Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19,716, James Harlow, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass
Harlow James Phebe
NUMBER
W.19.716
CONTENTS
4

Vermont 2330 -
Abiah Marlow, widow of James Marlow, dec. who died on the 25 th Nov r 1825 of Orleans in the State of Vermont who was a Pen. in the Cavy commanded by Captain [blank] of the Reg t commanded by Bradford in the Vermont line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Burlington at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of Sept '38, and sent to Gov. Nye, Brattleboro, Vt.
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept $600.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 40.00
$640.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 rd }
Recorded by R Burdin Clerk, Be 4 - Vol. 2 - Page 37

10,020 Vermont R
Jas Harlow doct n age 780 the state of
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bradford of the Massd. ne, for the term of 8 yrs 1777
scribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 16 of April, 1818
ertificate of Pension issued the 30 of April, 1817 and sent to Judge Horne Darby N.Y.
arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819 858 emi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 480
$133.83
Orn. \frac{15}{30} \frac{4}{81}
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued publication sent Oct. 3 1820. See H. Ellen Brashary JP

For Harbor culpeper April 14/1810 77 to 80 Bridgford
Massachusetts Line Samuel
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I James Harlow of Fairbank in the county of Orleans and State of Vermont of lawful age Testify and say that I am - Sixty years of age - and that I en- listed the third day of April AD 1864 at Plym- pton in the state of Massachusetts under Capt Thomas Turner and joined Col Gamaliel Bedford Regiment (being the 14 Regiment) at Mount Independence while 1 st Regiment was there under the command of Gen l Brattle 1 st Col and continued in 1 st Capt Turner - Am- pany which was in the same Regiment until June November in July AD 1864 I was transferred to Col Lunt's Company commanded by Adam Fitch in the same Regiment in which I continued and a faithful soldier until the third of the day of April AD 1865 I was then honably discharged and my discharge was signed by David Rootes Col I have have lost it thinking it of no use and I further say that I have never cried in any need circumstances and am in need of assistance for support from my country and for the say not James Harlow
State of Vermont Orleans ss
Brownington April 18 1878
Personally appeared before me James Harlow signer of the above and after being duly cautioned and carefully examined made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth Before me

State of Vermont Be it Remembered That on the sixteenth day Of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & Eighteen came before me William Allen Doyen of Derby in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont Chief Judge of the Court of Com- mon Pleas duly qualified within for the County of Orleans and State of Vermont 3 d Court of Common Pleas being a court of Record - James Harlow of Isamburgh in the County of Orleans & State of Vermont and made solemn Oath the above declaration by him subscribed is true And it appearing to my satisfaction from the declaration of said that the said former Harlow did serve in the Revolutionary war in the Conti- nental Establishment for nine months at least to wit as in his declaration is more fully set forth and that by reason of his reduced circumstances he is in need of assistance of support from his country for such support All which I do certify as my opinion and do hereby transmit the testimony in the case & the proceedings thereon to the Hon ble Secretary of the Department of War In testimony I have hereunto put my signature and caused the seal of our Court of Common Pleas to be affixed at Derby this sixteenth day of April A D 1818 William Fossé Judge
State of Vermont Orleans County, ss. I certify that the Hon. William Fossé above named is first Judge of the County Court of this County and that the above is his signa- ture, Attest. Chas. H. Allen Clerk & Notary, Public

James Burrough
Arlington Iraeburgh, Orleans County, Vermont.
10020
Em
Sep 19
Sep 19

