Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21266, Sanford Hart, R.I.

SERVICE
Hart, Sanford Hannah
NUMBER
W. 21.266
CONTENTS

Lett. Asa Gray, Nov 25:36
No. 2. Vol. 10, 116.
Massachusetts
Sanford Hart
of Dartmouth in the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Olney of the R. Island line, for the term of 9 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 24 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 of April 1820 and sent to Hon. B. Gifford Esq. Westport, Bristol Co. Mass.
Arrears to 4th of March 1821. 34 mos 28 d 31. 274.45 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 September 1820
$ 322.45
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
First of May 1820
289

Massachusetts 1825
Hannah Hart
widow of Sanford Hart decd.
who died on the 1st March 1825
of Bristol in the State of Mass.
who was a Pirate in the Company commanded by Captain Church of the Fleet, commanded by Col. Warren in the Atlantic line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 50 Dollars and 25 Cents per annum, to commence on the 5th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of June 1837 and sent to Gray Swanton R. Island
Arrears to the 5th of March 1837 $457.50 Pemi-ant. allowance ending
40.00
50.00
{ Revolutionary War, } { Act July 4, 1836. } { Section the 3rd }
Issued by Wm. L. Chaplin Clerk, Page 52
Let to Pm July 11. 1837
Let to Mr. N. B. Burdick, 18 3/4
Mar 26. 1838
Letter to Pm April 25th Oct 1838.
A. Ba for the 3rd and 25 Oct 1838.

United States
Massachusetts District
Sandford Hart, of Dartmouth, in the county of Bristol and District of Massachusetts, a resident citizen of the United States and applicant for a pension from the United States, under 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, maketh oath, that he served as a private soldier, in the war of the revolution, for upwards of two years in manner following viz - Enlisted in the spring of 1777, in the company commanded by Captain Christopher Manchester, in the Rhode Island Regiment, commanded by Colonel Archibald Crary and served in said corps at Kingston and Bristol until the autumn of 1778 - Enlisted in the spring of 1782, in the company commanded by, as he believes, Captain Brown, in the Rhode Island Regiment commanded by Colonel Coggeshall Olney, and served in said corps in Pennsylvania, the Jerseys, and at Saratoga, nine months, when he was honorably discharged, and is in such reduced circumstances, as to require the aid of his country - Sandford his Hart mark.
Massachusetts District ss. Boston 24. April 1815.
Sworn to before me J. D. DAVIS Dist. Judge Mass. Dist.
Saml Peckham testifies to 15 months service in Crary's regiment.
Sworn before me D. D. D.
Thomas, Surfer of Newton to take evidence Com. issued 24 April

No 521 Sandford Hart private Henry's B.D. ug d . 18 mo. 77-78
24 April 1818
Admitted mark. April 23. 1821 — See Major Dexter's Certificate to besides various affidavits
See remarks in
S. Peckham
Janu. 10. 1820 New En Offered marked D. &

Schedule
  1 Chest 50 c Teakettle 50 c Iron Pot 25 c 1. 25   1 Iron Kettle 50 c 1 Bakekettle 50 c 1. 00   Shovel & Tongs 25 c 6 Chairs 1. 00 1. 25   1 Table 50 c Water Pail 25 c 0. 75   1 Foot Wheel 1. 00   $ 5. 25 
( Samfort's  his  mark )  

SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
BRISTOL ss. Circuit Court of Common Pleas
On this fourteenth day of July 1820, personally appeared, in open court, being a court of record for the said county,
Samuel Hart
aged sixty eight years, resident in Dartmouth 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:
That he enlisted into the service in the year 1775, for Eight months, and served that term, under Capt. William Cook. Then I returned home, and stayed some time, how long I cannot rightly tell; when I enlisted again into the Service for three months soon after. As at the time the British landed on Rhode Island I enlisted again into the Service for the term of fifteen months under Capt. Christopher Manchester in Archibald Cavanagh's Regiment, and served during that term, the most of which was at Bristol R.I. Then returned home and stayed some time, and enlisted again for 12 months under Capt. Carr, in Col. Safford's Regiment, and served that term out, being most of the time in Little Compton in the State of R.I. Then I returned home and made a short stay, when I enlisted again for six months in the Continental Establishment; was under the command of Major Blaggin in Col. Prentiss's Regiment, and served that term out. Then I enlisted again in May 1782 for the term of Nine Months, in the Continental Establishment, and served during that term in the Regiment of Col. Olney and Major Olney, being most of the time at the Highlands (so called) by the North River; the latter part of the time we encamped at Saratoga when and where I was discharged. That I made application for my Pension by Judge Davis in Boston, on the 24th day of April 1818, and depositions have been forwarded to him to be sent to the War Office, but I have not received a Certificate.
Property valued at $5.25
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, 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 18th day of March, 1818; 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.
Samuel Hart
That I have no family excepting myself and my wife, who is sixty two years of age and very weakly, so that for a great part of the time she is unable to work.
Sworn to, and declared, on the fourteenth day of July A.D. 1820 before James Sprout Clerk of the Court Bristol County
I, James Sprout , clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Bristol do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do 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 FIVE dollars and twenty five cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this eighth day of August 1820.
Jas. Sprout
Clerk of the Court for the County of Bristol.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston June 13 A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Samford Hark subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked A, B, C, together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
W. Davis
} Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
16 March
1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Samford Hart by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
M c David's
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.

