Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4643, Samson Herrington, R.I Vt.
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3  1776
SERVICE
R.I.
Vt.
Herrington, Samson
or Harrington
NUMBER
R. 4643
CONTENTS
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32696
Sampson Harrington's
Declaration
Vermont
Rejected
let J M Sowles 26 March
1835
4643
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State of Vermont 
Grand Isle District
On this 16th day of Feb
1835 Personally appeared in Open Court before the Court of
Probate now sitting
Sampson
Harrington a resident of Alburgh in the County 
of Grande isle District and State Vt aged Seventy Six 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 7th AD 1832 That he entered the 
Service of the United States under the following named officers and
served as herein Stated
Where I first entered the service I lived in the
town of Gloucester State of Rhode Island in 
the forepart of June 1775 the Militia were ordered out and the company which I belonged commanded by
Capt Winsor went to Bunker Hill where we
worked and 
fortified the place and soon after we were
attested by the British from Boston and after a 
severe engagement we were compelled to retreat and we went
back to Rhode Island where I was discharged
the next Service which I performed was in the
year 1777 in Feb of that year I volunteered for
a year and was put under the command of 
Capt Saxton in Col Meads Regt and my Majors  
name was Train went to Danby in Vermont from there
to Rutland where there was a Picket Fort & staid
there until the next November where we were
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Ordered to White Hall New York where I remained
doing duty as a private until the next Feby 
when my time of enlistment being out I was discharged and went home
to Danby V.T. where my Father had removed I think
I Received a written discharge at Whitehall when my time
was out as assigned but of that I will not be sure
if I did I have lost it I hereby relinquish every claim
whatever to a pension or annuity except the present
and declare that my name is not on the pension roll
of the agency of any State or Territory I was born in
the Town of Glancester in the State of Rhode Island on the
16th day of March 1759, but have no record of my age
when first called into service I lived in the Town of Glancester
as immediately after the war I lived in Danley 
in the County of Rutland from there I removed to the Plain
of Lower Canada from there to the town of Allough
County of Grand Isle and State of Vermont where I now live.
when my
first service I was ordered out with the other
Petition at the Battle of Bunker Hill after that I volunteered
for one year as above stated
Samson Harrington
Sworn and Subscribed the
day and year as
Joel Allen Judge
And the said hereby declare their opinion after
the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations
prescribed by the war department that the above
named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served
as he states & the Court further certifies that there is
no regular Clergyman residing in the Town of Allough
where the applicant resides
Joel Allen Judge
I Augustus Keigh Register of the Court of Probate within
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as he states and the Court further certifies that there is
no regular Clergyman residing in the Town of Allough
where the applicant resides
I Augustus Wright
Joel Allen Judge
Register of the Court of Probate within
and for the District of Grand Isle do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said
Court in the matter of the application of Sampson Harrington
for a Pension
In Testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of office this 16th day of Feby 1835
Augustus Knight Register
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I Richard Latin of Franklin in the County of Franklin & State of Vermont aged 79 years do testify & say that I am well acquainted with Sampson Harrington & was at the time he came to Danby as a private Soldier in the Revolutionary war as stated in his Declaration hereunto attached as I lived then in sd. Danby & I am personally knowing to his belonging to Capt Saxtons Company in Colonel Meades Regt in the year 1777  that he served one year a part of the time at Rutland VT. & part of the time at Whitehall N. Y. as I was frequently at Rutland it being only nineteen miles from my place of Residence & saw the said Harrington there doing duty as a Soldier & know that the said Harrington was at home once or twice on furlough during the year afsd. his Father having removed from Rhode Island to Danby afsd.  I also saw the said Harrington at Whitehall afsd embodied & under arms doing duty as a private Soldier in the year afsd & further this Deponent saith not
his mark [hand drawn X] Richard Latin

