Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23443, Jason Harris, Conn.
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[form completed in handwritten black ink]
(3-1776)

SERVICE                           NUMBER   
Conn.     Harris, Jason    W. 23443
               Annis, Elizabeth
               (Former widow.)
CONTENTS
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Montpelier.
Vermont.  80889.
Elizabeth Annis, forty
widow of Jason Harris
Conn,
who was a Private
in the Conn. Line.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
80 Dollars --- 
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of Feby 1867.
 and sent to 
John Bryant, Present,

[Acts of March 3, 1843]
and June 17. 1844.
Recorded in Book a, Vol. 2, Page 60

Rep.
2 Certs.
1838 &c.
Examined with Orig. Rolls
Sept 1883 [crossed out Ka] LA
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12.733.
Elisabeth Annis of Vermont -

Applicant under the Acts of July 7, 1838 and August 23d 1842

sn. '84

9197
1350

On Rolls
 admd
2 yrs pri
80$

also acts '43 & 44
$80.
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 and the 23d August 1843.

State of Vermont
District of Randolph ss.}

On this 24th day of Feby 1845, personally appeared before the Probate Court within and for said District of Randolph, Elisabeth Annis a resident of Washington in said District aged upwards of 89 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the acts of Congress passed July 7, 1838 and the 23d day of August 1842, granting pension to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Jason Harris who was a resident of Killingly Connecticut and a continental soldier in the army of the Revolution, but whose services she cannot particularly describe as to the length of time he was engaged - date or dates of the Services, where rendered - or the names of his Officers but is of the belief that he served for the span of three years - for he so stated to her after her acquaintance with and marriage to him. This is all that she Can say in relation to his services, except that her impression is that he told her that he was at Cambridge, but when & how long she has no idea. She also declares that she was married to the said Jason Harris at Hebron in the State of Connecticut by the Rev Samuel Sackmead in the month of April in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four, that not far from two years after her said marriage She remained with her husband
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the said Jason Harris to New Grantham as it was then called in the State of New Hampshire from when after a short residence there they removed to Oxford in said State of New Hampshire - This was in the months of June seventeen hundred & eighty eight - that in the month of October following, that is - in the month of October seventeen hundred & eighty eight - her husband the said Jason Harris left her at said Oxford for the purpose as he stated at the time of going to Bennington Vermont to take a Heart, that not hearing from him, she same time in the year following sent there to make enquiring for him but could not learn that he was there - as that he had ever been there - that she afterwards sent to Connecticut to make enquiry for him and that repeatedly but without being able to obtain any information whatever respecting him, so that after an absence of near seven years she & her friends were led to the conclusion that he must be dead, and that she consequently in the full belief that he was dead felt at liberty as his widow to marry again, and justified in so doing. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place privision to the first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz at the time above stated, She farther declares that after the death or supposed death of the husband of said she was married to Jesse Annis at Fairlee Vermont by the Rev Mr Gould in the month of December seventeen hundred and ninety five, that he died in the month of September eighteen hundred and twenty and that
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she is still a widow.

Elisabeth Annis her mark X

Sworn to and subscribed on the day above written, before me

John Colley Judge of Probate [signature]

I further certify that Elisabeth Annis is the above named declarant is personally known to me, and is in my belief a credible person.

John Colley Judge of Probate [signature]

State of Vermont
District of Randolph ss.}

At a Probate Court holden at Washington within and for said District on the 24th day of Feby AD 1845. Present- John Colley Judge, Gustavus Ralfe Register of the Probate Court for said District of Randolph certify that the proceedings above set forth were had before said Court at the time and place above stated, and that John Colley is Judge of said Courts, and that the signature above is the genuine signature of said John Colley.

[affixed seal]

Gustavus Ralfe Register [signature]
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Rev 
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 23.443
Elizabeth Annis
former wid of
Jason Harris
Priv Conn Line

Act: Mar 3rd 1843
        June 17 1844

Index:- Vol. a, Page 15

[Arrangement of 1870]
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V 12.733.
Elizabeth Annis
Vt.
Let. to John Bryant, July 8, '46.

