Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [ILLEGIBLE], Joseph Hendrick, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hendrick, Joseph Sarah.
W. 4881
CONTENTS
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V 3235 Sarah Hardin Billerica Wid of Joseph Hardin
act 4 July 1835
Vol 22: 104 shows that Capt Hardin was in Ser- vice only 1 mo. 9 ds from July 77-
Vol 20: 88 for Hardin Sept 2 mo 8 ds 3 1/2 Aug 20 to Nov 29
4881

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Before me
Asaiah Webb, Judge of Essex County Court
State of Vermont } Essex County ss } At Bennington in said Essex County this 11th day of October A.D. 1837 Personally appeared before me the Mrs. Sarah Hemenick who has signed the above declaration and made oath to the truth of the same before me and I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with said Sarah He- menick and that she is a person of truth and veracity and entitled to full credit and I certify that the affidavit cannot from bodily infirmity attend before any Court of Record
Asaiah Webb Judge of Essex County Court
State of Vermont } Essex County ss } I William Gates Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Essex aforesaid Do hereby certify that Asaiah Webb in and for whom the annexed affidavit declaration was made and sworn to is and was on the day of the date thereof a Judge of the County Court in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that his name thereunto subscribed is his genuine signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 27th day of November A.D. 1837. Wm Gates Clerk.

State of Vermont } On this 11 th day of October Essex County } A.D. 1837 personally appeared before me Azariah Webb, junior the fully within and for the County of Essex and State of Vermont, Sarah Hendrick, a resident of Lunenburg in Essex County aforesaid aged eighty one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1830: That she is the widow of Joseph Hendrick (formerly Joseph Hendrick junior) that her husband said Hendrick was out in actual service in the revolutionary war at two periods of time. The first time in the fall of the year A.D. 1777 the day or month he went out she cannot recollect so as to tell, but she recollects he was out at this time four months or over that he was orderly sergeant was at the Battle of Saratoga in which Burgoyne was taken. The Captain, name Miller whom he served at this time was Hooker. He said Hendrick commanded the Company in the Battle at Bennington in the absence of the Captain from sickness she thinks the Lieutenants name was Parker the Generals name Warner, Cushman Colonel she does not recollect the names of any of the other officers during this period of service.
Other officers during this period of time. He was out again in the summer of AD 1778. She thinks he went out the first of July of this season at this time was out three months. He was drafted, was discharged a Captain upon return from his first service, was then a Lieutenant of the 1st & 10th Company Commanded by Capt. Isaac Powers in the fourth Regiment of Militia in the County of Hampshire whereof Elisha Porter Esq. was Colonel. She further says he was in the service of the Army in the year AD 1778 at Sutton making guns in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts nine months the fall, winter and spring. She and her husband lived during these periods of time in Greenwich in Hampshire County State of Massachusetts. She further declares that she was married to the said Hendrick the 29th day of August AD 1774 at New Salem that her husband the aforesaid Hendrick died on the 14th day of July AD 1820 at Salem being of age and that she has remained a widow ever since that period of time as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed Sarah Hendrick

Iowa clerks certificate
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Town clerk's office, New Salem, Franklin County, Massachusetts — August 9. 1837.
I Charles Osgood, town clerk of the town of New Salem, do hereby certify, that the following is a true extract from the book of records of said town, now remaining in this office —
Viz. "The purpose of marriage between Joseph Hendrick junr. of "Greenwich and Sarah Townsend of this district, was "published July 3-1774 — Daniel Shaw junr. { district "clerk"
I also certify, that after a careful examination of said book, and other records in this office, I do not find any record of the marriage of the said Joseph Hendrick junr. & Sarah Townsend, and that I believe no record of the said marriage exists in this office.
Charles Osgood } Town clerk of the } Town of New Salem Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Franklin county ss. August 9. 1837 — I William Whitaker, a justice of the peace in and for said county of Franklin, do hereby certify, that I am a resident of the town of New Salem in said county, and that Charles Osgood who has subscribed the foregoing certificate is clerk of said town, and duly qualified to execute the duties of that office —
William Whitaker justice of the peace —

