Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42078, Elisha Wilkins, N.C.
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[ineligible and faded] | Wilkins, Elisha | S. 42078

CONTENTS
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No 20127

North Carolina

Elisha Wilkins

of Cumberland C, in the State of North Carolina who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Montford of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hogan in the North Carolina line, for the term of nine months from June 1778 to 1779.

Inscribed on the roll of North Carolina at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 day of March 1830.

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st of April 1830 and sent to Daniel McDiarmid by Fayetteville, NC

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1830 | $41-57
Semi-anu'l all'ce ending

 | $41-57

{Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820}

Record Book D
No. 8 page 46
BL Bruce
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42078

INVALID
Revy

File No. 42078
Elisha Wilkins
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18th
Index:--Vol. 3 , Page 369

[ Arrangement of 1870 ]
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Original Claim

Declaration in order to be placed on the pension list under the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818.

County of Cumberland, State of North Carolina

On this the 4th day of March 1830, personally appeared before Col. John Thomas, a Justice of the Court of Pleas & Quarter sessions for the said County, being a Court of record and having to fine & imprison. Elisha Wilkins, resident in said county, age twenty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the pension made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820. That he the said Elisha Wilkins enlisted in for the time of nine months about the latter part of May or the first of June as well as he can recollect in [ineligible] 1778. In the town of Halifax in the State of North Carolina in the company commanded by Capt. Gary Whitaker, a militia officer, and was soon after transferred to the regular service and placed under the command of Capt. G. [ineligible] Bradley, then transferred to the command of Capt. Montford in the regiment commanded by Col. Hogan in the line of the State of North Carolina on the continental establishment, that he continued to service in the said corps until about the 14th May 1779. The term of nine months[ineligible] has expired as well as he can recollect, on the 18th or 20 of April, but he the said deponent was left sick in the hospital in Philadelphia and did not receive his discharge until some time in May. The length of service being fully [ineligible] months when he was discharged from the service in the city of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania which discharge he has long since lost. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whether the pension except the present. That the name is not on the List or Roll of any State except the State of North Carolina, and that the following on this persons for not making earlier application for a pension [ineligible] the act of Congress allowing pensions, [ineligible]
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to a friend in his County to make up the process necessary to obtain a pension for him. But his friend made a mistake in drawing up the papers, and he has made no effect since to attain a pension deponent. Also, felt unwilling to make application for a pension because he was able until [illegible] by his bodily labour to maintain himself and wife. But for the last twelve or eighteen months, he has been so infirm as to be unable to support himself and family, which consists of himself and wife who is about sixty five years of age and almost blind, that he has no one to help in his him in supporting his family. That he is now & has been for many years cultivating a small farm the property of a [illegible]. From which he has made out to support his family, but he has become so weak & feeble that he can scarcely walk about the house. And that therefore he is unable any longer to till the ground for his support.

And in pursuance of the act of the 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 pensions engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed in the 18th day of March 1818. 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 hereunto, annexed and by me subscribed that since the 18th of March 1818, no material changes have been made in any property, no other than a gradual [ineligible] of my stock of cattle and sheep necessary for the support of my family.

And the deponent doth further [ineligible] that he is unable to attend the said Court, from disease as well as bodily infirmity.
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Schedule of Elisha Wilkins property
One Horse valued at | $35
Two Cows, two Yearlings and one Calf | 20
Eleven head of sheep | 7
Eleven head of Hogs | 10
Two pine Tables | 1.50
One walnut Table | 2
One half dozen sitting chairs | 1.50
Two Pots & one Oven | 3
one half dozen knifes & forks | 0.30
Six Plates | 0.30
One half dozen cups & saucers | 0.30
Two Dishes | 0.80
Two Clubaxes | 1.30
One chopping & hand axe | 1
One Hand Saw & Drawing knife | 1
One Cast | 15
One Plough tractor | 1.75
Forty Bushels of Corn | 16
Five Hundredweight of Fodder | 2.50
Total | $133.05
Elisha Wilkins

Sworn to & declared on the 4th day of March 1800, John Thomas, a justice of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions holden in the County of Cumberland where the declarant writes, do hereby certify that the above named Elisha Wilkins is from a disease called the Dropsy, with which I am credibly informed, and since he has been afflicted for the space of nine months, unable to attend the court of which I am a justice, and I do not think from present appearances that he will be able to attend the court above named at the next session, I leave therefore in pursuance of the [ineligible] of the 1st of March 1823 attended at his place of abode, and administered the foregoing oath.

