Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4700, Samuel Hart, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
_____ New Jersey
Hart, Samuel Miriam
R. 4700
CONTENTS

The State of Ohio Montgomery County } So on this 21 st day of June 1852 personally appeared me J. D. Smith a justice of the peace within and for the said County of Montgomery and State of Ohio Julius Hart aged 62 years and Mary Pearson aged 59 years who being first duly sworn according to law on their oaths doth make the following declaration in order as children and lawfull heirs of Miriam Hart deceased & late to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled an act Granting pay to certain Widows that the said Miriam their Mother was the Widow of Samuel Hart who was a private in the war of the Revolution said Deponents state that at the time said Samuel Hart entered the service in said war he resided in Trenton Hunterdon County State of New Jersey cannot state positively whether he was a volunteer or was drafted but think he was a volunteer and entered the service about the commencement of said war and continued the whole or nearly all of said war and that said Samuel Hart served in Captain John Mott's Company of Militia in the Regi- ment commanded by Col. Joseph Philips for a year or more as deponents think deponents also think he served in Capt. George Green's Company they think in Col. Howland or Houghton Regiment and that he also served under other officers whose names deponents do not know that said Samuel Hart was in the Battle

Monmouth and Elizabeth Town and others deponents are informed he served a part of the time in the State Line Troops and also a part of the time in what was called the Patrols but the dates and particular periods they do not know - but they are informed that he served a full said was a period of not less than two years but this statement is the service of said Samuel Hart is all derived from information of others and from the statements of the said Samuel in his lifetime
deponents also said Samuel Hart says that he had a discharge but it is lost - They know of no documentary evidence by which said service can be proven other than what is to be found in the State department at Haversey or in the depart- ment at Washington to which they would refer in further support of their case deponents further state that said Miriam Hart whose name before her marriage to said Samuel was Miriam Smith that she was married to Samuel Hart some time between 1787 and 1789 think some record may be found in Trenton Hunterdon County New Jersey.
That said Miriam and Samuel were married by Rev James Armstrong a minister of the Gospel in a town then called Wadsworth Hunterdon Co NJ and think some record can can there be found of said marriage that she was not married to him previous to his leaving the place but that the marriage took place previous to the first of January

The State of Ohio } Montgomery County } So
On this 27th day of June 1852 personally appeared before me D. Smith a justice of the peace within and for said County
Jonathan Pearson and Sarah Pearson, of lawful age being duly sworn according to law depos- ith and saith
The said Sarah Pearson says that she was well acquainted with Samuel Hart the husband of Miriam Hart that she knew him before revolutionary  the war began and that he was reported to be a revolutionary soldier, in the time of the war and during the war
that she knew him after the war was over knew him about the time he was married to said Miriam whose name before she
married said Samuel was Miriam Smith deponent was not at the wedding but was knowing of it knew the house where the said Samuel & Miriam went
to get married always heard it said the they were married at John Moods the law
Tavern in the Town of Mason now called now Lucasville with Huntington County State of Kentucky by James Armstrong a minister of the Gospel that said Samuel & Miriam continued to reside in Huntington County
after the death of him said Samuel that they were in a family of children of which the Elias Hart and Mary Pearson are the only surviving heirs different states further that she now knows Elias Hart and Mary now Mary Pearson from their birth

that she knew them. As for the children of and acknowledged heirs of said Samuel Hart and Miriam Hart that said Samuel Hart died about the 7 of Nov 1815 and that some time or years of the death of Samuel Hart the said Miriam Hart and her children moved to the state of Ohio since which time deponent was acquainted with said Samuel Miriam Hart till her death and took care of her for a time before she died that she died in September 1850 deponent further states that she has often seen Samuel have Continental bills and heard him say that he got this money of the the continental service deponent states that she is 95 years old last January if her age has been kept correctly (J. J. Smith, attest) Sarah most aff Pearson
Jonathan Pearson deponent did say that he was acquainted with Samuel Hart in his lifetime that he was reported to be a revolutionary soldier heard the said Samuel Hart say he was in the Revolutionary war and had heard other old soldiers say that they had seen him in the army at several places during the revolutionary war and further that said deponent was ac- quainted with the family of said Samuel Hart and Miriam Hart his wife knew that they lived together as husband and wife and was acquainted with their family knows that said Elias and Mary are the

