Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,242, Amos Harris, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Harris, Amos Isabella
NUMBER _____
W. 21. 242.
CONTENTS

Maine. 8013
Isabella Harris M rs widow of Amos Harris
who was a Private
in the Mass. Line
Husb d died June 30. 1824.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 46 Dollars 55
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th day of Nov r . 1846. and sent to
Freeman Bradford Portland Me.
[Act of March 3, 1843.] and 19. June 1844.
Recorded in Book 4. Vol. 2. Page 4.
2 Certs.
Act 1838,
" 1843
" 1844
Rep d
F. Bradford, Nov. 27. '46.
same, Jan. 12, '47.
to Name Feb 4. '47

District of Maine ss.
On this twenty first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty five personally appeared before the Hon Ashur Ware judge of the United States for the District of Maine Isabella Harris a resident of Maine aged 83 who being first sworn doth upon her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Acts of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 March 3 d 1840. & June 17 th 1844.
That her husband Amos Harris was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and as she believes, served as a Matross in Capt Abner Lound's Company in 1776 and was stationed in Falmouth. In the winter of 1776 & 77 she believes he was called into the service from the Town of New Gloucester and served in Capt Haskell's Company at Peekskill, as she has reason to believe. She also believes that her husband served in Capt Larnont's Company in Col Ward's Regt. at R. I. in 1778 and also in the expedition to Penobscot in 1779 all of which service is contained and set forth in the certificate of the Secretary of State and the affidavits hereto annexed.
She further declares that she was married to her late husband Amos Harris at New Gloucester on the 20 th day of January AD 1780 and that her husband the aforesaid Harris died in the Town of Maine State of Maine on the 30 th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred &

Twenty four that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the sum. but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred & ninety four viz at the time above stated.
Isabella her X Harris widow John Wren Mark
Signed & sworn to before me this 21 st day of July 1894.
John Wren

The applicant claims for 5 mos & 5 days service as Matross in Capt Lowell's Company in 1776
Three mos in Capt Haskell's Company in 1777 as private of Infantry
Six months & 18 days as private in Capt Lemont's Company in 1778 -
Two months & six days in Capt Gray's Company in 1779 -
F. Bradford

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21242
Isabella Harris Widow of Thomas Harris Dis. Rev. War.
Act March 30 th 43 & June 17 th 44
Index: Vol. A , Page 315
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Andrew Mann of Bath in the County of Lincoln & State of Maine on oath depose & say that I am 85 years of age nearly, and was a Soldier in the Revolution. I was born & brought up in the Town of North Yarmouth where I resided until 1824 when I removed to Bath my present place of residence. I was acquainted with many of the Officers & Soldiers of the Revolution & particularly with those who resided in the Town of North Yarmouth & vicinity. My Grandfather Jacob Brown was a Major in Col. Phinney's Regt: in 1776, & Peter W Brown who was a Lieut in the Army of the Revolution served as an Ensign or Lieut that year in the same Regt. as I have heard him say. Peter Weyer Brown drew a pension as an Officer under the Act of 1818 and died at North Yarmouth about 16 years ago. I was also acquainted with Levi Loring who was a Lieut in a Company stationed in Falmouth the first part of the war. I am unable to say who the Capt was under whom he served in this Campaign but I am sure it was not a North Yarmouth man I have seen said Loring while he was in this service and can distinctly recollect some of the Soldiers from North Yarmouth & adjacent towns who served with him said Loring. Samuel Bradbury Reuben Guge & John Busling were from North Yarmouth James Johnson who was a Soldier in that Company

