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Original Claim Declaration in order to be placed on the Pension Lists under the Act of March 18th 1818. County of Hancock S.S.

    On this twenty first day of June A.D. 1825, personally appeared in open Court, (the same proceeding according to the course of common law having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment and being a court of record for said County) John Adams Harvest, aged sixty nine years, resident in said County, who 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 18th of March 1818, and the first day of May 1820. That he the said John A. Harvest enlisted for during the war in the spring of the year A.D. 1779 in the state of Newhampshire in the company commanded by Capt Wait and in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Reed in the line of the State of Newhampshire of the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in said Corps until 1783, when he was discharged from the said service at West Point in the State of New York, that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present, and that his name is not on the roll of any State except New Hampshire and the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension.  After having understood that the above Acts were passed by Congress he applied to some persons to assist him in obtaining a pension, they would not undertake without some money was advanced to them, that he, being very poor and destitute of means whereby to make compensation for the assistance which he needed delayed making further application for sometime in hopes he might be able to get some money for the afore said purpose. On application to William Crosby Esq, he undertook to assist him that accordingly he went before the Court of Common pleas being a Court of second for the County of Hancock at Castine on the 18th day of November A.D. 1823, and made solemn Oath to the foregoing declaration: but as he has since understood the Clerk of said Court did not offer his seal and give a certificate of the proceedings then had,