Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4864, Andrew Henderson, N.H.
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Service
N.H.

Henderson, Andrew

Number
R.4864
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Vermont
Rev
Andrew Henderson
Rejected
let S.H. Redfield
February 12, 1834

4864
Act 1832
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REJECTED
4864

Andrew Henderson

Pri N.H. B - Scotland 1752
Edinburgh
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Joseph Hall Affidavit for
Andrew Henderson
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State of Vermont
Orleans County

Be it remembered that before me a justice of Peace for said county on the fourteenth day of December AD 1833 comes Joseph Hall of Holland in the said county of Orleans to me personally known as a person entitled to full credit and made and subscribed the following affidavit - that in the year 1782 I resided in the town of Boulet in the state of New Hampshire and then and there saw Andrew Henderson who now resided in [illegible] in the province of lower Canada with a part of company of men under his command, which were said to be a part of the company of Captain Webster of Salisbury New Hampshire. Said Henderson was then acting in capacity of a sergeant and was going into the northern section of said state to guard the inhabitants from the Indians. He was gone a number of months, I should think at least six months, and I also saw said Henderson and his men when they returned to headquarters at Newbury Vermont. I am now aged sixty-five years.

Subscribed 7 sworn before me as aforesaid.

Joseph Hall - Justice of Peace

James Way
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State of Vermont
Orleans County

I Ira H Allen Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that James Way who has affixed his name to the within is a magistrate duly qualified and that I believe the same to be his genuine signature.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said court at Irasburgh this 18 day of Dec 1833.

Ira H Allen - Clerk
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Andrew Henderson
declaration for a 
pension
S F Redfield agent and Atty
Derby Vermont
rec'd 28 Jany
29538
reject
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State of Vermont
District of Orleans  ss
On this fourth day of September A.D.
1833, personally appeared in open
Court, before the Honourable [Honorable] Probate Court within and for the District of Orleans aforesaid now sitting at Duty in said
District Andrew Henderson a resident of the Township of Stanstead in the County of Stanstead and Province of Lower
Canada aged Eighty one years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and make the following declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefits
of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers
and served as herein stated, that in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty two at Hollis in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, where he then resided in the former part of the month of May of said year, he enlisted for an indefinite time in the company commanded 
by Captain [Illegible] Webster of Salisbury in the State of New [Illegible] there in the regiment commanded by Colonel Charles [Illegible] of [Illegible] in the State of N Hampshire that be served in said company
till the last of October or first of November he is certain be served in said company not less then seven months and was discharged
but without writing.  He mustered at General Baileys in Newbury , Vermont and there remained on drill near the said General
Baileys he in the Brigade General.  He was then sent to Portsmouth New Hampshire to the House of Joseph Whipple
for the purpose of guarding it from the  incursion of hostile [Illegible], he had ten or twelve men under his command and
continued there on [Illegible] with [Illegible] a written order to his charge the men under his command and his charge
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and sent them home. He has no documentary evidence and knows of no further evidence which he could procure to the service aforesaid, he was born in the city of Edinburgh in the Kingdom of Great Britain on the seventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two. He now resides in [illegible] aforesaid and has resided there for the space of ten years; previous to this he resided in the town of Salem in the state of New York for the [illegible] previous thereto he resided in [illegible] in Peterborough New Hampshire and as aforesaid. He hereby relinquishes all claims whatever to a pension or annuity and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

And. Henderson

I Abial Moulton a clergyman and Philip Verback farmer both residents in the province of Lower Canada hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Andrew Henderson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be eighty-one years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

Abial Moulton
Philip Verback
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I said you in this case the testimony of another witness which by your letter was required in this case.  I should send your letter, did it not contain the cases of two other applicants of which are not yet completed.
Due by Dec. 18, 1832
Truly yours
S. Fletcher Redfield
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Washington City.