JOHN HART born 5 JUN 1759, Berkeley Co, West Virginia, died 19 NOV 1833 AND IS BURIED IN CUMBERLAND CO., IL, GREENUP CEM, HIS PENSION # F-S32300 R1208, probable son of Miles H Hart Jr (b1729) m Delilah Rice Burris JOHN HART REV. WAR PENSION FILE STATE OF ILLINOIS AD 1833 COLES COUNTY ON THIS 6TH DAY OF MAY 1833 PERSONALLY APPEARED IN OPEN COURT BEFORE THE HON. WM. WILSON, JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR COLES COUNTY NOW SITTING AND CONSTITUTES THIS CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY AND STATE AFORESAID. JOHN HART A RESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE COUNTY OF COLES AND STATE OF ILLINOIS, AGED 74 YEARS THE 5TH DAY OF NEXT JUNE WHO BEING FIRST DULY SWORN ACCORDING TO THE LAW DOTH ON HIS OATH MAKE THE FOLLOWING DECLARATION IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFITS OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS PASSED JUNE THE 7TH 1832. THAT HE ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS AND SERVED AS HEREIN STATED. THAT HE ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR 1776 UNDER MAJOR MORGAN WHO WAS SENT BY GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT THE FRONTIER OF VIRGINIA FROM THE INVASIONS OF THE INDIANS. THAT HE WAS IN CAPTAIN MASONS COMPANY FOR THE TERM OF 3 MONTHS AS A PRIVATE, WAS THEN PLACED UNDER THE COMMAND OF COL. WILLIAMSON AT WHEELING, VA AND WAS BY HIM MADE A SPY IN THE AFORE MENTIONED SERVICE FOR THE TERM OF 3 MONTHS, WAS THEN LEFT AT WHEELING IN GARRISON FOR THE TERM OF 18 MONTHS BUT CANNOT STATE ALL THE OFFICERS HE WAS UNDER DURING THAT PERIOD AS THERE WERE FREQUENT CHANGES. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM, OWING TO HIS ADVANCED AGE, TO STATE ALL BUT AS WELL AS HIS RECOLLECTION NOW SERVES HIM. THE PRINCIPAL PART OF THIS TIME HE WAS COMMANDED BY EBENEZER LEWIS (BUT DOES NOT NOW RECOLLECT THE TITLE HE BORE). HE WAS FREQUENTLY WHILE IN GARRISON EMPLOYED IN LOCATING PARTIES AND WAS IN FREQUENT SKIRMISHES WITH THE INDIANS IN THE PROTECTION OF THE FRONTIER. HE THEN STATES THAT UPON INFORMATION THAT GEN.CLARK CALLED FOR TROOPS AND VOLUNTEERS THAT HE JOINED THE TROOPS AND WENT DOWN THE RIVER AND JOINED GEN CLARK AS A VOLUNTEER AND WAS EMPLOYED BY GEN CLARK AS A SPY DURING THE TERM OF TWO SUMMER SEASONS AND WAS QUARTERED AT THE STATION DURING THE WINTER. THAT HE THEN JOINED GEN. CLARK IN HIS CAMPAIGN IN 1780. (HE THINKS ABOUT THE FIRST OF AUG.) AND HE (JOHN HART) WAS BEFORE XXXX WARRANTED, ELECTED AND COMMISSIONED A CAPT. IN SAID SERVICE UNDER COL. LINN WHICH COMMISSION WAS BURNT BY FIRE WITH HIS OTHER EFFECTS, HOUSE, ETC IN THE YEAR 1783. THE COMMISSION WAS GIVEN ACCORDING TO THE BEST OF HIS RECOLLECTION BY THE THEN PRESENT GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA. IN WHICH AFORESAID CAMPAIGN HE SERVED AS CAPT. FOR THE TERM OF 2 MONTHS. THAT HE WAS IN THE BATTLE OF PICAWAY TOWN OF THE INDIANS UPON MAD RIVER UNDER GEN. CLARK, COL. LINN, ADJ PRATHER (CAPT HIMSELF) AND ANDY HOWE(?), LT. WAS IN MANY SKIRMISHES THAT AFTER HIS RETURN TO THE STATION AT THE FALLS OF OHIO HE WAS FREQUENTLY SENT BY GEN CLARK ON XXXX PARTIES BOTH ON THE NORTH AND SOUTH SIDE OF THE OHIO RIVER THROUGH THE COUNTRIES OF THE MIAMIS, MAD RIVER AND THAT HE REMAINED IN THE SERVICE UNTIL PEACE WAS DECLARED. THAT HE RECEIVED NO DISCHARGE FROM THE SERVICE WHICH AS IT APPEARS WAS IN CONSEQUENCE OF COL. LINN BEING KILLED BY THE INDIANS A SHORT TIME BEFORE PEACE WAS MADE, HE THEN BEING HIS SUPERIOR