Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4658, James Harris, New York
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New York
Harris, James
R. 4658
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In the Matters of Pension Claims of James Harris
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress papers June 7th 1832
State of New York}
Otsego County} Ss.
On this 19th day of February1833 personally appeared before James C Walworth Esqr one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Otsego it being a court of record James Harris a resident of the town of New Lisbon in said county of Otsego and State of New York aged Eighty three years last July who being duly sworn according to law Deposeth [crossed out] and doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benafit [sic] of the act of Congress papers June 7th 1833
That he was born in the town of Bedford in the County of Westchester and State of New York in the year 1749 in the month of July that he first entered the service of the United States in the year 1776 in the month of August at the town of Bedford in the County of Westchester and State of New York he volunteered in to the company of Captain Flemings and Col David McDaniels Regiment of state Militia and was mustered and appointed first Sergant [sic] in said company and was marched soon after to the Battle at White Plains but did not arrive then until a few hours after this Battle was ordered and was Stationed on East Shore [underlined] of the Hudson River ^[insert] a garding [sic] the inhabitants ^[insert] against Brittish [sic] and Tories Scouting parties until late in the fall
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and was then Marched Back to Bedford and verbally discharged by Col. McDaniel.
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Then again was called out in the [illegible crossed out] year 1777 as first Sergant [sic] in the same Captain Fleming Company and kept Gard [sic] forces much as three months or more but from his extreme old age and the 
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consequent loss of memory he cannot state all the particulars and was verbally discharged by his captain Fleming 
Then again in the in the [repetitive] year 1778 or 1779 he served in Captain Flemings Company of State Militia and he served as a sergant [sic] for 4 or 5 
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months a keeping Gard [sic] to prevent the Brittish [sic] pandering parties from comeing [sic] up from New York City [underlined] and Kings Bridges [underlined] and pandering the inhabitants at the town of North Castle they took a small party of the enemies pandering party prisoners there was nine of them and put them into Westchester County Jail and this Declarant obtained from them for his share a good Musket & Catridg [sic] Box & Bayanette and his Captain afterward claimed the musket wrongfully [illegible crossed out] took it from him
Then again in the year 1780 at the town of Bedford in aforesaid he was frequently called out as a Sergant [sic] in the Company of Captain Fleming and served for [illegible] of not less than four months [underlined] a Garding [sic] the shores of Hudson River from the incursion
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of Enemy Scouting and pandering parties from bording [sic] [illegible crossed out] from the Brittish [sic] Vessels then in that River & the [?] Boys from stealing the cattle from the inhabitants
Then again in the year ^[insert] 1781 [illegible crossed out] served in the same company and on the same duty for a term of ^[inset] not less than three months and was render the same Officers and was discharged and returned home
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he then [?] into the town of Stephentown in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York [illegible crossed out]
then again in the year 1782 he in the town of Stephentown aforesaid [illegible crossed out] he volunteered into Captain John M Scamerhorns [Schermerhorn] company and Col. Abraham Scamerhorn Regiment of New York State Militia as a private and marched through Albany and Schenectady to Fort Hunter and Fort [?] on the Mohawk River had a Skirmish with the and Indians took some Prisoners and some property and this Deponent had five Brittish [sic] ^[insert] officers hats [underlined] and feather [underlined] for his share and took it [illegible crossed out] home with him this service was not less than five months [underlined] and was then verbally discharged by his Captain and 
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then returned home
and that since the war he has lived in the town of [illegible crossed out] Nassau formerly Stephentown
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in the County of Rensselaer and for 16 years past he has lived in town New Lisbon in the County of Otsego where ne now resides
And that he never received a written discharge from any officer and never served as a substitute for any other person
and that he knows of no documentary evidence to prove his service [by crossed out] nor no living witness except his daughter Elizabeth Marks
and that there is No Clergyman residing in his Neighborhood [illegible crossed out] and that he from bodily infermaties [sic] is unable to attend the Courts and that Salmon [Solomon] Davis and [illegible crossed out] Bathiah [Bethiah] Church are his Neighbors and can testify to his general character for truth and veracity and their belief of his services in Revolutionary War in the Neighborhood where he resides
He this Deponent hereby Relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity Except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Rolls of the agency of any states
And that he has a record of his age in his Bible in his [illegible crossed out] possession
And he further saith from old age and the consequent loss of memory
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he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his [illegible crossed out] Service but according to the best of his [illegible crossed out] recollection he served for not less than the periods mentioned before For one year and five months I ^[insert] served as a Sergant [sic] for [illegible crossed out] Five . - Months I ^[insert] served as a private and for Such services I claim Pension 
James Harris [signature]
Subscribed and sworn this 19th day of February 1833 Before me}
James C Walworth a judge of Otsego County Courts - }

We Salmon [Solomon] Davis are residents at the town of New Lisbon in County of Otsego and State of New York and Bathiah [Bethiah] Church of the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Harris who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be Eighty three years of age that he is Refuted ^[insert] and believed in the Neighborhood where he resides to have been a Revolutionary Soldier and that we concur in that opinion Subscribed and Sworn the day and year aforesaid
Solomon Davis [signature]
Bethiah Church [signature]
Before me James C Walworth a Judge of Otsego County
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Otsego County Ss.

I the judge mentioned in the foregoing Declaration do hereby declare my opinion after the investigations 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 that he from bodily infirmities is unable to attend the Courts - -
And I the said Judge do further certify and declare that I am well acquainted with Solomon Davis Esqr and Bethiah Church who have signed the foregoing Certificates are Residents of the town New Lisbon in the said county and that they are credible persons and that they are entitled to full credit in their statements
James C Walworth a Judge of Otsego County Courts
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New York
Revo
James Harris
Suspended
Let. J C Walworth k
Nov. 1833

4658

Act 7 June '32
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Authority
from 
Mrs Charlotte Davis
daughter
of James Harris
of New York
Act June 7. 1832
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Garrattsville Oct 12 1855.
Otsego County [?]
Dr Sir
I request you to make an examination into the case of an Application for pension in right of my father James Harris (deceased) and make the requisite examinations in the Public Offices ____ and prosecute [and prosecute [repetitive] crossed out] any claim which his children may have in his right.
I am Respectfully &c
Isaac N Coffin Esq
Washington D. C.

Charlotte Davis [signature]
I concur with my wife who has signed above.
Solomon Davis
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Act of July 14, 1862, and March 8, 1878. [crossed out]

4658
James Harris
REJECTED [stamped]
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James Harris
Returned to this claim to be sent to James C Walworth
Burlington Otsego County NY
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State of New York
Otsego County S.s.
On this 5th day July 1833 personally appeared before me the under Signed Judge Elizabeth Marks aged fifty eight years a resident of the town of Cherry Vally [sic] in the said being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith she is the Daughter of James Harris a resident of the town of New Lisbon in said county that has subscribed and sworn to the forgoing [sic] Declaration that in the fall of the year of [the year [repetitive] crossed out] 1780 that her father James Harris returned home from the [?] in Captain Flemings Company late in the fall and that he [?] some time but at that time he was so going she cannot recollect how long 
then in that winter her father marched [underlined] into the County of Rensselaer [underlined] and that in the summer after she recollects that her father went out again in the Army to the Westward or Northern in Captain Schammerhorn's [Schermerhorn] [Reg crossed out] Company and was gone most if not all the season and she recollects this service more particular for this reason that her Mother highered [sic] a man to cradle [illegible crossed out] her grain and then sawed and bound it [illegible crossed out] herself then again in the next year she well recollects further father was again drafted out in
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the same Captain [illegible crossed out] Schamerhorns [Schermerhorn] Company and that it was then said that he had gone west of the Hudson River to fight the Indians [underlined] and that she well recollects that her father returned home late in the fall and brought home a fair Military Hat [underlined] and feather that was taken from a Brittish [sic] Officer that they took a prisoner and that the said hat and feather was retained in the family for several years and that previous to that time he had brought home a Catridge [sic] Box [underlined] and Bayonet [underlined] that he had taken from the Enemy and she well reccollects [sic] that at the time her father lived in the town of Bedford it was said he [illegible crossed out] served in the Army as a Sergant [sic]
And that her father from bodily infirmities is unable to attend the courts
Elizabeth Marks [signature]
Subscribed and Sworn this 5th day of July 1833 Before me James C Walworth a}
Judge of Otesgo County Courts}
I Certify that I am well acquainted with Elizabeth Marks that has subscribed and sworn to the above Affidavits that she is a Credible person and Entitled to full credit in her statement
James C Walworth a Judge of Otsego County
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State of New York}
Otsego County Ss}
I Horace Lathrop Clerk of the said county do certify that James C. Walworth Esqr before whom the preceding affidavits of Elizabeth Marks and James Harris purport to have been sworn, was at the date of the same one of the Judges of our court of Common Pleas in & for our County of Otsego and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits and also to the Certificates to the same annexed to be his proper hand writing & signatures
Witness my hand & seal of office this 3rd day of September 1833 ~
Horace Lathrop 
By G. A. C. Luce Deputy