Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3546, John Hart, Continental Mass

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass
Hart, John Mary
N 35-46 { B.L.W. 937 - Hoo. Surgeon Issued Apr. 22, 1797 - No papers.
CONTENTS

Massachusetts
Ref? to Agt. see letter
John Hart, deceased of Middlesex Co, in the State of Mass. who was a Surgeon in the ————— commanded by Captain ————— of the ————— commanded by ————— in the Massachusetts line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 600 Dollars ————— Cents per annum, to commence on the 1 th day of March, 1834. To end 27 th April 1836 when he died
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th day of March 1844 and sent to Hon. D.P. King, House of Representatives
Arrears to the 1 th of
Semi-annual allowance ending
Deducting what was paid under the act of May 15, 1828 from 1 st March 1834 to 27 th April 1836 at the rate of $180 per annum.
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D Brown Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 2. Page 36
Payable to Thaddeus Spaulding, adm r . of Mary Hart, du te widow of John Hart.

Ref. to An. Rg. see letter Lt to H Northrop June 11 1841
Massachusetts 71.
Mary Hart, deceased widow of John Hart
Mass
who died on the 27. April 1836 of Middlesex Co., in the State of Mass.
who was a Surgeon in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by _____ in the Mass. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 600 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 27 th day of March April, 1836. $10 15 n November 1838 } Increased from $480.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26. day of March 1844 and sent to Hon. D. P. King, Member of Representatives
Arrears to the 14th of Semi-annual allowance ending Former payments under this act to be deducted
Payable to Mary Prentiss, Lucinda Spaulding & Samuel Hart children of said dec. { Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk. Book C. Vol. 1, Page 56.

Revolutionary Claims.
N o 220
Under the Act entitled, "An Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15 May, 1828.
I Certify that John Hart — of South Reading in the County of Middlesex in the State of Massachusetts is entitled to receive pay under the above mentioned Act, as a surviving surgeon in the Massachusetts Line of the Army of the Revolution, at the rate of Forty — dollars and _____ cents a month, payable during his life on the third day of March, and third day of September, in each year.
It is provided by law that the said pay, shall not in any way be transferable, or liable to attachment, levy, or seizure, by any legal process whatever.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Treasury of the United States, this third _____ day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, and of Independence, the fifty fourth.
T. D. Ingham Secretary of the Treasury
Eng d by Thos. Bask r
Pay Certificate of John Hart

N o 123
Mary Hart Mass.
Paid to Mar 1836
Adm d .
2 years Surgeon 480
deduct what was paid him under act May 1828. accruing after 3. March 1836.
R. Baldwin Esq. Boston Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts {
Middlesex County { So On this ninth Day of September, in the year Eighteen hundred and Thirty six, Personally appeared before the Honorable Samuel P. P. Fay, Judge of the Probate Court for Middlesex County in said Commonwealth, Mary Hart a resident of South Reading in Middle- sex County in said Commonwealth, Aged Eighty two 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 Con- gress passed July 4 th 1836. That she is the widow of John Hart late of South Reading Deceased. and that the said John Hart, her late Husband was a Surgeon in the Massachu- setts line of the Revolutionary Army, for which service, he the aforesaid John Hart re- ceived Pay under the act of Congress of the Fifteenth of May 1824. as will appear on on reference to the Records and Documents on file in the War Department.
She further declares that she was married to the said John Hart at Stoneham in the month of January, Seventeen Hundred and Seventy eight, by Benjamin Brown Esqr of Reading - There was no Minister in Stone- ham at that time. She further declares that she has no other record of her marriage with the said John Hart, than what is conta- ined in the Family Bible, and inserted in the proper hand writing of said John Hart, her late husband, many years since
That her late husband the said John Hart died on the Twenty seve- nth day of April in the year Eighteen hundred and Thirty six, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more

fully appear on reference to the proof hereunto annexed - She further declares, that said Benja- -min Brown by whom she was married, was a justice of the peace for the county of Middlesex, & authoriz- by the laws of Massachusetts to join persons together in marriage within the said county - and she being an inhabitant of Stoneham, in which at that time there was no settled minister of the gospel, by whom marriages were usually solemnized, the ceremony was performed by said justice Brown. - She further states, that she lived with said John Hart as his lawful wife, from the time of said marriage until the day of his death, except while he was in the army. That she had two children while he was in said service, one born Sept 26. 1779 named Mary & one born Sept 29. 1782 named Abraham. and said births are recorded in the handwriting of my said husband in the family bible now in my possession, with others who were born after the war -
Mary Hart Subscribed & sworn to the day & year first above written - before J. P. Fay Probate
I Thaddens Spaulding of Reads. South Reading, physician aged forty four years - do depose & say that I have been well acquaint- -ed with the late Dr John Hart of said South Read- ing deceased, who was a pensioner of the United States for his services as a surgeon in the Massa- chusetts line of the army of the revolution - that I have also known his wife who has subscribed the foregoing declaration this family, & that I have al- ways understood & believed the facts stated in said declaration to be true - And that I am well ac-

