Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2331-300, Oliver Hart, S.C.
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Service
S.C. Hart, Oliver 
Number B.L.Wr. 2331-300
Contents
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Deposition
Charles Hart for Olivever Hart_
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Georgia      }
Liberty County}

Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Mrs Mary Hart a Lady will known to me, and whom I hereby certify to be a Lady of the highest credibility, and she is and has been in the receipt of a pension from the United States as the widow of a revolutionary officer, who being duly sworn according to Law, says that Oliver Hart the Brother of her late Husband Capt. John Hart of the South Carolina Lie of the army of the Revolution was a [illegible], or Surgeons mate of the said South Carolina Line of the army of the Revolution and departed this life at or near the Pidee [Pee Dee] South Carolina, many year ago leaving two children, a son names Oliver Hart, and a daughter named Eleanor Hart, the former died near Knoxville, in the State f Tennessee in the year 1836, leaving a wife & several children, whose names she does not recollect, and that the daughter when last heard of was married to a Mr Bennet and resided near Lexington, Kentucky -- And further, she saith not--
Sworn & subscribed before me   }    Mary Hart_
This Sixth day of November 1843.} 
G.W. Dunham I.I.C 86
I do certify that the above named G.W. Dunham is a legally appointed magistrate for Liberty County- and that due credence should be given to all of his actings and doings--
Witness this my hand and seal, there being no seal of office, this Sixth day of year 1843--
E. Wayclerk S.C.I.6.
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Oliver Hart
W.2311

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Hon Garrett Davis
Ho of Repts
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The affidavit of Ellenor Bennett wife of Janus Bennett of Woodford County Ky. near the  Fayett line . She states that she is the only surviving child of Doctor Oliver Hart  dec'd . She state that she is informed  and believes that her father was surgeon on a surgeons mate  of the Revolutionary army, and attached to the South Carolina Line  during said War, and acted in that capacity  until the close thereof , and became entitled to all the rights and immunities of other officers of the Revolutionary army, that she is informed and believes  that her dec'd father was entitled to land form the United States for his services in the Line as above stated. She states that she does not know  the right  to which he was  arranged only speaking from the conversations she has heard her father & others have in reference to the war. This she states that  her father departed this life about fifty years ago on the Pedee River  South Carolina  besides this affiant he left  a son Olover Hart   who died near Nashville, leaving the following children - J. Wm, Ellen Rebecca the wife of Wm Johnson, Olover  & Rachel Hart as the  only  heirs at law of said Olover who died  in Nashville Tenn as aforesaid
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that said Oliver Hart who died on the Pedee river left no will as ever this affiant heard of , not did the said Olover Hart who died near Nashville  leave any will as his death was sudden . Affiant states that she first intermarried with Mr. Benj. Stout  , 2nd with  David Harris of  Woodford, lastly  with the said James Bennett  , that this affiant  and the said Olover Hart's children are the only heirs at law of Dr. Oliver Hart a Surgeon's mate of the South Carolina Line in Revolutionary war, further saith  not. Eleanor Bennett ( signed ) [ State of Kentucky Woodford County ] I James E Redd  a Justice of the peace in  & for said County  , duly commissioned  & qualified  to  act as such , hereby certify that Eleanor wife of James Bennett came before me & subscribed & swore to the foregoing affidavit  to the best of her knowledge and belief . Given under my hand and seal this 3rd day of Feby 1844. Jas W. Redd ( signed )  Witness Jas. W. Redd( signed )  Ann S. Bennett ( signed )
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Know all men by these presents that Mrs. Eleanor Bennett  and James Bennett of Woodford County Kentucky  , the said Eleanor being one of the children and heirs at law of Dr. Oliver Hart , dec'd , appoint Garret Davis  an attorney in fact  with power of substitution  to receive from the  War Department  at Washington City , three hundred acres of bounty land or more due us as heirs at law of  Dr. Oliver Hart , deceased , in virtue  of the services of said Hart as a surgeon's mate in the South Carolina Line during the Revolutionary War, to surrender said warrant  to the  Treasury Depart.  & for the same procure scrip to  sell the same, to lay before the Congress a petition  for the commutation pay  due or the one year's full pay  in virtue  of the services aforesaid  & finally if the appropriation  is made to receive & receipt for the same as fully  as if we were receive  at the doing thereof in power to receive all other dues from the  general or State governments in virtue of the services aforesaid as witness our hands & seals this 3rd day  of Feby  1844. Ja. Bennett ( signed / sealed  ) Eleanor Bennett ( signed / sealed )
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[ State of Kentucky Woodford County ] Set  I , James  W. Redd a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified  to act as such, hereby certify that James Bennett and Eleanor his wife  came before me  and made acknowledgment to the foregoing power of atty.  to be their act & deed for the purposes  therein contained. Given under my hand  this 3rd day of Feby. 1844. Jas. W. Redd ( signed )  J.N W. C.  witness Jas. W. Redd ( signed ) Ann S. Bennett ( signed )
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Commonwealth of Kentucky Executive Department Frankfort, February 8th 1844. I, Robert P. Letcher  Governor of said Commonwealth do hereby certify that James W. Redd whose name is signed to the two annexed  and foregoing certificates was at the time of the writing thereof , and now is a Justice of the Peace  in and for the County of Woodford, State of Kentucky , duly commissioned , qualified and acting as such , and by virtue of his said office fully authorized to take acknowledgements, administer oaths, etc. and to grant evidence thereof, that his certificates are in due form of Law , and full faith and credit  are and of right  , ought to be reposed in all his official acts as  made our of as in  Court of Justice. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand  and  caused the seal of the Commonwealth to be affixed . Done at Frankfort on the eighth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four, and in the 52nd year of the Commonwealth . By the Governor : R.P. Letcher ( signed . sealed ) J. Harlan ( signed ) Secretary of State
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[This typed letter (2 pages)was very hard to transcribe due to dark and smudged lettering...and may contain errors]

