Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18860, Joseph Hart, S.C.
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S. C.    Hart, Joseph    S. 18860
                                   BL. Wt. 15189_160_55
                                    carded
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32,930
South Carolina
Joseph Hart
ofin the State of
who was private in the  commanded
Captain of the commanded

[for] Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of Charleston
at the rate of 50 Dollars - cents per annum,
to co[???]nce on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Increased from $26.66

Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of
Oct. 1852 and Sent to
M. Thompson
prest

Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending

{Revolutionary Claim,
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by R McRae Clerk,
Bo  Vol. 6 Page 78
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123.187 / Act Mar 13/
May 7/55

Joseph Hart
Prit

Capt Avery
Col Brannon
S. C. Vols
Rev. War

[cancelled
warrant??
died before 
the date of
the [??]
no widow 
nor minor
[??????]][???]:160 acre, Jany: 30: 1856
[???????]
Jno H. Goodwin
Lima P. O
S. C.

Mar. 26/56 Let to com. [????] Land [????[
Supr 12/59 [????] reformed to Com [???] [??? of [??] for approval
of assignment and S. C. Goodwin Greenville S. C. JM

A: Jno: H. Goodwin Feb: 18/56

May 4/59
[????] [???????]
to be sent to 
Jno H. Goodwin
Lima
S. C.

[original cancelled]
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P 525
Joseph Hart
Greenville District
S Corolina
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State of South Carolina
Greenville District

To Wit

On this 2nd day of August
in the yar of our Lord 1841 personally appeared in
[????] court before the Honorable A P Butler one
of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of
the State of South Carolina now sitting for Greenville
District, Joseph Hart, a resident of the
district of Greenville state of South Carolina
aged seventy eight years, who being first duly
sworn according to law, doth on his oath
make the following dectoration in order to
obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress
passed June 7th 1832

That he entered the service
of the United States under the following named
officers and served as herein stated

He first entered the service of
the United States in the company of Captain Avery in
the Regiment of col Brandon - He was drafted
for three months in Union District South Carolina
He was sent with the other troops belonging to
[???] Regiment to Granby, near where Columbia
now is & then stais during the whole of the
three months.  This tour was
sered in the fall of the year, but the year he cannot
now state - it was after the fall of Charleston

He returned home after this
tour & staid six months & was drafted again for
another tour of three months under the same
officers & was sent to army bases to guard the
jail in which there were some forty or fifty
British prisoners who had been taken by
Greens army.  He remained at army bases
until the expiration of this second tour &
returned home-
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The third tour he wsa drafted
again after being at hom about six
months.  He was drafted for three months under
Captain Thomas Blassingame & Major Benj
Tolly in Col Brandons Regiment and
ws sent to Bacons Bridge near Dorchester
near Charleston.  There were nine hundred militia
at this time under the command of General
Pickens & attached to General Greens army.
The militia was called out to reinforce
General Greens army.  The British troops
were in Charleston at that time.  Whilst
at Bacons Bridge this deponent was one
of a detachment of thirty under the
command of Major Tolly sent out to
capture a foraging party of the British
which they did on Goose Creek.  The
took & killed thirteen men.  This tour then
expired & this deponent returned home.

The fourth tour was
drafted in a few days after his return from
Bacons Bridge to guard some prisoners
at the Black House in Union district.
He wsa in the Company of Captain Young
in Col Brand remained
at the Black House three months-

The fifth tour was in
about one month after he was discharged
at the Black House - He was drafted for
three months again & stationed at the Black
House in Unin District where he remained
three months the expiratin of his tour.

Besides these regular tours
amounting to fifteen months in all he served in
a good many scouting parties & impusel excursions
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This deponent was born in
Union district South Carolin on the 16th day
of March in the 1763 = He had a record of this
age in his fathers Bible which got burnt
in his Brothers house = He was living in
Union district South Carolina when called
into service He has lived in South Carolina
ever since the Revolutionary War except
about twelve months in Rutherford County
North Carolina & he now lives in Greenville
district = He was drafted every time & he was
called into the service = He was not attached to
the regular army or with the continental
troops except at Bacons Bridge & on a march
to Ashely Ferry & he does not remember the
names of any of the regular officers in'
Greens army at that time - He never
new but one written discharge & that 
was at Bacons Bridge by General Greene
which was burned in the deponents house
whilst living in Rutherford North Carolina=
He is known in his present neighborhood [??]
John Davis, Lazarus Shadrick, Col Jno Hodges,
John Hightower Esqr & others, who can testify
as to his character for veracity & their belief of
his services as a soldier of the Revolution

The deponent states that he
knows of no one at present whose testimony
he can procure as to this revolutionary services.
The was living in Union district about two
years since, a Mr James Howard, who served with 
this deponent a tour at Bacons Bridge but he
does not know that hes now living & if living 
[????] is out of his power to procure his testimony
this deponent further states that he made application
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about five years since [??] general Walton of 
North Carolina to [????] of his papers for [????]
to get a Pension that the [????] was done
but General Walton dying some time afterwards
it was reg[????] - He again made
application to B F Perry to [????] of his papers
for him who informed him that he must
procure some evidence of his services from
the State of South Carolina & that he would
make search for the [????] in the comptroller
office - He understood that Mr. Perry did [????]
but coud not find anything - He had
since written to the comptroller general &
has been furnished by that officer with a copy
of Indents issued to him for Revolutionary services

This deponent hereby relinquishes
every claim whatever to a pension or annuity
except the present  [?] [????] that his name
is not on the pension roll of the agency
of any state

Sworn to & subscribed [???]
day & for aforesaid
his
X
mark
Joseph Hart

W Blasinggame
[???]  Ex off

We John Davis and Lazarus
Shodrich (the decons a clergy man residing in the
county of Henderson North Carolina & first a 
citizen residing in the same county & state, [?]
[????] near neighbors of Joseph Hart who
lives near the NC line; hereby certify that we
are well acquainted with the said Joseph Hart
who has subscribed & sworn to the above [??????]
that we believe him to be 78 years of age, that
he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood
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where he resides to have been a soldier of the
revolution and that we concur in that
opinion
Sworn & subscribed the  day & year
aforesaid
Lazarus Shodrich
John Davis
W Blasingame
[???] Ex Off

And the said court do hereby
declare their opinion after the investigation
of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the War department 
that the above named applicant was a revolutionary 
soldier & [?????] he states - And the
court further certifies that it appears to the
that Lazarus Shodrich who has signed the
preceeding certificate is a clergyman resident
in the county of Henderson North Carolina
and that John Davis who has also signed
the same is a resident in the same county &
state is a credible person & that  [????]
statement is entitled to credit
A P Butler
[????] Aug 2d 1841

I William Blasingame Clerk
of the Court of Greenville District do hereby
stat the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said court in the matter
of the application of Joseph Hart for a pension
In testimony whereof [?}
[????] [??????] nor my hand & seal
of office this 2nd day of
August 1841
W B Blasingame
[???] Ex off & Clk
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123.187

Bounty Land Claim
of 
Joseph Hart

John H Gordun
Lima P O
Greenville
S C
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State of South Carolina
Greenville District

On the 24th day of April AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally
appeared before me a magistrate [?????] and for the District and state aforesaid
Joseph Hart aged ninety six years or there about, a resident of Greenville District
in the State of South Carolina which being duly sworn according to law declares that
he is the identical Joseph Hart who was a private in the company command
by Captain George Avery in the regiment of Infantry commanded by Col
Brannon in the war of the Revolution that he first volunteered at the
Blockhouse in Union District South Carolina for the time of six months
and afterwards was drafted for three tours for [?] months and ten days each
[????] he further states that he cannot recollect the particular dates of his
services but says his services were rendered during said Revolutionary War and
continued in actual service in said war for the term of fourteen
days and was honorably discharged at Ashley hill near Charleston
South Carolina he futher stated that he cannot recollect the particular dates 
of said discharge as said discharged was burnt together with his dwelling
house upwards of twenty five years ago

He makes this decklaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty Land
to which he may be entitled under the act approved March 3rd 1855
he also declares that he has not received a warrant for bounty Land under
this or any other act of Congress nor made any other application therefor
his mark
X
Joseph Hart

We Alfred Hood and Jacob L. Lindsey resident of Greenville District
in the state of South Carolin upon our oaths declare that the foregoing
declaration was signed and acknowledged by Joseph Hart on our
presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements
of the applicant that he is the identical person he represents himself
to be
Alfred Hood
J L Lindsey

