Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4321, Henry Hambright, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
Hambright, Henry
S 4321
CONTENTS

3687
Pennsylvania
Henry Hambright
of Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania who was an Adj t Capt in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg t commanded by Col Moore in the Pennsylvania line for Adj t & Capt in _____ $ 480.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 480 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of Dec r . 1832 and sent to Hon ble Wm Hirst House Reps.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 _____ $720.00 Semi-ann t . allowance ending 4 March 1833 240.____ $960.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Not June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Viral Luce Clerk Book D Vol. 6 Page 61

Died 2 o March 1835. See Army Navy Register - paid to 4 March 1835. See letter to Sec. of War Dec. 23. 1835 - do. to P. Aqf. May 20. 1836 do. to same May 25. 1836 - do. to Hon. W. Heister H. R. June 22. 1836 - do. to same June 23. 1836 - do. to Sec. of War June 25. 1836 - do. to same 6 July 1836 - see letter 23 Sept. 1836 to J. Galt & P. Aqf. do. to Hon. T. H. Crawford, Oct. 15. 1844 -

In the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County and State of Pennsylvania.
Lancaster County ss.
On this twenty first day of August A.D. One thousand eight hundred & thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Common Pleas of the County & State aforesaid now sitting. Henry Hainright Esquire a resident & a Justice of the Peace in and for the Township of Earl & County & State aforesaid, aged eighty one years on the eleventh day of April last past, 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 the 7 th of June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named Officers & served as therein stated.
In the month of April 1776 the Militia of Lancaster County under the command of Col. A. Shipp, with whom he serv- ed as Adjutant of his Regiment, were ordered to the City of Philadelphia, where they remained until some time in the month of May following, when the enlistment of One thousand men, out of the County of Lancaster being authorized, he received on the 14 th of September 1777 his Commission, as "Captain of a Company of Foot of Lancaster County, in the Flying Camp for the Middle States of America." signed by Benjamin Franklin President of the Convention for the State of Pennsylvania, and which is now with himself. Having enlisted eighty three men, he received orders to march to Trenton, thence to Princeton,

Thence to Brunswick & finally to Port Amboy, where they remained subject to the orders of Col. McBride of Philadelphia, until formed into a regiment under Col. Jacob Glatz, when they encamped for several weeks under the command of General Mercer of Virginia.
About the latter end of September of the same year, Genl. Mercer order twelve hundred men (with whom applicant served) over to Staten Island, where they took the British by surprise near Cockle town & having killed a number of them returned with nineteen prisoners to Amboy, from which after which they were ordered by Genl. Washington to Fort Lee. On the 12 th of November following Genl. Mercer, who commanded Fort Washington applied to Genl. Washington for aid - four hundred men were sent to his assistance, and being one of the oldest captains, this applicant recd. the command of one hundred of the men. Fort Washington having surrendered to the British on the 16 th of Nov r this applicant, with the other prisoners, was marched to New York and in May following was transferred Flatbush & remained a prisoner of war until exchanged on the 14 th of November 1780 when he returned to his residence as aforesaid where he has continued ever since to reside -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open Court - Henry Hambright Chas. Bachman Clerk.
At the same time & place personally appeared Michael Young who being duly affirmed according to law saith, that from his personal knowledge the facts set forth in the foregoing declaration of Henry Hambright Esq r are just & true.
affirmed & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open Court Michael Young Chas. Bachman Clerk.

No 6356
Pennsylvania
Wm Hester
Adm
$480 per a

BRIEF in the case of Henry Hambright of Earl County of Lancaster 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? 81  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.     Apr In 1776 1 Adjutant Gen. Col. Grubb   Sept 14 1778 entered the service remained till exchanged 14th Nov 1780 Captain Col Moore & Hays, Genl Meade, Genl Mercer  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Fort Washington  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Lancaster Pennsylvania  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living & Traditional & Documentary  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Jas McMinn Examining Clerk.