State of Massachusetts Bristol ss.
On this tenth day of March in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, Personally appeared before me Oliver D. Russell Esq. Judge of Probate of Wills &c for the County of Bristol aforesaid, Hannah Hart a resident of Fall River in the County of Bristol afore- said aged seventy nine years, who being first sworn according to law, on oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July the fourth One thousand eight hundred and thirty six V z . That she is the widow of Sanford Hart late of Swanton in the County of Newport and state of Rhode Island, deceased, who was a private soldier in the revolutionary army during the revolutionary war, and was a pensioner under a former act of Congress until his decease
And she further declares that her said husband Sanford Hart, enlisted in the army under Capt. William Cook for the term of eight months and marched to Boston on the sixth day of June 1775 and was in the battle on Bunker's Hill; that after the expiration of said eight months service at Boston, he returned and enlisted under Captain Nathaniel Church for one year and was stationed at Howland's and Soeland's ferries, and served afterwards in Col. Richmond's regiment, went on an expedition from Rhode Island to Long Island, and after his return from Long Island was in ser- vice at the time of the battle on Rhode Island in the autumn of 1778; that he afterwards enlisted for fifteen months, but she does not recollect the name of the Captain under whom he enlisted, he served during this enlistment according to her best recollection under Cols. Barton, Siphern, Miller Green and Olney; that after the expiration of this fifteen months service, he enlisted for the term of three months, but under whom, or when he served she does not remember. And she further declares that towards the close of the war he was enlisted by Capt. Richard Dawes for the term of five months, and served during that enlistment, and continued in the

service until the army was disbanded, that she does not now remember where he served during his last enlistment, but that he was one of Gen. Washington's life guard, and when the army was disbanded he was 470 miles from home and that the time her said husband was a soldier in service in the army between the commencement and close of the revolutionary war, was five years wanting a few weeks — She the said Hannah Hart declares that her said husband had several papers relating to his enlistments, services, discharges &c which he kept for a great many years but which were all lost before his decease, and that she is not now in possession of any documents relating to his services.
And the said Hannah Hart further declares that she was married to the said Sanford Hart in the town of Fiverton aforesaid, in the month of May in the year 1778 by the Rev. Othniel Greenell, a minister of the Congregational order settled in that place, that her said husband died at said Fiverton on the first day of March 1828 and that she has remained a widow ever since his decease as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed. Hannah Hart Hart Subscribed and sworn to by the above aforesaid Hannah Hart the day and year above written
Before Oliver Prescott { Judge of the Court of Probate for Bristol County
I Oliver Prescott of New Bedford in the County of Bristol Judge of the Court of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Hannah Hart the Applicant aforesaid cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court
Oliver Prescott Judge of the Court of Probate for Bristol County

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Bristol ss. I Amos Barrett Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County, do hereby certify that Oliver Prescott of New Bedford in said County of Bristol, is the Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said County of Bristol, and that the signatures to the foregoing certificates, purporting to be his are genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Probate, this twenty eighth day of March 1837 A. Barrett
Sanford Hunt was a Pensioner under the Act of Congress of March 18. 1818 -
See "Massachusetts Pension Roll" page 45 -
Declaration of Thurmark Hunt
Asa Gray, Esq., Tiverton, R Island

State of Rhode Island & County of Newport
I Asa Gray Clerk of the Court of Probate for the town of Kingston in the County of Newport do hereby certify that Asa Gray Esq. of said Kingston has been by this Court appointed Guardian of the person and estate of Hannah Hart, widow of Sanford Hart late of said Kingston deceased and late a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, and that he is at this time legally authorized to act in his said capacity as appears of Record in this office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office, at the Office of said Probate Court in Kingston this thirteenth day of May A.D. 1837.
Asa Gray, Probate Clerk
Examined and countersigned
Abraham Barker President of said Court of Probate
State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Newport ss. Kingston May 15 th A.D. 1837
I Job Durfee Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State aforesaid do hereby certify that Abraham Barker is known to me to be the President of the Court of Probate for the town of Kingston in said County of Newport and the signature of his name above written is his own proper handwriting Job Durfee

Sanford Hart was born March 8 th 1752 & Hannah Hart his wife was born August 21 st 1757 the time of the births of the children of the said Sanford & Hannah Hart are as followeth Mary Hart was born May the 31 st A.D. 1779 Lydia Hart was born January the 12 th A.D. 1782 Sanford Hart jun was born March the 11 th A.D. 1784 Phebe Hart was born June the 1 st A.D. 1786 Cynthia Hart was born May the 22 nd A.D. 1788 Amy Hart was born Oct. 1 st A.D. 1790 Charles Hart born Nov. 5 1792 Nancy Hart born Nov. 1 1797 Sus Hart born December 21 st 1799
State of Rhode Island & County of Newport
Town Clerk's Office, Tiverton May 13. 1837 I Asa Gray, Town Clerk of the town of Tiverton, in said County do hereby certify, that the above thirteen lines contain a true and exact copy of the record on page 125 and Book S. 1. of the Records of births in this Office
Asa Gray Town Clerk
State of Rhode Island & County of Newport
On the 15 th day of May 1837 before me Job Lurje, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations, residing in Tiverton in said County, personally appeared the above named Asa Gray and made oath to the truth of the facts above certificate by him subscribed. And I further certify that said Asa Gray is known to me to be the Town Clerk of said town of Tiverton, and as such has the keeping of the Records of Births in said town.  Job Lurje

State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Secretarys Office May 18. A D 1837.
I certify that at the session of the General assembly of said State on the first wednes day of May inst.  last , Job Durfee was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State: and Charles Durfee a Justice of the Peace for the town of Tiverton in the county of Newport - each for one year, and commissioned accordingly. As appears of record in this office
Witness, Henry Bowen Secy.