NB The commissioner of Pensions will please send me any Land[?????]
to Lima PO office Greenville District South Carolina Joseph Hart his mark X
attest J L Lindsey
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The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed
before before me on the day and year last before mentioned and I certify
that I know the affiants to be credible person that the claimant is
the person he represents himself to be and that I have no interest
in this claim
Jno H Goodwin Magistrate
Dist S. C

State of South Carolina
Greenville District
I D hoke clerk
of the court of Common Pleas [??] Greenville district
do certify that John H. Goodwin before when
he foregoing declaration and affidavit was 
made is a legally appointed and qualified
magistrate [??] said District and the signature
purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal
of office at Greenville CH this
1st day of May 1855
D Hoke Clerk
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Elisha Green SC an[?] [????]
James Howard [?] [?] [?]
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11.5
20
225
12
56/2700
724
460
448
120
110

48.2
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Argument
In the case of Joseph Hart of S. C.
Act June 7, 1832

This case was admitted Oct. 11, 1852,
for 15 mos as a private, at $50 per annum.
We claim an increase as Sargeant
of Cavalry in Moores Troop, Sumpters Brigades.
the Comprs certificate credits him
with payments of  L. S. 11.15 Sterling , which is
L. S. 82.5 currency, and reduced to dollars at
4s. 8d. S. C. Standard, amounts to $352.50/100
The half of this amount is $176.25,
which at $15. per month shows that he
was in service 11 months and 22 days as
a Sergeant of Cavalry
Another payment to Joseph Hart
in Brandons Regt. as private as militia of
[???] 15S 81/2 d. Slg. is in  currency S82. S 9. D111/2,
and in dollars amounts to $35.3 [????] [????]
showing more than two years service as
a private of militia.
The claimant alleges for service in
the corps mentioned above, and altho he did
not claim to the [?????], which the payments 
made to him would have justified him in
doing, it should be no bar to his receiving 
two years pension, viz: 11 mos 22 days as
a Sergt. to Cavalry & 12 mos & 8 days  as a
private of militia.  
Very respf[???]
Thompson & Woods
To the Com. of Pensions
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Bounty Lan
160 Acres
160 Acres
Department of the Interior

Office of the Commissioner of Pensions

This hereby Certified that under the Act of March 3rd 185[?]
[??]itled, "[??]. Set in addition to certain Acts granting Bounty Land to certain
[?????] and Soldiers who have been engaged in the Military Service of the
United States."

[[?????]
died before
the Estate of
the [????]
no widow nor [????]
[??????]]

Private

Revolutionary War

is entitled to locate One Hundred and Sixty Acres, at and [??]
Officer of the United States, in one body, and in conformity to the legal [??]
divisions of the public lands upon any of the public him
"subject to sale at either the minimum or lower graduates
prices."
Given under my hand and the seal of the
Department, this 4th day of February 1856
No. 15189
[*?????*]

Note.  You can locate this Certificate at any of the United States land offices, or it will be [?????] for you by the General Land Office on the return of it, with your request to that effect endorsed thereon, specifying the State and Land District in which you wish the location made.  If you [????] it, fill up and sign the following application.
To the Register of the Land Office at 
Locate this Certificate, in the quarter of section
at in Township of Range
18 [????] Register
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WASHINGTON, September 5th, 1851

Hon. J. E. HEATH-                                       

SIR: In the case of JOSEPH HART, of South Carolina, who claims a pension under 
act of Congress of 7th June, 1832, recently filed a letter from the Hon. J. L. Orr, his immediate representative 
in Congress, in support of the claim, and the very high character of the claimant, and all those who 
have testified in support of the claim.
The affidavit of JOSEPH DAVIS, a most respectable citizen, and that of B. F. PERRY, Esq., an eminent lawyer; 
then, as now, a prominent member of the Legislature of South Carolina, and at present the distinguished and 
able editor of the "Southern Patriot," (a paper established at Greenville, S. C. avowedly for the preservation 
of the Union,) sufficiently explain the apparent discrepancies and inconsistencies in the two declarations on 
file in the case-discrepancies and inconsistencies more imaginary than real, and which pass away like the 
baseless fabric of a vapor before the testimony of Mr. DAVIS, and more especially that of Major PERRY.
To reject this claim upon the grounds so clearly and satisfactorily (to any unprejudiced mind) explained, is,
in terms, branding these gentlemen (Davis and Perry,) with the crime of perjury; and that in a matter in
which they can have no imaginary or possible interest, or motive to misrepresent, a thing which no man who
knows the very high chivalric and honorable bearing of these men, would for a moment, presume, or dare to do.
According to the testimony of Major Perry, had the claimant's expressed wishes  been complied with, the
certificate of the Comptroller General of South Carolina would have accompanied his first declaration, and this
fact is also proven by Mr. Davis' affidavit.  Had this been the case, it is in terms clearly admitted by your
own official reports that the claim would have been admitted.  Nay, it could not have been resisted - nor can
it, with these explanations, now standing precisely as it would have stood, had all the evidence come forward
at one.  And the fact that it did not so appear, being thus fully and satisfactorily explained, it (the Comptroller's
certificate) should have the same force and effect, as if it had appeared in juxtaposition with the original declaration.  There is, in fact, no discrepancy or inconsistency in the two declarations.  The latter is merely cumulative, and is scarcely even an amplification of the first - thus showing the extreme caution with which the
claimant testified, and his unwillingness to overrate his services in the smallest degree.  It is the every day
practice of your office to address claimants after the following manner, to wit:
"Application should be made to the Comptroller General's office of your State, (or of the State in which
the services were rendered, as the case may be) for documentary evidence in support of your claim."
And when such documentary evidence is furnished in obedience to your call, as it were, (as in this case,)
with what sort of face or consistency can you then say: "We reject it, because, forsooth, it did not appear
originally;" the more especially when that documentary evidence harmonizes perfectly, as it does in this case
with the original declaration, and all the evidence on file in the case?
The fact is, sir, the rejection of this claim, even upon the original declaration, and the evidence in support
thereof, independent of the second declaration, and the Comptroller's certificate, outrages all the common 
law, equity and ecclesiastical rules of evidence, as known and uniformly adhered to in all parts of the
civilized globe, by which the testimony of a single witness, unimpeached and unimpeachable, (as in this case,)
is deemed sufficient to establish any given fact.
Independent of the second declaration and of the Comptroller's certificate-of his general reputation as a
revolutionary soldier, as shown by the Court, and their full concurrence in that generally received opinion-and
of the opinion of Lazarus Shadrack, a respectable (certified to be so) clergyman, John Davis, Jesse Centre,
Wilson Barton, John H. Goodwin and William Fuller, that he did serve as stated in his declaration: Elisha
Green and James Howard swore positively that they served, the first one, and the latter two tours with the
claimant, which makes up the amount claimed for.  The certificate of the Comptroller General of South Carolina,
shows an amount of service not inferior to that (eighteen months) for which he claims.  It will not,
I presume, for a moment, be contended that if the Comptroller's certificate had been filed with the original
declaration it would not have been regarded as relating to the present claimant, and the services for which he
claims, and taken in connection with the overwhelming mass of oral evidence on file, from a cloud of the
most respectable (as shown by Col. Orr's letter and other certificates on file) citizens of South Carolina as
establishing the claim beyond the possibility of a rational doubt.
Can it be possible then, upon that full, fair, impartial, unbiased, unprejudiced and speedy re-examination,
which I am instructed respectfully to solicit for this claim, that the sworn declarations of the claimant, - the
deliberately recorded opinions of the courts, - and the cloud of old and respectable citizens above named,- the
positive testimony of Joseph Davis, and James Howard, - and the certificate of the Comptroller General, will
be disregarded, insulted and stigmatized by a further suspension, or rejection of this claim, and the pittance
thus clearly shown to be due, longer withhold from a poor feeble old man who underwent toil, danger, and privation for the achievement of that freedom, and independence, which we now enjoy? I trow not!  A full examination of the case will, I am sure, satisfy your mind, as it does mine, that no intelligent jury under the sun,
could be found to hesitate a single moment to give the plaintiff a verdict for the amount claimed, upon, (I may
almost say) a tithe of the evidence on file in this case.  According to every writer upon the law of evidence,
the testimony of a single witness is sufficient to establish any given fact, - and to convict of any, and every
crime or misdemeanor know to human laws, except that of high treason, which requires two witnesses, or the testimony of one witness corroborated by circumstances.  And in this case there are two witnesses testifying positively of their own personal knowledge in support of the claim, and to the full amount of the services claimed to have been rendered, - to say nothing of the comptroller's certificate and other conclusively corroborative evidence.  Here, then, is a far greater amount of evidence than would be required to convict this humble soldier of the revolution of any and every, even the highest crime known to human laws, and to conduct him to the gallows, or the loathsome dungeon for life.  There is in this case, a far greater amount of evidence,
than would be required by the Senate of the United States to impeach the President or Vice President, or
any civil officer of the General Government, and remove him from office, and to disqualify him from ever afterward holding any office under the General Government; for the Senate and the Supreme Court of the United States are bound by the common law rules of evidence.  In support of this view and in direct reference to the rules which should, and as he elsewhere says, ever have, governed the Supreme Court, and the Senate of the
United States upon trials for impeachment, Chief Justice Story in his valuable work on the constitution says:
(vol. 1, page 564.) "The general rules of law and evidence applicable to common trials, are interposed to prevent
the part against the exercise of wanton and arbitrary power."
It is at war with law, equity, usage, reason, justice, and common sense, to reject evidence in support of
a legal claim for patriotic and meritorious services, that would be, - nay, much less than which would be sufficient to attaint this same individual of felony or treason, - convict him of the most infamous crime, and to deprive him of his life or limb.
I have the honor to be, most respectfully, your ob't serv't,
M. Thompson.
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In reply to your inquiry of Oct 28 & Nov 3 last in behalf of the heir of 
Joseph Hart, a Revy Soldier from S. C. whether there is any pension or "back
rations" due you are informed that a pension has been allowed [for his service]
on [?????] [??????] the Act of [congress] of June 7 1832 on the
Comg [according to law] Mch 4 1831  & ending with his death, it included all
that his services  were entitle to under that or any other act of congress
His services was of the character that [was] it must have been paid by the State of SC &
as the US has [made] long ago made a Settlement wiht all the States, there is now
no Executive Dept of the general [????] authorized to [????] & adjudicate
any alleged claim for back ration[or other services] in the war of the Revy
Your attention is invited to the 5th paragraph of the enclosed printed
circular
[*Wrote Dec 21 1885*]
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3-871.

