Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10127, Henry Hoffman, Penn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE PENN
HOFFMAN, HENRY
[BELOW] MARY
NUMBER W.10
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1151
PENNSYLVANBIA
HENRY HOFFMAN
OF SCHUYLKILL IN THE SATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED
BY CAPTAIN GRANT OF THE REGT. COMMANDED
BY COLONEL HALLER IN THE PENNSYLVANIA
LINE FOR 8 MONTHS.

INSCRIBED ON THE ROLL OF PENNSYLVANIA
AT THE RATE OF 26 DOLLARS 66 CENTS PER ANNUM,
TO COMMENCE ON THE 4TH DAY OF MARCH, 1831

CERTIFICATE OF PENSION ISSUES THE 27TH DAY OF OCTOBER
1832 AND SENT TO PENSIONER
{UNKNONW WORD] PENNSYLVANIA

ARREARS TO 4TH OF SEPT 1832 |35.49
SEMU=AMT. ALLOWANCE ENDING 4TH MARCH 1833 | 11.83
$47.32
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM,
ACT JUNE 7, 1832

RECORDED BY J.M. DUFFIELD CLERK
BOOK D VOL 6 PAGE 61
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4915
Indiana New Albany
Mary Hoffman
widow of Henry Hoffman
who served in the Revolutionary War, PA as a private

Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of pension issued the 28 day of June 1819 and sent to Henry Collins  New Albany Ind. 

Recorded on Roll of Pensioner under act February 2, 1848 page 328 Vol. 3
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State of Ohio
Belmont county
Be it known that on this 12th day of January 1844, personally appeared before one Jesse Sheff the undersigned, a justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, Catherine Brown; a resident of the said County of Belmont. aged Sixty nine years the 29th day of this present month; who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath say that she is the daughter of Henry Hoffman by his first wife, Margaret Boo. who died in the State of Pennsylvania in the early part of the year of Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Eight:  That this deponent was the oldest child of the said Henry Huffman and the said Margaret Boo.  that she had a younger sister who is still alive or was a few years since.  What this deponent, [illegible] ,the time of her mothers death; and that she had just turned her twentieth year; this making her remember dates, without the least probability of her being mistaken.  This deponent also further states, that about nine months after the death of her said Mother, her father, the said Henry Huffman married for his second wife Mary Drum (or Mary Ann Drum) as she was sometimes called)  That this deponent was present, and saw, and heard the marriage ceremony pronounced-the said marriage, took place between the said Henry Huffman and the said Mary Drum , on Christmas day, in the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty eight. (1788) at the house of one William Wallace, a justice of the peace; and that the said Justice Wallace, married them the said Henry Huffman and the said Mary Drum.  That the said marriage took place, in the County of Washington state of Pennsylvania.  And this deponent further states that the reason why she cannot be mistaken is this; she remembers the day of the month and year when she this deponent was born, which was on the 29th day of January1775, and she remembers that when her father married this second wife(which was the said Mary Drum) she this deponent lasted only from Christmas to the 29th January following her being thirteen years old.  And another thing which makes this deponent remember so long a time, is the fact, that her said step Mother Mary Huffman (formerly Mary Drum) was only
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about two years older than this deponent.  This deponent also further states, that she was herself married on the 22nd day of January in the year Seventeen Hundred and Ninety three and that the said Mary Drum (then Mary Huffman) had been married to her father, the said Henry Huffman five years and better.  That the said Henry Huffman, was a soldier of the Revolution and that the said Mary Huffman (who as this deponent is informed now resides in the County of Washington and State of -----------) and an applicant for a pension) is the same Mary Huffman, as her step mother, an above spoken of, as her Step Mother and the widow of the same Henry Huffman dead.  And further this deponent saith not.

her
Catharine X Brown
 mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before me.

Jess Neff

And I the above named Justice do hereby further certify that Catharine Brown the above named deponent is to me well known that I know her to be a friend of truth and here and charity and as such written to full credit.

