Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4866, Archibald Henderson, Ga. Residence
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Henderson, Archibald

Ga. Residence
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The Honble, The Secretary of the Treasury of the U. S.  Revolutionary claims
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1562
Georgia Gwinnett County
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of act Entitled and act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution approved this 15th of May 1828.  Archibald Henderson of the county and state above name, do hereby declare that enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution during the Revolutionary War as follows my first
I enlisted in Captains Eli Kershaw Company of the South Carolina line in Colonel Daniel Sumpters Regiment for the term of three years and that I afterwards enlisted in Captain Daniel Duffs Company of the same Regiment (but before the 18 months time of my enlistment expired) the said Sumpters was promoted to Brigadier General and Col William Henderson commanded said Regiment and that at the expiration of the last named enlistment again enlisted in Captain William Guyton company of the Continental line in the Regiment commanded by Col Williamson (but he of command of said Regiment was afterward transfer to Col Elijah Clarke and that I continued in the said service until the termination of the Revolutionary War and was at the Capture of Lord Cornwallis at York Town at which time and place I was a first sergeant in said William Guytons company; and that at the conclusion of the war I received a discharge which has since together with all of my papers pertaining to said service been burnt in my house by accident.
And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of May 1823 on the Pension list of the United States
Witness my hand this 19th day of February 1829   
Signed Archibald Henderson
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Georgia
[Gwinnett unspecified, but presumed from below] County

In person came Archibald Henderson before me D W Miller - a Justice of the Peace for said County and made oath that the foregoing statement of facts as they stand stated are true to the best of his knowledge and recollection.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the 25 day of February 1829
Archibald Henderson [signature]
D W Miller J.P.

Georgia
Gwinnett County

I William Maltbie Clerk of the Inferior Court for said County to hereby certify that D W Miller before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn to was at the time a Justice of the peace for said county duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my private seal (there being no seal of office) the 24th day of February 1829.
Wm. Maltbie Clk. J.C {Seal}

Georgia
Gwinnett County

I Asahel R Smith one of the Presiding Justices of the Inferior Court for said County do certify that Wm Maltbie whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is the acting Clerk of said Court and as such full faith and credit ought to be given to his official acts.
Given under my hand and seal this 24th day of Feby 1829
Asahel R Smith PJC {S} [his seal]
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Georgia Gwinnett County

Before me DW Miller a Justice of the Peace for said County duly empowered to administer oaths Personally came and appeared [some text lined through] John Davis who being severally sworn di make oath that Archibald Henderson by whom the foregoing declaration was made and scribed is a Soldier of the Revolution and was in the army thereof at the conclusion of the war in the manner by him stated and that these deponents were with him and intimately acquainted with him at the time thereof and him to be the same person.
Sworn to and subscribed to me the 23 day of February 1829
[signed] D.W. Miller J.P.

Georgia Gwinnett County
I Wm Mattbie Clerk of the Superior Court for said County do certify that D. W. Miller before whom the foregoing affidavits were made and sworn to was at the time an acting Justice of the peace duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal (there being no seal of office) the 24th day of Feb 1829 [signed] Wm Mattbie Clk SC seal

Georgia Gwinnett County
I Asahel R Smith one of the Justices of the Inferior Court for the County aforesaid do certify that Wm Mattbie whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is acting clerk of the said court and as such full faith ought to be given to his official acts.
Given under my hand & seal this 24th day of February 1829 [signed] Asahel R Smith CIC seal
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[*V.L.K.*]
Rev. War Section.
November 7, 1917.
Archibald Henderson
R. 4866

Hon. John W. Gaines,
2081/2 Fifth Avenue N.,
Nashville, Tenn.

