Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9650, John Houser, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
NC
N. 6.
Houser, John Shamel, Hannah
W 9650
CONTENTS
Former widow

3107 South Carolina
Hannah Samuel formerly John Houser, die. widow of
who died on the 24 January 1784 of Stokes Co in the State of N.C.
who was a sergeant in the Co. commanded by Captain Smith of the reg t commanded by Col Williams in the N.C. militia line for 8 months 5 days
Dead - let to pay 6 ap d 22. 1840. Order to pay 4 th July 1840
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina at the rate of 27 Dollars 21 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th day of Nov r 1839, & sent to and Hon. A. P. C. Joseph Germantown, N.C.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept r 1839 231.29 Semi-annual allowance ending Mar ch 40 13.60
$244.89
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 d }
Recorded by D. M. Gandy Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2. Page 170.

Ranch Planch
Hm A. H. Sheppard

State of North Carolina County of Stokes
} An Amending declaration of the Widow Hannah Shamel taken at her own place of Residence in the county aforesaid on the 26 th day of June 1838. agreeable to an order of the County Court, It being made appear to the Satisfaction of the Court that the old woman from bodily infirmity was unable to attend Court, whereupon the Court made an order, that I as one of the said Court, should attend at her house or residence & Examine her in the case of her declaration for a Pension, agreeable thereto I hereby declare that one of the Justices of the said attended at her place of Residence on the day above mentioned, and the said Hannah Shamel being first sworn according to Law, said that her former Declaration which she made on Oath before me on the 27 th day of February 1838 was just & true, which declaration Declarations is herunto annexed. This applicant further stated on Oath the Ages & Names of the children that was born of her body during the time her husband lived, which appeared in a Bible where their family Records were written as I saw & read them. Thus that John Houser & Hannah Miller was married by Jacob Bond a Justice of the peace on the 26 th day of December 1777, and Anna Elizabeth their eldest child was born the 19 th Septem r 1778 Anna Margaret was born the 13 th April 1780. now Dead Mary Susanna was born the 5 th January 1782. Dead John the son. was born the 7 th Decem r 1783. dead Hannah the last born the 18 th Septem r 1785 dead there being only Anna Elizabeth now living who is now the widow of William Eldridge Da r . that she has
no

No Documentary Evidence of her said husband John Houser services, except from her own knowledge together with the proof herunto affixed. Sworn and subscribed the day & year first above mentioned before me J Bannan JP  her Hannah + Shamel mark
Be it known that George Kregan who is a Pious and a Man of Veracity for truth being sworn declar on oath that he was intimately acquainted with John Houser the former husband of the above named Widow Hannah Shamel both before & after their marriage together which marriage happened about a year after said Houser returned from the Cherokee Expedition, & that Jacob Bond who solemnized the rites of matrimony between them, was an acting Justice of the peace at that time, that this Deponent saw & served with said Houser as a Minute Soldier under Capt. H. Smith at Ladys time after Tories. and Col. M c Shipford & Capt. Joseph Phillips to the Brushy Mountains & to Catawba River from where John Houser was sent with an express to Col. Armstrong in this route together when he joined one company he served at least six months in different directions from Richwood Surg. Old Court house March to Salisbury then to Green County & to Rocky River & at Colons old fields where we had a Battle in July 1780, then return to Richmond, & was discharged we first started from this place in the Spring of 1780 say in March he believes to the best of his recollection & was discharged in October 1780. Sworn & subscribed this his Deposition the 26 th day of June 1838 before me J Bannan JP
his George Kregan mark

State of North Carolina County of Stokes
} I Reubin D. Golding Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County Certify that Charles Banner is a Magistrate and One of the Court aforesaid, and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is genuine, and that from satisfactory evidence at June Term 1838. that the above named Hannah Shamel who makes Application for a Pension was from bodily infirmities unable to attend Court. It was ordered that said Charles Banner do attend & make out her Declaration at her own place of Residence &c.
In Testimony whereof I have here- unto affixed My seal of Office and Subscribed My Name this 4 th day of January A.D. 1839
Reubin D. Golding Clerk