Record Division

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions

Briefed by W. Rice
Claim No. S. F. 18860
Certificate No. 32930
Claimant Joseph Hart
Soldier
Service
Additional Service
No claim, State records  , 190
No claim, combination  , 190

Remarks:
No Surv, Wid or Rej
O. War other than
above
July 25, 1910

Chief Division
0-8
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[Miscellaneous] [*Old War*]
(3-046.)
[Record] Division

Department of the interior
Pension Office,
Washington, D. C., Nov. 3", 1885

Sir:

To aid in tracing the claim referred to in the inclosed paper
they should be returned to this office wi
answers as full as possible to the subjoining interrog
tories, which answers should be inserted on the blank lines belo
Any communications heretofore received from this off
relative to the claim should also be returned.

Very respectfully
[Wm W. Dudley] John C. Black
Commission

D. A. Townsend Esq
Union
SC

Interrogatories.

1st. What No. was given to the claim by the Pension Office?
No.
2d. What is the claimant's full name
Name, Jackson Cowell
3d. What is the soldier's full name? his company
Regiment?
Name, Joseph Hart
Co. , Reg't
4th. When, or about when, was the claim filed?
5th. If pension has been paid, at what Agency?
Claimant son [?? ????] that Hart
got pension at Greenville S C once 

(signature:) Jackson Powell
his
X
mark

[????}
D A Townsend
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Office of
D. A. Townsend
Attorney and Counsellor.
In State and United States Courts

In re
Vs

In reply to yours of

Union, S. C., Oct 28 1885
In reply please refer to date of this

Mr W. E. McLean

Dear Sir:

Is Jospeh Hart in his entitled
to any pension money.  Records in
J[??] office will show he died
about 30 years Apr.  His heirs
think there are "back rations."

Yours respectfully
D. A. Townsend
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P 18860

Invalid.

File No. 18.860
Joseph Hart
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 166

{Arrangement of 1870}
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Priv: Act 7 June 32 S. C.
[???????]
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Lima S C
April 26th
Free

[*15189-160
Jos Hart*]

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D. C

Pension Office
May
3
18[??]
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123187 Actof 55
Joseph Hart

S. C. Vol
Rev. War

Warrt 15189 for Rev acres
cancelled March 26/56
warranter died before the date
of the issue now widow nor minor
surviving
Page 26

No 35251
Joseph Hart
SC


[??? ??] B. F. Perry Sept 14 1841
   "     "      to        Oct 20      "
 "     "     to March 26. 42
 "     "  G. F. Townes June 5 '47
M. Thompson [????]
[??] 1851 [??] Sept 25/51
Act 7" June 1832
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Greenville S. Carolina

March 15th 1842

Dear Sir

Enclosed I send you the
affidavits of [?????] Howard who served
three tours with Joseph Hart during the 
Revolutionary war which I hope together
with his own declaration & the
certificate from the comptroller
generals office for South Carolina
will be sufficient to obtain
his pension - whatever may be
the result it is important that Mr Hart
[????] be informed of it as soon as possibe
[????] on the verge of [???] & in great poverty

It seems to me that you
are mistaken as to the amount of the [??????] for
which Mr Hart was paid as s[????] in
the comptrollers certificate sent you
some time since

Yours & C
B. F. Perry
Page 28

Greenville South Carolina May 1[?]th 1847

Dr Sir:

I enclose to you the application
of Joseph Hart a Revolutionary Soldier for
a pension.  I understand the application was
made once before but are informed that the copies
of the State indents now enclosed were not sent
with the application.  These it seems to me are
conclusive of the actual services of the applicant, and
I presume the pension office have the means of acertaining
with some precision the time of the service tour there
The applicant [???] [?????] [???] the highest-proof of
character [??] reputation [??] which could be
required, and the positive [????] of our surviving [????]
that he was a revolutionary soldier he has been
particular no-to-state any thing loosely but [?????]
as well as his memory not-very strong would serve
him.  Still however preseving a perfectly sane
and intelligent mind.  The lowest estimate he
puts on the whole time of his services is 18 months
You will please directan early investigation
of the claim and answer to the same
[????] great [????] [? ?]
G F Townes

[???????] L Marley
secretary of [????]
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Sept 12th 1851
Argument in case
of Joseph Hart-
(A duplicate)