State of Vermont}
Grand isle County ss}
Alburgh 16th Feby AD 1835
Then personally appeared Richard Latin who in my presence Subscribed the foregoing affidavit & at the same time made solemn oath that the same contains the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth  Before me
John M. Sowles Judge of Grand Isle C. Ct
I also Certify that the above named Latin is a credible person & his statement is entitled to Credit
John M. Sowles Judge of Grand Isle County Court
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State of Vermont}
Grand Isle County ss}
Clerks office North 
March 6th AD 1835.
I Joel Allen Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Grand Isle afsd. do hereby certify that the within named John M. Sowles is a Judge of said County Court, and a Justice of the Peace for said County ex officio and that his signature within written is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of said court the day and year afsd.
Joel Allen Clerk

32696
Sampson Harrington's Declaration
Vermont
requested
let J M Sowles 26 March 1835
4643
1832
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W.G.S.

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

May 26, 1925
Mrs. Sam James
Roundup, Box 394
Mont.
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R.4643, it appears that SAMSON HERRINGTON or HARRINGTON was born March 16, 1759, in Glocester, Rhode Island.
He alleged that while a resident of said place he enlisted in June, 1775, served as private in Captain Windsor's Rhode Island Company, was in the battle of Bunker Hill and was discharged soon after.  Having moved with his father (name not stated) to Danby, Rutland County, Vermont, he enlisted in February, 1777, and served one year as private in Captain Saxton's Company, Colonel Meade's Vermont Regiment.
He applied for pension February 16, 1835, while a resident of Alburgh, Grand Isle County, Vermont, but his claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish satisfactory proof of service as required by the pension law.
There is no data on file relative to his family.
Respectfully,
WILDER S. METCALF
Commissioner
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1925 May 26 Hist to Mrs Sam James  W.C.S.

4643
Sampson Harrington
REJECTED
Printed List of 1852 gives reason for rejection:  "He did not serve 6 mos."
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Roundup Mont.
Mar. 16 - 1925
U.S. Pension Bureau
Will you please give me the military
record of Samson Harrington, in Vermont,
during the period from 1780 to close of 
Revolutionary War? I believe he was a
pensioner of that War. Also the War
record if you have it of
John Langdon
of near Alburg St. Also war record of
any of Stephen Gary (not Gray) of R. J.?
An early answer will oblige
Yours truly
Mrs. Sam James
Roundup Mont 
Box 394
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Round stamp:
PENSION OFFICE
A
U. S.
MAY 12 1925

MRS. SAM'L. JAMES
ROUNDUP
MONTANA
Pension Bureau.
May 7 - 1925
Dear Sirs.
I am writing you for information in regard to War service of Sampson Harrington in 1776 - 77 - 81 or 82, in R. I. and in Vermont.  I think the Vt. rolls have his name Sampson Harrenden, instead of Harrington.  I wrote to R. I. and they referred me to your bureau, as I think he must have been a pensioner.  I am compiling a history of the Harrington family of which I am a descendant, and would like to put in the full military
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record of each one.  I have the record of 
Thomas Harrington in Rhode Island, 1780
Sampson Harrington his son ??????
George C. Harrington grandson of Sampson 1861
Jerome Harrington gr. grandson of Sampson 1917
Wm Dodge gr grand son of Sampson 1861
Daril C. Dodge gr grand son of Sampson 1862
Frank R. James gr. grand son of Sampson 1917
Now I would like the full record of Sampson Harrington if you please.  An early answer will oblige
Yours truly
Mrs. Sam James
Roundup Mont.

Round stamp:
PENSION OFFICE
A
U. S.
MAY 12 1925
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West Alburgh Vt
March 12

Free
Hon J. L. Edwards Comr. of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City D. C.
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West Alburgh March 10th AD 1835

Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir inclosed I send you the Declaration of Sampson Harrington 
any Communications respecting the same Direct to me West Alburgh Post Office Vermont
Verry [Very] Respectfully your
Obt Sert
John M. Sowles