Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41633, Reuben Heart, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Heart, Reuben.
S. 41633
CONTENTS

12.176 Ohio
Reuben Heart
Tallmadge in the state of Ohio who was a private in the regiment commanded by colonel Willis of the Connecticut line, for the term of Three years
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 2 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of June 1813 and sent to Sam l Kingsbury Ravenna Ohio.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10 3/4 80.71 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819 48.11
$128.77
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued.
He was a private in the Connecticut line, for the term of Three years. Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 2nd of May 1818. A Certificate of Pension was issued to him the 22nd of June 1813, and sent to Sam l Kingsbury, Ravenna, Ohio.

41633
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 41633
Renew Heart
Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 221
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Reuben Hart - then Connect. line Col. Willis Regt Jany 1779 Jany 1782
Reuben Hart Col. Judah's Comp. Jany 1779 - 3 yrs which probably is the same man.
Admitted (signature)

State of Ohio Portage County
ES
On this Second day of May 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges in and for the County of Portage Personally appeared Reuben Heart aged fiftyfive years resident in Tallmadge in the said County Who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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 that he the said Reuben Heart enlisted in Farmington County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Captain Rufus Champion of the first Connecticut Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Willis in January 1779 that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the Month of January A.D. 1782 when he was discharged from service in Reading in the State of Conn- =ecticut that he was in the Battles at the taking of Stony Point and at fort Montgomery the time it was taken by the British and at Elizabethtown Battle And that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his Country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Samuel Hings Jr Associate Judge
I Samuel Hings
do as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Reuben Heart did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Depart- =ment of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress
Samuel Hings Jr Associate Judge

I do hereby certify that I have taken particular pains to obtain information respecting the circumstances of the within named Reuben Heart and am well satisfied that he is in indigent circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his Country for support. Stated February 3rd 1819
Samuel King Jr. Assistant Judge
The State of Ohio Portage County ss
I Seth Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Portage do hereby certify and make known that Samuel King Esq. Judge before whom the foregoing application was made and who subscribed the foregoing certificates was at the time of taking and subscribing the same and now is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County duly commissioned and sworn to all whose Official acts full faith and credit is and ought to be given and that the aforesaid signatures are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal at Ravenna this twenty seventh day of May Anno Domini Eighteen Hundred & nineteen
(Signature) Clerk.
Reuben Heart - Reuben Heart
Connecticut Col. Willis Boyn Jan'y 17th 1822
(Faint mirrored text from reverse side) Reuben Heart Col. Willis Boyn Jan'y 17th 1822 which probably is the same as above
Admitted

Rubin Telcent.
Copy examina
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12176 Sep. 19
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The State of Ohio
Portage County ss
Be it Remembered that at a Term of the court of Common Pleas of the County of Portage held at the court house in the Town of Ravenna within and for said County before the Honorable George Joe Purnell of the Third Circuit of the courts of Common Pleas in the state of Ohio and Elias Harmon Alva Day and Augustus Baldwin Esqrs Associate Judges of said County being a court of Record especially constituted by law proceeding according to the forms of the common law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of their proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment on this twenty first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one - Personally appeared in open court Rubin Hart aged fifty seven years, a resident in Tallmadge in said county of Portage who being first duly sworn according to law doth declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: - That he the said Rubin Hart enlisted in the town of Farmington in the month of January 1778 for three years in the company commanded by Capt Henry Champion in the Regiment commanded by Col. Wyllys in the Connecticut line on the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said company until the 19. Jan y 1781 when he was discharged from said service at Reading in the state of Connecticut. That he was at the taking of Stony-Point, that he was in an engagement at the defeat of Fort Montgomery, in an engagement at Elizabeth Town, and on Staten Island and that he has no other evidence of his said services. That this declaration has heretofore to wit on the 2 d day of May 1818 under the provisions of an act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 made declaration of his said services before Samuel King Esq r then one of the Associate Judges of said court and in pursuance thereof has been inscribed on the pension list of the United States as by his pension certificate Number 12775 dated the twenty second day of June 1819. in his pension application.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since then
since

time by gift, sale or in any manner disposition of any 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 eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule herunto annexed and by me subscribed.
This declarant exhibits here in court the following inventory of his whole estate and income necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit: 2 Cows - - - $24.00 -
This declarant further states that he is justly indebted to Doctor Harshel in the sum of ten dollars and to George Kilbourn five dollars -
This declarant is by occupation a farmer his age fifty seven; at present incapable of performing any labour and is almost blind. His no family is entirely dependent on the charity of his son Alphus and son in law Edmund Prout for support.
Sworn to and subscribed in open court this 21 day of Feb y 1821
Reuben Hart.
Deu Clk.
The State of Ohio
Portage County ss
I Seth Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Portage do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the records of 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 said inventory after deducting the debts due and owing by the said Reuben Hart is nine dollars. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Ravenna this twenty eighth day of February Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty one
Deu Clerk