Sir:
In response to your letter dated the 30[?] ultimo, you are advised that in the Revolutionary War pension claim Rejected File No. 4,886, Archibald Henderson while residing in Gwinnett County Georgia on February 19, 1829, alleged that he enlisted in the South Carolina Troops and served to the end of the Revolutionary War, but on April 13, 1835, while residing in Henry County, Georgia aged 82 years he alleged that while a single man and living with his uncle William Henderson in "Baltimore County, State of Pennsylvania" he enlisted in the Massachusetts Troops and served 18 months. Also that while temporarily living in Hanover County Virginia he re-enlisted January 7, 1778, in the Virginia Troops and served to the end of the Revolution. There is no further family data on file except that his wife, whose name is not stated, died in 1835.
His claim was rejected on the ground of his contradictory statements as to service.

Very respectfully,
G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.
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Archibald Henderson
Georgia
Suspended
?-1 May 1835
James Sellers JoP [Justice of the Peace]
Lane Nov 10 1835
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1917 Nov 7 Hist. to
 Jno. W. Gaines.
Letter in /s.F. 1912
Pleasant Henderson

REJECTED
4866
 
P.O.
Archibald Henderson
Service:
Enlisted: _________, 18
Discharged: ______, 18
Application Filed: _______, 18

Alleges: ________________
Re-enlisted: The printed list of 
rejected claims gives cause
of suspension as follows.
" Contradicting and absurd
statement- a sheer fabrication."

Attorney: _______________________
P.O. ________________
______________________Recognized. ______________________________Contract.
_______________________________Cert. of Dis. Searched for __________________________________, 18.
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State of Georgia
County of Henry

On the 13th day of April 1835 Personally appeared in open court of Law and Equity for said County now sitting on and for said County. Archibald Henderson a resident of said County who being first 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 June the 7th. Entitled an act supplementary of the Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, viz.: 
First that he Enlisted in the State Troops of the State of Massachusetts for the term of 18 months in Captain Joseph Hazes Company of Colonel __ Washington's Regiment (he misrecollects the Colonel’s Christian name thinks it was John) and served accordingly and that during said Enlistment he was at Boston and assisted in throwing sundry boxes of tea belonging to Merchants of Great Britain overboard, was next in the Battle at Queenstown and shortly thereafter in the Battle at Bunker Hill and some time thereafter at the Battle of Brandywine and sometime thereafter in a Battle called the Buck wheat patch and then was ordered under the 
command of General Isaac Lee to Sullivans Island in the State of South Carolina and was there some more than 3 months where he was with others there Commanded &c until his said Enlistment expired and thence he returned to the State of Virginia and in the town of Richmond did again Enlist in the Virginia State Troops for and during the war of the Revolution.
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The time of said last Enlistment he thinks was the 7th of January or thereabout in the year 1778 and he 
thinks his service lasted about 4 years and some few months he enlisted in the Company of Captain Andrew Leach in Colonel Philip Lee's Regiment and served under said last Enlistment until the End of the war as a first Sergeant of said Company; and during the said term he was in the Battle at Trenton where General George Washington commanded in person and was thence marched to Philadelphia with the prisoners taken at 
Trenton and was thence sent on to the State of South Carolina under General Isaac Lee and was there in the Battle at Stono thence under the same command he marched back towards the State of Virginia and in the State of North Carolina was in the Battle at Guilford Court House thence on to the State of Virginia where the command joined General George Washington and Army at Little York (or Yorktown) and was in the Siege of said town until the Army of Lord Cornwallis surrendered to the American Army (then under command of General George Washington) and was afterwards ordered as one of the Guard under General Isaac Lee to guard the prisoners to what was called the Red House in Virginia and was there some time after discharged. He further states that at the time of his last Enlistment his name is signed on the Enlistment A. Henderson the A. intended for Archibald and that he had a discharge which was destroyed by the acts of the burning of a House of which he was in possession in the State of South Carolina. He further states that he believes that John Smith and John Barnhill
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of this County who knew him in the service at the Battle of Stono and that John Davis of the County of Gwinnett and this State knew him during the time of his last Enlistment but the applicant is now too old and infirm to travel to procure his testimony he further states that at the time of his last Enlistment he was informed the same was filed in Brunston’s office in the town of Richmond in Virginia he states that at the time of his first Enlistment he lived in Baltimore County State of Pennsylvania a single man with his uncle, William Henderson and at the time of his last Enlistment he lived or was temporarily a waggoner living in Hanover County in Virginia; sold wagon and team and Enlisted. He states he is now in his 83rd year of age. He further states that he made application believing he was entitled to the benefits of the act of the 15th of May 1828 through the agency of Wilson Lumpkin and at that time proved his service by his Captain Andrew Leach and by Thomas Taylor who are now both dead and by John Davis of Gwinnett County aforesaid and both lately been informed through the agency of his friends Augustine S. Clayton and James Sellers and by letter through them from the Pension office that his papers after his said Claim was rejected (on account of his belonging to State Troops) were on the 23rd of December 1830 returned to the Honorable Wilson Lumpkin and hath written to said Lumpkin cannot as yet receive them and unless copies of the same are reserved in the office he knows of no other persons in life further to prove his services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
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to a Pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State.
[signed] Archibald Henderson
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[signed] Jno. G. Polhill, Judge SC of Ga

