Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8708, James Henderson, Md. N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Ind.
Wenderson, James
S. 8708
N. 6.
carded
CONTENTS

North Carolina 23.021
James Henderson.
of Guilford Co. in the State of N. Carolina who was a Private in the Comp y , commanded by Captain Douglas, of the Reg t commanded by Col. Wheatley, in the N. C. m a ★ line for D t mo. 17 days.
★ N.C. and Md. Reg t 9 th Inf y Records considered.
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina. at the rate of $ 1 Dollars 88 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of March. 1834, and sent to Hon. M. H. Shepherd N. Rep t U.S.
  Arrears to the 4th of March. 34  $ 65.64    Pens ant. allowance ending Sept. 34  10.94     $ 76.58  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by El Brown Clerk Book E Vol. 6 1/2 Page 58

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th AD 1832
State North Carolina } Library Term 1834 — Guilford County —
Court of pleas and quarter Sessions
Now sitting personally appeared in open court James Henderson aged Seventyfour years who after being sworn in due form of law deposeth and saith that he entered the war of the Revolution about the middle of October AD 1776 he then living in the State of Maryland Caroline County that he was drafted for three months and was put into Capt Joseph Duglass Company Col Wheatley's Regiment that Duglass marched his Company on to Cambridge Choptank River that there they were engaged the whole three months in guarding the coasts on those rivers that at the expiration of his three months service he received his discharge signed by his Captain Joseph Duglass which is lost or mislaid so that it cannot be found — and this Applicant further declares that the first of March 1777 — there was a call for Volunteers that he turned out as a Volunteer under the same Captain Joseph Duglass for three months that Duglass marched his men on to Mulberry Island near Sloopers Straits that there they were engaged in guarding the coasts one month and then were relieved by other troops that — immediately after they got home there was an alarm that the Enemy were taking away cattle etc that Duglass called for his Volunteers that this Deponent followed him that he marched them on nearly the same route as before but was out on this — route only twelve days — that in the Spring of the year 1778 he this Applicant emigrated to the State of North Carolina Guilford County: That on the Eleventh of August AD 1779 he married his wife that the Saturday following he was drafted for three months and was put into Capt Jonas Frost's Company that his Captain gave him a furlough to stay at home until called for which took place the last of October or first of November following that he joined Frost's Company at Guilford Courthouse where they lay three or four weeks: and then were marched to Salisbury N.C. that there Captain Frost's Company were put into Col Frederick Hamwright's Regiment Genl — Rutherford being Commander that Col Archibald Lytle of the Regular Army with his Regiment were there that after some time orders were for the Regulars and Militia all

to March to the South that they went through Charlotte on towards Charlestown as far as the ten mile house near which place he was taken so breeding lame he could march no further occasioned by having his heel string cut when a boy which now was angened and swollen to a great degree: and rather than go into the baggage wagon hired a man to fulfill the remain- -der of his three months tour on the Sixth Day of January 1780 as will appear from the enclosed Discharge signed by his Col Frederick Harnight - and further that tho he cannot positively recollect the different days of the months that he entered the service nor all the days of the months he left the same yet he knows he is within bounds to charge the United States with Six Months and Seventeen Days actual service viz - four months and twelve days as a private soldier under Capt Joseph Douglass and two months and five days under Capt Jonas Troost as a private and he further saith that he knows of no person that he can prove his above services by and he hereby relinquishes his any claim or annuity to a pension except the present and that his name is not on the pension Role of this State nor any State in the Union but that he claims a pension for his above services under the act of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832 and no other - and further this Deposition saith not known to and subscribed in open Court this 2 nd Day of February A D 1834 N.B a Slaveryman cannot be pronounced in States without two much expense & trouble it being a distance to Court
Test
W.W. Woodburn C.C.C.
Feb. 21 st 1834
J. (11845)
Scener: 820 Seal
We Isaac Odell and Matthew Hestreck Residing in the County of Guilford and State of North Carolina do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with James Henderson who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration and that we believe him to be seventy four years of age that he is Reputed and believed in the Neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion - Sworn to and subscribed the Day and year aforesaid
Test
W.W. Woodburn C.C.C.
Feb. 21 st 1834
Isaac Odell Seal
M. Hestreck Seal

