Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4895, David Henry, Tenn
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(8-1776)
SERVICE                                       NUMBER
Tenn.              Henry, David.        R. 4895
                                    Margaret.
CONTENTS
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State of Tennessee Sumner County
On this twenty eighth day of September 1840  Personally appeared before me C G Browning one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for  the County aforesaid Margaret Henry a resident of this County of Sumner and State aforesaid aged eighty five years Who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make this following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Provision made by the act of 
Congress [illegible] July the 4th 1836 that she is the widow of David Henry who ...... and Leuftenant and also a Captain ........ of the Revolution and served under.....Generals .. Rutherford Davidson and Morgan   he lived at that time in Roan now Iredale County North Carolina   His first service was as a volunteer under Captain Nichols and under General ... Rutherford he served one or two tours of three months before 1777 during which last mentioned year this declarant and the said David Henry were married after the marriage her said husband was out almost continually and always as a volunteer and in tours of three months at a time and there was in seventeen hundred and seventy nine a tour of nine months after this he was promoted to this office of first Lieutenant and served a tour of three at the time of the battle of the Tuckaseegee Ford on the Catawba River when General Davidson was killed after the battle at the ford another was fought at Tarrences where the Americans lost considerable of their men   The next tour of service was as a Captain under General Morgan her said husband was in the battle of Cowpens  Colonel Washington was their Colonel he was a Captain of Mounted Infantry and pursued the British twenty miles   The was after this another tour of service after the tour down on Cross Creek where many of the British was taken   Three years service in various tour would not be too great a calculation , as he was out continually from seventeen hundred and seventy seven until 1781 all of which, was as a Private except two tours of three months as a Captain and one tour of three months as Lieutenant   This affiant cannot state particulars as her memory has greatly failed [illegible within] a few years part she will have to rely upon
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such proof as she can procure she had his commission and discharges a few years ago but cannot be found at this time   she has no documentary or other evidence in support of her claim except the ... kept of her marriage and childrens ages which is herewith attached   She further declares that she was married to the said David Henry on the 28th day of August seventeen hundred and seventy seven. That her husband the ... David Henry died on the  .... March 1816 and that she the ... Margaret Henry has remained a widow .. that ...
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year first above mentioned

C G Browning                                                     her
Justice of the peace                          Margaret     x   Henry
                                                                           mark

State of Tennessee
Sumner County
I one of the acting justices of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Margaret V Henry who has this day appeared before me and made the foregoing declaration that she is a woman of truth and veracity and that full faith and credit are due and of right ought to be given to her statements.
I further certify that owing to old age and bodily infirmities, she cannot attend the court of her county to make this declaration in open court
in testamony whereof I have hereunto [indistinguishable] my hand and affixed my seal this 29 September 1840

C G Browning 
Justice of the peace
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State of Kentucky
Todd County
On this day personally appeared before me Robert Coulter one of the acting justices of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid.
Moses H Henry a resident of the county and state aforesaid aged sixty-one years who being duly sworn according to law makes oath I am a son of David and Margaret Henry. My age I expect is on file in the Pension office at Washington City on the original family record. I state from information which I fully believe to be true that my father the said David Henry served in the war of the Revolution as follows to wit two tours of three months each as a Captain under General [illegible initial] Rutherford one tour of three
months as Lieutenant under Captain Nichols one other tour of 
three months under Captain Caldwell.  The balance of his service
was as a private.  He was out more than three years in actual service
in the war of the Revolution and I cannot [illegible words]
under what Captains he served when a private.  I received all this information from my father previous to his death
and a great deal more if I could recollect the circumstances.
My father died in the year eighteen hundred and sixteen long before any pension laws were enacted independent of his character and standing for truth
which can be clearly established.  He would have no interest in 
relating to me and his children anything but what was true.  I know
his greatest delight was to get along with his  old associates
and recount his services.  I know from information which I believe to be
true that my father was at the battle of Cowpens as Lieutenant and I also state
that he was at the battle Guilford Court House.
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as a Captain. I have often heard him speak of General Morgan and the battle of the Cowpens. I have heard speak of an engagement at the widow Tarrences. I think he served a considerable time in South Carolina but I cannot
now state any particulars  Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 11th day of November 1851
M H Henry
R Coulter [hand drawn seal]
Justice of the Peace
State of Kentucky
Todd County [squiggle]
I R Coulter one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said county do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Moses H Henry who has made the foregoing affidavit before me that he is a resident of my county and a man of Respectability and Truth and that full faith and credit are due and of right ought to be given to his statements.   In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed signature
This 11th day of November 1851
R Coulter J. P.
Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Kentucky
County of Todd

