Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,874, James Vanhorn, New Jersey War Of 1812

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Vanhorn James Mary
R. 10,874
War of 1812.
CONTENTS

6826
Mary Van Horn of James Ohio.
not on roll

In order to obtain Declaration. the benefit of the provision made by an Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" —
The State of Ohio Delaware County, ss. On this 23 rd day of September A.D. 1839, personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County of Delaware, Mary Bankhorn a resident of the said County of Delaware aged seventy two 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 & pensions to certain widows." That she is "the widow of James Bankhorn who was a private in the army of the Revolution. That the said James Bankhorn enlisted (as she has been informed & believes) at Princeton in New Jersey and at the time of his enlistment was a resident of Middlesex County N. Jersey. That he enlisted during the war about the year 1776 in the Continental service and N. Jersey lines; but does not know the name of his officers. She does not recollect the name of his officers but believes that Genl. Sterling was his General officer. She was at the battle of Trenton at the taking of the Hessians at that place. She was in the expedition under Genl. Sullivan into the Indian Country in the west part of New York. She was at the taking of Genl. Cornwallis at Yorktown, and after that was one of the guards who went with the prisoners taken there to Frederick, Maryland. She was in the service seven years & nine months. She cannot state where he was discharged. She thinks also that he was in a number of other battles.

and believes at that of the White Plains. She hopes that these facts will enable the Department to find his name on the roll of the Continental service. After his discharge he settled in Loudoun County Virginia.
She further declares that she was married to the said James Bankhorn on the 3 rd day of November A.D. 1787, that he is James Bankhorn died on the 10 th day of February 1818 in Loudoun County in the 70 th year of his age - That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January eighteen hundred & ninety four. (viz. at the time above stated. That she has no documentary evidence nor are there any records of her marriage in existence. She now has no family record of it - and there was no record kept in the place where her marriage took place. She was married by the Rev. Mr. Pasoble a Lutheran Clergyman of Loudoun Co. who is long since dead. She for some time had a written certificate from the said Clergyman of her marriage but that is now lost.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written in open court as aforesaid.
her Mary J Bankhorn mark
Subscribed & sworn to in open court Sept. 23 rd 1859
W.D. Henson Clerk

In testimony that the above & foregoing was subscribed & sworn to in open Court, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court, at Delaware this 31 st day of Dec r . A.D. 1839
W. S. Haim Clerk

Record Division.
April 23, 1908.
Mr. Bert C. Thomas, # 1615 Florida Avenue, Washington, D. C.
Sir:
In reply to your letter dated the 18 th and received the 21 st instant, you are advised that from the papers in the pension claim R. 10,874, it appears that James Van Horn resided in Middlesex County, New Jersey, when he enlisted in 1776 and served seven years and nine months as a Private in the New Jersey Line on the Continental Establishment under Lord Sterling; he was in the battles of White Plains, Long Island, Trenton December 26, 1776 and Monmouth; he was in General Sullivan's Expedition against the Northwest Indians, and at the capture of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown; during his service he sustained gunshot wound of the leg, lower lip and jaw, and bayonet wound of body.
After the war he removed to Loudoun County, Virginia, where he married November 3, 1787 Mary (maiden name not stated).
In the War of 1812 he served under Captain Gregg at Norfolk, Virginia, Captains Cochran and Jacobs at Baltimore and Ellicott's Mills Maryland, no dates given.
James Van Horn died in Loudoun County, Virginia February 10, 1818 in the 70th. year of his age, and his widow applied for pension September 23, 1839 at which time she was a resident of Delaware County, Ohio and 72 years

R. 10,874.
of age, but her claim was never allowed for the reason that she was unable to furnish the required satisfactory proof of soldier's alleged service
No further data as to family.
From the Bureau records of the War of 1812 it appears that Charles Carpenter enlisted at Bloomfield, Loudoun County Virginia, April 2, 1813 as a Private in Captain Thomas Gregg's company, 2d Battalion, 4th Regiment of Virginia Militia, and served until October 30, 1813 when he was discharged at Norfolk, Virginia.
Soldier married in Loudoun County Virginia, July 3, 1817 Elizabeth Van Horn, he was 58 years of age in 1851 and a resident of Mount Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio, where he died September 3, 1854. His widow was 58 years of age in 1855.
No further data as to family.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.

