Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4,138, William Herrick, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Herrick, William
P. 4,138
Gordon, Anna
(Former Widow)
CONTENTS

State of New York
Chautauqua County ss. On this eleventh day of July 1838 personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a judge of the court of Common Pleas in & for said county, the same court being a court of record, expressly made so by the law of the state, Anna Gordon a resident of the town of Ripley in said county, aged eighty three years, 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, and the act explanatory of said act passed March 3, 1837. That she was married to William Herrick who was a private in the army of the Revolution. That he enlisted according to the best of her knowledge in the New York Line, the fore part of May 1778, but she cannot recollect, if she ever knew the names of any of the officers, that he then resided at the Nine Partners in the county of Dutchess, that soon after she received a letter from him that he was to serve during the war, that he continued in the service, and she received four letters from him, that the last one was dated from some place in the Jerseys, and all were written within a few weeks after his enlistment. That he was not draughted but enlisted voluntarily. That he was engaged in the battle of Monmouth, in the June next after the period of his enlistment, and was killed in that battle. That a comrade of his, immediately after wrote to declarants father, informing of his death, & her father brought the letter to her. She further declares that she was married to the said to the said William Herrick on the eighth day of February 1773. That she was afterwards married to John Gordon, who died on the 18th day of August 1830; and that she was a widow on the 4th day of July 1836, and still remains a widow, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
I certify that on the day of year above written Anna Gordon, appeared before me, & took, & subscribed the foregoing declaration, by making her mark, she being unable to write her own name, and also unable from bodily infirmity, to attend in open court.
T. A. Osborne
Anna X Gordon mark

Chautauqua County Clerks' Office.
p. 5 I George W. Tew, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County, do hereby certify that Thomas A. Osborne Esq. before whom the within deposition was taken, was, at the time of taking the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in & for said County, duly commissioned & sworn, and authorized to take the same, and that the signature of said Judge, thereto subscribed is genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my official seal this 19. day of September, A.D. 1838.
G. W. Tew Clerk.
Declaration of Ann Gordon, for a Pension.

W. N. York Anna Gordon
Letter to J. A. Osborn 5. Dec. 1838
To same 10. Aug. 1839
to same 19. Dec. 1839
Rejected
let to Hon. Ch. H. Earle
Dec. 10. 1844
" " Hon. H. Wheaton Dec. 18. 1846
Act. 6. July 1836

Nov 6.
NY. Addl declr.
Mrs. Gordon,
Hon. James L. Edwards
Commissaire of Pensions
Washington
free

Mayville October 28. 1839
Dr. Sir -
I send enclosed additional declaration of Mrs Anna Gordon. The old lady is feeble in body and mind. All her recollections are indistinct & confused. She is only positive of her husband's services & that he rec d bounty lands therefor. She has long been unable to support herself. Her children are poor but worthy, & do all they can for her. Yet their limited means forbid their providing many things essential for her comfort. I ask as a favor to her & them, the early attention of the Department, so that before the approach of winter, they may know whether relief is to be obtained or not.
Truly, Yrs.
J. A. Osborn
Hon. J. L. Edwards

State of New York Dutchess County ss. Thomas Wilson being duly sworn says that he is the town clerk of the town of Amenia in said County & has the custody of the Records of said town & that he has examined the said Records in his office & can find no Record or certificate of the marriage of William Blumick & Mary ...
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. I, DANIEL W. BEADLE, Clerk of the county of Duchess, County of Duchess, } Do hereby Certify, That John Mead Equine — — — — — — — — — — whose name is subscribed to the Deposition, Certificate, and before whom the same purports to have been taken, was on the day of the date of the taking such Deposition a Justice of the Peace — — — — — in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, in the town of Amenia, duly Elected and sworn — — — — — AND FURTHER, That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said taking of the attached deposition — genuine, and in the proper hand writing of said Justice . In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the said County, the 6th day of March — — — — — A. D. 1839.
Daniel W. Beadle Clerk