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Franklin ss. I Elijah Alward, Clerk of the court of Common Pleas for the county of Franklin, do hereby certify, that William Whitaker Esq. who has subscribed the within certificate, is a Justice of the Peace for said county, duly commissioned & qualified; and that his signature thereunto is in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court at Greenfield on the eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven. —
E. Alward Clerk

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Joseph Hendrick Jr. a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
Ref - 4881
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     ✓ 76 8 mos. ✓ Joseph Hooker ✓   July or Aug. 77 4 mos. orderly sergt. Joseph Hooker Ashmun Mass.   June 16. 78 3 mos. 2 Lieut. Isaac Poms Elisha Porter "   also employed in making guns & shovels for the army.  
The date of place of her death are not stated referred to several children no names stated.
Battles engaged in, taking of Burgoyne. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Greenwich, Mass. Date of application for pension, by widow, Oct. 11, 1837 Residence at date of application, Tunenburg, Essex Co., Vt. Age at date of application, 81 years 
Remarks: My mother was the son of Joseph Hendricks  born in New Salem, Mass. Aug. 29, 1774, Sarah Townsend.  he died July 14, 1826 at Tunenburg, Vt. This claim was never allowed for the reason that claimant failed to furnish proof of alleged service of her husband, as required by the pension laws.

V Sarah Hancock wid of Joseph Ref. Lt Box No Williamstown 22/9/38 let to John Dean, Sept. 24, 1838.
act 4 July 1836

Sarah Hindocha
Wife of John
W.B.
Ad. 1 July 1836
Left Middlesbrough
Jan 1839
at St. Hilda's Church
Leeds 1840
near 1847
act 1838 1836

Art.
3-871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by W.T.G.
Claim No. 5/27/1910
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Joseph Kendrick
Service Maso Rev
Additional Service. _____
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 190_____
No claim, combination records _____, 190_____
REMARKS:
No claim as above except OW Reg 4,881.

1910 June 4. Hish to A. H. Drake letter in W. file 25911 Timothy Walker 1915 Aug. 19. History to Charles P. Hendrick. Lrr.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
4881
P. O. Sarah Hendrick
Service: Wid. of Joseph.
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____

Wid. Sarah Henricks affidavit for pension Nov. 15. 1838
Previously entd, See No. 3235
act 4 July 1836
Hon. J. W. Williams H. R.

I Sarah Hendrick of Sunbury in the County of Essex & State of Vermont of lawful age, Depose & say - That I am the widow of Joseph Hendrick late of said Sunbury deceased (he died 12 years ago last July) - that he (the said Joseph Hendrick) entered into the service of his country in the Revolutionary war & think about the last of July or first of August A.D. 1777 & enlisted for & served three months - & was in the battle at the taking of Burgoyne - after his said three months had expired - he enlisted for & served one month more & went down the North or Hudson River to New York City - his first three months service above mentioned was under one Capt. Hooke - that he was an orderly sergeant at the battle of Saratoga & taking of Burgoyne - that my deceased husband lived in Green- wich Massachusetts when he enlisted - & that his name was then Joseph Hendrick Jr. (his father Joseph Hendrick then being alive) - that after my husband returned from New York City - he again enlisted into the service - (in 1778) & served at & about Dorchester & Boston Mass. I think four or five months. He went into the service with one Jonathan Emmons (formerly of Greenwich Mass) late of Londonderry Vt. & returned with said Emmons. & I understand that said Emmons afterwards drew a pension under the act of 1818 - (he was poor but my husband had some property then ) - that I am now very poor & if I had not & cannot main- tain myself without the help of my friends - & really think I am as much entitled to a pension as said Emmons was. The reason of my taking this course - is - that I have endeavoured by my Attorney - to obtain evidence sufficient to draw my pension - but the material witness (Benjamin Furnas of Jamaica Vermont) on whom I depended chiefly for testimony & of whom I undoubtedly could