Jess Neff  J Peace

State of Ohio
Belmont county
Be it known that on this the 12th day of January 1844 personally approach before me Jesse Neff-the undersigned justice of the peace in and for the said County of Belmont, William Brown a resident of the said county aged eighty years - who hearing by me first duly sworn according to law departed and saith, that about the first of the year of (1790 Seventeen Hundred and ninety) he this departed became acquainted with one Henry Huffman, in the County of Washington Burrough [illegible]  That when he first became acquainted with him, the said Henry Huffman, was there living as he then  understood and has always since understood, with his second wife
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and this deponent then understood and has always since understood, that the said Henry Huffman married for his second wife one Mary (or Mary Ann) Drum-and that she is [illegible] his widow.  This deponent for a great many years has been acquainted with the family of the said Henry Huffman, were married in Washington County Pa. about the year 1788.  But this deponent can swear positively that he became acquainted with the said Henry Huffman and Mary Huffman (his said second wife) about the year Seventeen hundred and Ninety-(1790) and that they were then universally reported to have been legally marrie3dand he has never in his lifetime heard to the contrary.  And further, this deponent states that one reason why he cannot be mistaken about the date for is this; he was himself married to Catharine Huffman (the oldest child of the said [illegible] by his first wife) on the 22nd day of January 1793.  And he has sworn the [illegible] Henry and Mary Huffman for about three years before that time as husband and wife.  And further this deponent saith not.  
his 
William X Brown
mark
sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written.

Jesse Neff


Aid I the Justice do hereby further certify that William Brown the alone deponent is to me made known, that I know him to be a person of truth and honesty and as such is entitled to full credit.

Jesse Neff

W.B.  The two interactions alone, were overwritten before the swearing and subscribing to the alone definitions.

Jesse Neff
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State of Ohio
Belmont County
I, John C. Tallman, Clerk for the Court of Common files in and for the County of Belmont and State of Ohio do hereby certify that Jesse Neff before whom the foregoing depositions of Catharine Brown and William Brown were taken, was at the time of taking the same, and now is, an acting justice of the peace in and for the said County of Belmont, duly commissioned and qualified, that full faith is due and credit should be given to all of his official acts and that the above signature purporting to be his are genuine.  

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and official the seal of said Court at St. Clairsville this 13th day of January 1844.

John C Tallman
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Schuylkill County
On the third day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before the court of common pleas of the county of Schuylkill being a court of record in the said Commonwealth Henry Hoffman a resident of Brunswig Township in the County of Schuylkill aforesaid aged seventy two was [illegible] with being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his solemn oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June the seventh Eighteen hundred and thirty two. That he enlisted as a private soldier in the Army of the United States some time in the month of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred seventy six under Captain Graul and served in the regiment command by Col. Haller, Lieutenant Col. Latz and Major Bird of the Pennsylvania Line that he enlisted to serve in the Flying camp, that he resided at the time of his enlistment in the Township of Elsas in the county of Berks and that he served during the whole of the Flying camp, a term of upwards of six months, that he was in the Battle of Long Island and the Battle of the White Plains.  And that he also served as militia Man under Lieutenant Stahly at or near Reading in Berks county, as a guard as a substitute for Daniel Maurer for the term of two months.  That he here.  That he received a discharge but has lost his discharge
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by relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his home is not on the Pension roll of any agency in any State or (If any) only that of the agency in the State of Pennsylvania.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before the Judges of the same court, in open court.

Iac. Hammer  Prothy.
Henry Hoffman

Adam Knittel of Brunswig township in the said County of Schuylkill of the age of Seventy three years of age a disinterested witness being produced and sworn in open court doth depose and say That he was acquainted with Henry Hoffman the above applicant for a pension in the revoluntionary war that he knows that the said Henry Hoffman  was an enlisted soldier in the revolutionary army in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six and that he served in the flying camp in Colonel Hollers regiment for the term of six months and that the same Henry Hoffman was at the Battle of Long Island and White Plains Sworn and subscribed in open court the 3rd day of August A.D. 1832.
And that the said Henry Hoffman since the revolutionary war was resided in the counties of Berks and Schuylkill.

Iac.  Hammer   Prothy.

