Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9,617, for Henry Randolph, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
Randolph, Henry or Randel
Nancy
NUMBER
W. 9.617
CONTENTS
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17.733
Kentucky.
Henry Randolph, of Shelby Co. in the state of Kentucky, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel M. Coy, of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of three years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 of September, 1819.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of Sept. 1820 and sent to James Sinnall, agent, Shelbyville, Kentucky.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1820. $89.86
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March 1821 $48.00
11 mo. 7/30.
$137.86.
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
and 1st May, 1820.
File March 1821
Dead. See letter to P. Randolph, July 7. 1842.
Died 16 June 1836
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5584
Indiana, Madison
Nancy Randall, widow of Henry Randolph, deceased, Penn., who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1848 and ends 5 September 1849.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of February 1837 and sent to J. P. Cooper, Marshall, Illinois.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 333. Vol. 3
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When the warrant is issued, please send it by mail to J. P. Cooper, Marshall, Illinois
E W M Gaughey
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12.54
3443
State of Illinois
Clark County, ss.
On this 18th day of November, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty, personally appeared before me, John W. Barlow, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Philip Randolph and Lucy Randolph, residents of the County of Vigo and State of Indiana, aged forty years past, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on their oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2nd February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons, who served during the Revolutionary war. That they are the son and daughter of Nancy Randolph, who was the widow of Henry Randolph, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution. They cannot state the company, Regiment, or corps in which he served, nor the names of his officers that he served under. That the said Henry Randolph, their father and husband of the said Nancy Randolph, their mother, were both Revolutionary pensioners of the United States and they beg leave to refer to their applications for a pension on file in the Pension Office at Washington City. That the said Nancy Randolph, their mother, was a pensioner of the United States, and received a pension under the act of July 7th, 1838, March 3d 1843 and June 17th, 1844, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, and that the said Nancy Randolph resided in the county
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of Vigo and State of Indiana, and was placed on the Indiana Pension Roll and agency at Madison, Indiana. That the said Nancy Randolph died in Vigo County, Indiana, on the 5th day of September in the year 1849 and left at the time of her death the said two only living children, who are now living, viz. the said Philip and Lucy Randolph. They further declare that the said Nancy Randolph continued to remain a widow, until she died, as aforesaid.
Philip Randolph
Lucy Randolph [her mark]
Sworn to and subscribed on this 18th day of November 1830 before me.
John W Barlow, J.P.
I certify, that the above-named affiants are personally known to me, and that they are the son and daughter of Nancy Randolph, the same identical individual who drew a pension as stated by them in the foregoing affidavit. Given under my hand at the County of Clarke and State of Illinois this 18th day of November 1830.
John W Barlow, J.P.
State of Illinois
Clark County, ss.
I, Darius Phillips, Clerk of the county court in and for the County and state aforesaid, do hereby certify, that John W. Barlow is a Justice of the Peace in and for
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said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 17th day of December 1849, and will expire on the 17th day of December 1853, and that his signatures above written are genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County this 18th day of November 1830.
Darius Phillips, Clerk
State of Illinois
Clark County, ss.
I, Darius Phillips, Clerk of the county court for Probate business, holden at Marshall in and for the County of Clark and State of Illinois, do hereby certify, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said court, that Nancy Randolph, widow of Henry Randolph, deceased, was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum; was a resident of the County of Vigo and state of Indiana and died in the County of Vigo and State of Indiana in the year of our Lord 1849, on the 5th day of September.  That she left two only children who are now living, viz, Philip Randolph and Lucy Randolph.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at my office at Marshall, this 18th day of November 1830.
Darius Phillips, Clerk
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8121
Nancy Randolph of Henry
Indiana
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State of Indiana
Vigo County, ss.
On this Eleventh day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one, personally appeared before me, Jacob Jones, one of the associate Judges of the circuit court in and for the County of Vigo and state of Indiana (said court being a court of Record and having a clerk and official seal), Nancy Randolph, a resident of said county of Vigo, aged now about seventy six years, who being first duly sworn by me 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 Randolph who was a private in the army of the revolutionary war. She cannot state correctly the names of the officers under whom he served nor the day, month or year he entered the service, nor the troop to which he belonged, nor when he left the service (but believes he served to the end of the war), nor does she recollect anything now certain about his period of service nor the country through he was marched nor particularly of the battles he was in. But she thinks one of the officer's names was Wilson, under whom he served, but disremembers whether he was a Captain or Colonel.