have obtained sufficient evidence to draw my pension - died some more than a year ago - That all the above mentioned service of my deceased husband was exclusive of his making guns & shovels for the army as sent on to Washington in evidence last winter - I have written - by my Atty - to Stephen Powers of Prescott Mass. & John Town of Danvers Mass. to obtain information as to my late husband's service - & recd for answer from them - that said Jonathan Emmons drew a pension by the evidence of Benjamin Furnas formerly of Greenwich Mass. now of Jamaica Vermont & that he said Furnas knew all about my husband's service (as well as of Emmons's) as to what length of time he served when & where &c - whereupon I wrote to said Furnas for his deposition (with directions to the P.M. at Jamaica to return the letter with an answer if said Furnas was not living - knowing that he was very aged) & recd from said P.M. the said letter with an answer that said Furnas had been dead about a year - & said Powers & Town also wrote that they believed Joseph Ransdell of Landuskey Bay & Mr. Furnas could tell all about my husband's service - they did not know certain where said Ransdell & Mr. Furnas lived (if alive) but thought said Benjamin Furnas could tell where they did live - & I have written to said Joseph Ransdell at Landuskey Bay for his deposition have & recd no answer from him - & know not whether he is alive or not - & as near as I can recollect my late husband was in the service of his country near nine months - besides the time of making guns & shovels -
I have directed my Attorney to send on to the Commissioners of Pensions at Washington all the

letters - recd relative to my case (Stephen Towns & John Towns - & letter to Benjamin Furness - returned by Postmaster at Jamaica Vt.) thinking that by so doing & making this affidavit I should be able to obtain my pension - I understand that said Jonathan Emmons when he drew his pension lived in Londonderry Windham County Vermont & died in 1826 - This was the same Jonathan Emmons that was in the service with my husband.
Sarah Glendick
State of Vermont } At Lunenburg in said Essex County ss } County this 14 th day of November Anno Domini 1838 personally appeared Mirah Hendrick a person well known to be of good repute for truth & veracity & made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by her subscribed contains the truth & nothing but the truth.
Before me M.S. Chandler Justice of Peace State of Vermont
Essex County ss } I William Gates Clerk of the County Court in and for the County of Essex aforesaid, do hereby certify that Mirah S. Chandler Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit of Sarah Hendrick was taken and sworn to & whose name is subscribed to the above certificate is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Essex duly commissioned & qualified & that his name thereunto subscribed is genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County and subscribed my name this 15 th day of Novr A.D. 1838
Wm Gates Clerk

The the undersigned hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the Widow Sarah Hendrick of this town and consider her character for truth and veracity to be good and unquestionable.
Sunbury Vermont Nov. 14 th 1833.
My Gates Clerk to Court
Theron Webb M.D.
George W. Gates Post Master
Asaiah Webb Jr
Lair Bunker
Asaiah Bunker
Wendell Gilby
Peter Johnson Jr
M.S. Chandler Just Peace
Jacob Emerson
Sonah Brooks
Sonah Brooks Jr
Norris W. Chandler
Jeremiah Glines, Minister of the town
C. H. Brooks
John H. Hartshorn
Sam l Gates

Thom Shinn St. Joseph's
My dear Sir, I have been thinking about you and your kindly words. I hope you are well and hope to hear from you soon.
I have been thinking about you and your kindly words. I hope you are well and hope to hear from you soon.
I have been thinking about you and your kindly words. I hope you are well and hope to hear from you soon.
I have been thinking about you and your kindly words. I hope you are well and hope to hear from you soon.

State of Vermont
Effingham ss. On this 11th day of November A.D. 1837 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Effingham personally appeared Susannah Hinman of Tunkins in said County who upon her oath declares and says, that she is in the sixty ninth year of her age and that she lived in New Salem in said County formerly, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts from infancy until she was about thirty years of age. She well recollects that it was said and generally understood that Joseph Hinckley (formerly Joseph Hinckley Jr) was married to Sarah Townsend an inhabitant of said New Salem. She thinks it was in the summer of A.D. 1774. that they were married by Samuel Kendall the then Minister of the Congregational Church in said Town. She recollects more about it from the fact that her Cousin (who married a Cousin of said Sarah Townsend) about the same time having been at the wedding & talked about it in her father's family. She further says that Sarah Townsend, James Hinckley, Sarah's Brother and Rachel Crosby are the only ones as she then understood present at the marriage except the married couple's parents who have all since deceased as she has understood and believes. She further says that said Hinckley's house was burnt in a few months after the marriage of said Hinckley and that it was reported that all his papers and records were burnt & everything he had at the same time. She further says that said Hinckley & his wife said Sarah lived together as man & wife in a respectable manner until she left said New Salem which was after having resided there thirty years as aforesaid that said Hinckley afterwards removed to Limerick aforesaid where the Deponent has heard ever since she left New Salem that said Hinckley lived in said Limerick until his decease with his said wife and brought up several respectable children that he died at said Limerick in the year A.D. 1826. and that said Sarah his wife aforesaid has ever since his death remained a widow. Further says she always understood that said Hinckley was out in the Revolutionary War.
Subscribed and sworn to before me. Infarora (Hinman) on the day and year first above written. Titus Smith Justice

