Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4649, Edward Harris, S.C.
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SERVICE  SC
Harris, Edward
Clarissa
NUMBER R.4649
CONTENTS
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No 14.525
Clarissa Harris
wid of Edward
SC
act 7 July 1838
Geo H Jones Atty
Present
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State of South Carolina 
District of Richland } On this Nineteenth day of November in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty personally appeared in open court, now sitting, before the Judge of the Court of Ordinary within & for the District & State aforesaid Rowland Harris a resident of Richland
District in the state of South Carolina aged sixty one 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 the provision made
by the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled “An act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows” & of the Acts of 3 March 1843, 17 March 1844 and such other acts & resolutions as relate to such class of widows. That he is the son & heir at law of Clarissa Harris deceased who was the widow of Edward Harris deceased who entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated. That said Edward Harris was a regularly enlisted soldier in the Third South Carolina Continental Regiment Commanded by Colonel William Thompson [Thomson] and in the Company Commanded by Captain Richard Brown: That among his Comrades in said service & from the same neighborhood were Gideon Griffin, Morgan Griffin, Berry Jeffers, Allen Jeffers & Osburn Jeffers and his
cousin, Drury Harris: That his said father Edward Harris deceased aforesaid having served three years in
said company & Regiment for which he enlisted returned to his home in what is now Richland District
South Carolina: That among the battles of which Deponent recollects hearing his said father speak of
having been
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engaged in were those of Savannah, Georgia [Siege of Savannah],
Camden , Stono [Ferry], Charleston , Eutaw [Springs], Monk’s [Moncks] Cowpens & Hanging Rock. That neither of his said parents could read or write, but that Deponent’s mother Clarissa Harris dec’d, aforesaid, spoke of having the Grant of Land made to her said husband for
his services in the Revolutionary War & of keeping it until she worn it out & thrown it away: That his said mother being illiterate, poor and destitute as a widow after the death of his said father about the year 1830, did not know that she was entitled to a pension, both parents being free persons of color: That his said mother Mrs. Clarissa Harris deceased after the death of her said husband continued the widow of said Edward Harris until her death on the fifteenth day of September A.D. 1848: He further declares that said Clarissa Harris dec’d. was married to the said Edward Harris deceased on the _ day of _ in the year seventeen hundred and about eighty seven as this deponent being sixty one years of age must have been born in the year 1789 & his brother Jacob being older by one year at least: That her husband the aforesaid Edward Harris dec’d. died on the _ day of _ about the year 1830: That said Clarissa was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz, on or about the time above stated: That the Deponent has a record of his own birth, but that his father & mother aforesaid had no family record showing the births of their children or their date of their marriage:  
s/ Rowland Harris
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written before me
s/ James S Guignard Judge Court of Ordinary
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State of South Carolina
District of Richland
Personally appeared before me, Captain Henry Lyons who upon oath
states, that he has known the deponent above Rowland Harris for several years and that he is a person of reputable character and to whose statements as above are due full faith and credit s/ Henry Lyons
Sworn to this 31st October 1851 Before me
James L. Guignard Ordinary

I concur in the above statement
made by Henry Lyons late Intendant of the Town of Columbia. In testimony of all of which I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office the day & year aforesaid
James S Guignard
Judge of Court of Ordinary
Richland District
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State of South Carolina
Richland District
Personally appeared before the
Subscriber an acting Magistrate in and for said District, James Rawlinson a resident of said
District who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statements: That he was born and brought up and
with the exception of two years ever lived in Richland District in South Carolina: That he was a young man
and one drafted but did not serve during the war of the Revolution and that Edward Harris during said war & before the same lived near neighbor to this Deponent: That said Edward Harris since deceased was a regularly enlisted soldier in the same
companies with Gideon and Morgan Griffin, Berry, Allen and Orsburn Jeffers, and Drury Harris to wit,
under Colonel William Thomson of the Regular Army and in Captain Richard Brown's Company
That this Deponent to his certain knowledge knew of said Edward Harris enlisting & serving three
years in said Regiment and returning at the end of that time with the others above named having served out the time for which they were enlisted in said Continental Regiment. That after the close of the war not more than
five or six years said Edward Harris married in this Deponents neighborhood Mrs Clarissa Harris
who, after his death about twenty years ago, remained his widow till her death in said District in the year
1848. That this Deponent knew them before and since their marriage until the death of said Edward & Clarissa Harris as above stated, and also knew
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their son the present Rowland Harris of said District the eldest son, Jacob, being dead: That this Deponent is in no way interested in any amount
which said Rowland Harris may recover for the services of his said father Edward Harris decd aforesaid
James Rawlinson X his Mark
Sworn to and subscribed this 14th day of May 1850 Before me
s/ R. T. Wynn Magistrate