I William F Neil clerk of [illegible] to herein [illegible]
[illegible] affidavit
are made and [illegible] 
acknowledged and at this [illegible] a Justice of the
peace in and for the County [illegible] duly [illegible]
and [illegible] and that [illegible] signature [illegible] as
[illegible] and that [illegible] 
[illegible] act [illegible] Official acts [illegible]
The [illegible] 
have hereunto [illegible]
[illegible] affixed the Seal
of the County Court in the
County aforesaid this 11th
day of November 1831
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W13569
Margaret Henry dec
wife of Daniel 
Ten
Act 7 May 1831
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State of Tennessee 11 June 18
Sumner County
On this [illegible] 7th of February 184[illegible] personally appeared William Henry a resident of Said county and state aged about 66 years being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of an act made by Congress passed 7th of July 1836 and an act passed March the 3d 1848 and an act passed June 11th 1844 he states that he is the Son of David Henry and Margaret Henry & that he was until [becomes illegible at this point - faded]
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[illegible page]
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[first part of page is handwritten, but to faint to transcribe]
[signed] John Carr

Affiant Robert Norvell makes oath that he has known ^William Henry since the year  [becomes illegible again] at that time the [the end of the page is also illegible]

[signed]
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I Elijah Bodder Chairman of the County Court of Sumner County certify that I am personally acquainted with [illegible] john Carr and Robert Norvell and that they in [illegible] character and entitled to the [illegible] credit  I further certify that Wm Monday is clear of said Court and that [illegible] entitle to full credit & that [illegible] 
[signed] Elijah Bodder
Chairman of S C Court

