Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 1503, Elisha Burroughs, Md.
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(8-1776)   SERVICE          NUMBER  
 Md.    Burroughs, Elisha   R 1503 or Burrows. or Burris  CONTENTS Margaret P.
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Charles County   Maryland          Known all men by these presence that we John W Burrough & P H Burroughs of the county and State above named, this 29th day of Sept-Eighteen Hundred and fifty three have consituted C H Spalding our Sufficient and Lawful attorney in our names, and  for our use and benefit, to ask and demand due for Review and Record of and from the Department of the United States at Washington to examine the papers or file at said Department relating to Services of My Father Elaga Burroughs in the Revolutionary war. or any papers that may be on file relating to Margaret P Burroughs in which she and the above named are the only heirs of the said Eliga &  Magaret P Burroughs, they being bouth ded (?both dead?), and all such sums of money Debts and demands whatsoever which and how due and owing to the Heirs of the afore said Eliga & M P Burroughs, by and from the said Department of State to have due and taken all lawful wage and Means, in our names or otherwise for the recovery thereof and to compound and agree for the same , and a quittance with sufficinit (?sufficient?)discharges for the same and in our names to make sale and deliver, and to do all other lawful acts and things,- whatsoever concerning the promices (promises?), as fully in every respect as we our selves  might  or could were we [illegible] personally present at the [illegible] thereof and [illegible] one or more under him for the purposes aforesaid to make, and gave at his [illegible] to revoke ratify and confirming  and by these [illegible] allowing whatsoever my said attorney shall
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in our names lawfully do or cause to be done in and about the [illegible] by virtue of their presence, in witness where of we have set our hand & seals this day and year with in named        J H Burroughs [illegible] and acting for P H Burroughs       To C H Spalding. Attorney Washington D.C.
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State of Maryland  Saint Marys County to wit be it remembered that on this 29th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty Eight, personally appears Ignatius Mattingly before the subscriber one of the State of Maryland's Justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, and makes Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that he this  deponent is about eighty five years of age, that he was well acquainted with Elisha Burroughs, alias Elisha Burrows, alias Elisha Burris that said Burroughs and deponent were soldiers in the American service during the Revolutionary War, that they enlisted in Saint Mary's County and marched & served the Regiment commanded by General William Smallwood. that said Burroughs and  deponent were afterwards separated. said Burroughs being ordered to the north and was at the siege of Little York that said Burroughs remained in the American Army till the close of the War. and was not seen by deponent till his return to Maryland at the close thereof.   Sworn Before Wm Henry Neale      

State of Maryland   Charles County to wit    Be it remembered that on this twentyninth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appears Henry B. Swann before the subscriber.
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ohe of the State of Maryland's Justices of the peace in and for Charles County and makes oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that he was well acquainted with Elisha Burroughs who this deponent always understood and verily believes was a private in the American Army during the Revolutionary War, that said Burroughs did not write or spell his own name that deponent has such said Burroughs's name written three different ways, Viz: Elisha Burroughs, Elisha Burrows and Elisha Burris, as often as well as this deponent recollects [illeg], as the others that said Elisha is now dead, leaving Margaret P. his widow, now living.
