Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19,692, Lemuel Harrington, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Harrington, Lemuel Eleanor
W. 19.692
CONTENTS

1407 Massachusetts
Lemuel Harrington
Hardwick in the State of Mass who was a Serjt in the company commanded by Captain Chambers of the Reg t commanded by Col Smith in the Massachusetts line for 20 Mo 16 days
Entered on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 1.14 Dollars 21 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of March 1833 and sent to Hon  Wm Lloyd Davis H. Re
Arrears to 4th of March 1833 $228.42 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sept 57.10
$285.52
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk, Book 9 Vol. 2 Page 100
See letter 22 July 1833 to Pension Agent & Jos Knox.

Rep Aug 10 -
1424
Massachusetts
Eleanor Harrington
widow of Lemuel Harrington who was a Sergeant
in the Mass line
for
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 114 Dollars & 21 . Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of August, 1843. and sent to Chs G Prentiss Worcester , Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A . Vol. 1 . Page 43/2

DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this First day of January in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open Court, before Nathl Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester now sitting, Samuel Harrington a resident of Hardwick in the County of Worcester - and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
I entered the service, about the first of July A.D. 1778 at Rutland in the County of Worcester aforesaid, as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Tucker, - the name of Capt. Tucker's Lieutenant was Bellows, his Ensign's name I do not recollect - said Company was attached to Col. Tyler's Regiment. I enlisted into said Company voluntarily, at the time mentioned above, remaining in it six months, and was discharged about the first of January A.D. 1779 - The principal business of the company during said six months, was to guard, or keep, the captured troops of Genl. Burgoyne. During said six months, I marched with a portion of said captured troops to Enfield, in Connecticut, on their way to Virginia, & then we immediately returned to guard the portion that remained - At the time of my enlistment I resided at Holden in S o County of Worcester, & I marched from there to Rutland which is an adjoining town -
In July or August of the year 1780, I also enlisted at Paxton, to go to Rhode Island. I marched from S o Paxton through Worcester, Mendon, Pawtucket & Bristol, & crossed into the Island at the north end of which I was engaged as a private in Capt. Daniel Grout's company, - I think our company was attached to Col. Howe's Regiment, but am not certain - Col. Jacobs & Col. Mitchell commanded Regiments near the same place and Col. Green also a Regiment of Continental troops. I remained in said service three months, - I was born at Holden aforesaid August 17. A.D. 1763. My age is recorded upon the records of S o town of Holden - I now reside at Hardwick & have resided there most of the time since the revolutionary war. I never received any written discharge from the services mentioned above & have no documentary evidence - My character is known to Rev. Martyn Tupper & Deacon Minter Esq. who reside in my neighborhood.
The nine months service mentioned above is other than that for which I am now allowed a pension. The services for which I am allowed together for which I hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, excepting that it has been placed there the present year for a pension of $12.00 per month which is all that is due to him.

We Martyn Tupper a Clergyman residing in the town of Hardwick and Jason Minter residing in S. Hardwick - hereby certify that we are well acquainted with General Harrington - who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before me, As. Knight, Jr. Justice .
Martyn Tupper Jason Minter
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 mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Martyn Tupper who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the Town of Hardwick and that Jason Minter who has also signed the same is a resident in the same and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Witness my hand and seal this 1st day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
Nathaniel D. Dine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester.
I Theophilus Wheeler Regd Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of General Harrington for a pension. That Joseph Knowlton named in a justice of the peace for said County Worcester and that the Signature of said Justice is genuine. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court. this first day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three.
Theophilus Wheeler Regd Clerk Probate Court

Eleanor Manning Lee
for Mrs. Calhoun

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Hampshire.
On this ninth day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me Barlow judge of the Court of Probate for said County, Eleanor Harrington a widow of Hampshire in said County over 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 Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to Adm. widows"
That she is the widow of Samuel Harrington late of said Hampshire deceased who was a soldier of the revolution and a prisoner of the United States. He was a sergeant in the service and went into the service from the town of Holden in said County. She being due to the United States a dower interest, and having

that he was much in the service, but the Cedula not state the particulars of it, and they are found the best by the rolls in the hereafter mentioned, and by the evidence filed in his case as a pension under the law of 1818
She further declares that she was mar- ried to the said Lemuel Harrington on the twenty third day of March nineteen hundred eighty five, at said Nattawut by the Rev Joseph Bachman the minister of that town. She further declares that her husband the said Lemuel Harrington died the third day of February in the year eighteen hundred and thirty three and has since his widow ever since as will more fully appear by the proof annexed. She further declares that she was not married prior to said said, but was married previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, and at the time also stated for the evidence of which she also refers to the proof annexed

