Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13303, Nathan Hanson, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. H.
Hanson, Nathan
S 13303
Scarded
CONTENTS

4947
New Hampshire
Nathan Hanson
Wolfborough in the State of New Hampshire who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Gilman of the regim t commanded by Col Stickney in the New Hampshire line for 15 months and 19 days
scribed on the Roll of New Hampshire the rate of 52 Dollars 09 Cents per annum, commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th day of Jan y 1833 and sent to Joseph Tanner Esqr Wolfborough
Arrears to 14th of Sep r 1832 $78.13 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th March 1833 26.04
$104.17
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk Book D Vol. 1 Page 161

Peterson
13.303 ✓ INVALID.
File No. 13.303
Nathan Hanson
Pris. Rev. war.
Act: June 18 th 1832.
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 435
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Nathan Hanson Wolfborough
8341
in Roll kept Gilman 60 col. Stockings, Reg 2 Mns & 11 days in Roll kept Runnells 60 col. Mooney's Reg 6 Mns & 8 days
15 Mns 19 days
a Mn
Joseph Faxon Esq. Wolfborough N.H.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
COUNTY OF STRAFFORD ss.— Superior COURT OF Judicature
August
TERM, 1832
On this 22 nd day of August 1832, personally appeared before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature now in session at Gilford within and for said County of Strafford, Nathan Hanson a resident of Wolfborough in said County of Strafford and State of New-Hampshire, aged Seventy six 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 Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States, in the year 1775
and served as follows: — Seven months in the New Hampshire Militia New Hampshire Line, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Col. Lieut. Col. M c Duffee, & Major Colley, and in the company in which Jonathan Wentworth was Capt. James Carr Lieut. & Arthur Hark was 2 nd Lieut. or Ensign, and was stationed at Winter Hill, and left the service the first of January 1776. That he resided at Somersworth in the said County of Strafford where he enlisted, and marched thence to New Hampshire & Massachusetts to aid Winter Hill. He again enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1777, and served two months in the New Hampshire Militia New Hampshire Line in the Regiment commanded by Col. Stickney Lieut. Col. Richardson & Major Purdie, & in the company in which Jedidiah Gilman was Capt. Nathan Wentworth Lieut., and Carr Leavitt Ensign. That he marched thence to New Hampshire & Vermont to Bennington, was engaged in the battle at Bennington & lost the use of two fingers by a musket ball, shot from the enemy. That he resided where he last enlisted in Middletown in said County of Strafford, and left the service in September 1777. He again enlisted in the army of the United States in 1779, and served six months in the New Hampshire Militia New Hampshire Line in the Regiment commanded by Col. Mooney, Lieut. Col. Purdie, the Major's name I do not recollect, and in the company in which Samuel Purdie was Capt. Samuel Piper was Lieut., and James Purdie was Ensign. That he marched thence to New Hampshire, Massachusetts, to Pictou, Providence, and Newport Rhode Island, and was one of sixty soldiers selected and stationed at Fagins Ferry in said Pictou, to watch if the British should attempt to land from the Island. I was a Sergeant during said last six months that I served & resided when I last enlisted in said Middletown, and left the service the first of January 1780 —
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.
Nathan Hanson
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, in open Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
ATTEST— A. Peirce, CLERK.
I, Andrew Peirce, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for said County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Nathan Hanson for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this 22 nd day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
ATTEST— A. Peirce, CLERK.