REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION ABSTRACT OF APPLICATION - SAMUEL HARRIS

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Name: HARRIS, SAMUEL
Pension #: S10813
State: VA
Age: 69
Ap. Date: 14 Mar 1833
HARRIS, SAMUEL: appeared in Mercer Co., Court..he being of the demonination 
called "Believers" or of the "Shaker Religion"..states he was born in Duchess 
Co., NY on the tract of land called River Pasture at an early age removed with 
his father to York Co., Penn then to Berkly Co., Va when about 7 years of age 
where I lived when called into service in the fall of 1780.. was taken prisioner 
of the British kept for three weeks released as a guard for some wounded 
officers who had been parolled..I have no proof of my age nor know of anyone, 
alive who could prove my service. I lived in Berkley Co., Va. during the 
revolution except in 1783 when I lived at my fathers in Washington Co., Penn. In 
1784 I removed to Kentucky where I have since lived for the last 22 years have 
lived in Mercer Co., Ky.