April 16, 1982.
BA-J/[illegible]
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Oliver Hart

B.L.Wt.2331-300
Mrs.
B. F. Waller
1134 Alta Avenue, N.E. 
Atlanta, Georgia.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request 
information in regard to Oliverr Hart, Jr., surgeon's mate, War of the
Revolution.

The records of 0liver Hart and his brother, John, are, furnished
you.

The data contain herein are obtained from the claim for bounty
land based upon service of Oliver Hart.

Oliver Hart was a surgeon's mate during the Revolutionary War
and served to the close of the war; the length and details of his service are not given.  He died about 1794, near Peedee, South Carolina.

Dr Oliver Hart was survived by two children , Eleanor and Oliver.
said Oliver, also referred to as Dr.  Oliver Hart, died in 1836 in Washingtonville, Tennessee, and left the following children whose names are shown
twice and vary: "I.(orJ.) Wm Ellen Rebecca the wife of Wm. Johnson, Mary
Clever and [illegible] Hart"all residents of Nashville, Tennessee, in 1844;
the other statement in regard to their names "I. (or J.) W., Mary, Oliver
and Rebecca Hart and Ellen wife of Wm Johnson".

Soldier's daughter, Eleanor Bennet, the wife of James Bennet,
applied February 5,1844 in Woodford County, Kentucky (she and her husband
then resident of Woodford County), for bounty land that was due her and
the children of her deceased brother, Oliver, because of the service of
her father as surgeon's mate, War of the Revolution.  She stated that the
name of her first husband was Benj. Stout and the name of her second 
husband was David Harris of Woodford County, Kentucky.  Her age and the 
dates of her three marriages are not stated.

Warrant No. 2951 for three hundred acres of bounty land was issued.

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March 4, 1944 in behalf of soldier's daughter, Eleanor Bennet and  the other heirs named above.

Benjamin [illegible] and Ann S. Bennett appeared in Woodford County,
Kentucky, in 1844 as witnesses in support of the claim for bounty land,
no relationship to the soldiers family stated.

Mary Hart, a United States pensioner, widow of John Hart, an
officer of the South Carolina  line, War of the Revolution. who was a
brother of Mr. Oliver Hart, made affidavit in 1865 in support of the 
claim of Eleanor Bennet for bounty land.  She was then a resident of 
Liberty County, Georgia
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The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in
Revolutionary War pension claim, W3205,  based upon the service of John
Hart.

