Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38018, Zachariah Hendricks, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Hendricks, Zachariah S. 38018
CONTENTS

No 19781
Virginia
Zachariah Hendricks
of Patrick Co in the State of Virginia who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Payne of the regiment commanded by Colonel Parker in the Virginia line, for the term of 18 months from the Spring of 1779 to 1781
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 5 th day of May 1827.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 d of July 1827 and sent to A Staples, Esq. Elk Co. of Patrick County, Pains Store etc.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1827 $ 32.26 Semi-ann. all'ce ending
$ 32.26
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820.

38 018
Rev INVALID.
File No. 38,018
Zachariah Kendrick Rev Rev 1860
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 181
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Z. Henrichs declaration
Admutter

At a Superior Court of Law continued and held for Patrick county, at the Court house on Saturday the 5th day of May 1827.
Personally appeared in open Court (being a court of Record for the county of Patrick, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with unrestricted jurisdiction as to amount, and keeping a record of proceedings) Zachariah Hendricks a resident of said county, age sixty seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1 st of March 1820; that he the said Zachariah Hendricks enlisted for the term of eighteen months some time in the spring of the year 1779. in the state of Virginia in the company commanded by Capt. Turlton Payne in the Regiment commanded by Col. Richard Parker in the line of the State of Virginia on the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in said corps twelve or thirteen months, when the said Corps was ordered from Augusta in Georgia to Charleston. This declaration was left with him at the former place with orders to join the Army in Charleston when sufficiently recovered. Before he was so recovered the corps to which he belonged was captured by the enemy at Charleston in April or May 1780 which prevented him from procuring a regular discharge. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the puerse. That his name is not on the roll of any state, and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension. Viz He made a declaration in the year 1820 as well as he now recollects in the Superior Court of Pittsylvania county V a and gave it into the hands of the Hon: George Tucker then a member of congress. It was returned to him as being insufficient. He made a second declaration in the same Court in 1822 and gave it into the post office at Danville, he has never since heard of the said second declaration, and did not know that it had not been received at the War Office until the last winter when he heard through the Hon: Nathaniel H. Claiborne that no application had been received at the War Office, on behalf of the declarant since the one made. Through the Hon: George Tucker in 1820 - The declarant soon after he made the second declaration above mentioned removed from the county of Pittsylvania to the county of Patrick where he now resides - That he has resided in a remote part of the District at a considerable distance from the representation in Congress, and that his ignorance, infirmity, and poverty, have prevented him from renewing his application, through the representative, or through any other channel until the last winter when the Hon. Nathaniel H. Claiborne applied in his behalf for information in relation to his claim. He declares that he is the same Zachariah Hendricks who made a declaration of the Superior Court of Pittsylvania county Virginia in 1820. and begs leave to refer to that declaration and the accompanying certificate in support of his claim and as evidence of his services.

And in pursuance of the Act of the 1 st of May 1820. 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 so 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 18 th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed —
Schedule of the property now in my possession. No land whatever. a few old tools, three chairs, a pine chest, one bedstead to the value of five dollars — That since the 18 th March 1818 the following changes have been made in my property, to wit, on that day I possessed two beds and bedsteads; which were disposed of as follows, when my son James Hendricks married I gave him one. I became indebted for rent of land to Daniel Poirier in the sum of seventeen dollars & seventeen cents which George Worsham undertook to pay for me on condition of my giving him the remaining bed in security which I did, and altho I retain possession of said bed I do not consider that I have any property in it, until said debt is paid which has not yet been done. I acquired a horse since the 18 th March 1818 worth about $25. which died some years ago — I also had an under bed, three chairs and a few small articles not now recollected, which were sold by W m Ayers deputy Sheriff for John Hall Sheriff of Patrick on the day of  to satisfy a Judgment obtained against me by John Harrison on a merchants Account for necessaries bought six or seven years since. The said Harrison has left this Commonwealth and I cannot procure his Testimony — I am a wheelwright & chain maker by trade, but from infirmity cannot labour enough at that trade to support myself except in a very precarious manner, I have no family but my wife who is also very infirm and have no person to labour for me.
Zachariah Hendricks mark
Sworn to and declared in open Court on the 5 th day of May 1827 —
Marlin Cloud appears in Court and made oath that he lives in the neighbourhood of Zachariah Hendricks, and altho he has not been in his house, he believes him to be an exceedingly poor man — and knows of no property he possesses —
William Lyon deputy Sheriff for Greeneville Pickett Sheriff appears in open Court, and made oath that he acts in the part of this county where Zachariah Hendricks resides, and that he is a very poor man for that he knows of no property he possesses —
William Ayers late deputy for John Hall Sheriff of Patrick appears in open Court and made oath, that he in the year 1824 levied an execution in favor of John Harrison for the benefit of Edmund Penn ag t the said Zachariah Hendricks,