Act 7 July '38
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10.195.
Vermont.
Elizh. Annis, formerly
Widow of Jason Harris
who was a pensioner under the Act of -----
and who died on the ----------
of Rane Co in the State of Vermont
who was a pri in the Co.
commanded by Captain ----- of the
Reg commanded by Col. Willys in
the Conn. line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier at the rate of 80 Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of Feby 1847 and sent to John Bryant, present

Total amount,  $400

[Act July 7, 1838]

Recorded by D. H. Wood [signature] Clerk,
Book D, Vol 1, Page 123
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Town Clerk of Fairlee Vt negative
certificate in the case of Mrs Elizabeth Annis
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Towen Clerk's Office
Fairlee Vt. Apr 13, 1846

I J.B. Bailey, Town Clerk of said Fairlee, do hereby certify that upon application to me for evidence of the marriage of Elisabeth Harris to Jesse Annis, I have made search but could find no record of said marriage, nor a record of the birth of their child.

J.B. Bailey Town Clerk
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I David Flanders of Washington in the County of Orange & State of Vermont of lawful age aged 43 years depose testify & say that I am well acquainted with Jesse Annis deceased and his wife Betsey Annis who was the widow Betsey Harris before her marriage to the said Annis. He the said Annis died at [unk] in sd Orange County in the month of September 1820.I was present at the funeral & the widow Betsey, has since hat period lived in my family, & is still living there. I have [unk] the old lady Betsey Annis before the passage of any widows pension act say that her first husband Jason Harris, left home when they lived in Oxford N.H. in the fall to go to Birmington Vt. to teach school and that he never returned & that she never afterwards heard from him except a report that he was dead and that she verily believed that he died soon after he left home, and after some 8 or 10 years widowhood she married sd Annis.

David Flanders

Sworn to and subscribed this 13th day of January 1846 before me & I certify that the deponent is well known to me as a credible witness.

John M Smith Justice of the Peace
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I Laura Flanders of Washington in the county of Orange & state of Vermont aged 57 years depose testify & say that I am well acquainted with Betsey Annis, the widow of Jesse Annis deceased, who was before him [unk] marriage with the sd Annis, widow Betsey Harris the widow of Jason Harris, a revolutionary soldier & before her marriage with sd Harris, Betsey Blackman of Andover, a parish taken off of Hebrum (Conn). I am her only child by sd Jason Harris and was about two years old when the sd Harris left home as my mother always informed me & course have no recollection of my sd Father Harris, but have heard my Mother tell the story from my earliest childhood of my Father Harris leaving home to teach school in Burmington, Vt., and that he never returned & she supposed he was dead, and she was married to sd Annis some 8 or 10 years after his absence, the sd Annis died at [unk] in sd Orange County in the month of September 1820, very suddenly. I was at the funeral.

Laura Flanders
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The foregoing deposition of Laura Flanders sworn to and subscribed this 13th day of January AD 1846 before me and I further certify that the deponent is well known to me as a credible witness.

John W Smith Justice of the Peace
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I Ebenezer Baldwin of Strupoone in the County of Orange and State of Vermont aged 67 years depose testify and say that I am well acquainted with Betsey Annis of Washington, Vermont, the widow of Jesse Annis deceased, and an applicant for a pension and have [unk] her first husband Jason Harris while they lived in Oxford, N.H. and a short time before he left home for the last time. Mrs Annis is my mothers sister and some 10 years younger than my mother, after the said Jason Harris left her, the sd Betsey spent considerable time at my fathers for five or six years & resided it has some there with her little child, and the said Jesse Annis was married to her the sd Betsey at my fathers. Ebenezer Baldwin in Fairlee by a clergyman then preaching in Fairlee by the name of Gould. I was present at the marriage in 1795. I have communed with the old lady Betsey Annis & her daughter Laura Flanders, both of whom I well know
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and I can have no doubt but think they are correct as to the time of her marriage with sd Jesse Annis and that it was in 1795, and in the last of the year. The sd Annis died about 25 years since & the said Betsey is still living and remaining his widow.