Adam Knittal
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Declaration of Mary Huffman-In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 written "An act of granting half pay and pension to certain widows"

State of Indiana
Washington County

On this day of September 1843.  personally appeared before me George May one of the associate judges of the Washington Circuit court in and for the County of Washington and State of Indiana, Mary Huffman aged seventy years who being first duly sworn 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 pension to certain widows"  That she is the widow of Henry Huffman who was a private in the Army of the revolution.  Applicant wrote here so far the Commissioner of Pensions to the proof on file in the War office on which a pension Certificate was issued to the said henry Huffman in 18433 or 34.  to establish the services of her said husband, said before that such reference will prove satisfactory---The further declares that she was married to said Henry Huffman on the 25th day of December Seventeen Hundred and eighty eight (1788) in the state of Pennsylvania and at her husband the aforesaid Henry Huffman died on the 1st day of April 1834 at [illegible] Dearborn Count, Ind.  That she was said married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four.  (at the time above stated-
her
Mary X Huffman
mark
Sworn to and [illegible] the day and year above written before me

George May, Aseth Judge. del. C Ia

*Her name is often called Mary or Mary Ann.
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State of Indiana
Washington County

And I the said George May Judge as foresaid do hereby further Certify that the above named Mary Huffman by reason of sickness (she being now confined to her bed with fever) is utterly unable to appear in this Court to make this declaration.

In testimony whereas and hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year written

George May Asto Judge Seale

State of Indiana
Washington County

Personally appears before me the above named Judge May and [illegible] the alone named applicant and being by one first duly seems according to [illegible] doth further states that she has had by her said husband Henry Huffman and twelve children (to wit) John, Rolly, Richard, Harry, Travis, Russ, George, Phillip, Elizabeth, Lavinia, Abram and Sarah are all and more alive except John.  Who was born the 11th July 1790 and Sarah the youngest was born 11 April 1814.  The deponent here states that all of the family papers and records were consummed by a fire about 29 years ago together with his [illegible] house, on the Miami river in Hamilton County Ohio. 

her
Mary X Huffman
mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written

George May {illegible} Judge seal

State of Indiana
Washington County

I Eli M Malotte [illegible] of the Washington County Circuit Court in and for the said County of Washington and State of Indiana do hereby certify that George May, Esq is one of the associate judges of the Washington County Circuit Court and for the said County, duly commissioned and qualified that full faith is due, and credit should be given to all of his official acts, and the above signatures are genuine.

In testimony whereby I have hereabouts set my hand and official the seal of said Court at Salem this 2nd day of September 1843.

Eli M Malotte
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No 1710
Henry Huffman
Pennsylvania
---------------
Admitted
Private, 8 months
$26.66
 
to Pensioner
Ornigsburg
Schuylkill Co
Penn. a
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BRIEF in the case of Henry Huffman 
of Brunswig in the State of Pennsylvania
(Act 7 June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Court.

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

3.  How old is he?  72

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.  
Duration of Service
Years, Months, Days
Rank.  As a
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.

June in 1774,
more than 6 years
Private
Captain Graul, Col Haller

2 years
Militia
Lt Halely

5.  In what battles was he engaged?  Long Island, White Plains

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service:  Elsas County of Berks

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Living Witness.  Certified evidence

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?
Correct.

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with evidence in the case above mentioned.

Jas Wilson  Examining Clerk.
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 10127
Mary Hoffman
Wid. of
Henry Hoffman
Pvt. Rev, War
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Act:  Feby 27  h(?)8
Index:-----Vol. A, Page 344

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Stamp upper left corner [illegible]
Stamped FREE
hand written across envelope 6112 [illegible]
hand written right side across envelope W. Cole

Col. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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8714
Indiana
Mary Hoffman
widow of Henry Hoffman
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on 1 April 1834.
in the State of Indiana
who was a Pri in the Co
commanded by Captain Grant of the
reg commanded by Col Haller in 
the Pennsa. line for 8 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana
at the rate of 26 Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.  
Newalbany
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of
Sept 1844 and sent to 88
Harding Milan, Indiana

Total amount $ [blank]
[Act July 7, 1838]
recorded by F. L Swann Clerk,
Book D Vol. 1 page 425
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6112
New Albany, Inda.,
Mary Hoffman
widow of Henry Hoffman
who was a Pri
in the Pennsyl Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
26 Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
13 day of Sept. 1844
and sent to
S.S. Harding
(Milan Indiana)

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 218

Right Justified 

letter to Pension Agent.  July
7th 1847

upside down bottom of page
[handwritten]  2 Cents
1838
1823} resd,
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[handwritten]
Pension Agency
New Albany June 23, 1847

I. L. Edwards Esq Commissions

Sir ~ Mary Hoffman having
[illegible] for more than fourteen months to
apply for his Pension, I now inclose
her papers for your adjudication

Yours respectfully
Your Obt. Ser,

M. C. Fitch
Agent
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[handwritten]
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commission
of Pensions

(Present)
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[handwritten letter}

Washington D. C. Febry 8th 1844.