State of North Carolina } S.S. County of Stokes } :
On this 27 th day of February 1838. personally appeared before me Charles Boarn a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, Hannah Widow of John Shamel De d . at her own place of Residence in the County aforesaid. Aged eighty one years the 13 th day of July 1837. 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 th 1836 and the Act explanatory thereof March 3 rd 1837. saith that from bodily infirmity she is unable to attend the County Court to make her declaration, that she was first married to a certain John Housan now dead who she has just reason to believe served as a private soldier in the Army of the United States, in the following expeditions (tours) first that he entered the service as a Volunteer private in the Militia under Capt t Henry Smith in Surry County North Carolina in the last of July or first of August 1776 & encamped near Richmond Surry old Court house and organized & then marched westwardly a long route to the Cherokee Nation of Indians, burn d . and destroy d . several of their Towns. Capotutata with their Chiefs & return d . on their march home; in this expedition he served four months & was discharged, this was in Col o Joseph Williams Regiment which return d in the last of Decem r . 1776 and the next Service he informed her he was drafted for three months and was placed as a minute man to range after Tories. & be ready at a moments warning in the County of Surry aforesaid in the Spring of the year 1778. and at different periods was called out on a Scout after Tories one time under a Capt t W m Shepherd & another under Capt t Meredith & other officers she does not remember, all of which services was after she was married & he told her he had been out in service the most of his time on his own horse more than three months for which he first engaged for & that afterwards her husband John Housan went with the soldiers that started from old Richmond she does not know the Captain's name, but it was the soldiers that went to the Battle of Kings Mountain and he told her that the Commanding officer sent her husband back from a place call d Ramsour's with an escort to Col o Armstrong of Surry County. & then her husband returned home

home & remain d a few days, then started & went to the Army and joined the same with the Kings Mountain prisoners at or near the Shallowford of the Yadkin River & carried them to the St. Morarica Town in the then Surry County (now Stokes) at which place he was discharged for a three months term — and afterwards, she believes in the month of January 1781. before Cornwallis with his Army came through Bethany in the then Surry County., John Housen her husband then volunteered himself or was drafted she does not recollect which, to guard the Powder Wagon, she calls it, from Salem in said County to Henry County in Virginia to keep said Magazine from the British. in this service her husband was gone exactly five weeks. all of which service makes Eleven Months & a few days for which she claims a Pension. She has already the Testimony of Joseph Boon & Lewis Woolf to prove the Service rendered as above stated. She further declares that her maiden name was Hannah Miller daughter of Jacob Miller Esq. that she was married to the aforesaid John Housen at her fathers house in the then County of Surry in North Carolina by Doct r Jacob Bond a Justice of the peace on the 26 th day of December 1777. that her husband John Housen aforesaid died on the twenty fourth day of January Seven -teen hundred & eighty four, that she afterwards married to John Shamel in Stokes County, Carolina on the 30 th day of May 1799. and that he died on the 22 d day of February 1813. and that she was a widow on the 4 th of July 1836. and still remains a widow. as will more fully appear by the proof herewith Annexed. Sworn to and Subscribed the day & year first above mentioned
before me
J Banner J.P.
Hannah + Shamel her mark

North Carolina } S.S Stokes County }
On this 27 th day of February 1838. at the house of the widow Hannah Shamel. personally appeared the widow Elizabeth Ketner of said County of Stokes. who being sworn according to law. declares on her oath, that the said Hannah Shamel is her own sister that she was present & saw Doctor Jacob Bond who was then a Justice of the peace on the 26 th day of December 1777. Marry & join together her said sister Hannah. to John Houser as man & wife at her Father Jacob Millers in the then Surry County North Carolina near Bethany Town, that she believes said Houser served four or five or perhaps more Years of Service as a Soldier in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War & died shortly after the war. that she remembers of said John Houser being gone guarding the Ammunition Waggons from Salem to Virginia at the time when the British Army march d into Bethany. when a party of the Red Coats came to her Fathers & Sister Hannahs houses & Robbed & plundered them of every valuable Article they could find. & enquired of said Hannah where her husband was, she answered & told them he was gone to carry the Powder Waggons out of the way of you redcoats British Robbers. then they left the house, her said Sister is now a widow & has been a widow ever since the death of John Shamel in the year 1813. Sworn & Subscribed the day first above mentioned before me
James Banner J.P.
Elizabeth her X Ketner mark

State of North Carolina County of Stokes } ss I Charles Banner one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for the county aforesaid. hereby Certify that the foregoing declaration of Hannah Shamel was duly taken at her own house of Residence in the county aforesaid. that she is a respectable old lady for veracity & truth, that she is as old as she has stated, and described so that she is unable to travel to Court & has been a widow for more than twenty years past, and am of opinion that her statement is correct. And I further Certify that her sister Elizabeth Ketner an aged woman is a respectable person for truth & veracity, who sworn & subscribed the within Deposition, & given under my hand this 27 th day of February 1838.
C. Banner J.P.
State of North Carolina County of Stokes } I Reuben D. Golding Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter Sessions for Stokes County aforesaid, certify that, Charles Banner is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing Signature purport- ing to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name this 12 th day of March 1838
Reuben D. Golding Clerk

Romance. Anti-Slavery. WIDOW, S.D.
File No. 9650 Hannah Shamel for an act. etc. John Shamel Print Rev. War.
Act: July 14th  1856 Index: Vol. 8 Page 246
[Arrangement of 1870.]

