Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4692, Lewis Harroff, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Harroff, Lewis
R. 4692
CONTENTS

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1878.
REJECTED
4692
P. O.
Lewis Hearoff
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

Rejected, did not serve in a military capacity. See letter 28 Sept 30 to Mr. M. Kinney.
4692
Act 7. June 1832

Penn a Aug 26.
31.797
Lewis Harroff Pennsylvania
J. B. B. Schwartz Esquire Pension Office War Department Washington City
FREE

Hamburg August 22. 1854.
Sir,
I enclose the Declaration of Lewis Harroff, with accompanying papers, for the purpose of obtaining a pension for services in the Revolutionary War.
Any communication on the subject it is respectfully requested may be directed to my address at this place.
Respectfully
Yr. ob. Servt.
Mordecai M. Whitney
J. L. Edwards Esq. Pension Office War Department

30.797
Declaration of Lewis Har- roff, for pension for services in the Revolutionary War.
Pennsylvania

State of Pennsylvania County of Dauphin;
On this 22 nd day of August A.D. 1834, personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid, now sitting, Lewis Hanoff, a resident of the County of Lancaster in the State aforesaid, aged eighty years, who being first sworn according to law, on his oath doth make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the Act of Congress made June 7 th 1832, viz;
I enlisted as a waggoner in the Continental line in the revolutionary war, at Hammetsstown in the County of Dauphin in the State aforesaid, in the Spring of the year in which the British left Philadelphia, for six months: I got six dollars bounty, and ten dollars a month pay. I belonged to the brigade of waggons under Jacob Riche, waggon master: the waggoners were all enlisted for six months at ten dollars a month pay: they had continental waggons & horses belonging to the Government and received their rations & forage from the public stores: I hauled with the brigade the most of the summer of that year between Lebanon & Philadelphia: — afterwards I hauled from Philadelphia to King's Ferry on the North river, the waggons followed over a way which went on the other side of that river with public stores. A man of the name of — Brooks became waggon master, and there was with us a waggon master genl. of the name of — Beck. I served the whole time I enlisted for, more than six months, and got my discharge from the Commissary of the name of Mitchell, at Philadelphia, I don't remember the particular time, some time late in the fall or winter of that year. — My discharge has been lost. — I now reside near Elizabethtown Lancas-

the bounty, Pennsylvania. — He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that my name is not on the pension roll of any state. —
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid; in open court.
Lewis his Harroff marks
Wm Roberts Party
State of Pennsylvania County of Dauphin ss.
This 22 nd day of August A.D. 1834, personally appeared, in open court, before the Court of Common Pleas for the bounty aforesaid, now sitting; Frederick Ricker, who being duly sworn  affirmed according to law, on his oath deposes, & says as follows, viz; I served for upwards of six months as a waggoner in the continental line in the Revolutionary War. I was well acquainted with Lewis Harroff at that time — I know he enlisted at the same with myself as a waggoner in the continental line, at Hamilton in the county aforesaid, in the spring of 1777 or 1778, the same year the British left Philadelphia; he was in the brigade of waggoners under my father Jacob Ricker who had the commission of waggonmaster, the waggoners were all engaged for six months — We had a continental waggon & horse, & hauled with the brigade of waggoners at first between Lebanon (now Lebanon county) in this state & Philadelphia, and afterwards between Philadelphia and Huds foray on the North River. He served the whole of the six months, and longer, and was discharged some time later in the fall or winter of the same year, at Philadelphia by — Mitchell, commissary for the Army. — I

have been acquainted with him since the Revolutionary war.
Affirmed Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid, in open court
John Harbarg
Mr. Roberts Party
State of Pennsylvania County of Dauphin ss;
This 22 nd day of August A.D. 1834, personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, now sitting, Ludwig  before Fishburn, who being duly sworn according to law deposes & says, as follows, viz;
I served as Soldier in the Penn a militia in the Revolutionary War, in the Reg t commanded by Col. Robert Eder, and was in the battle at Brandywine hill, in 1777; - and in 1778 was in the service as a waggoner; and am now in my seventy eighth year of age. I was well acquainted with Lewis Harhoff, and know him to have been in the service in the Revolutionary war, he was a waggoner in a brigade of Continental waggoners under Jacob Stuber waggon master - he drove between Lebanon and Philadelphia. I often met him driving waggon - he drove a continental waggon & horses - I don't know what pay he got - I heard at the time of his driving from Philadelphia & the North river - he was driving waggon during all the sum- mer of the year 1778, he quit the service in the fall - he must have been in the service for the least six months. I have known him well since the Revolutionary war, & believe his declaration as above made to be correct. I live now in Dauphin County, near Hummelstown. Ludwig Fishburn
Sworn & Subscribed in open court Aug 22 nd 1834
Mr. Roberts Party

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the within named applicant served in the revolutionary war as he states.
C. Blythe } Judges P. H. Kennard " " "
Pennsylvania Dauphin County ss.
I John Roberts prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County do certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Lewis Sharoff for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court at Harrisburg this 22 d day of August A D 1834.
John Roberts Protho