belonged to that part of North Yarmouth now called Freeport. & Ephraim Toothaker belonged to Harps- well
I was well acquainted with Amos Harris Attorney from my boyhood. Said Harris was born in North Yarmouth and lived there until within a few years before the Revolution. He then removed to New Gloucester a town adjoining North Yarmouth. I used to go to the same school with Amos Harris before he & his father's family removed from said North Yarmouth. I have seen said Harris while he was stationed in Falmouth as a soldier in the same Company in which Levi Loring was Lieut. I served with this same Amos Harris in the war of the Revolution. He had a brother by the name of John who resided in New Gloucester until the time of his death. Amos Harris was a short thick man and four or five years older than myself. I never knew any other Amos Harris than the one I have here testified concerning and this same Amos Harris who served with Levi Loring as aforesaid was the same man who served with me in Capt John Gray's Company in the Penobscot Expedition, in 1779. Amos Harris removed from New Glouces- ter after the war to a place called Bog Brook now Lebanon in the County of Cumberland. Nithus Little Peter. True new Old man.

State of Maine.
County of Lincoln ss.
Be it known, that on this 9th day of October A.D. 1846. Personally appeared before me Nathl. Grooton Judge of Probate for said County - the same being a Court of Record. An- drew Mann, the deponent before named and the foregoing affidavit being reduced to writing at his dictation and carefully read over to him, he subscribed the same and made solemn oath that the same is true I further testify that said Mann is a credible witness & his statements made oath are entitled to full credit.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said Court this 9th day of October the day aforesaid. Nathl. Grooton
Nathl. Grooton Judge of said Court.

Mr Chipman
I said Allen of Minot, in the county of Cum- -berland and State of Maine aged eighty- eight years, on Oath testify and say that I was a Soldier three years in the Revolutionary War and in the Continental Army and was on Rhode Island and at the Battle and further say that I was well acquainted with Amos Harris at that time, we both belonging in the town of New Gloucester. - Amos Harris was on Rhode- Island a Soldier in the Militia and saw him there before the battle in August but how long before I now cannot recollect and it was the last of December, before he left the Island, following so before he got home - there was not but few days different of his getting home and I coming home on furlough which was in December, and further say that after my return from the army that Amos Harris to told me that he was a soldier in a cam- -paign off to New York and on north River and I well recollect that he said he was in Captain Nathaniel Haskell Company - he Haskell of New Gloucester I was knowing to his being promoted to a Captain & heard the said Harris relate anecdotes of what passed under his own observation - and his Lieutenant was name Foot and I believe he belonged to the town of Windham And I further say that I was knowing to his being

a Soldier at Falmouth (now Portland) before I went into the army, and was there when I did go into the Army - and from my recol- lection of his accounting over his services I have no doubt but he served in all his campaigns one year. Isaac Allen Wumbulana Ys. March 5 th 1845 Then personally appeared Isaac Allen known to me as a man of truth and veracity and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed Before me Joshua Parsons Justice of the Peace

[REDACTED] To be filed as additional Testimony in the case of Isabella widow of Amos Harris -
H. Bradford Portland Maine

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, ss....
I — Charles Cobb, — Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, certify that
Joseph Adams is a Magistrate
as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is — duly qualified to act as such; that his Commission bears date January 30. A.D. 1841, and will expire Jan'y 30. A.D. 1848 —
and that the — following — signature purporting to be his — is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed
the Seal of the Court for said State, this Anno Domini 1846
Supreme Judicial Fourth day of June
Charles Cobb CLERK.

I Zebulon Pickett of Harrington County of Washington Do Oath depose and say that I am Eighty seven years of age and was a soldier of the revolution and am now a pensioner of the United States. In the time of the revolutionary war I was a resident of the town of Greenwich Rhode Island and in 1778 was drafted to perform a service of six months in the Company commanded by Capt Parker. in Col Wade Regiment on R Island I was in R Island at the time of the Battle at which time the troops were commanded by Gen Sullivan - Amos Harris of Gloucester was in the same company with me and served six months. Capt Parkers Company was joined to Capt Lemoont in the last part of the campaign and we were driven off by the latter - Capt Parker I think belonged to Yarmouth County of Cumberland. Capt Lemoont belonged in Georgetown now County of Lincoln.  Moses Alfred Pickett Moses Pickett  Zebulon his Pickett Mark  Washington J. June 24 th 1846. Then appeared Zebulon Pickett known to me as a man of truth & veracity and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him signed & sealed Before me Joseph Selams J. of Peace

