Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41652, Henry Horton, Conn. Continental
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Service                               
Conn.                 
Continental

Horton, Henry
Hoston ov/or as superscript
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2/26 Ohio
New York

Henry Hoston/Horton
Private
Col Samuel B Webb illegible
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Conn. 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 -- Dollars per month, to commence on
6th of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 26th of May 181?
and part of the Pensioner for care
of Joshua Hossman Judge, illegible
 Onondaga, New York

Arrearages to April 1818    $39.73
                      Adlo 29 0 yr  $39.73

{Revolutionary claims,}
{Act 18th March, 1818,}

1718
3 years

Marcellus Onodaga  ??
Continued transferred

Continued and transferred to Ohio. Notification to J Sutherland, Esq Warren Trumbull County Ohio.  The Pensioner is named Horton and not Hoston as at first
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State of New York,
Onondaga County } ss:-- 

I, Joshua Forman, First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Onondaga, in the State of New-York, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that Henry Horton of the town of Marcellus in said county, did serve in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, as stated by him in his declaration on oath hereunto annexed, made before me 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 Revolutionary War."  And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the said Court to be affixed, the sixth day of April in the year 1818.

To J.C. Calhoun, Esq.                                     Joshua Forman
Secretary for the Department of
War of the United States
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State of New York}
Onondaga County}  Sr:  Henry Horton being duly sworn saith that in the months of June-Aug in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty One he enlisted as a private soldier for three years in the Continental Army in the late revolutionary war in the line of the State of Connecticut and in the months of March or April following he joined the army and was enrolled in Captain Timothy Allens Company in the third Connecticut Regiment commanded by Col Samuel B Webb and served under him in said company and regiment until sometime about the month of June in the year seventeen hundred eighty three.  When he was transferred to the company of light infantry commanded by Capt Elisha Hopkins in a regiment commanded by Col Wiliam Hull in which company he served until the expiration of his enlistment when he was discharged in the City of New York on or about the twelfth day of January in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty four.  That he lost his discharge about twenty four or five years
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since with his pocketbook at New Town in the State of New York  That he is now fifty one years old in the month of December last and now resides in the town of Marcellus in the County of Onondaga and if from his reduced circumstances in life in need of assistance from his country for support and further (two words are illegible)
                                                                   Henry Horton

Sworn to and Declared
before me this sixth
day of April in the year 
1818
                       Joshua Forman
                       First Judge of
                       Court Common Pleas
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Henry Horton
Revolutionary Pensioner
726


Copy

Ebenr R Thompson
Warren, Ohio

(illegible) Nov 1820
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The State of Ohio    on this third day of October 1820 Personally appeared in open
Trumbull County      court (being a Court of record for said County) Henry Horton aged fifty four resident of Southington in said County (resided in Marcellus Onondaga County New York on his first application for a pension) who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows  That he enlisted as a private in the town of Colchester in Connecticut the first day of January 1781 for three years in Captain Timothy Allens Company in the third Connecticut Regiment commanded by Col Samuel B Webb in General Huntingtons Brigade as he thinks in the spring of 1783 this declarant was transferred to the company commanded by Elisha Hopkins in Colonel Hulls Regiment  That on or about the 12th day of January 1784 the declarant was (illegible) discharged in city of New York but has lost his discharge  Was stationed on and about the highlands of New York considerable past of the time he was in the army. Said applicant is a pensioner under the law of the 18th of March 1818 his certificate numbered 726 and issued from the war office 26th day of May 1818 to draw pay from the 6th of April 1818  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 of in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war was passed on the 18th day of March 1818  That I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule here to annexed and by me subscribed
                                        Inventory of Property
one cow    one cow and last springs calf bought with my pension  one lame old mare 17 years old   3 pigs 7 months old   one old chair   two old broken chests nailed together  one poplar table put together with nails  two wooden pails  one stew kettle  one small pot  one tea kettle  six old iron spoons  eight old knives and forks part of which are broken   one note of ten dollars in grain in Feby next on  Asa Walden debtful note  about 25 or 30 bushels of corn raised by myself and boy with aid of benevolent neighbours
Debts owing by the declarant about fifty dollars To his two sons for support
                                             Henry Horton
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The declarant is by occupation a farmer but is unable to pursue his avocation on account of the gravel with which he is occasionally severely afflicted his family consists of a wife and four children the oldest boy eighteen years of age weakly constitution scarcely able to support himself a daughter 15 years of age able to support herself one about 9 years old and a boy about 7 the two youngest unable to (illegible) any assistance and are only to do services as small children my wife a weakly woman unfit for hard labour and not entirely able to support herself myself unable to do more than half a days labour in each day and not that at hard labour myself and family living with two sons who are poor that he stands in need of his country for assistance
                                    Henry Horton
Sworn declared and subscribed to in open Court this 3rd day of October 1820
                                    ER Thompson Clerk P.T.
I Jonathan Mansfield being acquainted with the circumstances of the within named Henry Horton know him to be a poor man and believe that he has no other property that enumerated in the above Schedule I do upon my oath say that the value of the aforesaid property is not more than seventy dollars as I verily believe
                        Jonathan his Mansfield
                                         X
                                      mark
Sworn declared and subscribed to in open Court this 3rd day of October 1820
                              ER Thompson Clerk P.T.
The State of Ohio  I Ebenezer R Thompson 
Trumbull County    Clerk (illegible) of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio within and for the County of Trumbull do hereby certify that the fore going oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said Court and I further certify that it is opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property is seventy dollars
In testimony where of I have here unto set my hand and fixed the seal of said Court on this 30th day of October 1820
                              Ebenezer R Thompson
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                                       June 17, 1937.