23 rd Dec - 1835.
Car of Henry Hambright Suit directed to be brought for the recovery of the money.
Papers forwarded to H. O'Gilepi M. S. Atty.
Phila. 8 th Jan y 1836 - he has not repeated his proceeding but - they will probably be both civil & criminal 

Rev Han
4321
INVALID
File No. 4321
Henry Hambright Capt. Pa. Line
Act: June 7, '62
Index:—Vol. A , Page 158
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Girard Bank
Philad. a May 23 1836
Sir
Your letter of the 20 th Inst. in answer to mine of the 16 th to the Hon. Secretary of War, together with a copy of yours to him of the 23 rd Decem r . last is received.
I am still at a loss to know whether your letter intends that the payment of $240 made by me for Henry Houghton's pension, is to be considered as allowed in my Accounts at the Treasury. In my letter to the Second Comp troller , under date of December 14 th 1835 accompanied by the voucher & explanation of the Magistrate, I wished to know if the explanation would be satisfactory as soon as his convenience would permit, that "I might lose no time in taking proper steps for the recovery of the amount."
I conceive that if the Solicitor of the Treasury does, or has already instituted the suit, suggested in your letter to the Secretary of War for this amount my account should at once be credited for it, the absence of the voucher from the Comp troller 's Office notwithstanding. Will you be pleased to inform me whether I am

to consider your letter then of the 20th as a sufficient document for the Comptroller in allowing the amount in question; if not I must take the proper steps to have the amount refunded.
I am very respectfully Your Obedt Servant J. W. Schott Pres
J. S. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington.

5371.
18 May 1836. Pension Office
Henry Hambright P.M. Act 1832
3687

Girard Bank
Philadelphia May 16. 1836
Hon Lewis Cass Secretary of War Washington Dear Sir
On the 26 March 1835 there was paid at this Bank the Pension of Henry Sam- bright a pensioner of Act of June 7. 1832. for Six months pension to 4 March 1835 being 240 Dollars.
This Payment was suspended at the Treasury for the following reason endorsed on the Voucher by the 3 d Auditor & returned to me in statement of pension Accounts for 1 st Qr 1835 viz. "The pens- "ioner in his former Voucher having wrote his name "and in this he made his mark, and in the Navy " & Army Register he is stated to have died on "the second of March 1835" "for explanation"
An explanation was rec d by me of Dec 11. 1835 from Roland Diller Esq y the Magistrate before whom the Voucher was executed, & forwarded with the Voucher to the Second Comptroller on the 14 Dec 1835. This Voucher & Explanation is acknowledged to have been received by him as appear by his letter of 21 Dec. stating that they are refered to the Secretary of War

For his decision thereon. Not having heard of them since I accordingly charged the voucher (again, in my accounts for the 4th. qtr of 1835, and it is again suspended for the reason that the voucher has not been found in the 3 d Compt- roller's Office. I would respectfully request that you will please give the necessary opinion required by the 3 d Comptroller respecting the allowance of this voucher, & transmit said voucher either to him or to me as early as your convenience will permit.
I have the honor to be Sir, ever respectfully Yours Obedt Servt Jas Schott Pndg

June 25. Can of H o Hembright pd.
James L. Edwards Esq. Pension Office Washington H. H. Heiler HN

Washington June 23 d 1836
James L. Edwards Esquire
Sir,
In reply to your note of this day, I here state, that I am intimately and well acquainted with Roland Billings Esquire and Anthony P. Roberts of Lancaster County Penn., the persons through whose agency a pension for Gen. Henry Wambright, late of the aforesaid County and State due d , was irregularly drawn at the Phil. Pension agency - And that I know them to be gentlemen of the strictest integrity and honesty, and who are utterly incapable of having designed a fraud on the Government in the drawing and paying over to the heirs of said deceased, the aforesaid pension.
I have the honor to be very Resp t yours &c
Wm Hester "

July 2. Mrs. Hambrecht D. R. Dole
Dear J. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Girard Bank Phila d  th Jan 30 1836
Sir
Agreeably to the request of Roland Diller Esq of New Holland, Lancaster County Pennsylvania, I have to inform you that he has this day refunded to me $240 being amount paid for Henry Hambrigt's pension to 4 March 1835. by me, and which payment was suspended at the Treasury in settlement of my Accounts for the first quarter of 1835.
I am Respectfully Your Obed t Servant J. R. G. Mott Bds
J. S. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington

In CONVENTION for the STATE of PENNSYLVANIA.
To Henry Hambright Gentleman Sept r the 14 th 1776 at North Amboy
WE reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be captain of a company of Foot of Lancaster County
in the Flying Camp for the Middle State of America, for the Protection of the said States against all hostile Enterprizes, and for the Defence and establishing of American Liberty. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of captain as aforesaid 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 receive from the Convention during their Sessions, from the Government now establishing, or from the Council of Safety for this State, or any other your superior Officers, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by the Government now establishing for this State, the Council of Safety, or by this or any succeeding Convention.
By Order of the Convention, B. Franklin Presid t

Henry Heartbright
No 6356.