I, Samuel Farber of Danville, in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged eighty six years, on oath testify before you say, that I was a soldier in the war of the Revolution in the winter of 1776 and 1777. I was called into the service under Captain Nathaniel Haskell of New Gloucester to March to Peekskill in New York, to fill up the army of Gen Washington there under his command. This service was an enlistment for three months, and I fully served out that term of time, after I had been mustered James Harris of New Gloucester who afterwards removed to the town of Minot in Said County, was with me and served the whole of this time of three months above named, the said Harris and myself came home together. Lieutenant Scott of Windsor and Ensign Webster of Gray belonged to the same company that myself and said Harris belonged too. Peter Grafton of New Gloucester was orderly sergeant of the same company, under Capt Haskell and Nathaniel Grafton was a soldier in the same company, and I saw Woodbury and Mairs Woodbury and James Stevens and Solomon Mallet Elias Merrill and Joseph Merrill Joel Simon and Abraham Anderson Joseph Hutchinson Samuel Libby Joseph Cummings Samuel Sampson, Joseph Stevens, Joseph Collins, William Brackley Stephen Noyes, Thomas Boage, John Hodge Ezekiel Hackett, Asa Libby, and

Joseph likely all belonged to the same company under sail National Hawkbill, we reached from Newbedford about the last of December 1776, and we arrived in Boston about the first of January 1777 I well recollect that there was an collision of the ship while on our March from Boston to Pelskill and I think it was on the day we crossed Hartford Ferry.
Samuel Saxon
State of Maine
Subscribed to July 28th 1845 Then the above named Samuel Saxon who is well known to me to be a credible witness personally appeared and made solemn oath, that the above deposition by him signed is true before me Nathaniel L. Ingersoll Justice the Peace

Feb. 16. 1846
Recd.
Isabella Harris.

Washington City Feby 14 1846
Sir
Will you you have the goodness to examine the testimony in the case of Isabella Harris and see if the service of the applicant's husband in the Company of Capt Lemont is not sufficiently identified by the testimony of Isaac Allen & also whose affidavits are filed in that case.
I am Very Respectfully Your Obt: Servt: H. Bradford
J. L. Edwards Esq, Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Portland April 2 d 1846
Sir
I herewith send you a certificate of the Secretary of State Mass: in the case of Isabella Harris widow of Amos Harris which case was reported to me on the 16 th of September 1845. This certificate shows that Amos Harris was a resident of New Gloucester in 1778 and that he was mustered in R.I. in Capt Parker's Company, in Col Wade's regt: The testimony of Isaac Allen also shows that Amos Harris was in the service at R.I. in 1778.
In this case we claim 5 mos. & 5 days service as a Matross in Capt Lowell's Company in 1776; three months in Capt Haskell's Company in the early part of 1777; 6 mos & 6 days service in Capt Parker & Lemont's Company in 1778 at R.I. and two months & 6 days service in the Penobscot Expedition in 1779. The proof the service in Capt Haskell's Company is shown by the position and direct proof of Samuel Parbox who served with him in that campaign, and his testimony is also corroborated by other testimony in the case. Also enclose a copy of an affidavit of the town clerk of New Gloucester showing the date of the intention of Marriage between Amos Harris & Isabella Parsons. The original is in the case of Betsey Seabury formerly widow of Amos Harris. The testimony as to the marriage in this case is

the same as that of Mr Seabury, and it is presumed will be satisfactory.
I am Very Respectfully
Your OBT. Servt:
F. Bradford
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commr of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

Pension Office, January 12, 1847.
Sir,
The certificate of the Secretary of Massachusetts, forwarded by you in the case of Isabella Harris, proves conclusively that she is pensioned at a higher rate than she is entitled to - it being an imperative rule, established by law, to regulate the pension at half the pay which the soldier received while in service. The Secretary's certificate shows that claimant's husband received only £1.16 per month, while she has been allowed at a computed compensation of £2. You will, therefore, return the pension certificate for correction.
Very Respectfully, Your Ob t . Servt. G. C. Gump
F. Bradford, Esq. Portland, Maine

