Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 24396, Reuben Harriot, Continental (Penn.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Penn.)
Harriot, Reuben Harriott
W 24396
Ann
CONTENTS

19,517.
New York.
Reuben Harriot W. 24396
of Livingston Co. in the State of New York, who was a Matross in the company command by Captain Willey — of the regiment command by Colonel Flowers. — in the Pennsylvania line, for the term of three years, from 1 st July 1779 to 1 st July — 1782
scribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 2 nd of June 1825.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of Nov: 1825 and sent to Micah Brooks, Esq. East Bloomfield, N.Y.
  Arrears to 4th of Sept: 1825.  $ 24 " 75    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Mar: 1826.  48 " 00     $ 72 " 75  
Capt Thos Willey Col Benjamin Flowers — Nunc
{ Revolutionary claim. Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820.

57 70 New York Albany Ann Harriett deed widow of Penfer who served in the Revolutionary war, as an Artillery Artificer
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 2 1/2 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Engr 23 rd Jan y 1849 Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of Oct r 1857 and sent to
H. Hubbard Norwich N.Y.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 86 Vol. 41.

29- 7.73 1.06 16 24.79

19,621. In the matter of Reuben Herrick
5 3
Application for a Pension
To be handed to the Brooks of New Bedford
On roll.

State of New York County of Livingston 3 St.
On the first day of June 1825 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said County and constituted a Court of Record by proceeding according to the course of the Common Law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of Amount and keeping a record of its proceedings and recognized as such Court by the laws and judicial proceedings of the said State. Reuben  William Harriott residing in the said County aged fifty eight years being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18 of March 1818 and on the first of May 1820 that he the said Reuben Harriott enlisted for the term of three years on the first day of July 1779 in the State of Pennsylvania in the company Commanded by Capt. Thos. Willey in the Regiment Commanded by Col. Benjamin Flower in the line of the State of Pennsylvania on the continental establishment. That he continued to serve in the said Corps until the last of June 1782 when he was discharged from the service in Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the roll of any state as a pensioner, and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension. — On the 18th day of April 1818 he made application before Judge Brooks of Ontario County who took his declaration on oath and was requested to forward the same to the Secretary of War, that about one year afterward he applied to Judge Brooks in order to ascertain the result of his application when he was informed by Judge Brooks that proof must be made as to his real and circumstance before the application could be sent to the War Department. That he the said Reuben Harriott resided in the town of Avon in the County of Ontario a distance of about twenty miles from the residence of Judge Brooks who resided near the east line of the town of Bloomfield in said County and that about this time he the said Reuben Harriott became sickly and so feeble for a length of time as to be unable to walk the distance re-

and that he was utterly destitute of property and unable to procure the attendance of a person to make the proof or to get a conveyance for himself to a place where the business relating to his pension could be done - that at all times afterwards when an attempt was made by him to attend the session of any Court in order to make his declaration and set forth his schedule he was opposed by his neighbours and friends who refused to give him assistance believing that the description of troops in which he served was not provided for in the act granting pen- sions and that by reason of his reduced circumstances he was not able to attend the sitting of any Court un- til he had obtained information from the War Depart- ment through Judge Brooks that Col. Flower's Regiment in which he served was provided for in the act of Congress - and that not until since this information was received could he obtain assistance to enable him to present his claim to the War Department - And in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons aged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Rev- olutionary War" passed on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contain- ed in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed that is to say three old chairs and a table $1.50 One debt due from Stephen H. Crowder $2.24 Amounting in the whole to four dollars and seventy four cents - that by occupation he was a tanner but by sickness and debility he is unable to labor in his occupation or in any other business and that for some years past has been supported by public and private charity - that since the 18th of March 1818 the following changes have been made in my property one chair was sold to Daniel Day in July 1824 for two dollars to pay for nursing and attention while sick and one piece of furniture sold to Daniel Day for fifty cents in July 1824 to pay him for taking care of me while sick - which is all the property that in the said Reuben Harrington has in any manner whereby disposed of.
Sworn and declared on the first day of June 1825 before me
(Signed) Reuben Harrington
J. Riggs Judge of Livingston Co. N.Y.

State of New York Livingston County ss. 3 We appraise the property of Reuben Harnott as follows    3 Old chisels 1 gouge  $1.50    Debt due from Stephen F. Crowder  4.24     5.74  
Amounting in the whole to five dollars and seventy four cents.
Charles H. Carroll J. Riggs } Judges Jas. McKeay }
State of New York Livingston County ss. 3 I Sylvester Brown Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do certify that the foregoing oath and schedule are truly copied from the records of said court and I further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the said affidavit is in all respects true and that the total amount in value of the property above mentioned is five dollars and seventy four cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said court this 2nd day of June 1825
Sylvester Brown Clerk pr J. A. Dudley Dep. clk.

