Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4925, Henry Herring, Penn.
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Penn.   Herring, Henry or Hering   R4925
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State of Pennsylvania Clinton County SS
On this Eighth day of December AD 1856: Henry Herring of the Township of Green in the County and State aforesaid, in open court
and being duly sworn according to Law did depose and say and make
the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension
of the act of Congress - passed June 7th 1831. That he is one of the heirs of Henry Herring late of the Township of Logan in the County and State aforesaid, deceased that to the best of his knowledge and
belief his Father Henry Herring entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated (viz) Enlisted as a private the first day of May 1777 for one year under Capt Fetzer in the County of Bucks the place of. Rendezvous was at Reading where he met and joined the Regiment, Commanded by James Thompson of the Pennsylvania Line that he marched to Valley Forge and there joined the Main Army thence marched through the jersey to White Plains thence to Quaker Hill, 
then ventured to Middle Brook on the Rariton River in the Jerseys from that to Duck Creek, Cross Roads in the State of Delaware where he was discharged the 2 day of May 1778. That Henry Herring the pension alluded to in the accompanying papers or Copies of papers from the files of the House of Rep. of Penna was his father and that he offers in proof of his right - said papers to his pension believing them to be a true Statement of his Case. He also "declares  that Said Henry Herring died on the 1st day of December AD 1840 without drawing a pension from the United States leaving heirs but no Widow, his wife the mother of this deponant having died on the 29th day of March AD 1836. The names of the heirs left by the said Henry
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Herring dec(ease)d are as follows viz
(Herring) Henry, this deponent born Feb 16th 1782
(Herring) Susanna (born) Jan 12 1784
(Herring) Elizabeth (born) Mar 1 1787
(Herring) John (born) Dec 18 1789
(Herring) Catherine (born) June 28 1793
(Herring) Margaret (born) Mar 31 1796
That the Said heirs except one are now living John Herring having Since died leaving heirs. He furthermore believes that said Henry Herring enlisted as a Volunteer and not as a Substitute and that he was honorably discharged although he is not in possession of said discharge and does not know what has become of it that he does not know the whereabouts of Ludwig Hoffman who is stated in said Herring's affidavit to have enlisted and discharged with him but presumes he was dead at the time of making that affidavit. He also refers to William K. Berry and John B. Schrack in testimony of his Character for veracity and in proof that the Said Henry Herring was reputed in his neighborhood to have been a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity of his father except the present and declares that neither his name or those of his brothers or sisters or his father are not in the pension Roll of any State. Sworn and subscribed in open Court this 8th day of Dec(embe)r A.D. 1856

(signed) Robert Irvine Proth(onotar)y
(signed) Henry Hering

We, William K. Berry, and John B. Schrack (crossed out: "in the") residing in the Township of Green in the said County said County of Clinton hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Herring who has subscribed and Sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe
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him to be one of the legitimate heirs of Henry Herring deceased according as he has Sworn that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides--that they were also well acquainted with Henry Herring deceased in his lifetime and that the Said Henry Herring deceased in his lifetime and that the Said Henry Herring deceased father of the above applicant was reputed to have been reputed a Soldier of the Revolution and from frequent conversations which they have had with him in his lifetime in which he recounted the scenes in the Revolution in which he was engaged they are satisfied and fully believe that the said Henry Herring deceased was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War. Sworn and Subscribed in Open Court the day and Year aforesaid.

(signed) Robert Irvine Proth(onotar)y 
(signed) W.K. Berry
(signed) John B. Schrack

And the said Court declare their opinion after investigation of the Matter that the aforesaid applicant is one of the heirs of Henry Herring deceased and that the Said Henry Herring was a Revolutionary Soldier as they and he state and the Court further certifies that is appears to them Wm. K. Berry and Jno. B. Schrack who have signed the preceeding Certificate are residents of Clinton County Pa. in the Township of Green in Said County and that they are creditable persons and their statements are entitled to the fullest Credit.

