Guilford-Burke County NcArchives Military Records.....Hardin, John January 12, 1853 Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com March 25, 2007, 10:05 pm Pension Application Of John Hardin, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll ____, Application #R4599 Blount County, Tennessee} On this 12th day of January, 1853, personally appeared before me, Samuel Ghormley, an acting justice of the peace for the county of Blount and the state aforesaid, Nancy Hardin, a resident of the county of Blount and state aforesaid, aged about 96 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration…: That she is the widow of John Hardin who was a soldier of the Revolutionary War in the state of North Carolina as will more fully appear by the annexed certificate of the Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for said state of North Carolina, but the particulars of her said husband’s service she is unable to state, but know that he served a considerable time. She further declares that she was married to the said John Hardin in the month of September in the year 1774, and that her said husband was in service when their third child was a sucking babe, which said child was born in the year 1779. She further declares that as well as she can now recollect, her and her said husband were married by the publication of the banns. They were married in Guilford, North Carolina. She further declares that the Bible containing the family record, a Mr. Moses Curtis, who then lived with them sometime about the year 1800, wished to get it, to which she objected, but upon the said Curtis’s promising to copy off the record and send it to them, they let him have it. She is unable to state where said Curtis now lives. She further declares that her said husband, John Hardin, died in Burke County, North Carolina on the 1st day of April, 1821 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written, before me. Nancy Hardin, her mark. McDowell County, North Carolina} This day, personally appeared before me, Alberto Higgins, one of the justices of the peace in and for said county of McDowell, Moses Curtis, and after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he knew John Hardin and wife, Nancy Hardin, late of Burke County. That he lived in the family as a boarder, in the year 1798. That they then lived together as husband and wife; that they had several children, some of whom were _____; that the paper ma___ in was this day taken from a Bible now in his possession, which he purchased from ___ Woody, a son-in-law of John Hardin about the year 1798 or 99. That the said Bible has been in his possession ever since he purchased it from Woody. That the record hereto appended was made in the said Bible before this affiant bought it; that it has not been altered; and that he believes that it is a correct record of the births of the children of John Hardin and wife, Nancy. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 26th day of March, 1853. Moses Curtis. A. Higgins, J.P. A Rebecca Hardin was born July the 12, 1775 Bety Hardin was born March the 13, 1777 William Hardin was born August the 26, 1779 Nancy Hardin was born March the 6, 1783 ?Jane or ?James Hardin was born ?January or ?February the 26, 1786 Sarah Hardin was born August the 1st, 1788 ?Margat Hardin was born June the 7th, 1791 John Hardin was born January 23rd, 1797 Blount County, Tennessee} On this 6th day of January, 1854, personally appeared before me, Samuel Ghormley, an acting justice of the peace for Blount County, John Hardin, a citizen of said county, with whom I am personally acquainted, aged about 60 years, who after being duly sworn according to law, makes oath that he is the son of John Hardin, deceased, late of Burke County, North Carolina, and of Nancy Hardin, his widow, now residing in Blount County, Tennessee, who filed a declaration dated in January 1853, asking a pension under the Act of Congress passed July 4th, 1836. That he has, on many occasions, heard of his father, John Hardin speak of his service as a soldier of the Revolution. That he does not recollect with any degree of certainty the length of service alleged to have been performed by his father, nor any of the officers under whom he served, except General Greene, of whom he father often spoke. He states that his father, in speaking of the particular service performed by him, said that he was a portion of the time in charge of a baggage wagon; that at the time of the Battle of Guilford, he was at home, having got a furlough or permit a day or two before the battle; that he was then living in Guilford in the neighborhood of the battleground. That his father stated that he heard the reports of the guns on the day of the battle. He stated that at the Battle at the Cowpens he was I charge of a baggage wagon. He does not recollect to have heard him say that he was in any regular pitched battle, but that he was in a good many skirmishes when out with a scouting party. He states that his father spoke of being a tailor by trade, and that he was employed a good portion of the time in that way. That he has often heard him in company with other old soldiers speaking of the circumstances during their tours of service. That his father was blind many years before his death, and that he recollects that a Mr. Carson, then a member of Congress from the district of which Burke County, NC was a part, came to his father and wanted him to apply to the government for some assistance, to which his father reused saying that he fought for liberty and not for money. That when his father would get along with his comrades in arms, he has heard them abusing some who were then living, and their descendants for having been Tories. That his father lived in Burke County, NC up to the time of his death in 1821, and lived there for a considerable previous. That after the death of his father, his mother, Nancy Hardin, moved to Blount County, Tennessee, to wit, about the year 1833, and that she still resides in said county of Blount; that she has remained a widow ever since the death of the said John; that she is now very feeble in body and mind, being 97 years old. John P. Harden. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/hardin499gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 6.8 Kb