Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4901, Samuel Henry, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Henry Samuel
R. 4901
CONTENTS

State of Pennsylvania } County of Huntingdon } ss
On this seventeenth day of August 1832 eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Hon. Thomas Brannide President of his associates, composing the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid, Samuel Henry a resident of the Township of Barree, county of Huntingdon and State of Pennsylvania, aged eighty six 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 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 herein stated. That he entered the service as he has lives in the summer of 1776, being the time the British Fleet arrived near New York. That he resided in Chester County, near the border of Chester and Lancaster Counties, entered the service under the command of Colonel Moore of Chester County and with Captain John Hare as his company officer, marched to Philadelphia, Trenton, Brunswick, and after being retired as a volunteer and continued in service about two months, when he received a discharge (not written) and returned home to Chester County. He a short time afterwards removed to Leacock Township Lancaster County, near the town now city of Lancaster, remained there about that time and received the commission of Captain from the supreme Executive Council of this state, to command a company in the 1 st Battalion of Militia, in Lancaster County. Colonel Mifflin was the Commander. Part of the time this commission continued (3 years) we marched to Philadelphia, Trenton & but the greater part of the time he was in Lancaster guarding prisoners, with a number of captured Hessians and part of Burgoyne's surrendered army. This commission has been lost as his company almost unanimously re-elected him Captain and another

1 Commission issued dated 10 th May 1780, which he has preserved & herewith submits - served the three years which was the limit of the commission - Colonel Crawford of Lancaster County Commander - Abraham Henry (brother to applicant) was a major - served the time in Lancaster and other places to which we were ordered and occasionally in New Jersey - was commissioned Captain a third time and served till the end of the war. In my company I remember the following persons who served - Three brothers by name of Mipers - two brothers by name of Hare & two Hices and also two brothers by name of Williams - The documentary evidence I possess is the Commission before referred to - James Watson who is also an applicant for the benefit of the law, the last time he went out was a member of my company - John Waggoner a revolutionary soldier now living in this county was in the same battalion - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pennsylvania the assets roll of any state -
Samuel Henry
I swear to and subscribe the affidavit of record before me J. N. Potter Proby
Questions by the Court.
In Ireland
1. Where and in what year were you born - Answer, about the year 1746. 2. Have you any record of your age: if so, where is it? Answer. Have no record at this time - had my age recorded in a family bible brought from Ireland and which my sister took with her when she removed from Lancaster County. She is dead & I don't know what has become of the record. 3. Where were you living when called into service - where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live? Answer. Lived in Chester County when I first volunteered - then in Lancaster till a number of years after the end of the war, when I removed to Kishacoquillas Valley, Mifflin County where I lived four years, when I removed to my present place of residence in Barree Township, Huntingdon County where I have resided for the last thirty three years. 4. How were you called into service - were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you substituted?

Ans. I was a volunteer during my whole term of service
5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served - such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.
Ans. Col. Hubley of Lancaster - Captain Robert Pattison of Lancaster Captain John Brisben of Lancaster County. Col. Hubley of Lancaster County who gave me military instruction before I entered the service & who procured me my first commission. Also Mr. an officer Col. Moore. Major and Crawford. Major Abraham Henry was an officer in our battalion. Also knew Capt. William Brisben of the militia. The general circumstances of my service are as before detailed
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service of no longer when given and did you ever receive a commission of no longer when received what has become of it. Ans. Recd no written discharge from Col. Moore, but still retain a Captain's commission granted by the Executive Council signed by Joseph Reed President and attested by 80m attached hereto being No. 6. accompanied by the seal of the Supreme Executive Council.
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, who can testify to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a revolutionary soldier. Ans. Major Robert Moore, Capt. John Stewart, Mrs. Mirt Esq. Genl. Wm. Steel of Huntingdon, Patrick Gwin. as do John McAlhant. Saml. Herring
17 th day of August 1832 Attest D r Porter Prob
{ We John Stewart one of the County Commissioners & Wm. Mirt a justice of the Peace, of Huntingdon County, do hereby in name township, certify that we are well acquainted with Saml. Henry who has been and subscribed the above declaration and in our opinion that we believe him to be 86 years of age. that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
17 th day of August 1832 Attest D r Porter Prob
John Stewart William Mirt

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 ap- plicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court do further certify that it appears to them that John Stewart who has signed the preceding certificate is a Commissioner of the Court, and a credible person and that Wm. Ernst is a justice of the peace and a credible person & that the statement is entitled to credit.
D. M. Wirtz Joseph W. Lane } Judges J. S. Adams
State of Pennsylvania Huntingdon County
I David R. Porter Notary Public of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Huntingdon Do Certify that the above and foregoing con- tains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Capt. Samuel Henry for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the said Court at Huntingdon the 17 th day of August A.D. 1832.
D. R. Porter Notary Public

12105
Sarah Honey of Pennsylvania
on 1 st Feb y 1883
Page 236
24901
Dear Robert

BRIEF in the case of Samuel Henry of Barre, County of Dauphin in the State of Pennsylvania (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 86  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     Suppose In 1776 About 2 Months Pri Capt Ware Col Moore   not given Captain Col Mifflin   May 10 1780. 3 years as Col Brantford   2nd time been as as   serv'd to the end of the War  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Chester County Pennsylvania
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Documentary for Service in 1780 - Says there is 2 Witnesses living, but do not give their testimony
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Duration of 2nd term not given
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. Mahony Examining Clerk.  July 28 1833

Suspended
In letter Hon. R. M c Log
July 20. 1833
do. 21 July 1835 to
Hon. J. Henderson