She further declares, that her husband, the aforesaid Henry Randolph, was a Pensioner of the United States, and placed on the Pension list or Roll in the Pension agency in the state of Kentucky some ten, twelve or thirteen years ago, at the rate of ninety six dollars a year, she thinks, and drew his pay while living at Lexington in the state of Kentucky.
She further declares that she was married to the said Henry Randolph about the [blank] day of [blank] in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, near Beardstown in the State of Kentucky, she thinks in the County now called Nelson. She declares that she may be
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mistaken as to the day and month in which she was married as aforesaid but recollects distinctly it was in the Summer of the year 1787. She further declares that the marriage aforesaid was celebrated by one William Taylor, then a Baptist Preacher in that country, and that the aforesaid marriage took place in the early settlement of Kentucky in that part of it, and from the best information she has ever been able as yet to obtain, there never was kept any record of their said marriage in Kentucky, nor was there ever kept by any of the family, or families to which they belonged, or by her or her said husband, any family record of her said marriage nor of their children born afterwards. She further declares that she has had born in wedlock with the said Henry Randolph, twelve children, to wit, John Randolph aged now 53 years past, who resides in Bullett County, Kentucky, next, William who is now dead, Elizabeth aged 49 years past, Lucy aged now about 46 years, one who died in its infancy, James, Polly, and Nancy, who are all dead. Henry Randolph, who now resides in Clark County, Illinois, George, who now resides in Spencer County, Kentucky, Phillip, who resides in Vigo County, Indiana, and Isaac Randolph who resides in Penillion County, Illinois, aged now 32 years past.
She further declares that her husband, the aforesaid Henry Randolph, died in Spencer County, Kentucky, about the 15th day of June in the year eighteen hundred and thirty six, and that she is the same identical person and widow who drew the arrears of Pension due the said Henry Randolph at the time of his decease as aforesaid, being about fifteen dollars, and that she then resided in Spencer County, Kentucky, in the year 1836 and drew it shortly after his decease. That she was not married to him (the said Henry Randolph, now deceased) 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.
She further declares that she never has intermarried with any other person since the death of the said Henry Randolph aforesaid,
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but yet remains his widow and now resides in the County of Vigo and state of Indiana and has resided there for the space of three years past, and previous thereto she resided in the Counties of Palson, Shelly and Spencer in the State of Kentucky.
Nancy Randolph [her mark]
Sworn to and subscribed before me this eleventh day of December A.D. 1841.
Jacob Jones, Associate Judge
State of Indiana
Vigo County, Sct.
I, Jacob Jones, the Associate Judge before whom the above declaration of Nancy Randolph was made, do certify that I attended at the residence of the said Nancy Randolph in said county, and then and there took her said declaration, as above, and that I am of the opinion that the said Nancy Randolph is of the age of seventy six years as he states and that from her advanced age and consequent weak and apparently debilitated state of health and bodily infirmity, she is unable to appear personally [illegible] and before the court in and for said county, partly owing from the great distance she resides from the place of holding Courts in said County of Vigo. Given under my hand at said County this eleventh day of December 1841.
Jacob Jones, Associate Judge
State of Indiana
Vigo County, Sct.
Be it remembered that on this the Eleventh day of December 1841 personally appeared before me, Jacob Jones, one of the associate judges in and for said county, Phillip Randolph of said County, aged thirty-four years past, who being by me duly sworn upon his oath, says that he is a son of Henry Randolph and
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Nancy Randolph, his widow named in the Declaration of the said Nancy Randolph above hereto annexed, that the said Henry Randolph was a Pensioner of the United States, and placed on the Pension list or Roll in the Pension agency of the state of Kentucky some twelve or thirteen years ago, at the rate of ninety six dollars a year and drew his money at Lexington, Kentucky,  until he died; that the said Henry Randolph died in Spencer County, Kentucky, on the 15th day of June in the year 1836. That he was present at his death and burial, that the said Nancy Randolph, the above declarant, is his widow, and resided with him, the said Henry Randolph, from the earliest recollection of this affiant, up to his death as aforesaid; that the said declarant is the same identical person and widow of the said Henry Randolph, deceased, who drew the arrears of Pension being about fifteen dollars
due the said Henry Randolph, at the time of his death as aforesaid, that the said Nancy Randolph, then resided in Spencer County, Kentucky, and has since removed to the County of Vigo and State of Indiana, with this affiant, where she now resides. That the said Nancy Randolph has never as yet, intermarried with any other person since the death of the said Henry Randolph, but is yet living in said county of Vigo, unmarried, and remains the widow of the said Henry Randolph, deceased. Further saith not.