District or State of Vermont Orleans County ss.
At Irasburgh on this 29. day of June 1890 personally appeared an open Court being a Court of Records within and for the County of Orleans aforesaid, and particularly made such by the laws of the State of Vermont which proceed according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keep a record of their proceedings, James Harlow aged sixty two years resident in Irasburgh in said County who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, in the fourteenth regiment commanded by Col. Gamaliel Bradford and in the company called the Colonel's company commanded by Adam Fish as by the original declaration of the s d James dated the 16. day of April 1818 for which the said James received a pension certificate number ten thousand and twenty will now fully appear. And I James Harlow do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18. day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner 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 18. day of March 1818 and that I have not nor had any person in trust for me any property or securities, contract or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed as follows. A durable lease of one Lot of land containing ninety acres with twenty five acres of the same cleared and improved for which I am obliged to pay the annual rent of fifteen dollars and thirty cents, with rent now due on said land to the amount of eighty dollars, or thereabouts with a loan on said land appraised at fifty dollars, one three year old cow, one heifer, one old horse, one old pitch fork, one wooden wheel, one old pine table, one iron pailful iron pot, one tea

huttle, one spider, one five pail huttle broke and hasped, with a few old chairs, crockery and wooden ware not worth five dollars, in the whole with nothing due me from which I can even realize anything - I justly owe thirty five dollars or thereabouts, exclusive of the rent as above mentioned. I am by occupation a farmer and by reason of age and infirmity not able to perform more than one third of the labour of an able bodied man, my family consists of my wife named Rube aged sixty two years, utterly unable by reason of sickness and infirmity to contribute in the least to her support.
James Harlow.
Sworn to and declared and subscribed this 29. day of June 1820.
Before me William Haws Judge of Orleans County Court
I Ira H. Allen Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records 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 one hundred and fifty two dollars . In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 5. day of July 1820.
Ira H. Allen Clerk of the Court of the County of Orleans

1199 Phoebe Harlow wid of James Harlow Jr
Rej d bl. H. H. Allen J. 1827 Served to Apr 1782. Married Feb. 1781.
Act 4 July 32

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the 4 th of July 1836
State of Vermont
District of Orleans } On this 30 th day of January 1837 Personally appeared before the Probate Court for the District of Orleans. Phoebe Harlow a resident of Irasburgh in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont aged 79 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 provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836
That she is the Widow of James Harlow who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution and served during most of the War. That her late husband the said James Harlow was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of 1818 and that after his decease. The Pension certificate was surrendered to the Agent for paying Pensions at Burlington Vermont. She further declares that she was married to the said James Harlow on the 21 st day of February in the year seventeen hundred Eighty one by Rev. Mr. Howland in Plympton Massachusetts. She further declares that the said James Harlow her husband was in the service after her marriage to nearly or quite the close of the War but that by reason of age and loss of memory she is unable to state more particularly respecting the service he performed or the time of his discharge - but refers for more full testimony

Proof to the documents and papers in the Pension Office of the United States, and the deposition of Mercy Cobb, herewith sent. She further declares that her husband the aforesaid James Harlow died at Irasburgh on the 25 th day of November 1835. And that she has remained a Widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herewith sent. Witness James Harlow her Phebe mark Harlow. Sworne to and subscribed on the day and year above written. Before Joseph Higgings Judge.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant is the Widow of James Harlow and that the said James Harlow was a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution, and served as she states. And the Court further certify that from their own personal knowledge the said James Harlow did during his life receive a Pension from the United States and that he died on the day stated in the foregoing declaration. & that the said Phebe Harlow has remained a Widow since that time.
State of Vermont } Probate Office Irasburgh District of Orleans } January 30 th A.D. 1837
I Geo Wye Register of the Probate Court in the District of Orleans do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Phebe Harlow for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 30 th day of January A.D. 1837. Geo Wye Register.

