Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5233, Isaac Horner, New Jersy

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Horner, Isaac. Zilpha
R. 5 232
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No 27283 Isaac Kernu at in act 7 June 1832
Virginia. Henrico county
I, 27283, do hereby certify that the within is a true copy of the original now on file in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and that the same has been compared with the original and found to be a true and correct copy thereof. The foregoing copy has been attested by me this 28th day of August A.D. 1849.
Stephen

State of Virginia } Monongahela County } ss
On this 13 day of August 1849 Before me James Wise a Justice of the peace in for the above County & State Personally Appeared Zilpha Horner aged 92 who being duly sworn acco- rding to Law declared on oath that she makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the acts of Congress passed June 17 th 1832 under husbands account up to his death Feby 4 th 1849 aged 94 act of Feby 2 d 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War That she is the widow of Isaac Horner who served as a Drummer & Blacksmith in the State of New Jersey that he resided near New Market N.J. that the said Isaac Horner served as a Militia man under Capt Phillip Snapp after 18 months at two different times that he was in several skirmishes and at the Battles of Monmouth & Princeton that she has no docu- mentary evidence to substantiate her claim or any other evidence than her own knowledge and traditional together with what her husband has told her & others that knew him in the service That she was married to the said Isaac Horner at Pennytown N.J. in April 1786 that she has had by her husband Isaac Horner 11 eleven children 9 now living viz Nathan Charles, Jacob John Eunice Isaac Zilpha William and Joseph Eldest age 62 the youngest 40 that she lived with her husband about 63 years that she resided near the line of Monongahela and Wetzel in Wetzel that she is not able to attend court on account of the distance 30 miles to Martinsville that it is more convenient for her to have the business done in Monongahela County that she is carried in a chair \frac{1}{2} mile over the line to meet the Justice that she desires her name to be entered on the pen- -on Rolls that she has resided where she now resides about 39 years and near the Battle of Dunkard about 50 years that she is now a widow
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as it will appear by the annexed proof
Witness present S.S. Barnes
James Wise Nehemiah his son
Zilpha her Horn Mark {seal}
Sworn and subscribed before me this 13 day of August 1849. I do hereby further certify that I have been personally acquainted with the all of the persons named in the above declaration more than 20 years and have full confidence in all of the facts set forth that they are true and further that it is the general opinion of all of the old settlers that the said Isaac Horn served in the revolutionary war as stated in the declaration of his widow Zilpha Horn and that in consequence of her great age and infirm condition I have met her and administered the oath in the above county for reasons set forth in her declaration.
James Wise {seal}
Justice of the peace and one of the Justices of Co Court
State of Virginia Monongahela County S.S.
On this 13 day of August 1849 Before me James Wise a Justice of the peace in and for the above county and state personally appeared William Cotton aged 69 years an old and respectable resident of the above county who being sworn according to declared on oath that he has been personally acquainted with the applicant Zilpha Horn and her husband Isaac Horn for about 50 or 60 years that they had the children named in the declaration that their marriage was never questioned that he has often heard his father James Cotton and said Horn talk on the subject that they were both in the war and belonged to New Jersey that he fully believes the facts set forth in the above declaration are true that she is a now a widow
William Cotton {seal}
Sworn and subscribed before me this 13 day of August 1849.
James Wise {seal}
Justice of the peace

State of Virginia } Monongahela County } 39
On this 14 th day of Aug t 1849 Before me John B Lough a Justice of the Peace within and for the above county and State personally appeared Jacob Horner aged about 60 years a respectable citizen of the above county who being duly sworn declared on oath that he is the son of Isaac and Zilpha Horner the within applicant, and that he has often heard his father say that he served as a drummer in the Revolution that he has heard Benjamin Mr Maple (who was a prisoner) that he heard his father to be in the service & that he was a drummer that he was at the Battles of Monmouth & Princeton that he was under Capt Shanks thinks he was in more than 18 months, and that previous to his entering the army he (Isaac) and his father had a Brigade of horses and for which they received a certificate to that effect which certificate was in the family many years but now is not to be found the certificate was all the pay that he received that his father once applied for a pension through 2 men that proved to be Rogues & were arrested and he would never after apply that his father died Feb y 4 th 1849 aged 94 years
Jacob Horner seal
Sworn and subscribed before me this 14 th day of August 1849
John B Lough seal
Justice of the Peace
one of the Justices of County Court Monon- gahela Va