Hats of New York
Dutchess County ss. Thomas Wilson being duly sworn says that he is the town clerk of the town of Amenia in said County & has the custody of the Records of said town & that he has examined the said Records in his office & can find no Record or certificate of the marriage of William Verrick formerly a Resident of the said town to Anna Goodrich & that there are no certificates of marriage on the records of said town & deponent is informed and believes that prior to the year one thousand Eight hundred and thirty no legal provision existed for recording certificates of marriage & that no such entries on records, were made.
Subscribed & sworn
before me this 28 th day of February 1839
Thomas Wilson
John H. Cheek Justice Peace
I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Thomas Wilson of the town of Amenia that he is the acting clerk of said town and is a man of truth and veracity.
John H. Cheek

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
County of Duchess,
ss.
I, DANIEL W. BEADLE, Clerk of the county of Duchess,
Do hereby Certify, That
John Mead Edgins
whose name is subscribed to the Deposition, Certificate, and before whom the same purporting to have been taken, was on the day of the date of the taking such Deposition a justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, in the town of Amenia , duly Elected and
AND FURTHER, That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice , and verily believe that the signature to the said taking of the aforesaid deposition genuine, and in the forementioned writing of said Justice .
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the said County, the 6th day of March A. D. 18 59 .
Daniel W. Beadle Clerk

NY April 1.
Adolf Gordon Anna Herrick , full widow of Sam Herrick, died July 36
James L. Edwards
Court of Pensions Washington
Yrs

Mayville, Chau. Co. N.Y.
March 23 d 1839.
Dr. Sir.
I have no copy of the declaration of Anna Herrick, widow of William Herrick, late a soldier of the Revolution. My recollection is that her marriage was stated to have taken place at Nine Partners in Dutch Co. If so, you probably have the evidence at hand that Armenia is a portion of the old territory of that town. You advised me, that parol evidence of marriage could not be rec d , until a record was negatived. I now send town clerks certificate that there was no such record.
You will find from the Record, that William Herrick , the soldier in question was a private in Capt. Sacketts company, 4 th Regt N. York Line, commanded by Lieut. Col. Wisenfels , or Wisenfelts as sometimes spelt. He rec d bounty lands as a sol. Dier & his patent, is also I presume on record.
The old lady is feeble in body, & broken in intellect, & I hope that the additional evidence now forwarded will be satisfactory.
Respectfully
Yours &c.
J. A. Osborne
Hon. J. S. Edwards
N. B. I have not heard from the application of Dorothea Vorce .

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
4138
P. O. Anne Jordan
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

3848
NY 4 July 1836
Hon. James F. Edwards Town of Pembina Washington
FREE
free

col n - 3 pages
Copy of paper and of Feb. 10 Dec 40.
Wm H. Wheaton H 2 O

House of Reps. Washington Dec 11/46
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir,
I have to request a copy of the papers on file in your office in the case of Anna Gordon Widow of Mr. Herrick, who applies for a Pension on account of services rendered in the Army of the Revolution. The application having been rejected by the department. I am requested to apply to Congress for a special act in this case. consequently copies of the papers become necessary. You will also send me a copy of your letter to Hon. N. H. Earll on this case dated Dec 1 st 1840. - containing the grounds on which it was rejected - please comply with this request at your earliest convenience -
Very Respectfully &c H. Wheaton

Delaware County ss
As to marriage of Anna to Mr. Herrick, & his death.
I Elizabeth Orr of the town of Walton County aforesaid and State of New York do solemnly swear that the now widow Anna Gordon is an Aunt of mine that her first husbands name was William Herrick that they was married a short time before the commencement of the Revolutionary war that they had two children and that he said William Herrick was killed during said war
Elizabeth Orr
Sworn and subscribed before me this 6th day of Feb 1838
J. S. St John Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the said Elizabeth Orr and that her statement is entitled to credit and belief
J. S. St John Justice
State of New York
Delaware County ss. I Crawford B. Sheldon Clerk of the County of Delaware Do certify that I had sworn J. S. John Esq. the Justice before whom the above affidavit was sworn was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Delaware duly commissioned and sworn and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and that his name subscribed to the said affidavit is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County February 9th 1838.
C. B. Sheldon Clerk

