Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 10132, John Huffman, Va

Va
Huffman John
W10132

915 Highland Ave., Bristol, Virginia.
May 27, 1932.
Department of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please let me know if you have any record of Albemarle or Louisa Co., Va where Thomas Ballard , a Revolutionary Soldier applied for pension. Also, if you have record of John Huffman , a rev- olutionary soldier from Rockbridge or Albemarle applied for pension.
Thanking you in advance for this information, I am,
Very truly yours,
(Mrs. S. Bruce, Ruth Clay Jones

RECEIVED SEP 2 1920 U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE
Mr. J. Edgar Hoover Director U.S. Department of Justice Washington, D.C.
RECORD SEP 9 1920 DIVISION
Henry

Henry
RECORD DIVISION SEP 9 1920
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Rev. Sec m. 7c 1.
Louisville Aug 4. 1920
War and Pension Department.
Please give Revolutionary record of John Huffman of Virginia
Miss Ruth A. Murray 1250 Everett Ave, Louisville, Ky

See letter 6 Sept 1823 to Miss Blocker Esq Edgefield Ct. Ho. S.C.
Mar. 1819
Sc. Carolina. (11)
John Huffman, priv from July 1780 to Jan 7. 82
1 Sched. made Oct. 1820.
Real Estate 170 acres of land — $300 —
Personal — 87 —
Total $387 — No debts given
Sched. under Act Mar. 1823. dated 2 June 1823. —
148 acres of land — $148 —
Personal property 65
Total $213
He does not account for the diminution of his land or the depreciation in value —
aged 66 yrs a Farmer wife 62 yrs both infirm. no children. —
over

John Huffman Pension Certificate

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War Department,
PENSION OFFICE, Decem r 22, 1825
SIR :
In conformity with the law of the United States, of the 1st March, 1823, authorizing the Secretary of War to restore the names of certain persons to the List of Pensioners, you are hereby notified, that your name has been this day restored to the Pension Roll of the S. Carolina Agency, and that, agreeably to the provisions of said act, your allowance, as a Pensioner, will commence from the fourteenth of Novem r 1825 , the day on which the evidence was closed upon which you obtained a restoration to the List.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
To Mr. John Huffman,
United States' Pensioner.
Care of Hon. G. M c Duffie, Hou s of Rep s .

South Carolina } Personally came before Edgefield District } me John Cogburn administrator of the estate of Jesse Cogburn who on oath declares that John Huffman who makes applica- tion for a pension is very poor and utterly unable to support himself and family by his own exertions, and he further de- clares that said Huffman is greatly indebt- ed to him as administrator aforesaid in the sum of twenty one dollars for doctors bills for attending him and wife, and for provisions for his subsistence — Sworn to before me } J. Cogburn this 14 th day of Nov. 1825
A. B. Addison J. W.
South Carolina } John Smithins Judge of the Edgefield District } Court of Ordinary for the District aforesaid do hereby certify that Mrs. B. Addison whose signature appears above is a Justice of Peace in and for the District aforesaid. Given under my hand at my Office this 15 th day of November 1825. M. Smithins Ordinary

South Carolina } Personally Came before Edgefield District } me Daniel Brunson (6) and Tandy Burkhalter who declare on oath That John Huffman is unable to support himself & family by reason of old age affliction & decrepitude & the said Dant Brunson declares the said John is indebted to him fourteen dollars 6\frac{1}{4} /100 for corn furnished him for his subsistence the summer of the present year and the said Tandy Burkhalter declares that said John Huffman is indebted to him in the sum of ten dollars and fifty cents for corn for his support in 1824
Sworn to before me this 12 th of November 1825
Daniel Brunson Tandy Burkhalter
Richard Christmas J.P.

A. R. 16 Dec 1925 (10)
Sir,
I enclose the application of Alvin Hoffman for a Penguin, with a letter from Edward Jenkins' Egg. When your Department decides upon the application, be pleased to apprise me of the result. You at last.
Everett D. Dufresne

The hon. James Parkman Esq.
Secy. of War -
Special care of the hon. Geo. A. McDuffie. -
Washington City.