BY HIS EXCELLENCY,
John Brown Francis
Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode- Island and Providence Plantations.
BE IT KNOWN, that the name, " HENRY BOWEN, " to the afore-written attestation subscribed, is the proper hand writing of Henry Bow- en, Esquire, who at the time of subscribing the same, was Secretary of the State aforesaid, duly elected and qualified according to law: Wherefore unto his said attestation full faith and credit are to be rendered.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said State to be affixed at Prov- idence, this eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty- seven and of Independence the sixty- first .
John Brown Francis
By His Excellency's Command.
Henry Bowen Secy

I Schabed Simmons of Tiverton in the County of Newport and State of Rhode Island aged Seventy Six do on my oath depon and say that I was acquainted with Sanford Hart from my youth to the time of his death. he married Hannah Manchester. she now remains his widow. - said Sanford was a Revolutionary Pensioner and died at Tiverton about nine or ten years ago. - said Sanford Hart and said Hannah Hart have resided in Tiverton nearly or quite all the time since they were married, and most of the time in my neighborhood. - they have always been considered and respected as man and wife and as such have brought up a family of children, and I never heard nor do I doubt, but that they were lawfully married - said Sanford Hart and myself were together in the continen- tal service, in 1783. in Col: Jeremiah Olney's Regiment. we lay in the summer of 1783. in the Highlands, below West Point, and in the fall we were at Saratoga, where we were discharg- ed. this service was for nine months. I will recollect that said Sanford Hart and Hannah Hart were married long before we were together in this nine months service. I were keeping house together in said Tiverton, had children, and that said Sanford provided necessaries for her as his wife when he went into this service -
Schabed Simmons
State of R. Island Providence Plantations.
County of Newport
Be it known that on the 12 th day of May 1837 before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County, personally appeared Schabed Simmons, and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above deposition, and I further certify that said Deposition is a credible person. Before Me Charles Durfee Justice of the Peace

WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21266 Thomas Hart widow of Samuel Hart Pr. S. 1822
Act: July 4 th 1836
Index:—Vol. 68 Page 315
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Washington Feb 6 th 1834 Dear Sir, The enclosed letter is from a highly respectable citizen of Kingston N.Y. and the former clerk of that Court. You may, I think, place the fullest confidence in all that Mr. Gray has stated; and I have to request you to take such steps in regard to Mrs. Hart's Pension, as will prevent Sandford from carrying into effect, what he has in view, the disbursement of Mrs. Hart and the Town of Kingston, in which is liable for her support and maintenance, of what to them belongs —
Very respectfully your obedient Servt Dwight J. Pease
J. B. Edwards, Esq. Commissioner of Pensions —

Tiverton May
1837
Sir,
Your Letter of the 21 st . Ins. is rec d . and I herewith forward Proof of my Guardianship. your Letter informs me that the only difficulty which now presents itself against the present admission of her claim is the want of the required proof as to the legality and date of the marriage. I send the Proof on those points. Anne Simmons, who is a very respectable woman, declares that she saw them married by Othniel Campbell a Clergyman, and she is est positive it was not later than 1778. Ichabod Simmons declares that he & said Sanford Hart served together in the Continental Army in 1783. that said Sanford and Hannah were married before that time; were keeping house together and had children and that they lived together till his death and were respected as husband and wife. The Copies from Record relative to the will and the Inventory of Othniel Campbell are offered to shew that their marriage must have been before Oct r 29. 1778. Also the record of the births of their children shew that they were husband and wife and that their eldest child was born May 31. 1779. The copy of the record of the admin n account of Stephen Grendell is made principally for the purpose of understanding the order of Court which follows. That Order shews that said Hannah was considered by the Court to be the widow of Sanford Hart, who by a credit in said account is shown to have been a Pensioner. It is expected that her Pension will be made payable in Providence. R. I. and the Certificate forwarded to me.
I would respectfully call your attention to the claim of Nancy Fayer widow of John Fayer of this town. Her papers were forwarded in Dec r & Jan y last, and no communication whatever has

been received relative to her claim - she is in very poor health, and very uneasy that she has not heard from it - my great reluctance to encroach upon your time, has hitherto prevented me from calling your attention to said claim -
I am with great Respect your Obl Servt. Asa Gray

To what time was Sanford Hart of Seekonk paid, under the Act of March 18 1828 A. Dole N. H. May 4.
Decd 2 d March 1828 that person
I. H.
State of Rhode Island, &c. County of Newport
Town Clerk's Office. Seekonk May 13. 1837
I hereby certify that I have made diligent search, and am not able to find the marriage of Sanford Hart and Hannah Hart, recorded in this office.
Asa Gray Town Clerk

Providence June 3 d 1863
Sir
Enclosed is the application of Sanford Hart for the removal of his pension from the Massachusetts to the Rhode Island agency - which I pray in his behalf may be done accordingly —
I am respectfully & your most obt servt
Benja Lowell
J. L. Edwards Esq

District Clerk's Office Boston 10. January 1820
Hon. John C. Calhoun Secretary of War
Sir
By order of the District Judge, I have the honor to transmit the papers of nine Applicants for Pension, as particularly described in Schedules A. B. C. & D. hereto annexed.
I am Sir
With the highest respect
Your most obedt. Servt.
Isaac Davis Clerk of Mass. Dist. Court.

Elp

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Bristol
Westport April 12. 1821.
To the Honorable the Secretary of war Dr. Sir permit me once more to address you in behalf of Sandson Hart respecting his application for a pension, doubtless you have his first application - of April - or May - 1818 - before you - which was made to, & forwarded by. Jn o W. Davis Judge of the District Court Boston - Mr. Hart's poverty & incapacity has been the reason why he has not, long before this day furnished the necessary evidence, to prove the justness of his claim - it will I presume be needful for me here to notice the various dispositions which he has had taken & forwarded to the War Department, as I suppose you have them before you - I will only say that he has complied with the Law - (I think of 1820) by making and forwarding under the directions of the County Court, a schedule of his property - it passed on until December last, when through Mr. Morton - our Rep t to Congress - was received the enclosed information of which N o 1. is a copy - after which Application was made to Major Dexter, and he gave his Certificate N o 2. - this being a duplicate, by reason - that the first certificate, together with the original of N o 1. - was forwarded by mail to the War Department on or about the 20 th of February last - and as nothing has been heard from it since - suppose it must have mis- carried - they were directed to Mr. Morton - to be by him handed over - I have called on Mr. Morton since his return he says he don't recollect of receiving them - whilst there, I will now confirm myself, - to the present documents - and only ask your honor - is the Certificate of Major John S. Dexter - with his former proof - sufficient to entitle him to a pension Certificate, if so I do on his behalf humbly ask your honor to have the goodness, to forward it to me by mail for him, as soon as you conveniently can, and if consistent I hope you will order that he may receive

