Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6732, for Isaac Mc Henry, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
McHenry Isaac
P. 6732.
CONTENTS

The state of Ohio Putnam County 3 d ss On this thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five personally appeared in open court, before the Hon. George B. Root President judge of the court of common pleas of the First judicial district of the state of Ohio and their honos William Buchanan Esqr. Silas McElish Esqr., and Henry Morris Esqr his associates now sitting, Isaac McHenry a resident of Putnam County of said county, in the said state of Ohio, aged 72 seventy two years, on the 27 th twenty seventh day of Decem- ber last (1834) 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 7 th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as here in- stated. Same time in the month of March in the year 1780 seventeen hundred and eighty  eighty  seven  eighty  eighty  eighty but an exact particular day of the said month of March, (owing to the great lapse of time, and the advanced age of the said Isaac McHenry the declarant, and the consequent failure of his memory) he cannot tell; he entered the service as an Indian spy, and served as First sergeant in captain Alexander - Musick's company of Indian spies, Lieut. George Westflee, under the command of Major George Rogers, Col. Benjamin Wilson, and Gen. George Jackson of the Virginia Militia. In this company and in the capacity above stated he served until the First day of the month of November then next ensuing which is seven months, when his said term of service ended and he was dismissed, but received with a furlough , and on the fifteenth day of the same month (November) in the year 1780 seventeen hundred and eighty  eighty nine, he said declarant again as a volunteer entered the service in the same company in which he

had served the said term just above mentioned as First Lieutenant, for the term of two years or during the war and served out the term of two years without intermission, as an extended term of service, which ended on the Fifteenth day of November in the year 1782 seventeen hundred and eighty two. Making two full years service, when he was discharged. That during all this term of service of two years he had the same captain Alexander Mowatt, he was First Lieutenant himself, Major George Parsons, Col Benjamin Wilson the First of the said term, but he resigned, and Col Henry De Lee was appointed in his place who was his deal, during the latter part of said term of two years. and Gen George Gochran of the Virginia Militia was his general commanding officer. That he was a volunteer. That when he entered the service in both the above terms, he resided in what was then Managobelo, now Randolph County Virginia, That during the above named two terms of service he was not in any general engagement or battle, but was frequently engaged in skirmishes. That the whole of the said two terms of service was performed in the aforesaid county, then Managobelo now Randolph. The spy range included eight Forts (all in said county which was then very large) namely, Friend, Wilson, Westover, Crosskey, Westfield, again Cranford, Hedges, John Warwick, Forts, all these Forts were in the aforesaid county, and his duty was to pass round from one Fort to another and attend them all. That there were no contiguous Regiments or companies where he served as his company was in a detached situation, and in consequence thereof he cannot give the names of any of the officers of the regular army with whom he was acquainted. That there was one Militia company stationed at the differ- ent Forts alternately above named, as a guard on account of the increased danger from the Indians, This company was mustered from the South Branch of Potomac, under

Lieut. Parcoke, and was commanded after they came into county of Montgomery by Captain Joseph Fortune who was a resident of the county; That he received a commission from signed by Gen. George Washington and he also received a written discharge from his last term of service, which was given him by Col. Henry Delea, and he also received a written discharge from his first term of service from Col. Wilson, but that his commission and discharges were all subsequently destroyed by the Indians, who robbed his house in the state of Kentucky after his removal to that place. That he was born in Hampshire County in the state of Virginia on the 27 th day of December in the year 1763 seventeen hundred and sixty three, that he has a record of his age, at his residence in Putnam County where he has been for the family bible.
That since the revolutionary war he has lived in the following places, namely, he removed from Virginia to Green County Kentucky, he thinks in 1786 and from Kentucky to Pickaway County Ohio in 1807, and resided there until about five years ago when he removed to his present residence in Putnam County, where he now resides. That he knows William Beman, Abraham W. Cochran, and Henry Foster to whom he is known in his present neighborhood, who can testify as to his character for veracity, and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution whose certificate of deposition is hereto attached.
He also states the name of Simon Cochran a clergyman or gentleman of his vicinity who will also testify to his character for truth and veracity, and his belief of his revolutionary services — He here states that the above named person now resides in Allen County, which immediately joins Putnam to county in which he resides, and one in his immediate vicinity and among his nearest neighbors.