Then and subserve the day and you alone with Me or me
for Eleanor x Hampton
McBath Judge of the Court of Pulaski for an Ennuy —

State of Massachusetts } Town of Hardwick Worcester County } within said County
Extract from the Record of the Deaths which have occurred in said town, taken from Book 2 d page 72 d of the Records of said Town.
'Eighteen hundred thirty three, February first, "Mr. Lemuel Harrington" (aged) sixty nine.'
I, Joseph Stone, Clerk of said town of Hardwick Hardwick certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows, "1833 Feby 1 st ", and also with the exception of the age, which is expressed on the record in a column ruled for that purpose, in fair legible figures, as follows, "69."
I, Joseph Stone, above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk in the aforesaid Town of Hardwick and that the above is a true extract from the Records, with the exceptions above named, as certified by me, Joseph Stone Clerk of said Hardwick August 10 th 1838 } Town of Hardwick
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year above written. Before me, Gardner Ruggles J. P. Pease
I certify that the above named Joseph Stone is a person of truth and veracity. Gardner Ruggles J. P.

William Dickinson of Boston in the County of Boston and State of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that that I formerly lived in the town of Haverhill in this County, and knew Samuel Harrington of said Haverhill who was reported to be a soldier of the Revolution, and was a friend of the United States. He died about five years ago. I have also very well known his widow Eleanor Harrington who now resides in said Haverhill, and has never been married since the death of her said husband. She is a woman of entire truth and respectability.
Wm Dickinson
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Boston ss. On this day personally appeared William Dickinson to me known to me as a man of truth and made oath that the above description is true
Before me John D. Sleeper Judge of Probate for said County

Extrahs from the Records of the Town of Rutland in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts —
“ Lemuel Harrington & Eleanor M c Elenathan both of Rutland were joined in Marriage March Twenty third, seventeen hundred & eighty five”
“The above Marriages consummated by me
Jos. Buckminster, Pastor of the Church of Christ in Rutland”
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows “March 23 d 1785”
Rufus Putnam clerk of the Town of Rutland
I Rufus Putnam above named depose & say that I held the office of Town clerk in the Town of Rutland aforesaid, & that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town, with the exception above named as certified by me
Rufus Putnam clerk of the Town of Rutland
State of Massachusetts, Worcester County ss. Sworn before me this eighth day of August 1838 — and I do further certify that the above Deponent is a credible witness —
Abby Glinn Justice of the Peace

1407. Massachusetts Samuel Harrington of Worcester in the State of Mass who was a Brig in the Company commanded by Captain Chambery of the Regt commanded by Col Smith in the Spaids time for 15 May 22 Days
See letter 24 Nov 1832 to Pension
Inscribed on the Roll of Spaids at the rate of 78 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd day of Nov 1832 and sent Joseph Knowe Starkwell  Prout
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $117.99 Semi-ant. allowance ending 21 March 33. 39.33 $157.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H Blain Clerk, Book D. Vol. 2 nd Page 58.

153
Massachusetts
Eleanor Harrington
widow of Lemuel Harrington dec d
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 3 rd February 1833
of Worcester co. in the State of Mass.
who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded
by Captain Chamber, of the Reg t commanded
by Col. Smith in the Mass a
line for
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass a
at the rate of 11 3/4 Dollars 21 Cents per annum.
to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th day of Sept r 1838 and sent to Genl. Add n Greenleaf Worcester Mass a
Arrears to the 4 th of March 1838 $224.42
Semi-annual allowance ending Sept r 57.10
$281.52
{ Act July 7, 1838. }
Recorded by Add n Clerk Book A. Vol. 1 st Page 94
Massachusetts Roll.
1,536
Lemuel Harrington,
Sergeant, Massachusetts line,
1781. two years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of June 1818, and sent to the Hon. Isaac Parker, Worcester, Mass a .
Arrears to 4 th of Sept r 1818.
Semi-annual allowance
4 months 22/30. $37.86
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
$78.66
H. Add n Greenleaf, Worcester, Mass a