Filed Sept 10 '51
Mr. Triplett
Page 30

WASHINGTON, September 5th, 1851

Hon. J. E. HEATH-                                       

SIR: In the case of JOSEPH HART, of South Carolina, who claims a pension under 
act of Congress of 7th June, 1832, recently filed a letter from the Hon. J. L. Orr, his immediate representative 
in Congress, in support of the claim, and the very high character of the claimant, and all those who 
have testified in support of the claim.
The affidavit of JOSEPH DAVIS, a most respectable citizen, and that of B. F. PERRY, Esq., an eminent lawyer; 
then, as now, a prominent member of the Legislature of South Carolina, and at present the distinguished and 
able editor of the "Southern Patriot," (a paper established at Greenville, S. C. avowedly for the preservation 
of the Union,) sufficiently explain the apparent discrepancies and inconsistencies in the two declarations on 
file in the case-discrepancies and inconsistencies more imaginary than real, and which pass away like the 
baseless fabric of a vapor before the testimony of Mr. DAVIS, and more especially that of Major PERRY.
To reject this claim upon the grounds so clearly and satisfactorily (to any unprejudiced mind) explained, is,
in terms, branding these gentlemen (Davis and Perry,) with the crime of perjury; and that in a matter in
which they can have no imaginary or possible interest, or motive to misrepresent, a thing which no man who
knows the very high chivalric and honorable bearing of these men, would for a moment, presume, or dare to do.
According to the testimony of Major Perry, had the claimant's expressed wishes  been complied with, the
certificate of the Comptroller General of South Carolina would have accompanied his first declaration, and this
fact is also proven by Mr. Davis' affidavit.  Had this been the case, it is in terms clearly admitted by your
own official reports that the claim would have been admitted.  Nay, it could not have been resisted - nor can
it, with these explanations, now standing precisely as it would have stood, had all the evidence come forward
at one.  And the fact that it did not so appear, being thus fully and satisfactorily explained, it (the Comptroller's
certificate) should have the same force and effect, as if it had appeared in juxtaposition with the original declaration.  There is, in fact, no discrepancy or inconsistency in the two declarations.  The latter is merely cumulative, and is scarcely even an amplification of the first - thus showing the extreme caution with which the
claimant testified, and his unwillingness to overrate his services in the smallest degree.  It is the every day
practice of your office to address claimants after the following manner, to wit:
"Application should be made to the Comptroller General's office of your State, (or of the State in which
the services were rendered, as the case may be) for documentary evidence in support of your claim."
And when such documentary evidence is furnished in obedience to your call, as it were, (as in this case,)
with what sort of face or consistency can you then say: "We reject it, because, forsooth, it did not appear
originally;" the more especially when that documentary evidence harmonizes perfectly, as it does in this case
with the original declaration, and all the evidence on file in the case?
The fact is, sir, the rejection of this claim, even upon the original declaration, and the evidence in support
thereof, independent of the second declaration, and the Comptroller's certificate, outrages all the common 
law, equity and ecclesiastical rules of evidence, as known and uniformly adhered to in all parts of the
civilized globe, by which the testimony of a single witness, unimpeached and unimpeachable, (as in this case,)
is deemed sufficient to establish any given fact.
Independent of the second declaration and of the Comptroller's certificate-of his general reputation as a
revolutionary soldier, as shown by the Court, and their full concurrence in that generally received opinion-and
of the opinion of Lazarus Shadrack, a respectable (certified to be so) clergyman, John Davis, Jesse Centre,
Wilson Barton, John H. Goodwin and William Fuller, that he did serve as stated in his declaration: Elisha
Green and James Howard swore positively that they served, the first one, and the latter two tours with the
claimant, which makes up the amount claimed for.  The certificate of the Comptroller General of South Carolina,
shows an amount of service not inferior to that (eighteen months) for which he claims.  It will not,
I presume, for a moment, be contended that if the Comptroller's certificate had been filed with the original
declaration it would not have been regarded as relating to the present claimant, and the services for which he
claims, and taken in connection with the overwhelming mass of oral evidence on file, from a cloud of the
most respectable (as shown by Col. Orr's letter and other certificates on file) citizens of South Carolina as
establishing the claim beyond the possibility of a rational doubt.
Can it be possible then, upon that full, fair, impartial, unbiased, unprejudiced and speedy re-examination,
which I am instructed respectfully to solicit for this claim, that the sworn declarations of the claimant, - the
deliberately recorded opinions of the courts, - and the cloud of old and respectable citizens above named,- the
positive testimony of Joseph Davis, and James Howard, - and the certificate of the Comptroller General, will
be disregarded, insulted and stigmatized by a further suspension, or rejection of this claim, and the pittance
thus clearly shown to be due, longer withhold from a poor feeble old man who underwent toil, danger, and privation for the achievement of that freedom, and independence, which we now enjoy? I trow not!  A full examination of the case will, I am sure, satisfy your mind, as it does mine, that no intelligent jury under the sun,
could be found to hesitate a single moment to give the plaintiff a verdict for the amount claimed, upon, (I may
almost say) a tithe of the evidence on file in this case.  According to every writer upon the law of evidence,
the testimony of a single witness is sufficient to establish any given fact, - and to convict of any, and every
crime or misdemeanor know to human laws, except that of high treason, which requires two witnesses, or the testimony of one witness corroborated by circumstances.  And in this case there are two witnesses testifying positively of their own personal knowledge in support of the claim, and to the full amount of the services claimed to have been rendered, - to say nothing of the comptroller's certificate and other conclusively corroborative evidence.  Here, then, is a far greater amount of evidence than would be required to convict this humble soldier of the revolution of any and every, even the highest crime known to human laws, and to conduct him to the gallows, or the loathsome dungeon for life.  There is in this case, a far greater amount of evidence,
than would be required by the Senate of the United States to impeach the President or Vice President, or
any civil officer of the General Government, and remove him from office, and to disqualify him from ever afterward holding any office under the General Government; for the Senate and the Supreme Court of the United States are bound by the common law rules of evidence.  In support of this view and in direct reference to the rules which should, and as he elsewhere says, ever have, governed the Supreme Court, and the Senate of the
United States upon trials for impeachment, Chief Justice Story in his valuable work on the constitution says:
(vol. 1, page 564.) "The general rules of law and evidence applicable to common trials, are interposed to prevent
the part against the exercise of wanton and arbitrary power."
It is at war with law, equity, usage, reason, justice, and common sense, to reject evidence in support of
a legal claim for patriotic and meritorious services, that would be, - nay, much less than which would be sufficient to attaint this same individual of felony or treason, - convict him of the most infamous crime, and to deprive him of his life or limb.
I have the honor to be, most respectfully, your ob't serv't,
M. Thompson.
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WASHINGTON, September 5th, 1851

Hon. J. E. HEATH-                                       

SIR: In the case of JOSEPH HART, of South Carolina, who claims a pension under 
act of Congress of 7th June, 1832, recently filed a letter from the Hon. J. L. Orr, his immediate representative 
in Congress, in support of the claim, and the very high character of the claimant, and all those who 
have testified in support of the claim.
The affidavit of JOSEPH DAVIS, a most respectable citizen, and that of B. F. PERRY, Esq., an eminent lawyer; 
then, as now, a prominent member of the Legislature of South Carolina, and at present the distinguished and 
able editor of the "Southern Patriot," (a paper established at Greenville, S. C. avowedly for the preservation 
of the Union,) sufficiently explain the apparent discrepancies and inconsistencies in the two declarations on 
file in the case-discrepancies and inconsistencies more imaginary than real, and which pass away like the 
baseless fabric of a vapor before the testimony of Mr. DAVIS, and more especially that of Major PERRY.
To reject this claim upon the grounds so clearly and satisfactorily (to any unprejudiced mind) explained, is,
in terms, branding these gentlemen (Davis and Perry,) with the crime of perjury; and that in a matter in
which they can have no imaginary or possible interest, or motive to misrepresent, a thing which no man who
knows the very high chivalric and honorable bearing of these men, would for a moment, presume, or dare to do.
According to the testimony of Major Perry, had the claimant's expressed wishes  been complied with, the
certificate of the Comptroller General of South Carolina would have accompanied his first declaration, and this
fact is also proven by Mr. Davis' affidavit.  Had this been the case, it is in terms clearly admitted by your
own official reports that the claim would have been admitted.  Nay, it could not have been resisted - nor can
it, with these explanations, now standing precisely as it would have stood, had all the evidence come forward
at one.  And the fact that it did not so appear, being thus fully and satisfactorily explained, it (the Comptroller's
certificate) should have the same force and effect, as if it had appeared in juxtaposition with the original declaration.  There is, in fact, no discrepancy or inconsistency in the two declarations.  The latter is merely cumulative, and is scarcely even an amplification of the first - thus showing the extreme caution with which the
claimant testified, and his unwillingness to overrate his services in the smallest degree.  It is the every day
practice of your office to address claimants after the following manner, to wit:
"Application should be made to the Comptroller General's office of your State, (or of the State in which
the services were rendered, as the case may be) for documentary evidence in support of your claim."
And when such documentary evidence is furnished in obedience to your call, as it were, (as in this case,)
with what sort of face or consistency can you then say: "We reject it, because, forsooth, it did not appear
originally;" the more especially when that documentary evidence harmonizes perfectly, as it does in this case
with the original declaration, and all the evidence on file in the case?
The fact is, sir, the rejection of this claim, even upon the original declaration, and the evidence in support
thereof, independent of the second declaration, and the Comptroller's certificate, outrages all the common 
law, equity and ecclesiastical rules of evidence, as known and uniformly adhered to in all parts of the
civilized globe, by which the testimony of a single witness, unimpeached and unimpeachable, (as in this case,)
is deemed sufficient to establish any given fact.
Independent of the second declaration and of the Comptroller's certificate-of his general reputation as a
revolutionary soldier, as shown by the Court, and their full concurrence in that generally received opinion-and
of the opinion of Lazarus Shadrack, a respectable (certified to be so) clergyman, John Davis, Jesse Centre,
Wilson Barton, John H. Goodwin and William Fuller, that he did serve as stated in his declaration: Elisha
Green and James Howard swore positively that they served, the first one, and the latter two tours with the
claimant, which makes up the amount claimed for.  The certificate of the Comptroller General of South Carolina,
shows an amount of service not inferior to that (eighteen months) for which he claims.  It will not,
I presume, for a moment, be contended that if the Comptroller's certificate had been filed with the original
declaration it would not have been regarded as relating to the present claimant, and the services for which he
claims, and taken in connection with the overwhelming mass of oral evidence on file, from a cloud of the
most respectable (as shown by Col. Orr's letter and other certificates on file) citizens of South Carolina as
establishing the claim beyond the possibility of a rational doubt.
Can it be possible then, upon that full, fair, impartial, unbiased, unprejudiced and speedy re-examination,
which I am instructed respectfully to solicit for this claim, that the sworn declarations of the claimant, - the
deliberately recorded opinions of the courts, - and the cloud of old and respectable citizens above named,- the
positive testimony of Joseph Davis, and James Howard, - and the certificate of the Comptroller General, will
be disregarded, insulted and stigmatized by a further suspension, or rejection of this claim, and the pittance
thus clearly shown to be due, longer withhold from a poor feeble old man who underwent toil, danger, and privation for the achievement of that freedom, and independence, which we now enjoy? I trow not!  A full examination of the case will, I am sure, satisfy your mind, as it does mine, that no intelligent jury under the sun,
could be found to hesitate a single moment to give the plaintiff a verdict for the amount claimed, upon, (I may
almost say) a tithe of the evidence on file in this case.  According to every writer upon the law of evidence,
the testimony of a single witness is sufficient to establish any given fact, - and to convict of any, and every
crime or misdemeanor know to human laws, except that of high treason, which requires two witnesses, or the testimony of one witness corroborated by circumstances.  And in this case there are two witnesses testifying positively of their own personal knowledge in support of the claim, and to the full amount of the services claimed to have been rendered, - to say nothing of the comptroller's certificate and other conclusively corroborative evidence.  Here, then, is a far greater amount of evidence than would be required to convict this humble soldier of the revolution of any and every, even the highest crime known to human laws, and to conduct him to the gallows, or the loathsome dungeon for life.  There is in this case, a far greater amount of evidence,
than would be required by the Senate of the United States to impeach the President or Vice President, or
any civil officer of the General Government, and remove him from office, and to disqualify him from ever afterward holding any office under the General Government; for the Senate and the Supreme Court of the United States are bound by the common law rules of evidence.  In support of this view and in direct reference to the rules which should, and as he elsewhere says, ever have, governed the Supreme Court, and the Senate of the
United States upon trials for impeachment, Chief Justice Story in his valuable work on the constitution says:
(vol. 1, page 564.) "The general rules of law and evidence applicable to common trials, are interposed to prevent
the part against the exercise of wanton and arbitrary power."
It is at war with law, equity, usage, reason, justice, and common sense, to reject evidence in support of
a legal claim for patriotic and meritorious services, that would be, - nay, much less than which would be sufficient to attaint this same individual of felony or treason, - convict him of the most infamous crime, and to deprive him of his life or limb.
I have the honor to be, most respectfully, your ob't serv't,
M. Thompson.
Atty for Hart
Page 32

