Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21266, Sanford Hart, R.I.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE | | NUMBER
RI | Hart, Sanford | W.21266
| Hannah |

CONTENTS
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To R. Island
10.116
from Massachusetts

Sanford Hart of Dartmouth in the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Olney of the R. Island line, for the term of 9 month.

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 24 of April 1818.

Certficate of Pension issued the 23 of April 1821 and sent to Abner B Gifford Esq. Watport, Bristol Co, Mass

Arrears to 4th of March 1821. 34 mo 5/28&4/31 274.45
Semi anl. all'ce ending 4 September 48.--
$322.45
{Revolutionary Claim, Act 18 March, 1818.}
First of May 1820
[upper right column: "Latl Asa Gray, Nov 25 * 36"]
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[left hand column]

Hannah Hart
widow of Sanford Hart dec'd
who died on the 1st March 1828
of Bristol in the State of Massa. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Capt. Church of the Regt. commanded by Col. Barton in the R. Island line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 80 Dollars --- cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of June 1837 and sent Asa Gray Tiverton, R. Island

Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $480.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 40.00
$520.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1826, September 3d}
Issued by DD Addison Clerk, [illegible] Page 52
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Let to PW July 11 1837
Let to Hon NB Borden Mar 26, 1838
Letter to [crossed out text] A. Bassett 3d Aud 25 Oct 1838
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United States
Massachusetts District
Sandford Hart, of Dartmouth in the county of Bristol and District of Massachusetts a resident citizen of the United States and applicant for a pension from the United States, under an Act of Congress, entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, maketh oath, that he served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution, for upwards of two years in manner following viz. Enlisted in the spring of 1777 in the company commanded by Captain Christopher Manchester in the Rhode Island regiment commanded by Colonel Archibald Crary and served in said comp at Tiverton & at Bristol until the Autumn of 1779. Enlisted in the spring of 1782 in the company commanded by as he believes, Captain Brown in the Rhode Island Regiment commanded by Colonel Coggeshall Olney and served in said corps in Pennsylvania. He finished out at Saratoga, nine months, when he was honorably discharged, and is in such reduced circumstances as to require the air of his country.
Sanford Hart his mark "x"
Massachusetts Bristol Co ss
Boston 24 April 1818
Sworn to before me John Davies 
Dist. Judge Mass. Dist.
Sal Peckham certifies as to 15 months service in Crary's regiment. Sworn before me J Davies DJ
Thomas Durfee of Tiverton to take evidence Comr issues 24 April
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No 321
Sandford Hart
private Crary's RI
reqt 18 mo '77 '78 24 April 1815
Admitted April 23 1821 Sec. Major Dexter, Certificate [illegible]
Lee remarks in S. Peckhams
Jany 10 1820 New Evd offered marked D &
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Schedule
1 Chest 50c Teakettle 50c Iron Pot 25c 1.25
1 Iron Kettle 50c 1 Bakekettle 50c 1.00
Shovel & tongs 25c 6 chairs 1.00 1.25
1 Table 50c Water Pail 25c 0.75
1 Foot Wheel 1.00
$5.25

his mark "x" Sandford Hart
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SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
BRISTOL ss Circuit Court of Common Pleas
On this seventeenth day of July 1820, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the said county, Sandford Hart aged sixty eight years, resident in Dartmouth, in said county, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: viz. That he enlisted into the service in the year 1775, for eight months and served that term, under Capt. William Cook. Then I returned home, and stayed some time, how long I cannot rightly tell; when I enlisted again into the service for three months soon after. And at the time the British landed on Rhode Island. I enlisted again into the service for the term of fifteen months under Capt. Christopher Manchester in Archibald Carary's Regiment and served during that term, the most of which we were at Bristol R.I. Then returned home and stayed a short time and enlisted again for 12 months under Capt. Carr in Col. [illegible] Regiment, and served that term out, being most of the time in Little Compton in the state of R.I. Then I returned home and made a short stay. When I enlisted again for six months in the Continental Establishment:  Was under the command of Major Flaggin Col. Presner Regiment and served that term out. Then I enlisted again in May 1782 for the term of nine months in the Continental Establishment and served during that term in the Regiment of Col. Olney and Major Olney; being most of the time at the Highlands (so called) by the North River; the latter part of the time we were moved to Saratoga when and where I was discharged. That I made application for my pension by Judge Davis in Boston, on the 24th day of April 1818 and depositions have been forwarded to him to be sent to the War Office but I have not received a Certificate.

