Samuel BLACK 1791 - 1878 -- some notes

BLACK, RIDER

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 6/18/2011 at 14:32:06

National Archives Pension File

SAMUEL BLACK, Private, Ohio Militia, War of 1812. Two Enlistments. First enl. at West Union, Adams County, Ohio, about 5 Oct. 1812, in Capt. Thomas Lewis' Co., 3d Reg. Ohio Cavalry, 14th Brigade, Col. Allen Trimble; discharged at Ft. St. Mary's, 13 Nov. 1812. Second enl. at Bainbridge, Ross County, Ohio, on 18 Apr. 1813, in Capt. Robert McElwain's Co., 7th Reg., Ohio Infty.; Col. H. Brush; discharged at Lower Sandusky, Ohio about 28 Aug. 1813.

Married Catharine RIDER, 16 May 1816, in Paxton Twp., Ross County, Ohio, by Elisha Kelly, J.P. Neither had been married before. After discharge lived in Ross County, Ohio; Hancock County, Ind.; Jefferson County, Iowa.

15 March 1852, Samuel BLACK, aged 63 years, resident of Jefferson County, Iowa, applied for bounty land, received LW No. 32,234 for 80 Acres, June 25, 1852.

5 June 1855, Samuel BLACK, aged 65 years, res. of Jefferson County, Iowa, applied for additional bounty land. Rec'd Land Warrants in all amounting to 160 Acres.

6 April 1871, Samuel BLACK, aged 80 years, resident of Polk Township, Jefferson County, Iowa, asked for pension; states he served in Indiana (first enl.), Cavalry, and in Ohio on second enlistment, Infantry. Claim No. 9780.

20 June 1878, widow, Catharine BLACK, made claim for pension. Aged 85 years, resident of Polk Township, Jefferson County, Iowa. She has not re-married since death of husband 7 May 1878 in Jefferson County, Iowa. Her signature attested by A.W. Jaques and William E. Black.

Samuel BLACK born Penn. - Jeff. Co. Census 1850 & 1856.
Catharine BLACK born Va. - Jeff. Co. Census 1850 & 1856.

Gwathmey's "Virginians in the Revolution"
RYDER, Adam (Rider) 11 G.L.

ROSS COUNTY, OHIO, MARRIAGES:
6 Dec. 1810 - Polly Rider & Richard Acton, by William Robinson.
16 May 1816 - Catharine RIDER & Samuel BLACK, Elisha Kelly, J.P.
6 June, 1819 - Jacob Rider & Rachel Reeder (Rider) in Paxton Twp., by Elisha Kelly, J.P.

Ross County, Ohio, Probate Court Records:
ADAM RYDER, late of Paint Twp., dec'd.
29 May 1826. Henry Benner, Christian Benner, & Samuel BLACK, all of Ross County, State of Ohio, are held and firmly bound unto the State of Ohio, in the penal sum of two hundred dollars, current money, Court of Common Pleas.

Case No. 6607, Ross County, Ohio, Adam Ryder, Dec'd.
Henry Benner appointed Admr. 29 May 1826. Statement of all and singular the goods, chattels, money etc., --
"Cash rec'd on pension certifycat - $44.93
"Arrearages of pension due the said Adam Rider at the time of his death."
"Deed from Jacob Smith & wife to Adam Rider."
19 Feb. 1828 - Adam Rider Deceased, (Estate of)
Case of Jacob Rider, Samuel BLACK & Richard Acton, heirs of the said estate"....

National Archives, Pension File - Adam Rider, Virginia Continental Line, Revolutionary War.
".... Be it remembered that on this twentieth day of July Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.... Adam Rider of Ross County, who after being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists... deposeth and saith that he is in his seventieth year of his age, that he enlisted in May, 1775, in Hugh Stevenson's company of Riflemen for one year, in Virginia line, and served out said time, and immediately on the expiration of that time he again enlisted in Cap. A. Sheppard's company Colonel Rawling's regiment in same line & Corps for three years.

"During the first enlistment he was marched to Boston and was in several small skirmishes, in that quarter, and thence to Long island, New York, where we had a small engagement, then his first enlistment expired, and during his second enlistment, he with many others were captured at Fort Washington on York island in '76 and confined in an old sugar house (without sugar), about the eleventh day after said confinement he, this deponent, climbd (sic) out a back window on the top of a shed and escaped the sentry, and went thro new york and got a canoe and landed near Fort Lee, and went to join the army but first thing this affiant saw on his rout (sic) was the British pursuing Genl. Washington & by pretending to be of new york and a labourer out of employ & soforth, he got clear by turning out of the way and getting to Toppaune, New Jersey, commended by Major Clark, who gave him a letter to Genl. Washington then about Trenton, as supposed, and commanded him to sew it up in lining of jacket and told him how to act - he set out and arrived at the Camp of General Washington at Princeton, and after giving the letter to the General this affiant was ordered to join the army which he did at Trenton, and was in battle at Trenton, Monmouth, and from thence ordered up the Susquehanna to Shemokin, and was in that quarter the summer and until late in the fall, and then ordered to the South to join the army commanded by Genl. Green(e), but in the meantime this affiant's term of enlistment expired, and he immediately re-enlisted at Trenton after said summer & fall expedition with Genl. Sullivan up said river, the third time; for three years or during the war, in same Corps in Captain Long's Company, Eleventh Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel Trammel, and served in southern department, until peace. Was in the battle of Guilford and Utaw (sic) Springs and after that battle, he this affiant with others were sent off to Fredericktown, Maryland, and there discharged, after Cornwallace capture, which is lost by ways unknown to affiant and he has no evidence in his possession of services aforesaid....
- Adam Rider "X" his mark.

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Chillicothe (Ohio) July 20th 1818
"I do certify that the bearer, Adam Rider, was a Soldier in the first company of Riflemen from the State of Virginia, That he belonged to Captain Hugh Stevenson's Company, and marched in said Co. to Boston - That he served faithfully the term of his inlistment - That he enlisted, at the expiration of the Year, in Capt. A. Shepherd's Company (Colo. Rawling's Regiment) for three years, and was taken, with the Subscriber, who was 1st Lieut. of said company, at the Capture of Fort Washington, on York Island, in the year 1776. Witness my hand the day and year above written.
Sam(uel) Finley.

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Revolutionary Claim 9323 (Ohio) Act 18th March, 1818.
Adam Rider of Ross County in the state of Ohio, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Stevenson, of the Virginia line, for the Term of Four years --
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 of July 1818. Certificate of pension issued the 15 of April 1819 and sent to John Thompson Esq., Chillicothe, Ohio....

State of Ohio, Ross County Court of Common Pleas...
On the ninth day of March 1822 personally appeared in open court.... Adam Rider of Paxton township in the County of Ross aforesaid, aged Seventy-five years... doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
That he served in Captain Long's Company commanded by Col. Samuel Finley during the war, that he was in the Battle of Trenton, at Burgoin's defeat also in the Battles of Monmouth, Guilford, Eutaws Fort Friday, Fort Ninety-Six, at the Cowpens and at Gates' defeat at Camden, besides a number of Skirmishes and scouting parties... he has a wife and three children and a grandchild whose father and mother are dead, that his three children are of age and living to themselves, that he has no trade and very old and infirm and unable to support himself by manual labour.
Adam Rider, "X" his mark.

(Handwritten note: "He has one cow, a pot & small kettle and a mare in her 16th year...")

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.