(signed) J.R. Burnside Presdt. Judge
(signed) Nathl. Hanna
(signed) Anthony Kleckner
Dec. 8th 1856
Associate Judges
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State of Pennsylvania 
Clinton County 

I Robert Irwin Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County of Clinton do Certify that James Burnside, whose name appears to the within document was at the time of signing the same, and now is, President Judge of the said Court of Common Pleas of Clinton County and that Nath(anie)l Hanna and Anthony Kleckner were and are Associate Judges of the Said Court and that the signatures of the said three Judges to the within paper are their own genuine signatures 

In testimony where I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court of Lock Haven this 8th day of December A.D. 1856

(signed) Robert Irwin, Prothonotary
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Rev. War Section
(handwritten "MMHF")
April 11, 1933
Honorable W. J. Graham
House of Representatives
In re: Henry Herring-- War of Revolution
R. 4925.
Peter Hotchkiss-- War of 1812.
You are advised that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. 4925 it appears that Henry Herring or Hering was born on October 2, 1753 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
In September 1776 he enlisted in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and served two months as a Private in Captain John Ludwig's Company, Pennsylvania Troops. In November 1777 he enlisted and served two months in Captain George Heinland's Company, Colonel Lacey's Regiment. On May 1, 1778 he enlisted and served as Teamster until May 3, 1779 in Captain John Fetzer's Company, Colonel James Thompson's Regiment. He was in the battles of Chestnut Hill and Gulf Mills. 
He moved from Bucks County, Pennsylvania to Logan
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Township, Center County, Pennsylvania in 1801, where on November 26, 1835 he applied for pension. His claim was not allowed on the ground that the Act of June 7, 1832 under which he applied required six months service as a soldier, and his service as a Teamster was not accepted as such. He died December 1, 1840.
His wife, name not stated, died March 29, 1836. Their children were as follows:
Henry...... born February 16, 1783, living in Green Township, Clinton Co., Pa. in 1856.
Susanna.... " January 12, 1784.
Elizabeth.. " March 1, 1787.
John...... " December 18, 1789, not living in 1856.
Cathrine.. " June 28, 1793.
Margaret... " March 31, 1796.
This Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the War of 1812 unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of his services, and a careful search of the records fails to show such a claim no file on account of the services of Captain Peter Hotchkiss in the War of 1812.
Very truly yours,
Acting Commissioner.
# 1 enclosure
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No. 33416
Pennsylvania
Henry Herring
Rejected
Let. to R.C. Hale 7 Dec 1835
G.A. Achenback Sep 28 1855
H.T. Beardsley Aug 23 1856 -
G.A. Achenback Jan(uar)y 17 1857

Act - 7th June 1832
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33,416
Henry Herring
Penn[superscript a]

R.C. Hale 7 Dec 1835 -
G.A. Achenback September
28, 1855 - H.J. Beardsley
August 23, 1856 - G.A.
Achenback, January
17, 1857 - Same March
7, 1857 - Same Mch 30 1858.

492 [illegible]