S[??] home 80   3
March '81   3
Dec 81   3
Apl 81   3
Aug 82   3
Page 33

1841
Joseph Hart
76
1763

after '80 3. [????] Brandon S. C.

6 mo
after 3 to guard goal
Orangeburg

G[??] after 3 Maj Tolly
to Bacon Bridge
Reinforce E[??] Green'

a few days
after  3.0 guard of pris Union Dist

one mo aft
dis  3  same

knows of no one who can testify he has
[????]

Comptr Cert £ 82.10 [????]
paid in 1786 £ equal to 165 days

infantry
[???] Howard [??]  Union
Elisha Green 0 Greenville
Page 34

Pension Office
June 22d 1853

Sir:

Yours of date 2d Dec 1852 but recently 
received at this office, is now before me. Before
the claim of Joseph Hart of S. C. can be further
examined, the last certificate of pension issued
from this office must be returned in compliance
with the requirement of our letter of date 5th Oct:
1852.  It not been received, and I suppose
has miscarried, as you say you sent it here.

Very respectully
Your Obt Servt
  
L P Waldo
Commissioner

M. Thompson Esqr
Pres[???]
Page 35

Pension Office
June 5h 1847

Sir:

The Supplemental declaration of Joseph
Hart has been received and filed with his other
papers.

The alleged service under Col: Brandon
now set forth does not correspond with that specified
in his original application under that officer.
In addition to which he now asserts a claim for
service under Capt. Moore of Col: Middleton's
regiment which he states was rendered prior to
his engagement under Col: Brandon.  To sustain
his claim a transcript of two Indents one for £11.
15 dated Feb 1784 for service as a sergeant in Col:
Middleton's regiment and the other in 1786 for £ 11.15.
81/2 for service as a sergeant also under Brandon,
issued to a person bearing his name.

In his original declaration claimant
states that he was born in 1763 and that he entered
the service under Col: Brandon after the fall of 
Charleston.  He was at that time agreeably to his
own showing but 17 years of age and was therefore
too young to be subject to or capable of performing
military duty prior to his alleged entrance
into that Regiment.  This circumstance together with
the fact that a claim for service under Capt. Moore
Page 36

of Col: Middleton's regiment was not set up until
this late day and after it had been discovered that
such service was found credited to his name on
the records of South Carolina goes to show very
conclusively in the opinion of this Department
that the indent for £11.15 dated Oct: 1784 was not
issued for service rendered by claimant and
cannot therefore be admitted as evidence in the adjustment
of his claim.  The indent for service
in Brandon's regiment is but a duplicate of
one heretofore filed and in regard to which applicant
has already been informed if admitted would
not cover a period o 6 months.  It appears also
that both these indents were given for service as
a sergeant.  Hart has established none in that
grade, and for one tour only, the last that he
claims to have rendered, has he set for any
such service.  The proof now on file is wholly
insufficient to justify the Department in granting
him a pension.

G. F. Townes Esq
Greenville
S. C.
Page 37

Washington Sept. 17th 1852

Hon. A. H. H. Stuart
Secy of the Interior

Sir

In answer to the enclosed copy of my letter
to the Commissioner of Pensions of 4th Sept. 1851,
Joseph Hart was inscribed on the pension roll
at the rate of $20.00/100 per annum, being for
some eight months admitted service, less than
half the amount to which he is justly entitled, as
will [ful] appear by reference to my said letter
and more fully by an examination of the papers
on file in the case, which I am instructed by
the claimant respectfully to solicit as your
hand, the Commissioner of Pension, having refused
to grant more than the above stated allowance,
not withstanding additional evidence has been
deduced since the above allowance was made presenting
a much stronger claim to the proposed increase for
some eighteen months service, than is exhibiten in
my printed letter herewith inclosed.

I have the honor to be [??]
M. Thompson
Atty for Hart
Page 38

32.930
Page 39

Department of the Interior.
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United
States of the 7th June, 1832,

Joseph Hart of South Carolina
who was a private in the Revolution

is entitled to receive Twenty Six dollars and
Sixty Six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing
on the 4th of Mrach, 1831, and payable semi=annually
on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every
year

Given at the Department of the Interior,
this 4th day of October
one thousand eight hundred and fifty one

Alex H. H. Stuart
Secretary of the Interior

Examined and }
Countersigned}

J E Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
Page 40

Washington Decr 2d 1853

Hon James E Heath
Commis of Pensions

Dear sir

I have for the 
last year or two been
[????????], earnestly, and
almost constantly, soliciting
an increase of the pension
of Joseph Hart of South
Carolina & some two months
since, I was officially
advised that the pension
would be increased upon the
surrender of the old certificate,
which was done, and there
the case rests.  This
case having been so long
pending, he (as I suppose) but
for minutes necessary to
Page 41

make out the certificate, and
put an end to the case, and
to the very natural importatnies
of the claimant. Under
the circumstances, it is trusted
the certificate will be issued,
without further unnecessary
delay.