quainted with the handwriting of said John Hart & have seen the records made by said John in the family bible as stated & exhibited to me, & I have no doubt that said bible was the family bible & that the records contained therein are the original records made by said John Hart with his own hand & that the following is a true extract from the copy of said record viz - "Family record marriages"
"John Hart married to Mary Gould of Stoneham
"Jan'y. 1778" - "Births" -
"Mary Hart Sept r 26 th 1779
"Abraham Hart Sept r 29 th 1782"
"John Hart June April 15. 1785
"William Hart June 30 th 1787
"Sarah Hart Oct r . 23 rd 1788
"Lucinda Hart Jan'y. 21 st 1790
"Abigail Hart Sept r 7 th 1791
"Samuel Hart Nov r 27 th 1796
"Belinda Hart Feb y 23 rd 1798"
And further I say not
Middlesex ss.
Thaddeus Spaulding
Sept 9 th 1836. Personally appeared Thaddeus Spaulding Amade solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed & I certify that said Spaulding is well known to me, & is a respectable physician & magistrate of said county, & worthy of entire credit.
J. P. P. P. P. P.
And the said Court do hereby declare the opinion & belief on the evidence aforesaid, that said Mary Hart was the lawful married wife of said John Hart, deceased, & that her state- ments contained in the foregoing declaration by her sub- scribed as to the time & circumstances of her marriage are all true, & that she is entitled to all rights in law & fact, which she can claim as the widow of John Hart named in her declaration -
J. P. P. P. P. P.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss. I Isaac Fiske, Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings, of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Mary Fiske for the benefit of the Provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th A D 1836. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day & year first above. Isaac Fiske Reg t of Prob.

State of Massachusetts, Middlesex County, On the tenth day of August Eighteen hundred and Forty Three, personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace, in, and for said County, Lucia a wife of Doctor Theodorus Spaulding of South Reading in said County who being duly sworn according to law makes the following statement for the purpose of obtaining from the Commissioners of Pensions at Washington City such further allowance in right of the services of her late father John Hunt a Surgeon of the Massachusetts line of the Army of the Revolution as he may of right have been entitled to under either of the Acts of the 15th of May 1828 or of the 7th of June 1832 in addition to the sum of Seven hundred and Eighty dollars a year which he was in the receipt of for several years previous to his death and also to obtain a similar additional allowance of Pension to her late Mother Mary Hunt for the same period of time in which she was in the receipt of a Pension of $420 per year. She says that her father was a Surgeon in the Army of the Revolution, drew the amount of seven hundred and Eighty dollars per year for several years before his death, and departed this life on the twenty seventh day of April Eighteen hundred and thirty six, leaving a widow, Mary Hunt, and three living children to wit, Mary Hunt (now Priestess) wife of Henry Priestess and Lucia Hunt (now Spaulding) the said Deponent and Samuel Hunt. That her said Mother Mary Hunt drew a Pension of $480 per year, from the United States from and after the death of Doctor Hunt, up to the day of her death which took place on the 15th day of November 1832, that the said Mary Priestess and Samuel Hunt she believes now

living the former in the State of Maine and the latter in the State of New York, that there were the only living children of either the said Pastor John Hunt or of his Widow Mary Hunt,
Lucinda Spralding
Sworn and subscribed to, before me this tenth day of August, 1843.
Phoebe Spralding Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston August 11 th 1843
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Thaddeus Spaulding was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and all the other Counties
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; 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.
Thos. A. Folsom
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

35617
John Hart dec d
Mass
at 7. June 31
increase
adm d
Lyn Dyer
$600 from
4 March 31 to 27 Sept 1836 to Thaddus Spaulding adm t of Mary Hart dec d widow of John Hart dec d - deducting what was paid within those periods
Wm H Penniman
Wm: Daniel P. King
Hak Rep-

State of Massachusetts Wadsworth County, ss. Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in, and for said County Aaron Bryant and Archibald Smith witnesses well known to me and whom, I hereby certify to be witnesses of credibility who being duly sworn according to Law saith, that Mary wife of Henry Brewster, that Lucia a wife of Doctor Shaddens Spaulding and that Doctor Samuel Hart, are only living children of Doctor John Hart late of South Reading of said County deceased, and of his wife Mary Hart, that both said John Hart and his widow Mary Hart, were in the receipt of an annu- ity or Pension from the United States at the time of their death, that the former died on about the 29th 1836 and that the latter on or about the fifteenth day of Nov, 1838 and further they say not.
Aaron Bryant Archibald Smith
Sworn and subscribed before me This tenth day of August 1843.
Shaddens Spaulding Justice of the Peace