                                              copied
F.H. Baxter                       BA-J (smudged)
1366 11th Street, S.E.      Henry Horton
Massillon, Ohio               S.41 (smudged)

Dear Sir:

        Reference is made to your letter in which you (smudged) the record of Henry Horton who served from Connecticut in the Revolutionary War. pension S.41 (smudged)

        The data given herein is found in the papers on file in that claim for pension, based upon review of Henry Horton in the Revolutionary War.

        Henry Horton was born December 1766, the day of his birth, place, and names of his parents are not shown.

         Henry Horton enlisted in Colchester, Connecticut, January 1, 1781, served as a private in Captain Timothy Allyn's company, Colonel Samuel B. Webb's 3rd Connecticut Regiment, in 1783 was transferred to Captain Elisha Hopkins" Connecticut company, served next in in Colonel William Hull's Regiment and was discharged about January 12, 1786.

        After the Revolutionary War, the soldier lived in Schoharie, New York.

        He was allowed pension on his application (illegible) April 6, 1818, while a resident of Marcellus, Onondaga County, New York.

       In October 1820, the soldier, his wife, her age not stated, a son eighteen years old, a daughter, fifteen, a daughter, about nine and a son seven years old were living with the soldier's two sons, their ages not given, in Southington, Trumbull County, Ohio, no names are shown.  There is no further family data.
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        In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and possibly, the date of death of Henry Horton, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following:

                       Henry Horton
                       Certificate #726
                       Issued May 26, 1818
                       Rate $8 per month
                       Commenced April 6, 1818
                       Act of March 18, 1818
                       Ohio Agency (transferred from 
                       New York Agency)

                             Very truly yours,


                              A.B. HILLER
                              Executive Assistant
                              to the Administrator
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                                 936 Jan 7. Hist. t0
                                 ure. E.V. Howlett
                                 _____________a.D.y.
41652                       937-June 17 Hist. to
Invalid                      F. H. Baxter LDY copied/JFL
de No. 41.652
Henry Horton
Illegible

Act:  18th March 18
ndex:-Vol. 8, page 832

                   [Arrangement of 1870]
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                           Henry Horton
                             Application
                                    for 
                        Transfer and Certificate
                        Returned for
                        further consideration
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Corrections
Henry Horton
Correct DH
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State of New York
Onondaga County   Matthew (illegible) Jackson of the Town and County of Onondaga being duly sworn saith that he was a fifer in Timothy Allens Company in Col Samuel Webbs Regiment in The Connecticut line in the Continental Army in the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Two-that he joined the Army in the spring of that year and continued to serve in the same till June Seventeen Hundred Eighty Three when he was transferred to Captain Hopkins Company in a Regiment of Light Infantry commanded by Col William Hull in which he served till January Seventeen Hundred Eighty four when he was discharged during all which time he knew Henry Horton a private in said Allens Company and afterwards in said Hopkins Company and now of the Town of Marcellus in the County of Onondaga and That he knew the said Horton afterward in Schoharie in the State of New York and since in the Town of Marcellus and is the same person now present who has signed the annexed affidavit further saith (illegible) Matthew Jackson
Subscribed and sworn this
sixth day of April in the year
1818 before me
J Forman
First Judge of Onon Cou (illegible)
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Henry Horton 332
Applicn for transfer
72
May '18
con. and tr.  (illigible) and
I.L.q Transf
from N York
to Ohio

The name of Henry Hoston is on the N. York roll of pensioners.  It is believed that the pension was issued in that name, but that Horton is the right name.  How is the (illegible)?
P. Offing
22 Nov. '20
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER

The State of Ohio
County of Trumbull      ss.

      On the eleventh day of December 1820, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Trumbull personally appeared Henry Horton who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Timothy Allen in the regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel B. Webb in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of New York from whence has lately removed; that he now resides in the state (district, territory) of Ohio (in the county of Trumbull--where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in
future.
was transferred to a Company command by Captain Elisha Hopkins in Colonel Hull Regiment-- 
Sworn and subscribed to, before 
me, the day and year aforesaid  Henry Horton
Martin Smith Justice peace