State of Tennessee
Sumner County
I William S Munday Clerk of the County Court of Said Sumner [illegible] that Elijah Boddie
[illegible until the declaration]
In testimony whereof I now set my hand and affixed the Seal of Office as appears in the [illegible] this 7th day of February 1848
[signed]
Wm S Munday Clerk
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David Henry was born Sep 23rd 1751.
Margaret Hall was born April 26th 1755
Were married the [illegible] August Anno’d 1777
William Henry was born July 17th 1779.
John Henry was born May 7th 1782.
Jean Henry was born May 15th 1784.
Elizabeth Henry born February 21st 1786
Mary Henry was born May 7th 1788.
Moses Hall Henry was borne March 4th 1791
Samuel George Henry was born Oct 1st 1795
[illegible]
Henry was born April 1804
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[last page of a printed dictionary or possibly a Bible]
[4 columns – column 1]
[illegible] and [illegible] light and
[illegible].
[illegible], wood.
[illegible] strength, goat.
[illegible], ear of the flesh.
[illegible] my strength, my kid
Uzziel, strength of food.
V.
[illegible], the second
[illegible], that drinks; or thread.
Vophsi, fragment, diminution.
Z.
Zabdi, portion, dowry
Zacch[illegible],  pure, clean, just
Zachariah, memory of the lord.
Zadok, just, justified
[illegible], [illegible] filthiness, impurity
[illegible] little, afflicted, in tribulation.
[illegible], his shade, his image
[illegible], the bread of
[illegible] your image
[illegible], [illegible], image or idol, forbidden.
[column 2]
[illegible], [illegible]fulness, defection
[illegible], one who dif[illegible] hidden things.
Zarah, [illegible], brightness
Zarephath, ambush of the mouth.
Zebadiah, portion of the Lord, or the Lord is my portion.
Zebah, victim, [illegible]
Zebedee, abundant portion.
Zeboine, deer, goats.
[illegible], in habitation
Zebulon, dwelling, habitation.
Zechariah, [illegible] Zechariah.
Zedekiah, the Lord is my suffice, or the suffice of the Lord.
Zeeb, wolf.
Zeck, the shadow, or the noise of [illegible] that [illegible] or laps
Zelopheh[illegible], the shade or tingling of fear, fear of being burnt
Ze[illegible], jealous, full of zeal.
[illegible], noon tide.
[illegible], living.
[illegible], the Lord is my secret.
[illegible], which beholds, that attends or that covers.
[column 3]
[illegible]
[illegible], ambush, change of dominion
Zeresh, misery, strange or dispersed inheritance.
Zerer, root, that straitens or binds, that keeps tight.
[illegible], [illegible], wasp, hornet
Zerubbabel, a stranger at Babylon, dispersion of confusion.
Zeruiah, pain, tribulation.
Zether, he that examines, or beholds.
Zibe, army, fight, strength.
Zibeon, inequity that dwells.
Zib[illegible], the Lord dwells.
[illegible], that remembers, that is a male.
[illegible], hunting fishing, venison,
[illegible], this or that; brightness.
[illegible], measure pressed down.
{illegible], shadow, the tingling of the ear.
[illegible], distillation.
[illegible], song, singer, or vine,
Zimri, my field, my vine.
[column 4]
[illegible]
Zior, [illegible]
Ziph, this [illegible]
Zippor, bird, [illegible], desert
Zipporah, beauty, trump[illegible]
Zithri, to [illegible]
[illegible], flow [illegible] or a hair.
Zoan, moti[illegible]
Zoar, little, small.
Zobah, an army, or warrior.
Zohe[illegible], that creeps, th[illegible] draws.
Zophar, white, [illegible], dry
Zopher, rising early, or [illegible].
[illegible], leprosy, foab.
Zorobabel, see Zerubbabel
Zuir, small.
Zuph, that beholds, [illegible] watches, roof, covering,
Zur, stone, rock, or that [illegible]
Zur[illegible], the Almighty rock and strength..
Zuzimi, the [illegible] of a [illegible], beauty.

F I N I S.
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6506

Tennessee
Margaret Henry
Let. to A. Ferguson 21. June 1865
" Same  Nov 26, 1853
" Same July 28 1854

Act July 6, 1836.
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W 13569
Margaret Henry dec
Tenn
No April
Act 7 July 1838
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[handwritten]
Margaret Henry
Wid David 
Tenn
 Let to
A Ferguson 21 June 1845
Same Nov 26 ‘53
Same July 28 ‘54
4895

Act July 4th 1836
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REJECTED [stamped]
1895 [handwritten]
P.O. [form] Margaret Henry [handwritten]
Service: [form] wid of David [handwritten]
Enlisted:       , 18  . [form]
Discharged:       , 18  . [form]
Application filed:        , 18  . [form]
Alleges:  [form]
Re-enlisted:  [form]
Attorney: [form]
P. O. [form]
Recognized.        Contract  [form]
Cert. of Dis.   Searched for       , 18  . [form]
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[handwritten]
State of Tennessee
Sumner County
On this day personally appeared William Henry a resident of the county aforesaid aged Twenty four years, before me Samuel Bradley one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for the county aforesaid.  And made oath in due form of laws that from the best of his calculation he was about four years old at the termination of the War of the Revolution in 1781. That the first of his recollection of his fathers conversation was his Services in the War of the Revolution Adjutant Webb lived at his fathers after the War of the Revolution  and their conversation  was frequently in about the War  Affiants fathers Name was David Henry and his mothers name was Margaret Hall previous to her marriage with his father  they was married in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Six  Affiant recollects the conversations of his father about his Services as early as when he was under ten years of age and recollects the Military coat was often examined by him  Said David Henry affiants father served two tours of three months as a Captain and two or three tours of three months as Lieutenant.  Affiant recollects that his father was in two Battles in each of which battles he was captain of a Company. The first at the crossings of the Cataba river at the Widow Torance the time General Davidson was killed and the other was at the battle of the Cowpens in the first of these engagements his men Suffered on
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[handwritten]
Account of their being exposed in an open lot of ground  In the battle of the cowpens he used to describe those who fought bravely and and those who did not  Affiant further Stated that about the year 1790 his father the aforesaid David Henry got his house burnt and almost all of his papers got burnt up  Affiant recollects Seeing Some of his discharges and as well as he remembers his Captains commission.  But were all burnt up and above Stated Affiants father moved to Tennessee about the year 1800 and died about the year 1820  Affiant fully believes his father Served [illegible] out Service about three years in the Revolution  Affiant always heard his father Say that he was out all the time for three years during the war in North Carolina

Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 2nd day of May 1850
[signed] Wm Henry

Samuel Bradley [circular drawing with “JP” written in it]
Justice of the Peace
State of Tennessee
Sumner County 
I Samuel Bradley one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with William Henry who has made the foregoing affidavit before me  That he is a man of truth and veracity a man of good character and [illegible] and full faith and credit are due his Statements  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affiant Signature this 2nd day of May 1850
[signed]
Samuel Bradley [circular drawing with “JP” written in it]
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State of Tennessee
Sumner County [squiggle]  I John L Bugg clerk of the
County Court of said Sumner County do hereby [illegible]
that Samuel Bradley whose name appears to [illegible]
foregoing affidavit and certificate was at the time
his said attestations purports to [illegible] date one of the
acting Justices of the peace in and for the county of
Sumner aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified to
act as such and that full faith and credit are
due all his official acts as such and that the
foregoing signature purporting to be his are
genuine
In testimony whereof I have
[illegible] unto let my hand and the
Seal of Said court at office
in Gallatin this 2d day of
June 1852
John L Bugg Clk
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[handwritten]
Washington City
July 29 1854
L. P. Waldo Esq
[illegible]
The last report on the claim
of the Children of Margaret Henry asking for
a Pension was made on the 26th Nov 1852 +
the claim [illegible] did for the want of proof of
identity of David Henry with the individual
of that name who appears, from the certificate
of the comptroller of A. Fergusson to
have served in the Revolutionary war, I beg
to call your attention to my letter of the
9th of November last with the affidavit,
[illegible phrase] I respectfully to ask [illegible]
claim be [illegible] and allowed.
Very respectfully,
Your Obbt Servt
A.	Fergusson
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[handwritten]
13 day Feby, 1848
Margaret Henry widow
Of David
Ten.
Act of July 1838
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State of Tennessee Cannon County
On this 1st day of November in the year
[illegible] personally appeared before me John H Smith 
the undersigned one of the acting Justices of the
peace in and for the county aforesaid and a Justice
of the county Court being record [illegible]
[illegible] having [illegible] about Seventy nine years
of age a resident of said County [illegible]
duly sworn according to law makes oath
to the following Statement I was born in
[illegible] County North Carolina and lived near
the line of [illegible] County in the same state
[illegible] was acquanted [acquainted] with
Captain David Henry who first lived in [illegible]
[illegible] in Iredell He used my [illegible]
to [illegible] Margaret Hall I went to School
in his neighbourhood about the close of the
Revolutionary war I boarded with his
half Brother [illegible] I believed [illegible] there
one [illegible] State of Tennessee [illegible] sent after
[illegible] I [illegible] not being out in the
service I can only state what I heard them say
at that time.  I believed he was out [illegible]
as Captain.  I did not see him in Service I only
know he went out a great deal I personally saw
the soldiers going out in the army to join 
the [illegible] during [illegible] I could not be expected
to know the length of Services nor the month of Services
David Henry [illegible] I was acquanted [acquainted] with Capt
Mitchell [illegible] Capt Henry had out a [illegible]
with him as Lieutenant after the war was
over [illegible] all that Henry [illegible] often
I [illegible] during hands after the oldest son [illegible]
William was a stout boy at the close of the
[illegible] and in a year or two I think
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he went to school David Henry [illegible]
Iredell County to Sumner County Tennessee about
the year 1800 I never will [illegible] to
[illegible] for a application [illegible]
discharge County [illegible] court to the Service
Then [illegible] family in Service.  Son at home to I know
he is the same David Henry who served as a
Captain in the revolution war [illegible] 
here in Sumner County Tennessee leaving
his widow Margaret Henry who was a resi
dent that they left William Henry and Moses
Henry [illegible] to [illegible]
their children who are now [illegible] 
the [illegible] in Sumner County that [illegible]
because of [illegible] in North Carolina who served in the
War of the Revolution.
was to [illegible] Subscriber before me in the County
[illegible] whose members are Iredell County
that I have not interest
[illegible] in the [illegible]
of this claim
[illegible]
[illegible]

