Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,920, Edson Hamson, Mass.

SERVICE
Hanson Edson
NUMBER
Mass
8.44.920
CONTENTS

New York 20. 341
Albany
Edson Hanson
of Ontario Co in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Sloan of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Patterson in the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year from December 1775 to December 1776.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 day of June 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of July 1831 and sent to P. A. Mowatt Canandaigua N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1831 $ 17.32 Semi-annual all'ce ending
$ 17.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
Rec. Book L. Vol. 5. fol. 98.

21.686
pen: to com: June 30, 1891
P. A. Mowatt Esq. Canandaigua, N.Y.

State of New York } Ontario County } }
On this sixteenth day of November 1920 personally appeared in open court in the court of common pleas in and for the county of Ontario being a court of record in and for said county Edeon Harrison resident in said county aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the pension made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 and of the 4 th May 1820 that he the said Edeon Harrison enlisted for the term of one year in the month of December 1775 at the town of Canaan in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Capt. Samuel Hovey in the Regiment commanded by Col. Patterson in the Massachusetts or Connecticut line, but which said Regiment does not know, in the continental establishment, - that he continued to serve in said corps until the full expiration of one year according to his said enlistment when he was regularly discharged at Trenton in the State of New Jersey - that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the roll of any state except it be Massachusetts or Connecticut, - that the reason he has not made earlier application for a pension is that Stephen Phelps formerly of this county and who was employed by this deponent to make application for him informed this deponent that his (this deponent's) name was not found on the War Rolls at Washington and that few of his service must be required of him, and that until now he has not been able to

herein such proof last now transmits it to the Secretary of War with this his declaration.
And in pursuance of the act of the 1 st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th March 1818 and that I have not by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby 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;" and that I have not now 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
3 Cows $ 11.00 1 Sheep & lambs 6.00 Some cooking utensils 12.00 12 Chairs 7.00 Two tables $2 two chests $2 11.00 Wines & jugs 1.50 A few old books 8.00 $ 47.50 Edson Harrison
And further that this declarant is by occupation a farmer but in very fields and cannot and has not for many years supported his family by his labor, - that he has no family but his wife who is about 65 years of age and unable to labor hard.

That no change of any importance has taken place in the decedents property since the time the 18 th of March 1818 and that since that period he has owned no real estate nor had any interest in the same
Edson Hanson
Known to me and declared in open court this 16 th day of November 1830 before me
Electo Soom is one of the judges of the county courts of the county of Ontario
Ontario County ss. I Ralph Lister clerk of the county courts of said county do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court, that the said Edson Hanson did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration, against the Amer- ican enemy, for the term of nine months under an engage- ment on the continental establishment. I also certify, that the fore- going notes and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value  the of property as- certainable in the aforesaid schedule is forty seven dollars and fifty cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this twenty ninth day of November 1830
Ralph Lister Clerk

44 920 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 44 920
Edson Hanson
Fin. Rev. War
Act: 18 th March 1818 45 1 st May 1820
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 213
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New York } Ontario County ss. }
Samuel Patterson of the county of Wayne in said state being duly sworn says that he is a prisoner of the army of the Revolution, that in the month of January in February and he thinks in the first mentioned month in the year 1776 he became acquainted with Elisha Hamilton - that he the said Elisha was then a regularly enlisted soldier under arms and doing duty in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Hove in the Regiment commanded by Col. Patterson and which was raised in and about the town of Canaan in the state of Connecticut - that the said company belonged to the best of the knowledge and belief of this deponent to the continental line - that he was in the Rebelts for several months after becoming so acquainted with the said Elisha Hamilton of seeing him in the regular discharge of his duty day by day - that afterwards and until the following winter (when his company was disbanded) he saw the said Hamilton several times and once near the city of New York on the Island of New York - that

at all three times he was in service as heretofore mentioned and as was then represented to him and as he more firmly believes the said Harrison had continued to serve his country without interruption - that he saw the said Harrison at Trenton in the State of New Jersey where the said Harrison as well as this deponent were discharged from service - that this was in the month of December 1776 - that at that time the said Harrison was sick and unable to do duty - that he is sure that the same Elisha Harrison who now applies for a pension for his said service is the identical Elisha Harrison who so served with him in the Revolutionary Army
J. Patterson
On this 1 st day of December 1820 personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Ontario Sunderland Patterson well known to me to be a man of truth and veracity & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit.
Henry Chapman

