Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12864, Richard Elliott, Continental (Conn.)
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SERVICE

Continental (6mn.)

NAME
Elliott, Richard

NUMBER
S 12864
carded
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Richard Ellio
of Washington, in the [State-Crossed out] Dis of Columbia
32494
who was a Private in the [missing text] 
[by Captain - of the - by - crossed out] 
Conn in the [Illegible][txt missing] in
Colo Swift [2 hand written black stars]
line for 6 months:
Continental Line Records corrected,
Inscribed on the Roll of Washington D.C
at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of August 1846
and sent to Pensioner,
Present
Arrears to the 4th of March, 1846 $30
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1846 [Missing   Txt]                                                  $310.00
Revolutionary [Illegible]}
Act June7, 1832}
& Special Act 8 Aug '46
E.W. Robinson Clerk,
Recorded by E- Vol 6 Page 11[Txt missing]
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District of Columbia,

County of Washington, to wit,
On this 12 day of July in the year one thousand
Eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared before
the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the County and
District aforesaid, Richard Elliott a resident of the
City of Washington, aged Sixty Eight years, who being
duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make
the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit
of the provisions made by the act of Congress of the 7th June
1832 intitled "an act supplementary to an act, for the relief
of certain surviving officers & Soldiers of the revolution"
That he was drafted for the term of Six months, in the Town of
Killingworth, State of Connecticut, his native place,
for the service of the United States, between the 10th and
20th of May, in the year 1780, being then about Sixteen
years old, and was shortly after ordered, with a number
of others to repair to Verplanks Point, on the Hudson river
near West point, where the army was at that time. A
few weeks after he had joined the army, it was ordered
to march, cross the Hudson, and encamp in Upper Jersey
-about this time he was selected to form a Corps of Infantry
and served in that division of the Army, until he was
discharged
That he was attached to Capt. Baldwin's Company, Colonel Swifts Regiment, and Gen Huntington's
Brigade, and that he marched
with that division of
the army, from place to place, in Upper Jersey
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during the Summer and Fall of 1780-
That an old Soldier named Reuben Wright, was
hired as a substitute, at the time he (R. Elliot was drafted,
went with him from Killingworth, and joined the Army
at the same time, served as a Soldier in the Continental troops
for the term of six months, and was discharged, at the same
time, and returned with him to Killingworth -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a
pension, or annuity, except the present, and he declares
that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency
in any State-
Richard Elliott
Subscribed & Swom to
July 12th 1832 before
R.S. Briscoe
J. Peace
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Rich Elliott
Disct of Columbia

