Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1063-500, Charles Harrison, 1'' Regt Artillery In The Service Of The U. S.
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1" Reg't. Artillery in the service if the U.S.
Harrison, Charles
B.L.W.1063-500-Col.
Issued Aug. 10-1789 to Richard Platt, assignee
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1" Regt Artillery in the service of the U.S.
Harrison, Charles.
B.L.Wt. 1063-500-Col.
Issued Aug. 10, 1789 to Richard Platt assignee No papers.
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July 28, 1933
A. D. Hiller
Asst. To Administrator,
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
I should like any information you can give me on General Chas. Harrison, of the Revolutionary War, who was a brother of Benjamin Harrison, one of the signers of The Declaration of Independence, and any of the four brothers, Henry, Nathaniel, Collier or Carter H.
He was also an uncle of Wm. Henry Harrison who was later one of our Presidents.
They were from Berkley Virginia.
Thanking you in advance for any information you may give me, I remain,
Very truly yours,
Herman M. Gunn, Capt. M.C.
Comdg.
Received 
Jul 31 1933
Mail sub-div.
Vets. Admin
Reader #17 2pm
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633-21st St.
Columbus, GA
Jan. 17, 1933
Director of Pensions,
Washington D.C
Dear Sir:
Please send me any available information concerning the Revolutionary services of Charles Harrison including the dates and places of his birth and death.  He was the son of Benjamin Harrison of Berkley, Virginia.  He was married to Mary Claiburn, of Virginia, whose father
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I think, was Thomas Claiburn.  I would appreciate any information you can give me concerning Mr. Claiburn also.
Thanking you in advance, I am
Yours truly,
(Miss) Elizabeth Mizill
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August 4, 1933
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BA-J/EEL
Charles Harrison-B.L.Wt.#1063
500-1789
Henry Harrison-W.748
Herman M. Gunn
Capt. M.C. Comdg.
Hospital Company No.135
Ashland, Ohio
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request informa-tion in regard to General Charles Harrison, also in regard to Henry, Nathaniel, Collier and Carter H. Harrison, soldiers of the Revolu-tionary War.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers of that war.
A careful search of the Revolutionary War records has been made in your behalf and no record found of such claims having been made on account of the services of Nathaniel Harrison, of Virginia, or of Collier Harrison or Carter H. Harrison.  The records of Charles Harrison and Henry Harrison are furnished herein as found in the respective claims based upon their military service in the War of the Revolution.
Charles Harrison
Wt.No.1063-500-1789
AWF
It is shown by the records of this office that Warrant No. 1063 for five hundred acres of bounty land was issued August 10, 1789, to Richard Platt, assignee, on account of the services of Colonel Charles Harrison, First Regiment of Artillery, War of the Revolution.
There are no further data as to his services and no information in regard to his family, because the papers in such claims were destroyed when the War Office was burned. in 1800.
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Henry Harrison
W. 748
BA-J/EEL
The data furnished below were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.748, based upon the military service of Henry Harrison, the only soldier of that name found on said records.
Henry Harrison was born in 1756, in Nansemond County, Virginia.
While living in Nansamond County, Virginia, he enlisted in the fall of 1778, and served at various times on tours of six weeks each until 1780, as a private under Captains William Moore, Jesse Battle, and William Baker, Colonels Willis Riddick, Josiah Parker, Kinchen Godwin and John S. Wills in the Virginia Troops: in 1780, he received a commission as lieutenant and served several tours as such officer in Captain Henry Holland's Company, Colonel John S. Wills' Virginia Regiment; was then appointed commissary and while acting as such com-missary, he was taken prisoner by Colonel Tarlton and confined at Suffolk, length of time held not shown:  after his release, he continued to serve as commissary until the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, at which time he was under Colonel Wills.  He stated the the entire length of his service was between three and four years.  He was at Suffolk, Virginia, when it was burned and in several skirmishes.
Henry Harrison was allowed pension on his application executed March 11, 1835, while residing in Nansemond County, Virginia, in which county he died on July 3, 1837.
The soldier married October 3, 1816, in Nansemond County, Virginia,  Charlotte Jones.  Their marriage was recorded on the records of the clerk of the court of said Nansemond County.
Pension was allowed on the application of soldier's widow, Charlotte, which applicaiton was executed March 12, 1853, at which time she was a resident of Nansemond County, Virginia.
She died August 30, 1853, place not shown.
There is no reference to children in the papers in the pension claim.
Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Assistant to administrator.
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February 7, 1933
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Charles Harrison
Wt. No.1063-500-Colonel
BA-J/AWF
Miss Elisabeth Mizill
633 21st Street
Columbus, Georgia
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Thomas Claiburn and Charles Harrison, soldiers of the War of the Revolution.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon the military service of soldiers in that war.
A search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the services of any Thomas Claiburn, served under similar spellings of that surname.
It is shown by the records of this office that Warrant No. 1063 for five hundred acres of bounty land was issued August 10, 1789 to Richard Platt, assignee, on account of the services of Colonel Charles Harrison, First Regiment of Artillery, War of the Revolution.
There are no further data as to his services and no information in regard to his family, because the papers in such claims were destroyed, when the War Office was burned.
The above noted record of Charles Harrison,
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is that of the only soldier of that name, found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator