Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44186, James Harris, Continental (New Jersey)
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Continental  (New Jersey)  James Harris   S.44186
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15,130 R
New York
James Harris
of Winfield in the state of New York
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Lamb of the New York line for the term of 6 years.
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Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 21st of May 1818.
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Certificate of pension issued the 13 of Sep 1817
and sent to Almond Luce (illegible)
Winfield, New York
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Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819                 $123.89
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Mar. 1820       48.00
                                                             171.89
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
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James Harris Affidavit
Private
77-83
Lamb   N. York
Artillery Regt.
Admitter
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James Harris enlisted April the first seventeen hundred and seventy seven, in the town of Chatham in the state of New Jersey, under the command of Capt. John Doughty and served in Col. Lamb's Regiment of Artillery til somewhere about the nineteenth of July seventeen hundred Eighty three, and was then discharged at West Point. Further states that he was in the Battle at Brandywine + Germantown (Pennsylvania) and also in the Battles of Springfield + Monmouth (New Jersey) likewise in the Battle of Yorktown (Virginia) that he is fifty seven years of age in July next, that he left his discharge with a man by the name of Flighy in Ballstown for safe keeping, since which Jim said Flighy has moved he knows not where, consequently has lost his discharge. Therefore it is not in his power to give any other (illegible) of said (illegible)

Winfield 21st-May 1818
Sworn to and subscribed 
before (illegible)
Almond Luce
Judge of (illegible)
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I Almond Luce Judge as within stated (illegible)
certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said 
James Harris did serve in the Revolutionary War as states in
the preceding Declaration gainst the common enemy and
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State of New York }
Herkimer COUNTY } SS, 
Martin Luce of the 
town of Winfield County aforesaid 
being duly sworn, saith, that he is personally well 
acquainted with James Harris the applicant above 
named, and has been so acquainted with him the said James Harris 
for eleven years, and during that time the said James 
Harris has sustained a good character for truth and veracity, 
and he this deponent verily believes that full credit ought to be given to the declarations 
of the said James Harris when under oath.

Martin Luce

Winfield 21st May 1818
Sworn to and subscribed 
before me this 21st day 
May [1819?] 
Almond Luce
Judge of Herkimer Common 
Pleas

State of New York, }
Herkimer COUNTY, } SS, 
I, Almond Luce one of the 
Judges of the Court of the Court of Common Pleas in and for 
the County aforesaid, do certify that I am satisfied the said James Harris 
served in the revolutionary war as aforesaid, against the common 
enemy, for a longer term than nine months, as stated in the affidavit of the said 
James Harris hereunto annexed --And I do further certify 
that full credit is due to the deposition of the above named Martin Luce 
judgment is contained in the affidavit of the said James Harris.

Almond Luce
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State of new york
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James Harris certificate
of Exemplification 

No 11 

[c/"?]

15/30

13 September 1819

C
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Schedule

State of New York Herkimer County [?] On this 4th day of July 1820 
personally appeared in open court to wit the Court of Common pleas 
in and for the said County said Court being by the laws of the State of 
New York Constituted a Court of Record James Harris aged sixty 
nine years resident in the Town of Winfield in said County who being 
first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that 
he served in the revolutionary war as follows that he enlisted in the 
year 1777 in a company commanded by Captain John Doty in a Regiment 
Commanded by Colonel Lamb in General Knox's Brigade of the New 
York [Artillery?] and served under the said enlistment until July 1788 
and was regularly discharged and that he did on the 21st day of May 
1818 make a declaration of his said services and did obtain from the 
War department a pension Certificate Dated 13th day of September 
1819 and numbered with 15.130 and that I was discharged under Captain 
Guyon at west point in State New York and I do solemnly swear 
that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the [18th? or 15th?] day 
of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale 
or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof 
with intent thereby so to diminish it as to being 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 [pased?] on the eighteenth day of March 
1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any 
property other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed 
and by me subscribed, 

Schedule of property viz 
| --- | --- |
| 1 acre of leased land on which I live and pay rent to Henry Hayworth | $8.00 |
| old plow irons | 2.00 |
| 2 old hoes | 1.00 |
| 1 axe | 1.00 |
| 2 pitchforks | 0.50 |
| iron wedges & [butte?] rings | 1.00 |
| 10 bushells corn | 4.00 |
| 1 year old Bull | 8.00 |
| [total:?] | $25.50 |
|
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Iron ware and Kitchen furniture not more than [$44.00?] 
That the said Harris is a farmer by [strike][profesion?][/strike] occupation and is 
not able from infirmaties to labour half his time and cannot half 
support himself, has a wife by the name of Anna aged sixty three years 
but unable to labour having been long afflicted with convulsions 
fits and has a girl aged 11 years employed entirely in aiding and assisting 
the said Anna his wife she being unable to help herself but little 
James Harris. Sworn to and declared on the 4th day of July 1820 
before David Holt a Judge of Herkimer County Court of Common 
Pleas. 

The Court is of Opinion that the value of the 
property enumerated in the foregoing schedule is thirty dollars 

Judges 
{ Westel Willoughby 
{ David Holt 
{ John J. Prendergast
{ George Rosecrantz

State of New York 
Clerks Office
Herkimer County

[?] I, Walter Fish, Clerk of the Court of 
Common pleas in and for the County aforesaid 
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 thirty dollars In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 
hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 11th day of 
July 1820.

Walter Fish, Clerk
Of the Court for the County 
of Herkimer
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44186

INVALID.

[Recy?]

File No. 88.186
James Harris
[Pen?] Rev War

Act: 18th March [18??]
Index: Vol. [3? or 8?], Page 212

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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James Harris
Application for 
to be placed on 
[Pention?] List 

[strike]corrected[/strike] [?] Admitted

[strike]Joshua[/strike] James Harris [paid?] 
[Lamtz? or Lamby?] N.Y., Artilary, Reg.
[Enhance?] not mentioned
Discharged 1783

Jurors Admitted 
Judges Certificate 
of indigent circumstances 
of the Applicant 
wanted 
Certificate on the [Back? or Bank?]
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State of New York
Herkimer County

[??]

I, Walter Fish, Clerk 
of the Court of Common 
Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do hereby 
certify and make known that the said 
Court is one of the Courts of Record in said 
County and State and that Almond Luce, 
Esquier whose signature is 
affixed to the foregoing certificate 
is one of the Judges of said 
Court in witness whereof I have 
hereunto subscribed my name 
and affixed the seal of said Court at 
Herkimer this 9th day  of May 1818.

[seal] 

Walter Fish, Clerk
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State of New York
[Hoskin?] County

[?] James Harris the annexed applicant 
for [Pention?] being duly sworn says that he enlisted 
about the first of April 1777 and entered the Service 
of the United States the same week (within a few days) 
which Service was in the continental establishment 
of the United States in the Revolutionary [strike]Service[/strike] War 
and further saith not.

James Harris

Sworn to and Subscribed 
to this 15th day of July 1819.
Almond Luce
Judge of [Harkins?] Common
[Dhon?]