Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43669, William Henson, Conn.
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Conn. Henson, Wiliam S. 43669
	or Hanson	BLWt. 1446-100
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[left side]
[illegible]
June 14, 1820 &
[illegible] given to
Owen & Adams
Catshill
14.

[right side]
3476
New York

William Henson
Colo Huntington Private
Connecticut Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
At the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 23rd of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th of January 1819 and send to Munson Buel Esq. Lexington, Green Bay N. York

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 4nic. = 35.20
Semi-anl. all’cr ending 4 Mar 1819= 48.00
$ 83.20

Huntington
 Revolutionary Claim
Act 18th March, 1818

Not entitled
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Not entitled

Amt of property

$616.75

Wm Henson

Owen L Adams

March 1 19
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State of New York
Greene County Ss on the first day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in the Court of common Pleas held in and for the County of Greene aforesaid and in open Court being a Court of Record for the said County of Greene, William Henson aged fifty eight years resident in the Town of Windham in the County of Greene 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 in the Regiment Commanded by Jedediah Huntington in the Conecticut Regiment in a Company commended by Benjamin Hoop on the twenty Eigth Day of February in the year one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy seven and served in that regiment three years that immediately thereafter he was transferred to the Company by Capt.. Hodge in a Connecticut Regiment Commanded by Col. Sherman. In May 1782 he was attached to the eight Infantry in Capt,, Douglass Company, that 1783 he was transferred to Captain Stephen Betts Company in Col. Samuel B Webb Regiment in which Regiment he served until he procured an unlimited pass till called for in Consequence of a Rupture that the original Declaration of the said William Henson for the Benefit of the act entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 bearing date the 19th Day of January 1819 to the best of his knowledge states and is Inserted in the Pension list Roll of the New York agency by certificate December 5 [illegible] 76 and Doth solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the Eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not Since that time by gift sale or in any means disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor had any person in trust for me any property or Sections Contracts or Detts due to me nor have I any means other than what is Contained in the Schedule here [illegible] and by me subscribed Schedule of Property
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A lot of land, containing ninety five acres, situate in the Town of Windham in the County of Greene whereon I now reside, Bounded on the north by John C Dewitt on the East by Thomas H Southand on the South by [illegible] Shutts land & the Widow Harvey on the West by lands belonging to the heirs of David Van Wess on which lands there is a mortgage - executed by the Said William Henson to Nehemiah Waterman & unto secure the maintenance & support of William Henson & Azalah Henson during their natural lives they being the father & mother of the said William Henson the aforesaid Deponent that the said William Henson the father is dead - That the said Azalah Henson is still living with the said William Henson the aforesaid deponent & supported by him that she is eighty two years old, unable to help herself and afflicted with the shaking Palsy.
Personal Property - three Cows, two horses six sheep & seven lambs, four hoggs and one Waggon & harness one old plough one Drag two pieces of Chanes - one Broaken shovel, one grass Sythe one [illegible] sythe - and that I am indebted in the sum of about thirty six dollars a small quantity of cooking Utensils & household furniture - and I release my personal property at one hundred Dollars - I am by occupation a farmer for about three years [illegible] been at times so [illegible] as not to be Able to labour as usual. My family now Consists of a wife aged fifty two years & mother four Children & three grand Children - to wit Polly my Daughter aged sixteen years Simon my son aged thirteen years John my son aged twenty two years and his wife Charlotte aged about nineteen years with one
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grand Child named Nelly aged about one year Hannah my Daughter aged twenty five years and her two Children one named William aged four years & Seth two years
Sworne & Declared this first William Henson
Day of June 1820 before me in
open court
Wm Van Bergen Clerk

The Court Estimate the value of the pensioners property auctioned in his Inventory at Eight hundred sixteen Dollars seventy five Cents and are Satisfied that he owes thirty six Dollars and that his real Estate is encumbered as set forth in his Inventory. Moses S Cantine
Benjm Hantun [the first n in Hantun is crossed out]
Thos E Barker

