Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41587, Elisha Grant, N.C.
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SERVICE
N.C.

Grant, Elisha

NUMBER
S. 41587
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18.571.
North Carolina R
Elisha Grant
of Wayne Co. in the State of N. Carolina
who was a private in the Regiment commanded by
Colonel Patton, of the N. Carolina
line, for the term of 3 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 21 of Feby 1822,
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of Apr. 1822
and sent to Hon. C. Hooks.
H. R.
Arrears to 4th of March 1822 - 2.20
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1822 - 48.00
----
$50.28
[marginal note] = 8/28 - 4/31
(Revolutionary claim,)
(Act 18th March, 1818.)
Wayne Co[unt]y
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Elisha Grant
Priv.
Col. Patton's
N. Carolina Regt
177 - 3 years
21 Feby 1822.
Admitted.
Wayne Coy.
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State of North Carolina
Wayne County  
Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions
On this 21st day of February 1822 personally
appeared in open Court being a court of record for the
County of Wayne, Elisha Grant aged Sixty eight years
a resident Citizen of said County, who being first duly sworn
according to law, doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the
act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820
that he the said Elisha Grant enlisted for the term of
Three years in the year Seventeen Hundred Seventy Seven
in the State of North Carolina in the company commanded
by Captain Simon Bright in the regiment commanded by
Colonel John Patton in the line of the State of North Carolina
on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve
in the said Corps until he was discharged from the said
service in Philadelphia, after which discharge and after the
lapse of about six months he again enlisted in the company
commanded by Abraham Sheppard Captain, in the Tenth regiment
of the North Carolina line of the Continental establishment commanded
Colonel Abraham Sheppard, for the Term of three years, and after
being marched by Captain Shepard to Vally Forge he then
enlisted under Lieutenant John Davis in Captain Benjamin
Williams Company (for [crossed out: the term of a] during the war. That
he was in the Battles of Brandy Wine, Monmouth, and at
the Battle at Charleston in South Carolina, and that he
has no other evidence now in his power of his said
service - And in pursuance of the act of 1st May 1820
I do Solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United 
States on the 18th day of March 1818. and that I have not since
that time, by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property
or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as
to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress
entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land
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and naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War"
passed on the 18th day of March 1878 and that I have not nor
has any person in trust for me any property or securities
contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other
than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and
by me subscribed.
Schedule of Property
One Bed & furniture, two Iron Potts, one woolen
wheel, one Linen wheel, one Tub, one pale, one axe & two [illegible]
Sworn to and declared on the 21st day of February
1822. declarant is by occupation a farmer, but is afflicted
by Rheumatism. He has a wife forty three years old & three
children living with him Viz a girl Smithy fifteen years old,
a boy Stephen thirteen years old, & a girl Harriot twelve
years old. Sworn to & declared on the 21st February
1822.
P. Hooks Clk

I Philip Hooks Clerk of Wayne County Court
do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule
thereto annexed are truly copied from records of the said Court
and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court
that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in
aforesaid Schedule is Forty dollars.
in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of the said Court on the 21st February 1822
P. Hooks Clk

I Ezekiel Stocumb Presiding Magistrate
of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of Wayne
County do certify that Philips Hooks by whom
the above certificate is made, is Clerk of said
Court. Feby 21. 1822
Ezekiel Slocumb P Judge
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State of North Carolina
Secretary's Office 24th April 1822
I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the
State aforesaid, do certify that the name of
Elisha Grant does not appear on the muster
rolls of the North Carolina Continental line in
the Revolutionary war. The name of Elijah
Grant appears as a private in Capt Shepard's
Company of the 10th Regt mustered the 20th
August 1777 for 3 years or the War. Prisoner
7th June 1779, mustered again Nov. 1779, which
is all that is said of him on said Rolls.
It is believed that the applicant Elisha
Grant of Wayne County is the person who
performed the service stated to be performed 
by Elijah Grant, and that an
error was committed in spelling the name
Given under my hand the
date above
Wm Hill
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41587
INVALID.
File No. 41.587
Elisha Grant
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 1878
Index:-- Vol. 3, Page 204
(Arrangement of 1870.)