what may be due & coming to him from his first application up to 4 th of march 1821. on his receiving his certificate — should it be otherwise, and any thing as to form or effect should still be wanting — pray have the goodness to answer this, and state what he has yet to do to make his case perfectly clear & satisfactory —
he is very poor & infirm — & I think as justly entitled to receive some aid from the Government, as any one that ever has received —
I am with much respect and esteem Your most Obedt. Servt & humble Servant
Henry B. Gifford

Hon. the Secretary of War United States
Polikarpus and kind all kinds of the plan M. C. Norton

Dartmouth Feby. 13 th 1821. —
To the Hon ble . the Secretary of War. ] — permit me, dear sir, to ask once more, to address you upon a subject, of very great interest to me — (viz) that of my pension. — my debilitated state of health, and my extreme poverty are such that it has been out of my power, earlier to furnish that evidence in support of my claim, which the justice of the case required — or should I even at this time be able to offer any thing, were it not for the good offices of Mr. Ebenezer B. Lippford Esq of Westport who has voluntarily rendered me the assistance at this time — it will at once be recollected that in 1818. I made application for my pension through Judge John W. Davis of Boston — since which — several depositions have been taken and forwarded — and all to no effect — on the 26 th of Decr. I obtained through the Hon ble Mr. Morton, the enclosed depositions — since which I have been able to procure the Certificate of Major J. D. Dexter and have forwarded the original — and if any thing further is necessary on my part, I beg you to have patience with me, and state to me what it is, and how it may be obtained if you can, otherwise should the Certificate of Mr. Dexter with all the Depositions that have been forwarded together with the documents, that were made & forwarded by the Court of Record, in 1820 — from

the County of Bristol — be sufficient to establish my claim — I do humbly beg — and entreat, your honour to forward, in kind to Henry B Gifford Esq. of Westport, a certificate that will enable me to draw, on the 4 th of March next — as I am actually suffering, hunger, and cold for want of it —
from your poor — but very humble Servant
present — Permy Bellacombes
his Sandford Hart marks
Adams Gifford

Will
Hon:
Marcus Morton Representative in Congress City of Washington
Wendell Phillips Esq. Newport Feb. 18 1842
July 26.

Westport. Feby. 16. 1821,
Hon. M. Morton D. Sir - }
enclosed I send to your care, a letter to the Secretary of War, together with some documents - in support of Sanford Hart claim, as a pensioner - Hart is very poor, and is actually suffering for want of his pension - and I cannot see why the enclosed documents - with what has heretofore been forwarded will not entitle him to a Certificate - Should that be the case - I have to request you to use your influence in this behalf that he may draw on the 4 th of March next - as he has been living upon expectation a long time - Should he succeed he would be perfectly willing to make any remuneration for your services in this behalf -
I am with every sentiment of esteem your most Obedient Friend & Servt Mener B Gifford

Newport Sc. Court of Probate held in and for the town of Tiverton in the County of Newport on the first Monday of November being the 3 rd day A.D. 1828
The account of Stephen Crandell Administ r on the estate of Sanford Hart late of said Tiverton deceased having heretofore been presented to this Court, and previous notice of the pendancy thereof being duly given, and now no person appearing to object thereto, the same is allowed and ordered to be recorded; which account is in the words and figures following, to wit.
Account of Stephen Crandell
   The estate of Sanford Hart, late of Tiverton deceased, in account with Stephen Crandell Administ r Dr. Cr.   $ cts. $ cts.     1828. To attendance Court to receive Letter of Administ n . 75   Cr. By Inventory 40 25   Dr. To part of day taking the Inventory 75   Dr. To one day to return Inventory 1   Dr. To one Coffin & to Providence Expenses 3 50   Sept r 12. Dr. To four days to Providence Expenses to collect Pension Money 5   Cr. By Pension Money for 5 months and 29 days per Bill 47 71   Dr. To cash paid the Court as per Bill 1 75   Dr. To cash paid Abner Simmons for Services as per Bill 2 50   Oct r 2. Dr. To cash paid Setham Sexton per Bill 3   Dr. To cash paid Amy Raymond for Services per Bill 4   Dr. To cash paid Sedfrey King, taking Inventory & attending Probate as per Bill 1 25   Dr. To cash paid Sedfrey King Jun r taking Inventory 1 25   Dr. To cash paid Ebenezer King for finding as a Witness for the deceased, as per Bill 1 14   Dr. To cash paid Nancy King for finding as a Witness for the deceased as per Bill 1 14   Oct r . To attendance to present this account at Court 1   To Do. at the time of allowance 1   To Probate Clerk's bill for services in recording proceedings in the settle m of said estate &c 3 52   Novem r 3. Court fees settling this account &c. 75   $ 31 90 $ 87 96   56 06   $ 87 97  
(over)

