Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5296, Benjamin Harrison, N.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Harrison, Benjamin   W.5296
Charity
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51869
Georgia
Charity Harrison
widow of Benjamin Harrison
N.C.
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Captain

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate)
Of 2.80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued
the 17th day of February ‘52
and sent to
J. Bryan
 Present.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 219, Vol. 3
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State of Georgia
Randolph County
Superior Court 
(april)
Spring Session 1851 (faded words)
On this the fourteenth Day of April A.D. 1851 
Personally appeared in open court Mrs. Charity harrison
 of the County and State
aforesaid, aged Eighty -seven years, who
being duly sworn, according to Law, doth
on her oath make the following Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the pensions [illegible] 
made by the serial “acts of congress” hereto=
fore passed granting & en[illegible]  R [illegible] 
In the widows of revolutionary  [illegible] 
Applicant states she is the widow of 
Benjamin Harrison, deceased who was a 
Captain of a company of  [illegible]   B[illegible]ing 
To the continental Batailon of the : state 
Of North Carolina in the  [illegible]  [illegible] [illegible] 
I e an independence in 1778, that her
Husband was commandant? And cap-tain as aforesaid on the 18th day of May 
A.D. 1778 by Richard Caswell governor of the state of North Carolina [illegible] 
She does not know where or how long 
her said husband served, but from what 
She remembered to have heard
Him say before his death, she believes 
He was engaged a long time, & perhaps was to the end of the revolutionary war.
The only Documentary evidence left by the
said husband at the time of his death
& now in her possession of his service [illegible] [illegible]
War is hereto attached as following [illegible]
1st a commission as Captain from governor
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Richard Caswell dated 19th May 1778; 2nd an order from said Governor Caswell to her
said husband as captain to muster
his Company to march into service. said
order heaving date 14th day of June 1778: & 3d a Commission as caption from Alexander Martin Governor of North Carolina, 7 dated the 7th of June A.D. 1783.
she further delcares that she was married to the said Benjamin Harrison, was deemed