Philip Randolph
Sworn to and subscribed before me this eleventh day of December A.D. 1841.
Jacob Jones, Associate Judge
I, Jacob Jones, one of the associate judges of the circuit court in and for the County of Vigo and State of Indiana, before whom the above Deposition of Phillip Randolph was taken, subscribed and sworn to, do certify, that the said Phillip Randolph is a person of credibility, truth and veracity
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which I hereby certify from my own personal knowledge. Given under my hand at said county this eleventh day of December A.D. 1841.
Jacob Jones, Associate Judge
State of Indiana
Vigo County, Sc.
I, Charles T. Noble, Clerk of the circuit court in and for the County of Vigo and State of Indiana, do certify that Jacob Jones, whose official signatures appear to the above and foregoing Declaration of Nancy Randolph and the certificate of bodily infirmity, as also to the above Deposition of Phillip Randolph and to the certificate of credibility thereof, respectively, was on the day of the date thereof one of the associate Judges of the circuit court in and for the said County of Vigo, duly commissioned and qualified as such, that full faith and credit are due all his official acts as such, and that his said signatures thereto are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said court at my office in Terre Haute this thirteenth day of December Anno Domini 1841.
Charles T Noble, Clerk
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Commonwealth of Kentucky, Shelly County, ss.
Shelly Circuit Court June term 1828
On this 30th day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record of Common Law and Criminal Jurisdiction for the County and Circuit aforesaid, Henry Randolph, aged near sixty nine years, resident in said County and State, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, that he entered the service of the United States in the year 1776, in the Company commanded by Captain John Wilson in the Regiment commanded by Col. M. Cay, who died at Trenton. The Regiment then commanded by Col. Wilson, and then the Regiment was commanded by Col. Broadhead any by Lieut. Col. Boyer, by whom he was discharged in month of August 1779. He further states that he made application by his declaration dated 28th Sept. 1819 for a pension which was [illegible] for proof of service as by endorsement on the back of the same, dated 26 April 1820, which proof of service he has since had in his power to procure by the oaths of Peter Young and Thomas Montgomery, residents of Nelson County, Ky., who served with him in the same regiment and he further states that he is old
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and very infirm. He follows the occupation of farming but is unable to do that labor. Has a wife and two children living with him, both boys, one near fifteen years old, the other about thirteen years old. 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 to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. The following is a schedule of his property, to wit: One old [illegible] Horse worth $5, One Cow and Calf worth $12, 9 Small Hogs $9, three sheep $3, some cooking utensils and table furniture worth about $5, amounting in the whole to about $34.
Henry Rudolph
The said Henry Randolph also declares that he was from his infancy up to the time of his
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enlistment and while in the service called and known by the name of Henry Randel, but he believes his discharge was made out in the name of Randolph, as some of the officers stated to him while in the service that his name ought to be Randolph, and not Randel, which he agreed to, and has since that time been called by and signed his name as Randolph and further sayeth not.
Henry Randolph
Also, Peter Young and Thomas Montgomery, citizens of the County of Nelson in the State of Kentucky, made Oath in open Court that they were each of them acquainted with Henry Randolph while he was in the service of the United states in the Continental war, that they served in the same Regiment together, that he served for the term of three years in the Regiment as set forth by himself in the foregoing declaration. 
That the said Randolph went by the name of and was called Henry Randel at that time, but that they have been acquainted from that time to the present, and they know him to be the person and that he has for a long time been called and known as Henry Randolph.
Signed
Peter Young
Thomas Montgomery
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Sworn to and declared on the 30th day of June 1820 in open Court by Henry Randolph, Peter Young and Thomas Montgomery,
Test. Saml. Davis, Clerk, SCC
I, Samuel Davis, Clerk of the Shelby Circuit Court in the 4th Judicial District in and for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court and 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 Thirty four Dollars.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my private seal, there being yet no Seal provided for said Court. On this first day of July 1820 29th year of the Commonwealth.
Saml. Davis, Clerk
Shelby Circuit Court
4th Judicial District
Henry Randolph
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Henry Randall and Nancy Bennett
Certificate of Marriage
[illegible] $1.25
by Redman and Thomas
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Commonwealth of Kentucky
Nelson County, ss.