Appeared the above named Stephen Brandell and gave oath in his said capacity that the above account is true according to his best knowledge, at the Court of Probate held at Kingston on the 6 th day of October 1828 Chs. Durfee Depy. Probate Clk.
On Motion being made, that Hannah Hart, widow of the aforesaid Sanford Hart deceased, have an allowance made to her out of the Personal Estate of said Sanford, for the purposes of upholding of life - The Court thereupon allow to said widow the sum of Fifty six dollars and Six cents for the purposes aforesaid. It being the balance remaining in the hands of the Administrator on said estate after the settlement of said account.
State of Rhode Island } County of Newport }
Probate Office. Kingston May 13. 1837.
I Asa Gray Clerk of the Court of Probate for the town of Kingston in the County aforesaid do certify the writing and figures on the preceding page, and on this page above written, to be a true and exact copy of the record, in Book No. 13 of the Records of Said Court, in this Office.
Witness my hand and Seal of Office. This Thirteenth day of May in the year 1837. Asa Gray Probate Clerk

Newport ss. In Town Council in the town of Tiverton on the 9 th day of Novem r 1778. The above and foregoing last will and Testament of the above named Othniel Campbell was exhibited was proved according to Law and was approved of Witness, Benjamin Jenks Esq. President A true copy of the original, Walter Cook Coun cl Clerk
A true Inventory of the Reverend Mr Othniel Campbell's Personal estate late of Tiverton deceased. Taken by us the Subscribers shown to us by Othniel Campbell Executor to said Estate Tiverton October the 29 th A. D. 1778. [Then follows the record of the Inventory which is signed as follows.]
Joseph Tabor } Appraisers Nathaniel Crandell }
State of Rhode Island & County of Newport Probate Office Tiverton May 13 th 1837. I Asa Gray Clerk of the Court of Probate for the Town of Tiverton in said County of Newport do hereby certify that the seven lines first above written is a true and exact copy of a record on page 286 in Book 8 p 1 of the Records of said Court of Probate in this Office, and that said record follows next after the record of the Will of Othniel Campbell of Tiverton, Clerk. I further certify that the four lines next after the first seven above written & also the words "Joseph Tabor Nathaniel Crandell Appraisers" are true and exact copies of a record on page 287 in the same book above named, and that the goods inventoried are entered on record on said page 287.
Witness my hand and Seal of Office herunto affixed this thirteenth day of May in the year 1837 Asa Gray Probate Clerk

Wrentham January 30. 1837
Dear Sir
An old and infirm woman in the eightieth year of her age, belonging to this town, of the name of Hannah Hart, widow of Sanford Hart, and who has been supported in our Poor house for about two years past, was taken away last fall, by a daughter of hers, a poor and an infamous woman, on pretence of making a visit - soon afterwards it being understood that she was entitled to a Pension under the act of July 4. 1836, and that she was taken from the Poorhouse by this daughter of hers, through the instigation of one Capt. Thomas Sanford of Fall River, for the purpose of getting her Pension money into their hands - the rest of her children and some of the most respectable inhabitants of this town also who were acquainted with her, and that she was incapable for want of discretion of managing her affairs &c. petitioned the Court of Probate for a Guardian to be appointed to said Hannah, and said Court after giving due Notice to said Hannah and her said daughter did upon consideration of the subject appoint me as Guardian of said Hannah - And I duly qualified myself as such by giving bond according to Law with sureties approved by the Court and gave due Notice of such appointment by publishing the same in a Newport and also in a Fall River Paper - at that time said Sanford had the old woman and her Daughter, living in a house of his in the North end of this town, east of the village of Fall River, and forbade any one taking her away, and it being soon after reported that he had sent on Papers asserting her claim to a Pension. I wrote to Mr. Edwards making enquiries concerning it, but he had not then asserted her claim. Since then Capt. Sanford has removed her into Fall River, and I have no doubt has in this asserted her claim to a Pension as a citizen of that town, but I believe no certificate has

yet been sent on. It appears to me that it is my duty as her Guardian to prevent if possible her money from coming into their hands to be squandered away as it is believed in such case it would be. And it has occurred to me that upon the facts being represented to Mr. Edwards the Commissioner of Pensions, he would see proper to make her Pension payable in Providence and to transmit her Certificate to her legal Guardian, by which a two fold object would be accomplished her money would be secured to her in the hands of her Guardian who is under bonds duly to account for it, and a merited rebuke will be given to said Capt. Sanford who in this affair has shown himself a meddling and officious Person. If you see no impropriety in it I respectfully request that you will represent the facts and make such suggestion to him if your other business will permit in order for such information and suggestion to be of any avail they must probably be made immediately. Sanford Hart (whose widow the said Hannah is) was a Pensioner under the Act of 1818 he served a great deal in the Revolution and always as a Soldier from this town where he belonged he entered into the three Months Service in Capt. Chris. Manchester's Company in the Fall of 1776. in 1777 he was in the 15 months service under the same Captain in Col. Crary's Regiment. in 1780 he entered for six months in the Continental Service under Col. Greene. after this he was in the Army under Washington and other services I believe he performed in the war of Independence. I address this to you, as one of your constituents, and I believe I may safely add from the tone of feeling upon the subject in this town, that your attention to the business will be very gratifying to your many friends in this town.
Hon. Dutee J. Pierce Washington
I am very Respectfully Your Most Oby. Servt. Asa Gray

Fall River July 5 1837
Sir
I take the Liberty to inform you that I made out a Declaration in order to obtain a Pension in March last and Suppose it was sent to the Pension office at Washington by a Mr Lindsay Since that time I have had no satisfactory information respecting it. and fearing that there is some wrong management about it I would Request you to give me some information on the subject (if it is in your power so to do) and first please to inform me whether my Papers has been Received at the Pension office if so is there any more Proof wanting if you will be so good as to give me the above information you will confer a favour on an aged friend if a Certificate is issued please to direct it to me at Fall River Massachusetts and then I shall not be wronged From your Olt Servt
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions City of Washington District of Columbia
Hannah her K. Hart Mark

It appears by the Regimental Book, That Sanford Hart, now residing in Dartmouth in the State of Massachusetts, enlisted for and served the full and continued term of Nine Months a Private Soldier in the Rhode Island Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Jeremiah Olney, on the Continental Establishment, and that he was honorably discharged from said Regiment at Saratoga, in the State of New York on the nineteenth day of January 1788.
Wm Dexter H ts Major of said Reg t eodem tempore.
Providence February 14 th 1821.

