Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2748, Harmy Davis, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Davis, Harry Bärna Bärna
R. 2748
CONTENTS
Mehitable

15,099 R New York
Harvey Davis
of Oneida County in the state of N. York who was a Private in the regiment commanded Colonel Van Cortlandt of the New York line, for the term of Four Years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 14 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of Sep 1819 and sent to Morris Schulten Utica New York
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1819 133.00 Semi-ann. all'ce ending Mar. 1820 48.00 16 Mo 21/30 $181.00
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Let to J. Baile Dec 22, 1838
Heirs of David Davis, Oneida Co. N.Y. Pension $18.00 per month to commence Mar 1818

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Army Davis..
Volunt
New York line - Col Van Bortland Rm
1777 - 4 yrs
Prof. Col. Collins Capt. P.M. - Scratched 11 Feb 80
Hamilton

State of New York Oneida County ss:
Harvey Davis - being sworn saith that he is a resident of the County of Oneida and State of New York - that he is Fifty Eight. - years old and upwards that by reason of his reduced circumstances he is in need of assistance from his country for support - that he never had any pension allowed him by the laws of the United States - that he served as a soldier in the war of the Revolution on the continental establishments Five years - he enlisted in 1776 in Horton Company Richmere Regt. New York Line and served therein one year - after which he in 1777 enlisted in Pells Company Van Courtlandt Regt. and served four years or thereabouts when he was honourably discharged. His discharge is lost.
Sworn this 14 Apr. 1818 Before me.
Harvey Davis
H. J. Miller Dist Judge of Oneida
State of New York Oneida County ss:
Ira Hulbert. - being sworn saith that he knows the above named applicant Harvey Davis. - and believes him to be a man of truth and veracity: and that he this deponent fully believes the matters set forth in the matters set forth in the above affidavit to be true.
Sworn this 14 Apr. 1818 Before me.
Ira Hulbert
H. J. Miller Dist Judge of Oneida

STATE OF NEW-YORK. Oneida Common Pleas, ss.
On this eight - day of September 1820, personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, being a Court of Record, Harry Davis - aged 59 years, resident in Wetmoreland in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows :
In February 1776 enlisted and served one year in Col. Richmond's legi- ment at New York at the Battle White Plains also at the taking of the Defences at Trenton In the year 1777 joined Van Ballen- dam's Regiment at Peekskill & served therein at the taking of Burgoyne Spent the next winter at Valley Forge also volunteered into Morgan's Bela's Artillery detachment, was at Monmouth Battle & after about 3 months returned to his regiment having served in all about four years and six months -
That he has received a Pension, and the number of his pension certificate is 15099 That he is by occupation a farmer
That the number and names of his family residing with him : their ages and capacity to contribute to their support is as follows, viz.
himself aged fifty nine years tolerably healthy His wife Mahatabel fifty eight years of age feeble his daughter Rachel aged eighteen years healthy his daughter Charlotte aged fifteen years healthy
AND I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR , that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my 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 in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ; 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.
Sworn to and declared, on the 8 th } day of September 1820. }
Harry Davis
Before me A. K. Van Klief a judge

SCHEDULE, containing the whole estate and income of
Henry Davis
  An Acre of land and a small house $100 00   1 man with cows 30 00   1 Case Drawers & 3 chairs 1 50   1 Table & 1 chair 6 00   2 chairs & 1 glass door 2 00   139 50   Also he owes debt amounting to $75
Henry Davis
Sworn to and declared, on the 8 th day of September 1820, before me J. B. D. Smith
Judge of Oneida.
State of New-York. Oneida Common Pleas. } A Court of Record by Of the Term of September 1820. } Statute.
The whole of these proceedings were had in open Court; and in the opinion of this Court the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the above Schedule is One hundred thirty nine dollars and no more.
I, FRANCIS A. BLOODGOOD, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Oneida, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court: And I further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount, in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is One hundred thirty nine dollars and fifty — cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighth day of September, 1820.
Francis A. Bloodgood
Not for publication Henry Davis
Henry Davis