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section.
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February 24, 1927
Stafford Elizabeth H. Stafford-Ryan 4517 Regent St Philadelphia, Penn.
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. 5233, it appears that Zilpha Horner applied for pension, August 13, 1849, while residing "near the line of Monongahala", aged ninety-two years, and alleged that her husband Isaac Horner served in 1777 and 1778, as drummer and blacksmith in the New Jersey Militia, under Captain Philip Snooks, and was in the battles of Princeton and Monmouth.
Her claim was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of his services.
It also appears in said claim, that Isaac Horner married in April 1786 or the spring of 1794 at Pennytown, New Jersey, Zilpha, her maiden name is not stated. He died February 4, 1849, aged

ninety-four years. In 1854, she was living in District No. 4, Wetzel County, Virginia.
She stated that they had had eleven children, the following nine were alive in 1849- Nathan, Charles, Jacob, John, Eunice, Isaac, Zilpha, William, and Joseph. The eldest being sixty-two years old, and the youngest being forty years old.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

REJECTED
1927 Feb 24. Hish to Elizabeth H. Stafford. Paying
5233.
P. O.
Gilpha Horner
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
The printed list of 1852 shows reasons for suspension
Alleges: "For further proof and a return of the original papers"
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

No 1372
Hilpha Hainer widow of Isaac.
Va.
Hon. J. L. Dawson 19 Sept. 1854. " Let C. Moore Oct. 16/54.
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Ach 29 July 1848.

Whitely Pa Octr 12 th 1852
Sir
I left the deposition of Zepha Hoener, in care of the Hon S. L. Dawson Esq. which he has forwarded to you for inspection. The widow has several sons of very intemperate habits. She is illiterate, and fearful they make take some of advantage her. She has forwarded me a power of attorney to investigate her claim for a Pension. Mr Isaac died shortly after his deposition was taken. Would the evidence of the Justice of the County Court who qualified Isaac be of any advantage in this case. The certificate of the Clerk of the Court, I call your attention to, from the fact that it partakes of the nature of a certificate and an Affidavit. he was well acquainted with Isaac Hoener, for 20, or 30 years. Let me know as early as convenient what disposition you have made of claim. Sincere
Hon N. D. Waldo Esq
Yours &c En. Morn

Sep r 19/54
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31 Pension Office. 19 th Sept. 1854.
Sir,
The application of Hilpha Horne widow of Isaac of Virginia, has been received and filed under Act 29 th July 1848.
Isaac applied in his lifetime for a pension, but it was not grant- ed because he failed to prove his services. I enclose you a copy of a letter from this office to Mr Seymour Barnes of 30 th Oct. 1849 which will explain the condition of the claim. The date of the marriage of Isaac and Hilpha should be established by record proof either public or private - but if none such exists, it should so be certified and then parol evidence will be considered. The date of Isa- ac's death must also be proved.
Hon. John L. Dawson.
Brownsville.
Pa.

Seymour Burns Esq. 30 th Oct 1849

Pension Office
769
October 30 th 1849
Sir,
The supplemental declaration in the case of Isaac Stern with claim and, has been examined and filed under the Act of June 1832.
Isaac Stern presented a Claim in 1833 for Service alleged to have been rendered in the Militia, which was not allowed in consequence of his failure to specify the several terms in which he was engaged or to show that he served as much as 6 months. His papers were returned to his agent J. J. Newton in January 1834, they should be again filed in this Office before any further examination of his claim can be made. The papers now presented furnish no evidence of his Service.
Should the  the  enquiry be  enquiry be  able to  be  shown  shown  his  his  claim  claim be produced, before his widow  can be placed on the Pension Role, she must show to the satisfaction of this Office by record or documentary proof if such can be procured that they  they were married prior to 1894 -  Seymour Barnes Esq. Marsantown Vn