I have the honor 
to be [???]
M. Thompson
Atty for Hart
Page 42

The State of South Carolina
Greenville Distr

Personally came Elisha
Green before me the
subscribing Justice of the Quorum in and
for the district of greenville & state of South
Carolina and being duly sworn makes
aoth that he was well acquainted with
Joseph Hart who is making application for
a Pension under the Act of Congress that
he and the said Joseph Hart were raised
boys together in Union District South
Carolina - that the said Joseph Hart and
this depondent served together a tour of duty
during the Revolutionary War at Brandon's
Black House in Union district under Capt
William Young - this deponent does not
know if his own knowledge of any other
tours which the said Joseph Hart served
in the Revolutionary War, as he was not serving
with him in any other tour, but he 
always understood & believes that the
said Joseph Hart was an active Whig
pretty constantly engaged in the service of
his country during the Revolution - He has
no doubt from what he has said from 
Joseph Hart & others at the time that
the said Hart performed several tours
of duty in the lower port of South Carolina
during the Revolution under Colonel
Browden & Lieutenant Col Fair - But this
deponent went north during that period
& cannot speak of his own knowledge.

This deponent further states
that from his knowledge of Joseph Harts character
for truth & integrity he would feel himself
bound to believe his statements made on

the said Hart
Page 43

oath

Sworn to & subscribed this 15th
day of November 1841 - 
Elisha Green
W Blasingame Clk

South Carolina
Greenville District

I W Blasingame acting Justice
of the Quorum in & for the district of Greenville
District in the state of South Carolina do hereby
certify that I am well acquainted with
Elisha Green who has made the above
affidavit & that he is a credible &
respectable witness & that his affidavit
is entitled to full credit & confidence
[??????] [?????] my hand [????] November
16th 1841
W Blasingame
[????]

I William Blasingame Clerk of the
Court of Greenville district do hereby
certify that W Blasingame is an
acting Justice of the Peace in & for the
district of Greenville & that the
foregoing signature purporting to
be his is genuine - In testimony
whereas I [???] hereunto [??????]
my seal of the office and [?]
my name this March
14th 1842
W Blasingame
Page 44

Joseph Hart
[????] [???] stated, Capt Files, Genl Sumpter
See certificate of Comptr Grnl
1780 1 mo. Capt John Putnam Col Brandon
1781 3  "     Capt Wm Young Col Brandon
after their time 2 " 10 days Capt Geo Avery  "
"       "  2 "  10 " Cat Blasingame
[????] the [????] 3 " Capt James [?????]
Page 45

Joseph Hart
S. C - J[??] 32

M Cole
March 8 1837

J [????] [????]
A W [?????]

Mr. Thompson
Page 46

M. Thompson is authorized 
& requested to examine the
papers in the case of
Joseph Hart, of South
Carolina - claim for rev'y
pension
Mar 6 1851
Page 47

Joseph Hart
S. C.
Act 7 June 1832
[???]
15 Mo p[??] - $50
per an:

Deduct former
paystub at the rate of
$26.66 per an:

M. Thompson
Pre[???]t
Page 48

Brief in the cae of Joseph Hart
Greenvile Dist [County] and State of S. Carolina
Act June 7th 1832

Claim, ("orignia," [or "for increase].")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.
Certificate of Comptroller
Genl of South Carolina

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?

Name and residence of Agent.
M. Thompson
Washington DC

F H Davidge
Examining Clerk.
Page 49

[???] 35.251

Joseph Hart
S. C
Act June 7. '32

prior 8 m $26.66
from Mar 4. '31

Joseph Hart

M. Thompson
Washington
Page 50

Pension Office
Octr 1sdt 1851

Sir:

The claim of William Moore Sergeant
hsa been allowed under the Act of 1828 and
a certificate will be issued accordingly in a 
day or two

Respectfully

1846
80
1766

1780
1766
14
Page 51

B. F. Perry
20 Oct 1841
O C
Page 52

169

Pen: Office
Oct 20. 1841

Sir,

The additional testimony
in the case of Joseph Hart has
been examined, and filed.  The certificate
of the Comptroller General of
South Carolina heretofore exhibite only five and
a half months service.  It will therefore
be necessary to produce the testimony
of at least one witness who had a
personal knowledge of his having
served at least six months in order
to a favorable decision.

E

[OC
Act 32
enter on S.C. index]

B. F. Perry Esqr
Greenville
S. C.
Page 53

Benj F. Perry
Sep 14. 41
OC
Page 54

Pension Office
Sept 14 1841

Sir

The claim of Joseph Hart for a 
pension under the Act of June 7 1832
has been examined and his paper [?????]
upon an files.  The fact that the certificate of
the Comptroller Genl of So Ca are obtained
prior to the making the declaration & a [????]
is entirely based upon the [????] they furnished,
render it necessary that proof to identify the
individual mentioned in the Comptrollers certificate
will the claimant be also filed with his papers

I am

Benj F Perry Esqr
Greenville
So Ca

OC
Jun 7 1832
Page 55

Lima SC
Feby 13th

Free

[Joseph Hart]

[Boynton]
[??] B. Land -[??] 15187

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D. C
Page 56

Lima Po Office Greenville District So Ca 13th Feby 1856
To the Commissioner of Pensions

Dr Sir I this day received
Land Warrant No 15189 issed for the benefit of Jospeh Hart
a Revolutionary Soldier who died in October 1855

Prior to his decease he executed a power of Attourney to Mr.
J. L. Linsey authorizing him to sell transfer or locate said warrant.
I wish to be informed if such a transfer would be legal or
if his heirs is enttiled to ther benefit of said warrant in any
way he has children living in this district but they are all
over twenty one years of age I was only acting as his agent
in procuring said warrant, and have no other interest in
the matter only to dispose of it according to law.

Your instructing in the matter will be thankfully received

Most respectfully
Jno. H. Goodwin

To Commission of Pensions}
Washington City DC            }
Page 57

Pension Office
June 13 1855

Sir:

The enclosed copy of [???] letter to
G. F. [Townsend] Townes for this office of the
5 June, 1847, will show you [???]
name upon which its action with
regard to the care of Joseph Hart has
been based.

Very Respectfully
Your ot srt
F L Evas
for Commr Pension

M. Thompson Esq
Pen[???]
Page 58

I am acquainted with Joseph Hart [the claimant]
who has filed his declaration in the pension office
to be placed on the roll of pensions for Revolutionary
services as also with Elisha Green Joseph
David B F Perry James Howard Jesse Centre
Wilson Barton Jno H Goodwin William Fuller
& Lazarus Shadrach witness who have forwarded
their affidavits in support of this
claim, and I take great pleasure in bearing
testimony of the honesty & integrity of the
claimant and witness and whatever statement
they or either of them have made
is entitled to the implicit confidence of
the pension officer.

James L Orr,
M.C.

Anderson 7th June 1851
Page 59

Anderson 7 June 1851

Dear [???]

On the foregoing page you will
find my certificate of the good character
of old man Hart and his witnesses
which I hope will make out his
case.  We have no news of special
interest, politics are running
[????] high, I do not know whether
the state will secede or not
There is much excitement brewing

Yours truly,
James L Orr
Page 60

Washington Mar 17th 1837

Sir

Joseph Hart of South
Carolina made a declaration [?]
August 1841 & again on 7th
April 1847, under act of 7th
June 1832.  Upon an examination
of the documentary & other evidence
on file in his case.  I find it imposible
to imagine upon what
grounds the claim has been so
long suspended, or rejected.

He appears to be clearly entitled
to a pension & being very poor &
needy it is hop[??] that his claim
will be taken up & reexamined
as soon as practicable

I have the the honor to be  [???]
Your obt sert
M Thompson

to
Hon. J. E. Heath
Page 61

State of South Carolina
Union District

Personally came
James Howard
be fore me Moses Beatty one of the Magistrate
in and for the District of Union & State
of South Carolina and being duly sworn
makes oath that he was well acquainted with
Joseph Hart who is making application for
a pension under the act of Congress that
Joseph Hart and this deponent served together
two tours of duty in the Revolutionary War  The 
first tour was at Orangeburgh South Carolina
in Capt. Daniel Camaners Company  The other
tour the served at Bacons Bridge South Carolina
in Capt Thomas Blasengames Company  Both
in Col. Brannons Regiment  This deponent dos
not recalect the presise length of each tour 
but he has a perfect recalection of the two [??]
have touers being served the said Joseph Hart
and this deponent was honorably discharged
at the end of each toures  This deponent further 
stats that from the knoledge he has of Joseph
Hart [?????] for [?????] and entigerty he 
would feel himself bound to believe his
statements made an oath sworn to &
subscribed this 14th day of March 1842.
his
X
mark
James Howard

Moses Beaty Magt}

South Carolina
Union District

I Moses Beaty acting Justice
of the Peace in and for the district of Union
district & state of South Carolina do hereby certify
that I am well acquainted with James Howard
who has made the above affidavit & that he
is a credible & respectable witness & that his
affidavit is entitled to full credit &  confidence
Given under my hand & c this 14th day of
March 1842 The reason why he makes his mark
is that he cannot write
Moses Beaty Magt  L-s
Page 62