[It appears that a supporting statement from John Barnhill, who was referenced earlier in the claiment's declaration, was marked through. It was not signed by John Barnhill and not likely submitted.]
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OWRej
#4866
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Archibald Henderson sergt
live-
Georgia
Ref File No 4866 ok
Evidence insufficeient
act 1828
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James Sellers
1 May 1835 O.C.
OC
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Department of War
Pension Office
May 1 1835

Sir
I have received the declaration of 
Archibald Henderson and have
placed it on file in this office.
Given the statement from
Henderson, the inference is immutable 
that the claimant is suffering under
some alienation of mind, or that he
is now claiming for services never 
performed.

Yours Respectfully

[signed] Janes Sellers
McDonough
Henry Co. Va
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32985

McDonough GA
Apr 20

[vertical writing] May 1

Revolutionary Claim
To J. L Edwards, Commissioners
of Pensions

Free

Department of Secretary of War of U. S. A.
Washington City
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State of Georgia
Henry County
15 April 1835

Dear Sir Enclosed you will receive the original proceedings in relation to the application of Archibald Henderson for a Pension under the late Act of Congress. I regret very much said original appears in such underlined and blacked form - one explanation in relation to a blank affidavit (biased) of John Barnhill and John Smith. (BH) Mr Henderson informed me on drawing up the same it could prove his services at Stono by those men and on examination they state that (which everyone here believe) that from his narration he was there as they were in said Battle (did not personally know him). I therefor deemed it unnecessary in as much as a hope is entertained of his name being found on the lists in the office of the Virginia State Troops.
The consideration of his case is submitted to the Department and the old Gentleman requests the answer addressed to me at McDonough. The Department exercising its own discretion as to that point will please inform of the determination address to McDonough
I have the honor to remain very respectfully yours [signed} James Sellers
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Paid
E. D.

Mr. Archibald Henderson
McDonough Ga.
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Milledgeville Marcj 12th, 1835

Dear Sir
I have reviewed yours of the 24th Feb [sp]. And in reply have to inform you that I very distinctly recollect you placing some papers in relation to your revolutionary claims in my hands, while I was a member of Congress - And further I equally well recollect, that these papers after examination at the proper Department, were deemed insufficient to entitle you to a pension under the then existing laws of the U. S. - After the rejection of your claim, I think it probable as stated by Mr. Edwards - that I withdraw your papers, & forward them to you by mail - as this was my habit in all such cases - for I have always made it a point not to retain in my hands such papers - as they were only an incumbrance to me, & might probably be useful to the claimants - After a full examination, I have not been able to find any papers of yours among file in my possession.
Respectfully 
[signed] William Lumpkin

Mr. Archibald Henderson
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Georgia Gwinnett County
I do certify that this is the same Mr. Archibald Henderson that I was qualified about before D W Miller a Justice of the Peace and he states that he sent on the certificates with the intension of drawing money as an old solger [soldier] and got no return only that you here that he was dead and I certify that this is the same man and that he now living.
[signed] John Davis, A. Benlusheiner
Sworn to and subscribed before me October the 20th 1835
[signed] Fielden Maddox J. P.

