Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4679, John Harrison, New Jersey
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8 - 1776
Service Number
New Jersey Harrison, John R. 4679
Contents
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State of Kentucky
Fayette County Court
On this the 8th day of July in the year One thousand Eight hundred and fifty two before me Berry T. James Presiding Judge County Court of Fayette County personally appeared Mary Moffett aged 60 years a resident of the city of Lexington County and state aforesaid known to me to be a person of credit and entitled to full credit and belief being by me first duly sworn according to Law declares that she is the identical Mary Moffett who is the only daughter of John Harrison who was an orderly serjant in the Revolutionary War said John Harrison enlisted in a small village in the State of New Jersey about the commencement of the war and served in the regular army for something like seven years as she has often heard her father said John Harrison often say and that he served in a troop of Horse or Mountee Men. That she has no recollection of any of the officers that he served under except General Lee and Washington. She has heard her father say he was in the battle of Brandywine, Camden and siege of York Towne and some other places she don't now recollect that her said father served to the State of Kentucky about the year 1790 and settled in Lexington, and died about the year 1806 and that her mother died before her father and that she is the only daughter [illegible] of said John Harrison [illegible] She further states that she has often heard her said
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father say that there was pay due him from
the United States for back pay and [illegible: sature] the
has heard her father and other members of
the family speak of papers which he had
Discharging him from the services But these
papers were burned by the house burning
down She makes this declaration for the
purpose and request the commissioner of
Pensions to examine into the care and
cause the amount of money and Land
due her for the services of her said Father
to be paid to her. She states that she
has six Brothers that has families known
to her there were nine the children two
died without leaving issue Samuel William
Carsly Harrison is at this time a living Edward
John James Harrison died leaving issue
Isaac and English died without issue
Mary Moffett
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
8th day of July 1852
Benjamin F Graves [illegible]
Judge County Court of
Fayette
State of Kentucky Fayette County Court
I hereby certify that Benjamin F Graves Esq before me
the foregoing affidavit was made and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time
of so doing any Judge county court of Fayette
duly elected commissioned and sworn and that
his said signature is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the  Fayette
County Court this 16th day of July 1852 ┃
Att James Armistead Clk
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February 25, 1931
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
AWF: MLB

Mr. Orra E. Monnette
350 South Oxford Avenue
Los Angeles, California
Dear Sir:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim, R.4679, that John Harrison
moved to Kentucky about 1790 and settled in Lexington and died
about 1806. His wife, whose name is not stated, died prior to
this date. There are no data as to their marriage.
Their daughter, Mary Moffett, applied for pension July 8,
1852, at which time she was living in Lexington, Kentucky, aged
sixty years, and alleged that her father, John Harrison, enlisted
in a small village in the State of New Jersey about the first
of the war, and served about seven years in a troop of horse
under Generals Washington and Lee, was in the battles of
Brandywine and Camden and the siege of Yorktown.
The claim was not allowed as the soldier and wife both died
without making application for pension and the children, therefore,
were not entitled.
Mary Moffett also stated that there were nine children --
six brothers with families: -- Samuel, William, Carsly (?), Edward,
John, James, and Isaac and English who died without issue,
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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(caption under photo)
ORRA EUGENE MONNETTE
(b. April 12, 1873 -- living 1930)