Cum. Co. Me.
30 th June 1826
Capt. Lowell
Col. Mitchell

Portland 21st October 1846
Sir
I herewith transmit additional testimony to show that Amos Harris performed one tour of duty in Falmouth the year after the town was burnt in a company in which one of the officers, townsmen was Lieutenant. The affidavit also states the names of some other soldiers who served with said Harris, all of whom are dead so far as my enquiries have extended. I also send an additional affidavit of Isaac Hove, who is positive as to Amos Harris' service in Falmouth in 1776, or the year before he enlisted into the Continental Army. We can obtain nothing further in relation to the Peekskill service in the beginning of 1777 and all the testimony of a positive character offered is contained in the affidavit of Samuel Tarbox heretofore filed in your office.
It is believed that the testimony enclosed answers the requirement of your letter of August 10th 1846 and that it shows that Amos Harris the claimant's husband served in Capt Lowell's company in 1776 5 months 25 days as set forth in the certificate of the Secretary of State & Navy.
I am Very Respectfully
Your Ob't Serv't:
H. Bradford
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm'r of Pensions Washington

No. 12105 Isabelea Harris widow of Anson Mr 9113. 1275. act 7 July 1838
Adm d 13mo 29 days / m $46 \frac{55}{100} puan
Adm d act 3 March 1843 and 17 June 1844 $46 \frac{55}{100} puan
Freeman Bradfoul Portland Mr

Portland Decr 30th 1846
Sir
I here enclose a supplemental certificate in the case of Isabella Harris whose certificates were returned to your office some weeks since for correction. The amount of pay as stated by the certificate does not conform to the Act of the Continental Congress of 1775 or that of 1778 regulating the pay of Artillery and Infantry. I supposed that grade and Corps was only regarded in the computation of the pay of Pensioners, and not the amount the the soldier received while in the service. Such I believe was the rule adopted in the case of Sarah Mitchell for the benefit of the Act of 1838. and on that principle was the pension of Elizabeth Stanford computed whose husband received a per diem compensation of 12/ York Currency as was shown by the pay rolls in that case.
I am Very Respectfully
Your obt: Servt:
F. Bradford
J. L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Portland Jan'y 18 th 1847
Sir
The rule adopted in the computation of the Pension of Isabella Harris widow of Amos Harris whereby applicants for pensions are required to show the amount of compensation received by them or their husbands while in the service, is deemed by me of sufficient importance to submit the question whether the pension claimed under the several acts passed on and since the 7 th Jan 1832, is to be computed agreeably to the rule laid down in the letter from your office of Jan'y 12 th 1847 or agreeably to the act of May 27 th 1778.
The rule as laid down in the letter enclosed, would necessarily lead to a different and new computation of the Pension of many non commissioned officers who served in the first years of the war, and to the Sergeants whose service commenced January 1 st 1777 and ended December 31 st 1779. Thus could be allowed only $115 per annum instead of $120 and much as the act of May 27 th 1778 gave to him a higher rate of pension for his last 19 months service than for the first 17 months.
But I find that the rule of your office has been, heretofore, to give to Sergeants who served in the first 8 months service and also to those who served in the years service in 1776 at the rate