South Carolina}
Union District}

I William Ray Clerk of the Courts
of session & Common Pleas for
Union District, do hereby certify
unto all whom it may concern that Moses
Beaty whose signature appears to the
within affidavit is an acting magistrate
in aforesaid District duly qualified
to administer oaths and that due faith
& credit ought to be given to his official
acts as such = given under my hand
and Seal of office at Union
Court House this 14 Day of
March in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred
and forty two
Wm Ray CCC[???]
for Union Dist
Page 63

Greenville S. Carolina
October 9th 1841

Dear Sir

Enclosed I send you tow
affidavits as to the identity of Joseph Hart
whose declaration for a pension was
sent you some time since

I think they explain
sufficiently & satisfactorily the fact of
the comptrollers certificate being first
obtained

Yours [?]
B F Perry
Page 64

P525
August 13, 1841

Pension Office

S. C.
Jos. Hart
Act 1832
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Greenville SC

August 6th 1841

Dear Sir

Enclosed I send you the
application of Joseph Hart in favour
of a pension & also a certificate
of the Comptroller General stating that
Indents were issued to him for
his Revolutionary services

The [?????] of the
application is & [????] the
affidavits of the petitioner - you
will [????] examine the papers
and write me as soon as you
can as the applicant is a very

[??] & [????] [???]

Yours &c
B F Perry
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The State of South Carolina

By His Excellency,
John P. Richardson Esq
[*John P. Richardson*] Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the State aforesaid.

To all to Whom these Present Shall Come.
Know ye that Wm. E. Hayne is the Comptroller General of
the State of South Carolina and that Wm. F. Arthur whose
signature appears as his certificate on the two half sheets of
paper hereunto annesced is his lawful Deputy

Therefore, All due Faith, Credit and Authority is, and ought to be had and
given to his Proceedings and Certificates as such.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and caused to be
affixed the Seal of the State, in the Town of Columbia in the
year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Forty one
and in the Siscty Siscth year of the Independence of the
United State of America.

By the Governor.  M Laborde Secretary of State.
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Indent Book
[??] No. 347

[Issued this 1st of October 1784
to Mr. Joseph Hart late
Serjeant in Moores troop
[???????] Regiment Sumters
Brigade & troops for eleven
pounds fifteen shilling sterling
being amount of pay and bounty
due [????] for services in that
troop together with interest
whereon from the first April
1782 to date [?????] agreeable to
a resolution of the general
assembly of the eleventh ["????????"]
Principal £11" 15 " 0
Interest 0 " 16 " 5

Comp" Genl" Office}

Columbia 16th July 1841
I hereby certify
the above memorandum No 1. to be
a true & literal copy from the
margin of Indent Book [??] No. 347
Deposited in this office 

Wm F Arthur
Gr Comr Genl
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Indent Book
[??] No. 2866

Issued  29th May 1786 to
Joseph Hart for eleven
pounds fifteen shillings
eight & one half pence
Stg for duty in Brandons
Regiment for cf
audited
Principal £ 11.. 15 .. 81/2
Interest £ 0 .. 16 .. 5
[*No 14*]

State of So. Carolina
To Joseph Hart D
For Militia Duty in Brandons
Regiment service the  fall of
Charlestown for Anderson
Return surmounting to
Currentcy £ 82"10"0
Stg 11" 15" 81/2"
[???]
[???]
No. 2

Compt Genl Office
Columbia 16th July 1841 of do hereby
certify the above memorandum No. 1
to be a true copy taken from the margin
of Indent Book [??] No 2866 Deposited
in this office.  That No. 2. is a copy 
of the [??] awaited & for which the said
Indent  was issued
Wm F Arthur
[??] Comp Genl
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State of North Carolina
Anderson County

Personally came John
Davis before me the
subscribing Justice of the Peace in and for the
County of Anderson N. C. and being duly sworn
as the law directs deposeth & said = that Joseph
Hart of Greenville district South Carolina
came to this deposeth before any certificate of
his Revolutionary services had been obtained from the comptroller
generals office in South Carolina, and
made to this deponent a statement of his services
the different tours he had served and all the
particulars of his services as were afterwards 
stated in his declaration for a pension now
on file in the pension office in Washington
City.  This deponent made out a written statement
of the same & sent it to B. F. Perry [????]
of Greenville District to [????] a declaration
for the said Joseph  Hart on the 22nd June
1841 = that after receiving this written statement
Mr Perry wrote to the comptroller
general of South Carolina and procured a
certificate of Joseph Harts Revolutionary services
This deponent [???] the decloration of Joseph Hart
[???] in open court & know that the statements
contained in it are the same that were
made to him by Joseph Hart before he
ever [???] or knew of the comptroller general
certificate - another deponent further swears that
he has not doubt of the said Joseph Hart being
the identical person mentioned in the comptroller
generals certificate as having served in Col Brandons 
Regiment [??????] the American Revolution
[September] October 5th 1841
John Davis

Sworn to & subscribed
before me
[???] [M Freeman [??]]
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North  Carolina
Henderson County

Known all man by then
presents that I M. Freeman
the subscribing Justice of the Peace
in & for the county of Henderson N. C. before
whom the within affidavit of John Davis
was made, do hereby certify that the said
John Davis is a highly respectable gentleman
& credible witness and as such his affidavit
entitled to implicit confidence & credit

In testimony whereof
I have hereunto [????] my [????] &c
[September 30] October 5th 1841 - [?] Freeman [???]

I Ellisha King Clerk of the
Court of Henderson County North Carolina
do hereby certify that M Freeman is a
magistrate as above and that the foregoing
signatures purporting to be his are [?????]
to his act & doings as such
Given under my
hand & private seal these being no publick [hand] [&] seal of the office
this 5th day of October
Anno domini 1841
Elisah King C.C.C
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South Carolina
Greenville District

Personally came B F Perry before
me the subscribing Justice
of the Peace in & for the district of Greenville
who being duly sworn makes oath that he received
from Joseph Hart through John Davis Esq a
written statement of the said Joseph Harts
Revolutionary services before he obtained from 
the comptroller general's office a certificate
of his being paid for those services - that this
written statement is substantiotly the same
statemment made in Harts declaration for a pension.

This deponent further states that
his reason for writing to the comptroller general
before he [???] up the declaration was to save the
trouble of doing so much writing for no purpose 
[?????] said information frm the War department
that no pensioners claim in South Carolina
would be allowed unless he found [????]
of his services in the comptrollers office - He
therefore know that it was unnecessary to
make out a declaration without this proof.

This deponent further states
that the said Joseph Hart says he applied to this
deponent once before to [???] a declaration [???]
since I was told by this deponent that he would
[????] the comptrollers office for evidence for him
and that this deponent says he did so & could
not find any - this deponent hs not recollection
of this fact - But it is not doubt
true - If so he either found no record of his services
or he may have found the services of any other Joseph
Hart mentioned in the controllers certificate &
[?????]-

This deponent further states that he has
no doubt that Joseph Hart who has made the declaration
now on file is the Joseph Hart named 
in the comptrollers certificate as having [????]
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in Colonel Brandons Regiment - This deponent
is induced to believe so from all the statements
made by Joseph Hart who appears to be a 
very honest & ignorant old man utterly incapable
of forming a story to [????] all the particulars
so well - 
Sworn to & subscribed this [????]
9th 1841 - before me
G. F. Townes
I Q Ex officio
B. F. Perry

I George F Townes a Justice of the Peace
in & for the District of Greenville S. C.
before whom the above affidavit was
made do hereby certify tha the above named
deponent B F Perry is a credible & respectable
witness & entitled to full credit [??]
oath - This October 9th 1841
G. F. Townes
I Q Ex officio

I William Blasingame Clerk of Greenville
District South Carolina do hereby certify
that George F Townes is a magistrate of
above & that the foregoing signature purporting 
to be his is genuine.
Given under my hand
& seal of office this
October 9th 1841
Wm Blasingame
Clerk of Greenville
Court
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Lima PO Greenville Dist So Car April 26th, 1859
To the Commissioner of Pensions

