Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17996, Moses Harris, S.C.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
S.C. 
Harris, Moses
NUMBER
S. 17996
carded
CONTENTS
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[Document is a fragment]
[cut off] h Carolin [cut off; appears to be a fragment of the words "South Carolina"]
[cut off] oses Harris
31099
[cut off]  efeld in the State of So. Ca.
[cut off] was a Private in the Company commanded
Captain Sinkfield of the Reg. commanded
Maj. Purvis in the So. Ca.
line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of So. Carolina
at the rate of 80 Dollars - 00. Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of May, 1807 and Sent B. M.
Blicker Edgefield C.H.S.C.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1857 $480.0 [cut off]
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept. " 40.00 [cut off]
$54. [illegible]
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D.H. Addison
Book 6  Vol. 6  Page [cut off]
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State of South Carolina Edgefield District
On this 31 day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before me, Richard Gantt one of the judges of the Said State now sitting in and for the District aforesaid Moses Harris a resident of the District State aforesaid aged eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832.

That he entered the Service of the United States in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy nine, as a private in the company of of [sic] Captain Frank Sinkfield,/ the particular name or character of the corps cannot be designated as the arms used were not uniformly of the same description) which said company was attach [sic] to a Battalion of the State and District aforesaid, commanded by Major John Purvis, blonging [sic] to a Regiment, commanded by Col. Leroy Hammond, which constituted a part of a Brigade of South Carolina militia, of which Brigadier Genrl. Andrew Williamson was commander - that this deployment[?] together with the company aforesaid, remained in the service under the officers aforesaid, for the time
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of six months, commencing the first of January continuing until the first of July 1779, the said company having its headquarters at Liberty hill near Augusta
This deponent again enters the service in seventeen hundred and eighty one, (1781) and under Captain James Thomas, was engaged in the siege and capture of Augusta, in the year aforesaid, on this occasion we were under the immediate command, of Genl. Andrew Pickens.
The deponent was occasionally actively engaged, both before and after the last mentioned period, in various scouts in pursuit of tor[illegible] and other disaffected persons, who in considerable numbers infested this section of the State. He was at times under the command of Capt. Ryan and at others under the command of Capt. Thomas.
Finally this deponent saith that he was occasionally engaged in the service of the United States, from the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine (1779) until the close of the war - and if the different periods of time for which he was actually engaged or doing military service were added together, it would amount to the term of two years at least.
This deponent hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
Moses Harris
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P          17.996
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INVALID.
No.  17996
Moses Harris
Pri Rev War
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Act:  June 7"  1832
Index: -- Vol. 1,   Page 166
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Moses Harris
South Carolina 
____________
Suspended
__________
Hon F.W. Pickens
19. December 1834
Admd $80 per ann
private Geo Militia
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20

[illegible Postage stamp]

J. L. Edward Esq.
Pension Agent
Washington

May 8


S C
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S C
Edg f C House 1 May 1837
J L. Edwards Esq.

Dear Sir

I some time
June forward you, the original
and amended declaration of
Moses Harris I now enclose you the
affidavit of Col S. Hammond, which
I hope with former testimony forward
the department will be sufficient
Testimony to entitle him to the benefit
of the act for the relief of the soldiers
of the Revolution, all who know him
believe that he is justly entitled to the
bounty of the Goverment for his service

Be pleased to give his claim
as early attention as possible, for he is
extremely infirm, and in indigent
circumstance

Respect [illegible] Your
obt Servt

B. M. Blocker
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A statement of the different services of Moses Harris
under Capt Sinkfield 2 months
do 4 do
do 6 do
Thomas 6 do
Ryan 6 do
Carter 
afterward renderd service in several instances untill the close of the war
Refference amended declaration as sworn to in due form
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Dear Sir
In compliance with your request of May last I shall now state what I know of the revolutionary services of Moses Harris I became acquainted with him sometime in January or February 1779 in the militia services under Colol LeRoy Hammond of Genl A Williamson g Brigade he was delad on Fakegns duty with several others of Some Reg of which C of N Foster also of same Regiment & my self had charge of thres placed with us several times while we were my just [illegible]ing war g war Hough L Others necessary building s, hearted as good labourers was active & spirited I saw him peying dureing that years & he was with his company with Mes on Detachments I think he remained in serve  [illegible] in which campaign community called Steno campaign untill the militia then on duty were discharged which as something ovns four months the same of them [illegible] home on the day 4 months expired I saw him frequently after that still in service until  May 1780 afterward I know nothing of him untill the siege & taking The town of Augusta date of which I don't now exactly remember & bing about from my known s and was can only refre to record of these events Mr Harris servd as a volunteer in capt John Carters or Ryan who were ingaged or in Rotls for six months and were Planes and er my command 
S Hammond
sworn to before me 31st March 1837 at Edgefield Court House
South Carolina
AB Addison
qU
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Col Blocker