I Mary Cobb of Cornish in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire, aged seventy one years, upon an say, that James Harlow late of Irasburg in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont an Revolutionary Pensioner, deceased, was my own brother - that we were born and brought up in the town of Plympton in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts - that the said James Harlow was a Soldier in the regular Army of the United States during the greatest part of the Revolutionary war, and at the time of its close as this witness verily believes - That in the month of February or March A.D. 1781 according to the best recollection of this deponent, the said James Harlow was married to Phebe Doteu of said Plympton, in presence of this deponent, by the Rev. Mr. Howland a minister of the Gospel then settled in said Plympton but since deceased - That the said Phebe is now living in said Irasburg and since the death of the said James Harlow in November A.D. 1835 has remained and still remains his widow. Mary her Cobb + mark
State of New Hampshire Sullivan ss
I certify that on this Seventeenth day of January in the year of our Lord 1837 the above named Mary Cobb personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above deposition by her subscribed, is true; I also certify that I am well acquainted with said deponent, & that she is a credible Witness. —
Newton Whittelsey Justice of the Peace

The State of New Hampshire
Sullivan vs
I. N. W. Gilmore Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify that Newton Whittier is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County and that the signature herewith purporting to be his is in my belief genuine
Given under my hand and seal of the County this 18 th day of Jan y . A.D. 1837. N. W. Gilmore Clerk

I, Lewis Bradford of the Town of Plympton in the County of Plymouth, Massachusetts, do hereby testify upon oath, that I am the Town Clerk of the said Town of Plympton, and that the Town Records of said Town are in my custody, and that upon examination of said Records I find that James Harlow jr. and Phebe Doten, both of Plympton, were joined in Marriage, February 22. 1781, by the Rev. John Howland, who was at that time the Minister of the then Second Parish of Plympton.
I further testify, that I formerly knew the said James Harlow jr. and that he and Phebe his wife moved from Plympton a long time ago. Also that it appears from said Records that the said James was a son of Capt. James Harlow of Plympton and Mercy his wife.
Plympton, June 29. 1837.
Lewis Bradford { Town Clerk of Plympton, in
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss. Plympton June 29 th 1837
Then Personally appeared before the subscriber Lewis Bradford Town Clerk in Plympton and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true.
I further certify that I am well acquainted with the said Lewis Bradford and he is is a man of truth and a credible witness.
Jonathan Parker Justice Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss. I Jacob Howland Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Jonathan Parker Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in & 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 fourth day of July 1837.
Jacob Howland

London Pa March
2 Horton, James Mass W197116
[Faint, mirrored handwriting, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the paper]

2025 RELEASE UNDER E.O. 14176

Sonny Harlow
New Windsor Hill
March 2, 1783
Harlow, James Mass W 19716

Dear Friend Mary...
I have been thinking of you and your little boy... hoping these few lines will find you and your little boy enjoying the same blessing... I have been thinking of you and your little boy... hoping these few lines will find you and your little boy enjoying the same blessing... I have been thinking of you and your little boy... hoping these few lines will find you and your little boy enjoying the same blessing...
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To All People to Whom These Presents Shall Come Greeting Know ye
That James Harlow jr & William Shurleff y d Both of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts have Contracted Bargained And agreed with the first Capt in Plymouth & with each other jointly & severally To go into the Continental service for said Capt & by & between the Above said James Harlow jr & William Shurleff y d to serve said Capt in the service Aforesaid The term of Three years as one Soldier each one in His respective turn to exchange & relieve each other once Every six Months during the Term of Three years And in consequence of the Above mentioned Bargain & Agreement of the said James Harlow jr am Holden & stand firmly bound &oby These Presents bind my self my Heirs & Assigns to Him the said William Shurleff y d To relieve Him the said William Shurleff y d & take His Place in the Aforesaid service once Every six Months & in That way to serve equally with Him one Half of the Time for & during the term of Three years & also To share equally with Him the said William Shurleff y d in the Profits & Income as well as all the Charges & expence consequent Thereupon & to pay unto Him the said William Shurleff y d one Half of all Money Received by me as wages Bounty or Hire or any other way whatsoever In consequence of the Aforesaid service & to be Accountable To Him the said William Shurleff y d & to pay one Half of the necessary Charges & expences He shall be at personally in Marching Poll taxing or any other way while He is actually in the Aforesaid service or Marching to or from the same sickness only Excepted and in default or failure of all or any part of the Above conditions & Agreement I Promises To pay to Him the said William Shurleff y d the full sum of one Hundred Pounds lawful Silver Money to be Paid to Him or His Heirs or Assigns on Demand
In Testimony whereof I Have Hereunto set my Hand & Seal this Twenty Seventh Day of September Anno Domini one Thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty Two
Signed sealed & Delivered
In Presence of us
James Harlow jr
William Shurleff y d
Elijah Biske jr

