Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 39683, William Henderson, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey.
Henderson, William
S 39683
CONTENTS

9671
Pennsylvania
William Henderson
of Columbia City in the state of Penn a who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dayton of the N. Jersey line, for the term of one year & 4 mo.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st of Apr 1819 and sent to W. Montgomery Esq. Danielle Park
Arrears to 4th of Oct 1819. 9 mo. 25/4. 78.45 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Oct 1819. 48.00
$126.45
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
W. Montgomery Esq. Danielle Park Dec 28 Mar 1821

William Henderson
Penns a
not entitled
J. L. E.

Columbia County District of Pennsylvania ss.
On the 10th day of August 1820 personally appeared in open court of common pleas held in Danville for the County of Columbia being a court of record proceeding according to the course of common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings William Henderson aged 88 years resident in Columbia County in said District who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and 1st of May 1820 That he served in the Revolutionary war in the company commanded by Thomas Reading captain in the Regiment commanded by Col Dutton and have obtained a pension under the act of the 18th March 1818 his certificate being numbered 9671 and dated 21st day of April 1819
And I do solemnly swear
That I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to so diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land or naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale nor has any person in trust for me any property securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed and that I am not able to work for a livelihood nor have not been for upwards of fifteen years and my wife also William Henderson

Schedule of Property
I have besides necessary clothing and bedding    Twenty acres of Hill land (one half untillable) returned at the last Triennial Assessment and Appraised by the assessor @ 10.00 per Acre 200.00   1 big wheel and little wheel and reed (all been in use 28 years) 3.50   6 Split-bottomed chairs (in use 22 years) 1.50   6 do warrets 2.50   Shovel & tongs 1.00   14 Butte rings and 2 wedges 9.00   1 Hand saw, 1 inch auger, 1 chipel, 1 grubbing-hoe, 1 broad do & 1 shovel 2.50   2 small pots & tea kettle (all iron) 2.50   Trammel smoothing iron and some Earthenware 1.50   6 Delf Tea cups & saucers & tea-pot 1.00   6 Delf plates 0.45   1 old chest, & 1 pine table (of my own make) 1.50   6 Knives & 6 forks, 6 Spoons, 12 tib cups & 2 pails 3.10   1 old coffee mill, 1 bible and some old books (long in use) 4.50   Taylor tools viz Gown, shears, bodkin, chipel & thimble 1.50   $ 327.07 
I am indebted as follows
  To Mary Barry on note for part of 22 years work $38.33   To Samuel Thompson on Book Doff 50.00   To Daniel Yont on do do 37.50   To Samuel Webb left and captain Eddy Det 3.30 7.30   To John Kennedy and Henry Oman 6.90 
I have no pension from the State of Pennsylvania or any other State; I have no family but my wife aged 80 years. I am a Taylor by trade; but from age am unable to follow it, and am unable to support myself.
William Henderson
Sworn to and delivered by William Henderson on the 10th day of August 1820. Before a court of common pleas held in Danville for the county of Columbia Pennsylvania
From Geo. A. Finick Asst. Wm G. Hambley

I George A. Frick Clerk of the court of common pleas of Columbia County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court and I do hereby certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is $227.07.
In testimony whereof I have hitherto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 22 nd day August 1820
For Geo A. Frick Pro M c G. Hourly

180 Mr. Henderson Not on Roll But he has a correct mind Yours Sincerely Adm C
W. Montgomery Esq Danville pa
Yates

Danville Pa May 11
Free
To
The Hon ble J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of the War Department
Washington
Ca
Mr. [unclear]

State of Pennsylvania ss.
On this _____ day of May 1878 (Before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, Fourth Judicial Dist. of Columbia County, in the Eighth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, personally appeared William Henderson aged Eighty five years resident in Columbia County aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the follow- ing declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War": That he, the said William Henderson enlisted in the Year 1776 at Reading -Town, New Jersey, in the company of Capt. Thomas Reading of the 3 rd Regiment of Jersey, under the command of Colonel H on Elias Dayton, that he continued to serve in the said Comp y , or in the service of the United States until the 25 th day of March 1777, when he received his discharge bearing that date, which accompanies this deposition & certificate, having been in service sixteen months - that he afterwards enlisted in the State Regiment of New Jersey wherein he served six months at Elizabeth Town in the said State - and that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services and does not swear to & declared before me, the { receive any pension day & year aforesaid - } from the United States William Montgomery William Henderson
I William Montgomery one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County as aforesaid, Do certify, that it appears to my satisfac-

tion, that the said William Henderson did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, for the term of sixteen months on the Continental Establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken (had before me), to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress.
Danville May eleventh 1878
William Montgomery
Columbia County ss
I George A. Beck Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County do hereby certify that William Montgomery whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate is & was, the time of signing the same, one of the Associate Judges of the aforesaid Court & as such receives & deserves full faith & credit to all his official acts -
Witness my hand & the Seal of the said Court at Danville the eleventh day of May A. D. 1878
Geo. A. Beck Prothon.
Columbia County ss ss
I do certify that William Henderson is very poor, and infirm, entirely dependent on his relations, for support who as I understand are not affluent.
Witness my hand & Seal Jan'y 9 1879.
William Montgomery

