Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 19749, Cornelius Harding, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Harding, Cornelius Mary
W 19749
CONTENTS

1874. Massachusetts. Mary Harding, widow of Cornelius Harding Jr Mass who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private & drummer
Reported
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 33 Dollars 22 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of Sept. 1848 and sent to G. S. Bulfinch Boston Mass
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 56 Vol. 2

State of Massachusetts. Barnstable County ss.
On this first day of November A.D. 1838. personally appeared before the Hon ble Symphus Marston Esq r Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Barnstable, Mary Harding a Resident of W  W aketucket in said County aged twenty six 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,
And declares that her husband Cornelius Harding Y enlisted into the Company of Capt Winslow Lewis as a private in November 1775. and went to Boston, in the Spring of 1776 he returned under the Com d of Capt Joseph Smith and served at Truro. until the following November, he was also in the Transport Service under Capt Moses Lewis as appears by the deposition of Samuel Newcomb. She further declares that I was married to the said Cornelius Harding Y on the 18 th Eighteenth day of January in the year Seventeen Hundred and Eightyone; and that said Cornelius Harding my husband died at sea the last of March or first of April. Seventeen Hundred and Ninetyfour

That I was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen Hundred and Eightyfour. Viz. at the time above stated. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
Mary Harding
Barnstable ss Court of Probate, Williston Nov 1. 1838 Sworn to before me in open Court & subscribed Nymphae Warson { Judge of said Court of Probate
Barnstable ss. I Timothy Reed Register of said Court of Probate certify that the Hon- or Nymphae Warson is the judge of said Court and that the above is his signature - Witness my hand & the seal of said Court this 1 st Nov. 1838 Timothy Reed Register Prob.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Barnstable County
"Cornelius Harding Jr and Mary Snow both of Wellfleet were married" January Eighteenth one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eightyone Recorded by Samuel Waterman Town Clerk
The above is a true Extract from the Records of the Town of Wellfleet with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair and legible figures. "January 18th 1881"
Attest Josiah Whitman Town Clerk Wellfleet November 1 st 1838.
I Josiah Whitman above named do hereby and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town, County, and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exceptions above named as certified by me.
Wellfleet November 1 st Josiah Whitman 1838.
Barnstable ss.
Canvass of Probate Wellfleet Nov. 1. 1838
Then the said Josiah Whitman swore in open Court and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit and subscribed the same - Witness my hand and the seal of said Court - Timothy Reed Register of Probate

Massachusetts - 1896
Mary Harding widow of Cornelius Harding, Jr.
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who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died in the month of March, 1794, Barnstable, in the State of Mass - who was a pri. & drum. in the Comp y commanded by Captain J. Smith of the _____ commanded by _____ in the _____ for 2. 17 days pri. 8. 54 6. 22 " drum. 24. 68 $33. 22
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 33 Dollars 22 Cents per ann. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th day of Feb- ruary, 1839 - and sent to Hon. Geo. Reed, Ho. of Reps.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1838 = $83.05 Semi-annual allowance ending 4th. 1839 = 16.61
$99.66
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by S. A. Elliot Clerk, Book A Vol. 1, Page 95.

Rep
132.
Massachusetts.
Mary Harding
Wid. to Hon Joseph Grinnell Jan 4 th 1846
widow of Cornelius Harding Jr. who was a private drummer.
in the Massachusetts line
for 2. Mos. 17. days private 6 " 22 " drum d
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of $3. Dollars 22.
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19. day of May 1843. and sent to
L. M. Stone Esq. Boston
Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1. Page 43.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19,749
Mary Harding Widow of Cornelius Harding Dis Rev War
Act Feb 29 48
Index: Vol. 14 , Page 314
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Washington City Jan'y. 13 th 1846
Sir
I am requested to call your attention, to the case of Mrs. Mary Harding, widow of Cornelius Harding, of Willfleet, Mass. She states that she drew a Pension, under the Act of 1838, which ex- pired in 1841, and that it was not renewed till March last, and that she has not drawn a Pension for the years '43 & '44, she now asks for a Pension for three years -
Very respectfully
Your Ob t Servant
H. Grinnell
J. L. Edwards Esq t . Com r of Pensions