Rejected : did not serve 6 months.
as appears by the Rolls,

27 June 1780 discharge 3 Dec 1780
5 months & 4 days
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Hon George W. Lay
to: Rep.
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Washington City June 8. 1836
Sir,
My Father States that his
elder Brother was drafted in the spring of 1780 to join
the Continental army then collecting at Verplanks Point
on the Hudson river.- but as my uncle had by an accident
lost the sight of one of his eyes, my father voluntered
to go in his place.
He left Connecticut about the
25th of May and reached the place appointed to join
the army the fifth day thereafter.
He says he is convinced
of this fact, from the circumstance that his
mother remarked to him that he was not yet sixteen
years of age and might not be received.
He was born June 3. 1764. of course he was a
few days short of that age when he left home about
two weeks after he joined the army
orders were given
to remove and cross the river, and a few days after
the movement a Corps of Infantry was formed, and
he was selected with other tall young men to compose
that division of the Army.
It is his decided inpression that the date of his enlistment is made at
that time. He had made oath to these facts
before a Magistrate, and his declaration is on record
in the Pension Office, where there is evidence on the
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Rolls of his having been in the Army 5 months and
seven days or 23 days short of six months, the time
specified in the provision of the Bill of June 7, 1832, under
which he claims a pension as having been six months
in the Army. He applied for a pension after the
passage of the act of June 1832 but was refused because
he was a few days deficient of the specified time, and
this deficiency was exclusive of the time he was in the
army before he joined the Infantry Regiment to which
I alluded above.
Permit me Sir to suggest
that if you consider the four or five days occupied in
marching from Connecticut to Verplanks Point, and the period
that intervened between his arrival and his joining
the Infantry Corps, the amount will about equal the
number of days he is deficient of six months, according to
the evidence of the Rolls at the Pension office. All the enlistments at that time were made for six months,
and if Sir you estimate back six months from Decr 3. 1780
the time when he was discharged, it will coincide very
accurately with the time when he says he actually joined
the Army at Verplanks Point.
It will be recollected
Sir that he was discharged for no physical disability or
moral impropriety, but either because his services were
no longer required, or his term of service was supposed to
have expired.
The draft in his case was for six
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months and if required, he would have been obliged
serve that time.
If Sir, the time occupied in
marching to and from his home to the place where
he was enlisted and discharged; say ten days, be
added to the time with which he is credited on the
Rolls, it will reduce the difference to within thirteen
days of six months
I think Sir you stated
that your Committee had reported Bills in favor of
individuals whose term of Service was within fifteen
days of the specified time.
I hope sir it may
be deemed consistent with the public interest to construe
the provision of the Bill liberally in his case.
He was a member of a company of old men
in the late war, and it is in consequence of losses
in business, and reverse of fortune, that he is
constrained to appear before you as a Solicitor
for the bounty of his Country.
Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
J. L. Elliott
To
The Hon. George W. Lay
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Washington City June 10th 182(illegible)
Sir Please send Mr Richard Elliott's
declaration on file in your office and note on it 
the time of his enlistment and discharge as
recorded on the Books at your office. The
object of the request is to lay the papers before the committee on Revolutionary Pensions of the House of Representatives.

(Illegible) your ob Servant

J.L.Elliott

James L Edwards Esq
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An act granting a Pension to Richard Elliott
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress Assembled,
That the Secretary of War be, and he
is hereby directed to place Richard
Elliott, of the City of Washington, District
of Columbia, on the pension list ^ of Revolutionary pensionary, under the
act of the seventh of June A.D.
eighteen hundred and thirty two,
and allow him a pension for six months
service, in pursuance of said act.
Approved August 8 1846.
Department of State
August 13. 1846.
I certify that the above is a
true copy of an "act granting a pension
to Richard Elliott", transcribed from and
compared with the original roll in file
in this Department, the words, "of revolutionary pensioners," being first interlined
between the sixth & seventh lines.
N. P. Trist
Chief Clerk
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Lacks twenty days of six months needed
Bile
Richard Elliott
for a pension.
to
Dec. 17. 1842
Ref to Com on Revoly Pensions
Report adverse,
No proof of service a =
amounting to six months
Feb. 28 1843
Report as to be spent 295
-
Dec. 22, 1843.
Referred to Com on Rev Pens.
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Feb. 15. 44 - Bill 149
Mr. Cross.
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27th Congress
3d Session
Congress of the United States
In the House of Representatives
December 17, 1842.

On motion of Mr. Cross,
Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of allowing Richard Elliott a pension; and that the papers hereto attached, consisting of documents and evidence in support of his claim be referred to said Committee.
Attest:
M.S. Clarke Clerk
Papers
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I Nancy Lay of the town of Westbrook
in the State of Connecticut, being duly sworn
testify, that I was personally known to Richard
Elliott then residing in Killingworth in
said State, and now an applicant to our
goverment for a pension: that I was a
resident in his father's family at the
time; that the said Richard Elliott went
to join the continental army in the place
of his Elder brother who had been
drafted, that he left his father's house
for that purpose the latter part of the
spring of 1780, and that he did not return
home until about the first week
in January 1781, having been absent
from his father's house to the best
of my knowledge and belief upwards
of six months.
Nancy Lay
Westborough August 2d 1845
Personally appeared the above named
Nancy Lay and made Solemn oath to
the above Deposition by her subscribing
Before me
Joseph Spencer Justice of Pea^ce
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29 Cong.
1. Sep.
S.49.
Documents in
relation to the claim of
Richard Elliott for a pension
for Revolutionary services
1845. Decr 29. Referred to the
Committee on Pensions
1846. Jan 14 Bill S 49 & dup!
to
M. Ashley

