Daniel
Henson
State
of
Court of Pleas and
Grants
September
and October sessions,1833 Service Declaration
On this 3rd
day of October, 1833, personally appeared in open Court
before the
Justices holding the Court aforesaid, Daniel Henson, aged 69 years,
a resident of
the
sworn
according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in
order to
obtain the provisions of an Act of Congress passed on the 7th of
June, 1832;
that he entered the service of the
of March,
1781, as a private soldier in the
of
marched him
to Fredericksburgh where he was placed under the command
of another
Captain, whose name he does not recollect, in the Regiment
commanded by
Col. Willis. He marched from there to Boyd's hole on
River, where
he remained a short time and was marched back to Fredericksburgh
and from
there he marched to Powatan Courthouse in
placed under
the command of the Baron Steuben; was marched from there to
Fork, where
he remained until the British Army, under Cornwallis, approached
them and they
marched towards
they marched
back and joined the main army under the command of Greene at
a place
called the White Oak Springs. From
there they marched to an old forge,
the name of
which he has forgotten, where he was detached from the foot
services in
the latter part of July or first of August, 1781, to the Horse in the
company
commanded by Captain Hughes under the command of Col. White;
that he
remained scouting about through the month of
October, when he
marched to
After the
surrender of that place, he marched to Petersburgh in
there he
marched about the first of December, under the command of General
place called
Ebenezer, where he remained until the cessation of hostilities. He
then marched
to
September,
1782, having served 18 months, during all of which time he was
entirely
under the command of his officers and engaged in no other business
whatever.
That he has no documentary evidence or any other means of
proving his
said services but by his own oath, he hereby relinquishes his claim
to any
pension whatsoever except the present, and declares his name is not on
the Pension
Roll or the agency of any State.;
Question:
Where and in what year were you born?
Answer: In
of August.
Question:
Have you any record of your age?
Answer: I
took a copy of a record from my father's Bible about 41 or 42 years
ago, which is
now my own Bible.
Question:
Where were you living when called into the service, where have you
lived since
the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
Answer: I
lived in the
discharged in
1784. I then
removed to
County, where
I remained till the month of May, 1786, when I returned to
County,
Question: How
were you called into the service? Were you drafted, did you
volunteer, or
were you a substitute?
Answer:
I was a substitute for my father, Charles Henson, who had been drafted.
Question:
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 services.
Answer:
Anthony Wayne, Baron Steuben, Col. Willis, Col. White, Gen. Greene.
The general
circumstances of my services are stated in the foregoing declaration.
The reason,
as I understood it, why I was detached from the foot services to the
horse
was that two hundred horsemen were wanted to complete Col. White's
Regiment.
They had about 165 enlisted and the balance were drafted out of the
18 months
militia.
Question: Did
you ever receive a discharge from the services, if so by whom
was it given
and what has become of it?
Answer:
I got a discharge signed by Col. White. I put it in a small pocket book
which I lost
and the discharge in it before I got home.
Question:
State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present
neighborhood
and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their
belief of
your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer:
Banister Turner, a clergyman; Ninion Edmonston; John Jonah; Jacob
Smitten, and
Jacob Evans.
Sworn to in
open Court this 3rd of October, 1833 by Daniel Henson
Character
Testimony: We, Banister Turner, a
Clergyman residing in the
hereby
certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Henson, who has
subscribed
and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 69
years of age,
that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he
resides to
have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that
opinion.
Sworn to in
open Court this 3rd of October, 1833 B. Turner; N. Edmonston
Court
Affirmation: And the said Court does
declare their opinion after the
investigation
of this matter and after putting the interrogation proscribed by the
War
Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and
served as he
states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that
Banister
Turner, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident
in the
is a resident
in the same....
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Genealogical
Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension
Files
VOL. II - Page 1608 Henson, Daniel, #W3991 Cont
& VA Line. Soldier
applied on
October 5, 1832 in
August 17,
1764 in
Solider also
served as a substitute for his father, Charles Henson. Soldier died
January 1,
1843, in
1788 in
County, NC at
75 years of age. She was deceased by
the year of 1851.
A son Absalom
Henson made affidavit on September 17, 1844 in
Mentions
other children; a son Allen Henson who stated in 1844 that he was
born
September 22, 1797. (records also show him born January 20, 1795.)
Other
children shown were; Loyd born December 27, 1789, Wiley born
August 20,
1793, Aaron born December 28, 1798, a daughter Charlotte Cobb
was in
war of 1812.
There were other children but they were not named Henson, Elijah,
#W1767 (BLW
#26671-160-55), VA line. He applied
on October 5, 1832 in
County, VA,
and lived there at enlistment. Soldier Fanny West daughter of
Jonathan West
in August 1803 in
the first or
second of September 1845 in
applied on
April 12, 1853 in
Daniel Henson
was mentioned. A William Hamby had
signed a marriage bond
with solider
on July 28, 1803.
Submitted
by John W. Henson III
henson3@chattanooga.net