Edgfield C. House S. C. 9 15. Nov. 1825.
Dear Sir,
Permit me to introduce myself once more to your remembrance, by giving you the strongest assurances of which I am capable as it regards the uncommon merit, unshaken integrity, and extreme poverty of John Hoffmann an applicant to receive the benefit of the law. pension. — You will be pleased to examine his declaration which I have drawn up very specially; and as he has been once a pensioner, and rejected under the therefor, mandatory law of May 1820 subsequently, not at all because he being a faithful revolutionary soldier was in the least questioned, but solely because he has a sterile tract of land of 148 acres, I must believe that by the declaration and by the accompanying affidavits his proposition of it is so fully explained, as that by the strictest construction the land can be no obstacle

to his receiving the pension — I well knew the excellence of his character, the power of the land, which I think he has rated at its full value , and he has pulled off his clothes and shown me the scars of the two wounds, as described in his declaration — You will see the property he owns independent of the land is as nothing , and it is proved beyond all question that if his spot of land was sold at that after paying the debts now contracted for his subsistence, nearly all in one year, and which swallows up more than half its value, the balance would not support him and his wife one six months. — I know the persons who have made affidavits of his debts and their character are above all question. — I am so sure that the old man is entitled under the most rigid construction of both acts of Congress that I am perfectly willing that this letter shall remain on file as an authenti- cation of my knowledge of the facts to which it relates, and of which it speaks.

Nothing would have induced me thus to trouble you, but the entirely of my endeavouring to aid the suffering cause of humanity and virtue —
Wishing you health and happiness
I am very truly respect- fully Yr. Ob. Servt.
Alfred M. King.
Early for Hon. James Parkhouse Secy. of War.

H. R. 21 st Decr. 1825 (12)
I certify that John Simkins, whose name, in his own hand writing, is annexed to the declaration of John Hoffmeyer, is, within my knowledge, Judge of the Court of Ordinary for Effingham District, South Carolina whose signature is annexed B. Addison, whose signature is affixed to the affidavit of John Cogburn, is a Justice of the Peace for the said Dis- trict, and that the signature of the said Allen B. Addison is in his own hand writing - George McDuffie Member of Congress in Session.

There has been no duplicate sent to the bank in Charleston for the pension of Mrs. Lucinda Huff = man. What has the department done in the claim of John Hastings & Mr. Randall. These claims were proven by two entries each
Answered

Huffman

M. R.
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19. Feby. 1839
Rev. Mr. Edwards.
Sir,
I have recd yours enclosing a certificate for Miss Carter. I have enclosed you the testimony or affidavits you requested in the case of Mrs. Puffin some time since. Mr. Blaken Mr. Puffin are all out of the very best standing. They have complied with what you required. I should like to know what you have done with the case of Mrs. Martin - John Matthews & Miss Mary Flink. I wish to be informed before I leave, the 4th of March. I have not recd the certificate for Mrs. Bellina.
Very respectfully
Yours J. H. Paken

8295 Dec 2 1845 a 4 38 2 1911
Inouia Hoffman March 3 1843
Geo. L. Edwards Esq Commrs of Pensions Washington City 22, 6
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Monroe Watton County Ga (20) November 26 th 1845
Sir
Enclosed I hand you the Declaration made by Mrs Lucery Huffman under the act of 3 March 1843 and 17 June 1844 claiming a Pension. From the tenor of her Declaration & Suppon she has received a pension under the act of 9 July 1838 in Edgefield District South Carolina, as she refers to her declara- tion and proof under that act filed. If so I presume the enclosure will be satisfactory in due form you will please return to me. at Monroe Ga
Yours Respectfully John H. Gilgore

John Huffman, (WV) Private, Revo. $8 pr. mo.
Placed on the S. Carolina roll Jan. 1819 & draft Dec. 1820.
The Pension was Restored, 22 Dec. 1825, (and Notification sent to Hon. Geo. M c Duffie, H. R.) commencing 14 Nov. 1825.