Georgia Gwinnett County
I do certify that sometime in the year 1829 and the month f February Archibald Henderson, John Davis came before me then an acting Justice of the Peace for said County and they being duly sworn before me as the law required in such cases for the purpose of laying a claim for serving in the Revolution War as Revolution Claimitory the same being claimed on and no return being made in consequence of it being supposed that the said Archibald Henderson being dead this is Certify that said Henderson is now living.
Certified before this 21st Oct 1835
[signed] Fielden Maddox J. P. D. W. Miller

Georgia Gwinnett County
WM Mattbie Clerk of the Inferior Court in & for said county do hereby certify that Fielden Maddox is an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County. Given under my hand October 21st 1835
[signed] Wm Mattbie C.I.C
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Georgia Gwinnett County
I james H McAner one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that Williiam Mattbie is the acting Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County.
Given under my hand and seal this 21 of October 1835 [signed] James H McAner seal
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James Sellers
10. Nov. 1835
O. C.


Rec. [recorded] Vol. 40 pa. 356
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War Department
Pension Office
Nov. 10, 1835

Sir,
The papers you sent here in the case of Archibald Henderson have ben examined and placed on our files. The erroneous, contradictory and absurd statements contained in his declaration, constrain the Dept. to pronounce the whole a fabrication. This Dept. cannot grant a pension in such a case.

Mr. James Sellers
McDonough Georgia

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Enter this [illegible] on the No. 32985, on the Georgia
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Archibald Henderson
Georgia
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We, Jesse H. Campbell and James Sellers each residing in the County of Henry and State aforesaid do certify that we are well acquainted with Archibald Henderson who has made  ,subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe his to be 83 years or thereabout of age and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion [signed] Jesse H. Campbell   James Sellers

Sworn to an subscribed the 13th day of April 1835 [signed] Jno. G. Polhill Judge . of C. o. C.

And the said Court doth hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and of the putting of the Interrogatives prescribed by the War Department that the foregoing Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that iti appears to them that Jesse H. Campbell who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County and State aforesaid and that James Sellers who has also signed the same is also resident in the same County and State and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
Done and certified the 14th day of April 1835 [signed] Jno. G. Polhill Judge Supr. Court Ga.

State of Georgia
Henry County
I Alexander G. Murray Clerk of the Superior Court of said County certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Archibald Henderson for a Pension.
In testimony thereof I hereunto set my hand and prostate having no seal of office this 14th day of April 1835 [signed] A. G. Murray Clerk
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Henry County Georgia
26th of October 1835

Dear Sir  As soon as yours to me of the 1st day of May last in relation to the declaration of Archibald
Henderson in his behalf claiming a pension for his Revolutionary services; come to have I hastened to lay its contents before Mr. Henderson and should have answered you sooner; but the old Gentlemen wife at that time lying on her death bed and not long since having deceased prevented him until very lately from [illegible] the subject any farther; he has however totally in his indigent infirm and aged staged of health travelled to Gwinnett County in order to procure those  testimonies of soldiers who he says knew him in the Revolution and have furnished me the (very informal I think) certificate of John Davie [underlined] who he say was with him and who is now on the Pension list from Capt. Andrew Leach & Company which he asks of you to plan of file with his last declaration he also informed me that he expects to procure the affidavit of John Lawrence who is now absent in the State of Virginia but lives in Gwinnett County and is on the pension list and of Capt. William Berry who both knew him and if he does so they will be forwarded to the Department.   It is a matter of regret to me that the testimony of Mr. Davis should come so informal but I do not think it to be the fault of Mr. Davis or of Mr. Henderson but from want of knowledge in the magistrate before whom the same was taken _____
  A few explanations in regard to Mr. Henderson's last declaration;" in that it is stated he had made application and thought he was entitled under the Act of 1828 and then proves his services by his Capt. Andrew Leach [underlined] and by Thomas Taylor [underlined] who are since both dead and unless copies of their testimony is reserved by the department he loses the testimony" in order to bring
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to the knowledge of the Department the subject as fully as I can I herewith enclose the letters of the Honorable
Wilson Lumpkin under the dates of the 13th Dec. 1830 and of March 12th 1835 and also I refer the Department to the Letter of I L. Edwards to Augustine S Clayton under date of January 31st 1835 (in answer to a letter of mine making inquiry concerning said papers) enclosing a copy of a letter addressed by the Department to Wilson Lumpkin under date of December 10th 1830 in relation to the same subject by your letter to Augustine S Clayton before named it appears that the claim of Mr. Henderson under the first name "and was rejected on the 10th of December 1830 and on the 2rd of the same month the papers were at the request of Wilson Lumpkin returned to him again" to this that Mr. Henderson [illegible] "only copies were reserved in the department he could not procure their testimony". [words "he" through "testimony" are individually underlined]

