Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 840-100, Lewis Harlow, Mass

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mass
Harlow Lewis
B.L.W. 840-100
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The Heirs of Lewis Starlow Wt. ipd No 840 for certificate of the clerk of the court - as to the Justices of the peace etc etc
See No 841 —

Power.
M. Dillard
heirs of
Laurel Mountain
Depositions of Boats lost & destroyed
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Probate Department
This certifies, that it appears to me from satisfactory evidence, that Mary Dillard, wife of Benjamin Dillard, is the legitimate & sole heir at law of Lewis Haslow late of Plymouth, in said county of Plymouth, deceased, said to be a soldier in the army of the United States, during the war of the revolution, and by the laws of said Commonwealth, the said Mary Dillard is entitled to all the estate, rights & credits of the said Lewis Haslow, which appertained to the said Lewis Haslow, at the time of his death.
Given under my hand & seal official this twenty eighth day of may 1819
Joshua Thomas Judge of Probate for said County of Plymouth

Know all men by these presents. That I Mercy Billings sole heir at law of Lucas Harlow late of Plymouth Com. Wealth of Massachusetts. Hereby constitute and appoint Van Land & Richard of the City of Washington my full atty in my stead to apply for & receive all and any title to lands that may be due me from the U States Mercy Billings
Plymouth May 25 1819
Then Mercy Billings the subscriber to this power acknowledged it her free act before me Lachus Bartlett S c  Pecc Groom
I Solomon Bartlett of Plymouth, and I Swanney Murdock, or Hart of Barnstable. Mass testify that we are both lately made pensioners of the U States; that we were both in battle in the army of the U States, with Grier at Bunker's heights in Greatons & Putnam's Regt respectively

— that we were well acquainted with Lewis Horton a private in Putnam's Reg t — and from S. Plymouth, & that in that battle we saw, said Horton slain & then scalped by an Indian Solomon Bartlett Swaney & Mundock, or Mark Hart
Plymouth Mass May 29 1819 Then Solomon Bartlett & Swaney, Mun- dock, or Hart made oath to the truth of this deposition before me & I here- by certify, that full faith shall be given to them Zach s Bartlett. J Peace & Quorum
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss May 29 1819 I hereby certify that the above is the signature of Zach s Bartlett Esq. & that he is a justice of the Peace and of the Quorum. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my Notarial Seal the day & year above mentioned. Oliver D. Dens J Not Public

War Department
Pension Office Dec. 24. 1899
I hereby certify that it appears from the archives of this office that Lewis Harlow, a soldier of the 5 th Regiment of the Massachusetts line enlisted 20 th April 1861 for the war, and was killed in Battle 22 nd July 1861.
J. L. Edwards

as may certify that Lewis Harlow was a Soldier In Gen l Nicksons Brigade at Kingsbury when there Was an Engagement Between the British Troops & a Number of Indians & and Lewis Harlow of Plymouth was one of the guards & then Indians attack d y e Guard & Lewis Harlow was kill d & scalp d 1777 Gen l Nicksons Brigade went out & fought them & after the Action I saw Lewis Harlow. Bot into the Camp & was Buried there as he was not of My Compa I cannot attest he was enlist d for the War but was told he was & to my best Belief as it was told me Benj a Warren Capt n in y e Mass s Reg t Nicksons Brigade
Plym o Feb m 1819 Mass s
Putnam's Reg t

Plymouth State of Massachusetts Feb'y. 14. 1819
Then the withernamed Benjamin Warren appear and made oath to the within declaration, or affidavit before me
Lachus Bartlett Justice of the peace
L. Warren
B. Warren
Deputy B Warren for L. Harkness

See certificate of the Secretary of this Com- wealth for Harlow's enlistment for during the war, accompanying this,