I, Nathaniel Wickliffe, Clerk of the County Court for said County, in the State aforesaid, certify that in a book of Registers of Marriages in my office is the following record of the Marriage of Henry Randall and Nancy Bennett (viz)
"Henry Randal and Nancy Bennett, 28 August 1787, Wm. Taylor."
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County Court this 11th day of March 1842.
Nathaniel Wickliffe, Clerk
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State of Illinois
Clark County, Sct.
Be it known that on this 10th day of December A.D. 1841, personally appeared before me, Almer Stack, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, John Bennett, Senior, aged now sixty two years past, now a resident of said county, who being by me duly sworn upon his oath says, that he is a brother of Nancy Randolph, late Nanny Bennett, who is now the widow of Henry Randolph, now deceased, that he recollects that his sister, Nancy Bennett, was married to the said Henry Randolph in Nelson County, Kentucky, when this affiant was a boy about eight years old. He recollects that the marriage took place about two years after his father, John Bennett, left Cox's Fort on Cox's Creek in that county, which he yet well recollects; that the marriage of the said Henry Randolph and his sister Nancy took place about the year 1787. He thinks it must have been in the summertime, but the day of the week or month he cannot speak of now with certainty, and that the marriage was celebrated by William Taylor, who was then a Baptist Preacher in that county. That the said Henry Randolph and Nancy, his wife, resided and lived together as man and wife from the time of their said marriage up to the time of the death of the said Henry Randolph, which took place about five years ago last summer in Spencer County, Kentucky, that the said Henry Randolph was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of ninety six dollars a year and was placed on the pension list or Roll in the agency of Kentucky at Lexington. That the said Henry Randolph and Nancy Randolph had born in wedlock twelve children, the eldest is John, who is now about fifty-three years old last, next William, who is dead, three other children who are dead also, Elizabeth, Lucy, Henry, George, Phillip and Isaac, and one who died in its infancy. That the said Henry Randolph, now deceased, and Nancy Randolph, his wife, resided in the State of Kentucky from the time of their said marriage, in the counties of Nelson, Shelby and Spencer until
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the time of the death of the said Henry Randolph as aforesaid. That the said Nancy Randolph, widow of the said Henry Randolph, deceased, has since the death of the said Henry Randolph, removed from Spencer County, Kentucky to Vigo County, Indiana, where she now resides with her son, Phillip Randolph, and is the same identical person who married the said Henry Randolph, now deceased, as aforesaid, and is the widow of the said Henry Randolph, deceased, and has never yet intermarried with any other person since the death of the said Henry Randolph.
This affiant further states, that he has always been familiarly and personally acquainted with the families of his father Bennett and the said Henry Randolph, deceased, and has never knew or heard of any family record having been kept of the ages or marriages of any of the members of either family. Further saith not.
John Bennett
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of December 1841.
Abner Stark, J.P.
Also, at the same time and place, came Lucy Redmon, a resident of said county, aged fifty years past, who being by me duly sworn upon her oath says that she is a sister of Nancy Randolph, who now resides in Vigo County, Indiana, with her son Phillip Randolph, that this affiant well recollects of Henry Randolph and the said Nancy Randolph, living together as man wife from her earliest recollection, to the time of the death of the said Henry Randolph, which took place in Spencer County, Kentucky, about five years ago last summer. This affiant recollects that her sister, Nancy Randolph, had born in reputed wedlock, twelve children John, who resides in Kentucky, who is now she thinks fifty three years old past, that William, James Polly and Nancy, who are all dead, and one other child that died in its infancy, Elizabeth Lucy, Henry, who resides in Clark County, Illinois,
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George, who resides in Nelson County Kentucky. Phillip, who resides in Vigo County, Indiana, and Isaac, who resides in Vermillion County, Illinois. That the said Henry Randolph, deceased, was a pensioner of the United States, at the rate of ninety-six dollars a year and drew his money at Lexington, Kentucky. That the said Nancy Randolph, now residing in Vigo County, Indiana, is the identical person and widow of the said Harry Randolph, deceased, who was a pensioner on the Kentucky Roll and Pension agency, and resided in Spencer County, Kentucky, at the time of his death, as aforesaid.
Lucy Redman
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of December A.D. 1841.
Abner Stark, J.P.
