Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4,580, William Hansard, Va.

SERVICE
Va.
Hansard, William
NUMBER
R. 4580
CONTENTS

35616
William Hansard-
Gen.
act 7 June '32
Mr Hensard
Declaration

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of Tennessee } Knox County } ss
On this 4 th day of December 1843 personally appeared in open Court before the Court now sitting for said County and State aforesaid Mr William Hansard a resident of said County aged Eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law oath on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty one in the County of Bedford in the State of Virginia under the following named Officers Captain John Cottrell and General the Frazers in the Town of New London in said State of Virginia for six Months He hereby relinquishes all claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of agency of any State.
Sworn to the foregoing
in open Court
Witnesses
Flora Stewart Clerk
William Hansard

We John Barringer and  and M c Hill do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Hansard who has subscribed to and sworn to the within declaration that we believe him to be Eighty years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides and to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
John Barringer M c Hill
and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that William Hansard is entitled to the benefits of the act of Congress asked for and sworn to as he stated and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John Barringer is a Col o ryman and M c Hill who has signed the preceding certificate reside in the County of Knox and State of Tennessee are credible persons and their statements are entitled to credit. I Moses M c Swan Clerk of the Court.
I Moses M c Swan Clerk of the Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of W m Hansard for pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office at Office in Knoxville. This 24 th day of December 1843.
Moses M c Swan Clerk

I, Julius W. Blackwell, Representative in the 28 th Congress of the U.S. do certify that M rs M r . Swan, whose name appears to the foregoing certificate, is the Clerk of the County Court of Knox County Tennessee, duly elected, commissioned and qualified according to law.
J. W. Blackwell, January 10 th 1844.
M rs Estelle Ford enrolls for Miss Star
M rs Hanson

William Hausard
Act 1832 . Tenn
4580

State of Pennsylvania County of Knox
Be it Known, that on this twentieth day of July A. D. 1853 before me, the under-
signed, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared William Hansard & Archer G. Hansard Lucy Hall formerly Lucy Hansard Benjamin F. Hall, Sarah Hall formerly Sarah Hansard and Andrew G. Hall husband of said Sarah the said Lucy and Sarah nothing present to execute this instrument in person Knox  in said County, and made oath according to law that they are the legal heirs
of William Hansard who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of 4
That they are directly interested as claimants in said Pension, and make this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or ar- guments as our Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given, we hereby constitute and appoint SAMUEL M. KNIGHT , of Washington City, our true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of William Hansard for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and we hereby authorize our said Attorney to examine all papers or doc- uments in relation to said claim, on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for our exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate we wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that we might or could do were we personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that our said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
William Hansard Archer G. Hansard Lucy Hall Sarah Hall Andrew G. Hall
Sworn to, Subscribed, and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said her husband Benjamin F. Hall & Sarah Hall her husband Andrew G. Hall William Hansard Archer G. Hansard Lucy Hall to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical parties therein alleged.
Jac Boathe J. Peace for Knox county
State of Pennsylvania County of Knox
It is hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of Knox County William Hansard, Archer G. Hansard, Lucy Hall, Sarah Hall & Andrew G. Hall in the said State that William Hansard & Archer G. Hansard Lucy Hall the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney, is the 10 children & heirs of the reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify, that Jac Boathe Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office, this twenty first day of July 1853. Geo. M. Cox, Clerk
1. Claimant's name or names in full.—2. Post Office address. 3. "That he is the identical man," or, "that she is the widow of the identical man," or, "that he or she is the legal heir of the identical man," &c., &c. 4. Leave this line blank.—5. "He is," "she is," or "they are."—6. Revolutionary soldier's full name.—7. Claimant's signature.—8. Claimant's name.—9. Magistrate's signature. 10. "Identical," "widow of," or, "child of."—11. Magistrate's name.—12. Clerk's signature.
N. B.—Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.

March 18, 1937.
Mrs. Harry Huey 1109 South 24th Street Fort Smith, Arkansas.
BA-J/ILL William Hansard R. 4580
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of your ancestor, William Hansard (1762-1845) who served from Virginia.
The data given herein were found in pension claim, R. 4580, based upon service of William Hansard in that war.
William Hansard enlisted in the year 1781, in Bedford County, Virginia, under Captain John Cottrel and served six months guarding Tories in New London, Virginia.
December 4, 1843, the soldier applied for pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War, at which time he resided in Knox County, Tennessee. He was aged then eighty years; the date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given. His claim for pension was not allowed as the Act of Congress under which he applied required service of six months in a regularly organized military corps, and did not provide for the kind of service rendered by him.
In 1853, the names of the heirs of William Hansard were given as follow: William C. Hansard, Jr; Archer G. Hansard; Lucy Hansard Hall, wife of Benjamin F. Hall; and Jane Hansard Hall, wife of Andrew C. Hall. They were all in Knox County, Tennessee, at that time. There are no further data in regard to the family of William Hansard.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

35.616 Wm H. Howard Tennessee
Let to Wm H. Blackwell See In in Inm of John Rock N.9 E. Feb. 1. 1844
7" June 1832

Washington Jan. 10 th 1844.
Sir,
I have the honour to present to you the Papers of Nancy Rock, Mary Jackson and M rs Howard, each asking to be placed upon the pension roll. You will please place that of M rs Howard on file to await further proof, and report on the other two at your earliest convenience.
I respectfully beg leave to call your attention to the case of Barnard Hagan, of Jan. asking a pension as an invalid; he is impatient on the subject, and it would gratify me to have it in my power to report to him, especially if can be done favourably. The papers were presented early in December 1843.
I am Sir,
Very Respectfully,
Your O bt . Servt.
W m Blackwell
Jas. L. Edwards Esq.
Coms. of Pensions

Jan 26 1844
Nancy Weston Nancy Root Wintergreen Nancy Jackson
Dear Adolphus I am Yours Sincerely
W. Blackwell
Pension
Pay
Wm. W. Blackwell N02

Washington Jan. 25. 1844.
Sir,
I should be sorry to be considered troublesome, and I know that you are much pressed with business, and I write this in order to call to your attention several declarations referred to your Office by me, lest the crowd of business pressing upon you, may cause some of those claims which I had the honor to present, to be pushed out from their regular turn, by more recent claims.
The case of Francis Stern down, Nancy Rock, William Stern and Nancy Jackson. On the above mentioned claims for pension, the parties are impatient, and I respectfully call your attention to them as early as convenient.
I am Sir,
Very Respectfully,
Your Off. Servt.
J. W. Blackwell
Jas. L. Edwards Esq. Coms. of Pensions

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Gentlemen:
For purpose of perfecting an application for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution, I should like to obtain a confirmation of the Revolutionary War record of:
William Hansard (1762-1845) Occupation: Miller. Residence: Bullrun Creek, Virginia.
only one in file
No further information is known; but possibly this will enable you to supply confirmation of war service, for which I shall be genuinely grateful.
Respectfully,
Laura Hansard Huey
Laura Hansard Huey Mrs. Harry Huey
1109 South 24th St., Fort Smith, Ark.

1937- March 18 - Hist. to Mrs. Harry Hickey - B.R.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
4080
P. O.
William Hansard
Service: Vol. - Rejected - Suspended Pensions - pay
Reason for Rejection -
389
Enlisted: not military service - service as jail guard , 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18