Questions propounded by the Court to the Applicant James Hendeyson
question 1 st Where and In what year were you born answer I was born on the 14 th of February AD 1760 In the State of Maryland Caroline County
qr 2 have you any Record of your age and If so where is it answer My age was Set Down In my Uncle James Hendeysons Big Bible and I Expect his Sons have it
qr 3 where were you living when Call Into Service where have you Lived Since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live
answer when I Served My first towers under Captain Joseph Duglass I Lived In the State of Maryland Caroline County when I Served under Captain Jonas frost I then Lived In Guilford County North Carolina where I now live and have been Since the year 1774 Except Three years I Lived In the State of South Carolina Better than thirty years ago
qr 4 how were you Call Into Service were you Drafted Did you Volunteer or were you a Substute and If a Substute for whom
answer I was first Drafted for Three months then I went a Volunteer this was In the State of Maryland then In North Carolina I was Drafted again for Three months
qr 5 State the Names of Some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops where you Served Such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the General Circumstances of your Service
answer at the Service Rendered In Maryland I Did Not become acquainted with the Regular army or officers as the Duty performed by the Company I Belonged to was Guarding the Coasts Chiefly performed by Militia - when Call on In Service In North Carolina But Amhabald Lytle I often Saw with us and a Captain Campbell of the Regulars The Circumstances of my Service is In my own Declaration
qr 6 State the Names of persons To whom you are known In your present Neighbourhood and who Can testify as to your Character for Veracity and their belief of your Services as a Soldier of the Revolution
answer Isaac Woodhouse Isaac Hendeyson Jonas Ricks Edward Ricks Joseph Sumfield Jonathan Trotter Isaac Odell William Melborn Jesse Salimore Solomon Potter Mathew Hitchcock
Sworn and Subscribed In open Court this 21 st Day of Feby 1834 James Hendeyson

State North Carolina } February Term 1834 Guilford County } the Court of pleas and
quarter Sessions Now Sitting Do hereby Declare Their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories — proposed by the War Department that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served and served as he states and the Court further — Certifies that Isaac Odell and Mathew Shilcock who has signed the foregoing Certificate are Residents in this County of Guilford and are Creditable persons and that their statement is entitled to Credit — February 21 st 1834 —
Signed — — — — — Morris Ch 1 , pro tem Test
W.W. Woodburn C.L.C. Feb 21 st 1834.
Jonathan Packer Wm Purnell
North Carolina }
I Watson W Woodburn Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions for the County of Guilford do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Henderson for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set My hand and affixed the Seal of said Court of Record at office this 21 st day of February A.D. 1834
W.W. Woodburn C.L.C.

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section AWP/eel
January 29, 1929
Mrs. Bama Jennings Porter 230 Riverside Drive New York, New York
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.8708, it appears that James Henderson was born February 18, 1760, in Caroline County, Maryland.
While a resident of said Caroline County, he enlisted in October, 1776, and served three months as a private in Captain Joseph Douglass' Company, Colonel Wheatley's Maryland Regiment, and enlisted March 1, 1777, and served one month and twelve days as a private in same company.
He moved to Guilford County, North Carolina, in the spring of 1778, and enlisted in October, 1779, and served two months and five days as a private in Captain Jonas Frost's Company, Colonel Frederick Hambright's North Carolina Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed February 21, 1834, while a resident of Guilford County, North Carolina.
He married August 11, 1779, name of wife is not stated.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

1917 Aug. 29 Hist. to Lena C. Williams 1918 Oct. 31 Hist. to Miss Billie Williams 1927 Oct. 17 family data to Thos. L. Ruby - MMH
1928 Feb. 24 - Hist. to J. C. How- ton awg.
1928 July 23 - Hist to Mrs. L. B. Browning. M.E. City 1929 Jan. 17 Mrs. L. B. Browning advised concerning uncle of Sol. M.E.
1929 Jan. 29 - Hist to Mrs. Bama J. Porter. See letter in Charles Porter S-7329 awg
1934 May 26 - Hist. to Harry J. Tucker, see letter in Henry Powers - Rev. S. 7324-LLC.
Newman
8708  INVALID.
File No. 8708
James Henderson  Prim. Box War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index: Vol. 182 , Page 169
[Arrangement of 1870.]