State of New York:
Onondaga County ss: Be it remembered that on the third day of August Eighteen Hundred & thirty eight before me came John Stalph of the Town & County of Onondaga aforesaid & being duly sworn by me says that John Gordon late of Marcellus in the County of Onondaga aforesaid deceased was the Father of the wife of this deponent & that this deponent was well acquainted with him & that this acquaintance existed for more than thirty years before the death of the said Gordon — that this deponent was frequently at the house of said John in his last sickness, & that this deponent was at the funeral of the said John & saw him after his death & knows that he is dead — And further this deponent says that the said John died at Marcellus in the County of Onondaga aforesaid in August Eighteen Hundred & thirty, & that he knows full well that he is the same John Gordon who was the husband of Anna Gordon now of the County of Chautauqua in the State of New York, & which Anna is now a widow & an ap- plicant as such for a pension to the government of the United States
John Stalph
Taken subscribed & sworn —
this third day of August
Eighteen Hundred & thirty eight
before me
Joseph Swan Justice of the Peace
I Joseph Swan Justice of the peace aforesaid do certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named John Stalph who has made the foregoing affidavit & that he is a person of good morals & of good reputation for truth & veracity & that his testimony is entitled to full faith & credit
Joseph Swan Justice of the Peace

State of New York Onondaga County Es I Elijah Phoebeus Clark of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that Joseph Swan is a Justice of the peace of said County duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was dated on the first day of January 1837 and will expire on the 31 st day of December 1840 and that his signature written on the within is genuine Given under my hand and the seal of said County this third day of August one Thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight E Phoebeus Clark

Delaware County ss
I Elizabeth Beebe of the town of Walton County aforesaid and State of New York do solemnly swear that the now Widow Anna Gordon of the town of Ripley County of Chautauqua and State aforesaid is a sister of mine and her first husbands name was William Herrick that they were married a few years before the Revolutionary war and had two children and that said William Herrick was killed at the battle of Monmouth during the said war She thinks about four years after they was married that she was with her sister Anna Herrick at the time that she received the news of her husbands death and had lived with her sister for some time previous to her husbands death and further this deponent saith not Dated February 6th 1838
Elizabeth Beebe
Sworn and subscribed before me this 6th day of Feb 1838
J. S. H. John } Justice of the Peace
I Certify that I am well acquainted with the said Elizabeth Beebe named above and that her statements is entitled to credit and belief
J. S. H. John Justice

State of New York Delaware County ss. I, Branford H. Sheldon Clerk of the County of Delaware Do certify that Thaddeus S. St. John the Justice before whom the within affidavit as purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Delaware duly Commissioned and sworn, and further that I am well acqu- ainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and that his name subscribed to the within affidavit is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County February 9 th 1838. B. H. Sheldon Clerk