State of New York Ontario County ss I certify that Henry Chapin before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken and whose signature appears to the jurat thereof was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly elected and sworn In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this 7th day of December 1830 Ralph Lester Clerk of Ontario County

State of New York } Ontario County } ss
Charles Robinson of Richmond in said county being duly known before me and says that he has known Col. John Harrison more than sixty years - that in the month of December 1875 he accompanied the said Harrison and a brother of this deponent to Canaan in the State of Connecticut - that the object of their journey was to enlist in a company then raising at Canaan aforesaid and that the said Harrison and this deponent's said brother Eliza Robinson did then and there enlist in Captain Hoss's company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Patterson in the continental line - that for three or four months immediately following their said enlistment this deponent saw the said Harrison frequently in said company doing duty - that his said brother Eliza died in New Jersey in the month of August 1876 and that the first information of his death was communicated by the said Harrison who obtained a furlough of one month and came to Canaan where he enlisted - that he was in the dress of a soldier & showed his written furlough to this deponent - that in a few weeks the said Harrison left Canaan aforesaid with the avowed intention of joining the army

again in New Jersey that he heard of some general terms after this and was informed and believed and now most fully believes that the said Ebenezer Harrison returned to the army and did duty therein as a soldier until he was honorably discharged which was in December 1746 agreeably to the terms of his said enlist- ment.
Charles Robinson
On this 3 d day of December 1830 personally appeared before me the above- named Charles Robinson well known to me to be a man of truth and una- ity and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit.
Henry Chapin J. P.
State of New York
Ontario County ss
I certify that Henry Chapin before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken and whose signature appears to the jurat thereof was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly elected and sworn

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 7th day of December 1830
Ralph Lester Clerk of Ontario County

State of New York Wayne County ss
Edson Hanson being duly sworn deposes and says that no material change has taken place in his property since the 18th March 1818 - That at that time and for more than Six years previously this deponent lived on a small place belonging to Judge Carpenter who resided near Pansingburgh in the State of New York and that this deponent continued to reside there until the fall of the year 1824. - And this deponent further says that the only property he possessed between the two periods of time above mentioned was a lease from said Carpenter of the said place at Twenty Dollars a year and on which he now owes more than Fifty Dollars - that he owned a little household furniture necessary beds and bedding and some cooking utensils barely enough to live with - that the utmost extent of property owned by him at any one time except the articles above enumerated consisted of Fifteen Sheep and Five or Six Hogs - that during all this period he was continually indebted to his neighbors for fuel and provisions which were furnished him gratuitously without which or some other charity he and his wife could not have lived in comfort -
And this deponent further says that in the fall of the year 1824 at the request of his wife's Brother who is a farmer in Ontario County in comfortable circumstances he removed to said County - that his Brother in Law gives him the use of a small Log House and a Garden spot which he has done since this deponent removed as aforesaid - that he works for his said Brother in good weather and can sometimes do a pretty good days work - that from the time of his said removal to the present time the inventory of his property has consisted of nearly the same articles and in the opinion of this deponent would not vary Ten Dollars that at no time during said period would the same exceed the amount mentioned in the schedule filed in the Clerks Office of Ontario County - that said schedule is Forty seven Dollars & Fifty Cents
On this 29 day of May 1831 before me the subscriber a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Wayne County affirmed the foregoing Edson Hanson who is well known to me and whose reputation for truth and
Edson H. Hanson

veracity I certify to be good and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit Thos P Baldwin
State of New York
County of Wayne 3rd I John Barber Jr Clerk of the said County, do certify, that, Thomas P Baldwin before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and Verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature Witness my hand and seal of office this 20th day of June 1831
John Barber Jr Clerk of Wayne County