Small May 16
S.C.
Mr. W. Pickers
Hon. J. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions. Pension office Washington D.C.

Edge wood near Edgefield
9. May 1858
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Dear Sir
B. M. Blocker Esq. who prepared the origl. papers has given me the enclosed memorandum and desires the information very much. You will be kind enough to direct to B. M. Blocker Esq. Edgefield. C. R. P. Co.
I have the honor to be
very respectfully
your obedt. servt.
H. W. Pickens
To Hon. J. L. Edwards

rec d 22 Dec. 1875
Edward P. in office in Dept

H.R. 21 Dec. 1825
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Sir;
I return the papers in the case of Mr. Hoffman, with the certificate suggested in your letter.
Yours Most Sert
George Duffie

8295 Lucretia Hoff= means papers

(19) In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3 d March 1843 Granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received a pension under the act of July 9 th 1838, Also the act of the 17 th June 1844 continuing the pension of certain widows..
State of South-Carolina } Edgefield District } In the Court of Ordinary
On this the fifth day of November 1843 personally appeared before me John Rice - Esquire. Ordinary and Judge of said Court in and for the District aforesaid Lucreasy Huffman a resident of the District and State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the acts of Congress passed on the 3 d day of March 1843 and the 17 th June 1844 Granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That She is the widow of John Huffman who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution: for a narrative of his service, She refers to her declaration under the act of Congress of the 9 th July 1838

That She was married to the said John Huffman on the eighteenth day of February, Seventeen hundred and eighty five,
That the said John Huffman died on the twenty fifth day of June 1827, leaving her his widow and that She is still his widow
her Lucreasy Huffman mark
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before me. I do further certify that Mrs. Lucreasy Huffman the declarant is per- sonally known to me the testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office. This the fifth day of November 1843.
John Hill C.P.D.

(16)  South Carolina } Personally came Eady Rose before me Edgefield District } Henry Huffman one of the Justices of the Quorum in and for the District above said and Swears that She is about Sixty Seven years of age and that She has been Personally acquainted with John Huffman and Leucrotia his wife for over fifty years, that She lived in their family in the year 1790 or 1791. that they were reputed to have been man and wife and lived together as such, that they had three Children at the time She lived with them, that She always heard that John Huffman had been a Soldier in the Revolutionary war and that She was shown he drew a pension for some time before his decease that he died Seven or eight years ago and that Leucrotia his wife has lived a widow ever since
Sworn to before me January 5th 1839
H. Huffman J. U.
Eady Rose her mark
South Carolina } Personally appeared Levi Edgefield District } McDaniel before me Henry Huffman - who deposes that he has been acquainted with Eady Rose the above witness for a number of years and that he believes her a person of strict veracity and her statement entitled to full credit
Sworn to before me this 7 Jan'y 1839
H. Huffman J. U.
Levi McDaniel
South Carolina } I certify that I have been acquainted Edgefield District } with Levi McDaniel for a number of years. that he has always been regarded as a man of strict veracity, and I believe his affidavits above entitled to full credit
12 July 1839
W. M. Blocher

South Carolina } I Henry Huffman D.L., do Edgfield District } hereby certify that I have known the within subscribing witness Eady Rose for a number of years, and I believe to be a woman of strict veracity and I believe her statement is intitled to full credit as stated within February 11th 1839.
H. Huffman L.L.D.
The State of South Carolina } I Geo. Pope Clerk of the Edgfield District } Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for the Dist- rict and State aforesaid: do hereby certify that Henry Huffman who has signed the foregoing Certificate is an D.L., at the time of signing the same a Justice of Quorum for the said District & State aforesaid and that due faith and credit are and of right ought to be given to his attestation as Justice of Quorum.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Edgfield about Stone Hill 12 th day of February A.D. 1839.
Geo. Pope C.C.P.
Hn. T. C. Pickens A.D.

March 1823,
One note S. 6.
John Huffman
Declaration
Rec d 26 Augt: 1823.
Mar 19
Filed June 1823
Jesse Blocker, Edgefield Co. S.C.

