Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8906, Michael Hargan, Penn.
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Service. Penn
Hargan, Michael
Elizabeth
Number W. 8906
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7288
Kentucky
Michael Hargan of Hardin Co. in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Wilson of the Regt. commanded by Col. DeHoss in the Pa. line for 1 year & 2 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of March 1833 and sent to Saml. Haycroft Elizabeth Town West.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $93.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. $23.33
$116.65

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk, 
Book 8 Vol. 7 Page 12
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995
Kentucky
Elizabeth Hargan widow of Michael Hargan who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of July 1848 and sent to C.H. Trabue, Frankfort Ky.

Recorded on [illegible] under act February [illegible] Vol. 3

Reported
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State of Kentucky, Hardin County SS
On this 15th day of October 1832 personally appeared before the Hardin County court Michael Hargan of said county & state first duly sworn according to law on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he inlisted the army of the United States in the year 1776 in Hagerstown state of Maryland in the company commanded by Captain John Nelson which company was marched into lower Canada & joined the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment of footmen commanded by Col. DeHoss and served as a private soldier in said regiment for the period of fourteen months. He states that in the year 1820 he made application in the Hardin County court to obtain the benefit of the provisions of a previous act of congress for the benefit of the indigent soldiers under a provision of said act requiring the applicants to make out and have sent a schedule of their property he having been previously on
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pension Roll having made a declaration in said court in September 1878 & obtained a pension certificate No. 10.788. And after [illegible] the schedule aforesaid he was stricken from the pension Roll. He further states that after the end of his term of service he received a written discharge from his said Capt (John Nelson) being dated April 1st 1777 which was transmited to the war department with his original declaration.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Michael Hargan
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Michael Hargan
10788
May '19
Sep '19
Not entitled
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State of Kentucky, Hardin Circuit Sct
June Term 1820 
Ordered that the following schedule be admitted to record having been first sworn to in open court.
Schedule
District of Kentucky Hardin County ss
On this 21st day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for said District and County, Michael Hargan aged sixty six years resident in Hardin County and said District who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he  served in the revolutionary war as follows. I enlisted in the year 1776 in Hagerstown Maryland in the company commanded by Captain John Nelson which company was marched into lower Canady. Joined the 1st Pennsylvania regiment of footmen commanded by Colonel DeHoss during which time I served as a private soldier which was about fourteen months; the number of my pension certificate is 10.788. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818. And that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged
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in the land and naval service of the United States with revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818. 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 by  Two hundred and fifty acres of [illegible] land on which there is a mortgage.
Michael Hargan

My occupation is farming. I have a wife named Elizabeth aged fifty five years my self and wife are both unable to work much. I have also one daughter named Prudence aged seventeen who is healthy.
The Court is of opinion the land mentioned is worth two hundred and fifty dollars with an incumberance of a mortgage of ninety dollars.

State of Kentucky, Hardin Circuit 
I Samuel Haycraft Clerk of the Circuit Court in the Circuit aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are true copies from the record of said Court; And I do further certify that on the day of the date hereof it is the opinion of the Court that the total amount in
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value of the property exhibited in the foregoing schedule is two hundred & fifty dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this 27th day of June 1820 in the 29th year of the commonwealth.
Saml Haycraft by
John L. Helm, D,C,H,C,C
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9416
Elizabeth Hargan
Kentucky
Act 7th July 38
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State of Kentucky, Harden County ss
On this 31 day of May 1843 personally appeared befor me John Swank an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County of Harding and state of Kentucky Mrs. Elizabeth Hargan a resident of the said County and state of Kentucky and who is by reason of bodily infirmity prevented from appearing in open Court aged upwards of seventy six years 76 years and who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of an act of congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Michael Hargan who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war but as for the line he served in and officers he served under she cannot recollect as she is vary old and her recollection has parted her vary much but for the particulars of his service she refers to the evidence contained in the papers composing the matter of his applycation for a pension which he received untill his death which took place December the 13, 1840 and the amount of pension which he received under the act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832 was forty six dollars and sixty six cents $46.66, per anum. She further declars that she resided in said county of Harden befor her said husband departed this life for forty years and still resides on the same place. She further declars that she was maried to the said Michal Hargan after her said husband left the service and before the first day of Jnuary 1794 seventeen hundred and ninety four to the said Michall Hargan. She fur declars that she has the certificate of pension which issued to her said husband under the law of the 7 of June 1832 and she will send it on to the proper office with her declaration. She further declars that she has never marid since the death of her said husband but still remains his widow. The widow of Michael Hargan.
Elizabeth Hargan - X her mark

Sworn to and subscribed befor me the day and year [illegible] writen.
John Swank J.P.H.C.

The above[?] subscribed Justice of the peace certify that the above declarant is personally known to me and her statements in her declaration I believe to be true for the most of them are know unto me  I know she is not able to attend Cort for she lives 12 miles from
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The Court house and she is not able to go 2 [illegible] in her nighborhood. I know she is vary feble. I have knoon her and her husband bouth for may years and I beliv they have ben maried for they have one child upwards of fifty years and they have even lived as husband and wife ever since I have knoon them and I beliv she aught to be inroled on the pension Role as a revolutionary pensioner.
Given under my hand this 31 day of May 1843
John Swank J.P.H.C.

State of Kentucky Harden County Sct.
I Samuel Haycraft Clerk of the Court of Harden County State of Kentucky herby certify that John Swank befor whom the forgoing declaration of Mrs. Elizabeth Hargan was made is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Harden duly commissioned and qualified and to all his official acts full faith and credit are due, and the forgoing signaturs purporting to be said Swanks are his own genuine signaturs.

In testimony wherof I hav hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this the 23d day of June 1843
Saml. Haycraft Clk
Harden Cony Cort

State of Kentucky Hardin County Sct
 Hardin County Court 
At a county court duly organised began and holden at Elizabeth town in and for the County of Hardin state of Kentucky on Monday the 20th day of November 1843.
"It is ordered by the Court to be certified and recorded that the preceedings in the matter of the application of Mrs. Elizabeth Hargan for a pension had on the 31st day of May 1843 before John Swank Esquire be
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and the same are now submitted to the Court and are now approved or sanchoned by the court, and further that the said proceedings are entitled to as full faith and credit as though they had been made in open court".

I Samuel Haycraft Clerk of the Court of Hardin County state of Kentucky certify that the above order is truly copied from the records in my office.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 21st day of November 1843.
Saml Haycraft Clk
Hardin County Court
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15626
Michl. Hargan
Kentucky
from 1776 private
1 year 2 months
$46.66

Sep '19

Saml Haycraft
Elizabethtown Ky
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Brief in the case of Michael Hargan County of Hardin in the State of Kentucky
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 77
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period. Enlisted in 1776
Duration of Service, 1 Year 2 Months
Rank. As a Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Capt Jno Wilson, Col. DeHoss
Has been on pension roll [illegible] his certificate was No. 10.788

5. In what battles was he engaged? None
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Joined at Hagerstown Md
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? If not on the rolls, nothing
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The Court have not given their opinion

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chs. W. Forrest
Examining Clerk.
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Brief objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Michl Hargan which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension that the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? No
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? No
XIV. +If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
XV. Does is appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. ++Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 1, 2, 3, & 7.

