Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 908, Eli Blads, Md.
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Service
MD

Name
Blads, Eli
or Blade

Number 
R.908
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Eli Blads
Indiana
Rejected
See let: April
16, 1841 W.L. Taylor

did not perform six months actual service

908

Act 7 June 1832
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No 908

REJECTED

Eli Blads
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35170
Eli Blads
Indiana
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State of Indiana
County of Scott

Before the Honorable John H Thompson president and the Hon'b John Colose and the Hon'b William Norton Associate Judges of the Circuit Cour within and for the county of Scott aforesaid. On this 19th day of the month of February in the year of our Lord 1841 personally appeared in open court before the circuit court of the said county of Scott (the same being a court of record) at the February Term of said court in the year 1841, now sitting Eli Blads resident of Lexington Township in the county of Scott aforesaid and state of Indiana aged seventy-seven years on the 21st day of February in the year 1841 that he (declarant) was born on the 21st day of the month of February in the year 1764 who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he entered the service as a volunteer in the Revolutionary War as volunteer for the term of six months in the company of volunteers of the troops of the state of Maryland under the command of Captain James Patterson, and Lieutenant Joseph Stevenson and 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin Steveson in the Regiment under Colonel Robert Doan and Colonel Handy in the county of Worcester in the State of Maryland and served as above in guarding and protecting and defending the coast on the Eastern shore of Maryland against the British, that the company to which he belonged was of Infantry, that there were during the time of his service there aboutthree or four hundred troops of Maryland
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that he declarant served as above stated until after the end of the revolutionary war that is until after the British under Cornwallis were takin and when it was understood that the war was at an end, that he declarant entered the service in the Spring before Cornwallis was taken as above stated but owing to lapse of time, old age and consequent loss of memory he declarant cannot now recollect the day and month or the date or number of the year otherwise than that it was in the Spring (next before the British troops, under Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown in Virginia) when declarant entered the service for six months as above stated or during the war as aforesaid and that owing to the same causes of old age and lapse of time and consequent loss of memory he declarant cannot recollect the day date month and number of the year he served; he was discharged from the service otherwise than that he was discharged after the time of the surrender and taking of Cornwallis and after it was said the war of the Revolution was at an end as above stated and in the Fall of year that he declarant received a written discharge from Captain Patterson above named but which owing to the lapse of time and exposure time and accident has been many years since lost and destroyed.

That he declarant recollects that one Findley or Finley or some similar name was there while in the service was said to belong to the regular service was called Colonel
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as nearly as declarant recollects - that owing to the lapse of time old age and consequent loss of memory declarant cannot now recollect the time of his service otherwise than above stated, that he entered the service in the Spring of the year for six months or during war and served until he was discharged sometime in the next fall of the same year following and after the war was over as above stated.

That he declarant was born in the year 1764 as above stated in Somerset County in the {illegible] as aforesaid that when very young does not recollect by what year or what was his age when he was removed by this father to Worcester county in Maryland aforesaid where he resided until he declarant was called into the service as above mentioned and until April 1789 when he removed to the waters of Elkhorn in Woodford County in the State of Kentucky where he resided about ten years than he removed to Claremont County in the state of Ohio where he resided about three years when he thence removed to Clark County in the state of Indiana where he resided one year and then he removed to Lexington Township in Scott county in the state of Indiana where he has resided ever since and still there resides.

That he has no records of his age and does not recollect what his age was when he entered the service otherwise than as above stated owing to lapse of time, old age and consequent loss of memory - that he declarant was called into the service as a volunteer as above state at Worcester County in Maryland as above stated. That he does not recollect the name of any of the regular officers who were with the troops where he served nor any continental or militia regiments or the
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general circumstances of his service otherwise than as above stated - that he received a written discharge from Captain Patterson as above stated and that the same has been and is lost and destroyed as above stated that said written discharge was signed by James Patterson as Captain as above mentioned. that he declarant states that he has no documentary evidence that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to this service.

That he is known in the neighborhood to Abaham Kimberlin and Isaac Kimberlin and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.

That he declarant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

Eli Blads

Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid.

Willis L Traylor - Clerk
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We Abraham Kimberlin residing in Lexington Township County of Scott and State of Indiana and Isaac Kimberlin residing in the same hereby certify that we are acquainted with Eli Blads who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration - that we believe him to be seventy-seven years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Abraham Kimberlin
Isaac Kimberlin

Sworn and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid.

Willis L Traylor - Clerk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.

And the court further certify that it appears to them that Abraham Kimberlin and Isaac Kimberlin who have signed the preceding certificate resident in the township of Lexington County of Scott and State of Indiana are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

By the Court

John H Thompson
John Close
William Norton
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I Willis L. Traylor clerk of the court of Scott County Indiana do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of Eli Blads for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office in Lexington this 17th day of February AD 1841.

Willis L, Traylor - Clerk

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