Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 17598-160-55, John Harlow, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Harlow, John Eliza
B.L. Vt 17598-160-55
CONTENTS

36,304 Act. Mar. 3/55 Apr. 13/55
Eliza Harlow and John Harlow, Jr.
Capt. Churchill Mass. Mil. Col. Colton
Enl. Oct. 1780 Dis. Oct. 1780
Revolutionary War
Priv. Capt. Churchill Mass. Militia
Buxton
W. 16 Dec 5 Feb 1956 & Dodge
M. Mrs. V. Hodsdon Bangor Maine
Cir. J. L. Hodsdon Aug 22/55
Me No. Dak. 1880 1881 1882 1883
Vol. No. 18.5

36.309
Eliza Harlow Widow of John Harlow Revolutionary Soldier, at Newport Rhode Island
Capt. Churchill Fleetfoot,
John L. Hodsdon Agent Bangor Me.

STATE OF MAINE. County of Penobscot } ss.
On this 27th day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfive, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Eliza Harlow aged Sixty nine years, a resident of Bangor in the State of Maine, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of John Harlow deceased, who was a private in the company commanded by Capt. Stephen Churchill in the Regiment commanded by Col. Lottan at Newport Rhode Island that her husband enlisted, at Plymouth, Mass. on or about the first day of A.D. July 1780. for the term of three months and continued in actual service in said War for the term of three months and was honorably discharged on or about the first day of October, A. D. 1780. as will appear by the Muster Rolls of said company. that she has never seen a known any thing about any written or printed discharge. I don't know that he ever received any.
She further states that she was married to the said John Harlow in Boston Mass on the Second day of November A. D. 1802 by one Rev Dr Stillmans and that her name before her said marriage was Eliza Alway and that her said husband died at Bangor on the Seventeenth day of February A. D. 1835 and that she is still a widow. that no public or private Record of said marriage is known to her to exist. She further declares that neither she, nor her said husband have received Bounty Land under the any act of Congress passed on the at any  day of time  185  no ever made any but this application therefor.
And I hereby constitute and appoint John G. Hodsdon my Attorney for me, and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of the Interior, a warrant for the quantity of land due me as aforesaid, and I fully authorize and empower him to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes therein expressed.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled, under the Act of Congress passed March 3 rd 1855 granting Bounty Lands to certain officers and soldiers, and their heirs or widows, who have been engaged in the Military service of the United States.
WITNESS
S. L. Washburn J. A. Phillips
Eliza Harlow
Subscribed and sworn to, before me, the day and year first above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Eliza Harlow to be the widow of the soldier above named, and that she appears to be of the age above written, and that I have no interest in the result of this application and no concern in the prosecution of it.
Geo A. Fairfield Justice of the Peace.

We, Preserved D. Mills, and Andrew Maxfield both of Banga in the County of Penobscot and State of Maine
in the State of Maine, on oath depose and say that we are well acquainted with
Eliza Harlow that she is well known to us as the widow of John Harlow and that she is the same person who executed the foregoing declaration. acknowledged the same in our presence
We also depose that we well knew her and the said John Harlow during the life time of the latter and know that they lived together many years in the re- lation of husband and wife, were so universally reputed, and no one ever disputed their marriage to our knowledge. we are not aware that any public or private records of said marriage exist
We also know from personal recollection and from many facts and circumstances that the said John Harlow died on the seventeenth day of February A.D. 1833, and that she is still a widow.
D. Mills Andrew Maxfield
STATE OF MAINE, COUNTY OF Penobscot ss. March 27. 1855
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me, and I certify that the said Preserved D. Mills & Andrew Maxfield are well known to me and entitled to credit. Also that I have no interest in the result of the claim aforesaid, and no concern in the prosecution of it.
Geo A. Fairfield Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MAINE, County of PENOBSCOT , ss.
I, NATHAN WESTON, Jr. , Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, certify that Geo. A. Fairfield Esquire, is and was, at the date of his certificate hereunto annexed, an acting JUSTICE OF THE PEACE in and for the said County, that he is and was then duly qualified to act as such; and that the signatures purporting to be his, are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT for said State, this twenty eighth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five Nathan Weston Jr. Clerk.

36304 Harlow Eliza John
Boynton
Additional Evidence in Suspended N o 36.304
OFFICIAL BUSINESS, Bounty Land Claims
Hon. J. P. Waldo L. P. WALDO,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington City,
D. C.

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Neo Ann

Portland Maine
Feby 14th 1856
Sir
I enclose additional declaration in the claim of Eliza Harlow widow of John Harlow and such record evidence of the service of her husband in the war of the Revolution as I have been able to obtain. This evidence seems to meet the requirement of the law as explained by Commr Waldo in his circular of April 2 d 1855.
Mrs Harlow is now on a visit to Islesboro Maine and that is the reason why her additional declaration is taken at that place
I am Very Respectfully Your O bt Serv t ! Freeman Bradford
Hon J Minor Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Add. Evidence in Sus: B. G. Claim of Eliza Hador widow of John N o 36.304 Act of March 3. 1853- War of the Rebs.
Freeman Bradford Portland Maine

State of Maine.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court,
PORTLAND,
Feby 12.
1856
I, OBADIAH G. COOK,
Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court,
for said County of Cumberland, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that
Charles Nash Esq.
is, and at the date of his Certificate to the paper hereto annexed was, an
ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
within and for
the County of
Waldo
as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY COMMISSIONED and qualified to administer Oaths and take Acknowledgments of Deeds and other instruments in writing, in the County aforesaid — and that the following Signature , purporting to be his is GENUINE.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
O. Cook
CLERK.

ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
PENSION OFFICE,
Aug 22
1855.
Sir:
The claim of Eliza Harlow for bounty land under the act of the 3d of March, 1855, No. 36, 304 has been examined and suspended.
The revolutionary service of John Harlow the husband of the applicant, does not appear of record in this office.
The 3d section of said act requires a service of "FOURTEEN DAYS" to be established by "RECORD EVIDENCE."
Upon the production of such evidence of service, the claim will be favorably considered.
Very respectfully,
J. MINOT,
Commissioner.
Thos L. Woodson Esq Bangor Maine

STATE OF MAINE.
Additional Declaration
County of Waldo
ss.
On this fifteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty Six personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, Eliza Harlow aged  years, a resident of  in the County and State aforesaid, who, being duly sworn according to law, on oath declares that she is the widow of John Harlow deceased, who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Stephen Churchill in the Regiment of Militia commanded by Colonel  in the war with Great Britain, declared by the United States on the eighteenth day of June, 1812. of the Revolutions
That her husband was drafted at Plymouth, Massachusetts on or about the month  day of  February 18 81 for the term of Forty days and continued in actual service in said war for the term of forty days and was honorably discharged at Woburn R.I. on the month  day of  April , A. D. 17 81 as will appear by the evidence hereto annexed. That for evidence of marriage, she refers to her former declaration now on the suspended file in the Pension Office, N o of Claim unknown. She further states, that she was married to the said John Harlow in Boston on the 2 nd day of November A. D. 18 02 by one Rev Mr. Stillman a Clergyman , and that her name before her said marriage was Eliza Allway ; that her said husband died at Bangor, Maine , on the 17 th day of February A. D. 18 35 and that she is now a widow. That she has not received Bounty Land under this or any other act of Congress, but that she has made an application

therefor under the act of March 3, 1853, and that her claim has been suspended for want of record evidence of her husband's service, and that John S. Hodsdon Esq. of Bangor was her former agent,
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act of Congress, approved March 3d, 1855.
And for the purpose of this application, I, the said Eliza Warlow do hereby constitute and appoint Freeman Bradford of Portland in the State of Maine, my true and lawful Attorney, for me, and in my name, to demand and receive from the Secretary of the Interior, a warrant for the quantity of land due me as aforesaid: and I fully authorize and empower him to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purpose therein expressed, hereby ratifying and confirming whatever my Attorney or his substitutes may lawfully do in the premises.
We Thomas Gilkey and Albin Gilkey residents of Waltham in the County of Waltham and State of Maine on oath depose and say, that the foregoing declaration and Power of Attorney was signed and acknowledged by Eliza Warlow in our presence, and we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, and our personal knowledge of her for many years past, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be in her declaration.
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me, on the day and year first above written, by Eliza Warlow the declarant above named, and by Thomas Gilkey and Albin Gilkey witnesses above named, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
John S. Hodsdon Justice of the Peace.

I Nathaniel Goodwin of Plymouth in the county of Plymouth Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the age of Eighty five years under oath testify and say that my father was Major General Nathaniel Goodwin who to my best knowledge and belief was born and always lived in said Plymouth and died there in the Year 1818 at the age of Seventy one Years That upon his death I was appointed Executor of his estate and that all his books and papers came into my hands. That my father was Inspector of the Troops raised in the County of Plymouth aforesaid during several Years of the Revolutionary War and in one Book of his records in his hand writing and I have no doubt made at the time is still in my possession
From this record I make the following extract Viz —
"a return of men raised in the first Regt Co Plym o Feb 1781. for 40 days in consequence of an order in Council to reinforce Count De Rocham- -beau at Rhode Island".

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, Jan. 9. 1856
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the attestation hereunto annexed,
Jacob St. Vaud
Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony of Which, I have hereunto affixed the SEAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH, the date above written.
E. D. Witt
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I Nathanial Goodwin of Plymouth in the county of Plymouth Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the age of Eighty five years under oath testify and say that my father was Major General Nathanial Goodwin who to my best knowledge and belief was born and always lived in said Plymouth and died there in the Year 1818 at the age of Seventy one Years That upon his death I was appointed Executor of his estate and that all his books and papers came into my hands. That my father was Inspector of the Troops raised in the County of Plymouth aforesaid during several Years of the Revolutionary War and in one Book of his records in his hand writing and I have no doubt made at the time is still in my possession
From this record I make the following extract Viz —
"a return of men raised in the first Regt Co Plym o Feb 1781. for 40 days in consequence of an order in Council to reinforce Count De Rocham- -beau at Rhode Island".

The name of John Harlow of Plymouth appears under the above caption with the following list of officers.
Capt. Steph Churchill
Lieut John Goodlad
Lieut John Hammond
The above I testify to be the words and figures in said records and in the hand writing of my father
Nathl Goodwin
Plymouth J. January 15. 1856 Then the above named Nathaniel Goodwin personally appeared before me & made Oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed & I certify that he is a credible person
Jacob H. Lord Justice of the Peace