[note in left margin: "property valued at $5.25"]
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. 
Sandford Hart "x" his mark
That I have no family excepting my wife, who is sixty two years of age and very weakly so that for a great part of the time is unable to work.
Sworn to, and declared, on the seventeenth day of July A.D. 1820 before James Sproat Clerk of the Court. Bristol County
I James Sproat, clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Bristol do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath record and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is FIVE dollars and TWENY FIVE cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this eighth day of August 1820.
Jas Sproat Clerk of the Court for the County of Bristol.
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MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, SS
Boston, June 13 A.D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Sandford Hart subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked A, B, C, together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed. 
Jno Davis Judge of the District Court U.S. Massachusetts District.
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MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
16 March 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named Sandford Hart, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his country for supprt.
Jn Davis District Judge U.S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
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State of Massachusetts Bristol ss.
On this tenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thrity seven, personally appeared before me Oliver Prescott Esq. Judge of Probate & Wills &c for the County of Bristol aforesaid, Hannah Hart a resident of Fall River in the county of Bristol aforesaid aged seventy nine years, who being first sworn according to law, on oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July the fourth one thousand eight hundred and theirty six Viz, That she is the widow of Sandford Hart late of Tiverton in the County of Newport and state of Rhode Island, deceased, who was a private soldier in the [crossed out "revolutionary"] army during the revolutionary war, and was a pensioner under the former act of Congress until his decease.
And she further declares that her said husband Sandford Hart, enlisted in the army under Capt. William Cook for the term of eight months and marched to Boston on the sixth day of June 1775 and was in the battle on Bunkers Hill; that after the expiration of said eight months service at Boston, he returned and enlisted under Captain Nathaniel Church for one year and was stationed at Howland's and Fogland's ferries, and served afterwards in Col. Richmonds regiment, went on an expedition from Rhode Island to Long Island, and after his return from Long Island was in service at the time of the battle on Rhode Island in the autumn of 1778. That he afterwards enlisted for fifteen months, but she does not recollect the name of the Captain under whom he enlisted, he served during this enlistment according to her best recollection under Cols. Barton, Topham, Miller, Green, and Olney; that after the expiration of this fifteen months service he enlisted for the term of three months, but under whom, or when he served she does not remember. And she further declares that towards the close of the war he was enlisted by Capt. Richard Durfee for the term of six months, and served during that enlistment, and continued in the
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service until the army was disbanded, that she does not now remember where he served during his last enlistment, but that he was one of Gen. Washingtons life guard, and when the army was disbanded he was 470 miles from home and that the time her said husband was a soldier in the service in the army between the commencement and close of the revolutionary war was five years [illegible] as few weeks.
She the said Hannah Hart declares that her said husband had several papers relating to his enlistment services, discharges &c which he kept for a great many years, but which were all lost before his decease, and that she is not now in possession of any documents relating to his services.
And the said Hannah Hart further declares that she was married to the said Sandford Hart in the town of Tiverton aforesaid, in the month of May in the year 1778 by the Rev. Othniel Cornbell, a minister of the Congregational order entitled in that place, that her said husband died at said Tiverton on the first day of March 1828 and that she has remained a widow ever since his decease as will more fully appear by the proof hereunto annexed. Hannah Hart "x" her mark
Subscribed and sworn to be the aforesaid Hannah Hart the day and year above written. 
Before Oliver Prescott Judge of the Court of Probate for Bristol County
I Oliver Prescott of New Bedford in the County of Bristol Judge of the Court of Probate for said county do hereby certify that Hannah Hart the applicant aforesaid cannot from bodily infirmity attend the court. Oliver Prescott Judge of the County of Probate for Bristol County
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Bristol ss.
I Anselm Bassett Register of the Court of Probate in & for said County, do hereby certify that Oliver Prescott of New Bedford in said County of Bristol, is the Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said County of Bristol, and that the signatures to the foregoing certificates, purporting to be his are genuine-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court of Probate, this twenty eighth day of March 1837
[signature] A Bassett 
Sanford Hart was a Pensioner under the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818-
See "Massachusetts Pension Roll" Page 45-
Asa Gray, Esq. 
Tiverton, R Island
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State of rhode Island Sc}
County of Newport}
I Asa Gray Clerk of the Court of Probate for the town of Tiverton in the County of Newport do hereby certify that Asa Gray Esqr of said Tiverton has been by this Court appointed Guardian of the person and estate of Hannah Hart, widow of Sanford Hart late of said Tiverton deceased and late a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, and that hs is at this time legally authorized to act in his said capacity as appears of Record in this office
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal of office at the Office of said Probate Court in Tiverton, this thirteenth day of May A. D. 1837-
[signature] Asa Gray, Probate Clerk
Examined and Countersigned
[signature] Abraham Barker President of said Court of Probate-
State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Newport ss. Tiverton May 15th AD 1837
I Job Durfee, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State aforesaid do hereby certify, that Abraham Barker is known to me to be the President of the Court of Probate for the town of Tiverton, in said County of Newport, and the signature of his name above written [the word is crossed out] appears to be his own proper hand writing
[signature] Job Durfee
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Sanford Hart was born March 8th 1752 &
Hannah Hart his wife was born August 21st 1757
the time of the births of the Children of the said Sanford & Hannah Hart are as followeth