Explanatory Notes.
Qulere V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ____ year ____ months, and ____ days, I served as a ____ For ____ months and ____ days, I served as a ____; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

+Quere XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two cerdible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavit the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

++Quere XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
> In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificaqte of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Hargan
discharged
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This is to certify that Michal Harragan has served near fourteen months in the contental Serves as a good solder and according to his enlistment has a right to a discharge.
John Nelson Capt.
Apr [illegible] 1777
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Payments to be made at Lexington by the Prest of MLB Bank Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Kentucky.

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E Vol 7 Page 12 by Daniel Boyd Clerk.
M. Hargan
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War Department.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Michael Hargan of the State of Kentucky who was a private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Forty-six dollars and Sixty six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March,  1834, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Twenty-Sixth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Lew Cass
Secretary of War.

JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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W. S. Young
Recd 4 March 1826
anni. 15th
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State of Kentucky, Hardin County SS
I Samuel Haycraft clerk of the county court in & for the county and state aforesaid do certify that Denton Geoghegan whose signature appears to the foregoing certificate was at the signing thereof and still is an acting Justice of the Peace in & for Hardin County duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his acts as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county at my office in Elizabethtown on this eighth day of February 1826 and in the 34th year of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and in the fiftieth year of American Independance.
Saml Haycraft Clk
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red Sept 9 1823
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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
August 15, 1843.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The widow of Michael Hargan, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky Agency, at the rate of forty six Dollars and 66 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of September 1840, to the 13th Dec. 1840.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Pasrris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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I Benjamin Helm do hereby certify that I acted as agent for Thomas S. Slaughter in the County of Hardin Kentucky in the Collection of the price or sale of 300 acres of land said Slaughter sold to Michael Hargan. I think the purchace of said land was five hundred dollars, said Hargan sold 250 acres of the land to a certain J. Spinks to raise money for the first payment and said Spinks paid me the money for Slaughter and Hargan made a deed to said Spinks. I took a mortgage on the other 250 acres for the ballance of the purchase money. Hargan was still unable to pay the ballance of the purchase money. Some time afterward a son of said M Hargans paid me the ballance of the purchase money, all of which money I paid to Thomas S. Slaughter as his agent. Afterwards Michael Hargan made a deed for the 250 acres to his sons. The said Slaughter has never paid to said Hargan the purchase money nor any part thereof nor has the land ever been recovered by suit from said Hargan & Spinks. I further certify Thomas S. Slaughter lives in Logan County Kentucky about 100 miles from this place.
Ben Helm
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This day the within named Benjamin Helm appeared before me and made oath that the facts as stated in the within affidavit and his own knowledge are true and [illegible] stated upon the information of others he believes to be true. 21st February 1826
Saml Martin J.P.H.

State of Kentucky, Hardin County Set
I Samuel Haycraft clerk of the county court in and for the county aforesaid do certify that Samuel Martin Esquire whose signature appears to the foregoing certificate was at the signing thereof and still is a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Hardin and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the county aforesaid at my office in Elizabethtown on this 1st day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six. And in the fiftieth year of American Independance
Saml Haycraft, Clk
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Elizabeth Hargan
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State of Kentucky, Hardin County ss
On this 10th day of May 1848 personally appeared befor the subscribed a Justice of the peace , Mrs. Elizabeth Hargan a resident of the county of Hardin aged 83 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848 granting pension to widows of persons who served during the Revolution war. That she is the widow of Michael Hargan who was a private in the arma of the Revolution and in the Maryland line as she verily believes and received a fair sum for his service at the rate of $46.66  per annum under the act 7 June 1832. She also declars that she has received pension under the acts 7 July 1838, 3rd March 1843 and the 17th June 1844 at the rate of $46.66 per anum. She further declars that she is still a widow. She further appoints C H Trabue her attorney to use her Certifficate of Pension. Sworn to and subscibed on the day and year above written befor me.
Elizabeth Hargan - X her mark
John Swank, J.P.

I the the above Justice of the Peace certify that the above declarant is personally known unto me.
John Swank J.P.
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State of Kentucky, Hardin County [illegible] 
I Samuel Haycraft clerk of the County Court for the county aforesaid do certify that John Swank is now and was at the time of signing the forgoing Certificate a Justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified. That the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine and is due [illegible]  of [illegible] .

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county at my office in Elizabethtown this 11 day of May 1848 and in the 56 year of the Commonwealth.
Saml Haycraft Clerk
By the T. Samuel A.C.
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Elizabeth Hargan
act 3d March 1843
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State of Kentucky, Hardin County Set.
May term 1825
Ordered that the following scedule be entered of record towit.
"Destrict and state of Kentucky Hardin county set on this 2nd day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty five Michael Heargan personallty appeared in the Hardin county court in the state and destrict of Kentucky aforesaid; being a court of law, and of record for the said county of Hardin, and possessing authority to fine and imprison; and declared an oath in said Court that he will be seventy one years of age next August; That he served in the revolutionary war between the United States and Great Britain as follows, towit;
That he enlisted in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six in Hagar Town Maryland in the company commanded by Captain John Nelson which company was marched into lower Canada joined the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment of footman commanded by Col. DeHoss during which time he served as a private soldier which was fourteen months. The number of my pension certificate is 10.788.
The said Heargan also declares on oath that on the 21st day of June 1820 he made his declaration in the Hardin Circuit Court held in the county and state aforesaid which contained a scedule of his property wihch was two hundred and fifty acres of land valued at two hundred and fifty dollars with the incumbrance of a mortgage for ninety
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dollars: The said Hargan states and declares on oath that at that time he had three sons who were of age and acting for themselves who by industry had laid up a small sum of money each; that he said Hargan was old and infirm and not able to work or carry on any business whereby he could raise money sufficient to satisfy said mortgage and [illegible] his land, and owing to the hardness of the times in Kentucky and scarcity of the circulating medium his land would have been sacrificed together with every other article of property he had in attempting to force sales in order to satisfy said $90, being the mortgage money aforesaid, together with the interest and costs which would have accrued thereon; and feeling satisfied in his mind that his land and property would be so sacrified and lost to him, he determined to permit his said three sons, on their satisfying said mortgage, to take his land and accordingly joined in a deed to them: which mortgage they did satisfy and discharge; and by means of his said Hargans doing so he was enabled to save the small amount of property that he now has in possession and which property he has accumulated since he made his declaration in Court that there was four hundred and fifty dollars and interest thereon that he owed to Thomas Neill which his said three sons towit Joseph, Benjamin, & Daniel, also paid in consideration for the land mentioned in the foregoing scedule.
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The said Hargan also states on oath that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; 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 bring my self within the provisions of assets of congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revoltuionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts owe to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed towit.
"one bed & bedding & bedclothes & stead $20.00
Household & kitchen $10.00
$30.00

My occupation is that of a farmer but he is unable thereby to obtain a livelihood owing to the infirmities of his advanced age. That his family consists of himself, his wife Elizabeth aged sixty years who from her being afflicted with rheumatic pains for the last twelve months is unable to work and hardly able to walk: He has a daughter named Prudence living with him aged about twenty two years old who is healthy active and industrious and is able to maintain herself but her services are indispensable in the family as him and his said wife are unable to keep house and
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maintain themselves without the assistance of his said daughter and three sons before mentioned. One of his said sons being now married; and were it not for there filial piety and attention they the said Michael and Elizabeth would have to depend on charity or starve.
Michael Hargan

Sworn to in open court before me this 2nd day of May 1825.
Saml Haycraft Clk

The court are of opinion that the property contained in the foregoing scedule is of the value of thirty dollars.