Hon. J. S. Edwards Commr. of Pensions Washington

Worcester Aug. 11. 1838.
Sir,
I enclose the Papers in the case of Eleanor Harrington, applicant for a Pension.
Please to transmit the Pension certifi- cate to me, when granted.
Respectfully Yours Chas. G. Prouty.
Hon. J. S. Edwards. Commr. of Pensions.

Payments to be made at Boston Mass by The Pres of Bt Board Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Mass.
20 Mar & 16 days Sup
3. 14 Pouch
114.21
C. Mullen
Recorded by H. S. Klein Clerk, in Book D. Vol. 2 nd page 58.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Samuel Harrington of the State of Massachusetts who was a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Seventy Eight dollars and Sixty Six -cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1834, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
Lee Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. S. Edwards
V

Aug 6, 1882 PO
Wadsworth Ky Aug 27, 1832
for
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington D.C.
1831 In 1831 10 252 11/23 3 " 11 "

Hardwick July 27. 1832
Sir
By request, I send you enclosed the application of Misses Phinney & Harrington for the benefits of the pension act of June last. They are both men of unblemished character, & highly deserving of the benefits of the law. I presume their applications will be sufficient, but if they should not be so considered, you would oblige them by pointing out the defects. They have both been on the Pension list under the act of 1818. As it may tend to make their claims more clear, I will enclose also the pension certificate of each.
Any thing you may have to send them, please direct to them or myself at Hardwick -
Very respectfully Yr. friend &c
Jos. Knox

Annual Payment Payable on the 1 st -March & 1 st Sept r of each year, at the Branch Bank, W th Boston, Mass.
Recorded H.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES, of the 18 th March 1818 th Samuel Harrington — late a Sergeant — in the Army of the Revolution — is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the M ap Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars — cents per month, to commence on the 13 th day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen —
GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES, this Thirteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. C. Calhoun Secy of War

I John Pike of Paxton in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth Massachusetts of seventy-five years of age do depose and say that I am well acquainted with Lemuel Harrington of Hardwick in said county and have been thus acquainted with him ever since he was a boy and that he is now present, and that he was a soldier in Capt. Grafton's company of Massachusetts Militia stationed on Rhode Island with me three months in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty and was messmate with me all the time furthermore your deponent saith not
John Pike
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss, January 2 nd 1833 personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said county, the above named John Pike and was sworn to the truth of the above deposition by him signed in my presence
Brad. Livermore Just. Peace
Worcester ss, January 2 nd 1833
I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named deponent John Pike and have been more than forty years that he is a native townsman of mine and that he is considered a gentleman of strict truth and that full credit ought to be given to his testimony
Brad. Livermore Just. Peace

John Earle's Deposition

I John Earle of Hardwick in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Farmer, of lawful age, being duly sworn do testify & say, that in the year 1778 I was with Samuel Harrington, now of said Hardwick, (but then from Holden in said County,) six months, at Rutland in said County of Worcester, during which time the said Harrington was doing military duty in the war of the revolution, as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Tucker.
Said Company was attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Tyler, and was employed during said six months, in guarding the captured troops of Genl. Burgoyne.
I was during all of said six months, a member of the same company with said Harrington, and a messmate of his.
John Earle
Worcester p. Decr 10. 1832 Personally appeared John Earle above named, with whom I am well acquainted, & who, I certify, is a man of veracity & good character, and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed in my presence, is true.
Before me Jos. Knapp Jus. Peace