39683 INVALID.
Rev.
Rev
File No. 39683
William Henderson Dr. Geo. W.
Act: 18 March 18
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 221
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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The bearer here of William Henderson a soldier belonging to the Third N. Jersey Regiment having served faithfully during the term of his enlistment is hereby Discharged March 25 1777 Being Disabled
Elias Dayton Col 3 d N. J. Regiment

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To Mr. J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War St. Washington Sir,
Mr. Calhoun 12 May 1821

To the Honorable John C. Cahoon Secretary of the War Department And the other Gentlemen of the Board. At the Request of William Henderson of Bloom township Columbia County And state of Pennsylvania. And Daniel Mcarty now of Luzern county, & state Aforesaid Both old Soldiers, I has Drawed Some Pension or money According to the Act of Congress of the Eighteenth of march Eighteen hundred & Eighteen. Giving & Granting them Eight Dollars per month Which is now Stopped or they have No Account that they Are to Draw it. The said William henderson & his wife Are very old, and helple, they were both Communi cants in our church while they could be Brough out but they are Now so frail that they cannot scarse Get up or down without Aid or To walk to the Dore the Last time I took him in my wagon To court to make Application for the money I did not Expect to Get him hom & I think it cannot be possible that they will want it more than one or too years At far thes they Are a very Great Burthen to the woman that has the care of them. I have live Neer Neighbours to them for nearly thirty years their Lot joins My Land, M c Hendersons wife And the woman that Lives with them Paid for the Lot in spinning And the Deed was taken In his name but Mary berry is Justly intitled to her Pay for what she paid Done for them - it is true they took her when she was An infant but she is now Above forty year Old And has Still worked for them And the Old man has not Been Able to Do Anything this twenty years, And they have Both been very helple for 4 or 5 years And Said Polly Berry Is more Attentive to them than Any Child I ever new to their Parents And if she Should take her Right & Self from them They would be A very heavy Charge on the township Im mediately for the Valliation of the Lot was taken from an Old valliation by the Sessor when our tax was Raised to built our Courthouse & other Publick buildings the Lot is Twenty Acres & If it was now sold it would not fetch more than Eight Dollars Per Achre And that would not half Pay Mary Berry So that the The said William Henderson is not worth one Cent. William Henderson was in the French war & Wounded in one Hand & was wounded in the other in the Revolutionary war When he was A Soldier under my Uncle William Maxwell Who Was General & my father Also was in the Army At the

Same time I have often heard my father & uncle General Maxwell say that William Henderson Ought to Have A Section - The General & my father And William Henderson All Lived Greenwich township Sussex County & State of Jersey - They were All near of An age - Father & the General is both Dead more than Twenty years - If either of them was Living I know They would not see him want - I think there is not A man in the States Should Draw if he Does not as he Has allways continued A Good Wig & Republican -
Daniel Mcarty is said to have been A Soldier - but Has since married A tory wife, And is A federal - I Do not know though his being in the Army only From hearsay, but the other I Did know in the Army Said Mcarty Lived in this township more than twenty Years he has been Something Ailing but not near so Old as Mr Henderson, He was An Elder in our Meeting For many Years, And as he was not Able to work Enou- gh to Keep his Family, We concluded to Get him in to Tend the Gate At Berwick Bridge, In Luzern County About Eight miles from Where I Live - and while he Would Get tending the Gate, he could Live for he Gets Ten Dollars per month for that, but if he Should be sent Away or Get Sick then he Would be needy I moved him to The bridge with my Waggons his Property was One Cow two Beds & Some Little Kitchen furniture I think it was not worth More than Twenty or thirty Dollars He had Give up his tools to the Constable & they were Almost All sold - After he Got to Tend the Gate He had no family but him & his wife She reads Kept them by Spinning & He Bought A Lot & Paid What he Borrowed from your Honour all that he could spare from the Wages for tending the Gate toward the Lot, but it is not all paid And the Sheriff has Levyed on it & it will be sold for the Remain- der as Land is Sell so much, it will Scarcely Sell to pay The judgement So that if he Does not Get Money to pay off That judgement so that the Lot Does not be sold he is not Worth more than one Hundred Dollars And perhaps Not worth fifty I know those two men to be so Fundu

That I think would not State Anything to your Honours that was not True — There is Michael Haveleigh, And Others in this County continues to draw Money who has it drunk up before they draw it — And then they will get a Little of one & Little of Another to live on, I think it would be Better to let those draw That will have Some Benifit —
William Henderson & his wife cannot be thought to continue Long — And they are now Almost helpless Daniel McCarty if much Younger but has never been a or a Working Man —
I Do Certify that the Above statements of the Two Men And their Property is just & true to my Certain Knowledg As they have both lived within the Distance of A half mile from my fields for more than twenty years before Daniel McCarty went to Attend the Gate As witness my hand in bloom I own his Columbia County & State of Pennsylv vania this Ninth of April A 1821
John Kennedy
P.S. Please to Write to me And Direct the Letter to Miller Village Postoffice Columbia County State of Pennsylv vania From
John Kennedy

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Henderson, William GRADE Private LINE North Carolina
WARRANT NUMBER N 12253 and 13171 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED September 28, 1796 To John Young, assignee
*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.