ORANGE COUNTY, NC - MISC - James Hart S9555 Application for Pension for
			   Service in the Revolutionary War (Abstract)
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"James Hart S9555 Application for pension for Service in
the Revolutionary War," was posted by Anna Herbertson on Sun, 02 May 1999

James Hart S9555 Application for Pension for Revolutionary War Service:
Certificate of Pension issued 4 May 1837 and sent to James A. Craig, Haw 
River, NC.  James Hart applied for pension 30 Aug 1832, Orange County, NC, 
saying he enlisted in 1775 with Captain John Walker, Lieutenant Abraham Tatum, 
.......he was 75 years of age in May last....was born in Chester County, 
Pennsylvania, his father removed with him to Orange County, NC, when he was 
about eight years of age, where this applicant has ever since esided...signed: 
James Hart

William Strayhorn and John Strayhorn make oath that they are both citizens of 
Orange County, NC, and have been intimately acquainted with James Hart the 
applicant as above for a pension for upwards of sixty years and they both 
remember distinctly that said Hart enlisted under Captain Walker in 
Hillsborough in 1775 and ........that he again volunteered .....in 1776 in the 
town of Hillsborough for three months, in the company of Captain William 
Williams, ....the said William Strayhorn served with him in this last 
tour.....