The said betsey lived single about 7 or 8 years after her husband Harris left her before she married sd Annis, and nothing was ever heard of said Harris after he left home to my knowledge, tho the [unk] was frequently talked of by her & my fathers family.

Ebenezer Baldwin

Sworn to and subscribed at Chelsea in said Orange County this 21 day of Jany 1846 before me & I further certify that the said Ebenezer Baldwin is a person well known to me as a credible witness.

John W Smith Justice of the Peace
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I John Baldwin of Sharon in the County of Orange and State of Vermont, aged 63 years depose testify and say that I am well acquainted with widow Betsey Annis of Washington in the County of Orange & State of Vermont, widow of Jesse Annis deceased & was also acquainted with said Jesse Annis her husband. They were married at my fathers house by a clergyman residing in Fairlee by the name of Gould. I was present at the marriage and well recollect it as she was my mothers sister and had lived at my fathers several years & made it her house there with her child, after her first husband Jason Harris left here before her marriage with said Annis took place, and I have known her ever since. According to my best recollection her marriage with said Annis took place when I was about 13 years old which wanted make the time in 1795 or 6. I have no doubt but that the statements of Betsey Annis & Laura Flanders as to this marriage in the fall of 1795 is correct. I have seen Jason Harris the first husband of the said Betsey and well recollects his personal appearance. 

John Baldwin

Sworn to and subscribed this 29th day of January 1846 before me & I also certify that the said John Baldwin is a person well known to me as a credible witness.

John W Smith Justice of the Peace
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Mrs Elisabeth Annis- Proof when call
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STATE OF VERMONT
ORANGE COUNTY, SS.}

I, Calvin Brodgett Clerk of the County Court of the County of Orange in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that John W Smith Esq is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-five and will expire the thirteenth day of November next, and that his signature hereunto affixed is genuine.

Given under my hand and the Seal of said County Court, this second day of February AD 1846.

Calvin Brodgett Clerk
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Comptroller of the State of Connecticut, Certificate Proof of Jason Harris' services
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State of Connecticut
Comptrollers Office
Hartford 28 Nov. 1845  I certify that an application for evidence of the service of Jason Harris in the War of the Revolution, I have examined the documents remaining in this Office relating to that war, and find in the record of settlements made with the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army, under the head of
"Settlement with the 3d Connecticut Regiment, Samuel Wyllys Esq Colonel, before January 1st 1780," the name of Jason Harris, who is there stated to have commenced service January 1st 1778, and to the time of that settlement, January 1st 1780, to have served 2 years as a private. And also, in another settlement with the same Regiment, commanded by the same Colonel, "for the year 1780," I find his name entered, and as commencing service, January 1stm and to the time of that settlement, Dec 20th 1780, as having served 11 months & 20 days as a private.

A Carrington, Comptroller

I further certify that on examination of the record of the settlements made with the Connecticut Line, I find but one person of the name of Jason Harris.

A Carrington Comptroller
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Mrs Elisabeth Annis Vt.
additional proof of her first
husband Jason Harris residence and service
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I Oliver B Breswell Town Clerk of Grantham in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that upon application made to me in behalf of Elizabeth Annis of Vermont for evidence that her first husband Jason Harris was a resident of said Grantham (which was formerly called New Grantham) in the years 1786 & 1787 I have searched the Book of records of said Town and find what I regard as the most sure evidence that he was a resident here in 1787 to wit: that he was chosen as one of the Selectmen of said town that year and also that he was chosen Moderator of a meeting of said town holden on the 2d of June 1787 as is shown by the records of which the following are copies
* at a town meeting notified Feb 26 1787 and holden March 15th 1787
1st chose Enq Young Moderator
2d Chose Elijah Gleason T. Clerk
3d Chose Elijah Gleason William Huntington & Jason Harris Selectmen
4th voted Elijah Gleason T. Treasurer
5th voted John Root constable
6th voted Benj Bugby,  Hodges Cutler, James Jarve, Job Colton & Esq Young surveyors of highways