Res WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19.716
Phebe Harlow
Widow of
James Harlow
Dis. Rev War
Act: July 4 th 86
Index:—Vol. CA , Page 314
[Arrangement of 1870.]

✓ Phebe Harkness mid of Garnes. N.E.
Rejected. Feb. 1837 An H. Allen 28. 1837
last term of term Apr 1780
✓ Married Feb — 1787.
to Geo Nye May 28 5 1837
do do Aug 4 1837
see final settlement do. Geo. N. Everett, March 1838.
Ad 4 July 1836

Phoebe Harlow Jt addl pff act 1836
Apl 21 83 Washington
1199
Hon J. J. Podwards
Free
Commissaire of Pensions Washington City
Phoebe Harlow (Jt)

Inverness 13 Ap l 187
Hon J. P. Edwards
Sir
enclosed is further testimony in proof of the service of James Harlow after his marriage to the Widow & applicant (Phoebe Harlow). The certificate of the Clerk of Sullivan County to the fact of Mr. Whittelsey being a Justice of the Peace is already filed in your office, which is supposed to be sufficient. It has been suggested that it might be necessary to show why the last service of Mr. Harlow was not included in the declaration of Mr. Harlow for a Pension under the act of 1818. I could make affidavit to the reasons at that time assigned, as my Brother then a Practicing Atty in this County (since deceased) assisted Mr. Harlow in drafting his declaration. There was sufficient proof for the purpose of placing him on the Roll without referring to the second period of service and the declaration was made to accord with the testimony offered not to the last period of service. &c. but I suppose that testimony of this kind is unnecessary as what you wish to know is whether James Harlow did actually serve after his marriage to the applicant &c.

You are aware of the impossibility of procuring testimony as minute and clear as could have been done at an earlier period, from the fact that comparatively few of the Veterans remain - and those are very aged. - but agreeable to the request of the applicant I submit the papers with the request that you would give them as early an examination as convenient -
I am Very Respectfully Your Obedt Servt
Geo Wye

I Ebenezer Cobb of Cornish in the county of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire age seventy six years depose and say that I formerly resided in Kingston in the county of Plymouth and state of Massachusetts - that I was well acquainted with James Harlow, of Plympton in his county and lots of Inverburgh in the State of Vermont deceased a Revolutionary Pensioner, at the time of his marriage in 1781 - that according to the best of my knowledge and belief the said James Harlow enlisted into the army in the second three years service so called, - that he was out in said service at the close of the war, and was detained until January 1784 - that I saw him at the house of his father in said Plympton a short time after his return home in the month of January 1784 - that I recollect the fact of his return home at that time from the circumstance of the birth of the second child of the said James Harlow happening while I was at the house where he lived a few days after his return from the said service -
Ebenezer Cobb
State of New Hampshire
Sullivan ss
{ Cornish March 27 1837 - Then the above named Ebenezer Cobb, personally appearing, made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true - Before me
Newton Whittelsey Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Ebenezer Cobb is a credible witness. - N. Whittelsey Justice of Peace

I Mary Cobb of Cornish in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire aged seventy one years do hereby say that my brother James Harlow formerly of Plympton in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, and late of Brattleburgh in the State of Vermont, deceased, a Revolutionary Pensioner, was married at said Plympton in the year 1781 - that he lived at home with my father until after the birth of his first child - that he afterwards enlisted into the army for the second three years service so called - that he returned home from the service in the month of January 1784 - having been detained in the service sometime after the discharge wasmen were discharged -
her Mary J Cobb mark
State of New Hampshire Sullivan ss. } Cornish March 27, 1837 - Then the above named Mary Cobb personally appearing made solemn oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed is true. -
Before me Newton Whittelsey Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Mary Cobb is a credible witness — (N. Whittelsey Justice of the Peace)

