Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 29232, George Horton, Penn.
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(8-1776)

SERVICE                                                                      NUMBER
Penn.               Horton, George                             S.29232

Born Dutchess Co N.Y.
CONTENTS
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[partially obscured] 0102
New York [crossed out]
Michigan Territory

George Horton

Tioga ___ in the State of New York
[obscured]he was a Private in the company command Captain Shoemaker of the Regt command Col Chambers in the Pennsylvania [obscured] for 3 years

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
in the rate of 80 Dollars [long dash] Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of December1832 and sent to  J Robin-son Elmira Tioga Co N.Y

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 [dash] $120.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33 [dash] 40.00
[line indicating equation]
$160.00

[In brackets bottom right]
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by [signature] Jno Cromwell  clerk
Book D Vol. J Page 127


Right page, handwritten sideways:

May 18, 1833 transfer to Michigan TY: and certif sent to Ellis Doty
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[Handwritten]

No. 10,230 [underlined]
George Horton


admitted

James Robinson
Elmira
Tioga Cy
New York
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[Handwritten at top of page]
No. 10230

BRIEF in the case of [typed]  George Horton of Tioga County [handwritten] of [typed] Tioga [handwritten] in the State of [typed] New York
[handwritten] 
(Act 7th June, 1832.) [typed]

[typed form]
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  
[handwritten] Before a Court

[typed form] 2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

[typed form] 3. How old is he?
[hand written] Seventy one years - 71

[typed form] State his service, as directed in the form annexed,

[table with 4 columns, Period. Duration of Service with Years, Months, Days. underneath Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.]

Enlisted in the Spring in 1780 until the latter end of 1783 [handwritten] 

3. 8. ---- [handwritten under Years, Months, Days, second column]                  

As a private [handwritten]

Gen. [typed] Col. John Chamberg Regt Pennsylvania [illegible] Capt Henry Shoemaker's company. [handwritten]

[typed form] 5. In what battles was he engaged?
Not Any [handwritten]

[typed form] 6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? 
Lower Smithfield, Northampton Co. Pennsylvania [handwritten]

[typed form] 7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? 
 By living witnesses, as to his service, His tradition is supported by the affidavity of a Clergyman and another respectable citizen of the same town, whose credibility is verified by the Court. [handwritten]

[typed form] 8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
No [handwritten]

[typed form] Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned

[signature] Chas. G Wilcox [typewritten] Examining Clerk.
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[handwritten top of page] apt. for Transfer 

[circular stamp] DETROIT MICHIGAN MAY 1

[handwritten address] 

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension office
City of Washington

FREE [stamped above address]
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County of Wayne:
On this 29th day of April 1833
before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the
Peace for said county of Wayne personally
appeared George Horton, who on his oath de-
clares that he is the same person who formerly
belonged to the company commanded by
Captain Shoemaker, in the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Stroud in the service of the United
States; that his name was placed on the pension
roll of the State of New York from whence
he has late removed; that he now resides
in the Territory of Michigan where he intends
to remain, and wishes his pension to be there
payable in future. The following are his
reasons for removing from the State of
New York to the Territory of Michigan
(viz) his children live in said Territory, and he
wishes to be with his Children.
Sworn & Subscribed to before
me the day & year aforesaid.     George Horton
J. Kearsley

Territory of Michigan and
County of Wayne SS: I Isaac S. Rowland Clerk of
the court of the county aforesaid certify that Jonathan
Kearsley is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing
 & following signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
affixed my seal of office and subscribed
my name this thirtieth day of April in
the year one thousand eight hundred and
thirty three.
Isaac S. Rowland
Clerk
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Territory of Michigan
County of Wayne SS: Personally appeared before me
the undersigned Justice of the Peace in & for the
county aforesaid John P. Sheldon who on oath
saith, that George Horton who has taken the
oath aforesaid, is the identicle person described
in said Affidafit.
Sworn & subscribed before me         Jno. P. Sheldon
this 29th day of April 1833

J. Kearsley
Justice of the Peace
Wayne County M.T.
County of Wayne SS: I certify that John P. Sheldon
the witness above is a person of truth & veracity
Detroit April 29th 1833.
J. Kearsley
Justice of the Peace
Wayne County M.T.
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Pension Agency
Detroit April 30th 1833
Sir
The foregoing application is submitted
for your disposition, and the result you will
please make known to me.
Respectfully,
E. Doty
P.A.

J. L. Edwards Esq.
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George Horton
Declaration
10.230

admitted
3 years
_______________
80  [illegible]

Direct to the Care of
James Robinson
Agent
Elmira, Tioga Co.
New York
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At a Court of Common Pleas holden at
the Court House in the Village of Elmira
in and for the County of Tioga Commencing
on the fourth day of September 1832.
Present Hon. Grant B. Baldwin first Judge, John
N. Drake Darius Bentley Joseph L. Darling & Elijah
Shoemaker Esqrs. Judges.