State of Tennessee [illegible] Coutny
I John H Smith one of the acting Justices of the
peace in [illegible] for the County aforesaid do hereto certify
that I am well acquanted [acquainted] with Jane Travis who has
made the [illegible] affidavit [illegible]
the county of [illegible]
full faith and credit are due her Statements in Iredell
believe her to be of the age they stated [illegible] 
I have hereunto my [illegible] affixed seal 
subscribe 
[illegible] of January [illegible] the Seventh of [illegible]
[Illegible] in County.
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State [illegible]
On this [illegible] 
appeared here one John H Smith [illegible] 
one of the acting Justices of peace in [illegible] 
the court [illegible] said [illegible] aged about
[illegible] years [illegible] April [illegible]
[illegible] 
being resident to [illegible] oath to
the witness of Statement [illegible] County
at the [illegible] of the Revolutionary War [illegible] will
[illegible] with Captain David Henry I live [illegible]
[illegible] him in that County The [illegible]
[illegible] 
[illegible] about [illegible] years after [illegible] Henry moved to
[illegible] I live in Tennessee [illegible That
[illegible] the war that Henry must [illegible]
[illegible] the year [illegible]  I [illegible] he
[illegible] the same man who came to Tennessee and Settled [illegible] in
[illegible] County I know that Jane Travis who made
the foregoing affidavit I was well acquainted 
with her in
North Carolina or [illegible] have been [illegible] acquainted [illegible]
ever since I have heard [illegible] her Statement
on this [illegible] from my own [illegible]
the information where I [illegible] in North Carolina
[illegible] than that [illegible] believe her the [illegible]
to be [illegible] part of the [illegible]
[illegible] his x mark [illegible]
Sworn to on [illegible] Court to the [illegible]
year [illegible] 
and I [illegible] certify that I
am not interested
in the property of this claim
when the [illegible]
[illegible] County
Attest to the above mark
[illegible]
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State of Tennessee Cannon County
I John H Smith one of the acting
Justices of the peace in and for the county aforesaid
do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with
[illegible] who had [illegible] the foregoing affidavit
before me  That he is a resident of the county of
Cannon aforesaid and a man of truth and [illegible]
[illegible] that full faith and credit are due his statements
In testimony whereof  I certify hereunto
[illegible] the County's official [illegible]
this [illegible] day of November [illegible]
John H. Smith JP
for Cannon County

