Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,658, George Hart, Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE:  Penn.
NUMBER: S. 39,658
Hart, George
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CONTENTS
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Died Feby. 28, 1833
Agency book

Notification sent November 16, 1820 to
Uriah Spencer, George Hart, Coty Pa.

16477
Pennsylvania
George Hart of Tioga County in the State of Penna, was a Private in the regiment commanded by Nogle & Butler of the Penna
line, for the term of 1776 - war
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Inscribed on the Roll of Penna at the rate of
8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 of Apr. 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 11th of Feby 2
and handed Pensioner
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819   $134.66
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1820    $48.00
16 mo 25/30                                          $182.66
8/128
   6.66
134.66

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.
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That he was in the battle of the Short Hills in the State of New Jersey - next the battle of Brandywine on the 11th of September 1777 - next the battle of Germantown the 4th day of Oct 1777- next the battle at Monmouth
June 28th 1778 - next at the battle and taking of Lord Cornwallis - next in a small battle in South Carolina at Gamberneck where Col Laurence fell, and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of
the assistance of his Country for support.
George Hart
Sworn to, subscribed and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
Ira Kilburn, Officiating Judge

I, Ira Kilburn, one of the Associate Judges in and for Tioga County in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said George Hart did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the proceeding declaration, against the Common Enemy; and now transmit the proceeding and testimony taken and have before me, and also certify that sum satisfied that this claimant did serve nine months and more as one continued term of time in the revolutionary war on continental establishment, and that he is
poor and infirm and stands in need of assistance from his country for support
Ira Kilburn, Associate Judge
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State of Pennsylvania
Tioga County SS
On this tenth day of April 1818 before me the subscriber, one of the Associate Judges of
the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Tioga in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, personally appears George Hart, aged sixty years, resident in Tioga County aforesaid in the State aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and
navel service of the United States in the Revolution War," that he, the said George Hart, enlisted at Princetown in the State of New Jersey, in the month of December 1776 in the Company commanded by Captain Mathew Henderson and under Col. George Nagle, that he continued to serve in the said corps upwards of four years in the service of the United States, until the beginning of the
year 1781, when Col Nagle's regiment was drafted into the fifth regiment and afterwards commanded by Col Richard Butler, Pennsylvania line, where he remained and served to the close of the year 1783 on the 15th day of August at Philadelphia and was there discharged, which discharge is lost.
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District of Pennsylvania, County of Tioga
On this nineteenth day of September AD 1820 Personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas held in Wellsborough for the County of Tioga. Being a Court Record proceeding according to the course of common law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount
and keeping a Record of proceedings, George Hart, aged Sixty-three years, resident in Tioga County in said District, who first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the Eighteenth of March AD 1818 and first of May 1820. That he served in the revolutionary War in the Company commanded by Mathew Henderson, Capt, in the Regiment commanded by Col George Nogle in the line of the State of Pennsylvania, and has obtained a Pension under the act of the 18th of March 1818, his Certificate being Numbered 16477 and dated the 11th day of Feb 1820, to commence
on the 10th day of April 1818, and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift otherwise or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval
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of the United States in the revolutionary war passed the eighteenth day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me.
George Hart
Sworn and subscribed in open Court on the nineteenth day of Sept AD 1820.
Uriah Spencer Proty
Schedule of Property I have besides necessary clothing and bedding
1 Small Cow $10.00, 1 small looking glass $1.00, 2-year-old heifer $8.00, 8 butter plates $0.30, 2 hogs $2.50, old earthen plates $0.88,
1 small shoat $250, 4 pie plates $0.88, 1 iron kettle $3.50, set of saucers $0.62, 1 old pot $1.12, 1 cup & tea pot $1.00, 1 small dog, $1.00, 5 iron spoons, $0.12, 1 frying pan, $0.75, 3 Pewter tea cups, $0.13, 1 old wash table, $0.25, 1 old table, $1.00, 1 tin bucket $0.25, 1 axe $1.00, 1 earthen cup, $0.12, 1 old stone wheel $0.25, anumber of other small things $0.40, 1 rest $0.25, 1 tea kettle $1.00, 4 old chairs $1.50 = $45.69
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I am by trade a shoemaker, but by age and infirmity am not able to pursue that occupation. My family consists only of myself and Elany, my wife, who is aged fifty-nine years and infirmed like myself.
George Hart
Sworn and Subscribed in open Court the ninteenth day of Sept AD 1820.
Uriah Spencer Proty
War Department. Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the laws of the
United States of the 18th of March AD 1818, George Hart, late a private in the army of the revolution, is inscribed on the pension list roll of the Pennsylvania agency at the rate of Eight Dollars per month to commence on the 10th day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, given at the war office of United States this eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
J. C. Calhon Secretary of war
No 16477, payable on the fourth of March and
4th of Sept of each year by Prest M Bank
in Philadelphia. No pension is payable until
the arrival of one or the other of the above dates after issuing a certificate Registered by M. Henshaw in Book B. Vol 7, Page 108
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Tioga County ss.