I, Abner Stark, the justice of the Peace before whom the above and foregoing Deposition of John Bennett, Senior, and Lucy Redman were taken, subscribed and sworn to this day, do certify that the said John Bennett, Senior, and Lucy Redman, are both persons of undoubted truth, respectability and veracity, which I certify from my own personal knowledge. Given under my hand this 10th day of December 1841.
Abner Stark, J.P.
State of Illinois
Clark County, Sct.
I, Davis Phillips, Clerk of the county commissioners court in and for the County of Clark and State of Illinois, do certify that Abner Stark, whose official signatures appear to the above foregoing Depositions of John Bennett, Senior, and Lucy Redman to the certificate of credibility thereof, as having been taken before him, was on the day of the date thereof respectively, an acting justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Clark, duly commissioned and qualified as such, that full faith and credit are due all such
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his official acts and deeds and that his said signatures thereto are genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed and affixed the official seal of said court at my office in Marshall this 24th day of December Anno Domini 1841.
Darius Phillips, Clerk
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., [blank], 19[blank]
W.F. 9617
In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Henry Randel or Randolph, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. (CAPTAIN., COLONEL.) | STATE.
Aug 1776 | Aug 1779 | Private | John Wilson, Mackey, Wilson, Broadhead | Penna.
Battles engaged in, Brandywine and Germantown
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted in Redstone Settlement, Penna.
Date of application for pension, Sept 28, 1819. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Shelby County, Ky.
Age at date of application, 68 years. He died June 15, 1836, in Spencer County, Ky.
Remarks: 
He married Aug. 28, 1787, in Nelson County, Ky., Nancy, daughter of John Bennet. He was allowed pension on an application executed Dec. 1, 1841, while a resident of Vigo Co., Indiana, aged 76 years. There were 12 children: John 53 yrs old in 1841, William, Elizabeth 49 years old and Lucy, 46 years in 1841, James, Polly, Nancy, Henry, George, Phillip and Isaac, who was 22 years old in 1841. One child whose name is not stated, died in infancy. Widow died Sept. 5, 1849, in Vigo Co., Indiana, at which time Philip and Lucy were the only surviving children.
Respectfully,
[blank]
Commissioner.
6-2856
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1919 Oct. 2 History to Mrs. Jacqueline Edwards
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 9617
Nancy Randolph, Widow of Henry Randolph, Private, Rev. War
Act: February 2, 1848
Index: -- Vol. M. Page 149
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Nancy Rudolph, widow of Henry Rudolph
Act 7 July 1838
Indiana case, see letter 27 Dec
[illegible] March 16, 1842 to J. P. [illegible]
Rejected do to Hon. J. H. [illegible], H.R. Aug [illegible]
👉🏼 See letter to Philip Randolph 7 July 1842
👉🏼 Randolph died after 7 June 1832
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Nancy Randolph
Act 2 Feb 1848
Admitted $80 per annum, commencing 4 March 1848, and ending 4 Sept 1849, when she died, payable to Philip Randolph and Lucy Randolph, only surviving children.
Madison Roll
J. P. Cooper
Marshall, Illinois
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8121
Nancy Randolph of Henry
Indiana
Admitted
Private 2 years $80
Capt. Wilson, Col. McCoy, Pa.
Died 15 June 1836
Act 7 July 1838
Timothy R. Young
Marshall, Ill.
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6830
Indiana
Nancy Randolph, widow of Henry Randolph who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 15 June 1836 of Vigo Co. in the State of Indiana who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Wilson of the regiment commanded by Col. McCoy in the Pennsylvania line for 2 years.
of the
in
Inscribed on the Roll of Madison, Indiana, at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of October 1842 and sent to Timothy R. Young, Esq. Marshall, Illinois.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $400
Semiannual allowance ending [blank]
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. Brown, Clerk,
Book A, Vol. 2, Page 221
Reported to Agent
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Indiana
3443.
Madison
Nancy Randolph, widow of Henry Randolph who was a Private in the Revolution.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of Dec. 1843 and sent to Pensioner, Marshall, Illinois
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A, Vol. 1, Page 180.
Reported
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Henry Randolph, Shelby Co. Kentucky
Col. McCoy's and Broadhead's Pennsylvania Regiment
1776 3 years-
28th Sept. 1819
(Not on roll)
Service proved by the oath of two persons in open Court.
Proof of service is rescinded. Let it be by 2 credible and disinterested witnesses duly qualified before a Judge of Court.