3353
no 27
Barnstable Nov 23 Mass. July 1838
free
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm ee of Pensions Washington City D.C.
30.333-15 23.333 6.666 18.000 2.111 6.444 2.222
6.666 1.875 8.541 22.000
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939

Barnstable Mass. Nov. 23 1838
Sir I enclose the papers of Mary Harding an applicant for a pension -
Please make returns to me & oblige yrs respectfully Timothy Read

Harding
Feb 5
pm
J. L. Edwards Esq Commission of Pensions
for Reed
AM
12 mo 76 -
24th March Harding
Mr. Witherell

House of Rep Feb 2 d 1839
Sir
Will You have the goodness to inform me whether a decision has been made in the case of the Widow Mary Harding of Mass ts . an applicant for a Pension. If it be favorable & the Certificate has not been sent by her request I beg You will send it to me
With Respect To the Hon ble .
John Reed
J. L. Edwards Esq.

M. Hardy ad. 132
admitted
G. S. Bulfinch Boston Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston August 22 d 1848
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Collins S. Cole was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Barnstable,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
W m D. Briggs Secretary of the Commonwealth.

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled, "An act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, } ss.
Barnstable County, }
On this fourteenth day of August 1848, personally appeared
before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid,
Mary Harding
a resident of Walpole in the county of Barnstable aforesaid
aged Eighty Six years, who being first duly sworn, according to
law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the
provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to
widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of
Cornelius Harding who was a resident of Wellesley
and who was a private and drummer
in the War of the Revolution
and is the identical person who drew a pension
under the Act of 17th June, 1844, on account of the Revolutionary service of her late hus-
band aforesaid, at the rate of thirty three dollars a
twenty two cents per annum.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Mary Harding (signature)
Sworn to and subscribed on the day
and year above written,
Before me,
In presence of
C. L. Cook
Lucinda B. Brown
Collins L. Cook Justice of the Peace.
I Certify. That the declarant is personally known to me, a widow and a pensioner,
as she declares.
Collins L. Cook Justice of the Peace.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, } ss.
COUNTY, }
Clerk of the
I, Court, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that
is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly
qualified ; and that his signature, above written, is genuine.
and the Seal of said Court, this

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Barnstable County } ss.
Be it known that on this thirtieth day of March 1843, personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, Mary Harding a resident of Wellfleet in said County and Commonwealth aged Seventy Nine years, who being first duly 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 on the 3 d day of March 1831 granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War;
That she is the Widow of Cornelius Harding who was a private & drummer in the Revolutionary War and served as she verily believes as stated by her in her original declaration for a pension under the law of the 7 th . of July 1838, to which declaration and the papers accompanying the same now on file in the War Department she would refer for a more particular statement of her services; for the proof of her marriage, identity, and the time of her husband's death.
She further declares that she was pensioned under said Act at the rate of Thirty Three 22 / 100 Doll s per annum, which amt. she received from the 14 th of March 1836 to the 14 th of March 1841 at the Agency in Boston, Massachusetts, and at the time of receiving her last payment surrendered the Pension Certificate granted to her under said Act, to the Pension Agent at the said City of Boston, agreeably to the rules of the Department.
And this declarant further alleges that she has not intermarried since the decease of her said husband but is now and ever since has been the Widow of said Cornelius Harding deceased as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed.
And further she saith not.
Mary Harding
Sworn to and subscribed to on the day and year