upon all the property he could find in his possession and sold it according to law for $1.18 3/4 cts. —
I Abram Staples Clerk of the Superior Court of law for the County of Patrick, do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said Zachariah Hendricks is the same person who made a declaration in the Superior Court of Pennsylvania in 1820. And that he did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, under an engagement on the continental establishment. I do also certify that the foregoing Deed and Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court; And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is five dollars —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on the 5th day of May 1827 —
A. Staples. Clerk
Virginia to wit
I Fleming Saunders one of the Judges of the General Court and Judge of the Superior Court of the County of Patrick do certify that Abram Staples is the Clerk of the Superior Court of Patrick County and was at the time of signing the above certificate duly appointed according to law. And that his attestation is in due form of law. And that full faith and credit is due to all his Official acts as such. Given under my hand at Patrick Court house this 5th day of May 1827 —
Fleming Saunders

Lach Hendricks, Va.
Declaration ~
(on roll page 412)
Will Mr Edmund's examine this declaration and communicate the result to the Hon. George Tucker of the H. of Representatives.
G.V.
see letter to W. Tucker, H. R. Mch. 20. 1820 Nov. 20 1820
Let this remain in pigeon hole until schedule arrives SUS.

Virginia to wit.
At a Superior Court of Law convened and held for the County of Pittsylvania at the Court House on Tuesday the 25 th day of April 1820.
Zachariah Hendrick aged sixty years resident in the County of Pittsylvania, personally appeared in Court, and being sworn according to Law made the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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". That he the said Zachariah Hendrick entered with Wood Jones a Recruiting officer in the County of Amelia in the year 1779 for the term of Eighteen months. At Petersburg in Virginia he was enrolled in the Company of Captain Forster Payne in the First Virginia Regiment under the command of Col. Richard Parker, from that place he was marched with his Regiment to Augusta in Georgia, from Augusta to Savannah and was present at the Siege of that place, from Savannah he was marched back to Augusta where the Regiment took up Winter quarters. In the month of February 1780 the Regiment was marched to Charleston and the said Hendrick was left in Augusta sick where he remained until he was discharged by the Hospital Surgeon Doct. John Sheppard having served only thirteen months of his term. He had a discharge in writing which he has since either mislaid or lost. That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support.
Daniel Price of this County came into Court and being sworn deposed that he is well acquainted with the above named Zachariah Hendrick of Pittsylvania and his circumstances that his general character is that of an honest inoffensive man, that his Estate consists of two Horses worth about

Twenty five Dollars each, and some household furniture of little value, that his Estate is conveyed in Trust to secure the payment of his Debts, and in the opinion of the said Price is not sufficient for that purpose — Whereupon it appearing to the Court that the said Zachariah Hendrick did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months, and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life needs the assistance of his Country for support, It is ordered that the said declarations be referred to the War Department.
Virginia to Wit
I William Tinstall Clerk of the Superior Court of law of the County of Pittsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing proceedings are truly transcribed from the records of said Court.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 29 th day of April 1820.
Wm Tinstall Clerk
Virginia to Wit
I Fleming Saunders one of the Judges of the General Court, and Judge of the Superior Court of law of the County of Pittsylvania, in the Sixth Judicial district of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the above attestation of William Tinstall Clerk of the said Court, is in due form of law, Given under my hand this 2 nd day of May 1820.
Fleming Saunders. (S)