Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4690, Zepheniah Harrison, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
★ Harrison, Zephaniah
R. 4690
CONTENTS

Rejected See letter & Sep 1835 to J. Lockhart,
did not see his mother,
4690

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
4690.
P. O. _____
Stephaniah Harrison
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized.
_____ Contract.

33. 224
Lephaniel Harrison Indiana

page 1 st Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832
State of Indiana Vanderburgh County 3 rd .
Probate Court August Term 1835-
On this day personally appeared the declarant John M c Pherson a resident of Vanderburgh County in the State of Indiana aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 that he enlisted in the army of the United States in the fall of the year next preceding the defeat and capture of Lord Cornwallis but the date he does not remember, with a sergeant whose name he does not recollect and served in a regiment of the Virginia line the number of which he does not recollect under the following named officers.
Col. Davis, Capt. William Bently - the regiment to which he belonged was under the command of Genl. M c Donough, the declarant does not recollect the name of any other of the officers of the regiment to which he belonged than those above mentioned. His sergeant was a foreigner, he thinks a Frenchman that at the time he entered the service he was residing in the County of Montgomery in the State of Virginia - that himself & Esao & Peter Stiffey (or Stephen) Andrew & Henry Gore & Austin and Valentine Acers were all taken from the same

page 2 o County at the same time and served in the same Company for the same length of time That he enlisted for the term of eighteen months & left the service about the month of June - certainly by the middle of August - one year and five months at least after he entered the service - That he found the army at Chesterfield Court house a short time before Christmas & helped to build a barracks there consisting of about one hundred & sixty cabins, expecting to remain there during the winter but was moved from there to Petersburg where they staid for two or three weeks & thence down James River to near the mouth, thence back & was kept moving at short intervals during the whole time he served back & forth between the mouth of James River & Chesterfield Court house on the same side of the river that Chesterfield Court-house is situated on - That he was not in any battle but was down near the mouth of James River at the time Cornwallis was defeated & captured - that he served nowhere but along and near James River
The declarant further states that his name is Harrison, but that in Virginia and elsewhere where he has lived, was and has been generally known by the name of Harris, & that not being capable of reading or writing, he does not know by which name he was entitled but thinks it probable he was entitled by the name of Zephaniah Harris
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any State
Sworn to and subscribed this 11 th day of August A.D. 1835- Zephaniah H Harrison mark
C. D. Bourne Clerk

page 3. And the said court does hereby declare its opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states
Y. W. Lindsay Judge P.C.
I Charles D. Bourne clerk of the Probate court of Vanderburgh County in the State of Indiana do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Zephaniah Harrison for a Pension
Witness my hand & the seal of said court at Evansville this the 11 th day of August A.D. 1835
C. D. Bourne, clerk
Amendment to the above declaration Personally appeared before me J. Stephens a Justice of the peace in & for the County of Vanderburgh and State of Indiana to Zephaniah Harrison who being duly sworn deponeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of time he served, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grade - For One Year and six months as a private and for such service I claim a pension
Subscribed & sworn to before me the day of 11 th day of August 1835 -
J. Stephens. J.P.
Zephaniah Harrison marks

Evansville Ind
Aug 24
Ind
Department of War
Pension Office
Washington
S. C. —
Y

Evanville Indiana Aug 12 1835
H. L. Edwards Esq Sir In Enclosed I send you the application of ex Garrison Harrison for a pension Respectfully James Lockhart