State of South Carolina } Edgefield District. }
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On this second day of June 1823
Personally appeared in Open Court being the Circuit Court of Equity for said District, it being a court of Record in and for the District aforesaid John Hoffman aged sixty six years. Resident in said District who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows in Col. Hawn & Major Bruch Battalion and the company commanded by Captain Cowhart in the Virginia line on Continental establishment. And I do solemnly swear that I was a Resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it or to bring myself within the provision of an Act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, or debts due to me, nor have any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed viz. One hundred and forty eight acres of land $148 One horse $35. & One Cow and calf $11 Eight head of Hogs $9. household furniture say ten dollars making $213. And has a wife who is sixty five years of age his occupation that of farming but from old age and infirmity is not able to make a subsistence for himself and wife that he has no children and a wife being old and infirm
Sworn to and declared on John Hoffman the 2 day of June 1823
Whit Brooks C. C. C. D.

South Carolina } I Whitfield Brooks Com- Edgefield District Missioner of the Court of Equity for the District & State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration is a true copy of the one filed of record in this office, sworn to in open Court by John Huffman on the 2 nd day of June 1823 and that the Presiding Judge expressed himself satisfied of the truth of the statements therein in regard to the list of property & its value - Given under my hand & seal of the Court the fourth of August one thousand eight hundred & twenty three -
Whitfield Brooks Comm r in Equity.

March 1823, S. b.
John Hoffmann Report.
Rec d 7 June 1824.
Daniel Bird, Edgefield C. H. S. C.

(5)  South Carolina } On the first day of March 1824 Edgefield District } Personally appeared in open Court being the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said District and a Court of Record in and for said District. John Huffman aged sixty seven years resident in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows in Col. Haws Regiment and Major Sneeds Battallion and in the Company commanded by Captain Bowheart in the Virginia line on the Continental establishment And I do solemnly swear that I was a citizen of of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818. And I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or in any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818. And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me nor have I any income other than what is here contained in the S- chedule hereunto annexed setting forth the disposi- -tion of my property to wit One Hundred & forty Eight acres of Land at One Dollar p. Acre $148. 1 Horse at . . . . . 35 1 Cow " . . . . . 11 7 Head of Hogs . . . . . 9 Household furniture . . . . . 10 $213
Decrease of property Land Mortgaged $200 1 Cow killed for Beef — 10 Doctors bill in 1822 yet due 48. For provisions now due 26.

With respect to the decrease of my property at the time I sent the first schedule I was security for one of my Neighbours for one Hundred Dollars and expected to have it to pay for which I got the Mortgage of a small tract of Land near me that traded for about two Hundred Dollars which I considered as my property but before I sent the last schedule he paid the Money and took up the Mortgage and now I have sold and obliged to sell nearly all what I have to pay Doctors bills and to pay what for something to eat. The old man has a wife who is sixty two years of age and has had three Children of which two is alive and have families of their own and in very indigent circumstances and not able to render him any assistance His occupation is that of a farmer but from old age and infirmity is not able to make a support for himself and wife. Has no where to depend or look to but the bounty of his Country sworn to and declared in open?
Given the 3. day of March 1824 John Huffman
Ward Bird B. C. S.

South Carolina } Edgefield District }
I Alan Bird clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for the District and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing Pleadings and Schedule thereto contained are true copies from the Records of the said Court —
Given under my hand and seal of office the 26 day of May 1824 —
Alan Bird Clerk

