Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36000, Edward Harmon, Del.
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(B-1776)
     SERVICE                                          NUMBER
Del.     Harmon, Edward     S. 36000


CONTENTS
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Delaware Rolls
                1790

Edward Harmon
Capt
Kirkwood | Sunate      4
     Delaware line

In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Delaware at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20th of april 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818 and Suet to Pensioner Georgetown - Sapex Co. Del

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818
Semi-anl. all'ce ending

4/1100 15/30.      $30,,

{Revolutionary claim, 
Act 18th March, 1818.}

77. War

Geo Town, Sussex County
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36.000
 INVALID.
Revy

File No. 36,000
Edward Harmon
Pri      Rev War


Act: 18th March 18th
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 176

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Samuel Paynter, Esqr.
Judge,
Sussex County, Delaware
                          = Correct
Edward Harmon
                           GLE
Delaware line,
Revolutionary Claim.

Delaware rolls not
received. - The testimony
on oath, of two on more
disinterested and credible
persons, proving the deed
is required. 

The judge is desired to
certify, under the seal of
the court, that the appli-
-cant is in indigent cir-
-cumstances, and needs the support of this country

(Written vertically on the left side): the necessary requisites are herein added, he pleased to examine there
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State of Delaware
Sussex County Ss
     Be it remembered that on this twentieth
day of April in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,
Edward Harmon a soldier of the revolution,
aged about sixty, personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the associate Judges of the Supreme Court of the
State of Delaware, and being duly sworn
on the holy evangels of Almighty God do depose and say that in the year seventeen
hundred and seventy seven he enlisted
under Captain Kirkwood of the first Company
 of the Delaware Regiment, and 
continued in the Service from that
time as a common soldier until the
conclusion of the war, when he was 
discharged by general proclamation
and that from the time of his enlistment
to his discharge he served in the southern 
states in the army under the 
Command of Generals ^Gates and Green.   And the said Edward Harmon did further
depose and say that from his reduced 
circumstances in life he needs the assistance
of his country.  
Edward [X his mark] Harmon                            
 
                                                                                     Sworn and subscribed the day and year
above written.        
Saml. Paynter Jun.
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State of Delaware}
Sussex County ss}

Be it remembered that on this twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Mitchell Kershaw Lieut. Colonel of the Ninth Regiment of Delaware Militia, aged about sixty years, personally appeared before me Samuel Paynter one of the associate Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware and being duly ^affirmed being conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath  did depose and say that he knows Edward Harmon, in the foregoing deposition named, an inhabitant of Sussex County, and has known him from the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight or nine, and that he was at that time a soldier in the Delaware Regiment and continued in the said Regiment to the knowledge of this deponent until the sixteenth of August seventeen hundred and eighty when this deponent who belonged to the said Regiment was taken prisoner at Gates [illegible]; when this deponent was taken on board the prison ship at Charleston.
Mitchell Kershaw

Affirmed and Subscribed the day and year above written.
Saml. Paynter Junr.
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State of Delaware}
Sussex County ss}

Be it remembered that on this seventeenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, Hezekiah Lacey a native born citizen aged fifty four years, personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the associate Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware and being duly sworn on the holy evangels of Almighty God did depose and say that Edward Harmon was a boy in the neighbourhood where he lived, that he worked much of his time before he inlisted with this Deponents Father, that about the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven he the said Harmon inlisted  under Captain Kirkwood, and marched off with the Delaware Regiment, that this Deponent never see said Harmon from the time he marched off aforesaid untill the year seventeen hundred and eighty three, when he see him with others of the Delaware Regiment, with uniforms and equipments just as they returned from the Army—  at the same time he heard People say to Harmon he was a fool to spend so much time in the army without pay—  that Harmon replied he was willing to go again and that he hoped he should git pay at some time
Hezekiah Lacey

Sworn and Subscribed the day and year above written before me—
Saml. Paynter Junr.
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I do certify that from the foregoing depositions and my long acquaintance with the said Edward Harmon I am fully satisfied that he served in the Revolutionary war against the Common Enemy and that he is entitled to the benefit of the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war.  that he is in indigent circumstances, and needs the support of his county.—
Given under my hand at Georgetown in Sussex County this twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Saml. Paynter Junr.
one of the associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware—

Sussex County}
State of Delaware} ss.

I Do hereby Certify that Samuel Paynter Esquire is one of the associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware, and that as such full faith and credit ought to be given to all his acts &c.  
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office at George Town this Twentieth day of April Eighteen hundred & eighteen.—
Wm. Russel Clk, S. C.
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Geo. Tobn Dele
Dec 6th
Free
The Hon J.C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington
Deleware Rec 11 Dec 1820
Edward Harman of Sussex County
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District of Delaware ss.

On this sixteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and twenty,  personally appeared in Open Court in the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Delaware in and for Sussex County (it being a Court of Record, proceeding according to the Course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings, Edward Harmon, aged about Seventy years, resident in Lewes and Rehoboth Hundred in the said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, in the Delaware Regiments in the Company of Captain Kirkwood.  the first declaration made by this deponent was on the twentieth day of April eighteen hundred and eighteen and the pension he has received has been on the pension certificate No. 1790.  And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth of March eighteen hundred and eighteen that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it so as to bring myself within the provisions of an "Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed, to wit,
Three Shoats of the value of  $3.00
One square cupboard and all that is in it   4.00
One old writing desk               0.25
One old table                           0.06
Coopers Ware                          0.75
Hollow Ware                            0.50
One old Chest                          0.25
One old Spinning Wheel          0.50
One Square Table                     0.25
One Plough and one Harrow   1.25
Two axes                                   1.50
One grubing hoe                      0.50
One old Cask                            0.50
One basket                               0.25
Total                                        13.56
Edward [X his mark] Harmon

Signed in presence of}
Jno D Wells}
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And this Deponent further saith that his occupation is that of a farmer,  That he is infirm, has a wife name ["Peggy" crossed out] Agnes aged about fifty years, who is sickly, a Son Benjamin aged twenty five does not reside with deponent- a son Dirickson aged twenty three, does not live with deponent- and a son Paynter about twenty one, a son Woolsey about twelve and a daughter Eliza about ten years old who live  with this Deponent-
Sworn and declared by the said Edward Harmon on the sixteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and twenty-
Edward [X his mark] Harmon

Nov: 16th 1820 
Sworn to & Subscribed in Open Court.
Attest
Francis Brown  Prothy.
I Francis Brown, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Delaware, in and for Sussex County do hereby Certify the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is thirteen dollars and fifty six cents.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this fifth -- day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Francis Brown Prothy.