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Note: Deposition of Thomas Hardin regarding duty in the Revolutionary War:
Clinton County, Ohio open court.
1840
" The following deposition was supeoned by the court to the applicant in open court and at the same time the above declerations was subscribed and sworn to.
Testor of the Court: "Where and in what year born?'
Answer: " I do not recollect distinctly in what year I was born, but I from the best information in my (?) believe I am seventy-seven years old. I was born in the County of Cork Ireland.
Testor by the same: Have you any record of your birth and where it is at?
Answer: I have no record of my age.
Testor by the same: Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolution War and where do you now live?
Answer: I was living in White Clay Creek Hundred, New Castle, Deleware.
The first officers which he served with were: Lt. Col. William White, Col. Moyan,
the Count Pulaski, and Major Washington of the Battalion.
The regiment was marched to Philadelphia from there to Trenton, New Jersey, from there to N Brunswick, from there to Port Amboy, from there to Elizabeth town, where the troops were delayed in scouting the motions of the enemy. We retired into winter quarters at Shay town in New Jersey - in the spring following the regiment, we marched to Philadelphia and from there I marched with said regiment to Willmington in Deleware, from there to Christiana Bridge in the Blackhood? of which place we american troops had several skirmishes with the british troops. About this time the regiments of Calvary to which he (missing) until the battle of Brandywine, where said regiment with the other of our troops deployed. (?) In which I took place at the white horse and from that place said regiments were marched to (?) hood and was deployed in the battle of that place, he (?) and General Kinsey was in command that day. he was taken prisoner at this battle with several (?) others of the (?) troops and taken to Philadelphia, and there confined in jails until the lapse of about nine weeks after the battle when he and his fellow prisoners broke jail and escaped from custody and after this he never explained ? the army, he ??? himself at White Marsh and as he had not been exchanged???? He did a furlough for three months from there?????? himself to the regiment at Trenton where he was???????.
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Note: HI3
Note: (Research):Residence:
1776
White Clay Hundred
New Castle County, Deleware
Revoutionary War:
Enlisted: 1776
Deleware Militia
Army
Served as 1" sergeant in Capt. James Black's Company, Colonel McKinley's Delaware regiment
1777- battle of Princeton, and Trenton
Captain Hopkins Company, Colonel Moylan's regiment of calvary, battle of Brandywine, battle of White horse Tavern, and the Battle of Germantown in which he was taken prisoner.
Marriage:
1777
Wilmington, Deleware
Thomas Hardin to Mary Ann Mcgee
Residence:
1780-1790
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Tax List:
1791
Mifflin, Allgeheny County, Pennsylvania
Census:
1800
Mifflin, Allgeheny County, Pennsylvania
Census:
1820
Clarksville, Clinton County, Ohio
Census:
1830
Vernon, Clinton County, Ohio
Pension:
Revolution War
1831
Clinton County, Ohio
#S.8685
Census:
1840
Vernon, Clinton County, Ohio
Book:
History of Clinton County, Ohio
Vernon Township
Thomas Harden, an early settler of Vernon township, some of whose descendants still live in Vernon, settled near where the Brick-Kiln is, in Villars' field, he was a soldier of the Revolution War. While in the war, he was made prisoner and was confined in an upper story of a building in Philadelphia, from which he made his escape by sliding down a rope, holding the rope in his hands, the friction burning and searing his hand so that he carried the marks to his grave.
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