Dr Sir I am informed
by a decision which has just emanated from the Gen
Land Office that bounty land warrants issued by the
United States are declared by the Act of Congress approved 
June 3d, 1858 to be personal property, and that warrants
issued after the death of the warranted but upon proof filed
during his life time became the property of his widow if there
be one and if no widow then the property of his heirs at
law with regard to thier age.   The particular case I
wish to call your attention to is that of a bounty land
warrant issued to Joseph Hart for 160 acres No 15,189 and
and bearing date 4th Feby, 1856, said warrant was received by
me as the Agent of said Hart after his death but upon
proof filed during his life time and as there was no widow
or minor children, I called on the Commissioner of Pensions
then acting, to know what disposition, to make of said
Bounty Lnad Warrant and the Instructions received was to
return said bounty land warrant to the Pension office
which was done forthwith, and as it now appears that the heirs at 
law of the s aid Joseph Hart is entitled to the benefit of the same if
so you will please forward said warrant to me for the special
benefit of the heirs of Joseph Hart ded Your early attention will
much oblege Most respectfully
Jno H. Goodwin Agt
For Claimant
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D C
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No 35,251
Joseph Hart

let to Benj. F. Perry Esqr
Sep 14, 1841
let: to do. 20 Oct: 41
"     "    "   26 March 42

Act 7 June 1832
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15.189
[??????]
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Joseph Hart
application fo
Revolutionary Pension

G. F. Townes (agent)
Greenville
So Car
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State of South Carolina
Greenville District  On this
the seventh day of April 1847 personally
appeared in open court - before the court of Common
Pleas now sitting Joseph Hart a resident of 
Greenville district in the State of South Carolina aged
eighty-three years who being [????] duly sworn according
to law doth on his oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made
by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

That he entered the service of the United States
under the following named officers and served
as herein stated.  The first time he entered the
service of the United States was in a troop which
joined Genl Sumpters Brigade and during this
service was in the battle of Blackstocks, thinks
his immediate commander was William Giles
but was very young in the commencement of
his services, the length of service in this tour is
not now remembered exactly, for his services under
Sumter he [????] a state Indent as a member of
Moores troop Mjr Aletors Regiment, - he remembers
distinclty being under Sumter and at Blackstock
but could not otherwise remember his more
immediate officers  except by reference to the
indent before stated which was for eleven pounds
15 Sterling, he entered the service in Union
district where he was raised, - After his service
before mentioned he served as a [???] in Union District
in a company commanded by Capt John Puttman
for at least one mnth, the company [???] included
in the REgiment of Col Thomas Brandon; After this
in the same district as near as his memory serves him
in 1781 he entered the company of Captain William
Young at the Black House in Union district
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and a [???] for three months, this company was
included in the Regiment of Col Thos Brandon
After the termination of this service he was
drafted into a company commanded by Captain
George Avery under Lieut Col Wm Farr Bran[????]
Regiment and served two months and ten days
marching from Union district down to the Congaree
River where the regiment was stationed he returned
under the same officer to Union and remained
in Union district under his command till the
expiration of about four months and twenty days
and then marched under the same [?????]to
Orangeburgh [????] he was stationed and served two
months & [??] days [????], he returned same under the
same  captain after the lapse of four months and
some days he was drafted in to the company
commander by Captain Thomas Blasingame
in a division of Col Thomas Brandon, Regiment
and marched with his company with other commanders
by Major Benjamin Jolly and joined Gen Pickens
Brigade near Charleston and was stationed with
his company at Bacons Bridge, marching at
one time to Ashley Ferry near the city, the British
were then in the [???????] of Charleston General
Green and his army were present in they march
he served in this tour two months and ten days
exclusive of the time giving  and returning [????]
he returned home, he next volunteered [????] the
close of the war in a company commanded by
Captain James Woodson and served in said company
for three months at the Black house in Union [????]
acting as a Sergeant [????] company was also attached
to the Regiment pf Col Bandon This was the last
service rendered by him, he is unable from failure
of memory to state, the dates of his services, but he
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remembers [?????] two state  Indents for
services in Col Brandons Regiment at [?????]
periods for eleven pounds 15 S. 81/2 Each Sterling money
He cannot remember the whole length of his
united services but thinks it was at least Eighteen
months and upwards in the Revolution known to him
is Elisha Green a [?????] of Greenville district

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

He states that he was born in Union district in 1764
He has no record of his age. It was burned in his house in Union
He was living in Union district when called into service
and continued to live there after the close of the war
till about twent years since, he [????] for our Union
and lived for two years in the edge of Rutherford County
North Carolina removed back from thence to Spartanburgh
district and resdied therein for two years and [????]
Spartanburgh district South Carolina he removed and 
settled in Greenville district and has continued to
reside therein for the last sixteen years where he
is now living.

He first volunteered in the service when he was
with Sumpter as Blackstrock in his subsequesnt
services in the regiment of Col Brandon [??] [????]
[???????] in his last service of three months
he again volunteered.

He has before herein stated the names of his
officers continental and militia as well as
[??????] and the general circumstances of
[???????]

He remembers to have received one discharge
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from the service.  [?????] by General Green, his
signature being attached to it, he kept this discharge
till it was destroyed when his house was burnt in
Union district.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year
aforesaid before me
Robt McKay CCk
by Mag. Ex off
J Walton

Joseph
his
x
mark
Hart

We Jesse Center a clergyman & Jno H Goodwin Wilson Barton & Wm Fuller
residing in Greenville district do hereby certify that we
are well acquainted with Joseph Hart who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration
that we believe him to be eighty three years of age
that his is refuted and believed in the neighborhood where he
resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that
we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Jesse Center
Wilson Barton
Jno H Goodwin
William Fuller

And the said Court hereby declare their opinion
after the investigation of the matter and after putting
the Interrogatories prescribed by the war department 
that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary 
Soldier and served as he states.  And the Court further
certifies that the above named John H. Goodwin
Wilson Barton Wm Fuller & Jesse Center are credible persons
(who have signed the preceding certificate) and that their
Statement is entitled to credit and that Jesse Center
is a clergyman resident in the district of Greenville as
stated.
J Walton
In open Court 7 Apl 1847
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I, Robt McKay Clerk of the Court of
Greenville District, do hereby certify that the fore
going contains the original proceedings of the
said Court, in the matter of the application of
Joseph Hart for a pension

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office,
this 15th day of May 1847.
Robt McKay, Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas and
General Sessions for Greenville District
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State of South Carolina
Greenville District

Personally appeared
before me the subscribing magistrate Elisha Green of
the district and State aforesaid who being first-duly
sworn says thta he is well acquainted with
Joseph Hart a revolutionary Soldier now living
in Greenville district and formerly of Union
district So Carolina, And this deponent further
states that he served one month in company
with the said Joseph Hart at the Black House
in Union district towards the close of the revolutionary
war and he is of the opinion that Captain
William Young was then in command at the
said station, the Regiment to which said company
belonged was commander by Col Thomas Brandon
This deponent was not personally associated
with the said Joseph Hart in any other tour of
services of his own knowledge.  This deponent
is now in the eighty eighth year of his age
he himself served several other tours in the
revolutionary war, in different corps.
his
x
signature
Elisha Green
Sworn to and subscribed
before me April 29th 1847
C J Elford
Magistrate for Greenville Dist
So. Ca

Witness G. F. Townes

State of South Carolina
Greenville District

I Robt McKay Clerk
of the Court of Common
Pleas and General Sessions for the District aforesaid, 
do certify that C. J. Elford is an acting magistrate
for Greenville District, and that the foregoing
signature, purporting to be his, is genuine
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In testimony whereof, I hereunto set
my hand and seal of office, at
Greenville C. H., this 15th day of
May A. D. 1847

Robt McKay
Clerk of the Court of Greenville
District, South Carolina
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Comptroller Genl's Office
Columbia So: Ca: December 23rd 1846.

Book M     }
Indent 347}  Issued the first Octover 1784 to Mr. Joseph
Hart late sergean in Moore's troop Myddleton's 
Regiment Sumter's brigade S. Troops for
Eleven pounds 15 S Sterline being amount
pay and bounty due him for services in
tht Troop together with interest thereon
from the first April 1782 to date hereof agreeable
to a resolution of General Assembly of the
Eleventh March last.
Prin. £11: 15: O.D.  Interest £0: 16.5D

Book X,          }  Joseph Hart
Account 2866} For militia duty in Brandon's 
Regt since the fall of Charleston for Anderson's
return amounting to Sterling £11:15:81/2D

I certify the above to be a true copy from the Records
in this office
For Comptroller Genl.
J. Aug Black
chg $3.