Huntingdon County } State of Pennsylvania } p.
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, Samuel Henry of Barree Township, County and state aforesaid and who made his declaration, in order to obtain a pension under the act of 7 th June A.D. 1832, before the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid, Hon. Thos. Burnside being President and Joseph McClune and Joseph Adams associate judges of the said Court, and after being duly sworn, according to law doth depose and say, that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades. For two months at least I served as a volunteer, as stated in my declaration made on the day seventeenth day of August A.D. 1832 the second tour I acted as captain, under a commission which is lost and was in actual service for three years, either in garrison or in the field as stated in my declaration and I received a second commission as captain dated 10 th May 1780 and served or was in actual service till the close of the war, either in garrison or in the field. I served all the foregoing time with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority, at the places mentioned in my declaration. During the time the said services were performed I was not employed in any civil pursuit and for the said services I claim a pension.
Samuel Henry
Sworn and subscribed before me this twenty sixth day of February A.D. 1833
J. P. McCormick

State of Pennsylvania } Huntingdon County } S d
I David R. Porter Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County Do Certify that Alexander M c Cormick Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been made and taken as an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, duly Commissioned and qualified, and that to all his offi- cial acts full faith and credit are due. And that I am acquainted with the said Justice and with his hand writing, and that I believe the name "Alex r M c Cormick" thereto subscribed to be in the own proper hand writing of the said Justice. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal of the said Court at Huntingdon the 20 th day of February A. D. 1833. D. R. Porter Prothonotary

Centre County ss
Personally appeared before Wm. Livingston one of our justices of the peace in and for said County of Centre. John Brishard Sw and after being first sworn according to law did depose and say that he was personally acquainted with Col. Samuel Henry in Lancaster County in the time of the revolutionary war and that he was Captain in Col. John Mattern's Regiment and at one time he was called to Lancaster to guard British Prisoners and further said not sworn and subscribed this 30 th Day of October 1834
Wm. Livingston
John Brishard
I do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with John Brishard the above deponent for upwards of forty years and to my knowledge he has been considered a man of truth and veracity as witness my hand and seal this 30 th Day of October 1834
Wm. Livingston
State of Pennsylvania
Centre County ss
I James Gilliland Broth y of the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County do certify, that Wm. Livingston Esq r before whom the foregoing acknowledgement was taken of who has signed the same, in his own proper hand writing is a justice of the Peace in & for the county aforesaid duly commissioned & sworn, and to whose official acts, as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given in
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Bellefonte the 30 th October A. D. 1834.
James Gilliland Broth y

Feb 21 P.M.
Thur J. S. Mansfield 3
J. S. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
John S. Mansfield

Washington Feby 28 th 1835
Dr Sir
An Application which was made by Samuel Henry for pension last year through Alexander Green Esq y Huntingda Penn a was returned objected to on the ground of deficient testimony the documents remain on file -
If the additional testimony now offered will secure the old soldier his pension it would gratify me very much to have the certificates previous to our adjournment
Very Respectfully Yr oss
A. L. Edwards Esq
J. H. Anderson 3

In the NAME and by the AUTHORITY of the F R E E M E N of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ,
The SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL of the said Commonwealth,
To Samuel Henry Payne
W E reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Captain
of the Company of Artillery in the City of Philadelphia Battalion of Militia, in the County of Philadelphia . You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of the said Battalion by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And We do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as Captain . And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as you shall from Time to Time receive from the Supreme Executive Council of this Commonwealth, or from your superior Officers, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, and in Pursuance of the Acts of Assembly of this State. This Commission to continue in force until your Term, by the Laws of this State, shall of Course expire.
G I V E N under the lesser Seal of the Commonwealth, at Philadelphia, this 10th Day of May in the Year of our
LORD, One Thousand Seven Hundred and 81
ATTEST.
J. Matlack Secy

Dear Sir
I enclose you some Descriptions relative to my application for a Pension - Mr. M c Guin forwarded my application, but the Department refused granting my claim for want of sufficient proof - Will you do me the favor to ascertain the difficulty before you return home and oblige an old friend now tottering on the brink of the grave - Yours respectfully,
Samuel Henry
Shavers-Fork. Feb. - 1835

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1863.
REJECTED
4911.
P. O.
Samuel Henry
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized.
_____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis.
Searched for _____
_____, 18

Centre County
Personally came before me the sub- -scribed an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County of Centre William Patten and after being duly sworn according to law did depose & say that he was well ac- -quainted with Captain Samuel Henry previous to the Revolutionary war that Captain Henry was drafted & went out in the month of June or July 1776 with Colonel James Moore and Captain James Hoare, and that said Henry was encamped at Perth Amboy in Company with said deponent, and said depo- nent left Perth Amboy & left said Henry there, and deponent knew said Henry after the war, in Lancaster County and that he always bore a good moral character & further saith not
Sworn & subscribed the 30 th day of Oct 1834.
Wm Patten
George Jack
I do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with William Patten Esq. the above named deponent for the last fourteen years and I do know him to be a man of truth & veracity & that he is considered strictly so by all his acquaintances. Witness my hand the 30 th day of October Eighteen hundred thirty four Geo. Jack
Centre County
I James Gilliland Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County certify that George Jack Esq. before whom the foregoing deposi- -tion was taken, who has signed the same in his own proper hand is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly com- -missioned & qualified and to whom official acts of such full faith and credit is and ought to be given. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Bellefonte the 30 th day of October A.D. 1834 -
James Gilliland Prothonotary