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions,

Sir.
Herewith you will find the papers in three applications
for pensions made the day of July 7 1838.  ([illegible]/1st The evidence
of the marriage of Christina Bell and [illegible] Bell.  2d  The Decla
=rations of Mary Huffman widow of Henry Huffman together
with the evidence of Marriage.  and 3dly.  The Declaration
of Nancy Edge widow of John Edge for a pension and
the original family Record and affidavit of Rosanah
Dunfee in support of her application.  And I wrote here by
to denote the attention of the department to the said "Record"
of the births of children of John and Nancy Edge.  The paper
is much mutilated and worn; but enough remains to 
establish the fact of the births of all of the children therein
married long before the 1st Januy 1794.  And I would
[illegible] particularly point Your attention, No 1. 2. 3 and 4.
marked on the said "record" and trust that upon examination
it will prove satisfactory.  The application of Mrs Christina
Bell has been for a long time before the department, and 
may I venture to ask of the Comm. of Pensions, a decision
on the aforesaid Cases.. immediately or at the earliest
possible day. as I would be glad to be apprised of the same
before I leave the City. which will be in 8 or 10 days.

I am Most Respectfully Your obt Sevt
Stephen L. Hardin Esq
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upper left corner
stamped postage cancellation  Oct 18

Hand written
Stephen F. Harding Esq.
Milan
Ripley County
Ind  [crossed out]Ohio
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Upper right corner
Washington Pa
October 17. 1863

Dear Sir

Your letter of the 4th instant, to tho Post Marked
as this place, was hand to me, and equally to your 
request, I examined the records of Washington County,
in relation to the Marriage of Mary Huffman 
and her husband Henry Huffman.

There nevr was any record of marriages kept
in Washington County,, there was at one time marriage
licenses paid by the Prothonotary, at which time the
County filed a bond to keep the person who should
perform the ceremony indemnified, but there was
no record evr made, tho bond was surely filed -
I examined those bonds and could find none
older than 1804.  There was a justice of the 
Peace, at one time in this County, by the name of 
William Wallace - I knew him in his life time
he died about 20 years ago.  No doubt it was
he that married Mr. and Mrs. Huffman.

The dockets of Justice Wallace was placed
in the hands of a man by the name of James
Gordon of this County.  I wrote to him and 
requested him to make an examination to see if Esq Wallace made any entry on his docket.  He writes me that the dockets [end of page]
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[letter continued from previous page]
in his possession are not older than the year 1800 and he does not know where the previous dockets
 are.  There are several families in this County
by the name of Huffman who reside in the 
neighbourhood when Wm Wallace resided 
in his life time.  I presume that they were 
related to Henry Huffman tho dead.

I do not think it likely that any 
evidence can be had here, of the marriage, un
less some of older family of the Huffmans who reside here might prove it.

I will inquire of some of them the 
first time I see them and if any evidence
can be obtained I will write to you.

Yours Respectfully
Jos. Henderson

Stephen S. Harding Esq
Milan
Indiana

[handwritten in diffferent hand and ink]
Washington, Pa January 17th 1844

Being requested to certify to the character and standing of the above named Jos. Henderson, I do most freely state that he is well known to me and a gentleman afore statments to the fullest confidence he may be placed.
E. Blaine   Pry
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The state of Indiana, Washington County, Sct.

On this 30th day of May 1849, personally appeared before me, Samuel S. Early, a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Washington aforesaid, Mary Huffman, a resident of said county, aged sixty seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law do thus 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 2d February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Henry Huffman, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Benjamin McMahan in the eighth Regiment of regular Troops Pennsylvania that she received a pension of the United States under the laws thereof, of twenty six dollars and sixty six cents, up to the fourth of March 1848, in Indiana.

She further declares that she is still the widow of said Henry Huffman.

Mary ["his mark" above and below an "x"] Hoffman

Noah Myers
Joseph Myers
2 witnesses [written vertically to the right of the two previous names with a brace indicating them]

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 30th day of May, 1849

Samuel S. Early  J. [illegible and circled/obscured by scribbles]
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She further declares that she is still the widow of said Henry Huffman.