of $5 per month in the computation of his pension and yet he received while in service only $8 per month as authorized by the then existing law.
The former precedents have therefore led me to conclude that the pay of Pensioners under the acts of 1832 &c had been uniformly regulated by the act of 1778 embracing Infantry Cavalry and Artillery whether in the service of any particular state or or in the continental line.
If however the rule laid down in this case is an imperative rule established by law, your own decision in the case is all that I require.
The certificates of Mrs Harris required to be returned for correction were transmitted to your office in November last, and I presume will there be found.
I am Very Respectfully,
Your Obt: Servt:
H. Bradford
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Portland November 23 1846
Sir
Will you please to examine the enclosed certificates and see if there is not a mistake in the computation of the Pension. The proof exhibited was as follows viz
Five months & 5 days as Matron in Sewells Company 1776. 21 53
Six months & 18 days as private in 1778-79
Two months & 6 days as private in 1779 } 8 mos 21 days, 29. 30
Making in the whole $50 = 83
and differing from the pension certificates four dollars and twenty eight cents according to my computation. The mistake probably arose by computing the 5 mos & 5 days at the rate of a private of Infantry instead of Matron
I am Very Respectfully
Your ob't Serv't;
H. Bradford
J. L. Edwards Esq Comm'r of Pensions Washington D.C.

I William True of Tazewell in the County of Oxford but now in Portland in the County of Cumberland aged 85 next June on oath say that I was a resident of New Gloucester during the time of the revolutionary war. I was acquainted with Amos Harris of New Gloucester during this time and in the year 1776 or 1777 and I believe in 1776 and sometime in the winter there  in the winter or fall of the year that was a call made for the Militia to join the continental Army. Capt Nathaniel Haskell and Lieut Graffam of New Gloucester were two of the officers that went with this company at this time - Amos Harris was a soldier in this company and I know that it was said at the time that this company went to Peachkill in New York. They were absent according to the best of my recollection nearly four months. I also recollect that Samuel Fairbairn Nathaniel Ingersoll two men by the name of Woodbury also went with this company at the same time. I am not positive as to the time of this service but I distinctly recollect the facts of each service as stated above. & that Amos Harris went with this company.
William True
Cumberland Co April 23 d 1845 Then appeared the above named William True known to me as a man of truth and veracity & made oath to the above affidavit by him subscribed & Before me Freeman Bradford J.P.

I William Chipman of Oxford in the County of Oxford and State of Maine aged 82 years of age, on oath depose & say that I was a resident of New Gloucester in in the State of Maine at the time of the Revolutionary war. I was acquainted with Amos Harris of New Gloucester in the time of the war. I know that Amos Harris went into the Continental Army in the winter of 1776 & 1777. It was in the winter season and at the time he entered the service I was at then attending the winter school & perfectly recollect that he sent back after he marched from New Gloucester a bundle of clothes which were left in care of one of his brothers then at school with me. Capt Nathaniel Haskell of New Gloucester commanded the Company. Eliphale Lane who was a brother to my first wife went out in this campaign. Capt Haskell and his Company returned to New Gloucester the latter part of April 1777 - as near as I can recollect. I was well acquainted with Capt Haskell & do well recollect that Capt Haskell related to me after the war that his company was discharged a day or two before, or a day or two after the village of Loper was burnt on North River by the British - Capt Haskell further related to me that he saw the shipping of the enemy pass up North River at the time the village aforesaid was burnt & that he had in his possession at the time the money that belonged to the New Gloucester soldiers, & his friend Webster, had the money belonging to the New Boston soldiers.
Probably 1777

& that there being no force with him to resist an attack he & his company retired from the river and out of danger from the Enemy. I know that that Amos Harris was absent more than three months at this time in this campaign. It was then said and is my belief, that he served at Pukobill. Amos Harris mar- ried Isabella Parsons & removed to the town of Minot when he died.
W m Chipman
Cumberland Co May 7 th 1845. Then appeared before me at Portland in the County of Cumberland William Chipman known to me as a man of truth & veracity and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him signed. Before me Freeman Bradford Justice of the Peace.
United States of America.
Maine District Co. Circuit Court Clerk's Office.
I hereby certify that the Hon. Ashur Ware before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, is Judge of the United States in & for Maine District & that the signature thereto is his genuine signature;
And I further certify that Freeman Bradford, Nathaniel S. Dyer, Jerrold, Joshua Parsons & Samuel Foxcroft Esquires are Magistrates duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due their official attestations.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five
John Nufsey Clerk

Portland June 4th 1846
Sir
I have the honor to transmit to you additional testimony in the case of Isabella Harris widow of Amos Harris deceased. I forwarded to your office on the 2 d April 1846 an additional certificate showing that Amos Harris served in Capt. Parker's Company at least a part of the time in the six months service in 1778 on R.S. The enclosed affidavit explains the service & reason why he is found enrolled in the Company of Capt. Lemont. You will confer a favor by placing this testimony with the Certificate sent on the 2 d of April last in order that you may have all the testimony before you whenever it shall again come before you.
I am Very Respectfully your Obt: Servt: F. Bradford
J. L. Edwards Esq Commr: of Pensions Washington D. C.