1542 Eleanor Harrington
$114:21 per an
Ch. G. Prentiss Worcester Mass

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
WORCESTER COUNTY, ss. On this Twenty Seventh day of May A. D. 1843, personally appeared before the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for the County of Worcester, Eleanor Harrington a resident of the town of Gardner in said County, aged eighty six years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3d of March, 1843, granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war.
That she is the widow of Samuel Harrington who was a Serjeant in the Revolution and died on the 3 rd day of February 1833; - that the evidence of the services of her Husband, the said Samuel, was deposited in the War Department when he obtained a Pension under the Act of June 9 th 1832, to which evidence she would now refer,
and that she received a pension under the act of July 7, 1838, of $114.22 per annum. She further declares that she is still a Widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me; - and I certify that the said Eleanor Harrington is personally known to me.
Joseph Stone , Justice of the Peace.
Note, The certificate granting the Five year Pension to Mrs. H. was dated Sept. 10 th 1838 and was numbered 153.
J. Stone

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, CHARLES G. PRENTISS, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify that Joseph Stone is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature to the foregoing certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court, this thirtieth day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty- three .
Chas. G. Prentiss Register.

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Samuel Harrington Sergeant in the 2 nd  Massachusetts Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York, the 23 rd Day of December 1783.
By the General's Command,
Henry Knox
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
A. Supper Adjutant

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Eleanor Harrington
Widow of
Lemuel Harrington
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

Lemuel Harrington 13 April Hardwick
Discharge from Gen. Inst 1783 Correct JH

County of Worcester
State of Massachusetts
I Lemuel Harrington a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Hancock in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, sometime in the month of December of the year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred & Eighty one
I entered and was engaged in the Land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the twenty third day of December in the year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred & Eighty three as a private soldier & a sergeant against the common enemy; without any interrup- tion or absence: that I belonged to the Company commanded by Capt Bradford in the Regiment commanded by Col Sprague in the Massachusetts line
and that I left the service on the twenty third day of December A.D. 1783 by regular discharge, which discharge is herewith for- warded and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of Fifty five years
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Lemuel Harrington
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this thirtyth day of April  April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, Isaac Parker Chief
Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court
the abovenamed Lemuel Harrington and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination du- ly made by the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Witness my hand & seal the day & year aforesaid Isaac Parker CJSB

Eleanor Harrington.
Wid of Lemuel Marp.
Ad 7 July 1838
Manned 1785
Died 1833
Allow $114.21 per
Ana.
Col G. Brattle Esq Worcester Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester, ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the county of Worcester, do certify, that Ira Barton is the Judge of said Court duly commissioned and qualified - and that his signatures to the papers hereto annexed are his genuine signatures.
I further certify, that Billy Flint and Leonard Ruggles are Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified - and that their signatures to the papers hereto annexed are their own genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court this eleventh day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
Chas. G. Prentiss, Register

Lemuel Harrington Hardwick.
20 Mo. 16 Days Aug - Hardwick
$102.67
Chambers
Smiths

To the Secretary of the War Department, of the Govt. of the United States -
The following is a statement which I the subscriber make under oath, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed March 7, 1832 -
I have once been on the Pension Roll under the act of March 18, 1818, & have since been struck from the same on account of property -
I enlisted on the nineteenth day of December A D 1781, was placed in Capt. Chambers company, & served in the sixth Massachusetts Regiment of Regular troops, commanded by Lieut. Colonel Calvin Smith - Afterwards in the second Massachu- -setts Regiment commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Sprent - My rank was that of Sergeant -
I was discharged on the 23 d day of December A D 1783 - My discharge was sent to your department at the time of making my first application, and is supposed to have remained there to this time -
Hardwick July 23. 1832 -
I now reside at Hardwick, in the County of Worcester, Massachusetts, & did reside at said Hardwick, where I first made application under the act of March 18, 1818 -
Hardwick July 23. 1832 -
The above is true, made before signing -
Levi Harrington
Worcester Co. July 23 d 1832 Then the above named Levi Harrington personally appeared, & made oath to the truth of the foregoing statements, & subscribed the same -
Before me, Jos. Innes Jus. Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester ss. I Abijah Bigelow, Clerk of the Judicial Courts, holden within and for the county of Worcester, do hereby certify, that Joseph Knox Esquire, before whom the within declaration of Lemuel Harrington was made and sworn to is a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Worcester, and that his signature thereto appears to me to be in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the county seal of said county this twenty fifth day of July in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Abijah Bigelow, Clk.