State of Tennessee
Cannon County
[illegible] Court of the county and
[illegible] I do hereby certify that
[illegible] Smith [illegible] appears to [illegible] years
[remainder of page illegible]
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Carthage Tennessee
9th November [illegible 18??]
Sir
Included please find additional proof in the
case of Margaret Henry widow of David Henry
late of [illegible] county, deceased. There are four
affadavits two of which are sons and two others
of the old acquaintances of her and her husbands in
North Carolina and Tennessee. This proof as your
[illegible] [illegible][illegible][illegible] at different
[illegible] 
had lost [line illegible]
now [illegible] to [illegible] a deficiency long since
reported by the Department at [illegible]
"That this David Henry husband to Margaret is
"and was the same individual who served in
"War of the Revolution and whose name is [illegible]
"on the role of the Revolution by the payment
"of the [illegible] for his service as captain
"lieutenant pvt" The above quotation is from one of
"the letters received many years ago which [illegible]
[illegible] at the time but may not be totally [illegible] 
[illegible]  But the only question to be answered in the
[illegible] in order to a favorable decision.  [illegible]
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was published by and of living [illegible]) that [illegible]
was the individual whose name is on the certificate
of the Campbells of [illegible] for [illegible]
which certificate is on file among her original papers
The old people are parties who having almost all died in
Tennessee; you will discover how [illegible]
to obtain positive proof to transactions of seventy
years standing; and where obtained by perhaps
he [illegible] these are women your [illegible]
examined because such proof with great [illegible]
an account I have no doubt of the [illegible]
of [illegible] that must have been made upon the
pension office. They present of the matter I
now call your attention to the facts on which I
rely on the obtaining a pension in this case
There is no mistake but David Henry Service is
the war of the Revolution as alleged by his wife
Margant Henry.  [illegible] were 
they were [illegible] persons to the war
William Henry the oldest Son was old enough at
the date of the Revolution to have some [illegible]
of that pension The [illegible] of [illegible] should this
to be here.  The complete certificate should [illegible]
David Henry in the years she alleged to be her
the wife has no information from the rolls at
the time & he had her Declaration as the papers
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and condensed of the Militia Service of North Carolina
were at that time supposed to have been entirely
discharged at Raleigh and I am free to say
when I [illegible] of her [illegible]  I had no other
lights to win me but to [illegible} She told me from
her own memory. When I [illegible] the completed
certificate in 1845 you kept her application
misfiled I have great confidence [illegible] objection
wants be last but in this I was mistaken and
The claim has been suspended ever since then 
[illegible] in my [illegible] many the labour and  [illegible] of
establishing the claim.  I have insist that
that the [illegible]
has been amply from her.  That David Henry the 
husband is the identical individual mentioned in
her application.  That if there was no other proof but
the affidavits of William and Moses Henry then
[illegible] being partly [illegible]
of identity & I take it [illegible] 
the Laws in the pension office [illegible] court of
[illegible]  That the Declarations of [illegible] being some
[illegible] spoken where he [illegible] have any
hearing on their minds are to be taken and [illegible]
as [illegible]  To in the rate of Marriage, Pedey [illegible]
I take the ground that circumstantial evidence is
on Time some [illegible] better than [illegible] proof
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In addition to all this hereunder you with the
additional [illegible] of [illegible] and father whose
testamony [testimony] and [illegible] caused the dispute.  The
is no doubt between in the Justice of this
claim due if my [illegible] of credibility, character,
a long indictment hereof any the same can be
further [illegible] made myself acquainted with 
the whole [illegible] Where no [illegible] whatever
in held my myself responsible for every dollar
that I allow.  I therefore 
I therefor abide by respectfully
asking a pension to the full extent of the Service
pension by David Henry as Captain Revolution
war from [illegible] by the proof
Therefore the claim be allowed [illegible &c]
the undersigned at [illegible]
[illegible]
L P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC
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6306 [handwritten]
June 30 1845

Margaret Henry
July 4, 1896
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[handwritten]State of Tennesse
Sumner County , I William S Munday Clerk of the County Court of
said County do hereby certify that C G Browning whose name
 appears [superscript] to the [illegible] and [illegible] only [end] was at the time of signing the same an
acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned
and qualified as such and that full faith and
credit are and of right ought to be given his official
acts
In Testimony when of I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the Seal of Office at [illegible] in
the town of Gallatin, this 6th day of June A.D.
1845
Wm S. Munday, Clk
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[illegible]
[illegible] Offices
[illegible]
documents are in the record for the State of North
Carolina do hereby certify that the
name of Daniel Henry appears [illegible]
record in this office as having [illegible]
the following [illegible]
his farm for Military services, his,
for Twenty eight Pounds [illegible] pence
[illegible] 32 (£280.2), also an
[illegible] for [illegible] three Shillings
(£[illegible].3) Lee Book [illegible] 8 pages  [illegible] order
[illegible] hand and deed.  [illegible]   
[illegible]
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Oct. 2nd 1867
Dear Sir,
On this day [[?]]help  of this sheet j[[?]]have [[?]] my certificate in the case of David Henry who is [[?]] have been satisfactory
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William Henry's
Power of attorney
Page 36