Ray  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 35116
Mary Heart Widow John Heart Surg d Mass. Line
Act: July 4, 1886
Index:—Vol. A , Page 302
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Massachusetts
Mary Heart
of Middlesex in the State of Mass a
who was a Mass in the command by Captain Mass of the command
by in the line for Order of John Heart tie who was a Surgeon in the Revolution
Let to Hon Mr Palmer her Decem 11. 1843
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of $480 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834. Amt fr m 6 th March 1836 to be deducted —
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Oct r . 1836 and sent Readley Baldwin Boston Mass a
Arrears to the 14th of Sept 1836 $2640.00 Pemi-ant. allowance ending Oct 31 240.00 $2880.00
Oct 31
{ Revolutionary Claim, } Jan 7 1836
Recorded by H. H. Addison Clerk, Book Vol. 1 — Page 52

John Hart Surgeon Mass. adm d . act 1828. To what time paid?
paid to the 1 st March 1836
214
G.W.B
Oct r 3. 1836

To A. Edwards Commission of Pensions

To Col. Edwards Pension Commissioner, Sir,
Accompanying this you will receive the papers in the case of the heirs of Dr. John Hart of Mass - When the certificate is prepared will you have the kindness to enclose it to me -
I have been requested to inquire whether any, and if any what allowance or pay- ment has been made to the the Widow or heirs of Capt. Samu- el Flint who was killed in the Battle of Stillwater in 1777 - also
Whether any allowance had been made to the Heirs of Ad- jutant Tarrant Putnam of Danvers, Mass, an officer in Col. Putnam's Reg. (it might be some other Col.) who died in the service during the siege of Bos- ton -
Jan. 29. 1844 House of Reps
Yr obedt Servt Darius P. Kimball of Mass

Cambridge county of Middlesex — Mass
Gen. J. L. Edwards,
Inclosed is the application of Mary Hunt for the benefit of the Provision of the act of Congress, July 1836. You will please to communicate to me the result of the application.
I am very respectfully
Yours
Sarah Kittie

Mary Hatt died?
Mass.
at 4 July 3, 18 5
increased
2 yrs Surgeon
$600. from 15 Nov 38
March 36 to May
27 Sept 36 to 15 Nov 38.
Mentup - Second floral ding Hamt. Hatt one surviving children deducting what was paid
Certificate from the Court of Probate to obtain arrears of Pension due children of Mary Hatt Decd.
for Dr. King
A.R.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex County ss.
I Isaac Bisbee the Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited, that Mary Hart, widow of John Hart late of South Reading in said County Physician, deceased, was a Pensioner of the United States, at the rate of four hundred & fifty dollars per annum under the Law of the 4 th of July 1836, was a resident in said County of Middlesex, and died at said South Reading on the fifteenth day of November in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty eight & left three children only, to wit, Mary Prentiss, widow of Kenny Prentiss, deceased, Lucinda Spaulding wife of Dr. Theadoreus Spaulding & Samuel Hart, all of whom are of full age & now living.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this twenty third day of January in the year Eighteen hundred & forty four
Isaac Bisbee Regr

Hon Wm Parmenter Representative in Congress Washington D. C.
Hon W. Parmenter H. O.

South Reading Dec 26th 1843
Hon. Wm Passmore,
Dr Sir,
I understood some days since, that you had been requested to press some Pension Claims in favor of the heirs to the Estate of John Hunt deceased for an increase of Pension; and also relative to his Widow Mary Hunt. From some circumstances connected with the application, I prefer that all measures, relative to such additional Claims, be suspended for the present.
With sentiments of Respect, I remain,
Yours &c
I should have been glad to have had the above request as Execution to the Estate of John Hunt deceased & further as an heir by marriage to the Estate of said Hunt - J. S.
Washington Dec 30 1843.
So far as it depends upon any agency of mine I request the above cases to remain suspended.
Respy Yr obed Servt
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Wm Passmore

Certificate from the Probate Court to obtain arrears of Pension, due John Hurst deceased, payable to J. Sprouding, as the legal Representative of Mary Hurst decd. Widow of said John.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County ss
I Isaac Hooke Register of the County of Middlesex aforesaid, hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited that John Hark late of South Reading in said County of Middlesex Physician, was a Pensioner of the United States under the Law of the fifteenth of May A D 1828 at the rate of four hundred & eighty dollars per annum for services as Surgeon in the Army of the Revolution; that he was a resident in said County of Middlesex and died at South Reading in said County on the twenty seventh day of April A D 1836; that he left a widow whose name was Mary Hark; —
I further certify that the said Mary Hark died at said South Reading on the fifteenth day of November A D 1838; and that Theodorus Spaulding of said South Reading Physician, at a Court of Probate held at Cambridge in & for said County of Middlesex on the ninth day of January instant was duly appointed administrator of the estate of said Mary Hark & gave bond for the due performance of said trust; which appointment remains in full force. — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this twenty fifth day of January A D 1844. Isaac Hooke Reg.