Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4,600, Reuben Hardin, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hardin Harden or
Reuben
RR 4,000.
Rebecca.
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Rebecca Barden Wapachusts,
ms Ishers
Cape Eleanor at 21/2 hours out Barlow Send 8 ms at Boston in 1775 but the name of elephant husband is not on card roll
J. N. D. D.
Wilson Reuben March

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss.
On this second day of October in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth Rebecca Warden a resident of East Bridgewater in said County of Plymouth aged seventy five years, who being first sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"; That she is the widow of Reuben Warden who was a private soldier in the war of the Revolution that according to statements she has frequently heard her husband make during the time she lived with him he was in the service of the United States as a soldier in the year 1775 Eight months at Roxbury (near Boston) in Capt Hamblins Company and Col e John Baileys Regiment; That he served several short campaigns under Capt Isaiah Stetson and Capt Elijah Cushing at Rhode Island Marshfield and other places. for proof of his

service she refers to the affidavits hereto annexed. She further declares that she was married to the said Reuben Hardin on the eighteenth day of July in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, that her husband the aforesaid Reuben Hardin died on the fifth day of October in the year eighteen hundred and twenty eight, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January. Seventeen hundred and ninety four with at the time above stated.
Rebecca X Hardin Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written, before. Willes Wood J. Prob.
Plymouth Co. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Hon. Willes Wood is Judge of Probate for said County & that the above is his true & genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this sixth day of October 1838.
Jacob H. Lord

REJECTED
4600
P. O.
Rebecca Noardin
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Cont
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

John V. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Plymouth.
Clerks Office September 21 st 1838
I John B. Thomas, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of Plym- outh aforesaid hereby certify, that it appears of record in this Office that on the eighteenth day of July in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, Reuben Harden of Pembroke in the County of Plymouth and Rebecca Harden of Bridgewater in said County were married at Bridgewater in the County aforesaid, by the Rev d Samuel Angier.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for the said County of Plymouth on the day and year aforesaid.
John B. Thomas

I Reuben Harden of Pembroke of lawful age testify and say that I knew William Pincin of Bridgewater to serve as a soldier in the revolutionary war eight months at Roxbury in the year 1775 and also two months longer in the beginning of 1776. I left the camp in the winter of 1776, I think, in February and left him there, so that he had served ten months when I left the service. He belonged to Scituate when he enlisted. Reuben Harden
The above named Reuben Harden personally appeared before me the subscriber and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him signed is just and true in all its parts - and I do further certify that the said Harden is a credible witness
Nahum Mitchell Judge etc
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. Dec. 6. 1819. The above named Reuben Harden gave the above deposition and took the above oath before me Nahum Mitchell Judge etc

I Benjamin Pincin of lawful age do testify and say that I am well knowing to my brother William Pincin enlist- ing into the army in the war of the revolution in the Spring of 1775 for eight months and that he served out the term at Roxbury near Boston and that he immediately enlisted a- gain for twelve months longer and served till April 1776 when he returned home having procured another man in his room. He served in Col. Baileys Regiment in the Massachusetts Line, and was in the service a com- pleted term of eleven months and upwards. and was not at home during said term excepting a few days on a furlough.
Benja Pincin
The above named Benjamin Pincin personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him sub- scribed is just and true in all its parts be- fore me — and I do also certify that the said Pincin is a credible witness —
Nahum Mitchell: Judge D.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Welcome Young Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that the signatures to the several annexed affi- davits purporting to be signed by him are his true & genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this sixth day of October 1838.
Jacob H. Lord

I James brooker of East Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being in the Eighty fourth year of my age do depone, set forth, and say that I was in the war of the Revolution in the year 1775 at Roxbury near Boston and in Capt. Freedom Chamberlains Company, and that Reuben Warden then of Pembroke was a soldier in the war of the Revolution in the year 1775 in Capt. Hamblins Company and Col: John Baileys Regiment, and that the said Warden served in the aforesaid Hamblins Company Eight Months. I was acquainted with the said Reuben Warden, we both enlisted from Pembroke, I enlisted into Capt. Chamberlains Company and the said Warden enlisted into Capt. Hamblins Company and were stationed near together and were in the same Regiment.
James Brooker
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. September 28 1838 Then personally appeared before me the above named James Brooker and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed and I further certify that the aforesaid deponent is a man of truth and veracity. Before me Welcome Young Jus. Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss.
I Seth Warden of East Bridgewater in the county of Plymouth being in the fifty first year of my age do depose set forth and say that I was well acquainted with Reuben Warden late of Hanson - deceased, that he died on the first day of October in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty eight and that Rebecca Warden a resident of East Bridg- ewater is the widow of said Reuben War- den.
Seth Warden
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss October 2 d 1838
Then personally appeared the above named Seth Warden and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed and I further certify that the said Seth Warden is a man of truth of and veracity -
Before me Welcome Young Jus. Peace

I Nahum Mitchell of East Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, now resident in the City of Boston, do depose testify and say that I was one of the Justices of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit of said Commonwealth for several years during which time many applications were made to me for pensions and a great number of declarations were made, and among others was that of William Pincin, and as testimony and proof of his service he produced Reuben Harden who made the affidavit accompanying this deposition signed by him and sworn to by him before me on the 6 th day of December 1819 as appears on the face of it. I knew Harden very well and he has been dead for many years.
The Deposition of Benjamin Pincin was also given at the same time and for the same purpose, and is herewith forwarded as corroborative of the said Harden. —
Nahum Mitchell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss.
September 6 1838 Then personally
appeared the above named Nahum Mitchell and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed and I further certify that the aforesaid deponent is a man of truth and veracity —
Before me Welcome Young Jus. Com.