only surviving heirs of said Samuel Hart and Miriam Hart was at Samuel Harts when he died thinks he died about the 7 of Nov 1805 has been acquainted with said Miriam since the death of said Samuel Hart know that said Miriam was not married from after the death of her husband and believe that said Miriam died about the 16 th day of September 1830 Jonathan Pison
Sworn to and subscribed to before me J. D. Smith, this 2 nd day of June A.D. 1852
I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above named Sarah Pison and Jonathan Pison that the one of good moral character is to be fully credited
J. D. Smith

May 19, 1939.
Mr. K. K. Garrick 68 Chester Street Newton Highlands, Massachusetts.
BA-J/ILL Samuel Hart R. 4700
Dear Sir:
The data which follow are shown in the papers on file in pension claim, R. 4700, based upon service of Samuel Hart in the Revolutionary War.
Samuel Hart resided in Trenton, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, at the time of the Revolutionary War. His age is not shown, nor the names of his parents.
He married in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Miriam Smith; they were married by Rev. James Armstrong, sometime between 1787 and 1789. They continued to reside in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, until his death on November 7, 1815. Miriam Hart, his widow, moved some two or more years afterwards with her children to Ohio. She died September 16, 1850 in Montgomery County, Ohio.
Samuel Hart and his wife, Miriam, reared a family of children. In 1852, only two of these children were living; Elias, aged sixty-two years, and Mary Pierson, aged fifty-nine years, both of Montgomery County, Ohio.
Elias Hart and his sister, Mary Pierson, applied June 21, 1852, for the pension which might have been due their mother, Miriam Hart, on account of her husband's service in the Revolutionary War. It was stated then that Samuel Hart entered service at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, that he served as private in Captain John Mott's company, Colonel Joseph Phillips' New Jersey regiment, that he served also in Captain George Green's company, Colonel Houghton's New Jersey regiment, served in other companies in the New Jersey militia, that he was in the battles of Monmouth, Elizabethtown, and others and that he continued in service during nearly all of the war. The claim for pension was not allowed as proof of service of Samuel

Hart was not furnished as required by the pension law.
In 1852, Jonathan Pierson (Peirson) and Sarah Pierson, residents of Montgomery County, Ohio, stated that they were well acquainted with Samuel Hart and his wife, Miriam, before and after their marriage, and that they were acquainted with their children, and had cared for Miriam Hart before her death; said Sarah Pierson was more than ninety years of age when she made this affidavit. No relationship between these persons and the soldier's family was stated.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

May 19, 1939.
Mr. K. K. Carrick 69 Chester Street Newton Highlands, Massachusetts.
BA-J/ILL Samuel Hart R. 4700
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letters in which you request the War of 1812 record of David Hart who served from Kentucky, also, information in regard to John Hart and Samuel Hart who served from Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in the Revolutionary War. You desire especially to ascertain whether the John Hart and Samuel Hart of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, were the same men who moved to Berkeley County, Virginia, and state that the particular John Hart, in whom you are interested, died in Fleming County, Kentucky, in 1832, and that Samuel Hart died in 1804 or 1805 at the home of this John Hart.
A search of the Revolutionary War records of this office has been made in your behalf and only one claim for pension found of a John Hart who served from New Jersey; it is shown in that claim that he died in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in 1833. It is presumed that you are not interested in his record. The record has been found of only one Samuel Hart who served from Hunterdon County, New Jersey; as the family of this soldier moved west, his record is furnished you herewith, from pension claim-R. 4700. His record may aid you in your research.
There is no claim for pension on file based upon service of a David Hart in the War of 1812.
Very truly yours,
A. D. MILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF BOSTON
March 21, 1939
Veterans' Administration Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:-
At the suggestion of the Adjutant General's Office of the War Department, I am writing to inquire whether you can give me any information as to one David Hart who served in the War of 1812 as a private, Captain Daniel Wilson's Company, Tenth Regiment (Barbours) Mounted Kentucky Volunteers, whose service commenced August 19 and ended November 18, 1813, and as to one David Hart who served in that war as a major, Fourth Regiment (Pogue's) Kentucky Volunteers, whose service commenced August 27, 1812 and ended March 18, 1813.
The information which I especially want is the name of the place in Kentucky where these two David Harts lived before or after the War of 1812, but it would be helpful to have any other information which may be available.
I do not wish to put you to any trouble of research in the matter but if any pertinent information happens to be readily available and if it is consistent with departmental regulations to let me have it, I should be greatly obliged to you.
Sincerely yours
K. K. Carrick
K
Home Address
68 Chester Street Newton Highlands, Massachusetts