3305
Hannah Shamel Wed of John Housn Nl.
Act July 4. 1832
Maria 776
due 1784
Allow 8 mo 5 days pri. Nl. Militia Capt. Sheppard $27.21 pr ann
Rev A. H. Sheppard Germantown Nl.

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26.1.1 from June 19 20 or 29 58 21

ap 22 1840 N. YORK
May Mc Bain Hampshire
N.C. etc
Mary Mc Bain 11 Mar 40
FREE
James Mc Bain Mary Mc Bain 11 Mar 40 Mary Mc Bain Hampshire

Junior Office Eng. Nat. Ass. April. 18/40
James K. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions. Sir.
Mary McCann Widow of John. under the Act of 4 July 36- at p 36. 22. Certificate dated 11 March 1840. No. 3254. applied thro. her. Attys to day for pay ment. She is not on the Roll.
I have deferred to pay. the skin of Hannah Prantil. because the Certificate. bear date. The 9 Nov 1839. & the papers presented, show that she died on the 11 July 1838: this I do not understand. Happily there is an error somewhere. Please instruct me in regard to it.
I am Sir
very respectfully
John Charles.
John Charles J.C.

July 6 1840.
W. Evans
Miss S. P. Garrison Esq. Amsterdam St. New York Washington City. D.C.
FREE
100 100 100

Haytsville July 26 th 1840 Mr Dr S. C. Cannan
From Sir On hearing from you the depositions of Miss Briggs, & A. P. D. to prove that Abigail Mitchell died on the 11 th day of Oct r 1838, & that she left an only child within Anna Elizabeth Clappidge, - who is now making application for the balance of Pension due her for the only child, of the deceased, - The War Dept re gate, was opened on the 9 th day March 1839. - I would refer you to the agents letter, about the 1 st April upon this subject, & your answer dated the 22 nd of May next. As the enclosed is not sufficient evidence you will please instruct me, what will be wanting, & in the mean time I am Sir Yrs Truly J. M. [unclear]
To James L. Cannan Esq. Com d of Pensions. -
Thomas [unclear]

3305 Hannah Shamel
who was widow of John Houson
N.C.
acts 4 July 1836 & 3 March 1837-
3305 Hannah Shamel wid.
Pension papers
H.R. A. Stephenson H.R.

L 3305 Hannah Shamel wid. Pension papers
3305 Hannah Shamel who was widow of John Shamel A.C. acts 4 July 1836 & 9 March 1837
The Adolphus H.R.

State of North Carolina } ss County of Stokes }
Be it known that on the 15 th day of February 1838. before me Charles Banner a Justice of the peace in & for the county aforesaid personally appeared Joseph Banner Sen r . who is a Pensioner on the Pension Roll, of the U States, and he being duly sworn according to Law, to depose & say what he may remember of the services rendered by a certain John Houser Sen d in the Army of the U States in time of the Revolutionary War; - Deposeth & saith that he was well acquainted with said John Houser, that he served a term of duty of four months & more in the year 1776. with said John Houser. in Col o Jo. Williams Regiment of Militia in Capt s Smiths & Capt s Goodes Companies. to the Cherokee Nation of Indians, and this deponent further declares that he saw said Houser in service several times as a Minute Man or ranger after the Tories, & saw him, & was serving with him guarding the prisoners which were taken at the Battle of Kings Mountain, at the Old Moravian Town in the then Surry County. (Now Stokes) that some time during the Revolutionary War, the said John Houser was married to a young woman by the Name of Hannah Miller. he died & his widow the said Hannah married again to John Shamel & he died upwards of twenty years past & she the said Hannah is now, & has been a widow ever since the death of John Shamel. Sworn and Subscribed the day & year first above mentioned before me
J. Banner J.P.
his Joseph B Banner mark
Wad