    Uriah Spencer Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereunto annexed are truly copied for the records of said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is forty five dollars & sixty nine cents.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the deal of said Court at Willsborough the nineteenth day of September AD 1820.

                                            //s//
                                     Uriah Spencer Proth.
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DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
Bureau of Pensions.
November 20, 1916.

Returned to the Quartermaster General U.S. Army, with the information that the records of this Bureau show that George Hart of Tioga, County, Penn. enlisted Dec. 1776, Pri., Captain Matthew Henderson, Colonel George Nagel and Richard Butler, Penn. troops, was in the battles of Short Hills, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and Yorktown, and served to the end of the War. 
    He was 60 years of age and a resident of Tioga Co., Penn. in 1818, and died February 28, 1833.

                           Very respectfully,
                            G. M. Saltzgaber
                            Commissioner.
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State of Pennsylvania
Tioga County ss
Prothonotary Office

    I Urial Spencer Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Tioga do certify and make known that Ira Kilburn in and was at the time of signing and taking the foregoing depositions and certifying the same Associate Judge of the County of Tioga in the State of Pennsylvania that the signature is his proper hand writing and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of office at Wells borough in the County of Tioga aforesaid this thirty fist day of January Ann Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty.

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                                         Uriah Spencer Proth.
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Dauphin County }ss.

   Before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of Dauphin County personally came Willaim Milan of said county who being duly sworn according to law did depose and say that some time in the spring of the year 1777 he became acquainted with George Hart who was then a soldier in the Pennsylvania Line in the Army of the Revolution and belonged to the Ninth Regiment commanded by Col. George Nagle and afterwards by Col. Richard Butler.  That he was with hm in the Battle of Brandywine and Germantown and Monmouth and that he, this deponent knew the said George Hart to be and remain in the service of the United States until the year 1781 when the Ninth and the Fifth regiments were united and commanded by Col. Richard Burler and sometime in June of the said year 1781, this deponent left the Army when the said George Hart was still in the said regiment, further said not.    
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                                        William Mileham
Sworn and subscribed
February the 5th, 1820,
before -       //s//
             John Cochran

Dauphin County } ss.

    I, John Machesney Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do certify that John Cochran Esq. before whom the proceeding deposition was made and where name is thereunto subscribed was at the time of so doing and yet is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and duly commissioned and sworn to all whose act as such due faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere.

    In testimony where of I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Harrisburg the 7th day of February AD 1820.
                                     //s//
                        John Machesney Prothonotary
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I certify that it appears by the pay rolls of the Pennsylvania Line in the revolutionary War in this office that the name George Hart is included in the rolls of the 9th Regiment, that he served three years or more, as on his discharge from the service he received a certificate for sixty pounds sixteen shillings and seven pence for the depreciation on his pay, and that he received his gratuity for having served to the end of the war - Witness my hand and the seal of the office of the Auditor General the 7th day of February 1820.
 