5672 Case of Ann
Ann Harriot widow of Reuben
Act July 7. 1838
Marr'd 19. March 1793 Husband died 14. Feb 1827.
Admitted 2 yrs Artillery Artiller. Solvers Rest £240 per annum. Com'd 4 March 1834.
acts 38, 43 1244
23 Jan'y 1849, payable
Susy Harriot, only surviving child
Albany Row N. Hackney London N.W.

State of New York } Monroe County } ss
On this 12 th day of June 1839 Personally appeared before the County Court being a Court of Record
Ann Harriot President of Brush in the said County of Monroe and State aforesaid aged sixty five 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 th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows, That she is the Widow of Reuben Harriot who was a private soldier in the revolutionary Army, and served in the New Jersey Line and as she is informed and believes about six years, that he had granted to him a Certificate for a pension by the secretary of war at short time before his death, She further declares that she was married to the said Reuben Harriot on the 19 th day of March One thousand seven hundred and ninety three, that her husband the aforesaid Reuben Harriot died on the 14 th day of February One thousand Eight hundred and Twenty seven, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the Marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four (1803) at the time above stated & has no record evidence of her marriage
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written before in Open Court, before me
Ann Harriot
Ephraim Goss Clerk

State of New York Monroe County } ss
Preserved Gibbs of Wheatland in the county of Monroe and state aforesaid aged seventy years, being duly sworn says he was well acquainted with Reuben Harriot a Revolutionary Soldier and pensioner of the United States since the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, and Ann Lewis, since the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety two, both the said Reuben Harriot and Ann Lewis then resided in the Town of Springfield in the county of Otsego and State of New York and resided in the said county of Otsego until about the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven, that according to the best recollection and belief of this deponent, on the nineteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, he was present and saw Esquire Sampard then an acting Justice of the peace of the Town of Springfield in the county of Otsego in the said State of New York marry the above named Reuben Harriot, to the above named Ann Lewis, that he has been well acquainted with the said Reuben Harriot and Ann his wife ever since the years 1791. and 1792. Knows the said Ann Harriot, is the widow of the said Reuben Harriot who died about the 14 th of February 1827. at Rush in the county of Monroe, that the said Ann Harriot remains his widow and has not been married to any one since the death of Reuben Harriot her said husband
Sworn and subscribed before me this 19 th day of April 1839.
John D. Pierce Jr. { Commissioner of Oaths for said Monroe County
Preserved Gibbs

State of New York Monroe County ss
I John Pierce Jr. Commissioner of Oaths hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Preserved Gibbs the fore- going deponent, and verily believe him to be a person of character and entitled to Credit,
John Pierce Jr. { Commissioner of Oaths for Rush in Monroe County
State of New York Monroe County ss
I certify that John Pierce Jr. Esq. was at the time of taking the within affidavit, a commissioner of Oaths, in and for said county, and authorized by law to take the same and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the within & above signature, purporting to be his, are genuine - Witness my hand and seal of office, this fourteenth day of June 1839 Ephraim Goss Clerk

State of New York Erie County } ss
On this 25 th day of Sept. 1851 before me James G Dickie a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Lucy Hamott of Buffalo, Erie Co. New York who being duly sworn according to law deposes & says that she is the daughter of Ann Hamott, Widow of William  Reuben Hamott, who was an artificer in the army of the United States, in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain and that she died on the 23 rd day of Jan'y 1849 and left but one surviving child, viz. Lucy Hamott and that no administrator was ever appointed.
The object of this declaration is to assert a claim to a pension, to which it is believed the said Ann Hamott, was entitled at the time of her death, under act of Congress of 7 th July 1838. and under any other acts & resolutions, that may be applicable to her case -
Subscribed & sworn before me this 25 th day of Sept 1851.
Lucy Hamott
James G Dickie Justice of the Peace
State of New York, Erie County Clerk's Office.
I, WELLS BROOKS, Clerk of said County, and of the Court therein, certify that James G Dickie before me, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration, was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly sworn, sworn and acting as such, and authorized to take the same, and further, that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verify before the signature therein, to be his genuine signature. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said County, and the Court therein. 25 th day of September A.D. 1851.
Wells Brooks

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. * Reuben Harriott and File 24396
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     July 1. 1779 June 1782 Pvt. Thos. Wylie Benjamin Flowers Lieutenant         * home also appears Harriott  
Battles engaged in, ✓
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted in Pennsylvania
Date of application for pension, June 1. 1825. His d. was at
Residence at date of application, Livingston Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, 58 yrs. He died Feb. 14, 1827 at Rush Monroe Co. N.Y.
Remarks: Soldier married at Springfield, Otsego Co. N.Y. Mch. 19. 1793 Ann Lewis. Her claim for pension was allowed on an application presented June 12, 1839 when a resident of Rush, Monroe Co. N.Y. and 65 years of age. She died at Rochester N.Y. Jan'y 23. 1849. Lucy, the only surviving child was living at Buffalo Erie Co. N.Y. in 1861 no other names stated.
Very respectfully,

