Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4656, James Harris, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER
New Jersey | Harris, James | R.4656

CONTENTS
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[crossed out: Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.]

4656

P.O. 
James Harris
Service: (blank)

Enlisted: (blank)
Discharged: (blank)
REJECTED
Application filed: (blank)
Alleges: (blank)
Re-enlisted: (blank)

Attorney: (blank)
P.O. (blank)
(blank) Recognized. (check mark) Contract.
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Rejected.

See Letter to Joseph Skinner, Esq., Waterloo, N. York Dec. 13, 1820.
[illegible]
4656
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Northern District of New York.
County of Seneca//

On this fifth day of October 1820, personally appeared in Open Court, being a Court of Common Pleas holden in and for the County of Seneca in the District aforesaid proceeding according to the course of common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of its proceedings and having a common seal, James Harris, aged Seventy two years, resident in the town of Romulus in the County and District aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions [crossed out: of the acts of] made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and of the first of May 1820. That he, the said James Harris, enlisted at Trenton in the State of New Jersey in the year 1777 or 1778, sometime in the summer of one of those years, having lost my discharge and other papers, it is impossible for me to state the exact time I received a warrant as capt(ain) of a Brigade of Wagons or a Wagon Master, signed by Charles Stewart, who was under Gen. Green. In which service as a Wagon Master, I continued for two years and some more time when [crossed out: he] I was discharged at Trenton in the State of New Jersey. I was at the Monmouth battle and I was in a number of other engagements. I was attached to the brigade commanded by Gen. Green during the aforesaid time. I made an application for a pension according to the Act of Congress passed March 18, 1818 as I was advised by counsel, which application was sent to the War Department by Daniel Cruger, a member of Congress, in the fall of 1819, which I expect is now in the office of the War Department. Whether the above appli(cation)...
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...(appli)cation was mislaid, insufficient or informal, I know not.
s/ James Harris

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner whatever 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 to certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the Eighteenth day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen. 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.

Schedule.

Real estate: I have none either in possession, reversion, remainder or expectancy.
Personal property: I have 1 3-quart kettle; 1 dish kettle, 2.5 oz.; 2 small pots; 150 or so old broken dishes; 2 platters [illegible]; 1 axe; 1 spade; 1 hoe.

It is the opinion of the Court that the total amount in value of the above schedule is $9. I have no family but myself and wife. My wife is 64 years [crossed out: old] of age and very infirm. My occupation is farming but I am so old and infirm that I am entirely unable to labor.
s/ James Harris

Sworn to and declared in Open Court on the 5th day of October 1820.
s/ J.H. Halsey, Clk.
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Orig(ina)l.

In the matter of James Harris, pensioner.

There is no law which provides for Wagon Masters to become pensioners.

Inadmissible Dec. 12, 1820.

Joseph Skinner, Agt., Waterloo, N. Yk.
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I, Jehiel H. Halsey, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Seneca, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records 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 nine dollars. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this 5th day of October 1820.
s/ J.H. Halsey, Clk. &c.
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The National Archives Form VAM-51 12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Name: Harris, James
Grade: Private
Line: Lamb's Artillery (New York)

Warrant Number: 7280
Acreage: 100
Issued: Jan. 1, 1793 to Thomas Russell, assignee.

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.