1908 Apl. 23. Hist. to Bert C. Thomas
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
10874
P. O. Mary Van Horn Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Through West
3-595.
Record Division. O. W. AND N. DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
April 21, 1908
Searched by L. D. Lamparter
Original No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant, _____
Soldier, Jas. Vannorn or Vanhorn or Van Horn Va.
Service, Rev. War or War 1812
in S. service -  died 1808  under no N.Y.  Pl. middle up to 1812 in N.Y. service  after 1812 in Londonderry  D. or in Co. B.R.
Remarks: No such claim
Try Reg. # 3190 Try Reg. # 10874
No 1812 sur. or wid. as above No D.W. sur. or wid. (1812) B.L. not identified
Chief of Division.

June 3, 1840.
It is alleged that he served in the N. J. line for during the war fr. 1776. The records in this office of those who served as alleged in the N. J. line are complete. His name is not borne thereon. He could not therefore have served as alleged in that line. If he performed other service during the Rev. it should be specified & proved by witnesses from personal knowledge as required by the encl. printed requisitions.
Thos. R. Saunders Esq Leesburg Va

1615 Florida Avenue, Washington, D. C., April 18, 1908.
Sir:-
Will you please give me the facts shown on the records of your office relative to the military career of James Vannorn or Vanhorn or Wan Horn, as the name is at present written, in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, also the War of 1812 records of Charles C. Carpenter? Carpenter was a great-grandfather and Van Horn was his father-in-law. I think they enlisted from Virginia, Loudoun County if I mistake not.
I am especially desirous that you give me everything shown relative to the names of the different members of their families, and their parents' names if shown, also any dates that may appear in connection with the time of their birth, also in what battles they participated, the names of their commanding officers, when and where wounded, etc., etc.
Thanking you in anticipation, I have the honor to remain,
Very respectfully,
Beck C. Thomas
Commissioner of Pensions, Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C.

Mary Van Horn of Zanes, Ohio suspended See let. 3 d June '40 T. R. Saunders
10874
Act 7 July 1838

Van Horn

Thomas R. Saunders of Leesburg, Va. in aliter Red. this morning enquiring about the case of Mrs. Van Horn, of Ohio, sent in February.

1818 70 48
Feb 27. 1840 Ohio 6826
July 1838
Mary Harbison Mrs. of James
L. Edwards Com r of Pensions Washington
Thomas R. Saunders Esq. Secesburg, Pocahontas County Virginia

Sir.
Delaware June 5, 1840.
Enclosed I send you the declaration of Mrs. Mary Baughman for a pension. I thought I had forwarded to you in Sept. as I had then taken it out of the Office for that purpose; but it was sent back to have the Certificate completed, which I had entirely forgotten and was under the firm impression I had forwarded it to you. Mrs. B. has no further evidence in relation to her marriage except a record in her bible, as to the birth of her children which she will forward to you the first opportunity. Very respectfully Your old servant.
J. B. Powell
When the Pension agent shall have examined the evidence in relation to the above claim, he will please report to me, at Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia.
Respectfully.
Thos. R. Saunders

State of Virginia } ss. Loudoun County }
On this the 15 th day of June 1839, before me (Notary Public) M c Ilroy a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Benjamin Leslie of the County and State above named, and made oath in due form of law, that he has known Mary Vanhorn, the widow of James Vanhorn from girlhood, that he (the deponent) lived in the same neighbourhood with the said Mary, prior to her union with the said James Vanhorn, who is reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and he also lived neighbour to them in this County soon after their union, and has known them many years since then, and states that they lived together as man and wife, and raised children which are recognized as the legitimate children of the said James and Mary Vanhorn, and that he does not believe that a doubt ever existed in the neighbourhood where they lived, of the legality of their marriage; and that he, the said deponent - is fully satisfied that the said Mary Vanhorn is the legal widow of the said James Vanhorn, and that they were married prior to the year 1790.
Sworn to before me the day and year first above written. M c Ilroy
I Certify, that Benjamin Leslie, who has sworn to the above is a man of credibility and that his testimony is entitled to credit. Given under my hand this the 15 th day of June 1839. M c Ilroy

Virginia Loudoun County to wit
I Charles G. Estlin, Clerk of the County Court of Loudoun do hereby certify that M c Whorter Gist is a Magistrate as within stated and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name This 22 nd day of February in the year 1840 and in the 64 th year of the Commonwealth.
Chas G Estlin Clerk

