Esqr
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Bowling Green Mo 5th Nov 1834
Dr Sir I send herewith the application of Malcolm Henry for a pension together with a deposition proving his services as a private and as an officer I hope his claim will meet a favorable examination
You will perceive these the depositions of Mr Watson in support of the claim was taken before me as a Justice of the Peace It did not occur to me that I should have certified to the credibility of Mr Watson untill the clerk had certified as to my official character as justice of the peace when Mr Henry was sworn to his Decl in Lincoln county this week I processed the court to certify that Mr Watson was a credible person paring however that it myte not still be sufficient for want of my certificate I have put it on the back of the deposition after the clerks wit I hope it will not be considered as wrong
Mr Wm McQuie thinks his pension ought to be argumented and believes we can procure better evidence of services & will you be so good as to forward
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to me the [illegible]  instructions necessary
in such cases and with you at
as early a day as practical let
me hear from the Claim of my
old friend Mr Henry

I am yours obt svt

L Rogers

J L Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions
Washington
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Bowling Green MO
7th March 1835
Per your communication to Gen Ashly
on the subject of the claims of Malcolm Henry
for a Pension has been forwarded to me by
him with request to have the additional
proof made out and forwarded to the Department
upon inquiry Capt Henry says
from his great age and want of memory
he does not recollect whether he received
a commission from the Governor of Carolina
on whether his authority was made
out by his Captain - at any rate he says
at the present he cannot attempt to make
the proof required as to his commission he
is separated a great distance from the scene
of his services he knows of no person that
resides within his reach that can speak with
certainty, as to his having been an officer
(which is however state aversed by him to be true)
he is willing therefore to accept of such allowances
as the department may make him for his
services as a private most of the services
set up in this Declaration were in the character
of Private only. If a more formal
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course is to be adopted by him then is here assisted
upon being advised of the fact I will attend to
it forthwith I hope his cases as a private
is again  [illegible] that I shall shortly hear
of a favorable examination of his certificate of his claim

I am Respectfully Yours

L Rogers

J L Edwards.
Comm Pensions
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Troy Lincoln County, Mo March 7th 1838

Dear Sir, 

Yours of the 18th Oct. last was duly received
with the return of the affidavit of Andrew Floyd of
South Carolina in support of the claim of Malcolm
Henry of this County, which affidavit required an
additional Certificate of the Justice before whom it
was taken, as I supposed, although the printed sheet
mentioned in the letter, probably through the hurry of
business was not enclosed___ the affidavit has been sent
to South Carolina and the certificate of the Justice endorsed
I enclose the original Pension certificate of Mr. Henry

I am very Respectfully
Yours obe
Charles Wheeler


Geo Wm Crump Esqr.
Acting Commissioner of Pensions
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Aug 17
[illegible]
Mo

Malcolm Henry
Mo

[Horizontal]

Troy, Mo.
Aug 3

Public
Business

free

James L Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington City 
D.C.
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Troy-Lincoln County, MO
August 5th 1838
Dear Sir,
I received a letter from the Pension Office
dated the 18th of Octr 1837, and at the same time was returned
from the office the Deposition of Andrew Floyd of N.
Carolina in support of the claim of Malcolm Henry of
this County for a pension for his services as Captain in the
Revolutionary War, which deposition required an additional
certificate of authentication - it was sent to N. Carolina, the
certificate endorsed, and I enclosed it together with Mr.
Henry original certificate for a pension as a private, according
to the directions given in the letter above mentioned.
The papers were mailed about the 8th or 10th of March last.
Since which time we have heard nothing from the department
respecting it-- perhaps the pressure of business at the office
has prevented its being acted on; but Mr. Henry is fearful
that the papers have been miscarried, and have never arrived
there. If that is the case, you will confer a great favour on Mr.
Henry by informing me of the fact, that he may again send
and get the deposition of Mr. Floyd, if he is yet living, as he is
the only person now living, as far as he knows, by whom he can prove
his services-- Mr. Henry wishes also to know if his pension is increased
from a private's pay to a captain's, whether he will be entitled to
draw back from 1831, or only from the date of the new certificate -
If Mr. Henry's papers have not arrived there, by giving me
information, you will confer a particular favor on one
who is with respect and esteem -
Your Obt Servt.
Charles Wheeler
James L. Edwards Esqr
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Payment to be made
 at St Louis 
by J O Fallon Esq-
[illegible ] Br. Bank &
Agent for paying Pensioners
in the Agency of
Missouri


Recorded in the Pension
Office in Book E 2 Vol. 9
Раge 61  by
Wm L Allison Clerk.  [signature]
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

Canceled

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United 
States of the 7th June, 1832, Malcolm Henry.  
of Missouri
who was a Private in the  Army
of the Revolution 
is entitled to receive thirty six dollars and
sixty six cents per annum, during his natural life, 
commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and  payable  semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in 
every year.

Given at the War Office of the United
States this thirteenth day of 
March one thousand eight
hundred and thirty - five.

Lew Cass [signature]
Secretary of War

Examined and}
Countersigned.}

J L Edwards [signature]
Commissioner of Pensions.

