Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7746, for Joseph Todhunter, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Todhunter, Joseph
S 7746
Carded
CONTENTS

Ohio 27. 638. Ullrichling
Letter to Pension agent at Miamisburg, Ohio dated 24 Oct 1836
Joseph Ullrichling of Hamilton Co. in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Silt of the 1st Regt commanded by Col Chapman in the Virginia line for Kentucky.
1st 2 cts per $ 46. 56.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 40 Dollars 56 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of Sept and sent to 31 Mrs. J. Hendyson, Cincinnati, O.
Arrears to the 14th of Sept '34 163. 33 Semi-annual allowance ending 4th March '35 23. 33 $ 186. 66
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded By J. V. Sprague Clerk, Book 62 Vol. 8 Page 57

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7. June 1832
The State of Ohio Hamilton County 3 p
on this twentieth day of August 1834 personally appeared before the Honorable Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County now sitting Joseph Todhunter a resident of said County aged Seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated viz Captain John Mc Grath Lieut William Mason Ensign Richard Mercer field officers General Mason Col Josiah Clapham Majr Waggoner in Loudon County in the State of Virginia in the year 1778 and was ordered to guard the Factory and magazine of arms & ammunition of Col Josiah Clapham in said Loudon County and remained there two months and was discharged and again entered the service in the month of Sept. in the same year at the place aforesaid under the same officers and was detached with a part of his company to guard Genl Greens baggar waggons from Loudon County va to the line of North Carolina under the command of Sergeant Hopkins and after this duty was performed was again discharged having served two months - and again entered the service in the spring of the following year in Loudon County aforesaid under the same officers and was marched to George Town and

and Alexandria to prevent the British from effecting a landing and who had sailed up the bay as it was supposed for that purpose and was kept there four months and was again discharged and again entered the service under the same officers in Loudon County aforesaid under the same officers and was marched to Frederick Town Maryland to guard the prisoners of Genl Burgoyne and remained there two months and was again discharged and again entered the service in the spring of the following year in Loudon County aforesaid under Capt Rattican and the above named officers and marched to Norfolk and Williamsburg and was present at the battle at Williamsburg and was there performing military duty three months  having served four months  three months and was again discharged and again entered the service in Loudon County aforesaid under Captain McGett and the other officers before mentioned and marched to Little York at the mouth of James River the line dividing North Carolina from Virginia and was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallace and after the surrender was detached to guard the prisoners to Winchester Barracks he served during this tour six months and was discharged the making his whole term of service for which he claims a pension twenty months - that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service - He hereby relinquishes

as every claim whatever 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
Joseph Todhunter
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court
Dan D. Dano clk. P.S.
We William Burke a clergyman residing in the county aforesaid and Thomas Todhunter residing in said county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Todhunter who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy two years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
William Burke
Thomas Todhunter
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Dan D. Dano clk. P.S.
Answer to the Interrogatories put by the Court as prescribed by the war department
 1. I was born in Chester County Pennsylvania in the year 1763.  2. I have no Record of my age  3 When called in the service I resided in Loudon County Virginia since the Revolutionary war I have lived in the states of Virginia Tennessee Kentucky and Ohio where I now reside  4 When I entered the service I was always drafted  5 state names Genl. Mason Genl. Lee 

Genl Stephens were with the troops were Service, the general circumstances of my service is stated in the body of this my declaration
6 I allways received a written discharge which has long since been lost
7 I am known in my present neighborhood to, Hankinson Bywaters Hon John Burgoyne Joseph Burgoyne Esq r Evan Todhunter John W Coleman John Jaques.
Joseph Todhunter
Sworn and subscribed in open court the day and Year aforesaid Dan d Gano clk P.S.
31.748
Joseph Todhunter his
The State of Ohio Hamilton County ss
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named appli- cant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that Thomas William Parker Todhunter who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident of the County aforesaid & that Thomas Todhunter who has also signed the same is also a resident of said County and is a credible person and their statement is entitled to credit
I Daniel Gano Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Todhunter for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 13 th day of August 1834.
Dan d Gano clk P.S.

Wm. H. Harris Chas. P. ...
31. 748
Joseph Todhunter Ohio
17 - p 14 m $ 46. \frac{66}{100}
Can only allow as above
Thos J. Henderson
Cincinnati. Ohio.

The State of Ohio } City of Cincinnati } p
Before me the undersigned Mayor of said City personally appeared Joseph Tochunter the person named in the annexed declaration who after having been duly sworn according to law makes the following statement as an amendment to his said declaration That he entered the service of the United States in the Year 1778 in Loudon County, Virginia two and a half miles from the Potomac river, south near the Main road from Philadelphia to Charlottesville between Knowlens ferry and Leesburgh under Capt John McGett List Wm Mason and Ensign Richard Mercer Genl Mason Col Clapham and Majr Waggoner had the command of the Regiment - and was marched to the factory owned by Col Clapham situated in said Loudon County about one and a half miles from the place where I entered the service, North In which place factory public arms was made I know this fact from the circumstances that myself and others drew our arms from there: the object for which we were taken there was to guard and protect the place and the public property from an invasion of the British and tory's who were at that time at near Alexandria and after having remained at that place without meeting an attack for Two months was discharged - AM again entered the service in the month of Sept. in the same Year at the place above described under the officers aforesaid - and after having been mustered a part of the Company including myself was detached to guard the baggage waggons belonging to Genl Greens army under

Sergeant Hopkins the reason why a guard was taken from our company to perform said duty the former guard had been discharged upon arriving at the Potomac - and it became necessary have a new one - and having performed that duty from the place above described to the line of North Carolina on James River was discharged having served two months and again returned home. And again entered the service in the spring of the following year at the place first above described under the officers aforesaid and marched to George Town and from there to Alexandria then  before that time called Bell Haven - to prevent the English fleet which had sailed up the bay from effecting a landing - I was drafted for this service in the first instance but for two months - but owing to the manouevring of the British fleet which frequently sailed in to the Harbour of Alexandria and showed a disposition to land - and then bore away and continued to act in this manner until the end of our service when our officers considered it unsafe to leave the place & insisted on our remaining two months longer which after consultation we agreed to and remained two months longer - making in this service four months . And again entered the service in two or three months afterwards at the place first above stated under the officers aforesaid and marched to Frederick Town Maryland which was about eleven miles from the place where I entered the service after arriving there our company together with other troops then there, were ordered to guard the prisoners taken with Genl Burgoyne and remained there in that service for two months and was again discharged And again entered the service in the spring of the following year at the place aforesaid

under Capt the  both Rattican and the other officers above named and marched to Norfolk and Williamsburgh and was engaged in the battle of Williamsburgh and remained there some time after the battle, making in this tour three months and was again discharged - and again entered the service under Capt Geth and the aforesaid officers and marched to Little York at the mouth of James River on the line dividing North Carolina from Virginia and was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and remained there until the prisoners were marched to Winchester barracks - when his three months expired but on account of scarcity of troops & the persuasion of the officers he was induced to remain there three months longer guarding the prisoners making this term of service six months -
And further deponent saith not
Joseph T. Hunter
Sworn and subscribed before me this 13th day of Sept. A.D. 1834 -
John W. Davis Mayo

The State of Ohio Hamilton County ss
I Dan Dano Clerk P.T. of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the names of William Burke and Thomas Todhunter in the annexed certificate were omitted in the annexed to be filled by inadvertance that the said Court at the time they examined the same ordered the said certificate, and that their names are now inserted by the direction and order of said court Given under my hand and seal of said Court this eighteenth day of September A.D. 1834.
Dan Dano Clerk
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Revtran
7746
INVALID.
File No. 7746 Joseph Tothunter Prir Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 183 , Page 377
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commercial Bank of Cincinnati Pension Agency 31 st Octob r . 1839.
Sir.
Your favour of 21 st instant has been received - the pensioner therein referred to, "Joseph Todhunter" as appears by the Books handed to us by the former Agent has been transferred to Wheeling Agency to take effect from the 11 th Sept r 1837. - I presume the letter has been directed through error, to this agency -
To J. S. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.
Very Respectfully, Yours S er v t .
H. Armstrong Pension Agent

Cincinnati Sept. 18 th 1834
Sir
I herewith return you the papers of Joseph Todhunter amended I have endeavoured to take down the statement of the old man in as full and particular manner as possible - The mistake in not filling up the name of the witness must be attributed to both Mr Gano the clk and myself - the papers after the declaration was examined by the court were left in the hands of Mr Gano with an injunction to fill up the blanks - to me for receiving and forwarding, them without observing it - I hope however they are now properly corrected
I remain with great Respect
Yr obt svt
Thomas J. Henderson
J. L. Edwards Esq.