Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2301-100, Zoath Henderson, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.H.
Henderson, Youth
B.L.W. 2301-100
CONTENTS

M m Jordan Esq Washington D.C.
Papers belonging to Mr. Richard Russell of New Hampshire sent to this Office in 1840 by the Hon. Chas. A. Eastman
1840 to the Hon. Chas. A. Eastman
Rec d Dec r 10. 1840

Mr. Gordon Esq. Washington D.C.
Papers belonging to Mr. Richard Russell of New Hampshire sent to this Office July 21 st 1842 by the Hon. Ira A. Eastman
copy of last P.M. to Hon. B. Russell
Rec. Decm. 10 th 1842

House of Representatives, Washington July 21. 1840.
Sir,
I herewith enclose certain papers belonging to Richard Russell Esq. of Somersworth New Hampshire.
The papers appertain to land warrants I put them into your office for safe keeping - They may be wanting hereafter -
Will you have the goodness to file them away -
Very respectfully Your Ob. Servt. M c A. Eastman
W m Gordon Esq.

State of New Hampshire } Portsmouth Rockingham County ss- } February 3- 1840
I Daniel D. Broadace heir at law of Zeph Henderson do upon oath testify & declare to the best of my knowledge & belief that Zeph Henderson did enter the service for during the war of the Revolution and served as a Soldier in the Regiment commanded by Colonel George Reed of the New Hampshire Line & that he continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war.
I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to Zeph Henderson on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever: Therefore
I know all men by these presents that I Daniel D. Broadace aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Hon. Isaac A. Eastman Member of Congress to be my true & lawful Attorney for me & in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a Warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid. and my said Attorney is hereby fully authorized & empowered to constitute & appoint one or more substitutes or Attorneys under him for the special purposes above expressed
Attest Speers cler Richard Mansfield
Daniel D Broadace

State of North Carolina Rockingham Co. } February 3. 1840
Then personally appeared the within named Daniel D. Broadacre subscriber to the foregoing declaration & made oath to the same & in my presence acknowledged the power of Attorney there to subjoined to be his free act & deed. For the purposes therein mentioned -
Richard Phillips Gen. Place and of the Quorum Throughout said State

I Samuel B. Mason Lieutenant in the former Revolution Depose and say that I enlisted in the first of the war as a private, for six months under Capt Benjamin Tibbets Col Ebenezer Dyer Regt. I then enlisted for one year in the same Company and Regiment. I then enlisted during the war under Capt William Howells Company in Col Nathan Hale's Regiment, in the New Hampshire Continental Line, after which time Col Geo. Reid was Commander I was soon promoted to a sergeant, after that I was promoted to an ensign, then to a lieutenant and con- tinued in that office to the end of the war at which time I obtained an honorable discharge and I was one of the officers selected to come home with the soldiers to draw rations &c which duty I attended. I further state that Yoast Henderson of Dover New Hampshire, first enlisted under Capt Bryan Titcomb he then enlisted under Capt Frederick Bell in 1776 he then enlist- -ed under Capt Bell during the war and served to the end of the war under Col Ebenezer Dyer, or in his Regiment and said Regiment was afterwards commanded by Col Geo. Reid who com- manded to the close of the war
Samuel B. Mason
State of New Hampshire Strafford ss. April 1 st 1840 Then personally appeared the above Samuel B. Mason and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true. He is a man of truth and of good reputation to me known. Before me David Davis justice of the Peace

I Samuel Lear of Effingham in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that I do dispose & say that I enlisted as a Soldier into Captain James Carr, Company Colonel George Reed's Reg- iment New Hampshire line for 1780 for during the war and served to the close of the war & was discharged from Captain Center, Company and Major Scotts Battalion New Hampshire line.
That I was well acquainted with Death Henderson a Soldier in Colonel Reed's Regiment continued to the end of the war & was discharged and to the best of my belief belonged to the during the war men -
Samuel Lear
State of New Hampshire Strafford ss. February 12 th 1829. Then personally appeared the above named Samuel Lear a credible witness to me well known & made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true Before me Richard Russell Justice Peace

State of New Hampshire } At a Court of Probate Strafford County } held at Dover in said County on the 3 d day of February AD 1840
I certify that Satisfactory evidence was adduced to me, to prove that Loath Henderson late of Dover in said County, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and died more than fifty years ago - That he left one child only by the name of Deborah, who died leaving three children only, to wit: Daniel Brodau, Hannah Shaw & Michael McDaniels who are all and the only grand children & heirs at law of the said Loath Henderson. —
Warren Lovell. Judge

State of New Hampshire Strafford ss. I. Winthrop A. Marston Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Strafford hereby certify that the before named David Davis is a justice of the peace within and for said County of Strafford - and is duly qualified to act in said capacity - that his commission bears date June 17. 1837- and will expire on the sixteenth day of June A. 1842-; that I am acquainted with his hand writing and believe that the foregoing his signature purporting to be his, is genuine -
I further certify that the before named Richard Russell is Justice of the peace within and for said County. That his commission, and will expire on the sixteenth day of June A. 1842 as such, bears date June 17. 1837- and also that said Russell is a Justice of the peace and the quorum throughout the said state of New Hampshire; that his commission, as such , bears date on the 21st day of May A. 1839 and will expire on the twentieth day of May A. 1844- and that said Russell is duly qualified to act in both of said capacities and that the respective signatures, in the foregoing papers, purporting to be his are genuine -
I further certify that Warren Lowell before named is Judge of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Strafford and that the signature aforesaid, purporting to be his, is genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court & set my name on this fourth day of April Anno Domini 1840. W. A. Marston Reg. of Probate