Worth $34
James Simrall, Agent, Shelbyville, Kentucky 
5th August 1820
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Commonwealth of Kentucky
Fourth Judicial District: Shelby County, Sct.
Be it remembered that on this 28th day of September 1819, before me, the Subscriber, one of the circuit judges for the circuit and commonwealth aforesaid, personally appeared Henry Randolph, aged about Sixty Eight years, resident in the County of Shelby in said circuit, who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War." That he, the said Henry Randolph, enlisted in Redstone settlement in the State of Pennsylvania in the month of August 1776 in the company commanded by Captain John Wilson of the Pennsylvania Regiment then commanded by Col. McCoy, that he continued to serve in said Regiment or Corps and in the service of the United States until the month of August 1779, when he was discharged from service at Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania by Col. Broadhead, the then commander of said Regiment. That he was in the battles of Brandywine, and Germantown, and a number of skirmishes during his term of service. He further states that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. That he has long since lost or mislaid his discharge and that he has no other evidence now in his possession of his said services. Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Samuel McKee
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State of Kentucky 4th Judicial District
Shelby County, Sct.
I, Samuel McKee, Judge of the circuit courts of this Commonwealth and allotted to the 4th Indiana district which includes the County of Shelby, do hereby certify that I am satisfied that Henry Randolph of Shelby County did serve the United States in the Continental line in the Revolutionary war, for about three years. I am also satisfied from the evidence of credible witnesses sworn before me that the said Henry Randolph has no estate at all adequate to his support but is in reduced circumstances and needs the aid of his Country and I herewith transmit the statement taken before me to the Secretary of War. Given under my hand and seal this 28th day of September 1819.
Samuel McKee [seal]
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Commonwealth of Kentucky, Shelby Circuit, Sct.
I, Samuel Davis, Clerk of the Court for the aforesaid, do hereby certify that Samuel McKee, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, is one of the Judges of the Circuit Courts in the Commonwealth aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified as such and that all due faith and credit are and ought to be given to all his official acts as such and that his said certificate is in due form of Law.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my private seal, there not having been any seal of office yet proved, this 23 day of October 1819.
Samuel Davis
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Nancy Randolph, widow of Henry Randolph, deceased
3 years pension
No answer required
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State of Illinois, Clark County, ss.
Marshall 8th January 1842
Hon. J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
Yours of the 27, ult., saying that the papers in the case of Mrs. Nancy Randolph of Indiana, widow of Henry Randolph, had been examined and filed with suspended cases, the proof of the period of the marriage being not sufficient and if there be no family record of the marriage or of the births of the children, it should be shown by the certificate of the Clerk of the County where the claimant was married, what evidence of the marriage the records in his office afford" was duly received yesterday.
I have on yesterday written to the Clerk of the County Court of Nelson County, Kentucky, and also to the Clerk of Spencer County, Ky., requesting them to certify or write to the Commissioner of Pensions, at Washington City, what evidence the records of their office afford in relation to the marriage, which will be done immediately, I presume.
I had forgotten which of the counties in Kentucky the marriage took place and took no notes from the claimant having within the declaration at her residence in Indiana, 25 miles from my office here, and cannot now conveniently see the old lady for information.
If upon the receipt of this, I should have been mistaken as to the county where the Declarant was married, I hope your honor  will have the goodness to request by letter, the Clerk of the proper County to give the proper certificate of the marriage, if any should be in his office, or to say to you whether the
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Record of his office afford any proof of the marriage.
There is no family record of the marriage, or of the births of the children, which the declaration of the claimant and the affidavits of the witnesses now on file in the Pension office I think clearly show in this case. If not, however, it is really so, as I have been credibly informed by several of the family and the old lady also.
I think the declaration shows there is no record evidence in Kentucky of the marriage, for some unknown reason, as is the case pretty generally, I believe, of the marriages before and shortly after the war.
I suppose that all the other proof in this case is satisfactorily shown by the references made and proof exhibited and referred to in the papers filed.
Upon the receipt of the requisite certificate of the proper Clerk as to the marriage, please correspond with me further upon the subject, or enclose the certificate of Pension to me at this place.
Very respectfully,
Your most obedient servant,
J. Cooper
Query: Must the declaration for an invalid pensioner, the wound having been received in the late war, be made before a court of Record or if not, before whom may it be made, and must the testimony in such a case be taken by a [illegible]  appointed by the District Judge, or may it be taken before a Justice of the Peace as in other pension cases?