I Samuel Haycraft clerk of the County Court in and for Hardin County in the state of Kentucky do certify that the foregoing is truly copied from the record of the Hardin County Court foresaid.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the county aforesaid at my office in Elizabeth Town on this 3d day of May 1825 and in the forty ninth year of American Independance.
Saml Haycraft Clk

I Samuel Martin presiding Justice of the peace & seignor magistrate in & for Hardin County in the state of Kentucky do certify that Samuel Haycraft whose signature appears to the foregoing certificate is clerk of said court and that full faith is and ought to be given to all his official acts as such and that his attestation is in due form of said. Witness my hand this 3rd day of May 1825.
Saml Martin JCHC
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Elizabeth Town 4 Apri 1825
The Hon. Henry Clay
Sir.
I take the liberty as the friend of Michael Hargan to trouble you with the enclosed petition to [illegible] [illegible]: him replaced upon the pension role [illegible]. I should have advised Hargan to be in the [illegible] . Sent it on by our Representative to Congress  Dr. S.  W.Young, but thinking he might be by this mode placed upon the Roll a few months sooner. I have advsied him to enclose it to you knowing of our [illegible]  heretofore in rendering services to the unfortunate of every country and particularly to those of this state. Hargan is poor and in actual distress. He has been honest and industrious but [illegible]  never gave foresight or [illegible] . He must actually suffer if not relieved by government. If there should be any
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error please let him know what is requested to enable thim to obtain that aid which government intended for him. Please attend to this and as in so doing you will do a charitable act.
John B Helm

Eliza. Town by 5th May

The Hon. Henry Clay
Secy. of State of U.S.
City of Washington

Helm John B.
Elizabeth Town, Ky
4 (April) 1825.
Recd. 19th May

With a request that Michael Hargan may be replaced upon the Pension list.
Respectfully referred to the Sec of War

P.S. Whatever you may hear to the contrary your vote for Adams is popular in Kentucky.
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Revolution, Maryland
Widow, &c.
File No. 8906
Elizabeth Hargan Wid. of Michael Hargan
Pvt. Rev. War
Act: Feby, 2, 1818
Index: Vol. A, Page 306
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Frankfort Kentucky
August 1843
Sir
I herewith enclose you the declaration of Mrs. Elizabeth Hargan of Hardin County Kentucky and other evidence in favor of her application for a pension under the act of Congress passed the 7th day of July 1838
Please enclose to me at Frankfort the certificate of allowance.
I am sir vary Respect
Your Obt Servt
C W Trabue

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC
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Frankfort Kentucky
November 17 1843
D Sir,
Your letter dated the 16th October 1843 returning me the declaration of Mrs. Elizabeth Hargan that the proceedings before the magistrate might be submitted to a court of record for its approval was duly received. According to your instructions the proceedings before the magistrate have been submitted to the County Court of Hardin and approved thereby. A copy of the order of which is herewith enclosed you, it being on thelatter end of the sd declaration.
Please enclose to me at Frankfort Kentucky the certificate of allowance.
I am sir very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
C.W. Trabue

Geo Wm Crump actg
Commissioner of pensions
Washington City DC
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Elizabeth Hargan
Act 17 June 1844
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State of Kentucky, Hardin County Set
I Samuel Haycraft clerk of the Court of Hardin County state of Kentucky certify that John Swank before whom the foregoing declaration was made is an acting magistrate in and for the county and state aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this the 6th day of July 1844
Saml Haycraft Clk
Hardin County Court
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Admitted

C.H. Trabue
Frankfort Ky
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Frankfort Ky
Feby 19 1848
Hon J.L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Dr Sir,
I herewith enclo. you the declaration of Mrs. Elizabeth Hargan under the Act of Congress passed 2 February 1848 making application for a continuance of pension. She having received the benefits of the act 7 July 1838, 3rd March 1843 & 17 June 1844.
You will please enclose to me at Frankfort Kentucky the certificate of allowance.
I am Sir
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
C.H. Trabue
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No 9416
Elizh Hargan
Kentucky
suspended
Let to C.H. Trabue Oct 14 '43
Act July 7th 1838
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58521
Kentucky
Elizabeth hargan, widow of Michael Hargan, who was a Priv. in the Pa. Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of pension issued the 16 day of July, 1844 and sent to C.H. Trabue, Frankfort Ky

[Acts of March 3, 1843, June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A, Vol. 1, Page 169

Paid at the Treasury under the Act 6 April 1838 from 4 Sep 1840 to 13 Dec 1840. Agt notified 19 Oct 1844

No. 109
Joint Reso: of January 23 1845.
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See letter of 7th Nov 1825 to John B. Helm
Elizabeth Town Ky

See letter 15th March 1826 to Hon. W.S. Young. H.R.
etidern. 19 April 1826
(file let. 1819)
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See letter to John B. Helm Esq.
Elizabethtown Kenty
May 28 1825
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Elizabeth Hargan
Under joint resolution of 29 Jany: 1845 & act 7th July, 1838

Admd: $46.66 per ann: from 4 March, 1836 to 13 December, 1840

Feb. 25 1845
Eliz. Hargan
Rev Jan 25 1845.

S.F.J. Trabue
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State of Kentucky, Hardin County ss
In order to obtain the benefits of the resolution of Congress of the 23d January 1845, where as the act of the 30th April 1844 profibited me from drawing a pension for the same pens. during which my husband was a pensioner I now make the [illegible] statement under oath to obtain the benefits of the Resolution above mentioned. I am the widow of Michael Hargan who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. I have drawn a pension at the rate of forty six dollars per annum from the 4th day of March 1843 untill the 4 day of March 1844 and now ask for the amount due me from the 4th day of March 1836 until the 4th day of March 1843 when my former pension commenced.
Sworn to and subscribed for me on this 14th day of February in the year of our Lord 1845.
Elizabeth Hargan - X her mark
John Swank J.P.

