Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36575, Daniel Harris, Continental (Va.) Penn.
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SERVICE NUMBER
Continental (Va.) Harris, Daniel S. 36575
Penn.
CONTENTS
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9313
R
Indiana
Daniel Harris
of Switzerland County in the state of Indiana
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Heartley of the Virginia
line, for the term of three years. -

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 26th of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 15th of Apl. 1819 and sent to W. C. Keen, Esq
Vevay, Indiana.

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819. 9 mos. 10/31. 74.58
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept. 1819 48.00
$122:58
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Dead
Continental

Notif Sent to the Hon Mr Hendrick28th Decr 1820, House of Reps

Death not on A.B.
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Schedule
Daniel Harris

9313
Sept 1819

Con
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Schedule
A schedule of property belonging to 
Daniel Harris of the County of Switzerland 
and referred to in the annexed affidavit to wit
Carpenter tools one horse, three pots, kettle
Daniel Harris

District of Indiana
Switzerland County} Sct
On this 14th day of September AD 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the County of Switzerland in the third Judicial Circuit of the state of Indiana Daniel Harris aged eighty three years resident in the said County of Switzerland in the said third Circuit who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows that he enlisted at Shepherdstown in Virginia on the 2 of March 1777 in the Company of Capt James Kearny that he marched thence to York Pennsylvania and joined the Regiment of Col Thomas Hartly thence joined the Brigade of Genl Wayne in New Jersey. was also in the Indian Expedition with Genl Sullivan in Col Hoobly's Regiment that he, continued in the service three years and two months and was discharged near Shepherdstown in Virginia by Genl Gates. that he has received a pension from the United States since the 26th day of May 1818 that his pension
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Certificate is numbered 9313 and dated the
16th day of April 1819
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 sale 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 service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed that I am by trade a Carpenter but by age unable to follow it that my wife Elizabeth Harris aged eighty one years nearly blind and myself reside with our children
Daniel Harris
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court
on the 14th day of September 1820 before
the Honorable Miles C Eggleston Current and Presiding Judge of the said Third Circuit in the state of Indiana and the Honorable Abram Clarkson and Ralph Cotton associate Judges of the said Switzerland Circuit Court
I John Francis Dufour Clerk of the Switzerland Circuit
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Court is the third Judicial Circuit of the state of Indiana do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from 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 thirty nine dollars and seventy five cents
In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal
of the said Court on
this 29 day of september
AD 1820.
John T. Dufour
Clk Scb Court.
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Daniel Harris

Daniel Harris
Private 
1777 to 1780
Hartley's Virginia
Regt
Pennsylvania Line
The line should be
specified
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The state of Indiana Switzerland county. ss
Be it remembered that on the twenty sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me William Cotton one of the judges of the Circuit court in and for the County of Switzerland, state aforesaid, personally appeared Daniel Harris, state aforesaid, personally appeared Daniel Harris, who after being duly sworn did & doth depose declare and say that he entered into the army of the United colonies, raised to obtain and defend American Liberty, and to repel every hostile invasion thereof on the second day of April 1777, at Sheppardstown, Virginia under captain James Kearney, in colonel Heartley's regiment, of general Hard's brigade and served upwards of three years.
He was discharged by general Gates in Bartley Coy Virga about the first day of June AD. 1780. That he has no pension allowed him by the laws of the United States to his Knowledge and if any should exist he hereby fully and entirely released the same to the United States & finally, that from his reduced circumstances, he stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support
Daniel Harris

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of May A.D. 1818.
William Cotton {seal}
Judge of the S.C.C.
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The state of Indiana
Switzerland County} Sct.
I William Cotton one of the judges of the Circuit court of the county & state aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears satisfactorily to me, that Daniel Harris is a resident citizen of the United States, - That he has served Nine months & upwards in the revolutionary war & that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support.
William Cotton {seal}
Judge of the S.C.C.

State of Indiana} S.S.
Switzerland County} I John Francis Dufour Clerk of the Switzerland County Court hereby Certify that William Cotton Esquire before whom the within appears to have been Subscribed and Sworn to and whose Certificate appears above was at the time of administering said oath and Granting said Certificate and still is one of the associate Judges of the said Switzerland Circuit Court Duly commissioned and sworn that the above is his Signature & that due faith and Credit is and of right ought to be given to his official acts as such. -
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said Court at Nevery the 30th
day of May A.D. 1818.
John
Francis Dufour Clk
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State of Indiana
Switzerland County Sct.
I William Cotton one of the judges of the
Circuit court of the county & state aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears satisfactorily 
to me that Daniel Harris is a resident citizen
of the United States, - that he has served
nine months & upwards in the revolutionary
war & that from his reduced circumstances
he needs the assistance of his country for
support.
William Cotton {seal}
Judge of the S.C.C.

State of Indiana} SS.
Switzerland County} I John Francis Dufour Clerk
of the Switzerland Circuit Court hereby Certify that William Cotton Esquire before whom the within appears to have been Subscribed and Sworn to 
and whose Certificate appears above was at the time of administering said oath and Granting said Certificate and still is one of the associate Judges of the said Switzerland Circuit Court Duly commissioned and sworn that the above is his Signature & that due faith and Credit is and of right ought to be given to his official acts as such.-
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said Court at Nevery the 30th
day of May A.D. 1818.-
John 
Francis Dufour Clk
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The state of Indiana
Switzerland County} ss.
Personally appeared before me William
C. Keen a justice of the peace in and for the coy
aforesaid, this 19th day of March AD 1819.
Daniel Harris, who after being duly
Sworn according to law deposes and says
that he performed Military duty, during 
the American revolutionary war,
in the Pennsylvania line, in Hartley's
Regiment, attached to Generals Wayne's brigade
afterwards commanded by general Hand & 
further saith not Daniel Harris
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this
19th of March AD. 1819.
William C. Keen JP.