North Carolina
county of Stokes } 55
Be it known that on the 16 th Feb y 1838 before me Charles Banner a Justice of the Peace for said County personally appeared Lewis Wolff a Pensioner, & being duly sworn according to Law to declare what he remembers of the late John Houser, Service as a Soldier of the Revolutionary War, declares on his oath that he was well acquainted with said John Houser, that he this deponent did not go to the Cherokee Nation, But hired a Substitute and said John Houser started with the Army as a private Soldier in Capt. Henry Smiths Company & returned in the Winter of 1776 about Christmas, and afterwards this deponent states that said John Houser served in a Company of Horse men commanded by Capt. Philips on the route to the Battle of Kings Mountain and said Houser was sent back with an express to Col. Armstrong and after the Battle said Houser fell in with the Company some where about or near the Shallowford of the Yadkin & guarded the prisoners to the Old Town, But previous to this last Service said John Houser was in actual Service in ranging after Tories under Capt. Shepherd & Meredith and on one occasion happened in skirmish with a Company of Tories at Richmond (Surry Old Court house) where the Tories being too numerous, put our Men to flight only wounded one of our Men. a Capt. John Krouse as this deponent & said John Houser were Neighbors in Surry County & well acquainted he believes his statement was correct, he recollects that said Houser was married to Hannah Miller at her Father Jacob Millers by Jacob Bond a Justice of the Peace in time of the Revolutionary War, & he served often after they were married, he thinks he was called on as one of the Soldiers & was gone to guard the Magazine from Salem to some place in Virginia upwards of a month not over two or three months before the Guilford Battle in 1781. this Deponent further saith that the widow Hannah Shamel who intends petitioning for a Pension has been a widow at least twenty years past, & was the widow of the above named John Houser before she married Shamel. Sworn & subscribed the day & year first above mentioned before me
Charles Banner J.P.
Lewis Wolff his mark

State of North Carolina County of Stokes
I Charles Banner one of the acting Justices of the peace in & for the County aforesaid certify that the within named Joseph Banner & Lewis Wolff who have & subscribed their respective Depositions as within are credible persons for truth & veracity in the neighborhood & County aforesaid where they reside, given under my hand this 27 th day of February 1838.
C Banner J.P.
State of North Carolina
County of Stokes I Reubin D. Golding clerk of the County Court of pleas and quarter sessions certify that Charles Banner is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing Deposition purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed My Seal of office and Subscribed My name this 12 th day of March 1838
Reubin D. Golding Clerk

Hannah Thamel formerly. Hannah Bous; amended story Deposited & certificate - for a Pension
Oct. 19. '39
A. H. Sheppard, Bermanton, N.C. Agent

State of North Carolina Stokes County
Be it known that on this 3 d day of October 1839, personally appeared before me William W. Terry a Justice of the peace for said county, Charles Banner Esquire a person of veracity for truth &c. and he being duly sworn according to Law, declares on his oath. That the within named Hannah Houser is the identical same person who was once the Widow of John Houser Dec d as named within. and afterwards she married to John Shamel who died upwards of twenty years past in said county of Stokes and that said Hannah has remained unmarried ever since his death and claims a pension, as per her Declaration heretofore sent to the Pension Department of the United States will appear, for the services rendered in the Army of the Revolutionary War by her first husband John Houser Dec d Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year first above mentioned before me,
W. W. Terry J.P.
C Banner
State of North Carolina County of Stokes } I Reubin D. Golding clerk of the Court of pleas and Quarter Sessions do hereby certify that William W. Terry is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of my office and Subscribed my name this 4 th day of October A.D. 1839.
Reubin D Golding

Stokes Cty { State of Maryland } It appeareth on the records of the Church at Bethania, Stokes Cty. M. that John Hauser D r was married to Hannah Miller towards the close of the Year 1776 & that during their union the following children were born in their family; to wit:   1. Anna Elizabeth Hauser, born Sept 19 th 1777  2. Anna Margaret " " " Apr 13 1779  3. Mary Susanna " " " Jan'y 5 1781  4. John Hauser " " " Decr 7 th 1782  5. Hannah Susanna " " " Sept 18 th 1784. 
It further appeareth on the records of the Church at Bethania, Stokes Cty. M. that the above connexion between John Hauser & his wife Hannah, was put an end to by the death of the said John Hauser on the 26 th Jan'y 1784.
Witness my hand & Seal Julius Th Beckle Pastor of Moravian Church at Bethania Stokes Cty. M.
Bethania Oct 2 nd 1839