Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18014, Edward Harvin, Md.
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(3---1776)

SERVICE   [star]      NUMBER

MD.        Harvin, Edward      S. 18014

carded
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Virginia 23874
Edward Harvin
of Louden in the State of Va
who was a Pr: Ca; in the [blank] commanded 
by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded
by Col. Stone in the Va (crossed out)  Md
line for 2 years _
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Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of 100 Dollars  "   "  Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834
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Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of April, 1824 and [illegible]
Sanders_ Present. ---------
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar: 34         300-
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept "  50-
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                                                        $350.          
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{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7,1832}
Recorded by Nath. Rice_Clerk
Book C Vol. 61/2 Page 18-
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18.014
INVALID.
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File No. 18.014
Edward Harvin
Pri    Rev War
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Act:  June 7" 32
Index:--Vol. 1, Page 166

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Vertical writing [illegible] C. Binns
[illegible] Cty
N 25276
Edward Harvin
Va
admit as paid
Card 2 yr $100
Hon Ea Lucas
HR
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Loudoun County State of Virginia} SS
On the 14th day of October 1833 personally appeared in Court of the county aforsaid now sitting, Edward Harvin, resident of said County and state. aged about seventy five years nine months , who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832.
That he enlisted in the service of the United States, as a private under Capt McPherson, April 10 1776, and swore in under Colo Stone, who gave him his bounty, that he did at the time reside in the County of Charles and State of Maryland, he joined the army at the Buttermilk Falls in New Jersey , under the command of Genl George Washington, from thence, the army marched to Morris Town, where the army took up winter quarters, in the spring the army, then under the command of Genl Gates marched to the hed of Elk, where he took shipping and went to Petersburg in Va. from thence he marched to Hillsborough in North Carolina, from thence to Hines Creek, from then to [illegible] farms, where he remained eleven Days, from thence to the Cowpens where he fought under Genl Morgan (he further states, that the first battle he fought after joining the army was at Camden under Genl Gates, where the Americans were defeated) from the cowpens this Army under Genl Morgan, marched to pipe Creek, from thence under Morgan, to Eutaw Springs, on our march to Eutaw Springs, he joined the main army under Genl Green, he fought at the Eutaw Springs under Genl Green, from thence he marched to Cane Creek where they took up winter quarters, in the spring, the Army under Genl Green marched to Guilford Court house, where he fought under Genl Green, and received two wounds one in the left hip, the other in the Small of the back.  From the court house, he marched by Ruglers
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Mills to Camden, under Genl Green, were he fought and received a wound with a British Spoontoon by a British officer, and that he shot and killed the officer, he being on the Scouting party.  He further states that he remained in the army under Genl Green until the termination of the revolution, when he was discharged at Annappolis Md, and further that he does not recollect the time he was discharged and he further declares he got no discharge, and further that his name was on Capt Francis Ware's roll, which was burnt at Haverdigrass, during the last war. with many other papers, he further states that he fought in all the above battles, but is not certain that they are put down in the regular order in which they actually occured, his memory not serving him sufficiently to give the battles in regular order, he further states that after, recieving his bounty, he received while in Petersburg, fifty Dollars in Continental money, and at Annapolis when dismissed Forty Dollars in good money, which is all he ever received for his servises, and he further states, that he served not less than Five years in the service of the United States.  He further declairs that there is no clergyman living in the neighborhood, nor is there any clergyman with who he is acquainted to whom he could apply for a certificate, and further that he has no record of his age but believes that he was Born in the year 1757  And he further declairs that he knows of no person now living by whom he can prove his service.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declairs that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any state,
his
Edward X Harvin
mark
Sworn to and Subscribed this day and year aforesaid before the court
W. E. Wrey
Presiding Justice of the Peace
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We Samuel N Galleher and John Simpson residing in the County of Loudoun and State of virginia, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Edward Harvin, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy Five years nine months old; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution. and that we concur in that opinion.  Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before the court.
Samual N Galleher
John Simpson

And the said court do hereby declair their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed  by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.  And the court further certifies that Samuel N Galliher and John Simpson who has signed the preceding certificate, is residents in the county of Loudoun and State of virginia, and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Answer to the 1st Question by the court
I was born in Montgomery county Md. and believe I was born in the year 1757
2nd Question.  I have no record of my age.
3rd Question.  I was living in Charles County Md when called in the service and have lived partly in Maryland and the balance of the time to [illegible] Virginia since the Revolutionary War and am now living in Loudoun County Va.
Answer to the 4 Question by the Court
I enlisted.
Answer to the 5 Question by the court
I was under Colo Jno Stewart & Colo Ware
6th I never got a Discharge
7th John Simpson and Saml Galleher
W. E. Wrey
Presiding Justice 
of the Peace
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Loudoun County
I Charles Binns clerk
of the court of Loudoun do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Edward Harvin for a pension

In testimony whereof I have
here unto set my hand and seal
of office the 14th day of Oct
In 1833
C. Binns, Clk
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Additional evidence in 
support of the claim of 
Edward Harvin Va
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W. Gunnell Saunders
Present
Mount G. Mead
Loudoun Co
Va
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Loudoun County Virginia to wit
This day personally appeared before me xJohn Simpsonx Justice of the peace for the county of Loudoun and state of virginia, John Richardson of the county and State aforesaid, and made oath in due form of Law, that he was a soldier of the revolution and was attached to Colo Lee's Legion of Horse, and that he is now on the pension role, and that he knew Edward Harvin in the army of the Revolution and that they fought together in the Battle of Guilford Court House and the Eautaw Springs, and that the Said Harvin, was wounded, as well as himself, at the Eutaw Springs.  and that he recollects hearing the name of Edward Harvin, called in time of the revolutionary war by the proper officers appointed to call the roll.  And that the Said Edward Harvin, is the same that is named in the declaration sent to the pension office from this county.  after the Battle of the Eutaw Springs in consequence of my wounds I obtained a permit to go home and know nothing more in reqard to the further time the Said Harvin Served.
Given under my hand this 31st day of March 
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1834
John Simpson J.P.
State of Virginia
Loudoun County} SS
      I Charles Binns Clerk of the Court of Loudoun County,  certify that John Simpson is a Magistrate as above & that the foregoing Signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of Office, & subscribed my name, the 5th day of April in the Year 1834
       C Binns
clerk of the Court of 
Loudoun County
[illegible] which I have received and in which I   [illegible] the above named witness John Richardson is entitled to full credit. 
C. T. Mercer, M. C.
April 17th 1834