In the case of Isabella Harris whose certificates for a pension under the acts of 1838 & 1846 were issued Nov 17 th 1846 & returned for correction
H. Bradford Portland Me,

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
Dec. 28, 1846
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Amos Harris is borne upon rolls of Capt Alvin Lowells Company, as a Matross, from July 26 1776, 1 Month and 5 days, at £1-16 2/3 per Month. whole amount, £2-2/3 and as a Matross from September 1, 1776, 4 Months at £1-16 2/3 per Month. amounting to £7-4/3

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the Commissioner's letter of Nov. 27, 1846 was filed in this Office; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said letter, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Packer,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

1778 6 mo 18. Supplement to all other things. College club list etc.
To be filed with the papers of Isabella Harris
H. Bradford Portland Maine
Isabella Harris 1778

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
April 1. 1846.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the Name of Amos Harris of New Gloucester is borne upon a Muster Roll of Capt Benjamin Parkers Company, in Col Nathaniel Wades regt. of the Massachusetts troops, now in the Service of the United States on the present Island Stationed for the term of 6 months. Said Muster rolls contains the names of 43 non Commissioned officers and privates, beside those of the Captain & 1 st & 2 nd Lieutenants and the same names are borne on the Pay roll of Capt Benjamin Dement.
The date of Enlistment on each roll is June, 23, 1778. The Muster Roll does not give the time in Service. The pay roll specifies the time in Service to be this is related to the same for a period of 6 months from Capt Parkers original enlistment My letter of 18 Decr 1845

6 Months & 18 days. The facts contained in this certificate were not given in the one issued July 7, 1845, as the roll from which they were taken was not then in this office.
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, a letter from Commissioner of Pensions, dated, Sept. 16, 1845. the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears , that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said letter application , and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Vaux, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I Thomas Johnson Town Clerk of the Town of New Gloucester in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose and say, that I have in my custody and keeping the Books of records belonging to said Town, in one of those Books purporting to contain the Record of publications of the intentions of Marriages I find the following. The intentions of marriage between Mr Amos Harris and Miss Isabell Parsons both of this town was entered and published, December the third one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine
Attest Nath l Eveleth Town Clerk for said year. Also. The intention of marriage between Mr Moses Harris and Miss Betsy Hovey both of this town were entered and published July the twentieth one thousand seven hundred and eighty two" Nath l Eveleth Town Clerk for said year" I further testify the above is a true extract from the records with the exception of dates which are in fair legible figures thus "Dec. 3 d 1779" and "July 20 th 1782"
Thomas Johnson Town Clerk of New Gloucester
New Gloucester Oct 22 d 1845
Cumberland S.S. New Gloucester Oct 22. 1845
Then the above named Thomas Johnson personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit
before me Otes Nelson } Justice of the Peace
I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the affidavit of Thomas Johnson appended to the papers of

Betsy Seabury formally the widow of Moses Harris and that said original paper shows the date of the intention of the marriage between Amos Harris and Isabella Parsons & Moses Harris since Betsy Seabury F. Bradford Justice of the Peace
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Maine. 10.126.
Rep d .
Isabella Harris
Widow of Amos Harris who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 30 th June 1824 of Cum. Co. in the State of Maine who was a Prin. in the Compy commanded by Captain Lowell of the Reg t commanded by Col l Mitchell in the Heav t line for 13 mo. 29 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of Portland at the rate of 46 Dollars 55 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of Nov. 1846 and sent to H. Bradford, Portland, Me.
Total amount, $23 2.75
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. H. Wood Clerk, Book D. Vol. 1. Page 7.

