Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2214-100, John Ham, N.H.

SERVICE
N.H.
★ Ham, John
NUMBER
B.L.Wt. 2214-100
CONTENTS

John Ham
see
Original Muster Roll of Capt. Jeremiah Fogg, 6 th Comp y Col t Reids 2 d Regt New Hampshire line for the months of June, July, Aug t , and September 1782
John Ham, Priv e - during the War - Noted Killed by the Savages, 15 th July 1782 No Warrant has issued to John Ham, of Fogg's Comp y -
John Ham, Private for "during the War" Capt. Sam l Cherry's Comp y , Col t Reids 2 d New Hampshire line traced on the original Muster Rolls in 1782 and in February, March, April and May 1783 - The claim for land by this man is believed to have been satisfied as the Records show the issue of Warrant N o . 3196. for 100. acres on the 25 th Ap r . 1798 to Dan l Gookin, assignee of the said John Ham, of Cherry's Comp y . N.H. line

John Ham N o 2214
h N o May 25. 1838

State of New Hampshire Strafford } p.
At a court of Probate held at Rochester in said County the nineteenth day of May A.D. 1838.
Satisfactory evidence has this day been adduced to me the Judge of Probate of said County to prove that Hannah Goulard, James Run- nells, Abby Whitehouse and James Hoar are the sister & brother of John Hoar and are all and the only heirs at Law in fee to the said John Hoar who was a soldier in the Second New Hampshire Regi- ment in the Revolutionary War.
Daniel C. Atkinson Judge of Probate
State of New Hampshire
Strafford p. I have
Eastman Register of Probate of said County do hereby certify that Daniel C. Atkinson is Judge of Probate of said County & that the above is his true & genuine sig- nature -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the court of Probate of said County this nineteenth day of May A.D. 1838.
Isaac H. Eastman Regr

State of New Hampshire { Middleton April 9. 1830 County of Strafford }
I Hannah Garland, here at Law, of John Ham, do upon oath, testify and declare to the best of my knowledge and belief, that John Ham died in the service in 1776 for the term of During the war and served as a soldier in the Regiment commanded by Colonel George Root New Hampshire line, and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the summer of 1782, at which time he was said to have been slain by the Quebecians . I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to John Ham on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever. Therefore I know all now by these presents, that I Hannah Garland aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Samuel Cushman of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Esq. to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid; and for my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purposes above expressed. Witness my hand. Attest Charlotte Greenleaf Hannah Garland Hannah H. Garland Mark
State of New Hampshire Strafford ss { April 9. 1830 personally appeared Hannah Garland subscribed to the foregoing declaration & made oath to the same, and my presence acknowledged the power of attorney then to be her free act & deed for the purposes - is this in mention. Before me Richard Russell Justice of the Peace.

I Samuel Lear of Effingham in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire in my twenty Third year of age depose and say that I enlisted as a Soldier for during the war in July 1780 into Capt James Carr Company and Colonel George Reeds Regiment New Hampshire Line and stood in said Company to the close of the war, said Company was broken up in 1783 and I joined Capt Cinters Company of the same Line. I was acquaint- ed with John Ham a Soldier in the same Regiment with myself and I believe said Ham enlisted for during the war. In the summer of 1782 John Ham was stationed at Fort Herkimer in the State of New York and was said to be killed by the Indians. I did not see him at the time he was killed or after he was killed. It was reported & believed in the Regiment that he was killed by the Indians and nothing to the con- -trary has been said since to my knowledge
Samuel Lear
State of New Hampshire Strafford ss. April 2 nd 1830 Then personally appeared the above named Samuel Lear a credible witness and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true Before me Richard Russell Justice of the Peace

I John Cunney of Ossipee in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire eighty one years old - do hereby say that I enlisted as a Soldier for during the in the year 1777 into Capt. Meshack Bell's Company & Colonel George Reeds Regiment New Hampshire Line and served to the end of the war - that I was well acquainted with John Ham a Soldier in the same Company with myself said Ham was enlisted to serve during the war and was killed by the Indians in the fall of the year 1782 about one & a half mile from Fort Herkimer in the State of New York. I was in the Fort at the time John Ham was killed and left Fort Herkimer the next day after he was killed & went down the Mohawk River to Fort Plain Lieut. George Frost Commanded the Company to which we belonged at this time Capt. Dustin being at home. I was a Sargent at this time.
Witness John C. Thompson Harriet Thompson
John his Cunney mark

State of New Hampshire
Stratham ss. } April 3 rd 1880 Then personally appeared the within named John Canney a credible witness and made solemn oath that the within written affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me Richard Russell Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire Shafford county ss. I Francis Cagnewell Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for said County hereby certify that Richard Russell Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits of Hannah Garland, Samuel Lear and John Canney purport to have been taken is a Magistrate as there stated and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are in my belief genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this second day of May A D 1838 - F Cagnewell, Clerk