It also appears that a town meeting was called "May 19th 1787" and that the warrant was signed "Elijah Gleason,
Wm. Huntingdon,
Jason Harris} Selectmen
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And that at a meeting holden June 2d 1787
"1st Chose Jason Harris Moderator"
and that his name does not again occur on the records of said town.

I find nothing by which I can determine when he came into or left said town.

Oliver B Breswell Town Clerk

State of New Hampshire
Sullivan, ss.}

Sworn and subscribed to this 25th day of January 1847. Before me

George Bryant Justice of the Peace

I further certify that Oliver B Breswell the above named Town Clerk is a credible witness.

George Bryant Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE
Office of Secretary of State

I, GEORGE G. FOGG, Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify , that George Bryant is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Sullivan duly commissioned, qualified, and authorized to administer oaths, take acknowledgement of deeds, and other legal instruments. His commission was dated on the fifth day of January 1847 and will expire on the fifth day of January 1852 and his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.

GIVEN under my hand and the Seal of the State, this twenty ninth day of January 1847.

George G Fogg SECRETARY OF STATE
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Mrs Elizabeth Annis
T Clerk of Hebron negative certificate

Randolph CO
Jason Harris
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Town Clerks Office Hebron Conn April 15 1846

I Elihu P Buell Town Clerk of said Town of Hebron do hereby certify that upon application to me I have made search for a record of the marriage of Mrs Elizabeth Annis to her first husband Jason Harris but can find no such record on the Books in my custody nor a record of the birth of their children.

Elihu P Buell Town Clerk
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Mrs Elizabeth Annis of Vt.
additional proof- Hodges Cutler affidavit
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I Hodges Cutler now of Plainfield in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire aged upwards of 88 years depose and say that I was a resident of the adjoining town of [unk] which was formerly called New [unk] of the space of from 8 to 12 years from the year 1780 and I do now very well recollect that within said since that Jason Harris with his wife who was a Balckman removed from Killingly in the State of Connecticut and settled in the western parts of said town and near by where I there lived. And my further recollection is that they lived in the house with Ebenezer Clough during their stay in said New [unk], which I think, was upwards of two years. The precise time that hte said Harris and his wife came up from said Killingly and settled in said New [unk] I came at with certainly state but my belief is that it must have been in the year 1785 or 1786 for in the year 1787 as I do now well remember the said Jason Harris was chosen as one of the selectmen of said town and I was myself that year one of the Surveyors of highways, I further depose and say that as the Country was then new there I had bit few neighbors at the time and that I could quietly become acquainted with them all, and particularly so with the said Jason Harris and his wife, who now I understand, the widow of her second husband, Jesse Annis. They were at the time my nearest neighbor. My other neighbors were Ebenezer Clough, with whom the said Harris & wife lived, Elijah Gleason Town Clerk, and one of the board of selectmen. William Huntington who was also a
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Selectman as I think for the year 1787, Job. Colson Charles Scott Robert Scott & Caleb Colters was one of whom are now livging. The said Jason Harris as I always understood him to  say and as I do verily believe was from the town of Killingly in the State of Connecticut from which place he had been engaged in the Continental service of the County for some length of time, but where and how long I cannot state now and I able to give the names of his officers, although as I had myself been engaged in several tours of service and had frequent conversations with him in relation to his  service, and the service that I had rendered myself, yet from a recollection of said conversations I have no doubts but that the said Jason Harris was a Connecticut soldier of the Revolution, and that he had rendered the Country from one to three years service previous to his marriage to Elisabeth Blackman & which he was a resident of said Killingly in the State of Connecticut.

