Lawrence, Here's something that might help. In 1832, Benjamin Worrall of Penn Township, Morgan County, Ohio, applied for a pension based on service in the Revolutionary War: The State of Ohio, County of Morgan On this 17th day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Benjamin Worral a resident of Penn Township in the County aforesaid aged eighty eight years on the 22nd day of March last who being duly affirmed according to law doth on this affirmation make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed 7" June 1832-- That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the summer but the year he cannot now recollect in the Company commanded by Captain Jacob Weaver in the Tenth Regt commanded by Col __ Hampton of the Pennsylvania line of Continental Trops[sic] in Gen'l Wagnes[sic] Division. That his company joined their Regt at the Valley Forge--that he was in the Battle of the Block House where Wayne was repulsed. That he continued in the line for more than three years, that there was a revolt of the Troops in consequence of their being detaniend for a longer period than that of their enlistment which was for the term of three years--they were then discharged, that his discharge is lost or destroyed. That at the time of his enlistment he resided in the town of Lancaster, Penn. where he enlisted and remained until the fall of that year, that Major Green was his major but cannot from the infirmities of age recollect the different marches. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension of annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State. his Benjamin X Worrell mark --- Dan Treadway P. O. Box 72, Gilbert IA 50105 treadway@netins.net http://showcase.netins.net/web/treadway

Daniel Treadway wrote: >Lawrence, > >Here's something that might help. In 1832, Benjamin Worrall of Penn >Township, Morgan County, Ohio, applied for a pension based on service in >the Revolutionary War: <remainder snipped> > Dan, Thanks so much for the pension application of Benjamin Worrall. As always, your information is so very helpful. I had a reference from one of Ancestry.com's databases--'Family Data Collection--Births', I think, which is, of course, unsourced (and is therefore tantalizing but frustrating)--that gave a birth date of 22 March 1743/44 for Benjamin Worrall. This is the same date as in the pension application. I am going to pursue these leads on Benjamin Worrall further, since I think they may lead ultimately to the parents of Hannah Clendenon. One interesting bit of naming trivia for the children of Isaac and Hannah Clendenon: their first child, a girl, was named Elizabeth, which was the name of Isaac's mother, Elizabeth Barger; their second child, a son, was named Benjamin (Hannah's father's name, perhaps?); their third child, a girl, was named Rebeckah, which was the name of Isaac's father's only sibling (and who married Gaspar Seyboldt); for subsequent children, I can make no logical case, except that their second-to-last and last children were named Isaac and Hannah, respectively. As you know, I'm not trying to make a particular case here; just trying to understand everything about the information I have, in the hope that it will point me toward further research. Thanks again, Lawrence Bouett San Diego, California