South Carolina Edgefield District.
On this fourteenth day of November 1825 Prison- er appeared in open court having a
cert of record for the said district and State John Huffman now about sixty nine years of age, resident in the district and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutiona- ry war as follows viz, in Colonel Haws regiment raised in Virginia and Major Meads battalion, and in the Company commanded by Capt. Cowheart in the Virginia line, and on the Continental establishment. That he was on the Prison roll by virtue of the act of Congress of the 18. March 1818 and that his certifi- cate for a pension is dated on the fourth day of January 1819 and that his pension commenced on the fourth day of August 1818 and that by virtue thereof he received three different installments or payments viz - one hundred and forty four Dollars as widow as he now remarried
And he does solemnly swear that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18. March 1818, and that he has not since that time by sale gift, or in any manner whatever dis- posed of his property or any part thereof with an intent thereby to do diminish it as to bring himself within the provisions of the act of Congress of the 18. March 1818 entitled an act to provide for certain pensions engaged in the land and naval services of the United States

in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18. March 1818, and that he has not nor has any person in trust for him any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to him nor has he any income or estate real, personal, or mixed except what is contained in the following schedule viz,
  One hundred and forty eight acres of land at one dollar p. acre $148:00   One horse worth now 25:00   One cow, and a heifer with calf 15:00   6 head of hogs 8:00   Household furniture { Nett balance of day of death $169.50. 10:00 
Debts due $206:00 To account for the decrease in quantity the value of the land mentioned and given in his first declarant's and the present one this deponent solemnly declares that thirty one acres of land was mortgaged to him for a security debt which he expected fully to have to pay, but which and he therefore voluntarily looked upon and claimed this land (far more valuable p. acre than the 148 acres mentioned above) as his own but that the principal purpose has since unexpectedly paid up the debt, which renders said thirty one any clear and free from every claim on his part — This deponent further most solemnly declares that the land above mentioned, (which since from if any thing can prevent his being placed on the pension roll) is poor and so worn out that he cannot rent it for a livelihood or for any thing like a supper that about five years ago he was sick from early in the fall (Sept.) till the March following, that his wife who is now between 60 and 70 years old was taken

Sick in Dec r afterwards and was for the most of the time actually bedridden by said sickness for three years; that to meet these most serious and heavy afflictions the de- ponent was compelled to run considerable in debt not only to pay the necessary physicians fees but to buy provision for actual subsistence and support, which debts are now really due and amount to more than one half the value of the property for which he could sell the poor, the generally tract of land given in as above — It is true that this deponent could sell this land, which he would most reluctantly do, because it is a fond desire of his heart as a free man and in a free country for which freedom he fought and bled, to continue to own land enough not only for a home, poor as it is, the small remnant of time on earth now allotted him, but in which to deposit his bones when dead, and where now lie the mother during remaining of her youngest daughter and grand child, and if he could believe that a construction so hard and inhuman could be placed on the law as to compel him to sell this spot of earth, and which he solemnly declares on oath to be, after payment of debts, go but a little way towards his support, and to refuse him a pension at 70, then he would be forced to the conclusion on that it is a most unfortunate circumstance to be forced to sell  forced and for a worn out vol- unteer of the Revolution to be cursed with a little poor land! — This deponent further declares that he was wounded twice in the battle of the Bulwark in this state, by one bullet which entered in at his arm and came out by his shoulder blade and the other entered near his right collar bone and came out

more than shoulder blade, scar of wounds can be seen and have been known to persons of high respectability, and which altho they do not prevent his laboring in his more youthful days, have with other causes of debility and decrepitude compelled him almost entirely entirely to desist from labor for two years last past - He further declares that he has a wife quite as infirm the last quite as old, as he is himself, has had three children, two of whom only are alive, one poor  afforded with 8 children to support, and the other a son with nine children, both in indigent circumstances - That he the deponent is really and truly unable to follow his former occupation of a farmer, and is not not only unable to support himself by his own exertions but has no one on whom he can de- pend, or to whom he can look for sup- port -
John Hoffman
Sworn to and declared in open Court of Ordinary this fourteenth day of November 1823 - M. Jenkins Jenkins Ordinary
I do certify that the foregoing declara- tion was read and subscribed before me in open court and adjudged the prop- erty contained in the said schedule to be worth two hundred and dollars  six six hundred sixty dollars, but only one hundred and nine dollars and fifty cents clear of debt - I do further certify that Richard Christians before whom the accompanying affi- davit of Daniel Harrison and Sandy Burkhalter was taken is now acting justice of the peace for said district and state - M. Jenkins Jenkins Ordinary