Essex County ss. November Eleventh A.D. 1837. I hereby Certify that I have long been acquainted with Susannah Kimsey, who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declarations and that she is a credible and reliable witness. Titus Smith Justice Peace
State of Vermont Essex County ss. I William Gates Clerk of the County Court in and for the said County of Essex do hereby Certify that Titus Smith Esq. before me having the foregoing affidavit read to him and being thoroughly acquainted with the facts of the state thereof a just bill of the same in and for the said County of Essex do hereby certify and that the same has been subscribed and sworn to before me this 27th day of November A.D. 1837. Wm Gates Clerk.
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I John Towne of Danne in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy five years. on oath depose and say that I was intimately acquainted with Mr Joseph Hendrick late of Livingstone & State of Vermont deceased. said Hendrick lived in the Towne of Guilford & what is now Danne before and at the time of the Revolutionary War, and since said War, to the time he moved to said Vermont. which was as I think Danne eighteen or twenty years since. I remember said Hendrick was serving as a soldier at Dorchester in 1776 and as I think under Capt Joseph Harker, he was gone some eight months in that Service and as he then served at Dorchester near Boston that length of time I well remember his going; his absence & return. he was very Patriotick and engaged in that War, I lived near him and was much there at the time! I also understood from him at that or about the time of the taking of Burgoyne that he was in that Service and took a part in that event in 1777. under said Capt Joseph Harker. the exact time I cannot say but know he was gone some months in that years Service, & as he said in the State of New York, and served as Sergeant there. I know where he went, that he was absent, & when he returned; his Widow Sarah Hendrick I understand is now living in said Livingstone in Vermont. I was acquainted with her her name was Sarah Townsend before she married said Hendrick.  John Towne  Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss. May 18. th 1842. Then there was named John Towne personally appeared and made

I solemnly call to the truth of the within Deposition by him Subscribed, and further certify that the said John Tabor is a man of true and good moral character.
Lebanon in way Justice of the Peace
I am well acquainted with Lebanon Marcy Esq. and with his hand writing. I know him to be an acting Justice of the Peace for the county of Hampshire Massachusetts, and believe the above to be his signature
Washington City, O. M. Baker, Member of May 24. 1842 } the House of Reps.

I Stephen Powers of Onset in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, aged Seventy nine years, on a date before said day that I was well acquainted with Joseph Hendrick from the time of my youth, until the time he moved from Onset to the State of Vermont, which was I should think some forty or fifty years since; I was in company with him during the Revolutionary Service, and lived near him during that War, he served then in the Eighth Regiment at Dorchester, and near Boston in Seventeen hundred and Seventy six. I am able to designate the year by the circumstance that it was the year after Bunker Hill Battle; I cannot tell the Regiment or Captain but believe the Capt was Capt Joseph Hooker, who has since moved many years. I was not in this Service with Mr Hendrick but came knowing to his going, his absence and return and often heard him relate his Service I used to work for him and think I did while he was absent this time I believe he was absent eight months. He was very much engaged in his feelings & time in that Service. I also declare and say that he went as an orderly sergeant as I understood and served in the State of New York about 1777 and was in the Service at the Taking of Burgayne and was in this Service three or four months; this I know from what he said and from his going, absence, & return, I think I laboured for him this time and well remember these facts. I understood Hooker was the Capt in this Service, said Hooker then lived near me & I was acquainted with him.