Mary Hart was born May the 31st A. D. 1779
Lydia Hart was born January the 12th A. D. 1782
Sanford Hart Junr was born March the 14th A. D. 1784
Phebe Hart was born June the 1st A. D. 1786
Cynthia Hart was born May the 22d A. D. 1788
Amey Hart was born Octr. 6th A. D. 1790
Charles Hart born Novr. 5 1792
Nancy Hart born Novr. 1 1797
Lois Hart born December 21st 1799
State of Rhode island &c}
County of Newport}
Town Clerk's Office Tiverton May 13, 1837
I Asa Gray, Town Clerk of the town of Tiverton, in said County do hereby certify, that the above thirteen lines contain a true and exact copy of the record on page 135 and Book No. 1 of the Records of births in this Office
[signature] Asa Gray Town Clerk
State of Rhode Island &c}
County of Newport}
On the 15th day of May 1837 before me Job Durfee Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations, residing in Tiverton in sd. County, personally appeared the above named Asa Gray and made oath to the truth of the [the word truth crossed out] above certificate by him subscribed-  And I further certify that said Asa Gray is known to me to be the Town Clerk of said town of Tiverton, and as such has the keeping of the Records of Births in sd. town.
[signature] Job Durfee
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Secretarys office may 18, AD 1837.
I Certify that at the session of the General Assembly of said State on the first Wednesday of may [the word last crossed out] inst., Job Durfee was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State:  and Charles Durfee a Justice of the Peace for the town of Tiverton in the County of Newport- each for one year, and Commissioned accordingly, as appears of record in this office
Witness  [signature] Henry Bowen Secry
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY,
John Brown Francis Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.
BE IT KNOWN, that the name "HENRY BOWEN," to the afore-written attestation subscribed, is the proper hand writing of Henry Bowen, Esquire, who at the time of subscribing the same, was the Secretary of the State aforesaid, duly elected and qualified according to law:  Wherefore unto his said attestation full faith and credit are to be rendered.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said State to be affixed at Providence, this eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven and of Independence the sixty-first.
[Signature] John Brown Francis
By His Excellency's Command.
[Signature] Henry Bowen Secry
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I Ichabod Simmons of Tiverton in  the County of Newport and State of Rhode Island aged Seventy Six ^years do on my oath depose and say that I was acquainted with Sanford Hart from my youth, to the time of his death.  he married Hannah Manchester, she now remains his widow-  said Sanford was a Revolutionary Pensioner and died at Tiverton about nine or ten years ago.-  said Sanford Hart and said Hannah Hart have resided in Tiverton nearly or quite all the time since they were married, and most of the time in my neighborhood.-  they have always been considered and respected as man and wife and as such have brought up a family of children,-  and I never heard nor do I doubt, but that they were lawfully married-  said Sanford Hart and myself were together in the Continental service in 1783 in Col. Jeremiah Olney's Regiment,-  we lay in the summer of 1783 in the Highlands below West Point, and in the fall we were at Saratoga, where we were discharged-  this service was for nine months.-  I well recollect that said Sanford Hart and Hannah Hart were married long before we were together in this nine months service, & were keeping house together in said Tiverton, had children, and that said Sanford provided necessaries for her as his wife when he went into this service-
[signature] Ichabod Simmons
State of R. Island & Providence Plantations
County of Newport
Be it known that on the 12th day of May 1837 before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, personally appeared Ichabod Simmons, and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above deposition, and I further Certify that said Deponent is a credible person
Before me [signature] Charles Durfee
Justice of the Peace
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Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21,266
Hannah Hart widow of Sanford Hart Pri Rev War
Act:  July 4th 36
Index:—Vol. A, Page 315
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Washington July 6th 1837
Dear Sir, The enclosed letter is from a highly respectable citizen of Riverton R.I. and the town clerk of that town. You may, I think, place the fullest confidence in all that Mr. Gray has stated; and I have to request you to take such steps in regard to Mrs. Harts Pension, as will prevent Sandford from carrying to effect, what he has in view, the [illegible] of [illegible] Hart and the Town of Tiverton, which is liable for her support and maintenance, of what to them belongs. Very respectfully your obedient servt. Dutee J. Pearce J.L. Edwards, Esqr. Commissioner of Pensions.
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Washington Feby 6th 1837 Dear Sir, The enclosed letter is from a highly respectable citizen of Tivertown R.I. and the town clerk of that town. You may, I think, place the fullest confidence in all that Mr. Gray has stated; and I have to request you to take such steps in regard to Mrs. Hart's Pension, as will prevent Sanford from carrying into effect, what he has in view, the [illegible] of [illegible] Hart and the Town of Tiverton, which is liable for her support and maintenance, of what to them belongs. Very respectfully your obedient Servt. Dutee J. Pearce J.L. Edwards Esqr. Commissioner of Pensions
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Tiverton May 1827 Sir, Your letter of the 18th Insisted and I herewith forward proof of my Guardianship your Letter informs me that the only difficulty which now presents itself against the present admission of her claim is the want of the required proof as to the legality and date of the marriage. I send the Proofs on those points. Anne Simmons, who is a very respectable woman, declares that she saw them married by Othniel Campbell a Clergyman, and she is positive it was not later that 1778. Ichabod Simmons declares that he & said Sanford Hart served together in the Continental Army in 1785. That said Sanford and Hannah were married before that time; were keeping house together and had children and that they lived together till his death and were respected as husband and wife. The Copies from Record relative to the will and the Inventory of Othniel Campbell are offered to shew that their marriage must have been before Oct. 29 1778. Also the record of the Births of their children shew that they were husband and sife and that their eldest child was born May 31 1779. The copy of the record of the admin "account of Stephen Crandell, is made [illegible] for the purpose of understanding the order of Court which follows. That Order shews that said Hannah was considered by the Court to be the widow of Sanford Hart, who by a credit in said account is shewn to have been a Pensioner. It is expected that her Pension will be made payable in Providence R.I. and the Certificate forwarded to me. 