12105
Isabelea Harni R d August 4, 1845. Mother of Amos Mr
Acty July 1838 m: 80 - 0: 24. 13 m 29 d hi.
5.5
30. 1/600 - 20 -
$ 75.50
1506 15 1522
The term of 6 months under Capt. Patten commenced in letter of 10 August 41 to the same General that season under Capt. Linnell - F. Bradford Portland Maine

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
July 7 1845
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Amos Harris is borne as a matross upon a pay roll of Capt: Abner Lowell's Comp y . stationed at Falmouth, from July 26, 1776, 1 month, 5 days; — Upon another of the same Comp y and service from the 1 st of Sept r . to the last of Dec r 1776, 14 months; — Upon several muster and pay rolls of Capt: Benj o Simont in Col. Nath l Wade's reg t , for service at R.I. from June 25 to Dec r 31, 1778, including allowance for 233 miles travel, 6 months, 18 days; — and upon a pay roll of Capt: John Gray in Col. Jonathan Mitchell's reg t . for service in the expedition to Penobscot, from July 7 to Sept r 12, 1779, — 2 months, 6 days, and 100 miles travel; roll sworn to at North Yarmouth (adjoining New Gloucester). Capt o Simont upon whose roll, said Harris' name appears as above described, belonged
1 - 5
4 -
6 - 18
2 - 6
13 - 29

to Georgetown. Lt Haskell's name does not appear upon either of these rolls, and the preceding is all the evidence of service in the case shown by any of the records in this office.
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Paepe Secretary of the Commonwealth. x

To the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Mass—
The Secretary of State Massachusetts is requested to furnish from the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the war of the revolution evidence of the service of Amos Harris my late husband who was a soldier in the revolution and who served as she believes as follows—
In the year 1776 she believes he enlisted into the company of Artillery commanded by Capt Abner Lowell and did duty in that company about six months, and was stationed at Falmouth.
She believes also that her husband was in the service in at least two campaigns beside the one in Falmouth in 1776 and she believes he was in New York in one of them but is unable to state the year in which this service was performed. Nathaniel Haskell was sent.
She also believes that he was in the R.I. campaign in the year 1778 but in consequence of her great age is unable to state the name of the officers under whom he served. Her husband was a resident of New Gloucester in the time of the revolutionary war. The undersigned intermarried with Amos Harris on the 20th day of January A.D. 1780—
She therefore requests the Secretary to make an examination of the rolls in his office and grant a certificate of all the service that may be found

as performed by of her said Husband Amos Harris aforesaid.
And for the purpose of this application I hereby appoint Freeman Bradford of Portland my Atty in the premises.
Sealed her X Harris's mark
Cumberland Island 29 th . 1845 Signed before me.
Joshua Parsons Justice of the Peace.
120 B.

To be filed in the case of Isabella Harris widow of Amos Harris decd
H. Bradford Portland Maine
6 Mo 18 82 1

Isabella Harris
I Joseph E. Foxcroft of New Gloucester in the county of Cumberland on oath depose and say that my father the late Samuel Foxcroft was an ordained minister of the Gospel in said Town many years and as such duly authorized to solemnize marriages. In his record of marriages kept by him and now in my possession I find the following to wit
"January 20 th 1780 Amos Harris to Isabella Parsons"
The foregoing is a true extract from the record in my possession the figures are fair and legible and if written out would read thus "January Twentieth one thousand seven hundred & eighty."
I further depose and say that I exhibited said record containing the marriage aforesaid to the Hon. Asahel Ware judge of the U.S. for Maine District on the 18 th of December 1844 who then and there made a certificate on a blank leaf of said Book in the words and figures following to wit:
"I certify that I have this day examined the foregoing record purporting to be a record of Marriages solemnized by the Rev. Samuel Foxcroft late of New Gloucester of this State commencing Nov 23 d 1765 and ending January 6 th 1793 that it appears to be an ancient record and to have been kept with entire regularity & I have no doubt it is what it purports to be.
I further certify that I have examined this day under oath Joseph E. Foxcroft son of Rev. Samuel and