I was knowing to said Hendrick moving to the State of Vermont some years ago with his wife Sarah: who is now living as is said in the Town of Linnungham State of Vermont and as of the Hendrick is deceased as it is said
Stephen Sourens Hampshire County ss Be it known that on this eighteenth day of May A.D. 1842 personally appeared the above named Stephen Sourens, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed before me Liban Mary Justice of the Peace And I further certify that the said Sourens is a man of truth and good moral character
Liban Mary Justice of Peace
I am well acquainted with Liban Mary Esq who has subscribed himself as a magistrate above - He is an acting Justice of the Peace for the county of Hampshire, Mass. I know his hand writing well and believe the above to be his signature - Washington City } May 24. 1842 }
Asa M. Baker Member of the Ho. of Reps.

May 24-1842
OZ.
St. Paul Minn. Terr.
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Washington City
Tuesday morning May 24 th 1842
James L. Edwards Esq -
Sir enclosed is the affidavits of Stephen Powers and John Laurens to be used in the case of Sarah Hendrick Widow of Joseph Hendrick of Vermont - her papers were presented by Mr Williams Representative in Congress from N. H. four or five years ago - under the act of 1836 Three months and ten days in 1777 as Orderly Sergeant is said to satisfactorily prove - and it is stated that Joseph Hendrick served as limit, three months at Dorchester (supposed in 1778 under Capt Adams -
I did not receive the enclosed affidavits until last evening - If practicable I should wish the case examined this day so that I may get ready to leave for my home tomorrow -
Respectfully Yours John Kimball
Kimball P.W.

E. Alvord Coleman
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John Farns Officiant

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Franklin County ss. On this tenth day of August A. D. 1837, before me the subscriber a justice of the peace within and for said county of Franklin, personally appeared John Town of Dana in the county of Worcester in said Commonwealth, who upon his oath declared and says, that he is in the seventieth year of his age, and has always lived in that part of said town of Dana which was formerly Greenfield, and has always lived as a neighbour to Lieut. Joseph Kendrick, formerly Joseph Kendrick (Junr.) late of said Dana, and that it was said and understood, that said Kendrick was married to Sarah Downend of New Salem sometime in the year 1774- and that he is certain from his own knowledge, that they lived together as man and wife in the year 1775, and always afterward, lived respectably as man and wife so long as they lived in said Dana, formerly Greenfield, which was for nearly forty years- and that the said Joseph Kendrick had the reputation of having been a soldier of the revolution, in the neighbourhood in which he resided, and that he remembers that the said Kendrick was absent from home for a considerable period, and he believes for nine months at one time, and as was then understood in the army- and that the said Kendrick has since told him that he was out nine months, and that he, Kendrick, commanded the company in the battle at "Bernis heights" in the absence of his captain from sickness. John Town Subscribed and sworn to, before me, on the day and year first above written,
William Whitaker justice of the peace
Franklin County ss. Aug. 10. 1837. I hereby certify, that I have long been acquainted with John Town, who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, and that he is a credible & disinterested witness.
William Whitaker, justice of the peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Franklin County ss. on the 22 day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, before me the subscriber a justice of the peace within and for said county, personally appeared Stephen Powers of Priest in the county of Hampshire, who on his oath declared, that he is in the sixty fourth year of his age, and has from his infancy been acquainted with Joseph Hendrick, formerly Joseph Hendrick junr. late of Dana, in the county of Worcester, formerly of Greenfield in the county of Hampshire, and well remembers that the said Hendrick was absent from home, and said to be in the army during the revolutionary war, and he thinks during the years 1776 and 1777, and he says that the said Hendrick was a married man previous to his being in the army, the fact he is certain of, from the circumstance that he the said declarant worked for, and boarded with the said Hendrick, a considerable time previous to his going into the army. —
Stephen Powers
Subscribed and sworn to, before me, the day and year first above written,
William Whitaker, Justice of the Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Franklin County ss. I hereby certify, that Stephen Powers, who has subscribed the foregoing declaration, with whom I am well acquainted, sustains a good character for truth. Aug. 10. 1837. —
William Whitaker Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The undersigned clerk of the Superior Court of the Commonwealth for the county of Franklin, do hereby certify, that William Whitaker Esq. before whom the two annexed affidavits for perjury have been made and sworn to, is a Justice of the peace for said county duly commissioned and qualified; and that his name subscribed to the several certificates subjoined to said affidavits is in his proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court the eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty
E. Alvord Clerk

Papers relating to
Mr. Hemenway
Previously entered
See No. 3235
act of July 1836
Hon. James S. Edwards Com. of Pensions Washington City D.C.
care of J. W. Williams
M.C.
J. Scamper
Lunenburg Vt.
Hon. J. W. Williams H.R.