and are the persons who have been the longest acquainted with him, this with the additional reason that the part of the county in which he resides is so thinly settled, he has very few near neighbours in his own county and there are persons with whom he has very recent acquaintance why he has not named persons in his own county by the course of acquaintance, and his residence is very near the line of Putnam County adjoining Shelby County. But he names of Caleb Goshilo and of Josiah Crawford who resides in his own county (Putnam) who testify to his character for truth and veracity, and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution but he is not acquainted with whom he is any clergyman in his county whose name he can give, but has given the name of one in Shelby County whose opinion is here to attached, that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his services, he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
I have Mr. Goshilo
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid. Daniel W. Gray Clerk P. C.
The Caleb Goshilo and of Josiah Crawford who resides residing in the county of Putnam hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Isaac McHenry who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy two years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we are in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed in open court this 30 th day of Feb 1858 - Josiah Crawford Daniel W. Gray Clerk pro Tem

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion of the the investigation of the matter, and of the putting the interrogatories presented by the war department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it is ready to then that Simon Cochran whose certificate of disposition are hereto attached is a clergyman resident in the county of Allen, and that Caleb Gaskill and William Crawford who has signed their certificates to this declaration are residents in the county of Putnam, and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to to credit.
I Daniel W. Gray Clerk of the court of common pleas of the county of Putnam, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Isaac McHenry for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the of office this 30 th day of April 1835
Daniel W Gray Clerk Pro Tem

6732 REJECTED
P. O.
David McHenry
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Isaac M c Henry
Ohio
act June 7. 1832
Susp d .
Rejected.
See letter 14 Dec
'37 Hon: P. G. Goode.
let: 13 th April '38 Hon: P. G. Goode
copies sent to N. P. S. Soule
ap l 18. 38. do to Hon A C Itch d Jan 28. 1840

April 11 th
Mr. Allin
fm. W. T.
J L Edmonds Esq. Commissioner Pension Office

Washington City April 11 th 1838.
Dear Sir
If permitted I wish to withdraw the pension papers which are filed in the Pension Office in case of the application of Isaac McHenry of Paterson Lee Ohio, which was decided against & rejected, about the 14 th Dec. last.
If not permitted to withdraw them I wish you to furnish me with a certified copy of all the papers on file relating to that application, with the evidence or proof accompanying. and the amended declarations as originally with the correspondence & decisions of the Pension office on the case. Please let me have them as early a day as practicable.
Very respectfully
Yours Most obedt Servt P. G. Cooke
J. L. Edmonds Esq
Commissioner

May 11 Ohio.
Kalida o- May 2 nd 1835
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
J. L. C.
6732

you please correspond with your niece please in your correspondence in relation to the granting of the application - Direct to Halida
Putnam County
Ohio in the care of Huldah Guthrie - at the above place

Wm. L. Neefstein Dayton Ohio.

State of Ohio } Allen County } p.
Personally appeared in open court Isaac McHenry of Putnam County, who being duly sworn according to Law, says, that in a declaration made & sworn to by him at the last term of the Putnam County Court to avail himself of the benefit of the Act making provision for Revolutionary Pensioners, he stated, that a commission issued to him from Genl. George Jackson to fill a Lieutenantcy in the Company to which he was attached, which in the estimation of the Department for a reason assigned is considered an objectionable feature in the declaration. But McHenry states, that such was the fact according to the best of his recollection. A lapse of fifty years, so eventful as the last fifty years have been, it may be well supposed, may render his recollection imperfect, of some of the minor events, & the less conspicuous detail of that agitated period, when he cast himself into the dangers of the Revolutionary struggle. It may be that Genl. George Jackson had no authority to issue such a commission, yet the recollection of said McHenry, that he did, should not destroy his declaration, if said Jackson happened to act without authority. If officer he mistook as to the commission having issued in the formal manner, that he has stated in his declaration, it has arisen from the fact, that said Jackson did sanction the election of said Affiant

and gave him the requisite authority to act in the capacity alluded to. It might have been a mere verbal authority, or a sanction of the election of said officer expressed in a less formal manner, than affiant stated in his declaration. If an apparent error or discrepancy has inadvertently crept into his declaration, he cannot but believe, that however rigid may be the rules by which the Department is governed, now that he has aided to defend his country, & in the trying period of the revolution came up to the aid of our infant Republic, & standing on the close of that existence, that has been so much identified with the existence of his country, the frailty of his memory, if such be the case in relation to one particular fact, should not debar him from the enjoyment of that provision which was made for those who perilled the lives in defence of the Republic.
It is further objected, that affiant did not make application at an earlier period. It will be perceived, that affiant lived in Putnam County for five years, during that time said County was not organized. He lived remote from the county-seat of the nearest organized county, & being poor & much afflicted by a chronic affection, the melancholy result of exposure & privation in the earlier part of his life, he was prevented from making an earlier application.
J. Isaac M c Nary
Proof of the & residence in said County before time, that 10th day Nov 1858

