Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4608, Bennett Hargrove, Va.
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Va. Hargrove, Bennett  R.4608
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Rejected did not serve six months per letter 22 Sept 39 to F. Hasderman Franklin
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4608 Rejected [stamped in corner]
Bennet Hargrove
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31.751
Bennet Hargrove
Tennessee
4608
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State of Tennessee Williamson County
On this 8th day of April personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions for the aforesaid County of Williamson now sitting. Bennet Hargrove a resident of the said County aged seventy years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. He entered the service as well as he now recollects in the month of February 1781 under Capt. Stephen Maberry for a tour of three months having been drafted for that period being then a resident of Mechlinburg County in the State of Virginia and having served the greater part of the three months in guarding the Ferries on Roanoke river in the same State, was discharged, but received no written discharge He was again drafted for a tour of three months in the month of August of the same year being still a resident of the same County under a Captain named Marshall whose given name he has forgotten but he exchanged into the company of his former Captain Stephen Maberry the second day after the company marched The company was marched to Gloster town in the State of Virginia opposite York town in the same State to guard that place York Town having surrendered before the expiration of the three months for which he had been drafted the company was discharged and he returned home. He received no written discharge. During the time the company remained at Gloster town Maberry was made a grenadier Captain and our company was put under a Captain named Jones whose given name he has forgotten. He recollects that Lough Burrel was Colonel of the regiment the company he belonged to and Walker, whose given name he does not remember. Major He remember General Marcas was command at Gloster Town He was born in Mechlinburgh County in the State of Virginia in the year 1764 as well as he now remembers but what day and in what month he does not know. He does not know of any person by whom he can prove his services nor has he any documentary evidence to establish He states that Mark L. Andrews and [blank space] reside in his neighborhood and are acquainted with his character He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
Bennett Hargove mark 
Hardeman [unreadable word]
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Mr Mark L Andrews a Clergyman residing in the County of Williamson in the State of Tennessee, and in the neighbourhood of the above declarant, and Jesse Bugg --------- residing in the same County, state and neighbourhood hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Bennet Hargrove who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believed him to be seventy years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Tho Hardem Clerk ML Andrews Jesse Bugg
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above name applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states And the Court further certifies that it appears to them Mark L Andrews who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Williamson and in the neighbourhood of the above declarant and that Jesse Bugg ----- who has also signed the same is a resident in the same County and neighbourhood and a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit Wm Hughes Gilbert Marshall John Bostak & Thomas Hardum clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter sessions for the County of Williamson