Biographical Account
"MONNETTE, ORRA EUGENE financier, lawyer
and author, was born near Bucyrus, Ohio, April 12,
1873, son of Mervin Jeremiah and Olive Adelaide
(HULL) Monnette. He is a descendant of Isaac Monnet,
of a Huguenot family of Polton, France, who fled
from his native land after the revocation of the Edict
of Nantes, and with his brother, Pierre Monnet,
settled first on Staten Island, New York, and later in
Calvert County, Md. From Isaac Monnet and his
wife Elizabeth Williams the line descends through
William and Elizabeth (Kent) Monnet; Isaac, a soldier
of the revolution, and Elizabeth (Osborne) Monnet:
Abraham, also a revolutionary soldier, and Ann (Hilllary) Monnet: Rev. Jeremiah C. and Aley (Slagle)
Monnet, and Abraham and Catherine (Braucher) Monnett
the grandparents of Orra E. Monnette.
His
grandfather, Abraham Monnett, was a wealthy banker
in Ohio. Mr. Monnette was educated in the public
schools of his native county and was graduated B.A.
at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1895. During vacations
he was employed in the Second National Bank
of Bucyrus, an institution founded by his maternal
grandfather, George W. Hull, and of which his father
was president. At Ohio Wesleyan he took a special
law course, in addition to the classical studies, and in
1896 he was admitted to the Ohio bar, beginning practice
in Bucyrus as a member of the firm of Beer,
Bennett & Monnette. In 1903 he removed to Toledo,
O., where he acquired interest in three banks, acting
as their attorney, in addition to his general law practice.
When, in 1907, his father became a partner in
the famous Hayes-Monnette mining lease at Goldfield,
Nev., Mr Monnette removed with him to Los Angeles.
Cal., and there practiced law until 1912. Shortly after
his arrival in California, in association with his father
and an uncle, J. C. F. Hull, he purchased the former
American National Bank of Los Angeles, becoming
its attorney and one of its directors. In 1909 this
bank was consolidated with the Citizens National
Bank of Los Angeles, retaining the latter name, and
two years later he purchased the Broadway Bank &
Trust Co., reorganizing it as the Citizens Trust & Savings
Bank. Of this latter organization. Mr. Monnette
was elected president in January, 1912, so continuing
until 1922. He served also as a director both of the
Citizens National Bank and the Citizens Trust & Savings Bank until 1923. He organized the Bank of
America of Los Angeles, in November, 1922, and was
its president from the date of its opening in the following
February. It was consolidated with the Liberty
Bank of San Francisco in March, 1927, under the
style, Liberty Bank of America, with Mr. Monnette as
first president, but later, was merged into the Bank
of Italy National Trust & Savings Association, with
the same officers and personnel. In 1923, also, Mr.
Monnette founded the Lincoln Mortgage Co. of California
and became its president, in addition to these
connections, he is chairman of the board of directors
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of the Americommercial Corporation, director and
vice-chairman of the board, member of the general
executive committee and chairman of the (Los Angeles) regional board of the Bank of Italy National
Trust and Savings Association of San Francisco. He
is also treasurer of the Prudential Building and Loan
Association. Mr. Monnette's public spirit is reflected
in his long and able service as a member of important
civic bodies. He has been president of the board of
directors of the Los Angeles Public Library since 1914;
is a member of the city planning commission and the
municipal annexation commission; and was a member of the board of freeholders which framed the Los Angeles
city charter in 1922-24. He is also president
of the Business Men's Cooperative Association. In
the World war he was a representative of the secret
service of the state council of defense and was active
in the Liberty Loan campaigns. Mr. Monnette has
also been intensely interested in the activities of
patriotic historical and genealogical societies, and
has devoted much time energy and study to historical
and genealogical research and writing. Besides
numerous articles on families and individuals contributed to various publications he is the author of
"Five Isaac Kendalls, of Ashford, Conn." (1908);
"Israel Clark, an Ohio Pioneer" 1908): "John C. Fremont Hull" 1909; "A Janeway Lineage" (1910)
"The Hull family in America" (1910): "Monnet
Family Genealogy" (1911) and "California Chronology" (1915);
"A Vocabulary Test and Monosyllabic Essay on
Art" (1918) and a volume of poems, "Red Shining
Star" (1926). Mr. Monnette is a member of the American
Ohio, California and Los Angeles county bar associations, American and California Bankers Associations, Society of Mayflower Descendants, Huguenot
Society of America, Baronial Order of Runnemede,
Magna Charta Barons. Society of Colonial Wars
deputy governor for California Sons of the Revolution (grand historian, editor of 1915 year book for
California, Sons of the American Revolution, Order
of Founders and Patriots of America (president 1924)
Society of the War of 1812, Order of Washington, the
Phi Beta Kappa society (president of alumni of southern
California, Phi Kappa Psi fraternity (national
president 1911-12) Masonic order (32nd degree Shriner, and the Benevolent Protective order of Elks. He
Republican in politics, being central committee-man of his district, and a Methodist in religion. His
executive ability, energy, perseverance and public
spirit have made him one of the outstanding figures
in the business and cultural life of southern California,
Mr. Monnette has married three times: (1) Oct.
1821, to Ella Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Crim, of
Galion, O.; (2) Nov. 6, 1895, to Carrie Lucile, daughter
of William Francis Janeway, Columbus, O.; (3) Dec. 15, 1917, to Helen Marie, daughter of Christopher G.
Kull, of Los Angeles. He has one daughter by the third marriage), Helen Hull Monnette."

From THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN
BIOGRAPHY, Current Volume C. By James T. White & Co., 1930, Page 281.