X1199
Phebe Harlow
wid of
Genl Harlow
Esq
Ad 4 July 36
Manner 1180
died 1835
Allen 241 pr £80
for ann.
Gen. of P. Harlow
James L. Prescott Esq
Esq
Geo Nye Esq Kasbrigh W

Washington July 11. 1837
Sir,
Enclosed are papers of Oliver Harkness for a continuation of her husband's pension. She refers to the evidence in your office in support of her claim. Her man- ifest, I see, is proved by her own oath, & that of her sister who testi- fies she was present when the man- ifest took place.
Sir, this evidence will be considered not good. I do not believe one in thirty of our own aged inhabitants can give stronger proof. In Vermont, where our laws are giving a record to be made of our marriages, even there, in the widest sense of our settlement for a century, the testimony of a witness

proofs of the manuscript could be received.
I am respectfully
your obed Servt
Herman Allen

Harrison Wills Clerk
M. at. Feb 9 J. P. Edwards Esq. Dob. H. H. Com: of Pensions Bm A Everett W.R.

Washington 9. Feb. 1858
Sir
I am requested to ask a reconsideration (if decided) of the case of the Widow Phebe Harlow. The Husband James Harlow was a pensioner under the act of 1818. It is stated that the first objection was to the Proof of service - That, as was supposed, being removed by additional proof - objection was next made to the Proof of the Marriage - and that being also removed by additional proof - the first objection was removed -
My attention has also been requested to the case of Margaret Wills widow of — her husband drew an ensign pension of $240 - The certificate of 18 Sept. 1837 allows her a pension of only $205 - an explanation of the variance is requested
I am also requested to ask information relative to the application of Isaac Clark - for an invalid pension - forwarded in June last.
These cases refer to the 4 th Rolls - and were forwarded by Geo Nye - respectfully
Yours Obedient
H. Evans
J. L. Edmonds Esq.

I James Harlow of Irasburgh in County of Orleans and State of Vermont Aged Fifty Six Years - depose and say that I am the Son of the late James Harlow of Irasburgh - That I lived in the family of the said James deceased for Eighteen years previous to his decease. That the paper herewith attached pur- porting to be a bond or contract with William Shurtliff dated 27 Sept r 1782. and a Letter also herewith dated at New Windsor March 2 d 1783 - were found among the papers of my late Father And that I have no doubt of the signatures of James Harlow - as attached to each - and the letter are the signatures and writing of my late Father And that the Letter by him written was directed to and received by my Mother Phoebe Harlow while my Father was in the Army of the U.S. in the Revolutionary War - And that the Bond was received and signed & the Letter written after the marriage of my late Father & Mother from statements corresponding there- -with by my late Father to me made previous to his decease James Harlow
Sworne & subscribed before me this first day of May AD 1838 Issa Leopen Dist. of Peace

State of Vermont Orleans County } ss
I Joseph Cooper a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Orleans aforesaid hereby certify that James Harlow personally appeared before me and made oath in due form of Law that the affidavit by him signed is true - And that the said James Harlow is a credible witness and his statements entitled to full credit
Irasburgh 1 May, 1838
Joseph Cooper Just. of Peace
State of Vermont
Orleans County Clerk's Office } ss
I, Samuel C. Crafts, Clerk of Orleans Court, do certify that Joseph Cooper is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Orleans, duly commissioned and sworn - his commission was dated the first day of November AD 1837, and will expire on the last day of November AD 1838, and that his signature to the above certificate is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this twenty seventh day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and thirty eight -
Sam d C. Crafts Clerk
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