Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13322, Joseph Hardin, N.C.
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service
N. C.
Hardin, Joseph
No. S13322
Carded
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Alabama [illegible]
Joseph Hardin [illegible] in the State of Alabama
who was a Private in the Co commanded
Captain Beatty of the Regt commanded
[illegible]
for 8 mo.

Inscribed on the Roll of Alabama at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Oct
1833 and sent to [illegible] Tuscaloosa
---
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1883-66.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar [illegible] 13.33
$80 

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Wm R Palmer, Clerk
Book [illegible] Vol. 8 Page 46

Datae of death [illegible]
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State of Alabama Tuscaloosa County
On this 16
day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three personally appeared
in open County Court for the County aforesaid before the those able Marmaduke Williams Judge of the said court Joseph Hardin, a resident of the said County of Tuscaloosa
and state aforesaid aged seventy three years this the third of this July who being first duly sworn according to law doth on oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832- That he interred the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated that
he turned out as a volunteer in the United States service in the early part of the Revolutionary war from the County of Rutherford in the State of North Carolina
the year not now remembered but that it was the same year and about the time of Tarltons defeat, on event of some notoriety in the history of the Revolution, that he served in the Company commanded by Hugh Beaty, in the
Battalion commanded by Richard Singleton, in
the Regiment commanded by Colonel William
Porter - that he continued in the said service under officers aforesaid, in active service against the Indians and Tories for the space eight months at least, that is from the last of the month of February until the last of the month of October following, and until he was furloughed to go home, and there to await further orders by his officers when his services might again be wanted; but on account of the dispersion of the Indians he was never again called into service- That during the
time of his service his head quarters were at White Oak fort at [illegible] Mill in Rutherford County North Carolina from which he and his associates in arms ranged the whole country round about in quest of the Indian enemy. In addition to the services above detailed he served an expedition against the Indians
as a volunteer Ranger under the command of Capt William Smith. The Petitioner was never engaged in
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any actual Battle, because the enemy would never be brought into action-- but retired before them as they advanced upon them. That the furlough granted to him referred
to above, although preserved by him for forty years has been lost or mislaid-- and from the length of time that has elapsed since the performance of his service, his comrades
in arms are all dead as he believes that he has no documentary evidence nor any discharge in writing that he knows of having lost it if he ever had any and that he knows of no person whose testimony he could procure who can
testify to his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State sworn to & subscribed in open court
the 16th of July AD 1833
Attest Moses McGuire Clerk
Joseph (his mark) Hardin

In answers to the questions required to be answered by the war department to the first he answers.

1st. He was born in Chatham County North Carolina in the year 1760 July the 3rd

To 2nd He has no other record of his age except one that he has transcribed into his own Bible from his father, the latter of which is not possession of a relation in North Carolina

3rd He was living in Rutherford County of North Carolina until about sixteen years since, he lived in the above mentioned County and state and then removed to the County of Anderson East Tennessee and then in about
a year to Franklin County West Tennessee and after having there resided four years, he came to Tuscaloosa County when he has ever since lived.

4th He was a volunteer

5th He thinks in his general statement that perhaps he has been full enough; but he adds that he was acquainted personally with General Sumpter and Marion whilst he was in service
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6th If he ever received a written discharge he does not recollect it, unless a furlough should be so considered; one of which he did receive, but which is now lost
7th He gives the names of James Holloway and James Martin both Clergymen and his brother Elijah Hardin all of whom he believes will testify to their belief that he was a revolutionary soldier and his character for veracity.

We James Holloway and James Martin 
Clergymen the former residing in the County of Fayette though in the neighborhood of the applicant and the latter in the County of Tuscaloosa and Elijah Hardin residing in the County of Tuscaloosa hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Hardin who has subscribed and sworn to the above
declaration that we believe him to be 73 years
of age this July that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
sworn to & subscribed in Court the 18th July 1833 Attest. [illegible] McGuire clerk

James Holloway
James Martin
Elijah Hardin

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after having put the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that James Halloway, and James Martin are Clergyman who have signed the preceding certificate resident the former in Fayette County, the later in Tuscaloosa County and that Elijah Hardin who has also signed the same is a resident
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in the County of Tuscaloosa and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
July 16. 1833
M. D. Williams Judge of the County Court of Tuscaloosa.

I Moses McGuire Clerk of the Court of the County of Tuscaloosa do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Courtin the matter of the application of Joseph Hardin for a Pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this the 16th day of July
1833.

Moses McGuire Clerk

Joseph Hardin
Application for Pension
26908
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February 9, 1934
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Joseph Hardin-S.13322
BA-J/AWF

Mary P. Bingham
Angleton
Texas

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you
request the Revolutionary War record of Joseph Hardin of North Carolina.

The data furnished herein were obtained from
the papers on file in pension claim, S. 13322, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Joseph Hardin.

He was born July 3, 1760 in Chatham County,
North Carolina, names of parents not given.

While residing in Rutherford County, North Carolina, Joseph Hardin enlisted in February about the time of Tarleton's Defeat and served eight months as private in Captain Hugh Beaty's company, Colonel William Porter's North Carolina regiment. He also served as a ranger under Captain William Smith in an
expedition against the Indians, length of this service not stated.

He moved about 1817 to Anderson County, Tennessee and in about one year moved to Franklin County, Tennessee, where he lived four years and then moved to Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. He was allowed pension on his application executed July 16, 1833, then a resident of said Tuscaloosa County.

Elijah Hardin brother of the soldier, Joseph
Hardin, was a resident of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama in 1833. There are no further data in this claim con-
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cerning the family of Joseph Hardin;

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address to whom sent and
the date of death of this pensioner, you should
possibly apply to the Comptroller General, General Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., citing the following data.

Joseph Hardin
Certificate No. 22416
Issued October 29, 1833
Rate $26.66 per annum
Commenced Maarch4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Alabama Agency

Very truly yours

A. H. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Tuscaloosa July 15th 1833

Sir

Enclosed I send you the application of Joseph Hardin. The information of the action whom it may be addressed to me.

Yours respectfully
[illegible]

N. B. Some applications amended have been
sent by me, so long ago, that I fear there have
been miscarriages
E.S.

J. L.
Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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2 h.  908  22.415
Joseph Hardin
Alabama

Adm 8 months
$ [illegible]
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Pension Office,

Sir:

The evidence in support of your claims under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined,
and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. the notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace,  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
Statement showing the Service Duration of the
claimant's service.
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[this page is a printed form without any non-printed information.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia" and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of County of
On this     day of     personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b)   or the county of      and State, Territory or District of     aged (c)    years, who being first duly sworn, according to law  doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)

with      and served in the      (e) regiment of the     line, under the following named officers;
    

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers of the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
(And then will follow the certificate of the Court.)
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. I     of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
day of   &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
and C. D. residing in (the same) subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be       years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.

And then will follow the certificate of the Court.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that A.B. and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the    and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,     Clerk of the Court of    do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application certify that the foregoing claims      for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this    day of     & c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the service on the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his