State of New York:
Quondaga County ss: On this third day of August Eighteen Hundred & thirty eight Rebecca Stolp of the Town & County of Quondaga & State of New York, being duly sworn by me says that she is the daughter of John & Anna Gordon formerly of the County aforesaid; that she assisted her mother in the last sickne- ss of her father the said John, & was present at his death & saw him expire, & attended his funeral, & well knows him to be the identical person who was the husband of Anna Gordon now of Chautauqua County & was an applicant to the government of the United States for a pension. And this deponent further says that she always understood & verily believes it to be true that her mother originally married one William Herrick & that the said Herrick enlisted into the army of the United States in the Revolutionary War, & was killed at the battle of Monmouth — & that her mother had a bible in which she used to read up to the time she married & left her father's house — that the said bible was a very old one when she first recollects to have seen it, & that when deponent married both covers or lids were more or less off & many of the leaves started & some gone. — That this deponent well remembers to have read in it an entry of the birth of the said William Herrick & Anna her mother, & whose maiden name was Goodrich — & also an entry or memorandum of the day of their marriage, & also of the names & times of birth of two children of the said William & Anna, born before the death of the said Wil- iam, but cannot now say from recollection what either of the said dates were. And this deponent further saith that she has had constant & frequent intercourse with her father & mother, & has never seen said Bible since she married & removed from her father's house; & she has always been told long before the death of her father & which she verily believes to be true that the said bible had gradually perished & was gone & lost together with the entries aforesaid. And further this de- ponent says that she was always told by her father & mother & relatives that the said Bible was given to her mother by the father of her mother on her first marriage with the said Herrick, and that the said Anna Gordon now remains the widow of the said John Gordon —
death of her husband
Mr. Herrick her husband
killed in the battle of Monmouth
was a bible used by her mother
were destroyed

Given this deposed oath not taken subscribed & sworn this x Rebecca Stolp third day of August Eighteen hundred and thirty eight before
me — Joseph Swan Justice of the Peace
I Joseph Swan Justice of the peace aforesaid do certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Rebecca Stolp who has made the foregoing affidavit that she is a person of good moral character & of a reputation for truth & veracity & that her testimony is entitled to full faith & credit — the word reputation interlined between good & for in this certificate was so interlined before my signature hereunto —
Joseph Swan Justice of the Peace
State of New York Onondaga County ss I Elijah Rhoades Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Joseph Swan is a Justice of the peace in and for the County before mentioned duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was dated on the first day of January 1837 and will expire on the 31 st day of December 1840 and that his signature above written is genuine
Given under my hand and the seal of said County this third day of August one Thousand Eight hundred and thirty eight E. Rhoades Clerk

State of New York City of Albany of New York
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This afft. shews. Anna's marriage to Wm. Herrick. his death, her 2 d marriage, & the death of 2 d husband, & that Wm. Herrick was killed in battle & his widow rec d his bounty lands.
On the second day of March One
Thousand eight hundred and thirty eight before me came Rebecca Bolles, personally known to me, who being duly sworn, says that she is well acquainted with Anna Gordon (formerly Anna Herrick), Anna being her elder sister, and that they lived at home with their Father Elnathan Goodrich in Sharon, Connecticut. That Anna remained at home until she was married to William Herrick, that William and Anna then removed some eight or ten miles from her Father's residence into the state of New York. That William as she was informed had enlisted into the Army of the United States, and at that time her sister Anna had two children a Daughter and a Son. That soon after that period heard he was killed at the Battle of Brandywine from her Father, who immediately brought her Sister Anna, and her Son home to his house and that she remained at home for several years and until she was married again. The said Rebecca remaining at home with her Father during all this period. Rebecca further states that she was about nine years old at the time of her sister Anna's just marriage, and that from her present age the marriage must have been in 1773, was present at the second marriage of Anna, to John Gordon. The marriage took place at home at her Father's residence several years after her Father brought her sister Anna home, that Anna & John Gordon lived together until the decease of John. That Anna & John Gordon had six children, that John lived to see his children grow up & to have grand children. Rebecca further states that she knew by hearing her Father say that her sister Anna had got a Soldier's right of Land by reason of her Husband William Herrick having been in the service of the United States, and further the said Rebecca saith not.
Sworn to before me this 2 d March 1838.
Mr. Morris Commissioner of Court
Rebecca Bolles

New York 2 d March 1838.
I am personally well acquainted with Rebecca Bolles, and Martha Banks, whose names are subscribed to the annexed two affidavits. They are aged individuals of great respectability and worth, and full dependence may be placed in their several statements.
W. Harris Comm. of Enquiry for city & county of Hudson