personally known to me to be a man of undoubted veracity, who testifies that he found this paper book among his father's papers after his decease, that he knows it to be in his hand writing and that he remembers be present at some of the marriages in this record. Portland Decr 18 th 1844
Asahel Ware
Judge of the United States
for the District of Maine
Joseph E Foxcroft
Cumberland Co ss April 5 th 1845 Then appeared Joseph E. Foxcroft known to me as a man of truth and made oath to the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed
Before me
Samuel Foxcroft Justice of the Peace
all in the of 1845 to the 2nd

I Isaac Allen of Minot in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose and say, that I am eighty nine years of age & upwards and am now a Revolutionary pensioner of the U.S. I was born in Cape Anne Massachusetts and lived there until I was nearly sixteen years of age, I then went to New Gloucester Maine where I resided, with the exception of the time I was in the Army, till after the war of the Revolution. I then removed to the town of Minot where I have resided for the last fifty nine or sixty years. I knew Amos Harris from the time I removed to New Gloucester till the time of his death . He the said Harris was one of my first acquaintances after I removed to New Gloucester aforesaid, we there lived with in one mile of each other. Amos Harris removed to Minot previous to the close of the war of the Revolution and I think not far from the time I was discharged from my 3-years service in 1780. After I removed to Minot which was when I was about twenty eight years of age I settled in the same neighborhood where said Harris had previously settled and lived from that time till said Harris death within one mile of him. Said Harris married Isabella Parsons.
I know that said Amos Harris enlisted from

New Gloucester the year previous to my going into the Continental Army and that he served one Campaign in Falmouth, I do not know under what Officers he served while there, but I distinctly recollect of seeing him when he was at home on furlough. I have heard said Harris say that he was at Peekskill New York one Campaign during the war. I saw said Harris in the Service at R.I. in 1778 and recollect that he invited me to take Breakfast with him & his mess which invitation I accepted. Said Harris was not discharged till late in season for I know that he did not get home to New Gloucester till about the time of my return home that year on furlough which was late in December.
In relation to said Harris services at Peekskill I have no doubt for I have heard him relate so many anecdotes concerning that Campaign that I feel confident he must have been in the Service. One story in connection with the Peekskill Service was in substance as follows: "That there was in his Company a Soldier by the name of Bodge who had charge of the Baggage waggon of the Company. While they were in New York as Harris said, and were expecting an attack from the enemy, a Sutter requested Bodge to take on board his waggon a part of a Hogshead of Rum and carry it off so that it might not fall into the hands of the enemy & at the same time requested Bodge to give a receipt for a given number of Gallons. The haste of

making the retreat did not allow Bodge to ascertain the contents, but he consented to receipt for a Hogshead "Contents unknown". The receipt was thus given and the Hogshead taken in charge by Bodge. Liquor of that kind being in great demand at the time, Bodge made frequent use of it, and every time he drew out, would repeat the words. "Contents unknown". This anecdote was so characteristic of the soldier that I have never forgotten it. I have no kind of doubt that said Harris served at Falmouth in 1776 the year before I went into the Continental Army. I never knew of more than one Amos Harris at the period of the Revolutionary War.
State of Maine
Isaac Allen
Cumberland County ss Sept 29th 1846. Then appeared before me at Minot in said County Isaac Allen whom I have known for more than thirty years and know him to be a man of the strictest truth & integrity, who dictated the foregoing affidavit and after the same was read to him by me as the same is written he subscribed the same and made oath that the same is true according to his best recollection and belief.
Before me
Freeman Bradford justice of the Peace

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Harris, Andrew GRADE Private LINE Armand's Corps
WARRANT NUMBER 13157 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED October —, 1789 to Theodorius Fowler, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.