[illegible Seal]
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State of Missouri 
County of Pike
Be it remembered that on this 21st day of October in the year 1834 before me Lewis Rogers a Justice of the peace for said county personally came Samuel Watson who being duly sworn upon his oath says that during the revolutionary war he resided in the district of York in the state of South Carolina about ten miles from the line of North Carolina that for many years before the war he was well acquainted with Malcolm Henry who then resided in North Carolina district about twelve miles from this deponent that he continued to reside near the said Henry for many years after the war that the said Henry now resides in the county of Lincoln in the state of Missouri that he believes said Malcolm Henry is now about the age of seventy nine or eighty years this deponent says that said Malcolm Henry done a great deal of service in the army of the Revolution sometimes as a private and sometimes as an officer this deponent believes that said Henry was in the army of the South from 1776 untill peace was made but the precise time of his going into service he cannot state nor the manner of his leaving it at the different periods
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of the war as he was not with said Henrys company but belonged to the company Wm Henry brother to said Malcolm Henry this deponent believes that said Malcolm Henry was in the army of North Carolina and was engaged in a battle then called the battle of Ramsour mills but whether in the capacity of a captain or as a private he does not distinctly recollect during the days of the revolution said Henry was called a captain and this deponent believes that he served as a captain in the army of the revolution This deponent further states that he said Malcolm Henry was attached to and belonged to the army at the Battle of Kings Mountain this engagement he believes was in the year 1780 and this deponent says that during this service said Malcolm Henry had the command of a company of North Carolina Militia as he then understood it and has always understood so since the war this deponent was also in the company of Capt Moffit during that service and during the whole campaign he saw said Henry daily and had frequent intercourse with him he states that said Henry was constantly rendering some sort of service or other for his country but from his great age and infirmity he cannot give dates with certainty Wm Henry
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was always and to this day is esteemed by all who know him a worthy man entitled to all credit for honesty and prbity of conduct and further this deponent says he is aged eighty one years in the month of August next and is in the receipt of a pension from government and further he saith not
Sworn & subscribed} Saml Watson Senr
before me on this 21st day of October AD 1834
L Rogers JP
Pike County Mo
State of Missouri
County of Pike} I MJ Noyas clerk of the county court within and for said county of Pike, certify that Lewis Rogers whose name is subscribed to the above certificate is and was at the date of his said certificate an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the said county of Pike, duly commissioned and qualified according to law, and that good faith and full credit are due and are and ought to be give to all his official acts as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county at the office of said court this 30th day of October AD 1834 and in the 59th year of the Independence of the United States
MJ Noyes clerk
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State of Missouri
County of Pike

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I Lewis Rogers a Justice of the peace for said county do certify that Samuel Watson the deponent named in the witness deposition is a credible person and that his statement is entitled  to full credit given under my hand 5th day of November 1834
L Rogers JP
Scr XIV
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
July 25th, 1842.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing 
the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United  States," The widow of Malcolm Henry deceased, late 
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Missouri 
Agency, at the rate of one hundred & twenty Dollars and
---- cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 
1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 
4th of March, to the 24th April 18340,

Respectfully yours,
Albion K Parris [signature]
Comptroller.


To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present
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Hyattsville Md March 4, 1911
Hon Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC
Sir 
Please send me the Revolutionary record of Malcolm Henry S16866 He was granted a pension July 25, 1838 and died April 24, 1840 in Lincoln County Missouri where he lived when put on pension list
I think he was a colonel in South Carolina troops
Also Robert McNair S16949 (McNair) Pennsylvania militia put on pension list Jany 9, 1834, in Lincoln County, Mo
Respectfully
Joseph A Mudd
[stamped
DIVISION 
RECORD
MAR 6
1911
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PHONE CABANY 1649 NOTARY PUBLIC
G A PAULY JR
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
6107 HORTON PLACE
"MODIAMONT"
ST LOUIS MO May 28 1926
Pension Bureau,
Washington, DC 
[stamped
PENSION 
U JUN 11 1926 S
OFFICE]
Gentlemen:
I am most eager to know if Malcom Henry Sr at any time received a pension for service in the Revolutionary war. He served from York District South Carolina lived there until about 1800 moved to Buncombe County North Carolina in about 1818 or near that time came to Lincoln County Missourt where he died in 1840.
I would also like to know if you have a Geiger pension for Revolutionary Service whose wife was Elizabeth Died in 1844 in Lincoln County Missouri children were Elizabeth John George died in Jefferson county Kentucky. Any assistance you can give me I can assume you will be greatly appreciated Thanking you for your generosity I am
Sincerely,
Mrs G A Pauly Jr
936 Laurel St. Louis, Mo
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St Louis, Mo
Aug 2 1926
Dear Mr Scott
Please accept my thanks for your generous assistance in sending the Reo pension file of Malcolm Henry. 
It is of great value and will be a guide in locating the other material necessary to complete my papers.
I am very grateful for your kindness and the time necessary to assemble
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the data

Very Respectfully,
(Mrs. GA Jr) Georgia R. Pauly

936 Laurel
St. Louis, Mo.