War Department Pension Office, December 25 th 1820
Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 25 th inst. I have to acquaint you, that the case of Samuel Pickham cannot be decided on until it can be ascertained whether the Rhode Island Brigade, in which he states to have served, was on the continental establishment or not. Sanford Hart's case is suspended for want of sufficient proof of service. If he served as stated, Major John S. Dexter, of Providence R.I. will furnish the necessary evidence, on application.
I am, respectfully
Your Obd. Serv t
J. L. Edwards
Hon. Marcus Morton. S. of Rep.

No. 2 { original
It appears by the Regimental Book, That Sanford Hart now residing in Dartmouth in the State of Massachusetts, enlisted for, and served the full and continued term of Nine Months, a Private Soldier in the Rhode Island Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Jeremiah Olney, on the continental establishment, and that he was honorably discharged from said Regiment at Saratoga in the State of New York on the nineteenth day of January 1783. —
W. Dexter H. Major of said
Providence February 14 th 1821. —
Regiment, eodem tempore. —
The above is the duplicate of a Certificate issued by me at the above date and which is now represented to have been lost in the transmission. —
Providence March 20 th 1821. —
W. Dexter H.

Deposition of Ichabod
Summons, - to be used as
evidence in favor of Sanford
Hart, Pension for  for  the  the  year  year 1820
Jan 10, 1820. The Com. on Pensions with the official character & signature of the member who made the report being attached to the same the same will be found in the case of Samuel Hart the respondent
Sanford Hart Care

I Ichabod Simmons of Tiverton in the County of Newport and State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation - being of the age of Fifty eight years - do testify and declare - That - I became acquainted with Sanford Hart (family of Tiverton aforesaid) - who now resides in the Town of Dartmouth - in the State of Massachusetts) when I was quite a Lad - and have been acquainted with him ever since, having lived the most of the time in the same Town with him - - That I was in the War of the Revo- -lution Most of the time during the same - and am now drawing a pension for my services - that I was both in State and Continental Service during the war - and was Stationed and served in various Companies and places (viz) - from 1777. To 1780. I was in Colonel Henry Shelburne & Col t Israel Angell's Reg- -iments - - and - particularly in 1782, in the Spring of the year - I enlisted in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jeremiah Olney - for Nine Months, and served in s d Regiment during that term of time - and that Sanford Hart above named, enlisted and served in the afores d - Col t Olney's Regiment with me during the term of Nine Months as aforesaid - to my own knowledge (Turn over)

I very well recollect. Mr. Sandford Hart - within named - at the time within mentioned as we were Stationed together the most part of the time of Nine Months within mentioned at a place called the Highlands, on the North River - and Palatoga so called - and further the deponent saith not - Ichabod Simmons
Bristol J. S.
On the twenty fourth day of September, in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred - and Nineteen. the aforesaid deponent was - examined and cautioned and sworn agreeable to Law, to the deposition aforesaid by him subscribed taken at the request of Sandford Hart - aforesaid -
subscribed and sworn to before me.
Almer B. Gifford Justice of the Peace
I hereby Certify that the aforesaid Ichabod Simmons who subscribed the foregoing deposition. is well known to me - and in my Opinion is a credible witness -
Almer B. Gifford Justice of the Peace

Landford Warrenton
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Jany. 10. 1820. The Clerk's Certificate as to the official character & signature of the Magistrate who took the within Deposition will be found on the Deposition of the same  Alvin Walcox in the case of Samuel Peckham transmitted this day.
Alvin Walcox Magistrate
The Deposition of Gideon Coggshall
To be used as evidence in behalf of Landford - who claims a pension
Ms. A. 9. 2. 10

I Gideon Coggeshall of New Bedford in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts of the age of fifty three years do testify and say that I have been acquainted with Sanford Hart from my youth up to the present time that the said Hart now lives in Dartmouth in said County - that I enlisted in the Army of the revolutionary War, in the Spring of 1782 - Seventeen Hundred & Eighty Two - in the Regiment of Colonel Jeremiah Olney - for Nine Months and served my term of time - and that I know Sanford Hart aforesaid - enlisted the same time in the same Regiment of Colonel Olney with me, and served the term of Nine Months aforesaid - our Brigade Major was by the name of Dexter - Coggeshall Olney was a Major of the Regiment - and further the deponent saith not — Gideon Coggeshall Bristol. ss. On the fourth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight Hundred and Nineteen the aforesaid deponent was examined & cautioned and sworn agreeable to Law to the deposition aforesaid by him subscribed and in my opinion is a credible witness Henry B. Gifford Justice of the Peace

Alphabetical list of Names in Luke's Gospel for the use of students Thurs. C
See letter on file among Stanford Papers -
Paul L. Luke (Sermons.)
Dr.

I Dennis Lake of Newton county of Newport State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations of herewith age, being duly sworn on oath Oath say
That in April 1702 I enlisted in Capt. James Church's Regiment in the Connecticut line. That Sempford Mark at whose instance I offered with him taken was also a Soldier in the same regiment; we Marched from Prov- idence R.I. on to Philadelphia, from Philadelphia to a place called King's Ferry, from there to a creek point where we lay for a long time afterwards we march- to winter Quarters in Saratoga where they continued Till our discharge after the end of our enlistment, which was for nine Months, during all which time the said Sempford was in service; Daniel Lake for the said note
Newport Is. At Newton in said county Personally appeared Daniel Lake who was sworn and being duly con- firmed made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed, which was taken at the desire of Sempford Mark of Newton in the county of Washington aforesaid to be used for the purpose of obtaining a Pension taken in full payment of a Commission from the Honble Judge Davis of the District of Massachusetts.
Before me Wm. D. Williams Jus. Peace

Sanford Harts application for trans- fer from Mass: to Rhode Island —
Transf. 6 June 1823.
Sep 21.

