Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4622 1\2, Elijah Harmon, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass.

Harmon, Elijah
or Harman
Rebecca

NUMBER
R.4622 1/2

CONTENTS
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Elijah Harmon and Rebecca Clark was
maried [married] in Sunderland November the 28 1782
There are three children there was no
executor

My father died April 2 1844
Mother died March 31 1846
The time of application was in Jan 1845
on the time her wrightings [illegible] 
the time the pension was received
was March 4 1847 I think
Reuben Scott
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I Electa Scott solemnly swear that
I am the daughter of Elijah Harmon, who
was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, that
I think he enlisted from the town Sunderland
in the State of Massachusetts and was in the Company of Captain Aggippe Wells, Col. Samuel 
Brewer's Regiment. Also out in Capt. Elihu Lyman's Company, Lieut. David Dickinson -- that
I think the officers were from Deerfield, Mass.
that he was out at different times as she has understood from her father. That died May 1830. 
his widow died in January 1842 that I desire
to have your records of Revolutionary service searched for evidence in the foregoing case.
Electa Scott

Sworn to and subscribed this third day of January
1840
Before me John Tobez, Justice of the Peace
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and affixed the seal of the said
court this 16th day of May AD 1848
Geo Grunnell Regr [register] of Probate

13693
Rebecca Harman decd
wd of Elijah
Mass
Act 7 July 1838
married 1782
Electa Scott [struck thru]
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I Elijah Harmon was Born in Novbr 30 1751
Rebekah Harmon his wife was Born April 11 1763
Elijah Harmon & his wife was married Novbr 28 1782
Enos Harmon was Born October 6 1783
Irena Harmon was Born February 21 1785
Electa Harmon was Born June 1 1787
Levi Harmon was Born December 3 1788
Elijah Harmon was Born September 4 1795
Gaius Harmon was Born November 26 1799
Rebekah Harmon was Born January 8 1801
Rebekah Scott was married April 10 1828
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin SS Probate Court Charlemont May 16 1848
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been adduced before this court to show
that Rebecca Harmon, widow of Elijah
Harmon, a revolutionary soldier died on 
the twenty first day of January eighteen hundred and forty two, that Electa Scott, Enos Harmon and Rebecca Scott are the only surviving children of the said Rebecca Harmon, and that the said Elijah Harmon died in May AD 1830

And it is further certified that the leaf 
purporting to be the family record of the marriage of Elijah & Rebecca Harmon, herewith enclosed was taken from their family Bible by this Court.
I also certify that it was proved as aforesaid by credible witnesses that the entries on the leaf aforesaid were in the handwriting of Elijah Harmon aforesaid.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and have caused the seal of the said court to be affixed this Sixteenth day of May AD 1848
R.E. Newcomb Judge of Probate
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Declaration
State of Massachusetts
County of Franklin

On this sixteenth day of 
May 1840 before the Court of Probate in and
for said County personally appeared Electa Scott and after being sworn in due form of law, declared that she is the daughter of Elijah Harman and Rebecca Harman -- that the said Elijah Harman was a Revolutionary soldier -- that he was out at different times in Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut under Captain Agrippa Wells, and other officers. -- that he died on the ninth day of May 1830 -- that he was married to Rebecca Clark November 28th 1782 -- that said Rebecca, wife of the said Elijah Harman died on the twenty first day of January eighteen hundred and forty two and that the only children now living of the said Rebecca Harman, widow of the said Elijah Harman are Electa Scott, formerly Electa Harman, Enos Harman and Rebecca Scott, wife of Luther Scott, formerly Rebecca Harman -- that they ask for the amount of pension to which their mother was entitled under the act of 7th of July 1838, from 4th of March 1836 to 4th of March 1841
Electa Scott

Franklin May 16 1842
Subscribed & sworn to in open court
[Before?] Richard E. Newcomb Jud. Prob.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin SS I Geo. Grunnell Register of the Court of Probate in said County certify that the foregoing proceedings were in open court --that R.E. Newcomb is the Judge of said Court and that his signature above is official and genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston,
January 25, 1848
I hereby certify, that, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Elijah Harmon is borne upon a Muster Roll of Capt Silas Fowler's Company from Southwick, as a private from April 21 1775, 21 days. Upon a Mileage roll of Capt. Agrippa Well's Company in Col. Samuel Brewer's Regt that served at Ticonderoga 3 months in the year 1776, beginning September the 5th 100 miles travel, this Roll was sworn to at Deerfield in the County of Hampshire, December 10 1777. Upon a Pay Roll of Capt. Caleb Montague's Company in Col. Williams's Regt., as a corporal from July 11 to August 12 1777 including allowance of 6 days to return home. 1 month & 9 days. Said Capt Montague belonged to the County of Hampshire. Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Electa Lyman's Company in Col. Elisha Porter's Regt. from the County
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of Hampshire for service at New London Conn [Connecticut], as a Corporal from July 25 to August 31 1779 including allowance of 5 days for travel, 1 month and 12 days. 
Name not found upon any roll with that of David Dickinson mentioned in the annexed application.
The proceeding is all the evidence of service of any one of the name shown by the military records in this Department. 

And I further certify, that, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Commonwealth the date above written 
W B Calham
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Pension Office
August 2 1848

I have the honor to inform you that the papers in the case of Rebecca Harman decd wid of Elijah Harman have been examined and filed under the Act of 7 July 1838.
It appears from the application to the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for evidence of the service of my Harman husband that he belonged to Sunderland, no service is found credited to Elijah Harman from that town nor is it at all clear that the several [?] referred to in the Secretary's certificate were rendered by the same individual. It will be necessary therefore for the parties interested not only to identify Mrs. Harman's husband with the Elijah Harman with the soldier of Capt Well's Company of Col [Brewer's?] regiment but it must be shown that all the service credited in the records to this name was
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rendered by the same individual as the balance [should any one term be left out] would not amount to 6 months

The date of the marriage is established but the particular day on which Mrs. Harmon [died] as well as that of her husband should be proven by the affidavits of the undertaker or minister [?] of her also at their funerals or the physician who attended them in their last [?] 

August 2 48

Hon D.P. King
House of Rep
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W 12693
Rebecca Harman
Mass
Let. to Hon D.P. King
August 2 '48
4622 1/2
Act 7 July 1838
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REJECTED
4622 1/2
Rebecca Harman
Service: wid of Elijah