Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4593, Samuel Hardin, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Hardin, Samuel
V. 4593
CONTENTS
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REJECTED
4078
P. O.
Samuel Harden
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Samuel Hadden Ohio.
Referred to see letter 29 Nov 32 to J. Woods.
4593

Aug. 14 th 1832
In this case no declaration could be made by the person him- self, but as his wife was still living who knew of his services, I thought it best to draw up her declaration conforming as nearly to the forms prescribed as practicable - Her statement supported by the evidence of her veracity & the situation of the old man himself who appeared in court I hope will bring his case within the spirit of the law and the rules prescribed for pen- sioners - Any deficiency here- in material which can be sup- plied in this case can be obtained at our next court.
Respectfully
Yours
J. Wood
J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office

2351
Samuel Harden A Revolutionary Soldier
PO
Letter

The State of Ohio Butler County Court of Common Pleas July Term 1832
On this Second day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo personally appeared before the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Butler and State of Ohio Mary Hardin aged seventy six years a resident of the county of Butler aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain for her husband Samuel Hardin who is now of insane mind and memory, the benefit of the act of Congress passed June seventh eighteen hundred and thirtytwo
That she was married to the said Samu- el Hardin in Cumberland County Pennsylvania in June seventeen hundred and seventy six. That in August of that year her husband Samuel Hardin volunteered to serve for two months in Captain Lack company, that she marched to Philadelphia and to Amboy in New Jersey on the expiration of his time he was discharged and returned home. In August seventeen hun- dred and seventy seven, her said husband was called to serve in the militia of Cumberland County, he was out two months during which time he was, as deponent was at that time informed

and has always believed, at the battle of Brandy- wine, he went out under Captain Crawford and Colonel Lach, his former captain, she believes he was at the battle of the White horse, about the close of the war the said Samuel Hardin went out on an expedition against the Indians on the Scioto river and at Frankstown, he was un- der the command of Captain McFarland, he was gone on this tour more than two months Deponent further states that her said husband went out to assist in burying Captain Philips men who had been slaughtered by the Indians but how long he was out deponent cannot posi- tively state but has often heard her husband say that on tour he was out thirty days on that tour which she fully believes from her own knowledge Deponent states that for the last three years he has been deprived of his reason and has in a great measure lost his memory - she further states that her said husband has a written record of his age from which it appears that he was born in the year seventeen hundred and fifty five in the state of Pennsylvania - he is now about seventy seven years of age, he has resided in the county of Butler Ohio thirty three years - Deponent states that she and her husband are well known to Edward Babb James Handy and others of the county of Butler by whom she can prove her own character for truth and veracity to be good, and that her husband has always been respec- ted and believed in his neighborhood to

have been a soldier of the revolution & We hereby on the part and for her said husband relinquish all claims to any other pension than the present and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state as she verily believing Mary Sup Hardin X Mark Sworn & subscribed this day & year aforesaid John Reily Clerk
I Edward Bebb a resident of the county of But- ler in the state of Ohio do hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with Mary Hardin who has sworn to and subscribed the above decla- and her husband Samuel Hardin for more than thirty years, that Mary Hardin sustains a good character for truth and veracity, that her statement is entitled to full credit, and I further certify that the said Samuel Hardin who has lost his reason has always been reputed, believed and considered in his neighborhood to have served in the war of the revolution and that I have full confidence in the truth of her decla- ration & concurs in the opinion that he was a soldier of the war of the Revolution. Sworn and subscribed this day and year aforesaid John Reily Clerk Edward Bebb
We Leonard Richart Warner Wirt and James and James Hamdy Posters residents of the county of Butler do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ma- ry Hardin who has sworn to and subscribed

the foregoing declaration and with her husband Samuel Hardin, who from age is very infirm and for the last three years has been deprived of his reason and memory, that we were well ac- quainted with said Samuel Hardin for many years before his affliction and have often heard him when in his sound mind and memory speak of his revolutionary services - We further certify that said Samuel Hardin has always been reputed and believed in his neighborhood to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we fully concur in that opinion - We further certify that the said Mary Hardin wife of said Samuel Hardin sustains a good character for truth and veracity and that we have full con- fidence in the truth of the declaration which she has above sworn to and subscribed  sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid  John Reily, Clerk
This Leonard Buckner Mark James Wiggins Mark James Foster H. A. D. L.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investiga- tion of the matter, and after printing the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary

Soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Edward Bell, Leonard Rickart, Warner Myrnn, James Foster and James Handley, who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the said county of Butler, and are credible persons. And that their statements are entitled to credit.
I John Reily clerk of the court of common pleas of the county of Butler aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Samuel Hardin for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office at Hamilton this fourth day of August One thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
John Reily