Richard Elliott
-after his pens

Hon Chester Ashley
U S Senate 
Washington City

24
with paper on file
H Ashley [illegible]

M. Ashley.
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Westbrook Sept 29th 1845
Hon Sir
In accordance with your kind suggestion I came to
this place and obtained the accompanying affidavit in
my aged father's case. I trust Sir, it will be found satisfactory, and sufficient to warrant you in calling it up from the files
of the Senate, and moving its reference to the Committee on
Pensions of which you are a member. It is due to you Sir to
State that the lady whose testimony accompanies this is a
sister of my father the widow of a late judge of the Circuit Court
of the State of Connecticut, and being an inmate of the family
by was personally cognizant to the facts to which she testifies in
relation to the ^time of my father's departure from home to join the Continental Army, and his return, I am satisfied that it will
afford you pleasure to do what you consistently can to facilitate the passage of the Bill in the honourable body of which you
are a member, and I am equally confident that with your
influence, a kind word or two will go for to secure  [illegible] favorable consideration in the House, where Mr Rives has
kindly promised to cooperate with you to effect this object 
In relation to myself, I will briefly [illegible] that I have been
elected by the officers, and confirmed by the Hon Secretary of
of War to a chaplaine in the army by Post of duty is at
Fort Atkinson, in Iowa Territory. The nearest Post Office is
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[check mark] at Prairie du Chien in Wisconsin Territory My address will
Jared S Elliott Fort Atkinson, Raine De Chien W.T. I should
be happy sir to receive a line from you at any liesure moment
you may have. McAnderson one of the officers of the Senate has
kindly promised to enclose for me a copy of the Presidents new
sage and accompanying documents, and I shall rely on your
courtesy for your frank to secure its transmission to me.
I should be happy to receive also any report or bill emenating
from either of the important committees of the Senate of which
you are a member. Will you indulge me Sir in making one
other request. The Rev Wm G Sprote, the pastor of the 1st Presbyterian
Church in Washington, at which his Excellency the President
tends, will probably be a candidate for the Chaplaincy to the
Senate. I know Sir of no gentleman in the ministry of more
stirling piety, fine habits, and a bounty of manners than
Mr Sprole. And though it may not be important in a minister 
I can assure you that in politics his principles are those of
the party with whom you act. If Sir you are not otherwise
engaged may I indulge the hope that you will give him the
benefit of your vote and influence for the office. In making
this request for another, I will frankly acknowledge I am
prompted alike by a sincere conviction of his intelligence
and moral worth, and by feelings of personal gratitude
And though Mr Sprole does not know of the request I prefer
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I have been induced to make it because when he was written
to by the officers at Fort Atkinson to nominate some one for
the Chaplainey, during my absence from the city he kindly,
and without my knowledge or solicitation mentioned my name 
to them and after the Election used his influence to secure my
confirmation to the office. I trust Sir you will pardon me that
I have attempted to imitate him when acting according to the
great law of moral righteousness "do unto to others as you would
wish them to do unto you", with the most sincere wishes that the
approaching Session may prove pleasant to yourself and your
family, and highly benificial to the best interest of our Country
I remain Sir your Obliged Friend
&
Obdt Servt
Jared L. Elliot
Honl Chester Ashley W S Senate
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July 30 1838
Washington [July 27 1836 -crossed out]
Sir
I was drafted in the Spring of
1780 to Join the Army near West point,
I entered the service in May ^or early in June and continued
with the Army untill the
first week in Decr following when I was
discharged. The record of my enlistment
and discharge on the Books in the War
Department say, Enlisted 29th June, disuh
3rd Dec,r making the time of my service
in the Army 25 days short of six months.
As I was bound by the ^then existing Law to
serve the term of six months. I consider
I ought to have been included in the
number of those that were put on the
Pension list. I have very strong reasons to
 believe that I did serve six months and
that I had been with the army nearly [more than - crossed out]
then one month before the entry of my
enlistment was made, from the circumstance
that I was transfered from the lines to join
a Corps of Infantry that was form,d merely [about-crossed out]
one month after I join,d the army-
Richard Elliott
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My Brother was Drafted for Six months
to Join the Continental Army in 1780 - and
I offered to go in His place, & He very readily
agreed to the offer  - a circumstance took
place at the time that is as clear to My
recollection as that I entered the service
that My Mother said I was not Sixteen
years old - and that therefore I should
be sent home if I went to Join the Army.
The Family Record of My Birth is Third
June 1764-
R. E.
The deposition of Mr Job Stanard - herewith submitted
appears to confirm what I have before stated
that I was with the army between three & four
weeks before the date of My Enlistment
my having been drafted for six month
and being obliged to stay the term out
(if required) leave a strong impression in
my mind, that the spirit of the law
fully embraces my case
after the committe ^of the Senate on Pensions, had made
an unfavourable report on my claim
I obtained the enclosed certificate
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The date of My enlistment & discharge as stated on the rolls in the Pension office is twenty three days short of six months. If eight days were to be allowed for going to and returning home 
from the service it
fifteen
would still leave fifteen [seventeen -crossed out] days short of
Six months. If The Deposition of J Stannard
is admitted, it proves that I was in the
service nineteen ^days before I was entered as enlisted,
from a number of circumstances strongly
impressed on my mind. I believe I was
more ^than three week with the army before the
date of my enlistment.
Augt 1838
Respectfully submitted.
Richard Ellioth
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Washington 20 Jany 1840
Sir  I have been, and still am an applicant
to be placed on the Pension Rolls, my object in writing on you is to request of you that 
you would please to direct that my Papers
now in the Office of the Clerk of the Senate 
may be laid before Your Honorable Committee,
for their examination and discretion
My application has been acted on in the 
House, and a bill has been past in my favour,
and I hope & trust will also be passed by
the Senate.
I am Sir Respectfully
Your Ob Servant
Richard Elliott
The Honorable
Franklin Pierce }
Chairman of the Comm
on Pensions}
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Rich? Eliot
application for a pension
December 17 1842
Ref to Comm Revly Pension
with Resolution:
Mr. Cross
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To the Honble Chareman of the Committee
on Pensions~
Sir  I was drafted for the term of six months
in the spring of 1780 and joined the Army about the last of May, or first June, and was
discharged the third of Decb following a few days before the term of six months expired.
(by the record on the Books in the Pension Office) since my application was rejected in the Senate, I have obtained a Certificate which I enclose with sundry other papers - which I beg leave may be laid before the Honorable Members of the Committee on Pensions, as I should have been compeled to stay the full term of six months (of my services had been required) I hope my application to be placed on the Roll of pensioners will meet with a favorable reception.
I am Sir, very respectfully
Your Obd Servt
Richard Elliott
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War Department
Pension Office
June 10. 1836.
Sir,
In reply to your enquiry I
have to inform you that it appears from
the records of Col Swifts regiment in the
Office, that
Richard Elliot, a Private in
Capt. Baldwin's Company, enlisted on the 27th
of June 1780 for six months, and was discharged on the 3d of December 1780
Agreeably to your request I
herewith return your father's declaration
I am, very respectfully
Your Obt Servant
J L. Edwards