Note.  The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated
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The State of Ohio
Trumbull County       Township of Warren, December 11th, 1820
Personally appeared Before me the undersigned Henry Horton (late of Onondaga County in the State of New York, now) of Southington in the County of Trumbull and the State of Ohio who on his oath declares that he is the same identical person named in a Pension Certificate issued from the War office and directed to him, (on which he has drawn his pension from the Pension agency of New York) of which the following is a true Copy.
"War Office"
"I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States
"of the 18th March 1818. Henry Horton 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 6th day of April
"one thousand eight hundred and eighteen."
L.S.  "Given at the War office of the United States
"the 26th day of May
"one thousand eight hundred and eighteen"
"J.C. Calhoun
"Secretary of War"
indorsed on the back
"payable on the 4th 
"March and the 4th Sept
"in each year by the
"Agent, and ranch
"Bank U. States
"New York"  "Recorded"
"Henry Horton "numbered "726"
In testimony whereof I have unto set my hand the day and date above written  Henry Horton
Sworn to and Subscribed before me the 11th day of December 1820 and by compared with the original
Martin Smith Justice peace
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The State of Ohio      I George Parsons Clerk of 
Trumbull County}        the Court of common pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that Martin Smith Esquire whos (sic) signature appears to be affixed to the foregoing Certificate is and was at the time of subscribing the same a Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and sworn [illegible] to the laws of said State & as such his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit in and out of court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Warren the thirtieth day of December 1820
Geo Parsons clerk
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[date stamp]
RECEIVED Dec 23 1935
Mail Sub-div.
Vets. Adm. Reader #68
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General Richardson Chapter
Pontiac, Michigan
[Postmark Received, December 23 1935 mail sub-div. vets. adm. 68 reader #]
Dept. of Commerce.
Bureau of Pensions.
Rev. War Station
Washington. D.C.
Dear Madam:

John Ford. b. Oct. 15 1752. m.- Hannah - b.1753.  He died Aug. 15 1845. West Stockbridge, Mass. She died same place Jan 25 1820.  He was said to have lived on the same farm for 71 yrs 6 mos. Did the above described John Ford receive a pension for service with the Mass. troops during the Revolution and are there further bits of data describing him and his service in the files of your office?
Thanking you.  I am Respectfully
May R. Howlett (Mrs E.V.)
53 1/2 Huron St. W..
Pontiac, Mich
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Dept. of Commerce
Pension Bureau
Rev. War Section
Washington
D. C.
Dear Sir:
Did Henry Haughton (enlisted as Horton) receive a pension for service in the War of the Revolution?  He was b. Sharon, Conn., 1764 and died 1845 at Southington, Ohio; Came to Western Reserve 1808, where he bought 200 acres of land; was buried in Center Cem Southington; his service is not shown in the record but his name is on a monument to that effect and his name listed p. 178 Official Roster of Rev. Soldiers Buried in Ohio (1929)
Have an applicant and descendant who wishes to join our D. A. R. Chapter thro his service and any data you may be able to furnish will be greatly appreciated.
Most respectfully
May R. Howlett (Mrs. E. V.)
53 1/2 Huron St. W.,
Pontiac, Mich
[date stamp] RECEIVED Dec. 21 1935
Mail Sub. Div. Vets Adm. Reader #10
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1305-11th. St., N.E.
Massillon, Ohio
Jun. 12, 1973

Mr. A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator,
Washington, D.C.

[Postmark- RECEIVED JUN 15 1937 MAIL SUB-DIV VETS. ADM. READER #24]

Dear Mr. Hiller:
As you suggested, I wrote to the Adjutant General, War Department, Washington, D.C.
Henry Horton served as a private in Capt. Allyn's Company, infantry under Marquis De la Fayette.  He enlisted January 31, 1781, for 3years; was transferred in May or June, 1783 to the Lihgt Infantry Company, Connecticut Regiment, commanded by Col. Herman Swift, and his name last appears on the company roll for September, 1783, dated October - 1783.
From the Connecticut State Library comes this information:
Henry Horton - soldier - pension (application no. S 41652 on file in Pension Office in Washington, D.C.
I wish to find out where he was born, date, names of his parents and any information about his wife.
The name Haughton was Horton at the time of Revolution.  Why or how it came to be changed I do not know.
Any information you can get for me will be greatly appreciated.
Yours faithfully,
F. H. Baxter

Refer to BA-J/Mes.
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January 7, 1938
[illegible]
Henry Horton
S.41652
Mrs. E. V. Howlett
53 1/2 Huron Street W.
Pontiac, Michigan
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers in that war.
A careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of John Ford as described by you, all spelling of the names searched.
The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.41652, based upon the military service of Henry Horton in that war.
Henry Horton was born in December [illegible], day, place, and the names of his parents are not stated.
Henry Horton enlisted in Colchester, Connecticut, January 1, [illegible], served as private in Captain Timothy Allyn's company, Colonel Samuel B. Webb's Third Connecticut Regiment, in 1783 was transferred to Captain Elisha Hopkins' Connecticut Company, served next in Colonel William Hall's Regiment and discharged about January 12, 1784.
After the Revolutionary War soldier lived in Sobcharie, New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 6, 1818, while a resident of Marcelus, Onondaga County, New York.
In 1820 soldier, his wife, her age not stated, a son,
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eighteen years old, a daughter, fifteen, a daughter, about nine, and a son, about seven years old, were living with soldier's two sons, their ages are not given, in Southington [?], Trumbull, County, Ohio, no names are stated.  There are no further family [illegible].
Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Date of death not on A.B.