Act June 7, 1832
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Clinton Co. Pa.
Lock Haven Sept 14 1855
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Respected Sir
By letters received from your Department through G.A. Crawford Esq(ui)re of the P.O. Dept. of your City I have been informed that when a Revolutionary Soldier died without having received any pension, the children of said deceased Soldier are by the present laws entitled to receive the amount of pension money which belonged to their father.
There is a case in this County as follows viz Henry Herring served in the Revolutionary War in the Penna. Militia.
His wife died in the year A.D. 1836.
He Herring died in the year A.D. 1840 leaving legal heirs, all of whom were of age at the time of his death
He the said Herring never received any pension from the U.S.
Now if these children are entitled to receive the pension which their father might have drawn in his life time by making the necessary proof, I wish you to send me a blank form for applications for heirs as aforesaid & oblige
Yours Respectfully 
(signed) G.A. Achenback
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State of Pennsylvania
Clinton County
Personally appeared in open court of Common pleas of Clinton County the 26th day of November A.D. 1835 Henry Herring who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed 7th June 1832.
That he is now aged eighty two years past. That he was born in Bucks county Penna. on the second day of October 1753. That he resided in Bucks County till the year 1801 when he removed to Center County where he now resides in Logan Township.
That in the year 1776 he was drafted for a two month term of service in a company of Penna. Militia commanded by Captn. Jno. Ludwig. that he was drafted in September and marched to Amboy in New Jersey. There was another company at Amboy but Captn. Ludwig being senior officer, was Commander in chief. That after remaining here till the expiration of the term for which they were drafted guarding stores, and acting as escorts &c (meaning "etcetera") they returned home but that he did not receive a written discharge.
That in the year 1777 in the month of November to the best of his recollection he was drafted for another term of two months in Captain George Heinlands company and marched to White Marsh where the regiment was commanded by Colonel Lacy and the troops by General Potter, that during this time he acted as guard of prisoners, and stores, and was in several skirmishes once on the top of Chesnut hill in which one man by the name of David Beardman of our company was killed and a number of others wounded
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was also in another skirmish with the enemy at the foot of Chesnut hill, and a third at Gulf Mills when a number of our company and battalion were (at Gulf) killed. In the battle at the foot of Chesnut hill we were commanded by General Irwin, who was wounded by a shot in the hand, and after that General Potter took the command.
That on the 1st of May 1778 he enlisted for one year under Captn. Jno. Weitzel to drive a Continental team, enlisted in Bucks County and got his waggon in Reading and drove from Reading to the army then lying in Valley forge, from there drove to White plains, and the lines of Connecticut and returned again across New York to New Jersey when the army went into winter quarters at and around Middlebrook, and we were sent into the state of Delaware to recruit the horses, and we stayed there till the year for which we enlisted was up, when we were discharged, on the second day of May 1779. That he received a written discharge but not supposing that it would be of any use to him, he destroyed it together with other old papers when he moved from Bucks County to Center County in the year 1801. That he knows of no person that was out with him, now living who can testify as to his services, but that Frederick Friedly and John Shock both of Logan township who are his neighbors can testify as to his character and his reputation as a soldier of the Revolution. He relinquishes all claim to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn & subscribed in Open Court the 26th day of Nov(embe)r. 1835.

(signed) Jas. Gilliland Prot(thonotar)y
(signed) Henry Herring
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Personally appeared in open court of Common pleas of Centre County Frederick Friedley and John Shock of Logan Township in said County who being duly sworn according to court do depose and say that they are well acquainted with Henry Herring who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing declaration that they believe him to be eighty two years of age. that he is a man of credit and veracity. that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we can concur in that opinion.
Sworn in open court the 26th day of November A.D. 1835 and subscribed at the same time, before me.

(signed) Jas. Gilliland Prot(honotar)y
(signed) Frederick Friedley
(signed) John Schrack
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State of Pennsylvania
Centre County
I James Gilliland Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County certify that Isaac McKinley and Jacob Kayder, before whom the within proceedings were had are Judges of said court and that the signatures thereto purporting to be theirs are genuine and that the within are the original proceedings in the matter touching the application of Henry Herring for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed by seal of office this 26th day of November 1835.

(signed) Jas. Gilliland Prot(honotar)y

(vertical at bottom)
33416
Application
of
Henry Herring

Robt Hale
Lewiston
Penna.
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Lock Haven  Aug. 14 1856

L Minot Esq.
Court of Pensions

In December or January last I forwarded to your Department The application of Henry Herring, one of the heirs of Henry Herring D(ecease)d for the amt. of Pension Money that his father would have been entitled to under the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832 and have since had no word of this application.
Please inform me whether the application was rec(eive)d and if so what action if any has been had in relation to the family.

Very Respectfully Yours,
(signed) H.T. Beardsley
Lock Haven
Clinton Co.
Pa
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76 2 mo drafted Capt Ludwig  Amboy N.J.

77. 2 mo drafted {Capt} Heinland

78 - 1 May 1 year enlisted Teamster  
no conductor _ or who enlisted 
no witness- Interrogatories not answ(ere)d

Henry Herring
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1911 Oct 7 History to
Mrs. Nora Buckley &
1923 Apr 11 - Hist. to Hon.
W. J. Graham for Mrs. Nora
Meacham. MMHF
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873. [strikethrough]
REJECTED [stamp]
4925
P.O. [left blank]
Henry Herring
Service: [left blank]
Enlisted: [left blank], 18  .
Discharged: [left blank], 18  .

Application filed: [left blank], 18  .
Alleges: [left blank]
Re-enlisted: [left blank]
Attorney: [left blank]
P.O. [left blank]
[blank] Recognized. [blank] Contract
[blank] Cert. of Dis.  Searched for [blank], 18
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Henry Herring
Pa - Act- 1832


G A Lackenback
Lock Haven
Penna.
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Lock Haven Feby 1 1857

Dear Sir,
After an absence of a few weeks I find your favor of the 17 ultimo on my return, in relation to the application and papers of Henry Herring.