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF BOSTON
K. K. CARRICK
May 9, 1939
SECRETARY AND GENERAL COUNSEL FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF BOSTON
Veterans' Administration Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:-
Can you give me any information, from your pension rolls or other records of your office, with respect to John Hart and Samuel Hart who served in New Jersey troops in the Revolutionary War as privates in Captain Mott's Company, First Regiment, Hunterdon?
In addition to obtaining their service records, I should like to get any other information available with regard to them, such as the part of New Jersey where they lived and their place of residence after the war.
This information is wanted in order that I may ascertain whether the John Hart and the Samuel Hart referred to are the same as the John Hart and the Samuel Hart who lived in Fleming County, Kentucky, after migrating from Berkeley County, Virginia. The John Hart in whom I am interested died in Fleming County, Kentucky, in the spring of 1832 and Samuel Hart died at the home of John Hart in Fleming County in 1804 or 1805.
On March 21, I asked you to let me have whatever information you could with regard to David Hart who served in Kentucky troops in the War of 1812. If you have not made any examination of your records as to David Hart please do not do so as I do not wish to bother you unnecessarily and I have since obtained considerable information about David Hart, having learned that he died in Fleming County in the spring of 1835 and was the son of John Hart who died there as stated in the preceding paragraph. If, however, you have already assembled any information about David Hart, I shall be most happy to get it.
Any information which you can furnish about John and Samuel Hart of New Jersey will be greatly appreciated.
Very truly yours
The John Hart had been reached K. K. Carrick
card attached K

Miriam Hart Dec. d wid: of Samuel Ohio
Let: to Hon: H. Bell May 31/53
4700
7 July 1838

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1929. May 19. Sent to Mr. E. P. Carriker. J.H.
4700 P. O. William Hart
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. Contract.

31 st May 1833

upon which it is based, setting forth the date of the death of the said Miriam & Samuel Hart, & the names of the surviving children -
It must be clearly shown that she is the widow of the identical Samuel who rendered the service.
If the claim is a good one it is rather a prejudicial circumstance, that it has not been presented before -
Mrs. A. Bell Greenville Ohio -

578 Pension Office May 31/53
Sir
The application in the case of Miriam Hart decd Wid: of Samuel of Ohio under act of 7 July 1838 has been examined & filed -
Samuel Hart's name is not borne on the rolls in this Office. Upon application to the State Dept. of St. Lawrence, proof of his service may perhaps be obtained. in addition to proof of service it is necessary that the date of the marriage should be clearly proved by Record evidence Church, Family, or Court. if it can be satisfactorily shown that no record evidence exists, parol evidence will be admitted.
A Certificate of Court must also be adduced with the evidence

Commissaire of Passions Washington City D.C.

