Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16926, for Elijah Littlefield, Massachusetts
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
To Joseph Woodman In one of the
Justices in the County of York in the District of Maine
GREETING.
WHEREAS, at a special District Court of said United States for the Maine District, holden at
Portland in said District, on the twenty eighth day of April
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Elijah Littlefield of Durham in said District presented
an application to the Judge of said Court, setting forth that he served as a private
in the war of the revolution, on the continental establishment against
the common enemy, and requesting that an enquiry may be instituted into the circumstances of his case, and
that such further proceedings may be had touching the premises as are prescribed by An Act of Congress
passed March 18, 1818, entitled ""An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service
of the United States in the revolutionary war, in order that he may be placed on the Pension List of said
United States:--And whereas in the course of the examination here had, it appears that the testimony of
sundry persons, who served with the applicant in the revolutionary army, at present residing in or near the
town
aforesaid, is necessary and material in support of said application:--
THEREFORE, to the end that the testimony aforesaid may be had, and by virtue of the power vested
in this Court by the laws of the United States, you or either of you are hereby appointed and authorized, at
the proper expense of the applicant, to take the depositions of such persons as he may cause to come before you,
touching the application aforesaid, and in particular as to the time when the applicant entered the service,
the time and manner of his leaving it, the company, regiment and line to which he belonged, and whether the
service was performed on the continental establishment or in the militia of either of the States; and such
depositions, when taken, and your certificate of the administration of the usual oath and of the credibility of
the deponents, together with this Dedimus Potestatem, you will certify and return to the Judge of said Court
without unnecessary delay.
GIVEN under my hand and seal at Portland in said District, the day and
year first mentioned.
Albion K. Parris
Judge of the United States in and
for the District of Maine.