Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45385, Henry House, New York
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(8-1776)
Service
New York
House, Henry
Number
S.45385
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7114
New York
Henry House
of Middleburgh in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Van Courtland of the N York [torn edge] ne, for the term of Six years 1777 – 
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 – Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th of March 1819 and sent to Hon: Thomas Lawyer
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 10 mos 21/30 & 4/31; 86.6 [torn edge]
Semi-anl. all’ce ending 4 Sept 1819. 48 c
$134.63
Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
Continen [fades]
[Sideways writing]
Notice Sent to Jedediah Miller by 4 October 1821
Cobbsville New York
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The pension papers of Henry House
77 to 83 Van Cortlandt N. York (transcription needed)
Admitted on the evidence of Jno Pulis there being the discharge of Gen. Washington accompanying his declaration.
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Declaration
State of New York
Schoharie (Albany is crossed out) County.
Pursuant to an Act of the Congress of the United States of America, passed March 18th, 1818, to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the said United States, in the Revolutionary War, I Henry House of the Town of Middleborough in the County of Schoharie and State of New-York, aforesaid DO HEREBY make the following solemn Declaration under oath, before the Hon. Jesse Shepard Esquire, one of the judges of the court of Common Please, in and for the county of Schoharie and State aforesaid, in the terms following, to wit: - I do solemnly and sincerely swear and declare, that I am a resident Citizen of the Said United states, to wit, in the town, county and state aforesaid; and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life. I am in need of assistance from my country for support. I do further declare, that I served in the War of the Revolution, against the common Enemy, in the capacity of a private soldier and that I served in the said War until the end there of that I belong to Captain Neuelehings (his Christian name {transcription needed} Company, In Colonel Philip Courtlandt or Van {transcription need} - Regiment, in the Second Regiment in the New York line - That I entered the said service on or about the Month of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy Seven and was discharged on the Seventh of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty three that I left the said service by reason of the termination of the war, having faithfully served five years and above three months was discharged at a place called Snake hill so called
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and in my presence subscribed the same Declaration ; and at the same time, in due form of law, took an Oath be-fore me, on the holy evangelists of Almighty God, that the said Declaration was true - And I having examined the said (written) Henry House touching the matters in the said Declaration contained, and having also taken the Deposition of the said (written) John Pulis which accompanies this Certificate and the said Declaration, and being satisfied that the facts stated therein are true, and the only evidence in the power of the said (written) Henry House to produce, I do further Certify, that is appears to my entire satisfaction, that the said (written) Henry House did actually serve in the Revolutionary War aforesaid, against the common Enemy, in the manner and for the time by him stat-ed in his said Declaration, and that the said Declaration is in other respects true. All which said proceedings had before me, and the testimony produced in the case, I do certify and transmit to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War, according to the direction of the Act of Congress aforesaid. 
[Indent] IN TESTIMONY whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my Scal, at (written) Cobleskill
in the State of New-York, this (written) Seventh day of (written) April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

[Signed]
Jesse Shepard

(written)
State of New York
Schoharie County ~
} SS

(tab) John Pulis of the town of Cobleskill, in in the county of Schoharie and state of New York, being duly worn with there he knew the [transcribe] or within named Henry House, at leant three years before the termination of the [transcribe] was and there when he {faitly} became acquainted with the said House while a {private} fellow soldier through this deponent and the said House belonged to different companies in the same Regiment, and there both this deponent and the said House was discharged from the service at the same time, [transcribe], the Seventh of June one thousand seven hundred & Eighty three; that House was always esteemed a faithful citizen and had the reputation of a brave soldier and that he has been intimately acquainted with the said House for upwards of twenty years [transcribe]fast that he was a man of strict truth and of [transcribe] moral [transcribe] and that he often heard the said House and other pension estate the circumstances of him bearing his dwelling house and the property therein lay [transcribe] and thou his discharge [transcribe] both [transcribe[ had been
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honor [smudged out]

honoured with two badges of Merit for upwards of six years service in the Revolutionary [caret] war against the Common Enemy was through by that mean destroyed; which believed by all his neighbours and acquaintances as far as I have been able to learn a part of which I know to be the truth and the residue verily believe to be so -

Sworn and subscribed}
the Tenth day of April, in the}
year 1818 before me,}
Jesse Shepard}
one of the Judges of the Court}
of Common pleas for the}
County of Schoharie