I certify that the declarant is personally known to me and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit.
John Swank JP

I Samuel Haycraft clerk of the Hardin County Court in the State of Kentucky do hereby certify that John Swank who signed the foregoing is a Justice of the peace for the county
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of Hardin in the State of Kentucky and that the foregoing is his signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this 14th day of February 1845 at Elizabeth Town Hardin County in the State of Kentucky.
Saml Haycraft Clk
Hardin County Court
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1 March 1823, Kty
Michael Hargan
John B. Helm, Elizabethtown, Kty.
Recd. 4 Nov 1825

The Secretary of War
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Elizabeth 19 October 1825
Sir
I again enclose you the petition of Michael Hargan who wishes to be placed on the pension Roll. We have as far as circumstances would permit and as we believe entirely entirely complied with your directions. Hargan is poor old and needy as will appear by affidavits annexed. If he is not soon assisted, assistance will come too late for him in this world. Your attention will much oblige.
Your Mo. ob. Sert.
John B. Helm
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Michael Hargan
Rec. Mar. 25. 1826
Hon W.S. Young H.R.
Answ. 19th April 1826

J.L. Edwards Esqr.
Pension Office
Sect. of War
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H of Rep. March 24th 1836
Mr. J.L. Edwards
I enclose you another voucher in support of Hargans claim for a pension.
I am sir, [illegible]
W.S. Young
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9416
Elizabeth Hargan KY
Act July 7th '38
Adm
14 M priv
$46.66 per an.

C.H. Trabue
Frankfort KY
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A brief - briefed
In 1812 claimant bought of Slaughter 500 acres land for $500 sold 250 of it to Spinks, who sold to his son Francis, who was to pay Slaughter for claimt. Did pay Helms his agent all but 80 or 90. After that Claimt obtained his deed, and gave deed to Spinks for 250, and mortgaged the residue to Slaughter to secure to him bal. due 80, or, 90 - after [illegible] therein $50 out of pension.
In 1819, Neil sued for said land, under an older claim compromised for $400. Sold balance of land to his sons Joseph & Benjn and Daniel who were to pay Neil, and the balance due to Slaughter; they have paid.
See letter of 7th Nov 1825 to John B. Helm Esq.
Elizabeth town Ken.
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a short of brief of Hargans case
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Tho S. Slaughter
To Deed
Michael Hargan
A Copy
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Book G page 227

This Indenture made this 10th day of April one thousand eight hundred and nineteen between Thomas S. Slaughter and Lucy Booker Slaughter his wife of the county of Logan and state of Kentucky of the one part and Michael Hargan of the county of Hardin and state aforesaid of the other part [illegible] that the said Thomas S. Slaughter and Lucy Booker his wife for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred dollars to them in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged that bargained granted and sold and by these presents grants bargain and sell unto the said Michael Hargan a certain part or parcel of land lying and being in Hardin County on the Rolling fork of Salt river containing five hundred acres and bounded as following. Beginning at the mouth of Cane river on the south side of the Rolling fork thence down the rive one hundred and forty two poles to three beech trees on the bank of the river thence south twenty degrees west three hundred and twenty poles to a sugartree and beech at the foot of the knobs thence south seventy degrees east two hundred and eighty poles crossing Cane run at one hundred and forty two poles to a beech by the side of a branch thence south twenty degrees east two hundred and forty poles to a sugartree and buckeye on the bank of the river then down with the several meanders to the beginning with its appurtenances.
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To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said Michael Hargan his heirs and assigns forever and the said Thomas and Lucy B. Slaughter doth hereby covenant and agree to and with the said Michael Hargan that they will forever warrant and defered the said tract of land from themselves their heirs and from every person or persons claiming under them with the express condition that if the said Michael Hargan should loose the said land or any part thereof by a better claim that then the said Thomas S. and Lucy B. Slaughter shall referred to the said Michael Hargan in the same proportion to what the said Hargain has paid the said Slaughter for so much as may be so lost. In testimony whereof the said Thomas S. and Lucy B. KSlaughter hath hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals the day and year first above written.
Tho. S. Slaughter
Lucy B. Slaughter

State of Kentucy, Logan County SS
I Spencer Curd clerk of the County Court of Logan aforesd do hereby certify that the within Indenture of bargain & sale from Thomas S. Slaughter and Lucy B. Slaughter his wife to Michael Hargan was this day acknowledged before me in my office by said Slaughter and wife to be their
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act and deed. I also examined the said Lucy B. Slaughter separate and apart from her said husband who acknowledged that she freely and voluntarily signed the same and that she relinquished all her right title and claim to the land and premises within mentioned either by inheritance dower or other wise without threats or persuasions of her said husband. In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand this 1st day of September 1819.
Spencer Curd

State of Kentucky, Hardin County Set
I Samuel Haycraft clerk of the County Court for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that on the day of the date hereof the within Indenture or deed of bargain and sale from Thomas S. Slaughter and Lucy B. Slaughter his wife to Michael Hargan was produced to me in my office together with the certificate of the clerk of Logan county authenticating the same. The said deed was ordered to be recorded. Whereupon I have truly recorded the same this 20th day of October 1819.
Saml. Haycraft

A copy teste Saml Haycraft Clk
Hardin County Court Kty
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We Joseph Hargan Daniel Hargan and Benjamin Hargan sons of Michael Hargon who has petitioned the United States for a pension under the several acts of congress allowing pensions to Revolutionary soldiers after having been duly sworn - state that we purchased from our father a tract of land containing about two hundred & fifty acres lying in Hardin County near the Rolling Fork. That we paid him a full and valuable consideration [illegible] four hundred and seventy nine dollars and fifty cents to Thomas Neill besides a considerable sum not now exactly recollected to Thomas S. Slaughter. It went towards satisfying a mortgage said Slaughter had on the land. We [illegible] we have paid more than the worth of the land already. We are under no other obligation to support our father than that which all children must feel under to support their aged and inform parents.
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and heart of all do we conscious ourselves under obligations to support him and our mother on account of the land we got from him as we had to pay more for it than it was worth. We can state without hesitation that our father never did recover anything from Slaughter on account of bills claiming said land. Because as our father compromised the affair with bill - he lost his recourse on Slaughter in law and Slaughter is not now considered liable for the purchase money as the land was not lost by due cours of law.
This 6 February 1826
Joseph Hargan 
Benjamin Hargan
Daniel Hargan