United States of America
Rhode Island District. - County of Newport ss
On this 12 th day of May A.D. 1823. personally came before me the subscriber, Judge of the District Court of the United States for said District, Sanford Hart - who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Capt. [blank] in the regiment commanded by Col. Jeremiah Olney in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, that his name was placed on the pension Roll of the State of Massachusetts, from whence he has lately removed. That he now resides in the town of Tiverton in said County of Newport, in said State of Rhode Island where he intends to remain, - and wishes his pension payable in said last mentioned State in future -
• does not remember the Captain's name -
Given to me this day of year aforesaid
his Sanford Hart Mark
David Howell
Rhode Island District
Clerk's office U.S. District Court, Providence, May 26 1823.
The above is the true signature of David Howell, Judge of the U.S. District Court for said District - In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court the day & year above written.
Benjamin Cowell Clerk of said Court

No. 1.
copy
War Department Pension Office
(December 26. 1820)
Sir
in answer to your letter of the 21. Inst, I have to acquaint you, that the case of Samuel Pickham, cannot be decided on, until it can be ascertained, whether the Rhode Island Brigade in which he states to have served was on the continental establishment or not.
Sandford Harts case is suspended for want of sufficient proof of service if he served as stated. Major John S. Dexter of Providence Rhode Island, will furnish the necessary evidence - on application
I am Respectfully Your Obt. Servt.
J. L. Edwards
Hon. Marcus Morton Flame Represtn

Anna Simmons of Tiverton in the County of Newport of the age of Seventy two years and upwards, Deposeth and saith - That in the year 1775 she came from Newport R.I. to reside in Tiverton, when she was eleven years of age; That after this, and she verily believes, it was some time in the fall of 1777 or positive that it was not later than the spring of the year next following, when residing at the house of Samuel Simmons in Tiverton, she was requested by her Aunt Ruth Manchester to attend with her at Old Mr. Ethniel Campbell's house, then the minister presiding over the congregational church at Tiverton; to see the marriage of Sanford Hart of Tiverton and Hannah Manchester, that agreeable to the invitation or request so given, she did attend, and that she well recollects on visiting the house of Campbell, she saw the said Sanford Hart and Hannah Manchester, that in company with said Sanford was his brother Browning Hart and wife only - That at this time, she saw the said Sanford and Hannah stand up, and were together joined in marriage by the said Ethniel Campbell, as Depon t believes in common form; - That said Browning Hart, the brother of said Sanford, his wife and the said Ruth Depon t Aunt, who were present at the marriage, are all since deceased - That after said marriage, the said Sanford and Hannah lived and resided together at Tiverton, as man and wife up to the time of the decease of the said Sanford - That at the time of the decease of the said Sanford he was a Revolutionary pensioner and that said Hannah his widow has ever since lived single, and that she the Depon t understands that the said Hannah is now an applicant for a pension -
State of Rhode Island & Providence
Anna Simmons
Plantations -
County of Newport - Be it known that on the 12 th day of May 1837 appeared the above named Anna Simmons before the subscriber one of the justices of the peace in and for said County, and subscribed and made oath to the above deposition & further certify that she the Depon t is a credible person -
Charles Durfee Justice of the Peace

Offered with it from Albert to be used for S. West
See letter in file among Sandford Bates papers -
Imperial Bank (Erie) } A

I, William Albert of Scituate county of Newport State of Rhode Island of Scituate age being duly sworn do depose and say
That I know Sanford West at whom an affidavit is taken) while he was a Soldier in Capt. Jasons Regiment on Rhode Island, where I first saw them, my father be- ing in the same regiment, after wards the regiment in which said West was a Soldier, Marched off to the westward, my father remained behind, having received some harsh blow on his shoulder, and did duty in some other regiment, but by whom commanded I know not William Albert further saith not
Newport ss At Scituate said county personally appeared William Albert above named and being duly sworn and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition affidavit by him subscribed which was taken at the desire of Sanford West of Scituate com- monwealth of Massachusetts to be read before the honorable J. Davis Judge of the District of Massachusetts upon said for obtaining a pension — taken in pursuance of a commission from Judge Davis
By me W. D. Dyer Jr. Jus. Peace

To the Hon ble Justices of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Bristol and Plymouth
we the undersigned ask leave respectfully to represent — that we are well acquainted with Sandford Hart, who is now living in — Dartmouth in the County of Bristol, who says he was in the service of his Country in the revolu- tionary war — and should be satisfy your honours that he served the term of term required by the Laws of the United States, &c. entitle him to a pension — we have no doubts on our minds but what he would be justly entitled to it on account of his indigence as it is well known he is very poor — yours with much respect & esteem
Westport. Sept. 20. 1818.
Henr. B. Gifford Joseph Gifford Selectman of Dartmouth

V Hannah Hart and of Sandford Hart R.I.
Adm o per B r $80 per ann.
Com d 4 th March 1831 issue cert. to Ara Gray Guardian to Hannah Hart.
Ara Gray Esq. Diveyton R.I.

