Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44393, David Harris, Mass.
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Service
Mass

Harris, David

Number
S. 44393
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44393
INVALID

File No.  49393
David Harris
Priv Rev War
Act" 18th March 1818
Index;-Vol.3, Page 212

Arrangement of 1870
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15.570
R
New Hampshire

David Harris of Cheshire in the state of New Hampshire who was a private in the regiment commanded b Colonel Sergeant of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year.

Inscribed on the roll of New Hampshire at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence the 4th of June 1819.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of October, 1819 and Elisha Huntley, Esq. Keene Cheshire county, N. Hampshire

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1819 [31]        24:26
Semi- anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1820 48:
                                                                $72:26
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

continued

Notification sent September 6th 1820 to Daniel Greenleaf, Washington, New Hampshire
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David Harris
(erased line)
7 Regmt
Col. Sergeant
Jany 776-1 yr
State of Newhampshire
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I David Harris of Washington in the County of Chesire and State of New Hampshire Husbandman do make the following declaration upon Oath- That in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five I enlisted as a private soldier in the Revolutionary War for eight months and was ay Cambridge in Massachusetts my eight months enlistment expired on the last day of December AD 1775 at which time I engaged to serve again in said War for one year in Col Sergeants Regimen the years service to commence on the first day of January AD 1776 I was at the time permitted to go home on furlough six weeks I accordingly went home and did not return so soon as I expected and intended as I was taken sick at home and was not able to return to camp untill (sic) some time in March next following after which I recovered my health and did duty in time in August or September I went to New York and there I continued in said Company and Regiment untill, some time in December when my health was again impaired when I went to General Sullivan and informed him of my situation and General Sullivan gave me a furlough covering the remaining part of my time accepting one day and advised me to make the best way home which was the reason of my not having regular Discharge-Also I further state upon my Oath that I am poor and needy and stand in need of the assistance of my Country for a Comfortable support.
(signature)
David Harris

This may certify that the above named David Harris says he thinks it was in New Hampshire Line if not it must be from the Massachusetts Line and he thinks, the Regiment was part of one state and part from the other. (illegible) enlisted at Cambridge after his first Eight months expired is the (illegible) of his not being positive in which State he was considered 
(illegible, looks like "Marked or Marched" Sept (illegible number) 1819

Elisha Huntley, Judge of Court
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David Harris

15.596

March, 1819
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SCHEDULE
CONTAINING the whole estate and income of David Harris of Washington, N.H. (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted,) by him subscribed, exhibited to the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Cheshire in the State of New Hampshire, on the eighteenth day of July 1820, and annexed to his oath, viz.

1 Chest with [drawers]
2 Pewter Platters
1 Small trunk
2 do[zen] Plates
1 Pr steel yards
1 do basin
2 old axes
1 [illegible] morter [mortar] and Pestle
1 Do hoes
2 [illegible]Potts [Pots]
1 Do Shovel
1 Do kettle
1 Butler and wedge
1 Do skillet
1 old hand saw
1 Do [spider]
1 Shave or driving knife
1 wooden [illegible]
3 old chairs
1 wash tub
a few articles of medicine
6 old medical books
1 fore plane
1 Do other books
1 nail hammer
10 Gallipots
1 old [illegible]
4 dose Phials [vials]
A few articles of crockery
[illegible] 
David Harris
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Cheshire 88.] STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
On this 18th day of July A.D. 1820, personally appeared in open court
before the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas in the county of Cheshire being a Court of Record, in and for the said county, having the power of fine and imprisonment, David Harris, aged sixty eight years, resident in Washington in said county, who being first duly sworn according to lay, doth, on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: viz. On the 29th day of April 1775, I enlisted in Col. Starks regiment in Capt Jeremiah Stiles Company and served there until after the battle at Bunker hill. I was there annexed with the company to which I belonged to Col Paul D. Largeants Regiment in which I served till the last day December 1775, at which time my term of service expired. I then enlisted again to serve for that further term of one year ending the last day of December 1776 in capt Frederick Popes Company in the same regiment. I never was in any battles, for, being bred a physician and surgeon, I was always employed by the surgeon in treating the wounded and in the [illegible] of the hospital. 
The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the 4th day of June A.D. 1819. The number of my pension certificate is 1557 and I have received a Pension. 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 the 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 that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. My occupation is a physician and surgeon and I am not of sufficient ability to pursue it by reason of age and infirmities. 
The family which is dependent on me fore support is a wife, who is of the age of seventy years, who by reason of age and infirmities is unable to labor.
David Harris
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David Harris
Col. Sargents
Mass. Reg.
1776 
1 year

Admitted
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I Ebenezer Hurd sixty three years of age to testify and say that I was in the Revolutionary War in the year A.D. 1775 at Cambridge, Massachusetts with David Harris and when our time was out for that enlistment which was the last day of December A.D. 1775 myself and David Harris both engaged to serve another year in Col. Sergeants Regiment to begin on the first day of January A.D. 1776 the said David Harris went home on furlough and on account of sickness did not join said regiment untill [until] some time in March following from which time the said Harris continued in said Regiment and did his duty as a private soldier untill [until] [illegible] engagement expired which was the last of December A.D. 1776.
I further state that I am wholly disinterested in the above business.
Ebenezer Hurd
State of New Hampshire Cheshire Co
May 28th A.D. 1819 then personally appeared Ebenezer Hurd and made solemn Oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth. I further state that the above named Ebenezer Hurd is considered as a man of truth and veracity and a good witness 
Before me 
Uzzel Hurd Justice of the Peace
Cheshire Co June 14, 1819
I Salma Hale clerk of the Judicial Courts in said County certify that Uzzel Hurd is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that his name is subscribed by his own hand on this and the annexed paper
In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the Seal of our Superior Court of Judicature.
S. Hale
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I Niles Beckwith sixty six years of age to testify and say that David Harris and myself served together in the Revolutionary War in the same Company and Regiment in the year A.D. 1775 and before that engagement was out we both engaged to serve again for a year in Col Sargeants Regiment the year for which we engaged began on the first day of January A.D. 1776. David Harris had liberty to go home on furlough and did not return to his Regiment until some time in March by reason of sickness as he stated when he returned as above he joined his Regiment in Capt. Pope's Company and I was knowing that he continued in said Company and Regiment until I was made a prisoner in Fort Washington.
I further state that I have no interest in the  business.
his X mark
Niles Beckwith
State of New Hampshire Cheshire Co
May 28, A.D. 1819 then personally appeared Niles Beckwith and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth. I further say that in my oppinion [opinion] the above named Niles Beckwith is a man of truth and veracity and a good witness Before me
Uzzel Hurd Justice of the Peace