I would respectfully call your attention to the claim of Nancy Taber widow of John Taber of this town. Her papers were forwarded in November last and no communication whatever has
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been received relative to her claim. She is in very poor health and very yneasy that she has not heard from it. My great rreluctance to encroach upon your time has hitherto prevented me from calling your attention to said slaim. I am with great respect your obt Servt. Asa Gray
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To what time was Sandford Hart of Tiverton paid under the Act of March 18, 1818 R. Island HHI May 4

Died 2d March 1828 paid to that period. JH

State of Rhode Island &c. County of Newport. Town Clerks Office Tiverton May 13 1837 I hereby certify that I have made diligent search and am not able to find the marriage of Sanford Hart and Hannah Hart recorded in this office. Asa Gray Town Clerk
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Providence Januar 3d 1843
Sir Enclosed is the application of Sanford Hart for the removal of his pension from the Massachusetts to the Rhode Island agency, which I pray in his behalf may be done accordingly. I am respectfully your most obt servt. Benja Cowell. J.L. Edwards Esq
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District Clerks Office Boston 10 January 1820 Hon. John C. Calhoun Secretary of War Sir By order of the District Judge I have the honor to transmit the papers of nine applicants for Pension, as particularly described in Schedules A. B. C. & D. hereto annexed. I am Sir with the highest of respect Your most Obedt. Sert. Jno W. Davis Clerk of Masstts. Dist. Court.
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AO
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Bristol Westport April 12, 1821 To the Honourable the Secretary of War. Dr Sir, permit me once more to address you in behalf of Sandford Hart respecting his application for a pension, doubtless you have his first applilcatioin of April or May 1818 before you which was made to & forwareded by Jno W. Davis Judge of the District Court Boston. Mr. Harts poverty & incapacity has been the reason why he has not, long before this day furnished the necessary evidence to prove the justness of his claim. It will I presume be [illegible] for me here to notice the various despositions which he has had taken & forwarded to the War Department, as I suppose you have them before you. I will only say that he has complied with the Law, /I think of 1820/ by making and forwarding under the directions of the County Court, a schedule of his property. It passed on untill December last, when through Mr. Morton our Rep. to Congress was received the enclosed information of which No. 1 is a copy. After which application was made to Major Dexter, and he gave his Certificate No. 2 - This being a duplicate, by reason that the first certificate together with the original of No. 1, was forwarded by mail to the war Department on or about the 20th of February last, and as nothing has been heard from it since, suppose it must have miscarried. They were directed to Mr. Morton, to be by him handed over. I have called on Mr. Morton since his return he says he don't recollect of receiving them while there. I will now confirm myself to the present documents, and only ask your honour - is the certificate of Major John S. Dexter, with his former proof, sufficient to entitle him to a pension Certificate; if so I do on his behalf humbly ask your honour to have the goodness to forward it to me by mail for him, as soon as you conveniently can and if consistent, I hope you will order that he may recieve
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what may be due & coming to him from his first application up to 4th of March 1821 or his receiving his certificate, should it be otherwise, and anything as to form or effect should still be wanting, pray have the goodness to answer this and state what he has yet to do to make his case perfectly clear & Satisfactory. He is very poor & infirm & I think as Justly entitled to receive some aid from the Government, as any one that ever has received. I am with much respect and esteem your most Obedt. Friend & humble Servant Abner B. Gifford
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Hon. the Secretary of War United States Politeness and Kind attention of the Hon. M. Morton.
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Dartmouth Feby 13th 1821. To the Honl. the Secretary of War. Permit me, dear sir, to ask once more, to address you upon a subject of very great interest to me (viz) that of my pension. My detestable state of health, and my extreme poverty are such that it has been out of my power, earier to furnish that evidence in support of my claim which the Justice of the case required, or should I even at this time be able to offer anything were it not for the good offices of Mr. Abner B. Gifford Esq of Westport who has voluntarily rendered me the assistance at this time. It will at once be [illegible] that in 1818 I made application for my pension through Hudge John W. Davis of Boston. Since which divers depositions have been taken and forwarded and all to no effect, of the 26th of Decr. I obtained through the Hon. Mr. Morton the enclosed directions, shich which I have been able to procure the Certificate of Major J S Dexter and have forwarded the orginial and if any thing further is necssary in my part, I beg you to have patience with me, and do state to me what it is, and how it may be obtained if you can otherwise should the Certificate of Mr. Dexter, with all the Depositions that have been forwarded together with, the documents, that were made & forwarded by the Court of Record in 1820, from
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the County of Bristol - be sufficient to establish my claim. I do humbly beg, and do entreat, your honour to forward, enclosed to Abner B. Gifford Esqr. of Westport a certificate that will enable me to draw, on the 4th of March next, as I am actually suffering hunder and cold for want of it. From your poor but very humble servant his mark X Sandford Hart present Perry R. Marcombs Abner Gifford
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FREE Honl. Marcus Morton Representative in Congress City of Washington Westport MS February 17 Feby 26
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Westport Feby 16, 1821 Hon. M. Morton Dr Sir, Enclosed I send to your care a letter to the secretary of war, together with some documents in support of Sandford Hart claim as a pensioner. Hart is very poor, and is actualy suffering for want of his pension and I cannot see why the enclosed documents with what has feretofore been forwarded will not entitle him to a certificate should that be the case, I have to request you to use your influence in this behalf that he may draw on the 4th of March next as he has been living upon expectation a long time. Should he succeed he would be perfectly willing to make any remuneration for your services in this behalf. I am with every sentiment of esteem your most obedient friend & Hong Servt. Abner B. Gifford
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Newport Sc Court of Probate holden in and for the town of Tiverton in the County of Newport on the first Monday of November being the 3d day A. D. 1828
The account of Stephen Crandell Administr. on the estate of Sanford Hart late of said Tiverton deceased having heretofore been presented to this Court and previous notice of the pendency thereof being duly given, and now in person appearing to object thereto the same is allowed and ordered to be recorded; which account is in the words and figures following, to wit.
Account of Stephen Crandell
The Estate of Sanford Hart, late ot Tiverton deceased in account with Stephen Crandell Administr.