Sworn to & subscribed before me, in open Court, this 10 th day of November A.D. 1885 as to my hand & official seal -
John Ward, Clerk
State of Ohio } 1 st Judicial Circuit } William L. Heifenstein Presi Judge of said Circuit in which is the County of Allen do hereby certify that John Ward Esq. is now & was at the time of administering the oaths of Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County & that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith & credit. Witness my hand this 24 th day of January A.D. 1884. Wm. L. Heifenstein -
The Undersigned, the Receiver & Register of the U.S. Land Office at Lima, Ohio, are personally acquainted with Isaac M c Henry & have no hesi- tation to recommend him as a man of truth & good character, so universally esteemed. From what we know of Isaac M c Henry & the opinion of the public generally in relation to him, we hope he may succeed in his application for a Pension & such we believe to be the desire of all who know him - January 1884 -
John W. Heifenstein -

The State of Ohio
Allen Co. ss
We Simon Cochran a Surgeon residing in the county of Allen, and in the immediate neighborhood of said Isaac McHenry the above declarant and William Bowman, Abraham W. Cochran and Henry Foster, who also reside in Allen County and in the immediate vicinity of said Isaac McHenry hereby certify that we are well acquainted with said Isaac McHenry who has been  and subscribed and sworn to the affidavit declaration hereunto attached that we believe him to be ninety two years of age, that we believe him to be a man of credibility, truth & veracity, that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. The undersigned Simon Cochran, William Bowman, and Abraham W. Cochran say on oath that they have been acquainted with said declarant for more than twenty years while he resided in Pickaway County Ohio, and the said Henry Foster says that he has been acquainted with said declarant for more than ten years, and the said Simon, Abraham W. William & Henry say that the said declarant has within a few years last past settled in his new habitation in Putnam County just across the county line from these declarants but they are among his nearest neighbors.
Sworn to before me } Simon Cochran Christophe Wood } William Bowman one of the associate judges } Abraham W. Cochran of the court of common pleas } Henry Foster of Allen County Ohio
Given 27 th day of April 1835
Christophe Wood

The state of Ohio } ss
Allen County } The within named Simon
Cochran are both further states that he has been acquainted with the said Isaac McHenry for from 25 to 27 years, that he this deponent was a soldier of the revolution and was well acquainted with Col Benjamin Wilson, Col Henry DeLoach, and Gen George Cochran the Genl. officer commanding officers in the said army Declaration army , and he knows that the said commanding officers were at the time named in said declaration engaged in the service of the United States in the places and at the times named in said declaration, that the deponent has from the commencement of his acquaintance with said declarant has had general and almost constant association with him said declarant concerning his said services, and from his constant and consistent relation of the facts, and from his own knowledge of same facts closely connected with the same and from general reputation he has no doubt whatever but that the account of said services given by said declarant in his said declaration is just and true and that he said declarant was a soldier of the revolution as he has in his said declaration set forth.
Simon Cochran
Sworn to before me Christopher Wood one of the associate judges of Allen County Ohio Christopher Wood

I Christopher Wood are of the associate judges of the county of Allen in the state of Ohio do hereby certify that it appears to me that Simon Bachman who has signed the foregoing separate affidavit and also the foregoing certificate jointly with others, is a clergyman resident in Allen county, and in the immediate vicinity of said Isaac McHenry the deponent and that William Barnan, Abraham W. Bachman and Henry Foster who have also signed the same are residents of Allen county and in the immediate vicinity of said Isaac McHenry, and are persons of credibility, truth & veracity, and that their statement is entitled to full credit.
Chris Wood
The State of Ohio
Allen county } ss I John Ward clerk of the court of common pleas of the county of Allen do hereby certify that Christopher Wood Esqr before whom the foregoing deposition and acknowledg- ment appears to have been taken was at the time of making the same and now is an acting asso- ciate judge of the court of common pleas within and for said county duly commissioned and sworn as such to whose official acts as well here as elsewhere full faith and credit is due.
In witness whereof I have here- unto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Lima this twenty eighth day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty five.
John Ward Clerk