11.173 New York Albany Mrs. Harriett Baeed widow of Reuben Harriett who died on the of Monroe in the State of N.Y. who was an Artillery in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded by Col. Flowers in the Revolution for two years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 24 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of October 1857 and sent to H. Hubbard Esq Arrears to the 4th of November Semi-annual allowance ending N.Y.
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act July 7, 1838. } J. B. Wightman Clerk. Recorded by Book Vol. 1. Page 173

1910 Feb 14 Hist. Soc Mrs. A. W. Freeman -
Buy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24896
Anne Harriott
wid of
Reuben Harriott
Antigua Rev. War
Act: Feb 24 1848.
Index:—Vol. A , Page 318
[Arrangement of 1870.]

9075 New York Albany Mrs. Margarett deed widow of Reuben who was an Artillerist in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 24 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of Oct 1851 and sent to
H. Hubbard Norwich, N.Y.
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2. Page 259

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by W. Rice
Claim No. W. 24396
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Reuben Harriot
Service Rev. War
Additional Service _____
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 191_____
No claim, combination records _____, 191_____
REMARKS:
no Surv. Wid or Rejd. other than above.
MAY 19 1911

Not.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by Geo M. Moore Claim No. Feb 9, 1910.
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Reuben Hairiott
Service _____ Rev.
Additional Service _____
No _____ claim, State records _____, 190_____
No claim, combination records _____, 190_____
REMARKS:
No O. M. S. or R. account except W F 24396.

Hon James L. Davenport. Sir:
Will you please give me the record, if you have the same - of Andrew negative Harriott, and two sons negative Azel or Asahel, & Reuben Harriott or Harriot,
They served in Captain Wiley's Company of Colonel Benjamin Flower's Artillery Artificers, Pennsylvania Line. After serving three years they were discharged in 1781,

and Reuben Harriott was pensioned under act of 18th of March - 1818, in Livingston County, New York. I should like to know if Andrew and Azeele also received pensions, and their war records as far as you have them.
Respectfully,
Mrs H. H. Freeman 1920 - Cabot Street N.W. Washington, D.C. February 1st. 1910.

Rec d Nov. 5. 1825.
19,621.
Reuben Harriot, Livingston St. N.Y.
Micah Brooks, East Bloomfield N.Y.
Rec d Nov. 5. 1825
She Honble Jas M c
East Bloomfield N.Y. October 30th N.Y.
Union Sp n

East Bloomfield, County of Ontario N.Y. Oct 27 th Oct 1924
Sir
The application of Pruebin Harriet for a pension which was  and returned to me for amend- ment, has been re-examined by the Depu- ty Clerk of Livingston Co., he found that an error had been by him committed in ta- king a copy from the records of the Court by inserting "William" instead of Pruebin he has made the amendment and the application has been herewith forwarded to the War Department
I am very Respectfully Yours &c Micah Brooks
The Hon ble Jas. Barham Secy of War —

Brief in the case of Ann Harriot, def d , widow of Reuben Mourne County and State of New York act 7 July 1838 & subsequent acts.
Claim, ("original," or "for increase." )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was an Artillery Artificer in Col Flowers Regiment, enlisted 1 July 1779, for three years, and was a pensioner under the Act of 18 March 1818 Proof of Marriage - Living witness
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent.
H. Hubbard Norwich NY
S. Cole, Examining Clerk.

5672 June 25.
NY.
7 July 1838.
June 25
Mrs Garrison
ind: of Reuben
act: 1818
from Secretary of War Buckingham Distribut of Columbia
4/13/38

Brush Mansion County State of New York June 20 th 1839
Hon Secretary at War,
Enclosed I send you the application of Ann Harriet, Widow of Reuben Harriet, a Soldier of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States
Please direct your Communications on the subject to Peter Price, Esq. of Brush in the County of Monroe and State of New York and it will reach the Applicant immediately
I Remain yours Sincerely
Hon. Secretary of War
Ottewill

to application dated Apr. 18, 1818 on file at this date Feb. 12, 1910 V. L. M.

State of New York Chemung County ss:
I, Nelson Pellet, Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State of New York do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited, that Ann Hamill, widow of Reuben Hamill, who was reputed to be an artificer during the Revolution, was a resident of Rochester in Monroe County, State aforesaid, and died at Rochester aforesaid on the 23 d day of January, 1849, and that she left but one surviving child, viz: Lucy Hamill
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office at Albany, this 27 th day of September in the year of our Lord, 1851.
N. Pellet Clerk