Debits. Credits.
1828. To attend'g Court to receive Letter of
Adminisr. Cr. By Inventory  Dr.  $.75 Cr. $40.25
Dr. Report of day taking the Inventory Dr. $.75
Dr. second day to return Inventory Dr. $1
Dr. To one Coffin Dr. $3.50
Sept. 12  Dr. To four days to Providence P expenses to collect Pension money  Dr. $5
Cr. By Pension money for 5 months and 29 days pr. Bill  Cr. $47.71
Dr.  To Cash paid the Court as per Bill  Dr. $1.75
Dr. To Cash paid Abner Simmons for Services as pr. bill  Dr.  $2.50
Oct. 2  Dr. To Cash paid Jotham Sexton pr Bill $3
Dr.  To Cash paid Amy Raymond for Services per Bill Dr.  $4
Dr.  To Cash paid Godfrey King taking Inventory & for attending Probate as per Bill Dr.  $1.25
Dr.  To Cash paid Godfrey King Junr. taking Inventory  $1.25
Dr.  To Cash paid Ebenizer King for tending as a witness for the deceased as pr Bill   Dr.  $.44
Dr.  To Cash paid Nancy King for tending as a witness for the deceased as pr Bill  $.44
Octr.  To my attendance to present this account at Court  Dr.  $1
To Da. at the time of allownce  $1
To Probate Clerk's bill for services in recording proceeding in the settlen. of said estate &c  $3.52
Novem. 3  Court fees Settling this account &c $.75
Totals  Debits $31.90  Credits  $87.96
Total $31.90 + 56.06 = $87.97
(over)
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Appeared the above named Stephen Crandell and gave oath in his said capacity that the above account is true according to his best knowledge, at the Court of Probate holden at Tiverton on the 6th day of Otober 1828
[signature] Chs. Durfee  Depy. Probt. Clk
On Motion being made that Hannah Hart widow of the aforesaid Sanford Hart deceased, have an allowance made to her out of the Personal Estate of said Sanford for the purposes of upholding of life-
The Court thereupon allow to said widow the sum of Fifty six dollars and six cents for the purposes aforesaid it being the ballance [balance] remaining in the hands of the Administrator on said estate after the settlement of said account.
State of Rhode Island &c}
County of Newport}
Probate Office Tiverton May 13. 1837.
I Asa Gray Clerk of the Court of Probate for the town of Tiverton in the County aforesaid do certify the writing and figures on the preceding page, and on this page above written to be a true and exact copy of the record, in Book No. 10 of the Records of said Court, in this office.
Witness my hand and Seal of Office this thirteenth day of May in the year 1837.
[signature] Asa Gray  Probate Clerk
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Newport ss.  In Town Council in the town of Tiverton on the 9th day of Novemr. 1778, the above and foregoing last will and Testament of the above names Othniel Campbell was exhibited was proved according to Law and was approved of
[signature] Benjamin Jenks Esq. President
Witness,
A true Copy of the original, 
[signature] Walter Cook Coun'l Clerk
"A true Inventory of the Reverend Mr Othniel Campbells Personal estate late of Tiverton deceased.  Taken by us the Subscribers shewn to us by Othniel Campbell Executor of said Estate. Tiverton October the 29th A. D. 1778,"
[Then follows the record of the Inventory, which is signed as follows.]
[signature] Joseph Taber}
[signature] Nathaniel Crandell}  Apprisers"
State of Rhode Island &c]
County of Newport}
Probate Office.  Tiverton May 13th 1837.
I Asa Gray, Clerk of the Court of Probate for the town of Tiverton in said County of Newport do hereby certify that the seven lines first above written is a true and exact copy of a record on page 286 in Book N. 4 of the Records of said Court of Probate in this Office, and that said record follows next after the record of the will of Othniel Campbell of Tiverton, Clerk.  I further certify that the four lines next after the first seven above written & also the words "Joseph Taber, Nathaniel Crandell Apprisers" are true and exact copies of a record on page 287 in the same book above named, and that the goods inventoried are entered on record on said page 287.
Witness my hand and Seal of Office hereunto affixed this thirteenth day of May in the year 1837-
[signature] Asa Gray  Probate Clerk
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Tiverton January 30, 1837
Dear Sir
An old and infirm woman in the eightieth year of her age, belonging to this town of the name of Hannah Hart widow of Sanford Hart, and who has been supported in our Poor house for about two years past was taken away last fall by a daughter of hers, a poor and an infamous woman, on pretence of making a visit. Soon afterwards it being understood that she was entitled to a pension under the act of July 4, 1835, and that she was taken from the Poor house by this daughter of hers, through the instigation of one Capt Thomas Sanford of Fall River for the purpose of getting her pension money into their hands. The rest of her children and some of the most respectable inhabitants of this town also who were acquainted with her and that she was incapable for want of disertion of managing her affairs &c. petitioned the Court of Probate force Guardian to be appointed to said Hannah, and said Court after giving due notice to said Hannah and her sd daughter did upon consideration of the subject appoint me as Guardian of said Hannah and I duly qualified myself as such by giving bond according to law with sureties approved by the Court and gave due notice of such appointment by publishing the same in a Newport and also a Fall River Paper. At that time said Sanford had the old woman and her daughter living in a house of his in the north end of this town east of the village of Fall River and forbid any one taking her away, and it being soon after reported that he had sent in papers asserting her claim to a pension. I wrote to Mr. Edwards making enquires concerning it but he had not then asserted her claim. Since then Capt Sanford has removed her into Fall River, and I have no doubt has [illegible] this asserted her claim to a pension as a citizen of that town, but I believe no certificate has
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yet been sent on. It appears to me that it is my duty as her guardian to prevent if possible her money from coming into their hands to be squandered away as it is believed in such case it would be. And it has occurred to me that upon the facts being represented to Mr. Edwards the Commissioner of Pensions, he would see proper to make her pension payable in Providence and to transmit her certificate to her legal guardian, by which a two fold object would be accomplished. Her money would be secured to her in the hands of her guardian who is under bonds duly to account for it, and a merited rebuke will be given to said Capt. Sanford who in this affair has shown himself a meddling and officious person. 
If you see no impropriety in it, I respectfully request that you will represent the facts and make such suggestion to him if your other business will permit in order for such information and suggestion to be of any avail. They must probably be made immediately. Sanford Hart, whose widow the said Hannah is, was a pensioner under the act of 1818 he served a great deal in the Revolution and always as a soldier from this town where he belonged. He entered into the three months service in Capt. Chris Manchester's Company in the fall of 1776. In 1777 he was in the 15 months service under the same Captain & in Col. Crary's Regiment. In 1780 he entered for six months in the Continental service under Col. Greene, after this he was in the army under Washington and other services. I believe he performed in the war of Independence. 
I address this to you as one of your constituents and I believe I may safely add from the tone of feeling upon the subject in this town, that your attention to the business will be very gratifying to your many friends in this town.
I am very Respectfully your most obt. servt.
Asa Gray

