Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32783, Luda Harris, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Harris, Luda
NUMBER
S. 32783
CONTENTS

7789
Massachusetts.
Luda Harris
of Newton in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Shepard of the Massachusetts line, for the term of three years War
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 of March 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th March 1819 and sent to Mrs. Motmore 287 Salem Mass.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $ 89.28
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 $ 48.
$ 137 28
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
continued.
let. to Hon. W Jackson H.R. Feb. 11. 1835.
Revolutionary War Pension Mrs. Luda Harris Newton Mass.

I Luda Harris of Newton in the County of Middlesex Commonwealth of Massachusetts Testify & say That I was a Soldier in the Army of the United States, and served in the Revolutionary war against the Common enemy. In the forepart of the Year Seventeen hundred Eighty I enlisted as a private soldier for the term of six Months in Col d Clark's Company of foot. belonging to the 11 Reg t Commanded by Col. Tupper. at the expiration of that time I again enlisted for the term of three years in Col d Haskell's Company of foot in the 21 st Reg t commanded by Col. Shepard, of the Massachusetts line, and continued in the service until the seventeenth day of September seventeen hundred & Eighty three at which time I was disabled by a Rupture & received my honorable herewith exhibited discharge; — I am now in necessitous circumstances, and in need of assistance from my Country for support, I am sixty six years of age am a Citizen of the United States & served on the Continental Establishment Luda Harris
Be it Remembered. That on this thirty first day of March Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred & eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war", made & passed the 18 th of March

March AD 1818 personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within the State aforesaid & presiding pro hac vice the within- named Linda Harris & after due examination & & caution to testify the whole truth he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid & subscribed the same in my presence, & on examination duly made by me the sd Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the sd declaration is true. In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of sd Court.
Wm Wetmore

Middlesex ss March 31. 1878
We the subscribers, inhabitants of Newton & Watertown & citizens of the United States, do certify & say, that we are well acquainted with Lucas Harris, subscriber to the within written declaration & know him to be a man of truth & veracity, we have no doubt of the truth of the facts therein stated by him & from our knowledge of his reduced circumstances in life that he stands in need of Assistance from his Country for support
Nathan Fuller
Levi Thaxter
sworn to before me
Wm Wetmore the Judge within named

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 182 2 ,
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Luda Harris resident in Newton in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 7789 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“ WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. ”
“ I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Luda Harris late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirty first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Given at the War Office of the United States, this seventeenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen ”
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
  “ One acre of land with a small dwelling house containing two rooms only — $130.00   One Desk — — — — — 5 —   Two Tables — — — — — 2 50   Two do — — — — — 0 50   Nine Chairs — — — — — 1 50   One Stove — — — — — 8 —   Two Iron pots and kettle — — — — — 1 —   Looking Glass — — — — — 0 25   One Decanter — — — — — 0 40   Crockery Ware — — — — — 0 25   River & Forks — — — — — 0 10   $149.50 
He owes about one hundred & seventy dollars and

has no demands against any person, said Harris enlisted in the year 1780 in Cap t Crafts Company 11 Reg Col Supper Mas- sachusetts line for eight months and served out that period when he again enlisted in Cap t Haskells Company 4 Reg Col Shepard, Massachusetts line for the term of three years & served out that period when he was honorably discharged.
He is now seventy years of age by profession a Cordwainer he has a wife sixty years of age both of whom are very infirm and unable to labour and subject to rheumatick complaints said Harris is also afflicted with a rupture. Luda Harris." "Sworn to and declared before.
Wm Wetmore Judge &c."

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
" I, Luda Harris do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
Luda Harris
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Luda Harris took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Wm Wetmore
Judge of said Court."
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is nothing  one hundred &
forty nine dollars & fifty cents, liable to the  subject to the  debt  debt then stated
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this twentieth day of July 1820.
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

Leda Harris
Newton 1789 17 May
Amaziah Dorr
Ag
Ag Em
Ms. A. 1. 1. 23

32 783 Pay INVALID.
File No. 32, 788
Linda Harris
in Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 178
[Arrangement of 1870.]

By the Honorable Major General Knox commanding the Dept upon Hudson River and their Dependencies —
Lucky Harris Soldier in the fourth Regiment of Massachusetts, having been reported by a Board of Officers appointed to inspect the Invalides of the Army as unfit for further Duty, on account of a Malture — is hereby dis- =charged from the Service of the United - States —
Given under my Hand at West-Point This fourteenth Day of Nov r 1783 —
By the Generals Command
J no Lillie Aide de Camp.
Registered
H Knox M c General.
Charles Selden Adjutant