Rev. W. Elliot.}
Present}
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Washington Decr 16th 1844
Sir
I would respectfully call your attention to the
following circumstance connected with the time of
my joining the continental army. I had agreed to go
in the room of a Elder brother who was drafted, but had
lost an eye. I was born on the third day of June 1764
and I remember distictly that when I was about to
leave my father's house in Killingworth in the State of
Connecticut on the 29th of May 1780. My mother told me
I would be sent back for I was not of age, viz 16 years old
I arrived at Verplanks Point where I joined the army
about noon on the fifth day after I left home, and was
of age the day I joined the army. I also distinctly remember
that after I had been upwards of three weeks at
Verplanks Point we crossed the North River, I with
other tall young men was drafted out of the Connecticut
line to form a Grenadier Company. It is my solemn belief
that it was then, and there, that my connection with the
army was first recognized. The Record at the Pension office
shows that I was not discharged till the Sixth day
of December 1780. The affidavit of Job Stannard
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which accompanies the papers in my case, shows
that I was with the army as soon, or sooner than
the tenth of June. I was discharged at a great dis
tance from home. And it is still my solemn conviction
that I was with the army before the sixth of June 1780
but that I was not enrolled until several weeks after
I had joined the army, at Verplanks Point
Respectfully
Your Obd Servt
Richard Elliott
To the Honl Charman
of the Committee
on Revolutionary Pensions
Subscribed & sworn to by the said Richard Elliott
before me this 16th December 1844
Saml D King
J.P. Washington County D.C.
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Washington 5 Jany 1845
Sir
I beg leave to request that you would
have my application to be placed on the
Pension Rolls submitted to the Committe
over whom you preside.
I am engaged early, & late at the
Navy Commrs office or I would have waited
on you in person
I am Sir
very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Richard Elliott