first within written - And I certify that the applicant is personally known to me to be the person within described -
Before me, Collins S. Hale
Justice of the Peace -
I Elizabeth Freeman 2 d of Wellfleet of lawful age on oath testify and say That I am well acquainted with Mary Harding named in the within declaration & have been for many years last past. I know that she was the wife and is now the widow of Cornelius Harding dec d & that she was a person that stated by her Ebenezer Freeman 2 d
suffolk county ss. Boston ss. April 1823 - Then came Elizabeth Freeman 2 d , an credible witness, & made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true - before me
W. Bulfinch Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston April 18. 1813
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Collins S. Cole was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Barnstable and Thomas Bulfinch was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk.
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to their acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Jno A. Bolles
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I Nathan Harding of Wellfleet in the County of Barnstable & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of Lawfull age to give Evidence, do testify and say, That I am in the eighty seventh year of my age That Cornelius Harding of Wellfleet now dead was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war with me That he enlisted at Wellfleet in November 1775 Seventeen hundred & Seventy five. under Capt- Winslow Lewis by order of Colonel Drayton for the Army at Boston, Massachusetts, and travelled by land and joined the army in December, where he staid until the Spring of Seventeen hundred and Seventy six, when he was transferred to the Company, Commanded by Joseph Smith, and returned with Lieutenant Seth Smith to Truro where he served until the next November, one year, when his time of Enlistment expired, he served as a private Soldier, John Withers, of Wellfleet who died a few days ago, was a Sergeant in said Company.
Nathan Harding
Wellfleet August 16 1838.

State of Massachusetts County of Barnstable ss. Personally appeared this sixteenth day of August AD 1838, Nathan Harding of Wellfleet and made Oath to the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed. Before me
Josiah Whitman Justice of the Peace
Nathan Harding who have subscribed the foregoing Deposition, further testify and say that I know Mary Harding to be the Widow of the said Cornelius Harding mentioned in the foregoing deposition and that she never has been married since said Cornelius death. Wellfleet October 15 th 1838.
Nathan Harding
State of Massachusetts, County of Barnstable ss. Personally appeared, before me, this fifteenth day of October AD 1838. Nathan Harding of Wellfleet and made oath to the addition made this day to his deposition
Before me Josiah Whitman Justice of the Peace and I further certify that said Nathan Harding is an credible witness to all that he has testified. Josiah Whitman Justice of the Peace

Cambridge, Massachusetts Barnstable 7/2
I Timothy Read Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Barnstable & Commonwealth of Mass hereby certify that Joel Whitman Esq. is a justice of the peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified and that I believe the several signatures on this sheet purporting to have been made by him to be his genuine signatures In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this first day of December AD
1838
Timothy Read Clerk!

I Lemuel Newcomb of Wellfleet in the County of Barnstable and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of Lawfull age to give evidence, do Testify and Say that I am in the Eighty third year of my age, That, at the commencement of the Revolutionary War, I with Cornelius Harding Jr of Wellfleet (now dead) entered on Board the Schooner Sally (I believe) Moses Lewis Commander, Joseph Gray was the Second officer, in the State Service, and sailed for Boston, from thence we sailed for Alexandria where we loaded with Flour for the State and were blockaded for sometime, we then sailed for Boston, and were taken by the ship Unicorn, and landed on Block Island, from whence we proceeded home, that to the best of my recollection, (being old) we were in the Service five months.
August 30th 1838.
Lemuel Newcomb
State of Massachusetts County of Barnstable, Ss. Personally appeared this Thirtieth of August AD 1838 Lemuel Newcomb of Wellfleet and made Oath to the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed before me. Josiah Whitman Justice of the Peace.
and I further certify that said Lemuel Newcomb is a credible witness & entitled to belief - Josiah Whitman Jus. Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Barnstable Co
Mary Standing Joseph Parker 1896
I Timothy Reed Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Barnstable and Commonwealth aforesaid hereby certify that Josiah Whitman Esq is a justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified  etc and that I believe the within sig- -nature purporting to have been made by him to be his genuine signature - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this first day of November A.D. 1838 Timothy Reed Clerk
ack 7 July 38
m 51.94
232
on Rolle Capt for Smith from 12 July to 22 Nov 76
  adm'd  2.17.01  pre  8.54     6.22.  Drumm  24.54           $33.22  
no deduction
Hon. Mr Reed