And I the said Magistrate do hereby certify that I am a neighbor and well acquainted with James Rawlinson the Deponent above and that he is a very aged man, of sound mind & memory and to whose statements upon oath are due full faith and credit Given under my hand the day and year aforesaid s/ R T. Wynne
Magistrate

State of South Carolina
Richland District ⎬ Personally appeared before me a magistrate in and for said District William L Dow and George Griffen respectable & credible persons citizens of said District who being duly sworn do on their oath state that they are neighbor & well acquainted with James
Rawlinson who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit & that he is very old, of sound mind & memory and entitled to full faith and credit
when testifying on oath as above. 
s/ WL Dow
George Griffin
Sworn to and subscribed this 14th
day of May A.D. 1850 before me
s/ RT. Wynne Magistrate
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And I the said Magistrate do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the Deponents above and that their statements on oath are due full faith & credit Given under my hand the day and year aforesaid.
s/ R. T. Wayne Magistrate

The State of South Carolina
Richland District
I James S Guignard Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions in and for the District
aforesaid do hereby certify that R T Wynne Esquire who hath signed the foregoing affidavits and certificates
was at the date thereof and is now
 a Magistrate in and for said District
and that his signature is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Columbia this 31 day of October Anno Domini 1851
words "was at the date thereof
and now is " interlined
s/ James S Guignard
Clerk of Court of Common Pleas & General Sessions
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Please examine the 3d So. C. Continental roll
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Washington City
14th Nov 1851
Sir
Please find enclosed the evidence in
support of the application of Clarissa Harris Widow of Edward Harris for a pension under the act of the
7th July 1838
Very Respectfully
Geo H Jones

James E Heath Esq
Commr of Pensions
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Comptroller Genls Office
Columbia S.C.
Novr 1st 1851
This is to certify that it appears from the Pay Roll of Captain Isaac Ross's Troop in the 2d Regiment of State Dragoons commanded by Colo Charles Myddleton
18th April 1782, Sumter's Brigade, that Edward Harris a private served in the same for the space of ten months.
For Comptroller Genl
James A Black
Dep.
No Seal of Office
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Clarissa Harris
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The State of South Carolina 
District of Richland
It is hereby certified by the undersigned Judge of the Court of Ordinary within & for said District & which is a Court of Record, that satisfactory evidence has this day been submitted to this Court by the production of manuscript paper, in the possession of the family that Mrs Clarissa Harris widow of Edward
Harris deceased w o was reputed and believed to have been a
soldier of the Revolution died in this District in said State on the
fifteenth day of September in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and forty Eight (15th day of September 1848)
and by the affidavit of John Burdell
who is personally known to me & worthy of full credit, that her the
said Clarissa Harris) only surviving hildren are Rowland Harris John Harris, Stark Harris Randall Harris and
Eliza Sneed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & affixed the seal
of my office at Columbia in said District and State this Eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord
one thousand Eight hundred and
fifty one
s/ James S Guignard
Judge Court of Ordinary
Richland District
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No 14.525
Clarissa Harris decd
wid: of Edward
S. C.
Act 7 July 1838
GH Jones, Feb 4th 1852
4649
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4649
Clarissa Harris
widow of Edward
REJECTED