Washington City day 29/52
Sir
enclosed I forward the application of Elias Heart and Mary Pearson children and only heirs of Samuel Heart & Miriam Heart his widow, for the Pension which said Miriam Heart as widow of Samuel Heart who was (as claimed a Revolutionary Soldier for the State of Georgia) The said Samuel Heart is reported to have served two years or more. That he died in 1815, leaving Miriam Heart who ever lived to him until 1878/1889. his widow - and who died in 1850 - The proof filed appears to be that of old Mrs. Pearson & Daughter Pearson. Which does not appear to be sufficient as to the length of time. But I proceeded by Report to the Records under your control the time of service may be found - your will see that the first statement was made lost since 1832 before a Justice of the Peace as well as the affidavits of witnesses taken & it was sufficient to file here but on inquiry at the Department I was informed the application should

be filed made open court and returned then the papers accused the accordingly and they then filed in - made the Statute open court - but as there was some tiring taken - I attached the first Statute I hope it will be no objection to using it in connection with Statute or the application as it really has except a more technical form being omitted in the first -
You will be pleased to advise me of the result after the examination of the case and the rolls and enclose a bill of costs if any further is required. respectfully
Eleven Bell
Counsel for Plaintiff

Harts Claim Pension
Application of the Heirs of Samuel Hart for Pension and Notes -

The State of Ohio } Dark County } ss on this 13th day of January A.D. 1853 personally appeared before me John Wherry Judge of the Probate Court with in and for the county of Dark and State of Ohio Elias Hart aged 62 years who being first duly sworn according to law on his oath doth make the following declaration for himself and for his sister Mary Pearson as children and lawful heirs of Miriam Hart deceased to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by act of congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled an act Granting pay to certain Widows
That said Miriam Hart their mother was the Widow of Samuel Hart who was a soldier revolutionary war said deponent states that at the time his father Samuel Hart Entered the service in the war of the Revolution he resided in Trenton Hunterdon County State of New Jersey cannot state positively whether he was a volunteer or was dropped but thinks he volunteered and entered the service as a private about the first of the war and continued the whole or nearly all of said war and that said Samuel Hart served in Captain John Phillips Company of Militia in the Regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Phillips for a year or more as deponent thinks he Also thinks he served in Captain George Green's Company he thinks in Col. Howard or Houghton Regiment and that he saw Samuel Hart also served under other officers whose names deponent does not know - also that said Samuel Hart was in the Battles of Monmouth and Elizabethtown and others
deponent is informed that he served a part of the time in the State line Troops and a part of the time in what was called the Patrols but the dates and particular periods deponent does not know But has been informed

that said Samuel Hart served in said war a period of not less than Two years and think it was more But this statement as to service of said Samuel Hart is all derived from information of others and from the statements of said Samuel Hart in his lifetime deponent has heard said Samuel Hart say that he had a discharge but it is now lost - he deponent knows of no documentary evidence by which said service can be proven other than what is to be found in the state department of New Jersey or in the department at Washington to which he refers in further support of this dees
deponent further states that said Miriam Hart before her marriage to said Samuel Hart her name was Miriam Smith that she was married to said Samuel Hart some time between 1787 and 1789 in Lawrenceville Hunterdon county state of New Jersey by the Rev James Armstrong a minister of the Gospel - does not know of any family or other record by which said marriage can be proven deponent further states that that said Miriam was not married to said Samuel previous to his leaving the service but that it took place previous to the first of January 1794
that said Samuel Hart her husband died on the 7 of Nov - 1815 in the county of Hunterdon in the state of New Jersey that she was never married since the death of her husband Samuel Hart but that she remained a widow until the 16 th day of Sept 1830 when she died intestate leaving said deponent Elias Hart and Mary Pierson her only surviving heirs and lawfull heirs of said Samuel Hart deceased and further thereof
Eliza Hart

The State of Ohio, Darke County ss
In Probate Court January 13, 1853
This day came into court Elias Hart whose name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration and statement, and being duly sworn saith that the same so far as is stated from his own knowledge is true, and that, so far as derived from information of others he believes the same to be true.
It is further certified that said Elias
Hart is a person of truth and veracity
In faith whereof I have hereto set my hand and the seal of said court at Greenville the day and year aforesaid
John W. Hany Probate Judge