Sworn and subscribed before me a Justice of the peace for Hardin County Kentucky this 6 Feb 1826
Denton Geoghegan J.P.H.C.
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Addition to Michl Hargan Revolutionary claim & schedule
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Kentucky Hardin County & circuit let
On this ninth day of September in the year 1825 personally appeared in open court being a Court of record for the county and circuit aforesaid (which proceed according to the course of common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings and also prossessing authority to fine and imprison)
Michael Hargan resident in the said county of Hardin and circuit ages about seventy one years who being sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and 1st May 1820. That he the said Hargan served in the revolutionary war between the United States and Great Britain as follows to wit. He enlisted at first for the term of twelve months in the year 1776 in Hagartown Maryland in the company commanded by Captain John Nelson which company was marched into lower Canada joined the first Pennsylvania Regiment of footman commanded by Col. Dehoss and continued to serve as a private soldier in said Corps for the term of fourteen months when he was regularly discharged from the service in Philadelphia state of Pennsylvania. The number of his pension list is No 10788. That his name was placed on the pension list and dropped therefrom on account of his property. And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820, I the said Michael Hargan do solemnly swear that I was a resident of the United States of America on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or
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any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring mywelf 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 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time 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 towit. I have nothing but household and kitchen furniture to the value of about $20.
That since the exhibition of my declaration and schedule on the 21st June 1820, the following changes have been made in my property. That in the year 1811 or 1812 I purchased of one Thomas S. Slaughter a tract of land containing 500 acres for five hundred dollars and I not being able to pay for the same I sold 250 acres of said land to one Ignatius Spinks for $500. That said Spinks sometime after sold the same to his son Francis L. Spinks and said Francis L. Spinks was to discharge me for the same and the said Spinks did pay to Benjamin Helm the then agent of Slaughter the whole or the greater part of said $500 which was to be received as part of the $500 and interest that I owed to Slaughter and which reduced it to about $80 or $90. That in the year 1819 I recd. from Slaughter a deed for said 500 acres of land and executed a deed to Spinks for 250 acres thereof and I also executed a mortgage to Slaughter on the other 250 acres to secure the balance of the said purchase money.
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that I being in very indigent circumstances and not able to pay the balance of said debt and my former pension there going on I advanced about $50 out of that towards the payment thereof which was all that I could spare without in a great degree injuring the support which it gave me and my pension being stopped all at once  I was unable to pay the balance of said purchase money and there being embarrassed with debts and should have paid them perhaps with the small part of my sd. pension that I could have spared from the support of my family had it not been stopped.
That some time about the year's 1818. or 1819 Thomas Neill owed me for the land claiming the same under an older claim and after a long and tedious suit we compromised and I agreed to give him $400 with Interest for his claim being at the same time that I was receiving my former pension and thought that it would be cheaper for me to buy the claim than to prosecute the suit any further as the same was very long troublesome and expensive and thinking in a few years by the help of my pension (on which I alone depended) to have paid the debt and there be at [illegible] peace and clear of trouble but my pension was stopped.  I left in an embarrassed situation and not knowing what to do for support.
In my declaration and Schedule of my property exhibited on the said 21st day of June 1820 I gave a list of my property which was only the said 250 acres of land valued at $250 with the incumbrance of the aforesaid mortgage for $80 or ninety Dollars but said nothing about the debt I owed to Thomas Neill I thinking it not necessary and It was on that Declaration and
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schedule that I was struck from the pension list. Now not knowing what manner or what way to pay my debts and being threatened with suits, I at last proposed to my sons if they would pay the said debt that I owed Thomas Neill and satisfy the mortgage on the said 250 acres of land that they might have the said land which they my said sons namely Joseph Hargan, Benjamin Hargan, and Daniel Hargan did pay and I executed to them a deed therefore. Another reason for making the bargain aforesaid is that not only loosing my pension but times being so very hard in Kentucky and the circulating medium so scarce that it was impossible for me to raise any money to support my family let alone pay my debts as I was old infirm and not able to work. I exhibited my declaration and schedule in the Hardin county court at the last May term in which I stated that the whole of the mortgage was paid by my said sons and which was my opinion until I conversed with H.G. Wintersmith my agent in receiving my pension who informed me that the aforesaid sum of $50 was paid to Slaughter as part of the mortgage money and my said sons only paid about $30 towards that mortgage but the whole of the debt to Neill was paid by my said sons. And I do say that the same was the best bargain I could get for the land as the [illegible] was very poor and broken and not worth the money paid. And the reason they gave me such a good bargain was that they were inclined to be charitable to me.
The amount paid by my said sons was as well as I recollect $30 or $40 paid to H.
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G Wintersmith for Slaughter on the mortgage and $79 paid to Neill for his debt and interest amounting in the whole to $510 or [illegible] and the land was valued at, and at this time is not worth more than $250 subject to said mortgage of $90 making the sum of $340 as the part I sold Spinks was the choice of the tract and worth double the balance of said tract. The mortgage and the affidavits of H.G. Wintersmith and Thomas Neill will particularly show the amount paid by my said sons, which together with the affidavits of Ben Helm, Francis L. Spinks James Crutcher & a copy of the deed from Slaughter to me & from me to Spinks & to my said sons will be transmitted to the secretary of War and the mortgage from me to Slaughter also. My occupation is that of a farmer but I am unable to obtain a livelihood from the infirmities of my old age my family consists of myself my wife Elizabeth aged about sixty years; (who from her advanced age and being afflicted with rheumatic pains for more than twelve months past is unable to work and scarcely able to walk) my daughter Prudence aged about twenty two years (who is healthy active and industrious and able to work and obtain a livelihood for herself but she lives with me merely to assist me and my wife in keeping house and her services are indispensable in the family). I have also my aforesaid three sons two of whom are
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married who are still continuing to assist me and if it were not for their filial piety I could only depend on charity or starve.
Michl. Hargan

1825 Sep 9th Sworn to and declared before one in open court in the usual form by Michael Hargan.
S. Haycraft Clk

State of Kentucy, Hardin County and Circuit [illegible] 
Friday the 9th Sept. 1825 & September term 1825
This day came Michael Hargan and produced in Court and swore to an additional declaration and scedule for the purpose of obtaining the provisions made by an act of congress as a revolutionary pensioner and the court are of opinion that the property named in said Schedule is worth twenty dollars which is ordered to be certified.
I Samuel Haycraft clerk of the Hardin Circuit Court in the state of Kentucky do hereby certify that the foregoing six pages (this inclusive) are truly copies from the records and file of said Court and I do certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid and foregoing schedule is seventy dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at my office in Elizabeth Town on this 6th day of October 1825 and in the fiftiety year of the American Independence.
Saml. Haycraft Clk
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M. Hargan
To Deed of Mortgage
Thomas Slaughter
A copy
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Know all men by these presents that I Michael Hargan of the county of Hardin and state of Kentucky stand justly indebted to Thomas S. Slaughter of the county of Logan and state aforesaid in the just and full sum of eighty three dollars thirty four and a half cents he the said Hargan being desirous to secure the payment thereof to the said Thomas S. Slaughter hath this day granted bargained and sold and do by these presents grant bargain and sell unto the said Thomas S. Slaughter his heirs and assigns forever a certain tract or parcel of land containing two hundred and fifty acres situate lying and being in the said county of Hardin on the water of cedar creek including the mouth thereof and adjoining a tract of land conveyed by said Hargan to Ignatius Spinks it being one half of a tract of land containing five hundred acres conveyed by Thomas S. Slaughter & wife to said Hargan by deed bearing date of 10th day of April 1819 which tract of land was entered surveyed and pattented to John May. To have and to hold the said two hundred and fifty acres of land with all and singular the appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining to him the said Thomas S. Slaughter his heirs and forever. And the said Michael Hargan further covenant and agree to and with the said Thomas S. Slaughter that he will forever defered the aforesaid tract of land from the claim of himself his heirs and asegus forever and from all other person or persons whatsoever claiming the same. But be it clearly understood by and between the parties that if the said Michael Hargan shall well and truly pay unto the said
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Thomas S. Slaughter his heirs and assignes the said sum of eighty three dollars thirty four and one half cents within three months from this date then the foregoing conveyance to be null and void and the land herein mentioned to revert back to the said Michael Hargan otherwise to be and remain in full fored and virtue in law.
In testimony whereof the said Michael Hargan hath hereunto set his hand and affixed his seal the 20th day of October 1819.
Michael Hargan
Witness John L. Helm