Know all men by these presents that I William Henry 
of the county of Sumner and State of Tennessee Administrator
of the estate of my mother Margaret Henry do hereby 
constitute and appoint Adam Fergusson of the county 
of Sumner and state of Tennessee my true and lawful 
Atorney [attorney] irevocable for me and 
in my name and on behalf
of the rest of the heirs to present our claim for the
amount of Pension due us in right of the said May act
[illegible] and us to examine all [illegible] at [illegible] to collect
the proof [illegible] to establish the claim should the [illegible]
be lawful and where [illegible] to [illegible]
[illegible] things that in said attorney shall
[illegible] as full and [illegible] allowance and [illegible]
[illegible] consent and [illegible] Virginia [illegible]
Witness my hand and seal the 29th day of
May 1851
Attest
R B Henry
Wm Henry
James
State of Tennessee
Sumner County
On this day personally appeared William
Henry before me William Parker
of the acting Justices of the peace in and for the county
[illegible] and acknowledged the forgoing power of attorney to
be his act and deed in testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal this [illegible] the day of [illegible]
William Parker JP
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State of Tennessee
Sumner County
[illegible] 
Court or Said County do hereby Certify [illegible]
William Parker Esqr whose [illegible] hereunto [illegible]
to the foregoing [illegible] and acknowledge same
is an [illegible] the [illegible] the same [illegible]
[illegible] of the [illegible] in and for said County
duly Commissioned and qualified and that the
Signed [illegible]
[illegible] this [illegible] day May [illegible]
John L Bugg [illegible]
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David Henry Captain
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Raleigh N.C.
Compt office

I William Y. Collins Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the State of North Carolina do hereby certify that the Name of David Henry appears of Record in my office as having had  issued in his favor the following Species Certificate for military services viz one for Twenty Eight Pounds and Two pence (£28.02) in Book No. 2 page 32 Another for Fifteen pounds Fifteen shillings (£ 15.15).  in Book No. 6 page 40 and another for Seventeen Pounds three shillings (£17.03) in book no. 8 page 3 given under my hand and seal his ?6th day April 1845
Wm .Y. Collins compt
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6506 June 20 1845.
Original Claim of
Margaret Henry
Widow of Captain 
David Henry under
act of the 4th July 1836
filed 19th June 1845
by A. Fergusson

Margaret Henry

Aug 4, 1836.
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Washington
June 19th 1845
Sir
The Claim of Margaret Henry is herewith 
presented and filed. Margaret Henry is the widow
of David Henry who was a Captain and received
a Captain's pay in the War of the Revolution. 
The record evidence from the Books of the Comptroller
of North Carolina is also filed showing that he 
was paid agreeable to the rank of a Captain
I also file the marriage record taken out 
of the bible in my possession showing the age 
of David Henry and Margaret Hall his wife
and [illegible there inter] marriage on the 28th August 
1777. The service and after this [illegible home] and
will enable her to a pension in light
of his service as captain under act of 4th
July 1836. The Claim stands clear and indis-
putible. I hope therefore as your greater preference to record
 documentary proof  therein
any others you will allow this Claim.
I am well convinced of the Justice of the 
terms and will hold myself bound to maintain 
at all times for the [illegible]
with the family she is the Grandmother
of Captain John Henry served in the late war
of Florida under General Armstrong 
J L Edwards, Esqr
Respectfully
Commissioner of Pensions
A. Fergusson