1834 10 February. Fold3. My seriously pissed 4 Great Grandfather Ezekiel Henderson answers the bureaucrats who rejected his first pension application:
Personally came Ezekiel Henderson before the subscribing Justice of the Peace and being first duly sworn according to law, makes oath, that the services, mentioned in his declaration returned from the Pension office, were rendered his country in regularly embodied corps called into service by the state of North Carolina for the purpose of protecting the inhabitants of that state against the depredations of the Tories and for the purpose of driving the Tories out of the country, who were marching over the country in large bodies; that during the whole of the tour mentioned in his declaration he was constantly and actively engaged in marching after and skirmishing with the Tories. The names of the officers under whom he served are already mentioned in his declaration and also the places where his services were performed. He has also stated in his declaration that he knows of no one whose testimony he can procure as to his services. Sworn to . . . February 10th. 1834.
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