State of Kentucky Hardin County Let
I John L. Helm deputy clerk of the County Court for the county afoaresaid do certify that on the day of the date hereof Michael Hargan personally appeared before me in my office and acknowledged the within deed of mortgage to Thomas S. Slaughter to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned and said deed was ordered to record whereupon I have truly recorded the same this 20th day of October 1820.
John L. Helm

A copy teste. Saml. Haycraft Clk
Hardin County Courts
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Michl Hargan
To Copy Deed
Jos, Ben & Danl Hargan
Fee 75 cts
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This Indenture made this twenty first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three between Michael Hargan and Elizabeth his wife of the county of Hardin in the state of Kentucky of the one part and Joseph Hargan Benjamin Hargan and Daniel Hargan of the Hardin county Kentucky of the other part witnesseth that the said Michael and Elizabeth for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred dollars to us in [illegible]  paid hath this day granted bargained and sold and by these presents do grant bargain sell and convey unto the said Joseph Banjamin and Daniel Hargan then heirs and assigns forever a certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the county of Hardin and state aforesaid on the waters of the Rolling fork of Salt river being the remaining half of a five hundred acre tract conveyed to the said Michael by a deed bearing date the 10th day of April 1819 and recorded in Hardin county court clerks office and not by me conveyed to Francis S. Spinks with its appurtenances to have and to hold the said bargained and sold premises unto the said Joseph, Banjamin and Danl. Hargan these heirs and assigns forever to their and their only proper use and behoof forever and the said Michael and Elizabeth their heirs & assigns do
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further covenant and agree to and with the said Joseph Benjamin and Daniel Hargan their heirs and assigns forever. That the aforesaid granted bargained and sold premises unto the said Joseph Benjamin & Daniel Hargan their heirs and assigns from the claim or claims of the said Michael and Elizabeth and their heirs and assigns forever and from the claim or claims of all and every person or persons whatsoever claiming the same in through or from them but not from the claim of any other person. In testimony whereof the said Michael and Elizabeth have hereunto set their hands and seals on the day and date first written. Signed sealed and delivered in presence of
Michael Hargan

1825 Sept 9th acknd & lodgd. for recd. attest J.E. Stone D Clk

A copy teste
Saml Haycraft Clk
Hardin County Court
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The affidavit of Thomas Neill. This affiant states that about February in the year 1819, he sold to Michael hargan a tract of land in Hardin County for which he was to give him four hundred dollars with interest from the date that two or three years after the debt was contracted. The said Michael Hargan being in very indigent circumstances not able to work or labour for support his three sons Joseph, Benjamin, and Daniel Hargan agreed to pay him the said sum of money and did pay him four hundred and seventy nine dollars or thereabouts which discharged the said debt. This affiant states that for several years before this debt was contracted  this affiant and said Hargan was at law for the land, as said Hargan had claimed to have bought it under a different claim, and said Hargan informed me he was unable to carry on the suit and pay the costs and in the end perhaps lose the land. He said Hargan concluded it would be cheaper to him to give four hundred dollars for the land, than to pay the costs of the suit; which is the debt mentioned above and I dismissed the suit and let him have my claim.
This affiant states that said Hargan and his wife are very old and infirm and not able to support themselves without assistance and has not properly sufficient to do the same as he is informed and believes.
And further this affiant sayes not.
Thom. Neill
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The Affidavit of James Crutcher. This afiant states that Thomas Niell let him have the bonds within mentioned & the sons of Michael Hargan paid him the amt of the bond within mentioned & that Thomas Neil informed this afiant that the bonds were given by his sons for the payment of the land within mentioned.
Jas Crutcher

Kentucky Hardin county S.S.
This day Thomas Neill & James Crutcher personally appeared before me John Morris Justice of the peace in and for the county of Hardin & state of Kentucky & made oath that what was contained in the within & foregoing affidavits is just & true to best of their knowledge given under my hand the 2nd day July 1825.
John Morris J.P.H.C.
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The affiant of Horatio G. Wintersmith. This affiant states that Michael Hargan left in his hands about fifty dollars part his former pension to go to pay off the debt he said Hargan owed Slaughter for his land for which said Hargan gave a mortgage the amount of the mortgage was eighty odd dollars with interest and when he stopped drawing his pension, the said Hargans three sons, towit Joseph Benjn and Daniel Hargan paid the balance of said eighty odd dollars with interest to the best of this affiants recollection & this affiant paid Slaughter and further saith not.
HG Wintersmith 

Kentucky Hardin County ss
This day HG Wintersmith personly appear before John Morris a Justice of the Peace for Hardin County State of Kentucky serves [illegible]  oath the above statement is correct to the best of his recolection. Elisobeth Town 2 July 1825
John Morris H.P.H.C.
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The affidavit of Benjamin Helm. This affiant states that he acted as the agent of Thomas S. Slaughter of Logan County ever since the year 1811 or 1812. That some time before that Michael Hargan purchased from Slaughter a tract of land in Hardin County containing five hundred  acres for the sum of five hundred dollars. That Hargan not being able to pay for it he sold 250 acres thereof to one Ignatius Spinks for five hundred dollars and after he had paid part of the same, this affiant understood that, on account of his not being able to pay the balance, he sold the said 250 acres to his son Francis S. Spinks who paid the balance and this affiant states that he received from said Ignatius & Francis S. Spinks the whole or greater part of the said five hundred dollars which went to and was received by Slaughter from this affiant as part discharge of the debt that Hargan owed Slaughter. This affiant states that after Slaughter had received all, but something like ninety dollars, of his purchase money he conveyed the said 500 acres to said Hargan and took a mortgage from Hargan to secure said ninety dollars on 250 acres thereof and Hargan conveyed the other 250 acres to Francis S. Spinks.
This affiant knows that Michael Hargan was not able to pay the money for the land he bought of Slaughter as he was considerably in debt and I have understood his son or sons had to pay his debts and take his property and further saith not.
Ben Helm
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Hardin County Set
Personally came before me a justice of the peace in & for said county Benjamin Helm and made oath that the facts stated in the within affidavit are true to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Given under my hand this 6th day of September 1825.
Saml Martin JPHC