                                       Geo. Bryan A.G.
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State of Pennsylvania
Lycoming County} ss.

    I Thomas Hays Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said county.  Do certify that Benjamin Warner Esqr.  is duly commissioned and appointed one of the Justices of the Peace in and for Lycoming County - To all whose official acts due credit is and ought to be given.

   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county at Williamsport the second day of February AD eighteen hundred & twenty.  

                                        //s//
                                  Thos. Hays  Prothon.
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Lycoming County] ss.

   Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county in the State of Pennsylvania, personally appeared Jacob Hill who upon oath declares that he served in the Fifth regiment of the Pennsylvania Line during the Revolutionary War and that in the year 2782 the Fifth & Ninth Regiments were united under the command of Col. Richard Butler.  That after such union he became a messmate of George Hart and that they continued to be so for two years and (more) until the close of the war where we were both discharged in City of Philadelphia and further this deponent saith not.

                                               //s//
                                        Jacob hill
Sworn and subscribed the
first day of February 1820.
Before me - 
                        //s//
           Benjamin Warner
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39, 658
INVALID.
File no. 39,658
George Hart
Priv. Rev. War

Act: 18 March 1818
Index"-Vol. 5, Page 211

{Arrangement of 1870.}

July 13 1900
F.C. Cochran & (illegible)

1914 Sept 26. Hist to Mrs. Harry Fenn.    F.W.

1916 Nov. 20 Tombstone date to Quartermaster Genl. U.S. Army.              (initial)
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Rochester, N. Y. 
Sept. 22, 1914

Department of Interior
Bureau of Pensions

Gentlemen:

    The writer is anxious to obtain the war record of George Hart a soldier of the Revolution, He was born in Germany, immigrating to some years before. He served for seven years in the Army, was a resident of Reading Pa. finally moving to Lawrence and finally settled and died in Liberty, Tioga Co., Pa. 
   Thanking you in advance (next page)
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for an early reply, I remain. 
Yours truly,
Grace T Fenn,
(Mrs. Harry Fenn)
58 Meline ST.
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Stamps: OLD WAR & NAVY 
JUL 11  1903
FILES  

and  PENSION OFFICE U. S. JUL 10 1903
Ithaca, New York
Jul 8th, 1903
The Commision of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
 My dear sir;
I wish to secure from the pension papers if George Hard of the Pennsylvania line in the Revolution, all such facts as theycertain relation to the date of his birth, parentage, company, residences, marriage, death, children and services anything of a prersonal matter.  He died in Tioga County, Penn (Insert) 1833 and had drawn a
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pension source years.  Should also like to know if application for pension was made by his brother Adam O Hart of the same county, and a Revolutionary ovedsin(?).  If so, I should like the same facts from his applicaton papers.
     I also enclose a piece of tracing paper on which, if possible, I wish to get the signature of George Hart and that of Adam Hart in order to identify them with others of the name who from other evidence appears to be the same.
     Trustin you will kindly oblige me, 
I am , Yours very respectfully,
F. C. Cochran
109 Hudson St.,
Ithaca,
New York.
stamped:
PENSION OFFICE, U.S. July 10, 1903
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In reply to your request of..., receive..., for a statement of military history of George Hart a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find the desired information as contained in his(or his widow's) crossed out| application for pension on file in this Bureau.  S. F. 39,658.
Date of enlistment or appointment:
Dec. 1776 served to end of war. 
Rank: Priv. 
Captain: Matthew Henderson 
Colonel: George Nagel, Richard Butler
State: Pa
Battles engaged in: Short Hills, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Yorktown.
Residence at date of application: Enl at Princton, N.J.
Date of application for pension, Tioga Co. Pa
Age at date of application, 60 years (place of birth not stated.)
Remarks: His wife Elany, was 59 yrs old in 1820  There is no further data relative to family.
the above noted is the only George Hart of Pa, found in the Rev. War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully, Commissioner