Honbl
Franklin Pierce
U.S. Senate
PS
Please to inform me through the Post Office
if my request can be granted R. E.
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I Job Stannard of Stannard
County of Middlesex
and State of Connecticut after being cautioned to tell
the truth and sworne according han
Depose and say that I am seaventysix years old
last October and furthe say that I was in the
Continental army With Richard Elliott ^then of Killing ^ton
in said County who is now an applicant to are in
Goverment for a Pention and that the, said Elliott left Connecticut with me and joined the arme with me at  at Arelsons Point and according to
my best recollection and belief Was betweene the
fifth and the tenth of June 1780 and remane
with me untill discharged which I think was
about six months
Job Stannard

Middlesex County Saybrook June the 22d 1838
Personally appeared Job Stannand subcriber to the
above deposition and made oath to the truth of the Same
Sworn Before me
Jedediah Post Justice of peace
and furthe say I am well aquainted with the said
Job ,Stannard and that he is a man of truth and
Vanacity -
Certified
By
Jedediah Post Justice of Peace
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 Job Stannard of Saybrook, county of Middlesex and State of
Connecticut, after being cautioned to tell the truth and sworn according to
law, depose and say, that I am seventy-six years old last October -- and
further say, that I was in the Continental Army with Richard Elliott of
Killingworth in said county, who is now an applicant to our Government
for a pension, and that the said Elliott left Connecticut with me, and
joined the Army with me at Nelson's Point, and according to my best
recollection and belief, was between the fifth and tenth of June 1780, and
remained with me till discharged, which I think was about six months.
JOB STANNARD.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, SAYBROOK, JUNE 22, 1838.
Personally appeared Job Stannard, subscriber to the above deposition,
and made oath as to the truth of the same. Sworn before me:
JEDEDIAH POST, Justice of the Peace.
And I further say, I am well acquainted with the said Job Stannard,
and that he is a man of truth and veracity. Certified by
JEDEDIAH POST, Justice of the Peace.
I am well acquainted with the
above named
Job Stannard and
Jedediah  Post Esqrs and they are respectable
Men
Saml Ingham
Washington
July 12. 1838
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I, Job Stannard of Saybrook, county of Middlesex and State of
Connecticut, after being cautioned to tell the truth and sworn according to
law, depose and say, that I am seventy-six years old last October -- and
further say, that I was in the Continental Army with Richard Elliott of
Killingworth in said county, who is now an applicant to our Government
for a pension, and that the said Elliott left Connecticut with me, and
joined the Army with me at Nelson's Point, and according to my best
recollection and belief, was between the fifth and tenth of June 1780, and
remained with me till discharged, which I think was about six months.
JOB STANNARD.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, SAYBROOK, JUNE 22, 1838.
Personally appeared Job Stannard, subscriber to the above deposition,
and made oath as to the truth of the same. Sworn before me:
JEDEDIAH POST, Justice of the Peace.
And I further say, I am well acquainted with the said Job Stannard,
and that he is a man of truth and veracity. Certified by
JEDEDIAH POST, Justice of the Peace.
The original of this on file in Senate and as will be run
was taken after the report in favor of Elliotts claim.
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25th CONGRESS,
2d SESSION.
H. R. 308.
JANUARY 4, 1838.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. FRY, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions reported
the following bill:
A BILL
Granting a pension to Richard Elliott.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That
3 the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place
4 Richard Elliott, of the city of Washington, District of Colum-
5 bia, on the pension list of revolutionary pensioners, at the rate
6 of twenty - four dollars per annum, commencing on the fourth
7 day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty - one, and to con-
8 tinue during his natural life.
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25th CONGRESS,
2d Session.