Lancaster County Pa.
I William Hester residing in the village of New Holland in County & State aforesaid, hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Henry Hambright Esq d who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; and that I believe him to be eighty one years of age & past; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed in open Court } the day & year aforesaid.
Wm Hester
Christ. Bachman Prothon.
And the said Court of Common Pleas 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 applicant was a revolutionary officer & served as he states. And the Court further certifies that William Hester, a member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the County aforesaid & who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident of the village of New Holland as then stated & is a credible person & that his statement is entitled to credit. The Court further certifies that there is no clergyman who lives in the immediate vicinity of said applicant. The Court would further certify that Frederick Hege

The Certificate herewith annexed, drawn on his own hand writing, and sworn to the same before Roland Diller Esq d a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of State aforesaid, is a record in the village of New Holland and is a credible person this Statute act is entitled to credit.
Walter Franklyn
Sam d Dale
John Lightner
I Christian Bachman Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of State aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Hambright Esq d , for a pardon.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this 21 st day of August A.D. 1832
Ch st Bachman Protho.

new Holland Pa Sep. 18
Free
Sept 21
H. H. Harkness
James
J. S. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

New Holland, Lancaster County Penn pa September 17 th 1836-
J. S. Edwards Esq r ,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir, Henry Hambright a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the act of 7 June 1832, died on the 2 nd March 1835 leaving a widow, and children by a former wife, and no children by his widow. After the widow had taken some steps to recover the arrears of pension due from 4 th September 1834 to the time of her husband's death on the 2 nd March 1835 but before executing the necessary papers for the purpose and before the receiving the money, she died, having first and after the death of her husband, made a will and testament in writing appointing me her executor, which will and testament has since her death been proved in due form of law.
The officers of the pension agency in Philadelphia (the Girard Bank) are of opinion that the arrears of Pension did not vest in the widow, in such manner as to entitle her executor to receive it, but that it belongs to the Pensioner's children and in consequence refuse to pay it over to me as the executor of the widow. This opinion I am advised by able counsel is erroneous. Yours

Your opinion and decision upon the subject is respectfully requested in such form as to be by me delivered to the officers of the Bank and control them in their payment.
Respectfully
John Galt
Constitutional a legal... John Galt... 1832... and children... to recover the interest of pension... and after the death of her husband... and testament in writing appointing her... her death been paid in due form of law. The officers of the pension agency in Philadelphia (the First Bank) are of opinion that the amount of pension due her is not in the nature of a debt... and in consequence refuse to pay it... the executor of the will. This opinion I am advised by the counsel is correct.

At the request of Henry Hambright of Ber- -township, in the County of Lancaster, Penn: Esquire - I Fredrik Seeger of the Village of New-Holland, in the Town- -ship, County, and State aforesaid, do Certify - That in the Spring of the Year A. D: 1780 - I came to reside in the said Village, where then and there Mrs Hambright - the Wife of this applicant with a male Child resided - Upon enquiry, he understood - that her said Husband was an Officer in the Flying Camp, had been taken a prisoner at the Taking and surrender of Fort-Washington on York Island - After a short time of my residence at said Village - the said Hen: Hambright came home - on parole to see his Family, but shortly after was - demanded, and ordered, to surrender himself at his post - when after some short absence, he returned to the bosom of his Family duly exchanged - he then settled - in the Township, and County aforesaid, in business, where he continued ever since, and served several respectable Civil and Military appointments. In Conclusion I aver, that - the facts stated, are substantially true.
F. Seeger aged 82 pages ad
To whom it may concern.
New-Holland 15 th July 1832

Lancaster County ss.
Personally appeared before me at his residence in the Township of New Holland & County aforesaid, on the 11 th day of August 1832, who being duly sworn Frederick Seeger according to Law saith that the facts set forth in the within certificate are true to the best of his knowledge.
Sworn & subscribed before me this 11 th day of August 1832 a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Lancaster Roland Diller
Frederick Seeger
I Christian Bachman Esq. Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Lancaster that Roland Diller Esq. the person before whom the preceding affidavit was made is a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Lancaster & State of Pennsylvania & that the signature annexed is his genuine signature. Witness my hand & seal of office this 21 day of August 1832 - C. Bachman
I certify that the foregoing knowledge of the respectability of Frederick Seeger Esq. who has given the within deposition, I subscribe it to be worthy of full credit - Witness my hand the 29 th day of Dec. 1832 J. H. Hostetter