State of New York
TIoga County
On this 4th day of September
1832 personally appeared in Open Court before
the Judges aforesaid being a Court of
Record because made so by the Constitu-
tion and Laws of the State having by Law
& Clerks [illegible] Seal, Now Sitting, George
Horton a resident of the Town of Tioga in
the County of Tioga and State of New York
aged Seventy one years the twenty third
day of March last who being first duly
sworn according to Law doth on his oath
make the following declaration in order to
obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress
passed June 7th 1832 - That he entered
the service of the United States under the
following named officers and served as
herein stated. - That he enlisted in the
Spring of 1780 in the company commanded
by Capt. Henry Shoemaker for the term of
during the War. This company was under
the General orders, during a part of the
service, of Col. John Chambers, who, for
some reason or other, was called a
[illegible] Lieutenant. He continued in the
service till the latter end of the year
1783, when he was discharged having been
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upwards of three years and eight months
in the service. The nature of his service was 
Garrison duty, assistance in repairing some
of the old Forts and in the erection of some
New ones along the Pennsylvania side
of the Delaware River - at the time he
enlisted Captain Henry Shoemaker had
been in this service some years but
the ranks of his Company had become
very much thin'd by reason of the
espiration of their enlistments and there
were not at this period a sufficient
number of Troops in this service to man
the line of Fortifications upon the
delaware to protect the persons and
property of the inhabitants - At this crisis
a Message was sent by the People on this frontier
to Gen. Washington by Capt. Alexander
Patterson who brought us word from the
Commander in Chief that we must raise
as many troops as possible for during the
war and he would furnish such further
aid as his circumstances would permit
This induce many to enlist and two
companies were sent to our assistance
one company of nine months troops and
Captain Phillip Shrouders company of
three years men; also Capt. Hoover's com-
pany from the Jersey side of the River - 
we were also furnished with an
additional supply of Lead, camp kettles
and other munitions being already supplied
sufficiently with powder-
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By this timely aid we were enabled to
man the Forts, repair some old ones and
erect some new ones. through the service
aforesaid this deponent always took his
regular turn on sentrys, guards and scouts
till the time of his discharge after the Close of
the war - That he has no documentary
evidence of his services in his possession - 
That he has two living witnesses by whom
he can prove them Samuel Shoemaker
and Benjamin Brink.
And in answer to the several interrogatories
put to him by the Court he says that he
was born in Phillips Town, in the County of
Dutchess and State of New York on the
twenty third day of March 1761 - that he
has a record of his age in his fathers family
Bible which for fear it would become
obliterated he many years ago transferred
or copied into his own Bible in the [illegible]
of which he has full faith  - That when he 
entered the service he lived in the
Township of Lower Smithfield in the
County of Northampton and State of
Pennsylvania. After the Close of the war
he continued to live at the same place
several years - then lived a few years
in Mamacotten, County of Ulster Then at
his present residence in Tioga where he
has lived to the present time with the
exception of an excursion to the
Michigan Territory - That he entered the
Service as one of the Volunteer Militia
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That in addition to the officers and Troops
already mentioned he knew and was
acquainted with Col. Bond and the Troops
under his command or some of them who
were stationed on the Jersey side of the
River - That he never received and
other discharge than a verbal dismission
form the service - That he would defer
to Col. John Henry of Elmira in the
county of Tioga Captain Samuel Shoe-
maker of the same place and to Elijah
Shoemaker Gamaliel H. Barstow and Eman-
uel Coryell of Tioga aforesaid-
of the Town of Tioga in said last mentioned
county as persons who are well acquainted
with his reputation for truth and veracity
and who can testify to this belief in
the truth of the foregoing declaration
That he hereby relinquishes every claim
whatever to a pension or an annuity
except the present and declares that
his name is not on the pension roll
of the agency of any state - 
Sworn to & subscribed-
the day & year aforesaid                        George Horton
Green M Tuthill Clk
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We Simeon R. Jones a clergyman resident
in the Town of Southport and John Miller
of the same place
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
George Horton who has subscribed and sworn
to the above declaration; that we believe him
to be Seventy 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 -                             Simeon R. Jones
Sworn and subscribed  John Miller
the day & year aforesaid
Green M. Tuthill Clk