John Thomas, Justice of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions from the County of Cumberland
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State of North Carolina

I, Daniel McDiarmid, clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Cumberland. It being a court of record and having the power of fine & imprisonment do certify that John Thomas before who made the above affidavit of Elisha Wilkins, who is now sick and confined, was made is a justice as aforesaid. I also certify that the said schedule and oath have been admitted to the records of said court, and that the same are truly copied therefrom, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is One hundred & thirty three Dollars and Sixty five cents. And that it was proven to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Elisha did serve in the Revolutionary War by Sherwood Fort and William Lord too, creditable and respectable witnesses.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the said Court, at Fayetteville this 23rd day of March AD 1830, 54th year of American Independence.

McDiarmid [ineligible]
of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of Cumberland County
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Pension
30th March 1830

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War Department
Washington D.C.
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State of North Carolina Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions
Cumberland County       March Term 1830

Captain William Lord of the County of Cumberland make the oath and saith that he has been well acquainted with Elisha Wilkins an applicant for a pension ever since the year Seventeen Hundred and eighty one. That Elisha served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war in the continental line as the deponent is informed & believes, and in the militia service as he knows for that deponent served with him a short time in the latter service under the command of Capt William McDonald, a militia officer, and that he was in a small battle with him at Elizabeth Town in Bladen County. This applicant [crossed out] affiant believes that the said Elisha served alternately in the regular service and militia during considerable part of the Revolutionary war, and that he is to the character of a have and useful soldier.

March Term 1830       W. Lord-
Sworn to & Subscribed in open Court
Test McDiarmid [ineligible] [?]

State of North Carolina Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions
Cumberland County } March Term 1830
Original claim of Elisha Willkins to be placed on the pension list,
This affiant Shemon [?], Let maketh oath and saith that is well acquainted with Elisha Wilkins the applicant to be upon the pension list that he has known him ever since year Seventeen Hundred & Seventy five. That the said Wilkins sold in the Revolutionary war. That he served under the command of [ineligible] F Bradley nine months or thereabouts as the [ineligible] and that the said Elisha afterward served in the militia under Capt. Cofield near Camden in the State of South Carolina. And afterward under Capt Whitaker in the battle fought at Galford Courthouse in the State of North Carolina, and that
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the said Elisha afterward served a considerable length of time in or on a tour to Charleston. In the State of South Carolina, out my long (?) this affiant does not know that the said Elisha always sustained the character of a brave and faithful soldier and this affiant further states that the said Elisha now is and always has been ever since he left the service of his country an honest industrious man, that he has cultivated the soil for many years, that he has wrought in mills at different times. The said Elisha afterward served a considerable length of time or periods of his life when he could get employment. That he has also pursued the trade of a hatter, that he has in short
the (?) various ways to support his family which consists of himself and wife, and that he has done so until within the last twelve or eighteen months, during which time he has our printed from doing so by debility and the infirmities of old age that he is now very deaf and interly unable to labour and con(???) do this affiant believes and is informed to his house, that this affiant is well acquainted with Mr Wilkins the
wife of the said Elisha, that she is morly blind and must be aware of sixty years of age.

Sherwood Fort
Subscribed & Sworn to in open Court
Test McDiarmid [?]

State of North Carolina
Camil McDiarmid, Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of Cumberland County do certify that the fore going affidavits of William Lord & Sherwood Fort are truly copies from the records of said Court.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of [ineligible] Court of Fayetteville this 23d day of March AD 1820, [ineligible] 44th year of American Independence

D. McDiarmid [ineligible]
of [ineligible] of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of of Cumberland County, [ineligible]