You say "no allowance can be made except upon the production of record Evidence corroborating his allegations"

My object in writing to you is to ascertain what record evidence must be had and I will then Know whether it can be provided.

Have you rec(eive)d the record of the proceeding before the Pennsylvania Legislature, that I sent you in relation to this matter?  I am sorry to trouble you in this way but your advice will be thankfully rec(eive)d

Respectfully Yours
(signed) G. A. Achenback

S. Cole
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Lock Haven Dec 9 1856

Dear Sir
I herewith send you
the Declaration & papers of Henry Herring
For pension. I hope they will be
found correctly made out and
Hope a pension may be granted the
Heirs. Should anything be found
wanting you will please write
to me at Sugarvalley Postoffice
Clinton County Penna.

Your Friend
(signed) Geo. A. Achenback

Commission of
Pensions
Washington
DC
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W. J. Graham
14th Dist. Illinois
(handwritten - Rev Sec)
(Letterhead)
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.

April 7, 1923.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C. 

My dear Sir:

I am enclosing herewith a letter which I have received from a constituent of mine, Mrs. Zora Meacham, of Roseville, Illinois.  I would be obliged if you would give me the information requested by Mrs. Meacham in the second paragraph of her letter.  {Henry Herring of Pa. Rev. and Capt Peter Hotchkiss 1812}

Will you kindly return the enclosed letter, for my files, and oblige,

Yours very truly,

(signed) W.J. Graham

(stamped in ink-Pension Office E Apr 9 1923)
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Congressional
3--571

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Record Division

Briefed by JFB
Orig.  [blank]
Cert.  [blank]
Claimant  [blank]
Soldier - Peter Hotchkiss
Service - Captain
----War 1812.
No. ______claim, Service record____, 19
_________, Clerk
No claim, Alph'b record_____, 19
______, Clerk.
Remarks:   ______ [blank]
No 1812, Old War or Navy.
JFB
4/10/23

(stamped signature) J. H. Wood, Chief Division.
C--1944
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Postcard
[circular stamp]
PENSION OFFICE.
H
OCT
5
U. S.
1911

[circular stamp]
RECORD DIVISION
OCT
5
1911

[circular stamp]
19 [illegible]
OCT
3
3PM
ILL.

[stamp]
U.S. POSTAL CARD
1 ONE CENT 1
MCKINLEY

THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS ONLY

Comissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Roseville Warren Co. Ill.
Oct 3rd 1911

Will you Please give me any
Data, you may have of Henry Herring [underlined]
of Penn [underline], of the Revolutionary War and greatly oblige
sincerely
Mrs Nora Buckley
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[envelope]
Pension Bureau

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City
D.C.

[illegible postmark]

(written across address)
Appl of heirs of Henry
Herring Rev pension
Lock Haven Pa. [illegible]
G. A. Achenback Agt.
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Advise G. A. Achenback
of Sugar Valley, Pa
As to the condition of the claim of Heirs of 
Henry Herring dec(ease)d
Rev: susp(ende)d
Call my attention to the letter-
[illegible initialed signature]

Get these papers
Boynton
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(Envelope)

postage mark illegible except for Nov. 28
(probably LEWISTOWN because of the context of the next document, #28 in the file)

J. L. Edwards Esquire
Comm(issione)r of Pensions
Washington City

[Handwritten sideways left side of envelope]
Dec. 1
Pa
original

(stamped) FREE
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Lewistown 27th November 1835

Sir
Enclosed I send the application of William Taylor for a pension.
Also that of Henry Herring-the latter claims to have served 4 months as a militia man also the year as a driver of a continental team under the act of Congress authorising enlistment to that period & purpose - which I believe under the rules of the War Department entitle him to a pension

Very respectfully

Yr Ob(edien)t Ser(van)t
R C Hale

J.L. Edwards Esq
Com(missione)r of Pensions
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Roseville, Ill., Feb 14, 1923
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C. 
Dear Sir:-
Will you please send me Military Record of Henry Herring.  He served in the Revolutionary War.  He rec(eive)d a pension.  I wish the data of his family as he gave it, also if you please. 