State of New York
Tioga County
Samuel Shoemaker of Elmira County 
and State aforesaid aged Seventy years and
upwards being duly sworn doth depose and
say that George Horton, who has subscribed
and sworn to the foregoing declaration enlisted
in the Spring of 1780 in the company of
Capt. Henry Shoemaker in the County of North-
hampton in the State of Pa for the term of during
the war, and at the time of his enlistment Col.
John Chambers commanded - This deponent
was Lieutenant of the same company till
some time in the fall of that year and well
remembers that this said Horton served
in the said company up to the time last 
mentioned and understood that he continued
in the service till the close of the war in the fall
of 1780 and has no doubt of that fact -
Sworn & subscribed                                   Saml Shoemaker
this 4th day of Sept 1832
before me-
Green M. Tuthill Clk
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State of New York
Tioga County
Benjamin Brink of the
Town of Elmira in the County and State aforesaid
aged Sixty Nine years and upwards being
duly sworn according to Law doth depose and
say that George Horton who has subscribed
and sworn to the foregoing declaration enlisted
in the company of Capt. Henry Shoemaker
under Col. John Cambers in the Spring of the
year 1780 for the term of during the war, and
served therein till in the fall of 1783 when
the Company were dismissed. That he this
deponent served in the same company during
all of the same time but at times were stationed
in different posts from each other -
Sworn & Subscribed          Benjamin Brink
this 4th day of Sept 1832
before me
Green M. Tuthill Clk
And the said court do hereby declare
their opinion after the investigation
of the matter and after putting the
interrogatories 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 Simeon R. Jones who has signed
the preceding certificate is a Clergyman
resident in the Town of Southport in
the County of Tioga and State of
New York and that John Miller 
who has also signed the same is a
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resident in the same Town and is a
credible person and that their
statement is entitled to credit-
And the Court futher certifies that
Samuel Shoemaker and Benjamin
Brink whose affidavits are hereto
annexed are credible persons and that
their statements are entitled to credit
J. B. Baldwin
First Judge

I Green M. Tuthill Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas aforesaid do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court in the
matter of the application of George Horton
for a pension - 
In testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my 
hand & seal of Office
this 8th day of Sept. 1832
Green M. Tuthill
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O. W. and N Division 3-525
[illegible]
Serv. File 29.232
Rev. Mar.

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.,

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of George Horton, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [crossed out] or his widow's [typed] application for pension on file in this Bureau.

[Table]

[Column 1] DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
[Handwritten] Northampton Co Pa
Sp 1980
to
fall 1783

[Column 2] LENGTH OF SERVICE.
3 yrs 8 mos.

[Column 3] RANK.

[Column 4] OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
[Sub-Column 4-1] CAPTAIN.
Henry Shoemaker
[Sub-column 4-2] COLONEL.
John Chambers

[Column 5] STATE.
Pa.

[Ends column, returns to form]
Battles engaged in, [blank line with check mark]

Residence of soldier at enlistment, [Handwritten] Lower Smithfield Twp. Northampton Co., Pa-

Date of application for pension, [Handwritten] Sept. 4, 1832 - Allowed.

Residence at date of application, [Handwritten] Tioga, Tioga Co., N.Y.

Age at date of application, [Handwritten] B. Phillipstown Dutchess Co., NY. Mch 23, 1761.

Remarks, [check mark] [Handwritten] In 1833 soldier removed to Michigan to live with his ch. whose names are not mentioned.

Very respectfully,

20581b3m11-05

Commissioner.
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29 232
Revy INVALID

File No. 29,232
George Horton
Ser Rev War

Act: June 7" 32"
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 192

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[Handwritten] 1906 Aug 29. Hist. Co
Thos. D. Horton
1910 July 6 Mrs. A. B. Avelyth of date of death is not stated. Apply to Auditor [illegible] Letter in S.f. 34687 Joshua Chamberlain.
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[Handwritten] Aot

3-871

RECORD DIVISION.

Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

Briefed by A. Weir D L 8/6'/10

Claim No.

Certificate No.

Claimant

Soldier [Handwritten] George Horton

Service [Handwritten] Pa.

Additional Service [Handwritten] Rev.

No.    claim, State records   , 191   

No claim, combination records   , 191

REMARKS:

[Handwritten] Serv. File No. 29232
[Handwritten] (No others)

[Handwritten] No Wid. NO.
[Handwritten] [ditto mark] Rej.

6-1944    Chief Division
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Ballard Wash Aug 19/06
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir
Have you any record in
your Office of George Horton
drawing a pension for service
in the Revolutionary War from
May 1780 until Sept 1783
he was in Captain Henry
Shoemakers company Pennsylvania
troops
I am his grand son
and I would like to know

Yours Resp.
Thomas D. Horton
1212 4th Ave
Ballard
Wash
[stamped U.S. PENSION OFFICE AUG 27 1906]
[stamp partially obscured bearing date AUG 27 1906]
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Record Division

July 6, 1910.

Mrs. A. B. Avery
101 Lawrence Street,
Pontiac, Mich.

Madam:
In reply to your letter dated the 23rd and received the 27th ultimo,
you are advised that in the claim of George Horton, Sur. File No. 29,232,
Revolutionary War, the date of his death is not stated.
For date of last payment of pension and probable date of death, ap-
plication should be made to the Auditor for the Interior Department, U.S.
Treasury Department, citing the following data: George Horton, Certificate
No. 3, 152, issued December 15, 1832, under Act of June 7, 1832, at the
Michigan Agency.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner