Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6128, for Henry Laine, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Laine, Henry Mary
R. 6128
CONTENTS
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No 7610 Mary Lane m
Set: Hon T. S. Hayward 9 Mar 1850
6128
a 4 4 July 1836

Act of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
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P. O. Mary Laine Henry Laine
Service: Widow Henry Laine
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____
Discharged: _____
Application filed: _____
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ C
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for

Washington City March the 4 th 1830
Dear Sir I enclose you the application of Mary Lane for a Pension. Let me ask your earliest attention to her application she is old and if entitled should have the benefits of it as soon as possible
Please communicate to me your decision of this application
Respectfully
J. S. Haysmond
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions

No 7610 Mary Lane M rs Henry vn act 4 May 1836
0196

State of Virginia } County of Marshall }
On this 17 th day of July 1840 personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the county & state aforesaid, Mary Laine, a resident of said County of Marshall & State of Virginia, aged Eighty years (on the 16 th day of April last) 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 4, 1836: That she is the widow of Henry Laine, who was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, of American Independence; He served under Col. Philip Johnson, Capt. Frasier and Lieut. Jacob Anderson; and was one of the Minute Men at Long Island. He was in part of an engagement there. He went out as a volunteer, to Long Island, & continued in the service at that time, for five months. At another time, he went to Amboy, and was there in the service of the Army for two months or more. When he went to Amboy, he started under Capt. Thomas Jones, who had a large company, & afterward marched under

Capt William Hazlitt whose company was too small. All the officers aforesaid lived in Hunterdon County New Jersey where the said Henry Saine, resided during the Revolutionary war and for several years afterwards. He march- ed from Hunterdon County, New Jersey to Long Island & Amboy, as before stated. He had a commission, himself as a cap- tain, & was once called out as such but was ordered to return before he had marched many days. This Decla- rant accompanied him one day's journey when he was called out as a captain, & was then his wife. She has heard her said husband say that he was at the Battle of the White Plains, where he received a wound in his thigh, from a bayonet; and she has often seen the scar of said wound. This took place before he was married. She cannot recollect, with certainty when her said husband, entered or left the Army. According to the best of her rec- ollection he was in the Revolutionary Army, between the years 1776, and 1780. He was commissioned as a Captain by Governor William Livingston, a Leving- ston of New Jersey. He held his Commission as a Captain till the end of the war; and was liable ready to march whenever called upon. She has seen & read said Commission.

She believes that she has also seen his discharge. But in moving about from place to place, they were both lost many years since. This declarant has no documentary evidence in support of her claim. She further declares that she was married to the said Henry Laine, in the month of March (but what day of the month she does not recollect) in the year nineteen hundred and seventy nine: that her husband, the aforesaid Henry Laine, died on the 3rd day of June 1831, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed. [She never was married but once.
Old Squire Johnson, then a very old man, of Huntland on County N.Y. married her to Henry Laine, as before stated in the year 1779. Her said husband was in his eighty seventh year when he died.]
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written before. Samuel Howard. a justice of the peace for Marshall County, Virginia.
S. Howard J.P.
Mary her Laine
Isaac Hoge witness.
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The foregoing declaration was made at the residence of the said Mary Laine who, from bodily infirmity, is unable to leave home or attend court. This I certify from my acquaintance

4 with a personal knowledge of said Mary Laine. Howard J. G.
State of Virginia } ss.
Marshall county } Martha Robinson of said county, aged thirty three years, being first duly sworn, deponeth & saith that she lived with Mary Laine & her husband Henry Laine at the time of his death which was on the 3rd day of June 1831. He died in the City of Wheeling, Va. This deponent has lived with the said Mary Laine ever since & knows that she has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband, Henry Laine. She further states that some 16 or 17 years ago, she was with said Henry & Mary Laine, at one Widow Bell's in the state of Ohio who was then a very old woman, & the widow of Capt. Bell of the Revolution. She was an old acquaintance of said Henry & Mary & knew them in the state of New Jersey. Said Mrs. Bell then recognized said Henry, & addressed him as Capt. Laine & spoke of him as a soldier of the Revolution. This deft further states that she has seen the scar on said Capt. Laine's thigh which he said was made by a wound received in the Revolutionary War. She further states that said Henry Laine was esteemed a Revolutionary soldier, ever since her recollection. Sworn to the verity of this 17th day of July 1840. before Saml. Howard & justice of the peace for said county. Howard J. G. } Martha Robinson mark

I. Samuel Howard, a justice of the peace for Marshall County, Virginia, do hereby certify, that the foregoing declaration of Mary Saine, & the affidavit of Martha Robinson, were this day made before me; that I am well acquainted with said Mary & Martha, & that they are both credible persons. I further certify, that I fully believe that Henry Saine, the deceased husband of said Mary, was a soldier of the Revolution, & entitled to a pension. Moreover, I do certify that said Mary Saine is very poor, & in great need of a pension. Given under my hand this 17th day of July 1840.
S. Howard J.P.
Virginia Marshall County to wit:
I. James D. Morris Clerk of the County Court in and for the said County of Marshall, do hereby certify that Samuel Howard Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the affidavits of Mary Saine and Martha Robinson and the two certificates hereto attached, was at the dates thereof and still is an acting justice of the peace in and for said County of Marshall duly Commissioned and Sworn. And that the four several signatures thereto are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court at the Courthouse of our said County this 21st day of July A.D. 1840.
James D. Morris Clerk