[Rep. No. 265.]
Ho. OF Reps.

RICHARD ELLIOTT.
[To accompany bill H.R. No. 308.]
JANUARY 4, 1838.

Mr. FRY, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following

REPORT:
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to which was referred the petion of Richard Elliott, report:
That it appears, from an examination of the petition and papers submitted to the committee, that the petitioner, in the spring of 1780, entered
the service of the continental army, and joined the army at Verplanck point,
in the State of New York; that he was born in the year 1764, and was
not quite sixteen when he joined the army; that in two or three weeks
after he joined the army, orders were given to remove and cross the river;
and a short time after this movement a corps of infantry was formed from
the lines, and that the petitioner and others were selected and put into this
corps, to compose this division of the army. The petitioner believes that the
date of his enlistment is made at this time. The time of enlistment,
as set forth by petitioner, is in May, 1780.
The name of petitioner is found on the rolls in the Pension department,
which state his enlistment to have been on the 27th day of June, 1780, and
for six months; and that he was discharged on the 3d day of December,
1780. The rolls, therefore, show that the service of the petitioner falls
short of the term of six months only twenty-three days. It seems that the
petitioner enlisted for the term of six months, but was discharged twenty-
three days before the expiration of the term of his enlistment. Such discharges
, your committee are satisfied, were frequently granted a few days
before the term of service ended, in order to give the soldier time to return
to the place of his residence. It seems that the residence of petitioner
at this time was at Killingsworth, in the State of Connecticut; and from
the distance of his residence, when taken in connexion with the fact that
his enlistment was for the term of six months, and his service falls short
of this term but a few days, the committee are satisfied that he ought to
receive a pension, under the provisions of the act of 1832, for six months;
and they have reported a bill for this term of time accordingly.
Thomas Allen, print.
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S. 49 IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
JANUARY 14, 1846.
Submitted, and ordered to be printed.
Mr. ASHLEY made the following

REPORT:
[To accompany bill Senate No. 49]
The Committee on Pensions to whom was referred the petition of Richard
Elliott, report:
That it appears that this case was referred to a committee heretofore,
which made a favorable report thereon, and which this committee adopt
and make a part of their report, to wit:
That it appears, from an examination of the petition and papers submitted
to the committee, that the petitioner, in the spring of 1780, entered
the service of the continental army, and joined the army at Verplanck's
point, in the State of New York; that he was born in the year 1764, and
was not quite sixteen when he joined the army; that in two or three
weeks after he joined the army, orders were given to remove and cross the
river; and a short time after this movement, a corps of infantry was formed
from the lines, and the petitioner and others were selected and put into
this corps, to compose this division of the army. The petitioner believes
that the date of his enlistment is made at this time. The time of enlistment, as set forth by petitioner, is in May, 1780.
The name of petitioner is found on the rolls in the Pension Office,
which state his enlistment to have been on the 27th day of June, 1780,
and for six months; and that he was discharged on the 3d day of December
, 1780. The rolls, therefore, show that the service of the petitioner
falls short of the term of six months only twenty-three days. It
seems that the petitioner enlisted for the term of six months, but was discharged
twenty - three days before the expiration of the term of his enlistment. Such discharges, your committee are satisfied, were frequently
granted a few days before the term of service ended, in order to give the
soldier time to return to the place of his residence. It seems that the
residence of petitioner at this time was at Killingsworth, in the State of
Connecticut; and, from the distance of his residence, when taken in connexion
with the fact that his enlistment was for the term of six months,
and his service falls short of this term but few days, the committee
are satisfied that, computing the time that the petitioner formed a part of
Ritchie & Heiss, print
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[61]
the continental army, prior to the time when he was selected to form part of
the corps of infantry, he did in fact serve six months, and this view is
strengthened by an affidavit of Nancy Lay, recently filed as evidence in
the case. The committee are satisfied that he ought to receive a pension
under the provisions of the act of 1832, for six months; and they
reported a bill accordingly.
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Richard Elliot
Dist. of Col.
Act June 7 1832.
Rejected .
Sec let to Rev W Elliot June 10. 1836. - do. to Major
S. Cooper, actg. Sec. War, Aug 6, 1837