I William Van Bergen Clerk of the County of Greene in in the State of New York and of the Court of Common Pleas in said County do hereby witnss that the foregoing oath and the schedule that appears as truly copied from the Record of the said court and I do hereby ^ [illegible] certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in the value of property as state in the aforesaid schedule is eight hundred & sixteen dollars and seventy five cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on the first day of June 1820.
Wm
Van Bergen-
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No. 1446
William Hanson
Priv
Conn.
ottd to Joseph Watson
D. C.
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BOUNTY LANDS
FOR REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES-INDIVIDUAL APPLICATION.
STATE OF New York
County of Green ss.
I, William Hanson aged Sixty Six - years, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that about or in the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy Seven I enlisted or entered the service as a private for the term of "during the war," in the regiment, commanded by Colonel Starr and afterwards served in the aforesaid regiment under the command of Colonel Starr and that I continned in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, when I was regularly discharged from the  regiment, commanded by Colonel Webb of the Connecticut line, and when I was a (1) private I had an unlimited Pass in consequence of a Rupture, about a month before the Army was Disbanded, and lost in the Somer following - - - - - -

I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the United States; nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever:
 THEREFORE, KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, William Hanson aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Col. JOSEPH WATSON of Washington City, to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name, to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitues or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed my (2) hand and seal, this 17th day of November A. D. 1828.
William Henson
I, Charles Vorce aged Sixty Three years, do, upon oath, declare that I have been long acquainted with William Hanson who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and well know that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and further, I know, or do believe, that he did perform the military service therein stated.(3)
Attest,
Charles Vorse
STATE OF New York
County of Green ss.

 Before me, Levi H Alden a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared the above named William Hanson subscriber to the aforegoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; and, likewise, personally appeared Charles Vorce who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed, this 17th - - day of November 1828
STATE OF New York
County of Green ss. Levi H. Alden

In testimony that the above written Levi H Alden - was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgements, &c., in the State of New York at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name, at Cashill this second day of December 1828 in my capacity as Clerk of the County aforesaid. 
INSTRUCTIONS Chas. C. Abeel Clerk
As to the manner of filling out and executing the foregoing documents.
1. In the large blank towards the close of the declaration; if the commission in the case of an officer, and the discharge in the case of a non-commissioned officer or soldier, does not accompany the claim, state the reason; and in the case of loss, state the manner and time. 2. Here insert mark or hand, as the case may require. 3. This declaration should be made by a person older, or about the same age of the claimant, if practicable.
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43 669
INVALID
Revy
File No. 43, 669
William Henson
Priv Rev War

Act: 18 March 18 -
Index:-Vol. 5 , Page 221

[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
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William Henson William Henson, or 
Hanson, private
Connecticut line,
23d. April, 1818.

Service [preceding crossed out] admitted
The judge's certificate
as to circumstances, wanting in this case

Munson Buel, Esq;
Judge
Lexington, Green Co.
New York.
Recd. 27. May, 1818.
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State of New York
Green County Ss on the twenty third day of April in the year of one thousand eight Hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber one of the judges of the Court of Common pleas In and for the County of Green and state of New York personally appeared William Henson Resident in the Town of Windham in the County of Green and state of New York age fifty six who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declarations 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 the said William Henson - Inlisted as a private in the Last days of February In the year one thousand seven Hundred and seventy seven in a place Called Norwich Westfann, now Franke In the state of Connecticut In the Company Commanded by Captain Benjamin [illegible] In the regiment Commanded by Colonel Jedidiah Huntington in the Connecticut Line that he Continued to serve in said Corps untill the Last day of February in the year one thousand seven Hundred and eighty when he was transferred - into the Company Commanded by Captain Hodge that he continued to serve in the said Corps untill he joined the division Commanded by the Marquis de le Fayat Called the Marquis Infantry that he Continued to serve in the said Corps untill he was transferred into the Company commanded by Captain Stephen Betts in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel B Webb [illegible] and Continued to serve in saide Corps untill April one thousand seven Hundred and eighty three at which time he became unfit for duty In Consequence of a Rupture in his body and the said Samuel B Webb gave him an unlimited pass untill called for that when the army was disbanded at the Close of the war he was unable to travel and [illegible] return and receive a discharge in writing that he was In the Battle of Cumpo Bridge and that he was now in reduced Circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his County for support and that he has no other Evidence now in his power of his said service-