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the 4 th July 1836.
State of New York } County of St Lawrence } ss:
On this eighteenth day of December A.D. 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas in and for at the Court House in Canton in the County of St Lawrence & State of New York Mehitable Davis a resident of the town of Canton in the County of St Lawrence and State of New York aged seventy five years 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 made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836.
That she is the widow of Harnah Davis who was a private soldier in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War. The time when the said Harnah Davis entered the service, or how long he continued, or when he left the service does not distinctly recollect, but believes he continued till peace in 1783. She further declares that her said Husband was a Revolutionary pensioner, and drew a pension for several years previous to his death. She further declares that she has no documentary or other evidence of the services of her said Husband in her possession, but believes whatever evidence of service her said Husband might have had, is on file in the Pension Office.
She further declares that she was married to the said Harnah Davis on the nineteenth day of June in the year seventeen hundred eighty one

And that her said Husband the said Herma Davis died on the fifth day of February in the year Eighteen hundred & twenty nine, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before A C SWAIN
18 Sworn
Mehitable J Davis
Offengen Notice

State of New York } ss. County of St Lawrence }
On this eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty eight personally appeared in open Court to wit the Court of Common Pleas held at the Court House in Canton in & for the County of St Lawrence & State of New York Mehetabel Gray a resident of the town of Canton in the County & State aforesaid aged forty three years, who being first duly sworn does depose & say that she is the daughter of the said Harnia Davis and Mehetable Davis named in the fore- going declaration that her father the said Harnia Davis died at the village of Ogdensburg in the the town of Oswegatchie in the said County of St Law- rence and State of New York on the fifth day of February in the year eighteen hundred & twenty nine, that she was present at his death and attended his funeral, and deponent further says that her mother the said Mehetabel Davis is now, and has ever since the death of the said Harnia Davis, remained a widow and has resided in the family of this deponent for four years last past, And further says not.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written before A C M W R Mehetabel Gray

State of New York
St. Lawrence County } ss. I Alvin C. Dow clerk of the County Courts of the said County of St. Lawrence do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration of Mohatabel Davis was this day made and subscribed by her in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County at the Court House in the town of Canton in said County, and that the said declaration and proof hereto annexed were satisfactory to the said Court.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County at Canton the 18. th day of December 1838
A C. Dow (clk)

In the X Matter of 4257 Mehetabel Davis widow of Thomas
for a Pension N. York Act 4 July 1836 H 2 57
27 4 8
Dec 27. 1824
Col Van Cleave Capt. P.W. - Detached 11. Feb. 1780
Return to J. Bailey Canton H. Saw. Co. N.Y.

I Dudley Smith of the town of Hadley in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts certify that I have the custody of the records of said town in my possession, - That it appears by the records of said town that Herma Davis and Mehitable Dean were duly joined in marriage on the nineteenth day of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one - that the foregoing is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible words and figures as follows "1781. June 19 th Herma Davis and Mehitable Dean were married,"
I Dudley Smith above named depose and say, that I hold the office of town clerk in the Town, County and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me. Hadley October 26. 1838 Dudley Smith Clerk of said town of Hadley
Hampshire S.S.
Then personally appeared Dudley Smith the above named, and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate - and I hereby certify that the deponent is a credible witness, and the Clerk of the town of Hadley. Hadley October 26. 1838.
Sam l Porter Justice of the Peace

The above named ...
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampshire, do certify, that Maurice Porter Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Maurice Porter and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this Twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eighth . Maurice Wells Clerk.

MMH aw
April 23, 1924
Mrs. Ernest R. Charlton Salem, Ill.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. 2748 it appears that Harvy Davis enlisted in February 1776 and served one year as a private in Captain Horton's Company, Colonel Richmond's New York Regiment; was at the battles of White Plains and Trenton.
He enlisted in 1777 and served four years and six months as a private in Colonel Van Cortlandt's New York Regiment; was at the taking of Burgoyne and battle of Monmouth.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 14, 1818 while a resident of Westmoreland, Oneida County, New York aged fifty-eight years. In 1820 he referred to his daughters Rachel aged eighteen years and Charlotte aged fifteen years. He died February 5,

1829 in the village of Ogdensburg in the town of Os- wegatchie, Saint Lawrence County, New York.
Soldier married June 18, 1781 in Hadley, Hamp- shire County, Massachusetts, Mehitable Dean, who in 1838 was aged seventy-five years and living in Can- ton, Saint Lawrence County, New York with their daughter Mahetable Gray aged forty-three years.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

1924. April 23. Hist 25 Mrs. Ernest R. Charlton. MMH.F.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
2748
RECORDED
P. O.
Hochstetler Paris
Service:
widow of the army
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contrav
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

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4257
Mehetabel Davis.
M. York
Oct 4 July, 1836.
Rejected.
See let. to Jeremiah Bailey, June 12, 1836.