I will only add that if Mr. Henderson is not a Revolutionary Soldier he is so fortunate as to induce a Large community to believe he was:  and it was hoped from the first thus John Davis was drawing a pension that the Muster Roll of Capt. Andrew Leach was in the Department.

Mr Henderson asks of the Department in justice to himself from time to time as he an procure testimony that the same may be filed in the office whether his claim is sustained or not.

I have the honor to remain
very respectfully your obt. servt.

James Seller [Signature]
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Free
Wilson Lumpkin


Mr. Archibald Henderson
Revolutionary Soldier
ville
Gwinnett County 
Ga

[handwritten envelope]
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Washington 13th Dec. 1832

Mr. Archibald Henderson

Dear Sir

  The paper placed in my hands in support of your Revolutionary claims have been examined at the proper offices.

  You alledge that you served in Capt. Andrew Leache Company, of Col. Philip Lees Regiment.  It appears from the records here, that no such offices belonged to the Continental line of the Army ----  Therefore the conclusion at the pension office is, that you belong is to the  militia on State Regiments   ---- The provisions of the Acts of Congrs. extend to none but such as served on the Continental line.

  Therefore with every disposition to serve you, I am at a loss how to proceed further.

Yr. Obt. Servt.

Wilson Lumpkin [signature]

P.S. If I should ever see the time, Congress will consent to provide for militia Revolutionary services ----your case shall be provided for.  

W. L
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V.L.K. [Handwritten top left corner of the page.  The rest is typed]

Rev. War Section.

November 7, 1917.

Hon. John W. Gaines,
2081/2 Fifth Avenue, N..
Nashville, Tennessee.

Sir:

  You are herewith furnished the histories of the only persons named Pleasant and Archibald Henderson found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau, and advised that said records fail to afford any information in regard to Bennett and William T. Henderson. 

  In order to ascertain whether the records of John and William Henderson of the Virginia Troops, the subjects of your injury, are on file, you are requested to furnish as much as possible of the following data in regard to each in order that a proper search may be made in your behalf: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after discharge, and given name of widow.

Very respectfully, 

GM Saltzgaber [signature]

Commissioner.
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REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
7 April 1829
Archibald Henderson of _______ in the County of Gwinnet in the State of Georgia has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution." approved the 15th of May, 1828.   He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Sergeant in captain Gayton's company, in the ______ regiment of the South Carolina line; [the following has a line through it :and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778.]; and further that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.

By the order of the Secretary, 

FA Dickins [signature]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE, 
14th April 1829

It further appears that Archibald Henderson is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since 3d March 1826.

The name of Archibald Henderson can not be found among those of the South Carolina line, to whom Certificates of the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued -

Peter Hagner [signature] Ant
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War Depart: Bounty land office
29 April 1824
The records of this office do not show that Archibald Henderson of the South Carolina line ever received or is entitled to Bounty land of the United States.

Robert Tayler [signature]