State of Indiana
Switzerland County} SS. I John Francis Dufour Clerk of the Switzerland Circuit Court of the County aforesaid hereby certify that William C. Keen Esquire before whom the above deposition appears to have been subscribed and sworn to was at the time of taking said Deposition and still is one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County Duly Commissioned and sworn that the above is his signature and that due faith and credit is and ought to be given to his official acts as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of
said court at Vevay this 23d day of
March A.D. 1819.
John
Francis Dufour Clk.
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October 16, 1936
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Miss Mary Hill Daniel Harris, S. 36575
801 East First Street BA-J/MCS
Madison, Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for the record of Daniel Harris, a Revolutionary War soldier who was pensioned while residing in Switzerland County, Indiana.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 36575, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Daniel Harris.

The date and place of birth of Daniel Harris and the names of his parents were not given.

He enlisted at Shephardstown, Virginia, March 2 or April 2, 1777, in Captain James Kearney's company in Colonel Thomas Hartley's regiment, was in Sullivan's Indian expedition and was discharged June 1, 1780, from Colonel Adam Hubley's Pennsylvania regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 26, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Switzerland County, Indiana.

In 1820 he stated that he was eighty-three years of age and that his wife, Elizabeth, was eighty-one years of age and that they resided with their children but did not give their names. There are no further data relative to the family of Daniel Harris.
Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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M.C.S.
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

February 3, 1930

Mrs. John R. Harris
2201 Broadway
Great Bend, Kansas

Dear Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 36575, it appears that Daniel Harris enlisted at Shepherdstown, Virginia, March 2 or April 2, 1777, in Captain James Kearney's Company in Colonel Thomas Hartley's Regiment, was in Sullivan's Indian expedition and was discharged June 1, 1780, from Colonel Adam Hubley's Pennsylvania Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 26, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Switzerland County, Indiana.

In 1820 he stated that he was eighty-three years of age and that his wife, Elizabeth, was eighty-one years of age and that they resided with their children but he did not give their names.

This is the history of the only Daniel Harris from Pennsylvania or Virginia that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.

In order to make a search of the records for a particular soldier surnamed Orr or Parr the first name is essential and you should furnish as much as possible of the following data; approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and first name of widow.
Very truly yours,

EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner
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Madison, Indiana
Sept 28, 1936
Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.
RECEIVED 
SEP 30 1936
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS. ADM. 
READER #2
Dear Sirs:
Will you please send
me the pension record of Daniel
Harris, Revolutionary Soldier, who
received a pension in Switzerland
County, Indiana in 1834.
Yours truly
(Miss) Mary Hill
801 E. 1st St.
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Great Bend Kans. Dec. 9th 1929.
To Commissioner of U.S. Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
We are wanting to find the Rev. War Record of my great grand father whom we think possibly could have been in Penn. or W. Va during the Rev. War periods says as we find him mentioned in a history of Washington Co. Penn. in 1776 where Daniel Harris with others were at court at Pittsburg in Jan. 1776 as per Boyd Crumeine's history of Washington Co, 1882 and they each received their ear marks, which expression does not explain just what it could mean but we take it to mean something pertaining to Rev. War days. Then we find he and wife Sarah - Wood Co. W. Va. in 1799 with a deed for 80 acres of land and then we find he sells same to John Harris who we suppose was his son and then in 1807 Harris who we suppose was his son and then in 1807 we find this son John in Fairfield Co. Ohio and so on.
Then from a letter from his son Wm. & wife Mary we learn that Daniel died Sept. 20th 1843, letter headed Bowling Green Ohio, and mailed at Linnville, Ohio telling of his fathers death. Could it be that he had a Rev. War record? He owned a farm near Bowling Green, perhaps Bowling Green township or near Linnville.
This Daniel was born perhaps from 1755 to 1760 and his son John's birth was Jan. 20th 1872, we think in Penn. or W. Va.
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Perhaps it could have been Washington Co. Penn. or near Wheeling West Va. We find a Wm. Harris b. Oct. 1755 at or near Wheeling W. Va. and had a Rev. War record, moved from Wheeling W. Va. to Bowling Green township, Licking Co. Ohio and died in 1834 and buried on his farm. We thought it might be a brother of this Daniel as so closely located. Will be please to learn about this Daniel as we all think how he could have a Rev. War. record.
Also what can you give me in the Rec's from Penn. Washington Co. who were in Rev. War? They then moved to Licking Co. Ohio. in early 1800. I do not know the names but, Joseph, Wm. John, Aaron, Oliver, Joshua Hause were common in the family later in. They received to have been with the name Parr. in Licking Co. Ohio. Trusting that I have not asked too great a favor will await your reply.
Sincerely
Mrs John E. Harris
2201 Broadway
Great Bend
Kansas.
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36575 
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 36575
Daniel Harris
Priv Rev War
Act: 18" March 18"
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 176
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1930, Feb. 3, hist. to Mrs.
John E. Harris. M.C.S.
1936, Oct. 16. hist. to Miss
Mary Hill M.C.S.