159 Tuscarora Office Oct. 16. 1854.
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 12 th inst. you are informed that the claim of Zilpha Hooper, widow of Isaac, for the benefit of the Act of July 27, 1848, was examined on the 18 th inst. and reported to the Hon. J. L. Dawson of Brownsville Pa. It remains suspended for the want of evidence the husband's of service and of the date of her marriage. If he served in the militia of New Jersey, under Capt. Peter Smookes, in the years 1817 & 1818, as alleged, evidence of his service could, pro- bably, be obtained by addressing the Secretary of the State of New Jersey, at Trenton, and stating sub- jects a station there as one known to her, under a family. The date of the marriage should be established by Record evidence. If a copy of the marriage Bond, or License cannot be produced, or evidence from some Church or Town Record,

There may be an original Family Record which would enlisten its date. If so, it should be sent to the office.
A copy of Record should also certify when Isaac Horner died. For the kind of Testimony in which its certificate should be listed see the 2 d Rejection on the accompanying printed sheet.
The deposition of Mr. Jobs referred to by you does not appear among the papers filed of Mr. Samson.
Oct 16/54
C. Moore Esq.,
Mostly, Pa.

Please place this paper on file — Ino. L. Dawson

State of Virginia County of Wetzel
On this 21 st day of August, Eighteen hundred and fifty four. Personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Justices of the County Court. Gilpha Horner, a resident of District No 4. in the County of Wetzel, aged Ninety Six years, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed the 29 th July, 1848. She declares that she is the widow of Isaac Horner, D.C., who was a musician, in Capt Phillip Sneth's Company of New Jersey Militia, for the term of Eighteen months, in the year 1777 & 1778. She further declares that she was married to the said Isaac Horner, in the Spring of 1794. That her husband, the aforesaid Isaac Horner, died on the fourth day of February 1849. that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the second of January, Eighteen hundred and 49, at the time above stated. She further swears that she is now a widow, and that her declaration has been taken
in Gilpha Horner
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me one of the Justices of the County Court, and I hereby certify that Gilpha Horner, from bodily infirmity is unable to attend court. I believe the said Gilpha Horner, to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged, in whose claim I am in wise interested.
Charles Horner Jr

State of Virginia County of Wetzel To Wit It is hereby certified that Satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me Friend 604 Clerk That Isaac Hoover was a Revolutionary Soldier of the United States and that he died on the 4 th day of February Eighteen hundred and Forty nine leaving the following named (Widow and Children) and none other To Wit: Gilpha Hoover (Widow)
It is further certified that Charles Hoover Esq before whom the proceeding affidavit was made and acknowledged was at the time of so doing a duly authorized Justice of the County Court in and for Said County and that the signature purporting to be his I believe to be genuine and further that in the within claim for a Pension I am in no degree interested. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office this Twenty Third day of August 1854
Friend 604 Clerk

Morgan Town Va Aug 29/49
Hon d Sir
Enclosed are the vouchers on which Zelpha Horna claims a pension as the widow of Isaac Horna a deceased soldier of the Revolutionary War
Very Respectfully
Hon J L Edwards Esqr Commissioner of pensions
Yr O bt Servt
Seymour Barnes

Phila Penna Jan 4/27 Pension Office Revolutionary War Dept, Washington D. C. To whom it may concern,
Dear Sirs
I am seeking information on the war record of Isaac Horner who was in the War of the Revolu- tion from New Jersey, and at the Battle of Monmouth . June 28- 1778. He applied for a pension which was rejected. (rejected no 5233). Will you please send me a copy of his pension claim ? I am interested in so much as I am a great grand daughter and desire to use this in D.A.R. matters. Thanking you &

Trusting to receive the same at your earliest commencing, I am very Respectfully
(Mrs) Elizabeth Horner Stafford-Ryan
4517 4517, Regent St Phila Penna
4517

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Horner John GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 9571 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED December 14, 1791 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.