Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R., Edward Harris, [BLANK]

SERVICE
Harris, Edward Elizabeth
NUMBER _____
R. _____
CONTENTS
1807

Petition of the Children of Edward & Elizabeth Kearns for arrears of revolutionary pension
Con. a King's Privy.
January 28. 1858 Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
April 17 1860 Referred to the Committee on Rev Pensions
Taken from R 5870, wid of David Kerr -
Hon. J. Hill Mr James M. Leach Mr Hill

Memorial
To The Honourable Senate & House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.
The petition of the children of Edward Harris , a revolutionary soldier, and of Elizabeth , his said widow, respectfully states that they have applied to the Commissioner of Pensions for the pensions to which their father & mother were respectively entitled during their lifetime, but failed to receive because the proof was not complete. That they have since made the necessary proof and that the claim has been rejected under a recent decision of the Pension Office, that children are not entitled to the pensions due to their parents.
They therefore pray Congress to cause the papers to be transferred from the Pension Office to Congress and that they may receive such relief as the evidence entitles them to.
Washington Jany 21 st 1858
H. C. Spalding Atty for the Children.
See letter to Hon. S. S. Cox. in cl. of John Wilson R. 21.437