Hm P. G. Goode NR

The state of Ohio ss.
Allen County On this Eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally came before me H. L. V. Williams a justice of the peace in and for said Allen County, Isaac McHenry a resident of Putnam County Ohio, aged as stated in his original declaration, who being first duly sworn according to law each on his oath made the following amended declaration, in answer to his original declaration now on file in the pension office at Washington City, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the preceding named officers, and served as herein after stated.
Some time in the month of March A. D. 1780, (the precise day this declarant cannot state, it having been so long since, and his memory having failed him in some considerable degree, but is certain it was as early in March as the tenth day of March in said year 1780.)
He entered the service of the United States as an Indian spy, and in Captain Alexander Maxwell's Company of Indian Spies, and served as first sergeant in said company till the first day of November then next ensuing 1780 when he was dismissed, but has not recollect of receiving any written discharge, if he did it is lost or destroyed long since, but he is satisfied in his own mind he received none. During this tour he had for his officers Capt. Alexander Maxwell, Lieut. George Heatface, for the company, and Maj. George P. Poyan, Col. Benjamin Wilson, and Gen. George Washington  for the tour was  John  John  Johnson  of  Virginia  of  Washington  Washington  then  then  Seven  Seven  months  months and twenty one days, it being a tour for that season.
On the fifteenth day of February then next ensuing A. D. 1781 he again entered into the service the service of the United States as an Indian spy for the term of nine months and in the same company which he had served his former tour tour, commanded by Capt. Alexander Maxwell, and in the same regiment commanded by Maj. George Poyan, Col. Benjamin Wilson, and Gen. George Johnson of Virginia, and served in said company as a private till the fifteenth day of November A. D. 1781. When he was dismissed but received no written discharge. And on the fifteenth day of February then next ensuing A. D. 1782, he again entered the service of the United States as an Indian spy for the term of nine months, as in the last preceding term, in the same company in which he served his former tour, still

commanded by Captain J. H. Allen - Missouri, and in the same regiment commanded by Maj. George P. Perry, but that Maj. Wilson having resigned the command of the regiment during the war - he volunteered as Col. Perry's aide. Gen. George Jackson was still the commanding officer and served in said company as a private till the twentieth day of March in A. D. 1862. When he was discharged and received a written discharge which was destroyed in the war - set forth in this document in original declaration to which this is an amendment.
This declarant here states he received the services (in the two last added to duties named days) of his Lieutenant, and so considered himself as his so stated it in his original declaration, but having been informed by the Department that his authority to act as Lieutenant was not regular or legal, he thereby thereby became a missive and his so stated it his services in this amended declaration. And in his original declaration he has stated his last term of service to be for two years and to have commenced on the fifteenth day of November 1785. This he did including his time continuously and including the intervening time between the the expiration of each term or term of service, and dismissal, - and the entering again into actual service in each of the two next terms of nine months each as now stated, which
This account is based in the recollections of the times when the two last terms of service commenced from the circumstance of the murder of a family by the Indians by the name of Cooley in February 1855. and Col. Wilson having stated that part of the expiration of the first term of service, and said the list of officers in the succeeding campaigns would be too large as the Indians had committed the murder before March, it would be necessary for them to leave and return and fixed on the murder of February. — for all other matters and proof the document refers to his original description name on file, of which this is made part.
Given to and subscribed before me a justice of the peace in and for the county of Franklin and state of Ohio on this day the 18 th day of February A.D. 1837 H. D. Williams
H. D. Williams
Justice of the Peace in said County

The State of Ohio Allen county ss I John Ward clerk of the court of common of said county of Allen do hereby certify that Henry D. K. Williams Esq. before whom the fore- going acknowledgement appear to have been taken was at the time of making the same and now is an acting Justice of the peace within and for said county duly commissioned and sworn as such to whose official acts as well here as elsewhere full faith and credit is due - and I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Justice and am satisfied that the foregoing signature is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our court of common pleas at Lima this 18th day of November A.D. 1837c John Ward clerk Allen Co. Com. Pleas

In - at Dec 12.
Ohio
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office Present
Hon. D. G. Gode H.R.

Hall of the House of Reps
Washington Dec 12 th 1837
Dear Sir
I enclose to you the amended declaration of Isaac McHenry, of Putnam Co. Ohio, made in pursuance of the act of June 7 th 1832 in order to obtain the benefit of said act.
An objection was made by the Reps. "that he had so long delayed his application". I can myself satisfy the Department on this subject. The reason was this that at the time of the passage of the act of June 7 th 1832 Mr. McHenry resided in the county of Putnam, which was not then organized for judicial purposes, and was not for several years after, and not now, perhaps three years after, its first court was held in 1834 or 1835, until this time the county of Putnam was attached to another county, for judicial purposes, which was distant from Mr. McHenry and he could not attend it without difficulty owing to his old age, and infirmity. He made application to me soon after the passage of the act of June 7 th 1832 to obtain his pension for him, but I he became of my suggestion he permitted it lie till his own county should be organized. The rule of the Pension Office being that each person should apply in his own county, the delay was caused by this means, and I think at my own suggestion on the ground that the county would soon be organized and then he would have an opportunity to make his declaration without travelling so far to court. And if required I can certify to it under oath to.

I am with respect your humble servant
P. G. Goode
J. L. Edwards -
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