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Munson Buel

I Munson Buel one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of [illegible] aforesaid do certify that [illegible] appears to my [illegible] that said William Henson did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the [illegible] declaration against the Common Enemy and I now [illegible] the proceedings and testimony [illegible] and had before me to the secretary for the deportment of war pensions to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress given under my hand and the seal of the Court the twenty third day of April one thousand Eight Hundred and eighteen

Munson Buel-
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I William Van Bergen Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Greene and State of New York Do Certify that Munson Buel was a judge of Said Court on the Twenty Third day of April 1818 that I am well acquainted with his Hand Writing and that the Signature of the Said judge to the above Affidavit or Declaration of William Henson is Genuine in Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the Court aforesaid this 21st Day of May 1818. Wm
Van Bergen Clerk
as a [illegible]
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State of New York
Green County Ss Munson Buel one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Green and State of New York do Certify that from the Testimony of [illegible] before me on oath I am satisfied that William Henson In the declaration before named Is a poor man in reduced Circumstances and really stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support
Dated Lexington December 31 1818 Munson Buel-
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Act 1828
Payable semi-annually---the first pay-
ment on this certificate will be made
Settled at on the 4th of March next,
at the Branch Bank
Treasury
U.S.
City New York
Court, with 
Invalid file
#43.669

Recorded
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No of orig Pay 100.  8
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
3.July 1828.

William Henson of Windham in the County of Greene in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain Troop's 's [crossed out] company, in [following crossed out] the [written above} ^ Col Starr's regiment of the Connecticut line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary,
A. Dickins.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
5. July 1828

It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to William Hanson in the Connecticut line
It further appears that William Hanson is ^ not now on the pension list of the [crossed out] any agency, and has ^ not been so since the 3d. March 1826 [following crossed out] at the rate of  dollars per month.
Peter Hagner Aud

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I William Henson of the Town of Windham in the County of Greene in the State of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution, for and during the War and continued in its service until its termination; at which Period I was a private in Captain Benjamin Hoop's Company in the Regiment Commanded by Josiah Starr, of the Connecticut line. And I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate for the reward of Eighty dollars, to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress, passed 15th of May 1778. And I further declare that I was not on the the 15th day of March 1828, on the Pension list of the United States 
Subscribed & Sworn before me William Hanson this 5th day of June 1828
Levi H. Alden Justice Peace
Before me Levi H. Alden a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Greene in the State of New York, personally appeared, this Fifth day of June 1828 William Tuttle and Sidney Tuttle of the said County who did personally make oath that William Henson by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally expected and believed to have been a Private in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated - 
Witness my hand this Fifth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty Eight - 
Levi H. Alden Justice of the Peace

I Charles  C. Abeel Clerk of the Court ^ of Common Please of the County of Greene in the State of New York do Certify that Levi H. Alden before whom the forgoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 10th day of June 1828-
Chas. C. Abeel Clerk
[there are traces of a circular stamp]
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Comptroller Officer Nartford, May 18.1823
State of Connecticut Ss:-
It appears upon examination of the Becks of this Office that William Henson served as a private in Col. Josiah Starrs' Regiment from March 1st 1777 to January 1st 1781 and in Col. Isaac Thomas' Regiment from January 1st 1781 to December 31st 1781. both Regiments in the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army- Or that he was paid for his services for the times above mentioned
Certified per
I William Henson kept the Amus Thomas Comptrs
Continental Service in Col Samuel B. Webbs regiment
 Capt.. Stephen Betts company
with an unlimited pass
on account of a rupture
received in the service

Subscribed & sworn William Henson
before me the, 5th day
June 1828
Levi H. Alden Justice peace

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REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,

William Henson late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of - eight- - dollars per month, to commence on the 23d day of April - - one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this nineteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and nineteen

J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

[there are traces of a diamond-shaped stamp]

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