Hon. Dutee J. Pearce, Washington
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Fall River July 5, 1837
Sir
I take the liberty to inform you that I made out a Declaration in order to obtain a pension in March last and suppose it was sent to the pension office at Washington by a Mr. Lindsey. Since that time I have had no satisfactory information respecting it and fearing that there is some wrong management about it I would request you to give me some information on the subject (if it is in your power so to do) and first please to inform me whether my papers has been receive at the pension office if so is there any more proof wanting if you will be so good as to give me the above information you will cenfer a favour on an aged frind. If a certificate is issued please to direct it to me at Fall River Massachusetts and then I shall not be wronged.
From your obt servt.
Hannah Hart - X her mark

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
District of Columbia
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It appears by the Regimental Book, that Sandford Hart, now residing in Dartmouth in the state of Massachusetts, inlisted for and served the full and continued term of nine months a private soldier in Rhode Island Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Jeremiah Olney on the Continental Establishment, and that he was honourably discharged from said Regiment at Saratoga, in the state of New York on the nineteenth day of January 1788.
Jno S. Dexter, Major of said Reg. esdem tempore
Providence February 14th 1821
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War Department
Pension Office,
December 26 1820
Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 21st inst. I have to acquaint you, that the case of Samuel Peckham cannot be decided on until it can be ascertained whether the Rhode Island Brigade, in which he states to have served, was on the continental establishment or not. Sandford Hart's case is suspended for want of sufficient proof of service. If he served as stated, Major John S. Dexter, of Providence R. Isl. will furnish the necessary evidence on application.
I am, respectfully Your Obd. Servt.
J.L. Edwards
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No. 2 original
It appears by the Regimental Book that Sanford Hart now residing in Dartmouth in the state of Massachusetts, inlisted for, and served the full and continued term of nine months, a private soldier in the Rhode Island Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Jeremiah Olney, on the continental establishment, and that he was honourably discharged from said Regiment at Saratoga in the state of New York on the nineteenth day of January 1783.
Jno S. Dexter Major of said Regiment, esdem tempore
Providence February 14th 1821.

The above is the duplicate of a certificate issued by me at the above date and which is now represented to have been lost in the transmission.
Jno. S. Dexter
Providence March 29th 1821
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Deposition of Ichabod Simmons, to be used as evidence in favour of Sanford Hart, Pension

Sandford Hart's Case
D
Jany. 10, 1820. The Clerk's certificate as to the official character & signature of the magistrate who took the within declaration will be found on the Deposition of Abner Wilcox in the case of Samuel Peckham this day forward.
Jno. Davis Judge Man. Dist.
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I Ichabod Simmons of Tiverton in the county of Newport and state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation, being of the age of fifty eight years do testify and declare that I became acquainted with Sandford Hart (formerly of Tiverton aforesaid - who now resides in the town of Dartmouth in the state of Massachusetts) when I was quite a lad and have been acquainted with him ever since, having lived the most of the time in the same town with him. That I was in the War of the Revolution most of the time during the same and am now drawing a pension for my services. That I was both in State and Continental Service during the war and was stationed and served in various companies and places (vis) from 1777 to 1780 I was in Colonel Henry Shelburne & Coln. Israel Angels Regiments and particularly in 1782, in the spring of the year, I enlisted in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jeremiah Olney for nine months and served in sd. Regiment during that term of time and that Sandford Hart above named, enlisted and served in the aforesd. Col. Olney's Regiment with me during the term of nine months as aforesaid to my own knowledge.
(turn over)
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I very well recollect Mr. Sandford Hart, within named, at the time within mentioned as we were stationed together the most part of the time of nine months within mentioned at a place called the Highlands on the North River and at Salatoga so called, and further the deponent saith not.
Ichabod Simmons

Bristol s.s.
On the twenty fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, the aforesaid deponent was examined and cautioned and sworn agreeable to law, to the deposition aforesaid by him subscribed taken at the request of Sandford Hart in afore said.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
Abner B. Gifford Justice of the Peace

I hereby Certify that the aforesd. Ichabod Simmons who subscribed the foregoing deposition, is well known to me, and in my opinion is a credible witness.
Abner B. Gifford Justice of the Peace
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Sandford Hart's Case
E
Jany. 10, 1820. The Clerks Certificate as to the official character & signature of the magistrate who took the within deposition will be found on the Deposition of Abner Wilcox in the case of Samuel Peckham transmitted this day.
Jno Davis Judge Esdem tempore

The deposition of Gideon Coggshall to be used as evidence in behalf of Sandford who claims a pension.
Massth.
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I Gideon Coggshall of New Bedford in the county of Bristol and state of Massachusetts of the age of fifty three years do testify and say that I have been acquainted with Sandford Hart from my youth up to the present time. That the sd. Hart now lives in Dartmouth in sd. County. That I enlisted in the army of the revolutionary war, in the spring of 1782, seventeen hundred & eighty two, in the Regiment of Colonel Jeremiah Olney for nine months and served my term of time. And that I know Sandford Hart aforesaid, enlisted the same time in the same Regiment of Colonel Olney with me and served the term of nine months aforesd. Our Brigade Major was by the name of Dexter. Coggshall Olney was a major of the Regiment and further the deponent saith not.
Gideon Coggshall

Bristol s.s.
On the fourth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen the aforesaid deponent was examined & cautioned and sworn agreeable to law to the deposition aforesaid by him subscribed and in my opinion is a credible witness.
Abner B. Gifford Justice of the Peace
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Affidavit of Danl Lake taken for the use of Sanford Hart