Mary ["his mark" above and below an "x"] Hoffman

Noah Myers
Joseph Myers
2 witnesses [written vertically to the right of the two previous names with a brace indicating them]

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 30th day of May, 1849

Samuel S. Early J. [illegible and circled/obscured by scribbles]

[the above portion has been copied twice, once in another image]

STATE OF INDIANA,
WASHINGTON COUNTY,
SS [written to the right of the two previous lines with a brace]

I, Washington C. DePauw, Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said county, within the 2nd Judicial Circuit of said State, certify that Samuel S. Early Esq., is and was at the date of taking the foregoing acknowledgement of Mary Hoffman 

January 18th, 1845, & that his term of service will expire January 18th, 1850 - an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit are due all his official acts as such, and the Signature thereto purporting to be his, I believe is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said Court, at Salem, in said County and State, this 16th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine - 

Washington C. DePauw. Clerk.
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[hand written]

Col Edward [illegible] please send [illegible] Huffman
Certificate, directed New Albany, Floyd County Indiana
19th June 1849
Henry Collins
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Henry Hoffman of Penna
No 1710

Henry Hoffman
Refolutionary Pensioner
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We Frederick Charles Crole residing in
Manheim township in the [illegible] County of Schuylkill
and Jacob Huntzinger residing in Orwigsburg [illegible] County
hereby certify that we are well acquainted 
with Henry Huffman who has resided
and sworn to the above declaration that
we believe him to be seventy two years of
age that he is reputed and believed ~
in the neighborhood where he resides to have 
been a soldier of the Revolution and that we 
concur in that opinion-

Sworn and subscribed the 
day and year [illegible]

Jacob Huntzinger

Iac. Hammer  Prothy.
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And the said court do hereby declare
their opinion after the investigation of the
matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department.  That
the above applicant was a revolutionary
soldier served as he states.  And the 
Court further certifies that it appears to
therin That Frederick Charles Croll who 
has agreed the proceeding certificate is a
Clergyman resident in the township of-
Manheim in the County, and that Jacob
Huntzinger - who has also agreed the same is a resident of Orwigsburg in the same
county and is a credible person and
that their statement is entitled to credit.

C.  Blythe
Gaush
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Pennsylvania
Schuylkill County [illegible]
I Jacob Hammer clerk of the court of common Pleas of the county of Schuylkill aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Henry Hoffman for a pension [black swirl]
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said office this third day of August [illegible] One Thousand Eight hundred and thirty two
Jac. Hammer
{lots of black swirls]
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1052 2.1 6428
act 1843  Died 1.st April 1804
Application and [illegible] of Mrs Mary Huffmann (widow of Henry Huffman). for pension under the act of July 4th 1838.
Thick black line
aomd Smopri
thick black line
26.00 black swirl
Also Act 31 March 43
$26.00 more black swirls

Black swirl
Stephen S. Harding
agent, Milair [illegible]
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State of Pennsylvania
Washington County.  I Ephraim S. Blaine clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, and Prothonotery of the County of Wash=ing and State aforesaid, do herby Certify that I am clerk and Prothonatory as aforesaid, and have held the said offices  the 12th day of October 1843.  That I have examined the Records in my office from 1784 to 1800.  That said Records afford no evidence of the Marriage of Henry Huffman and Mary Drum (or Mary Hu=ffman.) Nor is there any evidence in my said office of such marri = age either before or since the year of our Lord 1820.  That there is no Register of births in my office which [illegible] their said relation = ship as husband and wife [illegible] to January 1794.  That there never was any Records required or Kept in my office in the County of Washington and State of Pennsylvania concerning the issuing of Marriage License, or the [illegible] of any marriages whatever.  that the fact of no such Record, being present in my said office affords not the best presumption against the probability of the fact of the Marriage of Henry Huffman and Mary Drum in the year 1788 or at any thus time.

And I the said Clerk and Prothonotary do hereby further certify that there was at one time required in the County of Washington and the State of Pennsylvania "Bonds" from those to above marriage licenses issued, but that no Record was made thereof that upon examination these appear to be [illegible] no such "Bonds" earlier than 1804.

In testimony whereof I have hereto let my hand and office the seal of said County of Washington this 17th day of January 1844.

E L Blain   Proy