3848 Declaration of documents in case of Anna Gordon, widow of Wm. Herrick for a Pension
Mann 18 Feb. 1773
Mann 8 Feb. 1773
Husband Wm. Herrick since June 1778 Sent to R. A. Osborne
Mayville, Cham. Co. N. York
11 1/2 Cut 5 May 1776 One June 11
4158

State of New York City & County of New York.
§ 55
On the second day of March One Thousand eight hundred and thirty eight before me came Martha Banks personally known to me, who being duly sworn says that she was Born in Sharon in the State of Connecticut and brought up there, that she is well acquainted with Anna Gordon, that she is first cousin to the said Anna, that her Father and Anna's Father lived about one quarter of a mile distant from each other, that she was also acquainted with William Herrick, who lived about nine miles from Sharon at a place then called the Nine Partners, near Armonia in the State of New York, that William Herrick married Anna, at her Father's House in Sharon, that said Martha thinks she was then about sixteen years old, and that the marriage was about the year 1772 or 1773. That after the marriage, the said Anna & William resided at the residence of William, at the said place called Nine Partners & that the said William, as she was then informed entered the United States in New York state, and was in the New York line, but does not know under what officer, afterwards heard that he was killed in Battle, but does not remember what Battle, before that Anna returned to her Father's House after William Herrick was slain in Battle, but cannot say positively. soon after that period respondent lost her Father and then removed from Sharon, was not present at Anna's second marriage to Gordon, but knew Gordon well, and heard that Anna & Gordon was married. and further the deponent saith not.
Martha Banks
Sworn to before me this 2 d of March 1838.
No. Harris Commissioner of Sues.

STATE OF NEW-YORK, CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, } ss.
I, Joseph Hoxie , Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said City and County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That
John Harris Esq. before whom the annexed deposition was  is now taken, was, at the time of taking the same, a Commission of Heads in and for said City and County, duly commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same, and that I believe the signature of said Commissioner thereto subscribed are is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court and County, the 2d day of March 1838.
Joseph Hoxie Clerk.

In the matter of the application of Anna Gordon, widow of William Herrick &c.
Additional Declaration.

State of New York 9
Chautauqua County }p. On this 18 th day of October 1839 personally appeared before T. A. Osborne, one of the Judges of the county courts in & for said county. Anna Gordon a resident of said county, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, in addition to her declaration heretofore made, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made, by the act of Con- gress passed July 4. 1836, and now on file, in the War De- partment, further declare, that the services performed by the said William Herrick, her late husband, as set forth in said declaration, as a private were in Capt. Sackett's company Fourth Regiment of New York Militia, according to the best of her recollection, and she further says, that the want of recollection, consequent upon the infirmities of age, was the reason why she did not state the name of the capt. in her original declaration. Even now, her recollection is very indistinct. She remembers the name of Capt. Sackett, and it is associated in her memory, with the recollection of her husband's absence & services, but it floats before her, more like the memory of a dream, than any distinct & positive recollection, & she therefore prays the aid of the Department, in referring to the records, & papers on which her said husband, obtained his county lands, for his services, as she has a distinct recollection of his obtaining & selling said lands.
After the words "as a private" were interlined Sworn to & declared before me. This 18. day of October, by the above named Anna Gordon, who subscribed the same by her mark, from inability to write, in consequence of dimness of vision & tremulousness of hand, & unable to attend in open court from the infirmities of age T. A. Osborne
Her mark Anna + Gordon mark

Chautauqua County } State of New York }
I, George W. Tew Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Thomas A. Osborne Esq. was on the day of the date of the foregoing Affidavit, a Judge of the County Courts in & for said County, duly appointed and qualified, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature "T. A. Osborne" is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 23. day of October. A.D. 1839.
G. W. Tew Clerk

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Herrick, Zebulon GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER H 401 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 22, 1789 TO — not shown —
*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.