Sworn Before Saml J. Briscoe
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Saint Marys County Court
I hereby certify that William H Neale Esq before whom the within Deposition was taken and whose name is thereto signed was at the time thereof one of the Justices of the Peace of the state of Maryland in and for Saint Marys County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and that to all whose acts as such due faith and care are and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice  as [illegible]     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this thirtieth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty eight    Jo Harris  Saint Marys County  (on the lefthand side of the page is what appears to be a round, bent and torn seal with spokes coming off the edges )         State of Maryland Charles County [illegible]     Be it remembered that  on this said day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appears before me the Subscriber one of the State of Marylands Justices of the peace  in and from Charles County aforesaid Peter M Crain and makes oath on the Holy  Evangely of Almighty God That he my Deponent knew Elisha Burris of Charles County and that in the year 1818 or 1819 the said Burrows procured the affidavits of several very aged revolutionary Soldiers, stating that the said Elisha Burrows enlisted in the Service of the United States during the Revolutionary War, and [illegible] in actual service for a long time , the exact period stated in said affidavit is not now  recollected, by this Deponent. That said papers were placed in the hands of the Honble Raphael Neale a member of Congress at that time from the State of Maryland- Deponent does not know what disposition was made of said papers- whether they are lost or mislaid he cannot say- At that time said Burris  was married and had some 7 or 8 children-THe name of his wife being Margaret
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who has survived him and now resides in Charles County. Deponent recollects that said Burris could not read or Write, and Deponent at the request of said Burris frequently wrote his name to receipts- when Deponent spelt his name Burrows or Burris as the whim of the moment dictated- Deponent also states that Elisha Burris was generally reputed a Soldier of the Revolutionary War and further this Deponent saith not--  Sworn before  Charles Mc Cann  (a number appears on lefthand side of page with no identifier:)   4184       (in brackets the name:)
{Hon D Jenifer H R }                                        State of Maryland Charles County [illegible]         I hereby Certify that Charles McCann Gentleman before whom the aforegoing Deposition was taken & whose is hereto subscribed, was at the time thereof and still  is one of  the State of Marylands Justices of the peace in & from Charles County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and to all whose acts as such full faith and credit is due  aright to be given as well in Courts of Justice as [illegible]- In Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of Charles County Court this third day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight-     John Barnes Clk of Charles County Court      (on the lefthand side of the page is what appears to be a torn, folded piece of paper which may be a seal of some sort)
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Washington Oct 3rd 1853
Honble L.P. Waldo,
Court of Pensions.
Sir. I have the honor to submit a power of attorney from the heirs of Margaret P. Burroughs, (erroneously written Burris) whose application under the Act of the July 1838, for a revolutionary pension an amount of the services of her husband Elijah Burroughs, from the State of Maryland, is suspended.
You will please permit me to examine the papers on file in relation to her claim.
Very respectfully
Your obt. Servt.
H.C. Spalding,
Atty
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4184   Cirteficate (?certificate?) of Marrige to Elisha Burrows.                              P J Wripe    Hon D. Jenifer HR
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State of Maryland Charles County to wit
I hereby certify that it appeared [illeg] that Recorder of Proceedings of Charles County Court that on the thirtieth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, a license issued out of the office of the Clerk of Charles County Court, to join together in the Holy Hands of Matrimony Elisha Burroughs and Margaret P. Swann.
In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of Charles County Court this Fifteenth day of November Eighteen hundred and thirty Eight.
John Barker Clk of Charles County Court
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( the following appears to be part of the pre-printed form, but it is crossed out with several slashes:)  Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.    (form proceeds as follows:)
15113   P.O. Margaret Burrows    Service: (blank) Enlisted: REJECTED, 18  .   Discharged: (blank), 18  .    Application filed: (blank), 18  .    Alleges: (blank)      Re-enlisted: (blank)    Attorney:(blank)   P.O. (blank)     Recognized.     (blank)Contract.    (blank) Cert. of Dis.       Searched for (blank), 18  .
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Margaret P. Burris (the "i" in Burris is crossed out and ^ is added to note "ow" as the correct spelling of her last name) of Elisha Elisha + Maryland Suspended.    See Oct 4th et 1839        Hon. D. Jenifer.
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Land office, Annapolis, 5th January, 1839;
I hereby certify that by "an alphabetical list of discharged Soldiers of the two Battalions of Militia, raised to serve in the Continental Army in the year 1781," and remaining in this office, That the name of Elisha Burris, appears upon said list, to have received L10..13..4 and to have been discharged on the 3rd day of December 1781;

George G. Brewer,
Regd. Land Off. W. S. Md