Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,195, Richard Harnden, Mass.
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Service. Number.
Mass. Harnden, Richard. S.29.195
Contents
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Maine 1309
Richard Harnden
[illegible] in the State of Maine
who was a Lieutenant in the company commanded
Captain Lithgow — of the Regt — commanded
Col Mitchell in the Massachusetts
Militia—
for 10 months

Inscribed on the Roll ofMaine
the rate of 131 dollars 59 cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
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State of Maine,
I, Nathaniel Coffin, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that the annexed paper, signed by the Judge and attested by the Clerk, contains the original proceedings of the Court of Common Pleas, at a special session thereof holden at Bath in said County, by the Hon. John Ruggles one of the Judges of said Court on the eleventh day of August A.D. 1832, in the matter of the application of Richard Harnden for a Pensio.. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 14th day of August A.D. 1832.
Nath'l Coffin
Clerk
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Richard Harnden
No. 2. 700
about
9 m' 26 days
Lieutenant $131.59
[illegible] Nath Coffin
Bath Me
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State of Maine
--OUNTY OF LINCOLN SS.
At a Court of Common Pleas holden at Bath in said county on the 11 day of August A.D. eighteen and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court, before John Ruggles, Esq, one of the Judges thereof
Richard Harnden a resident of Woolwich in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine, aged about seventy eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the Service of the State of Massachusetts Bay now one of the United States, in the month of January 1776 as a second Lieutenant in Capt William Lithgows company and marched on foot from Woolwich on the Kennebec river to Falmouth, now Portland and there served in the line of his duty till the latter part of the month of November of the same year when his term of service expired and he returned home on foot, his term of service was ten months-he also served at several other periods subsequent to that time during the Revolutionary war of which he makes no account in the application. at his service in Falmouth there were four companies at that Place and were at Cape Elizabeth, all under the command of Col Mitchell and Major Haley.
This applicant further on oath says that his commission as second Lieutenant was destroyed with his dwelling house and all his papers and personal property by fire on the 29th day of October 1829 and he has annexed a certificate of his rank and service from the  Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to which the State of Maine belonged during the Revolution.
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He further States that his commission was signed by Perry Morton Moses Gill Eldad Taylor and others whose names he does not now recollect. they were styled a majority of the Council of the Colony of Massachusetts BAy- He further States that he was living at the time he was called into in the town of Woolwich in the County of Lincoln on Kennebec river. that he was born in said Woolwich on the 12th day of November 1754. That is known  to Peleg Tallman Esq & David Stinson  Esq Post Master of Bath and to many of the principal men in the State of Maine, having been himself a magistrate inn Lincoln County many years.
Richd Harnden
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid
Jno Ruggles      P.C.C.P.

This certifies that Richard Harnden was born in Woolwich Nov 12th 1754

Recorded  by Joshua Farnham
Town Clerk 
in 1772
Attest Chs T Otis Town Clerk
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Mr Silas Stearns a clergyman residing in Bath and Joseph Sewall residing in said Bath hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Richard Harnden esquire who has fabricated and sworn to the above declaration, we believe him to be seventy eight years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in this opinion. 
Silas Stearns
Joseph Sewall

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
J. Ruggles J.C.C.P.

and the said court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting interrogatives 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 it appears to them that Silas Stearns who has signed the pre
ceding certificate is a clergyman residing in Bath & that Joseph Sewall who has also signed the same is a resident in Bath & is a credible person & that this Statement is a XXXXX to credit.

I_______Clerk of the Courts of Record and Court of Common Pleas for Lincoln County, do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the application of X for a pension. 
J. Ruggles
J.C.C.P.
attest Nathl Coffin Clerk
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this _________________day of
A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty---
Clerk of the Courts of Record and Court of Common Pleas in Lincoln County
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, August 1st., 1832
I hereby certify, That, from an examination of the books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in the Department, it appears that
Richard Harnden was a Second Lieutenant in Cape. William Lithgow's Company stationed at Falmouth in the State of Massachusetts Bay and served therein in the capacity aforesaid from Jan'y 27. 1776 to Nov. 23. 1776, both inclusive
Edward Bangs, Secretary of the Commonwealth
J. Ruggles [illegible four letters]
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iNVALID
[illegible] 29, 1[illegible]
Richard Harnden
Lieut. Rev War
Act August 7, 32
Index-Vol. 2, Page 171

{Arrangement of 1870}
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NAME Harne, Christian GRADE Private LINE Hazen's Regiment
WARRANT NUMBER 13181
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED February 28, 1794 to Christian Harne
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volume 2 to 4 of "land warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications fro warrants appears to have been destroyed in the War department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.