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Nancy Randolph
$80 per annum
To the pensioner at Marshall, Illinois
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State of Illinois. Clark County.
Marshall 22nd July 1843
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose to you the Declaration of Nancy Randolph (widow of Henry Randolph) of Vigo County, Indiana, for a pension under the act of March 3rd, 1843.
You will please enclose to me at this place her Pension certificate, &c. such other correspondence in relation to the claim that may seem necessary.
With much respect, I have the honor to be your most obedient servant.
J. P. Cooper
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Prainiton, Ia.
Jun 24
July 5, 1842
Nancy Randolph, Indiana
Hon. J. L. Edwards, Commission of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.
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State of Indiana
Vigo County
June the 24. 1842
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Having understood that the proof in the pension claim is compete in the case of Nancy Randolph for a five years' pension as the widow of Henry Randolph, deceased, and that papers are suspended for the present from J. P. Cooper, Esq., of Marshall, Clark County, Illinois, for some reason unknown to me.
I hereby request that you forward the pension certificate to said Cooper on the receipt of this to Marshall, Clark County, Illinois. Mr. Cooper is the attorney for me in this case to whom I again request it to be sent.
Yours respectfully,
Nancy Randolph
P.S. At the request of Nancy Randolph above named, who is my mother and lives with me, I wrote the above for her.
Yours and so forth,
Philip Randolph
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May 9, 1842
Additional proof
Nancy Randolph
J. P. Cooper
Marshall, Illinois
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State of Illinois, Clark County
Marshall 1st May 1842
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
I herein enclose to you a certificate from the Clerk of Nelson County, Kentucky, of the marriage record of Henry Randolph and Nancy Bennett, containing all the evidence therein existing in the office of that marriage. Mrs. Nancy Randolph, the widow of the said Henry, is an applicant for a Pension whose papers are on file with suspended cases waiting the proof of the marriage from that county.
I have heretofore requested the Clerk to forward to the Pension Office at Washington City a certificate of the marriage, if any existed, or if not to inform the department of that fact, which may have been done, if not, please on the receipt of this, enclose the certificate of Pension to me at this place.
You will see that the name in the Clerk's certificate is spelled "Randall" in place of Randolph, which latter name is the proper one, although they are most frequently called "Randall."
Yours very respectfully,
J. P. Cooper
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State of Illinois, Clark County
Marshall December 1844
Hon J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
I have the honor to herein enclose to you the Declaration and accompany Depositions &c. of Nancy Randolph, widow of Henry Randolph, deceased, for a five years' pension to said widow. As you will see, the Deposition of Phillip Randolph of Vigo County, Indiana, and of John Bennett, Senior and of Lucy Redman of Clark County, Illinois, is all the proof, I presume, that the widow now is in possession of, but which is supposed to be sufficient. There is no record proof to be had of the marriage. The day of the month and month the marriage took place is left blank in her Declaration. The old lady is illiterate and has nothing to speak from to be correct in that particular and was not willing on that account to specify the day certain.
Please address and enclose all correspondence and communications upon the subject, or certificate to me at this place. This claim I suppose will be made payable in the Indiana Pension agency.
Query. Is it necessary now for the agent directed to pay these five years widows' pensions in the several states, to return the papers to the Pension office at Washington City for further order to pay before he pays the claim, in cases where the claim is allowed eight months after the 4th March 1841.
I have the honor to be very Respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J.L. Cooper
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[Stamp: Marshall, Ill. Dec 17]
Hon. J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City, D.C.
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I desire to call the attention of the Commissioner to the within letter. Have the papers been received at your office? If so, when will they be acted upon? Please return this letter when you have examined the subject to which it relates.
Respectfully,
E.W. McGaughey
House of Representatives
Jan 6th, 1857.
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Marshall, Illinois, Dec. 28th, 1850.
Hon. E. W. McGahey
Dear sir,
Sometime in November last, I sent enclosed to your care, a pension claim for the children of Nancy Randolph of Indiana, deceased, under the act of 2nd February 1848, for arrears of allowance.
And also, at same time, their claim for arrearages of pension due them at the time of her death, under act of June 17th, 1844. Each in due form, the latter payable at the Treasury of the U.S.
I have not heard from them, nor you, in reply, as yet. And knowing that some cause of delay exists, on account of changes in the Pension Office and consequently great confusion and danger of loss of claims, under the circumstances.