Mount Silead Pa Oct 11 th 39.
Mr J. R. Saunders Lancaster County Pa
Rev
1839

Deposition of Stephen T. Canard of Delaware County Ohio of Lawful age being first duly sworn according to law Deposith & saith That he has been acquainted with M c Mary Vanhorn now of M c Gilcrae Marion County Ohio for twentyfive or thirty years, my first acquaintance with her was in London County Va. where & where she lived with James Vanhorn who acknowledged her to be his wife, she also acknowledged him to be her husband, they lived together as man & wife & I am as confident that they were lawfully married as any persons that I did not see married, I was also acquainted with the said James Vanhorn as early as I was with said Mary Vanhorn, until his death in the year AD 1818 I think, I have often heard him say that he was a Soldier of the Revolutionary war, that he served better than seven years, that he enlisted at the commencement of said war I think for three years, at the expiration of that time he enlisted during the war which lasted four years after or more, I have heard him tell the names of many of the officers that he served under but I cannot recollect them now, he also stated frequently in my presence that he was at the taking of the Hessians at Trenton, & at the taking of the British Army at Yorktown & that he helped to guard the prisoners to Frederick Maryland & I think he said he was in a battle on Long Island & at Monmouth, he also frequently spoke of General Sullivan & gave the impression that he was under him in some part of the war, he frequently showed me a scar on his leg that he said he received in a battle, I have also felt something in his leg about two inches below the scar, that he said was the shot that made the scar, & that as he grew older it settled lower in the leg, he had a scar on his under lip & jaw which he stated was done by a shot from the British, it had the appearance of the ball entering the lip, taking out all the teeth I think on the right side & passing out near the ear, he also said he had a scar

on his body that was done by a bayonet while engaged in a battle in the  time of  the In the time of the during the late war with Britain Mr. Sanderson was spoken of by people in general as an veteran soldier of the Revolution, (none doubted his statements) he served two terms in the late war as a substitute, six months under Capt Gregg at Hoptown the  at and three months at Baltimore Ellicott's Mills &c in Maryland under Captain Cochran & Jacobs & was spoken of by the men that were with him as being at home when he was in camp
& further saith not      Stephen T. Gurnard I George D. Cross a justice of the peace in & for the Township of Gilead in the County of Marion Ohio do hereby certify that the above named Stephen T. Gurnard was before me first duly sworn to testify the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth & that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed was reduced to writing by me
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 23 rd day of September A.D. 1839
George D. Cross
State of Ohio Marion County 3. I Peter Beerbower Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Sciota County hereby certify that George D. Cross Esqr. before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken was at the date thereof and now is, one of the Justices of the peace within and for Sciota County duly com- missioned and qualified, and that I venly believe his signature above written to be genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of Sciota County at Marion this 26 th day of September A.D. 1839 P. Beerbower Dep. Clerk.

Mr. Gilead Mason Esq. Ohio Oct 12 th 1839
Sir
In consequence of my being absent from home for some days past this deposition has been detained but I hope it will come to hand in time yet
I employed a Lawyer to attend to filling up the form you sent to Mother and it has been sent to you by him. This will inform you if it cannot come to hand
Yours &c C. V. Van Klief
Mr J. R. Saunders
sent at

The Deposition of Elizabeth Gardner of Lincoln Dear Township in the County of Delaware and state of Ohio taken on the 26 th day of December in the year 1838 at the house of said Elizabeth Gardner. The said Elizabeth Gardner doth depose and say that Mary Vanhorn now of Mt. Gilead Marion County in the state of Ohio and formerly of Loudon County Pa. was the wife (and now is the widow) of a certain James Vanhorn who represented himself to be a soldier of the revolutionary war and that she had frequently seen his discharge that the said discharge so represented the said James Vanhorn that she was satisfied that he was the man and that it was a discharge from the Army of the revolutionary war and that she thinks it was from the regular army of the New Jersey line that the said James Vanhorn had a scar that he said was done whilst in the service of the United States by a shot from the enemy and that he said he was in the service upwards of seven years that he said he was at the taken of Cornwallis at York town Va. and at the taken of the Hessians at Trenton Elizabeth her Gardner mark
(L.S.) I Stephen T Cunard a Justice of the peace do hereby certify that Elizabeth Gardner was sworn by me to testify the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth in the above cause (or matter) and that the foregoing deposition was reduced to writing by me and taken at the time and place first above written
Given under my hand and seal this 26 th day of December A.D. 1838. Stephen T Cunard
{ a Justice of the Peace for Delaware County Ohio

State of Ohio Delaware County, ss. I Thomas Reynolds Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County, hereby certify that Stephen T. Burnard Esq r . before whom the foregoing deposition appears to have been taken, was at the time of taking the same an acting justice of the said in & for said County, duly commissioned & qualified &c.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court, at Delaware, this 21 st day of Dec r . A.D. 1838.
Thos. Reynolds Clerk by W m D. Harris. Depty.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Van Horn, John GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7910 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED August 24, 1790 to Glenn + Bleeker, assignees
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.