Sir

I have been so after called upon for Testimony of this kind, that it has become Extremely [illegible] to me
indeed but I consid it a duty due to the soldier, & not
less so to the government, as I have [illegible] several
Applicant tempting to obtain a share of the Bounty
which I personally knew were not lentitled to it

I am Very Respectfully
your obt S
S Hammond


The State of South Carolina}
Edgefield District                    }
I. Geo Pope
Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for
the District and State aforesaid do hereby certify
that A.B. Adison is an acting Magistrate
as above, this 1st May 1837
1
Geo Pope
C C P                        SEAL
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day of


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J Richardson
Clk

SEAL

[right side]

Moses Harris
Moses Harris
Declaration
31.524

[illegible]

Hon F W Pickens
Edgefield C.H.
So Ca
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additional amended Declaration of Moses Harris the deponant states that he enterd the service at the date and place as stated in his original application under capt F Sinkfield as a private that they rendevoused at homes old field in Abbevile District So Ca that he with the company was marched off on an expedition against the Cherokee Indians that the deponant with said company was there actively engaged against the Indians and in cutting down there crops &c that the tour of service lasted two months that the said company was then marched back to Liberty Hill on the Savannah River in Edgefield District that they be with said company was active employed in the service either in scouting in the immediate neighbourhood or performing the duties of a soldier in the cawpt untill in July 1779 making in that service four months which completed his tour of six more this that he was in actual and active services the company was then disbanded it was not usual with the office to give the volunteer militia discharge he consequently recd none That during the year 1780 he was frequently engaged in scourts against the Tories that in one instance in which his memory servs him an order was sent to him by col Purvis & here in command to proceed and arrsted some tories of notorious character that he acordingly done so and deliverd them to him in camp that at another time during the same year he volunteer under capts F Sinkfield and to Rudy River in now Laurence District and under the said officer attached a partie of Tories and defeated them and took a number of them prisoners that they then return to this district and was again disbanded that the deponant in the different tours which he served for July 79 to the begining of 81 under the immediate command and orders of the officers before stated did
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serve during that period and the peditions stated the term of six months that there was 81 as before shewn that he volunteerd under capt Thomas that he marched under said Thomas to Liberty Hill as before stated under the command of Col Pickens that he was the actively engaged in the service in digging entrenchments untill the surrender of Browns Fort in Augusta that he continued in actual and active service untill he servd his tour of duty for the time volunteered say six months that after that tour he volunteered under capt John Ryan that Ryans company was general engaged in scouting and had a station at a place called the Ridge in this district that during that time he under said officers was actively engaged in pursuit of and dispensing the tories where ever small parties of them was collect and that there scouts frequently extend to the now district of Barnvill & Orangeburg that he was const employ in the service for the time for which volunteer say six months that after that time he was frequently after called on to volunteer for a short periods which he done at one time under the command of capn John Carter who commanded a company attached to Lt G Williamson Buford he was engaged under him in pers with of some tories which they pursued to the lower part of the state and dispensed the deponant states from old age and loss of memory that he cannot state distinctly as to the time he serd in the last tour but a pose  that he servd more than two years in the tours as above specified
The deponant further states that he only reason why he has not the certificate of a clergyman that there is no clergyman now living in district who knew him either in time of or immediately after the war that he knows of that he relirs with confid
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on the certificate of Daniel Rogers and William Howl with whom he servd during the war and who are now pensioners of the government
The deponant from extreme old age & loss of memory does not recollect at this time any other facts relative to his services but  a vy that the facts already set forth are just and true
The deponant further states that he was borned in North Carolina but not recollect the county he has no record of his age that when a small boy his parents moved to this district where he has resided ever since
Moses Harris
sworn to before me this 10 day of April
before me
M Coate QU
South Carolina
Edgefield District } I H Boulware clerk of the court of common pleas and general sessions for the district and state aforesaid do hereby certify that M Coate whose name appears to the above is a Justice of the Quorum for said District and that due faith and credit are and rights ought to be given to his attestation as a Justice of the Quorum as aforesaid
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Edgefield court house this the twenty ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four
H Boulware CCP
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state of South Carolina
Edgefield District
I do hereby certify that I believe all the essential facts in the foregoing declaration contin that I served funally with deponent in the same camaign under the same officers and that I believe the whole period of his service was at least two years 
Daniel Rogers
We Daniel Rogers & William X Howle
his mark
residing in the district of Edgefield and state aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Moses arris who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution  and that we concur in that opinion sworn and subscribed the year aforesaid
Daniel Rogers
Wm X Howle
his mark
sworn to before R Gantt 
Presiding Judge
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and in thing the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant Moses Harris was a revolutionary dier and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears as to them that the said Danl Rogers & Wm Howle who has signed the preceding certificate residing in the district and state aforesaid
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and are credible persons and that the statement is entitled to credit
Richard Gantt
P Judge
I Jefferson Richardson clerk of the court of Edgefield district do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Moses Harris for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this thirty first day of October AD 1832
J Richardson 
CCk