Hodges Cutler

State of New Hampshire
Sullivan ss.}

Sworn and subscribed to this 19th day of January 1847, Before me

Elias F Smith Justice of the Peace

I further certify that the deponent is a credible witness.

Elias F Smith Jus Peace
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STATEOF NEW-HAMPSHIRE
Office of Secretary of State

I, GEORGE G.FOGG, Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Elias F Smith is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Sullivan duly commissioned, qualified, and authorized to administer oaths, take acknowledgement of deeds, and other legal instruments. His commission was dated on the twentieth day of June 1844 and will expire on the twentieth day of June 1849 and his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.

GIVEN under my hand and the Seal of the State, this twenty ninth day of January 1847.

George G Fogg Secretary of State
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Mrs Elisabeth Annis Vt.
Additional proof in her case
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I William Clough of Grantham in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire of lawful age depose and say that I am the son and only child of Ebenezer and Rachel Clough who were residents of Killingly in the state of Connecticut, that I always understood that my father the said Ebenezer Clough was a Connecticut soldier of the Revolutionary War; that sometime during the latter part of said War removed from said Killingly to said Grantham then called "New Gratham" where he continued to live until his death. I have the most distant recollection of being told by my mother the said Rachel Clough that subsequent to the removal of my said father and mother from said Killingly to said Grantham that Jason Harris of the same place who was a relative of my said father and who also had been a Continental soldier of the Revolution also came up and lived for a while in the same house with them in said "New Grantham."

I further depose and say that after my father the said Ebenezer Clough's death and more than forty years ago  I well recollect of hearing my said mother speak of said Jason Harris as being a man of some ability and of his having been a school master and that he picked up his education while engaged in the Revolutionary service.

Willard Clough

State of New Hampshire
Sullivan ss.}

Sworn and subscribed to this 25th day of January 1847. Before me

George Bryant Justice of the Peace

I further certify that the deponent is a credible witness.

George Bryant Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE
Office of Secretary of State

I, GEORGE G. FOGG, Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that George Bryant is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Sullivan duly commissioned, qualified, and authorized to administer oaths, take acknowledgement of deeds, and other legal instruments. His commission was dated on the fifth day of January 1847 and will expire on the fifth day of January 1852 and his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.

GIVEN under my hand and the Seal of the State, this twenty ninth day of January 1847.

George G Fogg Secretary of State
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STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE
Office of Secretary of State

I, GEORGE G Fogg, Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that George Bryant is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Sullivan duly commissioned, qualified, and authorized to administer oaths, take acknowledgement of deeds, and other legal instruments. His commission was dated on the fifth day of January 1847 and will expire on the fifth day of January 1852 and his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.

GIVEN under my hand and the Seal of the State, this twenty ninth day of January 1847.

George G Fogg Secretary of State
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Mrs Elisabeth Annis- proof of
her marriage to Jason Harris
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I Jerusha Payne of the Society of Andover in the town of Coventry, County of Tolland and State of Connecticut aged eighty seven years do on oath depose testify and say that I was well acquainted with Jason Harris  who for several years resided in the aforesaid Society of Andover and I was present and officiated as Bridesmaid and saw him married to Elisabeth Blackman who was born and up to the time of her marriage lived in Andover aforesaid, and to my best recollections and belief they were married by the Rev. Samuel Lockwood then the officiating clergyman of the sd society of Andover and the said marriage took place sometime in the month of April in the year seventeen hundred eighty four. I recollect the time from the fact that my eldest sister was dangerously sick and was not expected to live from one day to another and I objected to standing up with them on that account and I recollect that my said sister died in the first day of May 1784. The society of Andover is formed from two towns Hebron and Coventry and the sd Harris , Elisabeth Blackman and myself all resided in that part of the society which lies in the town of Hebron. I should say according to mt best recollection that in about one year and a half after their marriage they  removed to the State of Vermont. I do not recollect the name of the Town of County. I believe that my sister Hannah White was present at the wedding who is still living.