John Hart, son of Oliver and Sarah Hart, while residing in 
Charleston District, South Carolina, entered the service, dated not stated,
served as Lieutinant, Captain Lieutenant, Adjutant and Captain of the 2nd South Carolina  Regiment and was in the siege of Savannah, Georgia.and Charleston, South Carolina , at which last siege he was taken prisoner
and sent to [illegible] Point near Charleston, [illegible] to Philadelphia and there exchanged and served to the end of the war.

He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati.

He married June 17, 1794 at St. Thomas Parish, South Carolina  , Miss Mary Sarevan daughter of General James Sarevan. He died March 17,
1814 at "Grandby", near Columbia, South Carolina .

Mary Hart, soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed April 22, 1839, at which time she resided in Liberty County,
Georgia. She was then seventy-two years of age.

Very truly yours,

A.D. Hiller,
Assistant to Administrator.


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Atlanta , Ga March 7, 1932. Director of Pensions Washington , D.C. Dear Sir, Will you please give me any data you may have on the  Revolutionary war record of one Oliver Hart Jr. who served as Surgeon's mate in the  South Carolina Line from Jan 1,
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1782 to May 1, 1783 . Thanking you for this record . I am gratefully yours . ( Mrs. ) B.F. Waller  ( signed ) 1134 Alta Ave N.E. Atlanta, Ga.
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B. Stout & Hart's heirs The land warrant issued to the heirs of Dr. Oliver Hart  a surgeon's mate in the revolution , in the spring of 1844  viz. to Dr. Oliver Hart of Nashville, Tenn  & Mrs. Stout or Bennett , his sister . W. Preston  ( signed )
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Pension Office July 3 1854  Sir, I have directed a search  to be made for the name of Oliver  Hart  on both the Kentucky   & Tennessee rolls of Revolutionary pensioners, with a view to having copies furnished as you requested. The name of Hart cannot be found, I must therefore request  more certain information as to the  State where he was inscribed. Be pleased also if possible  to state the act under which he was pensioned. I have the honor to be very respectfully yours etc. L.P. Waldo ( signed ) Commissioner .   Hon William Preston Ho . of Reps.
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At a General Court held for the State of Kentucky  at the  Capital town of Frankfort  on  Wednesday  the seventh day of February  1844  and in the 52nd year of the Common wealth. On this the 7th day of Febry .  1844 proof was offered in  open Court  to get a certificate of heirship of Dr. Oliver Hart , dec'd  . The deposition of Mary Hart  the widow of Capt. Hart  was read whose credibility is duly certified to this Court  and the affidavits of Mrs. Eleanor Bennett , also read  and the oral evidence of Benj. Stout was also heard, and in the hearing  of the  whole case the Court  are satisfied  Oliver Hart  departed this life in  South Carolina about fifty years ago  intestate and that he was the same Oliver Hart who served a a surgeon's mate in the Revolutionary war in the  South Carolina line that he left at his death two children his heirs at law, Eleanor, wife of James Bennett now of Woodford County , Ky. and Oliver Hart  who died near Nashville, Tennessee in 1836  intestate, that said Oliver Hart left the following children  & heirs at law . J.W. ,Mary, Oliver , Rebecca Hart & Ellen wife of  Wm Johnson that the foregoing Eleanor  Bennett , J.W. ,Mary , Oliver & Rebecca Hart & Ellen wife of William Johnson are the only heirs at law of Dr. Oliver Hart  who is reputed to have been a surgeon's mate  in the  Revolutionary war in the South Carolina line of all of  which  is ordered to be certified. to whom it may concern. " Rebecca "  Interlined by me  A H Rennick ( signed ) C.C.C. [ state of Kentucky ] SS I Alexander H Rennick clerk of the General Court for the State aforesaid , do certify that the foregoing is  truly copied from the records of my office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my mane as Clerk as aforesaid and affixed the seal of said Court  this seventh day of February 1844. A H Rennick ( signed / sealed ) Clerk General Court
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Divison of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME  Hart, Patrick 

Grade Private

Line New Jersey

WARRANT
NUMBER  8399

ACREAGE  100

ISSUED   Mar. 25, 1790

(hand written Note: 
to ____ not shown)

*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.