I surely appreciate the response you have given me in the past. 
Awaiting your reply I beg to remain,
Yours truly,
Mrs. Zora Meacham

(U.S. Pension Office circular stamp dated Feb 19, 1923)
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Henry Herring d(ecease)d  1 Dec 1840

Henry 1
Susanna 2
Elizabeth 3
John 4 [crossed out]
Catharine 5 [the 5 is overwritten by a 4]
Margaret 6 [the 6 is overwritten by a 5]
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1 May 77  Cap Fetzer, Col Jas Thompson,    12-
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To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly  met. now in Session at Harrisburg-

The petition of Henry Herring of Centre County a Revolutionary Soldier, who is now become old and infirm and unable to maintain himself by hard Labor, and has no land of his own, or any other income to maintain him. 

Your petitioner humbly shews that he was enlisted under Captain Fetzer in the County of Bucks, his place of Rendezvous was at Reading where we met and joined the Regiment commanded by James Thompson of the Pennsylvania Line, we marched to the Valley Forge where we joined the main Army, from there we marched through the Jerseys to White Plains, fro that to Quaker hill, then returning to Middle Brook on Raritan River in the Jersey, from that to Duck Creek crossroads in the Delaware State, where he was discharged.  He was (en)listed 1777 the first day of May for One Year and was discharged the
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[2]

the 2nd day of May 1778, Ludwig Hoffman (en)listed with me and was discharged with me the same time.
Your petitioner therefore prays your Honors to afford him relief so that he may not become a charge to Society.  While on this Stage and of course a short time will end his Pilgrimage here, and close the scene &c. 

Henry Herring

The Affidavit of John Herring of Chilisquaque Townships in Northumberland County, taken and subscribed before me, Philip H. Schreyer, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Northumberland.  The said John Herring being duly sword according to law, did depose and say that he at the time of the Revolutionary war with Great Britain, resided in Bucks County in the State of Pennsylvania and that Henry Herring of Logan Township in Centre County, farmer, there
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[3]
then was a resident of Bucks County in the State of Pennsylvania and that the said Henry Herring had then enlisted in the service of the said war as a private, for the term of one year, and served his full tour.  And to the best of his memory the said Herring enlisted in the year of our lord seventeen hundred and twenty-seven, and further saith not. 

John Herring

Sworn and subscribed at Milton the 11th day of September 1826.  
Before 
P.N. Schreyer
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11 Petition Centre
Henry Herring
H.R. Jan 29, 1827
claims
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State of Pennsylvania
House of Representatives
November 8th, 1853

I do certify the the foregoing pages numbered one, two, and three, inclusive are a full and correct copy of the petition of Henry Herring with the evidence annexed as the same now appears upon the files of the House of Representatives. 

(signed) John A. Smull
Trs. blk. H.R.
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O.W. and N. Division     3-525

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C., _________________ 190__

In reply to your request of _______ , received __________ for a statement of the military history of Henry Herring, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this bureau. 

R. 4925

[column headings: Dates of Enlistment or Appointment; Length of Service; Rank; Officers Under Whom Service was Rendered (Captain; Colonel); State]


1. Sept 1776. 2 mos.  --.  John Ludwig. --.  Pa.
2. Nov. 1777.  2 mos. --.  George Heinland.  Lacey.  --
3. May 1 1778.  May 2, 1779.  Teamster.  John Fetzer.  James Thompson.  --.


Battles engaged in, Chestnut Hill & Gulf Mills
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Bucks Co., Pa.
Date of application for Pension, Nov. 26, 1835
Residence at date of application, Logan Twp, Centre Co., Pa. 
Age at date of application; b. Oct 2 1753 in Bucks Co., Pa. 

Remarks: His wife, name not stated, died  Mch. 29 1836 and he died Dec. 1, 1840.  Childn Henry b. Feby 16, 1782, Susanna b. Jan 2, 1784, John b. Dec. 18, 1789, Catharine b. June 28, 1793, Margaret b. Mch 31, 1796. All living in 1856 except John. 

OVER [added by hand]]

Very respectfully, 
--------------- Commissioner

12 in claim
A daughter Elizabeth b. Mch 1, 1787
(mmHF Apr. 10, 1923)