ORRA E. MONNETTE
VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
BANK OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRUST AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION
SAN FRANCISCO
OFFICES: SUITE 610
BANK OF AMERICA BUILDING
SPRING STREET AT SEVENTH
LOS ANGELES

RESIDENCE ADDRESS
350 SOUTH OXFORD AVENUE
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
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MEMBER:
Patriotic Societies; Also
New England Historic Genealogical Society;
New York Genealogical and Biographical
Society/ The Council. The Institute of
American Genealogy; New Jersey Historical
Society; Maryland Historical Society; Old
Northwest Genealogical Society; California
Genealogical Society, Pennsylvania German
Society: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
Huguenot Society of America. Chairman, International Genealogical Congress,
Panama-Pacific Exposition, College of Arms
of Canada. Baronial Order of Runnemede.
Der Deutsche Roland, Berlin, Germany.
Societe de l'Histoire du Protestantisme
Francais, (Huguenot), Paris, The Society
of Genealogists of London, The Huguenot
Society of London,
REFERENCES:
Bank of Italy National Trust and Savings
Association, San Francisco and Los Angeles
and Bank of America, New York City.
(MR.) Orra Eugene Monnette
Genealogist
(For Pastime, not for Profit)
NUMBER THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY
SOUTH OXFORD AVENUE
AUTHOR AND COMPILER:
"MONNET FAMILY GENEALOGY"
Large 8vo, 1300 pages
171 Illustrations
1911
Material also being gathered for a supplemental volume; compilation "First Settlers of Piscataway and Woodbridge, New Jersey
now under way.
Interested in early New Hampshire, New Jersey
and Maryland families particularly;
also Huguenot immigration; German settlers
of Pennsylvania; Mayflower lineages and
old Plymouth Colony inhabitants leading to
Connecticut settlements; Americans of
Royal Descent.

Los Angeles, California.
March 7, 1931
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
AWF:MLB
Mr. E. W. Morgan,
Acting Commissioner,
Veterans Administration,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. Morgan:
This is to acknowledge your courteous letter
of February 25th re, Revolutionary War pension claim,
R. 4679, concerning John Harrison.
The information is so complete and your
courtesy so fine that I have felt called upon to make
a special acknowledgment to you.
Thanking you for your kindness.
Very truly yours,
Orra Eugene Monnette.
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N REPLY REFER TO
Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.
AWF: MLB
3 - 2562
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON
February 4, 1931
Mr. Orra E. Monnette
350 South Oxford Avenue
Los Angeles, California.
Dear Sir:
I advise you that the data furnished by you are not sufficient to
enable this bureau to make intelligent reply to the queries contained
in your letter.
Please fill out such of the blank spaces below, as the information
in your possession will permit, and return to this bureau.
First name of widow Elizabeth Kearney or Byram, possibly
Lewis, although he may have had a 2nd wife Full name of soldier John Harrison at his death
at his death.
Residence of soldier at enlistment only N.J. Rev Middlesex or Essex Co. N. J.
Residence of soldier after service Sussex, N. J. then went West
Name of State from which he enlisted New Jersey
Approximate date of birth 1759 - 61
Approximate date of death after 1800.
Kindly return attached letter with your reply.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.

(round stamp)
U.S.
PENSION
OFFICE
FEB 16 1931

Rev
*This soldier served in Lee's Legion and received Virginia
military land grant which took him into Kentucky or Ohio.
He may have lived in Morrow or Marion Co., Ohio, about 1825.
He had several children among them Polly or Molly or Mary
Harrison who married Japheth Smith, John, Benjamin et al.
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Act of July 14, 1862, and March 9, 1873.[all crossed out]
REJECTED
4679
P.O.
John Harrison
Service:
Enlisted, : 18 
Discharged:, 18
Application filed: 18
application made too late
for 1852 list
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney: 
P.O.
Recognized.  Contract.

(along left edge)
1931 Feb 25 Hist to Mr. Orra E. Monnette [illegible]
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Pension Office
June 28th 1852
I have the honor to return
you the letter of Messrs Craig and
Kennedy and to state that such 
information as they ask is never 
furnished from the Rolls in this Office in 
advance of a declaration filed by the
parties interested
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Sevt
F F C Triplett
for Comr of Pensions
Honl. Jno C. Breckenridge
House of Reps
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No 38, 420
John Harrison dec
Kentucky
Hon. J. C. Breckenridge Sep 29/52 [all crossed out]
Rejected
4679
Act June 7 1832
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July 26-52
Deed of John
Harrison decd
Hon. J.C. Breckenridge
House of Reps
Referred to the Commisssioner 
of Pensions
Dept Into
July 24/52

Recd Aug 21. 1852
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Hon J. C. Breckenridge
Sept 29, 1852
,
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372
Pension Office
Sep 29 1852
Sir
I have the honor to inform you that the
application of John Harrison dec of Kentucky
has been received, filed under the act of June
1832 and rejected. He and his wife died
before the existence of any pension law,
the children have no claim
Hon J. C. Breckenridge
Lexington
Ky