Ben Helms
Affidavit
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The affidavit of Francis S. Spinks. This affiant states that some time about the year 1811 his father Ignatius Spinks purchased of Michael Hargan two hundred and fifty acres of land in Hardin County for which he was to pay five hundred dollars in annual payments of about seventy five dollars. Said land being part of a 500 acres survey which said Hargan purchased of Thomas S. Slaughter. That the said Ignaius Spinks paid up all the purchase money except about one hundred and forty dollars some time previous to the time this affiant bought the same from him which was in the year 1819 and when the affiant bought the same he paid that balance to Benjamin Helm, which he understood was in part pay for the 500 acres which Hargan purchased of Slaughter said Helm being the then agent of Slaughter. And said Hargan made this affiant a deed for said 250 acres of land. This affiant also acted as the agent of his father before he purchased and part of the purchase money which his father owed Hargan he this affiant paid to Benjamin Helm, as agent of his father aforesaid. And further sayeth not.
Franics S. Spknks
23 August 1825

The above affidavit of Francis S. Spinks was sworn to before me by said Spinks this 23d August 1825. Given under my hand as a Justice of the peace in & for Hardin County Kentucky.
Green Adams JPHC
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Kentucky, Hardin County Set.
I Samuel Haycraft Clerk of the County Court in & for the County aforesaid do certify that the deeds from Thomas S. Slaughter and wife to Michael Hargan and from Michael Hargan & wife to Francis S. Spinks and the mortgage from Michael Hargan to Thomas S. Slaughter, hereto annexed are truly copies from the records of the Hardin County Court in the state aforesaid. I do further certify that the deed from Michael Hargan, to Joseph, Benjamin, and Daniel Hargan, also hereto annexed is truly  copies from the original now remaining in my office & lodged for record and not recorded because the state tax on it is not paid. I do also certify that John Morris Esquire, (whose name and signature appears to the certificates on the affidavits Thomas Neill, James Crutcher and Horatio G. Wintersmith) Samuel Martin Esqr. (whose signature appears to the certificate on the affidavit of Benjamin Helm) and Green Adams Esqr. (who signature appears to the certificate on the affidavit of Francis S. Spinks) are Justices of the peace in & for the county of Hardin duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all their official acts as such as well out of this state as in it. The aforesaid affidavits are hereto annexed. In testamony whereof I have
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hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at my office in Elizabeth town this 12th day of October 1825 and in the fiftieth year of American Independance.
Saml. Haycraft Clk
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Application of Michael Hargan

Michael Hargan
Declaration
15626
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I Samuel Haycraft clerk of the court of Hardin County in the state of Kentucky do hereby certify tht the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the applicaiton of Michael Hargan for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal office this 16th day of October 1832.
Saml Haycraft Clk
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8461
Kentucky
Elizabeth Hargan widow of Michael Hargan who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 13th December 1849 of Hardin Co. in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Wilson of the regt. commanded by Col. DeHoss in the Pa. line for 14 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 13th December 1840.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of June 1844 and sent to C. H. Trabue, Frankfort, Ken.

Total amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book D, Vol. 1, Page 369.

No. act 3 Mar. 43 - 6173
Repd.
No. 109
Ap. 16th 1845
Certife issd under Joint Res. of 23
Jany 1845 at $46.66 per anum.
Com [illegible]  4th March 1836 & ending on 13 Dec. 1840 & sent to S.F.J. Trabue Esq, Frankfort Kenty.
Repd.
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10,788
Kentucky
Michael Hargan of Hardin Coy. in the state of Kentucky who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel De Hos of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of 1 year

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 19 of September 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of May 1818 and sent to Alfred Metcalf, Esqr. Bardstown, Ky.

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 5 12.4/30.31 44.23
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48.00
$92.23
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

Not entitled
Hardin County

Notification sent January 8, 1821 to Benjamin Hardin H. of Reps United States
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State of Kentucy, Hardin County Set
On this the 5th day of July 1844 personally appeared before me John Swank an acting magistrate in & for the county and state aforsaid Mr. Elizabeth Hargan a resident of the county and state aforsaid age about sevent;y eight or nine year who after being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the 3d day of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of certain persons who served in the Revolutionary War towit. That she is the widow of Michael Hargan deceased late of the county of Hardin who was a soldier of the malitia of Virginia in the Army of the Revolution & served many months in actual service on account of which he was allowed a pension under the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832 at the rate of $46.66 per annum. Declarant has made application for a pension under the act of congress passed 7th July 1838 at Certificate for which issued on the 8th June 1844 entitling her to [illegible] a small amount only which certtificate is now in her possession. She further declars that she is still a widow, never having intermarried since the death of her said husband. Sworn to & subscribed before me on the day and year aforsaid.
John Swank JP
Elizabeth Hargan - X her mark

I the Just. subscribed magistrate certify that the above de
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larant is personally known to me and know to be the widow of Michael Hargan deceased late of Hardin Co who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the act 7th Mar 1832 at the rate of $46.66 per annum.  [illegible] is the identical widow who has a certificate of pension in her possession which [illegible] to war office 8th June 1844.  She is a Lady of respectability and to all of her statements the fullest faith and credit are due.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this the 5th day of July 1844.
John Swank J.P.

State of Kentucky
Hardin County Sct
I Samuel Haycraft Clerk of the court of Hardin County certify that John Swank above named is an acting magistrate in and for the County and state aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this the 6th day of July 1844.
Saml Haycraft Clk
Hardin County Court
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State of Kentucky
Hardin County Sct
On this the 5th day of July 1`844 Personally appears before me John Swank an acting magistrate in & for the county and state aforesaid Mrs Elizabeth Hargan a resident of the county of Hardin state of Kentucky aged about seventy eight or nine years who after being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed 17th day of June 1844 Entitled "An act to continue the Pensions of certain Widows"
To wit  That she is the widow of Michael Hargan deceased late of the County of Hardin State of Kentucky who was a soldier in the malitia of Virginia in the Army of the Revolution and served some length of time in actual service on account of which he was allowed a Pension under the act of Congress passed the 7th day of June 1832 at the rate of $46.66 per annum.  That she made a declaration under the act of Congress passed the 7th day of July 1838 in order to obtain a Pension & [illegible] necessary proof in support of her right thereto.  That on the 8th day of June 1844 a certificate of Pension issued from the War Department authorising her to receive pay only from the 13th Decr. 1840 to the 4th March 1841 in conformity with the act 7th July 1838, which certificate is now in her possession.  For the facts necessary in the investigation of her claim she will respectfully ask [illegible] to refer to the evidence contained in the papers constituting the matter of the application of her said husband for a pension received by him - and likewise the evidence contained in the papers comprising the matter of her application for the Pension desired.
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She further declares that she is still the widow of Michael Hargan deceased never having intermarried since his death & now prays that her claim may be allowed & the certificate be enclosed to C.H. Trabue Esq her attorney of Frankfort Ky.
Elizabeth Hargan  x her mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year aforesaid.
John Swank JP.

