Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1075-200, John Harrison, Va.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE 
NUMBER

Va.

Harrison, John
(Note: a star over name Harrison)

B.L. Wt. 1075- 200

CONTENTS
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Higginsville, Mo
Sept 8-1932
Dept of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
John Harrison was born in
King George or Prince William
County, Virginia; he with six
of his brothers enlisted in the
Service of the Revolutionary
War under Col. Willis, being in
Captain
Mountjoy's Company
and served during war. John
Harrison was a Lieutenant
and after the battle of Valley Forge
took charge of the prisoners and
had them guarded. After war
returned to Madison County
Virginia - with three brothers
and located as farmers.
I am interested in the history
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of John Harrison, and am a relative.  Should you have something on record to add to this
history may I please have that information.

I thank you
I am
Mrs J. Elliott Lyons
807 Grand Ave

P/S. Am not sure that the war
record I have is authentic,
and have nothing concerning
dates of birth, enlistment or even
death

(Note  postmark RECEIVED SEP 12 1932
Pension Files Sub-Division 
Records Section
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Va. 
Harrison John
B.L. Wt. 1075 - 200 -  Lieut.
Issued Feb. 10, 1800 -
No papers
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September 21, 1932

Mrs. J. Elliott Lyons
807 Grand Avenue
Higginsville
Missouri.

BA-J/ILL
John Harrison
B. L. Wt. 1075-200
John Harrison
S. 5471

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request
the record of John Harrison, who, you believe, was a lieutenant in the Virginia troops during the Revolutionary War and lived,
after that war, in Madison County, Virginia.

The records of this office show that Warrant No. 1075 for 200 acres of bounty land was issued February 10, 1800 on account
of the service of John Harrison, Lieutenant in the Virginia Line, War of the Revolution.

There are no further data on file in regard to the above
named soldier because of the destruction of papers in such bounty land claims when the War Office was burned in 1800 and 1814.

You are furnished also the record of John Harrison which is obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 5471, based upon his service in that war.

John Harrison lived as a boy with his father, whose name is not shown, in King George County, Virginia; before he was quite
sixteen years of age, he enlisted December 24, 1776, served as private in Captain John Mountjoy's Company, Colonel Lewis Willis' 10th Virginia Regiment and in Captain John Spotswood's Virginia Company, was
in the battles of Germantown, wintered at Valley Forge, guarded some of the prisoners taken at Stony Point, was in a hazardous attack on
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Paulus Hook, length of service three years.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 23, 1832, at which time he resided in Madison County, Virginia; he had lived there then about forty-two years.

It is not stated that the soldier was married.

The above records are those of the only soldiers named John Harrison who served in the Virginia troops found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Assistant to Administrator.