State of New-York, } ONEIDA COUNTY, ss. }
I MORRIS S. MILLER , First Judge of the county of Oneida, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the within named Harvey Davis did serve in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, on the Continental Establishment, for the term of nine months or longer, as stated in the declaration hereto annexed. And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the Act of 18th March, 1818. Dated this 14. day of May
1818. And that by reason of reduced circumstances, by reason of a subsistence from
his country for support.
M. S. Miller First Judge of Oneida.
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } CLERK'S OFFICE OF ONEIDA COUNTY. }
I do certify that the above signature, and the signatures to the certificates, of the affidavits hereto annexed are in the proper hand writing of Morris S. Miller , the First Judge of the county of Oneida. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of this Court.
Dated the 15 th — of May 1818.
J. Warren A. Woodgood

State of New York Cortland County ss James Knapp being duly sworn says that he is personally acquainted with Harry Davis that he has known him since the year 1777 that the Deponent at that time was a Drummer in Capt Benjamin Pelton's company of Infantry in the 2 d New York Regiment command- ed by Col o Van Cortland - that the said Harry Davis was at that time a private in Capt Tilly's company in said Regiment - that the said Harry continued in the United States service in the same company & Regiment until the year 1780 & whether he was discharged during that year or not the Deponent does not know - June 2. 1819 -
Subscribed & sworn this 2 d day of June 1819 before me
J. Knapp
Edward S. Reed One of the Judges of
Cortland Common Pleas
Cortland Common Pleas
I hereby certify that the within Edward S. Reed
I know Genl. James Knapp by reputation - he is a man of truth and veracity.
H. S. Mills Writ judge of Circuit

State of New York } Cortland County } I, Labad Sam being duly sworn says that he is personally acquainted with Harry Davis, that he has known him since the year 1776 - that in the year 1777 this Deponent was, an ensign in the United States army in Capt Asa Bucks Company in Col Jesse Wood- hull's Regiment in the New York line - that the said Harry Davis was a private in the United States Service in the year 1777 in Col Van Cortlandt's Regiment - that the said Harry continued in the United States service to the best of this Deponent's knowledge between three & four years - that the said Harry enlisted either for three years or during the war but which this Deponent does not recollect - June 2: 1819
Subscribed & sworn this 2 d day of June 1819 before me Edward C. Reid One of the Judges of Cortland Common Pleas
John D. Ferrer
Cortland Clerks Office
I hereby certify that Edward C. Reid before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been taken was at the date of said affidavit a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cortland acting under the Authority of the State of New York and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe it to be his signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said office to be hereunto affixed this 3 d Day of June 1819
William Mallery Clerk

N of June 1
July 1836
4257
Pr
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commission Pensions Washington D.C.

Canton, Lawrence Co. N.Y. Dec 24 th 1858.
J. L. Edwards Esq,
Comm. Pensions.
Sir - Enclosed is the application of Mehetabel Le Davis Widow for a Pension.
As her husband Hermon Davis was a pensioner I take it for granted The evidence of his service is on file in the Department, and beg leave to refer to the same for evidence to entitle her to a pension . Her memory is quite impaired, so much so, that she remem- bers indistinctly what took place so long ago as the Revolution.
I am not quite sure but the declaration should have referred to the amend- ment of the act of 4. July 1836. But conclude it is rather matter of form than otherwise & not affecting the merits of the application.
By giving the subject an early attention you will much oblige
Your Humble Servt
J. Bailey

Dec 20
Harriet Davis My wife Died in '79
20 Sept 79
Friend
J. Edwards Esq Comm Pensions Washington D.C.

Wanton Lawrence Co. N.Y. Dec 12 th 1838.
J. L. Edwards Esq, Comm. Pensions
Sir Will you have the goodness to inform me of the pension certificate of Harna Davis is returned to the War Department. Davis was a pensioner & died in 1829. and oblige you Humble Servt
Jeremiah Bailey
P.S. The Christian Name of Davis is sometimes Spelt "Harry" and "Haima"
J.W.B.

Salem Ill March 21-24
Sci -
Please send me Pension Record of one Harni Davis - supposedly of N.Y. perhaps Oneida Co. who rec'd a land grant in Illinois, near Monmouth, 1808 - 1812 - 1818, I think for Revolutionary service -
If he did not receive a Pension will you please turn my letter to the Land Grant office for his residence when it was awarded him & where, when it was sold -
Yours truly Mrs. Ernest R. Charlton