Danl. Lake
(Testimony)
See letter on file among Sandford Hart papers.
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I Daniel Lake of Tiverton County of Newport
State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
of Lawfull age, being duly sworn on such my
Oath say
That in April 1782 I enlisted in Col Jeremiah Olney’s
Regiment within the Continental line that Sanford Hart
at whose Instance this affidavit was taken was also
a soldier in the same regiment we marched from Providence
R.I. on to Philadelphia, from Philadelphia unto
A place called Kings Ferry, from thence to west point
Where we lay for a long time afterwards we [illegible]
to winter quarters in Saratoga and then continued
till our discharge after the end of our enlistments which
were for nine months, during all which time
the said Sanford was in service; Daniel Lake
further saith not
Newport ss. Tiverton in said county Personally
appeared Daniel Lake abovenamed and being duly 
cautioned made Solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit
by him subscribed which was taken at the desire of Sanford
Hart of Dartmouth commonwealth of Massachusetts to be
used for the purpose of obtaining a pension. Taken in 
presence of a Commission from the hon’ble Judge Davis of the
District of Massachusetts.
Before me Wm. Durfee Jus. Peace
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Sanford Hart's
application for transfer from Mass: to Rhode
Island
-
Transfd 6 June 1823
Sep 21
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United States of America
Rhode Island District &c, County of Newport Ss.
On this 12th day of May A. D. 1823 personally came before me 
the subscriber, Judge of the District Court of the United States for 
said District, Sanford Hart who on his oath declares
that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company
commanded by Capt. @ in the regiment commanded
by Col. Jeremiah Olney in the service of the United States in the
Revolutionary war. that his name was placed on the pension roll of
the State of Massachusetts, from whence he has lately removed.
That he now resides in the town of Tiverton in said County
Of Newport, in said State of Rhode Island where he intends
to remain, and wishes his pension payable in said last
mentioned state in future.
Sanford Hart his X Mark
@ does not remember the Captains name
Sworn to & declared before me
the day year aforesaid
David Howell
Rhode Island District
Clerk’s office U.S. District Court, Providence May 26th 18s3
The above is the true signature of David Howell, Judge
of the U.S. District Court for said District, In witness
whereof I have hereto affixed the seal of said Court the
day & year above written
Benjamin Cowell
Clk of said Court
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No. 1       Copy
War Department
Pension Office
December 26, 1820
Sir
in answer to your letter of the 21. inst. I have
to acquaint you, that the case of Samuel
Peckham, cannot be decided on untill it can be
ascertained whither the Rhode Island Brigade
in which he states to have served was on the continental
establishment or not.
Sandford Harts case is
suspended for want of sufficient proof of service
if he served as stated, Major John S. Dexter of
Providence Rhode Island, will furnish the
necessary evidence on application.
I am Respectfully
Your Obt Sert
J. L. Edwards
Hon. Marcus Morton
House Represtiv
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Anna Simmons of Tiverton in the County of Newport
of the age of Seventy two years and upwards, Deposeth and
saith - That in the year 1775 she came from Newport
R. I. to reside in Tiverton, when she was eleven years of
age; That after this, and she verily believes, it was
some time in the fall of 1777 & positive that it was
not later than the spring of the year next following,
when residing at the house of Samuel Simmons in
Tiverton, she was requested by her Aunt Ruth
Manchester to attend with her at Old Wm Othnial
Campbell's house, then the minister presiding over the 
congregational Church at Tiverton, to see the marriage
of Sanford Hart of Tiverton and Hannah Manchester,
that agreeable to the invitation or request so given, she
did attend, and that she well recollects on visiting
the house of Campbell, she saw the said Sanford Hart
and Hannah Manchester, that in company with said Sanford
was his brother Browning Hartt and wife only - That at
this time, she saw the said Sanford and Hannah stand
up, and were together joined in marriage by the said
Othnial Campbell, as depon’t believes in common form;
That said Browning Hart, the brother of said Sanford,
his wife and the said Ruth Depont’s aunt, who were
present at the marriage, are all since deceased. That
after said marriage, the said Sanford and Hannah
lived and resided together at Tiverton, as man and
wife up to the time of the decease of the said Sanford -
That at the time of the decease of the said Sanford
he was a Revolutionary pensioner and that said
Hannah his widow has ever since lived single,
and that she the Depon’t understands that the said
Hannah is now an applicant for a pension
Anna Simmons
State of Rhode Island & Providence
Plantations
County of Newport - Be it Known that on the 12th day of May 1837
appeared the above named Anna Simmons before the subscriber one of the
Justices of the peace in and for said County, and subscribed
and made oath to the above deposition & I further certify that she the Depon’t
is a credible person -
Charles Durfee Justice of the Peace
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Affidavit of
Wm Albert [illegible[
for S. Hart
See letter in file among Sanford Hart [illegible]
Sanford Hart [illegible]
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I, William Albert of Tiverton County of Newport
State of Rhode Island of Lawful age being duly
Sworn, do depose and say
That I knew Sanford Hart at whose request this affidavit
is taken while he was a Soldier in Col. Wm. James Regiment
on Rhode Island, where I went to see them, my father 
being in the same regiment, afterwards the regiment in which
Hart was a Soldier Marched to the westward, my father 
remained behind having received some [illegible] in one of his
shoulders, and did duty in some other regiment but by
whom commanded I know not.
Further saith not
William Albert
Newport Ss At Tiverton in said county Personally
appeared William Albert above named and being duly
cautioned made solemn oath to the truth of
the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed which
was taken at the desire of Sanford Hart of Dartmouth 
commonwealth of Massachusetts to be reside before the honorable
[illegible] Davis Judge of the District of Massachusetts aforesaid
for obtaining a pension - taken in pursuance of
Commission from [illegible] Davis
By me
[illegible] Durfee Jus. Peace
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To the Hon. Justices of the Circuit Court of Common
Pleas for the County of Bristol and Plymouth
we the undersigned ask leave respectfully
to represent-- that we are well acquainted with
Sandford Hart, who is now living in-
Dartmouth in the County of Bristol, who says
he was in the service of his Country in the 
revolutionary war and should he satisfy your honors,
that he served the term of time required by the
Laws of the United States, to entitle him to a
pension, we have no doubts on our minds
but what he would be justly entitled to it on
account of his indigence as it is well
known he is very poor -
yours with much respect
& esteem
Abner B. Gifford
Westport. Apl. 20. 1818.
Joseph Gifford
Selectman of Dartmouth
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Hannah Hart
wid of
Sandford Hart
R. I.
Admd for 2 yr
$80 per ann.
Commng 4 March 1831
issue cert. to Asa Gray
Guardian of Hannah Hart
Asa Gray Esq
Tiverton R. I.
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I Anna Simmons, wife of Ichabod Simmons of Tiverton
in the County of Newport and State of Rhode Island
do testify and say that I have been acquainted with
Hannah Hart the widow of Sanford Hart
late of said Tiverton, deceased, for a great many years.