OFFICER. THAT HE HAS NO DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE AND THAT HE KNOWS OF NO PERSON WHOSE TESTIMONY HE CAN PROCURE WHO CAN TESTIFY TO HIS SERVICE. THAT THE ONLY RECORD OF HIS AGE IS IN HIS FATHER'S FAMILY BIBLE WHICH WAS THE LAST TIME HE SAW IT IN THE POSSESSION OF HIS BROTHER JOSEPH HART WHO RESIDES IN THE STATE OF OHIO. THAT HE WAS BORN THE 5TH DAY OF JUNE IN THE YEAR 1759 BERKLEY CO., VA WHERE HE REMAINED UNTIL HE ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES AND UPON QUITTING THE SERVICE HE SETTLED NEAR THE FALLS OF OHIO, STATE OF KENTUCKY AT WHICH PLACE HE RESIDED IN HARDIN CO., KY UNTIL THE YEAR 1822 AT WHICH TIME HE MOVED TO LAWRENCE CO., IL AND AT PRESENT RESIDES IN COLES CO., IL AND HAS FOR THE THREE YEARS LAST PART. HE STATES THAT HE IS ACQUAINTED WITH JOHN PARKER, CLERGYMAN AND AMBROSE YOCUM, SHERIFF WHO CAN TESTIFY TO HIS CHARACTER FOR TRUTH AND XXXXXX AND OF THEIR BELIEF OF HIS SERVICE AS A REV. SOLDIER. HE DOES NOT AT PRESENT RECOLLECT THE NAMES OF ANY OF THE REGULAR OFFICERS EXCEPT ONE SLAUGHTER(?) WHO HE THINKS WAS A COL., HE HEREBY RELINQUISHES ANY CLAIM WHATEVER TO A PENSION OR ANNUITY EXCEPT THE PRESENT AND DECLARE THAT HIS NAME IS NOT ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE AGENCY OF ANY STATE. SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED THE DAY AND YEAR AFORESAID. his JOHN X HART mark WE JOHN PARKER A CLERGYMAN RESIDING IN THE COUNTY OF COLES AND STATE OF ILLINOIS AND AMBROSE YOCUM, SHERIFF RESIDING IN THE SAME COUNTY AND STATE HEREBY CERTIFY THAT WE ARE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE JOHN HART WHO HAS SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO THE ABOVE DECLARATION THAT WE BELIEVE HIM TO BE 74 YEARS OF AGE, THAT HE IS REPUTED AND BELIEVED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE HE RESIDES TO HAVE BEEN A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION AND THAT WE CONCUR IN THAT OPINION. SWORN AND SUBSCRIBED THE DAY AND YEAR AFORESAID. JOHN PARKER AMBROSE YOCUM AND THE SAID COURT DO HEREBY DECLARE THEIR OPINION AFTER THE INTERROGATION OF THE MATTER AND AFTER PUTTING THE INTERROGATORS PRESCRIBED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT THAT THE ABOVE SWORN APPLICANT WAS A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER AND SERVED AS HE STATES AND THE COURT FURTHER CERTIFIES THAT IT APPEARS TO THEM THAT JOHN PARKER WHO HAS SIGNED THE PRECEDING CERTIFICATE IS A CLERGYMAN RESIDING IN THE COUNTY OF COLES AND STATE AFORESAID AND THAT AMBROSE YOCUM, SHERIFF WHO HAS ALSO SIGNED THE SAME IS A RESIDENT OF THE COUNTY OF COLES AND STATE OF ILLINOIS IS A CREDITABLE PERSON AND THAT THEIR STATEMENT IS ENTITLED TO CREDIT. WILLIAM WILSON I, JAMES P. JONES CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF COLES, STATE OF ILLINOIS DUE HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOING CONTAINS THE ORIGINAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE SAID COURT IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF JOHN HART FOR A PENSION. IN TESTIMONY I HAVE HERE UNTO SET MY HAND AND AFFIXED MY PRIVATE SEAL XX SEAL OF OFFICE PROVIDED YET THIS 17TH DAY OF OCTOBER AD 1832. JAMES P. JONES CLK CCC I AM WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE ABOVE NAMED JAMES P. JONES AND KNOW HIM TO BE CLERK AS ABOVE STATED AND HIS CERTIFICATE AND ATTENTION IS IN DUE FORM ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ILLINOIS. JOHN M. ROBINSON MAY 7, 1833