Simsbury Vt. Nov 15. 1858.
Hon. J. S. Edwards.
Dear Sir -
As the Atty. & at the request of the Widow Sarah Hendrick of this town I have enclosed to you her affidavit & letters recd relative to her case & all papers supposed to be necessary to substantiate her claim. The Widow has taken this course as the last resort - having used every effort to obtain evidence of her deceased husband's service - and failing to obtain the same on account of the decease of the material witnesses - who were knowing to the whole of the said Joseph Hendrick's services in the revolutionary war. You will see by the letter enclosed what Stephen Buers & John Town write about Benjamin Farnsworth - & that said Farnsworth has been dead a year or more & that the Wid. has sent to Joseph Ramsdell at Sandusky Bay Ohio - for his deposition - but has heard nothing from him - (though she sent the letter about 2 months ago) & knows not whether he is alive or not - or whether he lives at Sandusky or not - Jonathan Emmons if living could have given sufficient testimony to substantiate the claim - for he served good part of his time with said Hendrick. You wrote me in yours of Sept 24. 1858 - that you could not find Jonathan Emmons's name on the rolls of the Massachusetts pension agency - I was mistaken about his residence - said Emmons was formerly of Greenwich Mass. but moved to Londonderry Windham Co. Vermont - & you will find his name on the Vermont pension roll - Windham County - a private of the

Massachusetts cont'd line - pension commencing April  June 20. 1818 - & died July 25. 1826 - & you will recollect that said Emmons drew his pension by the testimony of Benjamin Turner deceased. - said Joseph Hendrick was well off as to property when Emmons drew his pension - or he would have drawn his as well as Emmons's - The Widow Hendrick is now very poor & needy - & it is hoped that after due examination of all the evidence & papers sent in - she will obtain (what certainly seems to be her just & legal right) her pension.
Very Respectfully Your Humble Servant
Hon. J. S. Edwards -
John Dean Jr
N.B. I have written to the Secretary of State of Massa- chusetts to have him search the Massachusetts rolls & if possible find the names of Joseph Hendrick and Jonathan Emmons - & what captain or captain's said Hendrick served under in Massachusetts & what colonel or colonels &c - & have recd for answer from said Secretary that "The name of Hendrick does not appear in any of the books - Nor that of Emmons who is said to have served with him."
J. Dean Jr
Please examine the pension rolls & see if can find the name of Joseph Ramsdell - he enlisted as a Massachusetts soldier & served there & in New York - & if this last undertaking should fail please write me where Joseph Ramsdell lives now - if alive - if his name can be found - also if Simeon Cannon is on the rolls & so write &c -

Sunday m Sept 11th
John
for at
Hon. J. L. Edwards Comm. Decisions Washington City D.C.

Concord, Vermont Sept. 5. 1858.
By Hon. J. L. Edwards.
Dear Sir,
The widow Sarah Hendrick of this Town is now endeavouring to obtain a pension in right of her deceased husband Joseph Hendrick (J) formerly of Greenwich Mass. (now Dana) who died in this Town some 11 years since - she says her late husband served his country in the revolutionary war upwards of six months - besides the time he was employed in making guns & shovels for the army - which making guns & shovels I suppose will not benefit her any as to a pension - It seems that Mr Titus Bell made some effort for her last fall or winter - to obtain other evidence sufficient to draw a pension - & you wrote back to him that there was but some two or three months actual service proved - under our acts - (that the making guns & shovels for the army would not avail any thing). There is now a fair prospect of obtaining evidence sufficient to draw a pension - (that is 6 months) service or over is expected to be proved with what has already been proved) - Now Sir - the object of my writing this letter to you is to find out how much service to a day has been proved (as I am not informed exactly by the widow how much has been proved) and whether you have satisfactory evidence of her marriage