I was present at her marriage with Sanford Hart
and saw her married to said Sanford Hart by the
Reverend Othniel Campbell, a congregational Minister
then settled and preaching in the said Town of Tiverton.
The said Hannah Hart was married to the said
Sanford Hart some time during the first part of the
Revolutionary war; the British forces were in the town of
Newport at the time they were married; but what
year it was I do not recollect. The said
Hannah Hart was never married to any other
person than said Sanford Hart to my knowledge and
remains his widow to this day. I am now in
the seventy second year of my age. Anna Simmons
Newport Ss} November 28th 1836 Then personally appeared
Anna Simmons subscriber to the above deposition
and made oath to the truth of the same
Before me
J. S. Bliven, Justice Peace
I further certify that the above named Anna
Simmons, is a credible witness
Joseph S. Bliven Justice of the Peace
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State of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations
Newport Ss} Tiverton November 28th 1836
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY.
John Brown Francis
Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in the of the State of Rhode-
Island and Providence Plantations.
BE IT KNOWN, that the name, "HENRY BOWEN” to the
Afore-written attestation subscribed, is the proper hand writing of Henry Bowen,
Esquire, who at the time of subscribing the same was Secretary of the
State aforesaid, duly elected and qualified according to law:  Wherefore unto
his said attestation full faith and credit are to be rendered
[ribbon]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of said State to be affixed at Providence
this twenty seventh
day of March in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven
and of Independence the sixty first
John Brown Francis 
By His Excellency's Command.
Henry Bowen Secry
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State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Secretarys office March 27. 1837.
I Certify that at the session of the General Assembly of said State on the first Wednesday of May last Joseph S. Bliven was elected a Justice of the Peace for the town of Tiverton in the County of Newport, for the term of one year, and Commissioned accordingly as appears of record in this office.
Witness [signature] Henry Bowen Secry
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I, Richard Durfee of Tiverton in the County of
Newport, and state of Rhode Island, of lawful age
to give evidence, do testify and say that I know
Sandford Hart late of Tiverton aforesaid, deceased
and that some time during the revolutionary war,
and I believe towards the latter part of the war, I
hired the said Sandford Hart as a soldier in the
state or continental service and I believe he was
hired to serve during the war, but am not certain
for what length of time; he however went into
the service as I believe and continued there during the
time for which he was hired. As I was
not in the company in which he served I can
not be positive as to the place where he served
for the term of time - I served during the
whole of the revolutionary war, either as a
private on an officer in command of a company
am now a pensioner, and in the seventy ninth
year of my age -
Richard Durfee
Newport ss. Tiverton March 22d 1837 Then Richard Durfee
Personally appeared, and after being carefully examined
and duly cautioned made solemn oath that the
foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the truth
and nothing but the truth, taken at the request of 
Hannah Hart, and to be used in her application for a pension
under an act of Congress passed July 4th A. D. 1836
Before me Joseph S. Bliven} Justice Peace
I further certify that the above named Richard Durfee is a
credible witness-
Joseph S. Bliven, Justice Peace
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I, Gardner Thomas of Fall River in the County
of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, Yeoman, of
lawful age to give evidence, do testify and say
that I was a soldier in the revolutionary war
and enlisted under Captain Nathaniel Church and
served under him and under captain Lemuel
Bailey, that I was acquainted with Sandford
Hart of Tiverton and knew that he enlisted
and served under captains Church and Bailey
in the same company that I served in for the
time of one year, that he served principally
on Rhode Island, and was in our expedition
with me to Long Island - I know from common
report that he had been in the service before
he enlisted into Captain Church's company
with me, and I saw him in the army after
the expiration of the year that he served
with me, and it was the common report that
he served until the close of the war, but I
have no personal knowledge of his services
than those I have mentioned above.
Sandford Hart resided in the same town
with me after the close of the war until
the time of his death in the year eighteen
hundred and twenty eight, he has left
a widow, to whom he was married sometime
during the war of the revolution, and who
now lives within a few rods of my residence
I am now seventy six years of age and am a
revolutionary pensioner
Gardner Thomas
Newport Ss} in Tiverton, March 22d 1837
Then Gardner Thomas, personally
appeared, and after being carefully
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examined and duly cautioned made
solemn oath that the foregoing deposition
by him subscribed, contains the truth
and nothing but the truth; Taken at the
request of Hannah Hart, and to be used in
her application for a pension under an act
of Congress passed July 4th 1836
Before me – Joseph S. Bliven} Justice of
the Peace
I further certify that the above named
Gardner Thomas is a credible witness
Joseph S. Bliven Justice Peace
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Newport Ss, Tiverton March 21. 1837—I Knight Springer
of Tiverton in the County of Newport and State aforesaid
Yeoman - Do testify and say. That I was in the 
Revolutionary service for more than five years and six
months and that I was well acquainted with
Sandford Hart, late of Tiverton deceased - That he
was a soldier in the latter part of the revolutionary
war to my knowledge for the time of nine months,
that he enlisted in Tiverton and marched to Philadelphia 
where he joined the regiment commanded by 
Col. Jerimiah Olney - that the regiment after being
stationed at Philadelphia for a time, marched to
Saratoga, where they were discharged some time in
the summer of the year after the battle at Yorktown
(the capture of Cornwallis). That Sandford Hart
continued in the service from the time he enlisted
of Tiverton, until the regiment was discharged at Saratoga
which was nine months. I know from common
report, and from Hart himself that he had been 
in the service for a long time previous to my meeting
with him at Philadelphia - but as I served principally
at the South, and he at the north, I did not see him
to my recollection at any other time than that I have
mentioned. I was acquainted with Sandford Hart
after he left the service as long as he lived, and knew
that he was married long before the close of the war.
I am acquainted with his widow Hannah Hart
and know that she is now living. I shall be
seventy nine years old next June, if I live until
that time. I am now a pensioner and further
this deponent saith not.
Knight Springer his X mark
Signed in presence of
J. S. Bliven
Newport Ss } in Tiverton March 21st 1837 Then
Knight Springer personally appeared, and
after being carefully examined, and duly
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cautioned, made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed, contains the truth and nothing but the truth, Taken at the request of Hannah Hart, and to be used in her application, for a pension under an act of Congress passed July 4th 1836
Before me, [signature] Joseph S. Bliven 
Justice Peace
I further certify that the above named Knight Springer is a witness entitled to credit-
[signature] Joseph S. Bliven, Justice Peace