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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ******************************************************************************** TEXAS REVOLUTION PENSION CLAIM APPLICATION HENRY ALDERSON State of California County of Sacremento On this 23d day of December in the year of our lord eighteen hundred and Seventy four personally appeared before me, Ham. C. Harrison, a duly gualified and acting County Clerk in and for the County of Sacramento, State of California and Clerk of the District Court in and for the Sixth Judicial District of the State of California the same being a court of record and having a seal, Henry Alderson, who being duly sworn according to law, declares and says: That he is the identical Henry Alderson, who enlisted under the name of Henry Alderson, in the military service of the Republic of Texas on the Twentieth (20th) day of July in the year eighteen hundred and Thirty Six (1836) in the 1st Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers under the command of Captain James Pope Price. That he enlisted in the said service and the said Company under said Captain Price, as a volunteer, at New Orleans in the state of Louisiana, and on the 20th day of July A.D. 1836. That on or about the time of said 20th day of July A.D. 1836, he the affiant, with the said company to which he belonged embarked on the old brig “Good Hope” at New Orleans, crossed the Gulf of Mexico and landed in the State of Texas on or before the first day of August A.D. 1836 and there united with the Texan forces under the Command of General Felix Houston and immediately entered into active service within the limit of Texas and during the month of August A.D. 1836. That he with, said Company was ordered to Camp Cobacca where this said Company remained until one or about the 3d day of November A.D. 1836 when and where be this claimant was honorably discharged from the said Volunteer Service and then and there enlisted in the further military service of the said Republic of Texas in the Company known as the “Texas Rangers” under the command of Col. Coleman, for the term of during the war and that during such time he was under the immediate command of Captain Andrews. That he received donation warrants of land amounting in all to 320 acres for his services under Captain James Pope Price from the time of his said enrollment to wit on the 20th day of July A.D. 1836 to the time of his said discharge. That he was born at Garret County in the state of Kentucky on the 7 day of August A.D. 1814 and that he is now upwards of Sixty years of age. That he went to Texas on or about the 1st day of August A.D. 1836 with the command of Captain James Pope Price as afore said. That he served and participated in all due active service of said company from the time last above mentioned up to the 15 day of October A.D. 1836. That he has never applied for nor received any certificate of pension nor any benefit whatever, heretofore, under the Act of the legislature of the State of Texas entitled “An Act Granting Pensions to the Surviving Veterans of the Revolution which Separated Texas from Mexico”, as approved April 21-1874 nor under the act of the said legislative relating to the same subject approved August 13th, 1870. That he now resides at Michigan Bar, Sacramento County, State of California and that his Post Office address for all communications or otherwise in the matter of this claim is at Sacramento City, California in care of J.N. Young, Atty of Law. That he claims and ask ___ a pension for all arrearages deel under said act of Aug 13th 1870 and for pension under said act of April 21-1874 and for the silver medal thereon provided for. Henry Alderson Claimant Also personally appeared C. A. West and Michael Fay residing at Michigan Bar, Sac. Co., State of California persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who being by me duly sworn say: They were present and saw Henry Alderson the claimant above named, sign his name to the foregoing affidavit and declaration and that they have every reason to believe from the appearance of said claimant and their acquaintance with him that he is the identical person he represents himself to be, and that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim. That they know the said claimant to be the person he represents himself to be for the following reasons. That he has resided continuously at Michigan Bar, Sacramento Co., California and as a near neighbor to each of us and has been well known to each of us for upwards of fifteen years. That during all that time he has been known by the name of Henry Alderson and as one of the “Texan Rangers”. That he is now from appearances about Sixty years of age. That ___ said C. H. West is Post Master and Merchant at Michigan Bar aforesaid and has seen letters received & said claimant from Texas and otherwise addressed to him by said name of Henry Alderson. That said claimant is well known in the said community as one of the old Soldiers who was in the service of the Republic of Texas. That the said claimant has now in his possession letters and papers and memorandum of agreement he said which are now exhibited to us which letters & papers & agreement refer to his having been in the military services of the Republic of Texas and to obtaining land for him as account of such service which letters and papers are signed by attorney at law in State of Texas by name of D.C. Freeman, G Rand Trebbar Freeman – and we further state that we have no interest in the prosecution of this claim. C. H. West Michael Fay ********************************** Pension Claim No. 1147 to Henry Alderson, Sacramento Co., California was approved and issued July 25, 1876 ********************************** Contributor’s Notes: Also included in this file are: An Affidavit of Identity from Benjamin Alderson – Kentucky that states he is fifty-six years of age and that he is the brother of Henry Alderson. dtd: 5/8/1875 An Affidavit of Identity from James Gallagher – Sacramento Co., CA and that he has known Henry Alderson since 1855. dtd: 7/10/1876 An Affidavit of Identity from James M. Brown – Sacramento Co., CA and that he has know Henry Alderson for eighteen years. dtd: 7/10/1876