ve (which I believe has been proved) & how much proof favourable to her case has been sent you - so that we may know how much more & what proof will be necessary to obtain the pension which she is undoubtedly entitled to. From information which we have recd lately within a few days I think we shall be able to obtain sufficient evidence as to the time of service - will you please write me soon a statement of all & what evidence you have recd as to the Joseph Hendrick pension case - & thereby confer a great favour - all the old men of Hendricks acquaintance call him Lieut. Joseph Hendrick - but I suppose before he entered the ser- he was a town militia Lieutenant & not an army Lieut. (perhaps your rolls will show). It seems one Jonathan Emmons formerly of Greenwich Massachusetts (now deceased) - drew a pension a number of years ago - when Hendrick was living - & that Hendrick served several months with Emmons. but could not then draw a pension because he was worth too much property - we now expect to obtain evidence sufficient - let me expect to hear from you soon as to the case -
Hon. J. L. Edwards -
With much respect Your very humble servant John Dean Jr

John Lihander Affidavit

State of Vermont
Essex County S.S. on this twenty seventh day of November A.D. 1837 before me the undersigned a justice of the peace within and for said County of Essex personally appeared John Chandler of Sturtevant in said Essex County who upon his oath declares and says that he is in his fifty fifth year of his age and has lived in said Town of Sturtevant about thirty years that he was well acquainted with Joseph Henebuck (formerly Joseph Henebuck Jr) who in the same neighbourhood, was at his funeral wrote his will. Thinks said Henebuck moved into said Sturtevant about the year A.D. 1820. that they said Henebuck and his wife Sarah Henebuck lived in said Sturtevant together as man & wife in a respectable manner until his said Henebuck's death which I think was about the year A.D. 1826. and that said Sarah Henebuck has remained a widow ever since her husband said Henebuck's death of which this fact I know for she has ever since said Henebuck's death lived in my neighbourhood.
Subscribed and sworn to before me on the day and year first above written John Chandler
Titus Snell Justice of the Peace
Essex County S.S. November 27. A.D. 1837 I hereby certify that I have long been acquainted with John Chandler who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration and that he is a credible and disinterested witness.
Titus Snell Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont } William Gates the clerk of Essex County ss. } the County Court in and for said County of Essex do hereby certify that Peter Snell Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken and sworn to is and was on the day of the date thereof a justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that his name thereunto subscribed is his genuine signature —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 27th day of Novr AD 1837.
Wm Gates Clerk.

Jay H. Hendricks
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Chicopee Falls, Mass. Aug. 12, 1915, No. 1 Dept of the Interior, Rev Sec Bureau of Pensions.
Dear Sir.
Will you kindly inform me if Joseph Hendrick received a pension. He enlisted I think from Greenwich, Mass and died in Lunenburg Vt. about 1826.
Did his wife here Sarah

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a pension after his death. Do your records show his or her heirs. (children) When and where did she die.
Thanking you I remain yours
Respectfully, Chas. T. Hendrick. Christopher Falls Mass.
No. 1. Theodore St.

STATE of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY. }
The Major Part of the COUNCIL of Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England.
To Joseph Hendrick Junr. Gentleman. Greeting.
YOU being appointed Second Lieutenant of the 12th Company (Commanded by Capt. Isaac Pownall) in the Fourth Regiment of Militia in the County of Hampshire; whereof Eliza Bates Esq. is Colonel
Gen: Pownall Artemas Ward Caleb Cushing Guber Fisher Moses Gibbs B. White B. Russell H. G. Linn
By Virtue of the Power vested in us, WE do by these Presents, (reposing special Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty, Courage and good Conduct,) Commission you accordingly.—You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a 2 nd Lieut. in leading, ordering, and exercising said Company in Arms; both Inferior Officers and Soldiers; and to keep them in good Order and Discipline: And they are hereby commanded to obey you as their Second Lieutenant and you are yourself, to observe and follow such Orders and Instructions as you shall from Time to Time receive from
the Major part of the Council, or your Superior Officers
Dan d Davis J. Hopkins Isaac Danyel Oliver Peabody Sam d Niles Sam d Baker D. Miller Oliver Wendell
G I V E N under our Hands, and the Seal of the said State, at Watertown the sixteenth Day of June. in the Year of our LORD, 1778.
Ordered By the Command of the Major Part of the Council.
Jn. Avery Secy