I Anna Simmons, wife of Ishak Simmons of Tiverton in the county of Newport and state of Rhode Island do testify and say that I have been acquainted with Hannah Hart the widow of Sanford Hart late of said Tiverton, deceased, for a great many years. I was present at her marriage with Sanford Hart and saw her married to said Sanford Hart by the Reverend Daniel Campbell, a congregationalist minister then settled and preaching in the said town of Tiverton. The said Hannah Hart was married to the said Sanford Hart some time during the first part of the revolutionary war; the British forces were in the town of Newport at the time they were married; but what year it was I do not recollect. — The said Hannah Hart was never married to any other person, than said Sanford Hart to my knowledge, and remains his widow to this day. I am now in the eighty second year of my age — Anna Simmons
Newport } November 28 th 1836 Then personally appeared Anna Simmons, subscriber to the above deposition and made oath to the truth of the same Before me J. S. Bliven, Justice Peace
I further certify that the above named Anna Simmons — is a credible witness Joseph S. Bliven } further of the Peace

State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations —
Newport Is { Tiverton November 28 th 1836

BY HIS EXCELLENCY,
John Brown Francis
Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode- Island and Providence Plantations.
BE IT KNOWN, that the name, " HENRY BOWEN, " to the afore-written attestation subscribed, is the proper hand writing of Henry Bow- en, Esquire, who at the time of subscribing the same, was Secretary of the State aforesaid, duly elected and qualified according to law: Wherefore unto his said attestation full faith and credit are to be rendered.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said State to be affixed at Prov- idence, this twenty seventh day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty- seven and of Independence the sixty-first.
John Brown Francis
By His Excellency's Command.
Henry Bowen Secy

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations. Secretaries Office March 27. 1837.
I certify that at the session of the General Assembly of said State on the first Wednesday of May last, Joseph T. Blish was elected a Justice of the Peace for the town of Goshen, in the County of Newport, for the term of one year, and commissioned accordingly: as appears of record in this office.
Witness, Henry Bowen Secy

I Richard Durfee, of Tiverton in the county of Newport, and state of Rhode Island, of lawful age to give evidence, do testify and say that I know Sanford Hart late of Tiverton aforesaid, deceased, and that some time during the revolutionary war, and I believe towards the latter part of the war, I hired the said Sanford Hart as a soldier in the state of continental service and I believe he was hired to serve during the war, but am not certain for what length of time; he however went into the service as I believe and continued there during the time for which he was hired — As I was not in the company in which he served I can not be positive as to the place where he served for the term of time — I served during the whole of the revolutionary war, either as a private or an officer in command of a company am now a pensioner, and in the seventy ninth year of my age —
Richard Durfee
Newport So. Tiverton March 22 d 1837 Then Richard Durfee personally appeared, and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned, made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth, taken at the request of Hannah Hart, and to be used in her application for a pension under an act of Congress passed July 4 th A D 1836 —
Before me Joseph S. Bliven Justice Peace
I further certify that the above named Richard Durfee is a credible witness — Joseph S. Bliven, Justice Peace

I, Gardner Thomas of Fall River in the county of Bristol and state of Massachusetts, yeoman, of lawful age to give evidence, do testify and say that I was a soldier in the revolutionary war and enlisted under Captain Nathaniel Church and served under him and under captain Lemuel Bailey, that I was acquainted with Sanford Hart of Tiverton and knew that he enlisted and served under captains Church and Bailey in the same company that I served in, for the time of one year, that he served principally on Rhode Island, and was in our expedition with me to Long Island - I know from common report that he had been in the service before he enlisted into Captain Church's company with me, and I saw him in the army after the expiration of the year that he served with me, and it was the common report that he served until the close of the war, but I have no personal knowledge of his services than those I have mentioned above -
Sanford Hart resided in the same town with me after the close of the war until the time of his death in the year eighteen hundred and twenty eight, he has left a widow, to whom he was married sometime during the war of the revolution, and who now lives within a few rods of my residence I am now seventy six years of age and am a revolutionary pensioner -
GARDNER THOMAS
Sworn to before me In Tiverton, March 22 nd 1837 Then Gardner Thomas, personally appeared, and after being carefully

examined and duly cautioned, made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed, contains the truth and nothing but the truth; Taken at the request of Hannah Hart, and to be used in her application for a pension under an act of Congress, passed July 4 th 1836 Before me — Joseph S. Bliven } Justice of the Peace.
I further certify that the above named Gardner Thomas is a credible witness Joseph S. Bliven — Justice Peace

State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Newport ss, Tiverton March 21. 1837 — I, Benjamin Springer of Tiverton in the county of Newport and State, aforesaid Yeoman — Do testify and say — That I was in the revolu- tionary service for more than five years and six months and that I was well acquainted with Sandford Hart, late of Tiverton deceased — That he was a soldier in the latter part of the revolutionary war to my knowledge for the time of nine months, that he enlisted in Tiverton, and marched to Philadel- phia where he joined the regiment, commanded by Col. Jeremiah Olney — That the regiment after being stationed at Philadelphia for a time, marched to Saratoga, where they were discharged some time in the summer, of the year after the battle at Yorktown (the capture of Cornwallis) — That Sandford Hart continued in the service from the time he enlisted at Tiverton, until the regiment was discharged at Saratoga which was nine months — I know from common report, and from Hart himself that he had been in the service for a long time previous to my meeting with him at Philadelphia — but as I served principally at the South, and he at the north, I did not see him to my recollection at any other time than that I have mentioned — I was acquainted with Sandford Hart after he left the service as long as he lived, and knew that he was married long before the close of the war I am acquainted with his widow, Hannah Hart and know that she is now living — I shall be seventy nine years old next June, if I live until that time — I am now a pensioner — and further this deponent saith not —
Signed in presence of G. P. Wilson his mark Knight X Springer
Newport Is. } In Tiverton March 21 st 1837 Then Knight Springer personally appeared, and after being carefully examined, and duly

cautioned, made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed, contains the truth and nothing but the truth, Taken at the request of Hannah Hart, and to be used in her application, for a pension under an act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 Before me, Joseph S. Bliven } Justice Peace
I further certify that the above named Knight Springer is a witness, entitled to credit Joseph S. Bliven , Justice Peace