Rev. War
S. File 12, 864
Richard Elliott
Connect the Recor
to here -
Continental in time of Connecticut service -
AWM
Dec 11 '05.
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Acts of [July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1878'- crossed out]
[3304 - Crossed out]
Richard Elliott
Service: See admitted Soldier
by Sp. act File No 12.864
Enlisted: ,18  .
Discharged:18  .
Application filed:18  .
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.
Contract
Cert. of Dis Searched for ,18
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Rev. War
121864
[check mark] INVALID.   am
File No. 12, 864
Richard Elliott
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832.
Index: -- Vol.
Page
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Revy
26th Cong} Captn Baldwin
3rd Sess}     Col Swift    Con  2  

Petition
of Richard Elliot
praying to be allowed
a pension
-
1839 Jan. 2d Referred to the
Com: on Pensions
Jan 11. Discharged

1840 Jan. 24. Refered to the
Com: on Pensions
 "     May 14. Report adverse

1841 Jany 6. Referred to the
Com: on Pensions.
  "        "14. Discharged
S
[25- crossed out] 24
Pierce
R8d
Mr Pierce
[Illegible crossed out]
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6 June 1836
To the Congress of the United States
The Petition of Richard Elliott, Washington
of Washington City humbly sheweth,
That in the spring of 1780 my brother was drafted
for the term of six months to Join the Continental army
then collecting at Verplanks ^ point on the North river.
As he has lost use of one of his eyes I volunteered
to go in his place I left the State of Connecticut about
the 20th of May and the fifth day thereafter arrived at
the place appointed to Join the army. I am fully
convinced of this fact from the circumstance that
my mother remembered, I was not yet 16 years of age and might
not be received. I was born June 3d 1764 of course was
few days short of that age when I joined the army
Two or three was after I joined the army  orders were
given to remove and cross the river and a short time
after this movement a Corps of Infantry was formed from
the lines and I was selected with others and compose that
division of the army. It is my impression that the date
of enlistment is made at that enlistment.

My declaration of the facts as been ^made on oath as
Magistrate, assigned is on record in the Pension office.
I applied for a pension under the provision of the act of June 7th 1832. 
1832. I appeared from the rolls in the pension
office that I was in the army five months and 
 17 days, or twenty three days short of six months. and
this exclusive of the time I was in the army before I
was selected to join the Infantry company to
alluded above. Your Petitioner prayeth that his [illegible -crossed out]
name may be placed on the pension lists

Respectfully your Obt Servt
Richard Elliott
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Richard Elliott
The Petition of  
Rich Elliot  hm
June 6- 1836
Refd to com of  Rev. Pensions
---
June 21. 1836 - Bill No 715
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Dec. 1837

Refd to the Com on Revy
Pension -Us

Jan. 4. 1838-- Bill Re 308
Nov A. Ward
lay -
War 57 Rev Pen
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H. R 308
Richd Elliott
unfavorable report
recommend indefinite 
host [illegible] of bill
given [illegible] to adverse
June 28 1838
to 15
13 Morris
pension