Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2,616, Andrew Himrod, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Himrod, Andrew
S. 2616
CONTENTS
carded

No 7.707
Ohio
Andrew Hinroad
of Delaware in the State of Ohio who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Nelson of the ————— commanded in the Penn a & Md. for 13. Months 15. days. From 1780.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio the rate of $45 Dollars ————— Cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of March 1833. ————— and sent to Thomas
Reynolds Clerk Delaware Co Ohio
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. $ 90.00
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833 22.50
$ 112.50
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. J. Evans Clerk Book E Vol. 8. Page 11.

See letter to H. Hodgden, Oct. 4. 1839.
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act 6. April 1838 from 4. March to 18 April 1842 ag notified 29 Oct 1844

20112
Ann Hinrichs
Ohio
Admitted for 13 months and 13 days
$45.-
Th. Reynolds Delaware C.A. Ohio

BRIEF in the case of Andrew Stevenson of the State of (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 69  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.     Vol In 1780 — 6 — Private Capt Nelson, { protecting the   1781 — 4 — " " { country from   1782 — 3 — 15 " Capt Robinson { Indian depredations  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Northumberland Co Pa.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? no clergyman 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chas. Forrest Examining Clerk.

ms. 2/69. (P. 3)

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
August 8 th 1843.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the 3d section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The child n of Andrew Hinrod, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of fifty five — Dollars and — Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of March to the 18 th April 1842.
Respectfully, yours,
Judson B. Paton
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.

Andrew Reinrod Application for Pension
20/1/25

The State of Ohio Delaware County, ss. 3 Be it remembered that on this nineteenth day of November in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Delaware, now in session, Andrew Heimrod a resident of Berkshire Township in the said County aged Fifty nine years, 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 June 7. 1832. I, the said Andrew Heimrod on my said oath say that I entered the service of the United States and served therein under the following named officers and under the following circumstances as herein stated; to wit: — I was born in Somerset County in the State of New Jersey on the 4 th of February 1763. I removed about 1772 to Northumberland County Pennsa. where I resided during the war of the revolution. In the spring of the year 1780 or 81 I was enrolled in a Company of Militia and called out to serve six months in the service to guard the country from the excursions of the Indians. I served this tour under Capt John Nelson, Lieut. Robert Smith, and Ensign Simon Heimrod who was my father. We were stationed at Fort Swarts on the west branch of the Susquehanna about 12 miles above the town of Northumberland. We were stationed here the whole of that summer. Every 3 days out of 9. we were out, in turns, scouting through the country and watching the movements of the Indians. The Indians were continually hover- -ing about us, keeping the country in alarm. At the distance of only about 6 miles from us rather up the river Hahn's Fort was taken and burnt by a party of Indians and British under the command of

Capt. McConnel. The whole country depended upon our small posts & stations for protection. After serving my six months in this service I was discharged.
The next summer I volunteered and went into the service again. served this time under the same officers, at the same place & in the same service as the last time. I served this time 4 months and was discharged. In the spring of 1782, there were raised in Northumberland Co. a Company of men to serve during the indian war, under the command of Capt. Robinson and Lieut. Van Camp. They were unable to fill the Company & they had received orders to raise the residue of the men for 7 months. My brother Aaron Kimrod and myself enlisted to serve seven months between us. My brother served 3\frac{1}{2} months first and then I served 3\frac{1}{2} months the residue of the time. During this time I was most of the time stationed at Ft. Rice, about 9 miles to the east of Ft. Swarts. We were employed as before in guarding and protecting the country from the Indians. After serving this time of 3\frac{1}{2} months I was discharged. I have thus served in all 13\frac{1}{2} months. I resided in that part of Penna. until 1817 when I removed to Delaware County where I now reside. I have long since lost my discharges and have no documentary evidence and know of no person whose testimony I can prove who can testify to my services. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Deed & subscribed to, the day & year aforesaid.
Andrew Kimrod

dismiss every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Given & subscribed to, the day & year aforesaid.
Andrew Kimrod
We Ichabod Plumb & Ezekiel Brown residents of Berkshire in said Delaware County and
residing in the neighbourhood of the above named Andrew Kimrod hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Kimrod who has signed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty nine 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.
Given & subscribed to the day & year aforesaid.
Ichabod Plumb
Ezekiel Brown
And the said Court 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 soldier and served as he states. And the court further certify that Ichabod Plumb and Ezekiel Brown who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the aforesaid Township of Berkshire and are cred- itable persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
J Thomas Reynolds Clerk of the Court of Com. Pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the fore- going contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Andrew Kimrod for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed seal the nineteenth day of November A.D. 1832.
J. Reynolds Clerk

Sept 30
Berkshire O Sept 23 rd
Free
Wm J. L. Edwards
Comr
Commissioner of Pensions
Answ. H. M. ... Ohio rld
Washington City
D. C.

Berksire Sept 25 th 1839
Sir
By request I address this note to you. Andrew Winrods a Revolutionary pensioner has become insane - he is an old resident - lives with his son-in-law has no property for his support on application to courts for the appointment of a guardian the members of the bar advised I address you on the subject as they were the opinion that the pension might be obta- ined without incurring the expense of courts in the appointment, if so please to inform how and the manner of application
Yours Respectfully
Henry Wooyam

19 th Mar. 23. Heist to Frank B. Willis M.C. bills in Ebenezer Landon S13706
Rev. Vans
2616 INVALID.
File No. 2616
Andrew Hinsrod Br. Pa. M.
Act: June 7, '32
Index: — Vol. A , Page 172
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Andrew Hinrod which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? no XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? no XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? XVI. † Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 2, 6, 7.
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.