And I the Inst subscribed magistrate certify that the above declarant is personally known to me and know to be the widow of Michael Hargan deceased late of Hardin Co Ky who was  Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832 at the rate of $46.66 per annum.  And she now has in her possession a certificate which issued from the war Department on the 8th June in conformity with the act 7th June 1838 entitling her to receive a Pension from 13th Decr 1840 to 4th March 1841 at the rate of $46.66 per annum.  She is a lady of respectability & to all of her statements the fullest faith and credit are due
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this the 5 day of July 1844.
John Swank JP.
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[STAMP]
Martinsburg VA
July 14

25

Mr. C.H. Trabue
Frankfort, Kentucky

Single Sheet.

9416 Eliz'h Hargan
Kentucky
Act July 7th 38
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Berkeley Ss:
Know all men by these presents that we Michael Hargan & Benjamin Wallingsford, are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency Beverly Randolph Esqr. Governor of Virginia, in the just and full sum of Fifty pounds, current money, to be paid to the said Governor or his successor, to the which payments well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves our heirs executors and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals and dated this third day of August seventeen hundred and ninety one.
The condition of the above obligation is such, that whereas a marriage is suddenly intended to be solemnized between the above bound Michael Hargan and Elizabeth Wallingsford, bot of this County, Now if there should be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage, then the above obligation to be void, else to remain in full force and virtue in law.
Michael Hargan [handwritten seal]
Benjamin Wallinsford B his mark [handwritten seal}
Sealed and delivered in presence of
Lenkin Peddicouse

I Harrison Waite Clerk of the County Court of Berkeley, Virginia, do certify, that the above is a true copy from the original on file in the Clerks Office of said Court, and that the said bond is the only evidence to be found among the records and papers of said Court in relation to the marriage of of Michael Hargan to Elizabeth Wallingsford.
Teste.
Harrison Waite CBC
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Michael Hargan's
Certificate
Private
Col. Dehoss Regiment
Pennsylvania Line
1776-1 year


Admitted
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State of Kentucky
Hardin County and Circuit Ss
On this seventeenth day of September 1818, before me Alfred Metcalf circuit Judge in & for the fifth judicial district of Kentucky & sole judge of the Hardin circuit court in said district personally appeared Michael Hargan aged sixty three years resident in the circuit aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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 the said Michael Hargan enlisted at Hagerstown in the State of Maryland early in the year 1776 in the company of riflemen commanded by Capt. John Nelson in the first regiment of the Pennsylvania line commanded by Col Dehoss;  and continued to serve in said corps until April 1777 when he was regularly discharged by said Capt. Nelson at Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania and his discharge is hereunto annexed;  that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support;  that he has never been allowed any pension under any law of the United States;  and that he has no other evidence in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day & year aforesaid.
Alfred Metcalf
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I Alfred Metcalf Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Michael Hargan did serve in the revolutionary war for the term of one year, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy on the continental establishment in continued service, and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support;  and I now transmit the testimony and proceedings taken & had before me to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant to the aforementioned act of congress.
Given under my hand this 19th day of September 1818
Alfred Metcalf

I, Alfred Metcalf, Judge as aforesaid do further certify that this day Matthew Rust made oath before me that he is acquainted with the said Michael Hargan and his circumstances;  that the said Hargan is unable from age & infirmity to labour hard & has not sufficient property to support himself comfortably without labour.  Given under my hand this 19th day of September 1818
Alfred Metcalf
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I Samuel Haycraft Jr. Clerk of the Hardin Circuit Court in the State of Kentucky do certify that Alfred Metcalf whose signature appears to the foregoing certificates was at the time of signing the same and still is Circuit Judge in and for the fifth Judicial District of the State of Kentucky and sole Judge of the Hardin Circuit Court in said District, duly appointed and qualified as such, and that due faith and credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts as such, as well in, Courts of Justice as also where
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Circuit at my Office in Elizabeth Town on the 19th day of September 1818 and 27th year of the Commonwealth.
Saml. Haycraft Jr.
[SEAL]

I Alfred Metcalf Circuit Judge in and for the fifth Judicial District of the State of Kentucky and sole Judge of the Hardin Circuit Court in said District do certify that Samuel Haycraft Jr. whose signature appears to the above certificate was at the time of signing the same and still is Clerk of the said Hardin Circuit Court duly appointed and qualified as such  and that his certificate is in due form of law and that full faith and credit should be attached thereto.  Given under my hand this 19th day of September 1818
Alfred Metcalf
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Michl. Hargan
To } Copy
       Deed
Francis L Spinks

Fee 75 cents
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This Indenture made this twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Nineteen.
Between Michael Hargan and Elizabeth his wife of the County of Hardin and state of Kentucky of the one part, and Francis L. Spinks of the same county and state of the others part witnesseth that the said Michael Hargan and Elizabeth his wife for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred Dollars to them in hand paid by the said Francis L. Spinks at or before signing sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged the said Michael Hargan hath this day granted bargained and sold and do by these presents grant bargain and sell unto the said Francis L. Spinks his heirs and assigns a certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the said County of Hardin on the waters of the Rolling fork of Salt river containing Two hundred and fifty acres being part of a survey entered surveyed and pattented in the name of John May containing five hundred acres and lying on the South side of the Rolling fork which said five hundred acres was conveyed to said Michael Hargan by Thomas L. Slaughter by deed bearing date the 10th day of April 1819. which two hundred and fifty acres is to be taken off the upper end.
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of the said five hundred acres bounded as follows to wit  Beginning at a sugartree and beech being the second corner from the Beginning of the original survey thence North twenty degrees East one hundred and sixty poles to a white oak thence South sixty two degrees East three hundred poles to a white walnut black walnut and sugartree thence South twenty degrees West one hundred and twenty to a beech thence North Seventy degrees West two hundred and eighty poles to the Beginning
To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with all and singular the appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining to him the said Francis L. Spinks his heirs and assigns forever.  And the said Michael Hargan doth hereby covenant and agree to and with the said Francis L Spinks his heirs and assigns forever that he will warrant and defend the said tract or parcel of land from themselves their heirs and from every person or persons claiming under them with this express condition that if the said Francis L Spinks should loose the land or any part thereof by a better claim that then the said Michael Hargan and Elizabeth his wife shall refund to the said Francis L Spinks in the same proportion to what
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the said Spinks has paid the said Hargan for so much as may be lost
In Testimony whereof the said Michael Hargan and Elizabeth his wife have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals the day and year first above written
Michael Hargan [handwritten seal]
Allezbath Hargan [handwritten seal]

State of Kentucky 
Hardin County Sct
I Samuel Harcraft Jr. Clerk of the County Court for the county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that on the day of the date hereof Michael Hargan and Elizabeth his wife personally appeared before me in my office and acknowledged the within Indenture or deed of bargain and sale to Francis L Spinks to be their act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned  she the said Elizabeth being at the same time examined by me separate and apart from her said husband said she freely and voluntarily relinquished her right of Dower which she has or may have in and to the land hereby conveyed and that she done the same without the fears threats or compulsions of her said husband and that she was willing the same should be recorded whereupon I have truly recorded the same this 20th day of October 1819
Saml. Haycraft Jr.
A copy 
Test
Saml Haycraft Clk
Hardin County Court Ky