Will you be so good as to pardon me for again calling your attention to both these claims, and of the necessity perhaps of seeing to them in person and urging them to hunt them up and have them attended to and allowed.
And when received, he so kind as to be particular and enclose them to me at Marshall, Illinois.
I find other members of Congress have to frequent the Pension Office, to hunt up claims long since presented and lost in the depth of matters, in their confusion there.
Your attention and reply will place me under only renewed devotion to you.
Yours truly,
J.P. Cooper
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State of Indiana, Vigo County
4th October 1842
Hon. J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I have understood that my Pension claim has been suspended from J. P. Cooper, Esq., my attorney, who resides at Marshall, Clarke County, Illinois, for some cause. I have therefore transferred the care and attention of the claim to Timothy R Young, Esq., who resides at Marshall, Clarke County, Illinois, to whom I request that you will send my certificate direct to him at that place on the receipt of this and, if anything is yet lacking to complete the proof, you will correspond with him upon the subject and direct him, what to do.
I remain yours,
Nancy Randolph [her mark]
Attest
Philip Randolph
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Marshall, Clark Co., Illinois Oct 7. 1842
Hon J L Edwards
Dear sir:
One Nancy Randolph has engaged my services in relation to a pension claim, which, as he states, has been some time before the Pension department under the management of Mr. J P Cooper. I herewith enclose the letter forwarded to me by Mrs. Randolph.
Will you please correspond with me upon the subject at this place, my residence, and give me the necessary information with regard to the claim.
Very Respectfully
Your obedient servant,
Tim R. Young
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Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me the record of service in the revolutionary war of the pensioners, Robert Bailey, of Vermillion County, Illinois, in 1833, and Henry Randolph
of Shelby County, Kentucky in 1819, and oblige.
Yours very truly,
Miss Jacqueline Edwards
318 Johnson Ave.
Macon, Georgia
[Stamp: U.S. Pension Office, Sep 15, 1919]
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3353
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State of Indiana
Vigo County, Sct.
On this 21st day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before me, William L. Weeks, one of the Magistrate or justice of the Peace in and for the County of Vigo and state of Indiana, Nancy Randolph, a resident of said county, aged seventy nine years past, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3rd of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Henry Randolph who was a private in the Revolutionary war, she cannot now recollect the name of the Captain under whom he served, nor the name or No. of the Regiment to which he belonged, but she believes the Colonel's name was Wilson, and that his service was in the Virginia Line or Virginia troop, under an enlistment. That the said Henry Randolph was a Pensioner of the United States and was placed on the Pension Roll and Pension agency of the state of Kentucky at the rate of eight dollars per month and died in Spencer County, Kentucky, about the 15th of June in the year 1836. And that she drew a pension for five years pay at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, as the widow of the said Henry Randolph, and received the said pension money from the Indiana Pension agent at Madison, under the act of July 7th, 1838. She further declares that she is still living a widow in the County of Vigo and State of Indiana.
Nancy Randolph [her mark]
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me.
Wm L Weeks, J.P.
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State of Indiana
Vigo County, ss.
I, William L. Weeks, the magistrate or Justice of the Peace before whom the foregoing declaration of Nancy Randolph was on this day made, subscribed and sworn to before me, do certify that the said Nancy Randolph is now living in the said County of Vigo, as the reputed widow of the said Henry Randolph named in the within declaration, which I certify from my own personal knowledge. Given under my hand this 21st day of August 1843.
Wm L Weeks, J.P.
State of Indiana, Vigo County.
August 21st 1843.
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
I have employed Joshua P. Cooper of Marshall, Clark County, Illinois, as my attorney, in the Pension claim above herein set forth, to whom you will please enclose my Pension certificate and such correspondence in relation thereto, as may be necessary.
Yours respectfully,
Nancy Randolph [her mark]
Attest
Wm. L Weeks, J. P.
Philip Randolph
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State of Indiana
Vigo County, ss.
I, Charles L. Noble, Clerk of the circuit court, in and for the said
County of Vigo and State of Indiana aforesaid, do certify that William L. Weeks, whose official signatures appear to the foregoing declaration of Nancy Randolph, and to his certificate of her widowhood, now is and was on the day of the date thereof, an acting justice of the Peace, in and for the said County of Vigo, duly commissioned and qualified as such, that full faith and credit are due
his official acts, and that his said signatures thereto are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said court at my office in Lever Haute, this 21st day of August Anno Domini 1843.
Charles T. Noble, Clerk