John his [X] mark Pulis

State of NewYork [sic]}
Schoharie County, SS}
I, the said Jesse Shepard, Esquire herien before named, a judge of the court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Schoharie and state of NewYork [sic] aforesaid, the said Court being a Court of Record, do hereby further certify that I am personally well acquainted with Henry House, in the preceding declaration named, and have been so for several years last past, and that he is really in reduced circumstances, and very much needs the assistance of his country for support, according to the true meaning and intent of the act of Congress, and his declaration herein before mentioned, and expressed. All which is respectfully submitted to the Hon. The Secretary of the War department -

In Witness whereof , I have herewith set my hand the Tenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen -

Jesse Shepard
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State of New York
Schoharie County,SS
    To the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States of America, and all whom it may concern, I William W. Enders, Clerk of the court of Common Please in the said county of Schoharie do respectfully certify true Jesse Shepard Esquire, in the preceding declaration and certificates named was on the Tenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and still is a Judge of the court of Common Pleas in and for the said county of Schoharie, and that the signature of his name within, is his own proper handwriting.
  In witness whereof, I have (?) and (?) by my hand and prefixed the seal of the said court at the town of and in the said county of Schoharie and state afore said the Tenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
    W.W.. Ender Clk.
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Henry House
Pension Papers
7114

Jedidiah Miller, Agt.
Cobleskill
Schoharie
New York

Con 
I. L. E.
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State of New York
Schoharie County, SS} 
On the ninth – day of February, in the year of our Lord on thousand Eight hundred and twenty one, personally appeared, in the open court of Common Pleas of the county of Schoharie, said court being a court of record, Henry House aged fifty eight years, the fourteenth day of March past, a resident of the town of Schoharie in the county aforesaid duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows to wit, that he enlisted about the months of July or August, but on what particular day or month he cannot say, in the year 1777, into a company commanded by Captain Johnson, whose Christian name is not recollected, in the fifth Regiment then commanded by Colonel Lewis Dubois, in General James Clinton’s Brigade, in the New York line, that he faithfully served upon the Continental establishment, exceeding nine months, until the expiration of the War or until the ninth of June, in the year 1783, according to the best of his recollection, when he was discharged honourably, at a place called at Snake. hill, in the county of Orange, and state of New York. The services he performed, & battles in which he was engaged, are more particularly set forth in an original declaration by him made, and which has been or he believes transmitted to the War Department of the United States, at Washington, bearing day April 10th 1818; to which he begs leave to refer; that he has been placed upon the pension list and received a pension, & that the number of his certificate is 7114 –
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, so as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “ An act to provide for certain persons engaged in
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the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, passed on the 10th. day of March, 1818. And that I have not, nor has any person for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income, other than which is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed A true and perfect schedule of the real and personal estate of Henry House (necessary clothing and bedding excepted)
The said Henry House hath no real estate whatsoever, nor interest therein –
His personal estate consists (necessary clothing and building excepted) of one chair, the cost of which was one Dollar only, the said Henry House having been a debtor confined for about one year, in the county of Schoharie until the Ninth day of December, last, when he was discharged from imprisonment upon assigning and delivering up to his Assignee all his estate for the use of all his creditors, excepting the necessary wearing apparel of himself and his family, his arms and equipment according to an act of the legislature of the state of New York entitled “An act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases of” passed April 7th, 1819.
(signed) Henry House
The said Henry House do further in manner aforesaid; answer and declare that I never learned a trade, but am a common laborer that for ten months last part, I have been able to labor but a small part of the time, and for two of the last months, not at all, on account of the rapid declension of my health. I have no wife, but several children, who need from me aid to obtain a comfortable support, one of whom particularly a daughter lies very low with the consumption and is said by Physicians, And is apparently very near her end; to attend whom I have been obliged to employ a nurse, but am utterly unable to compensate her – 
Sworn and Subscribed (Signed) Henry House –
This ninth day of February, 1821, before me
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in open court,
John Swart, Clerk

The amount of the value of the property of Henry House, above named appears to the court, not to esceed [sic] the sum of one Dollars _

I John Swart, Clerk of the court of common pleas of the county of Schoharie in the state of NewYork [sic], do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule or inventory thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify that for [crossed out] [caret] it is the opinion of the said court, the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule or inventory, does not esceed [sic] One Dollar -
[seal]
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name, and affised [sic] the seal of the said court, this ninth day of February, 1821._

John Swart, Clerk
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45385
Invalid
File No. 45385
Henry House
Priv. Rev. War
Act: 18 march 1818
Index: Vol. 3, Page 234
[Arrangement of 1870]