Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,521, for Elijah Starr, Pennsylvania
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Service                                   Number

Penna.          Starr, Elijah         S.40,521
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6272

Pennsylvania
Elijah Starr
Of Columbia Coy in the state of Pennsylvania who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Nagle of the Pennsylvania Line, for the term of four years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 14 of December 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd of Feby. 1819 and sent to Hon. Mr. Mustray House of Reportatives (U.S.)

Arrears to 4th of _________ 
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 March 1819      21.67
                                                                ====
                                                               $21.67

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
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40521
INVALID
Revy

File No. 40,521
Elijah Starr
Priv.   Rev. War

Act: 18 March 1818
Index:-Vol. 3, Page 487

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Lookout Mt. Tenn.
Apr. 22, 1926.

Bureau Pensions Dept. Int. Washington.

Please send me all the information you have of Elijah Starr of Columbia Co. Penn.  Pensioned Feb. 2, 1819, age 76.

Yours truly,
Mrs. M.A. Wilson
Lookout Mt, Tenn.

(Date stamp)

Pension 
     C
   Apr
U. 23 S.
  1926
 Office
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/case

Hon. Wm. Murray
Elijah Starr 1879

Presented by John Murray
                       Jany. 7th, 1819

CORRECT
(illegible signature)
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District of Pennsylvania}
Columbia County} ss

    On this 14th day of December 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Columbia in said district of Pa. personally appeared Elijah Starr aged about sixty years.  Resident in said county of Columbia of State of Pa. in said district who being by me first duly affirmed according to law doth on his solemn affirmation make the following declaration in order obtain the provisions made by the late Act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, that he the said Elijah enlisted in Captain Jacob Keaver's Independent Company in the Tenth Regiment Commanded by Col. Nagle that he was some time engaged in guarding of Prisoners in said Company, was after the Battle of Monmouth put in the Company called the Major's in the same Reg. Col. Humpton Commandant - that he continued to serve in said company from Sept. 1777 until the 27th day of January. 1781 when he was discharged & that he was in the Battle of Monmouth & a skirmish ar Elizabethtown Point & that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support & as further evidence herewith presents his discharge & which is herewith enclosed. 

Affirmed & declared before           //s//
me the day & year aforesaid   Elijah Starr
//s//
 Leonard Rupert
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I Leonard Rupert Judge as within mentioned do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said within mentioned Elijah Starr did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the within declaration against the Common Enemy & I now transmit the preceding testimony & had before me to the (illegible) for the Department of War pursuant to the direction of the within mentioned act of Congress & that the said applicant is in indigent circumstances.

Witness my hand & seal this 14 day of December A.D. 1818.

//s//
Leonard Rupert


State of Pennsylvania
Columbia County

    I  Geo. A. Frick Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County aforesaid do certify that the Honorable Leonard Rupert Esq who has signed the above certificate is an acting associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn as such.
    In witness where of I have hereto set my hand & the seal of said Court at Danville this 25th day of December A.D. eighteen hundred and eighteen.

                                 //s//
                          Geo. A. Frick Prothonotary
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Rev. and 1812 War Section.                       AWJ

July 7, 1936

Mrs. M.A. Wilson
Lookout Mt.
TRenn.

Madam:

    I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S.40521, it appears that Elijah Starr enlisted September 1777 and served as a private in Captain Jacob Weaver's Independent Company, Colonel Nagel's Tenth Pennsylvania regiment, and guarded prisoners, he was in the battle of Monmouth, after which he was put in the company called the Major's, in same regiment, then commanded by Colonel Humpton, he was in an engagement at Elizabethtown Point, and was discharged January 27, 1781.

    He was allowed pension on his application executed December 14, 1818, while a resident of Columbia County, Pennsylvania, aged about sixty years.

    There is no data on file as to family.

                                      Respectfully,

                                      Winfield Scott
                                       Commissioner.