Jerusha Payne

Andover Dec 16th 1845
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State of Connecticut
Tolland County ss.} Coventry/ Andover Society

On this 16th day of December 1845 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said County duly authorized to administer oaths personally appeared Jerusha Payne signer of the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same, and I certify that the above named deponent is to me well known and that she os a person of truth and her statement entitled to credit.

Alonzo W Berge Justice of Peace
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I Hannah White of the Society of Andover in the Town of Hebron County of Tolland and State of Connecticut aged eighty nine years do on oath depose and say that I was acquainted with Jason Harris who for several years lived in Andover aforesaid and that I was present and saw him married to Elizabeth Blackman who also resided in Andover aforesaid. I also recollect that they were married by the Rev. Samuel Lockwood then the officiate minister of Andover aforesaid and the said marriage took place previous to the first day of May 1784 and I should think in April previous , my eldest sister died in the 1st day of May 1784 and said marriage took place a short time previous to her death. I should say that after their marriage they resided in Andover from one to two years and then removed to the State of Vermont. Andover Dec 16th 1845

Hannah White

State of Connecticut
Tolland County ss.} Coventry. Andover Society

On this 16th day of December 1845 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said County duly authorized to administer oaths personally appeared Hannah White signer of the foregoing and above deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same and I certify that the above named deponent is to me well known and that she is a person of truth and her statement entitled to  credit.

Alonzo W Birge Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
Office of Secretary of State ss.

I hereby certify that Alonzo W Birge whose name attached & subscribed to the above instruments I believe to his own proper hand writing is and since the 20th day of June last part has been a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Tolland in this state regularly and duly appointed and commissioned as such as appears of record in this office.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said state at Hartford the twelfth day of March AD 1846.

Danl L Tyler
Secretary of State
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Mrs Elizabeth Annis Vt
additional proof John Bryant affidavit
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Case of Mrs Annis

In reference to the pending claim to a pension of Mrs Elizabeth Annis of Vermont under the Acts of the 7th July 1838 and 23d of August 1842 for the services of her first husband Jason Harris.

I John Bryant of Menden in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire of lawful age depose and say that at the time Mrs Annis desired my services as Agent in the prosecution of her claim for the service if her first husband Jason Harris which was on or about the 24th day of February 1845, she state to me in part as follows or substantially so, to wit, that she was born on the 10th day of January 1756, that her name before marriage was  Elizabeth Blackman, that she was married to her first husband Jason Harris of Killingly Connecticut by the Rev. Samuel Lockwood in the month of April 1784, that after their marriage they moved up to Grantham or New Grantham in the state of New Hampshire and lived with a Mr Clough for the space of two years. That her husband the said Jason Harris bought some land and built a house thereon near Mr Huntington and that they lived in Grantham upwards of two years and then removed to Oxford N.H. I further depose and say that from a letter lately received from a gentleman residing not far distant from Mrs Annis I am led to believe "that she is too far gone in her dotage" to communicate any thing further on the subject of her husbands residence and so forth, than what
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is contained in her original declaration made before Judge Colby and what she stated to me at the time aforesaid which is the reason of my making this affidavit.

John Bryant

State of New Hampshire
Sullivan ss.

Sworn and subscribed this this 19th day of January 1847. Before me

Jesse French Justice of the Peace

I further certify that the deponent is a credible witness.

Jesse French Justice of the Peace
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STATEOF NEW-HAMPSHIRE
Office of Secretary of State

I, GEORGE G. FOGG, Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Jesse French is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Sullivan duly commissioned, qualified, and authorized to administer oaths, tale acknowledgement of deeds, and other legal instruments. His commission was dated on the twentieth day of May 1844 and will expire on the twentieth day of May 1849 and his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.

GIVEN under my hand and the Seal of State, this twenty-ninth day of January 1847.

George G Fogg Secretary of State