Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5152, Elias Hollingsworth, S.C.
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(3-1776)
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SERVICE - S.C.
Hollingsworth, Elias
NUMBER - R. 5152
Born in Va.
CONTENTS
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[Stamp]  REJECTED
5152
Elias Hollingsworth
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No. 37103
Elias Hollingsworth
SC
Letter to Miles M. Norton 9. Oct. 1805

5152
 Act 7 June 1832
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Comptroller Genl's. office Columbia So. Ca. July 21 /45
Book X Indt. 789  Issued the 28 Sept. 85 To Elias Hollingsworth  for Twenty three pounds eleven shilling and eight pence sterlg for Fifty one days duty as Qr master and also for waggon  pr acct audited. Pr’l £23:11:8 Int £1:10

Book X Indt. 2880 Issued 30 May 86  To Elias Hollingsworth  Four pounds one shilling and ten pence three farthings sterlg  Militia duty in [Colonel Thomas] Branden's Reg't. pr acct audited. 
Principal £4:1:10¾ Int £1:5:8
I certify the above to be a true copy from the Records in this office
For Comptroller Gen’l
s/ J Laval
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Sep. 16, 1848 Elias Hollingsworth  June 7, 1852 ( vertical on page ) ( No. Elias Hollingsworth  SC Act of June 1832 ) ( Hon. J. L. Edwards Com. of Pensions Washington City D.C. )
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State of South Carolina
District of Pickens
On this Eighteenth day of August 1845. personally appeared in open Court before William D. Steele Judge of the Court of Ordinary, Elias Hollingsworth a resident of the District and State aforesaid, aged Eighty One years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth
on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7 1832. That he was drafted as a militiaman of South Carolina, and entered the service as such, he thinks in the year seventeen hundred & 81 with Captain Daniel Duff and served as Quarter Master, but he cannot recollect the precise number of days, tho’ he supposes the certificate of the Comptroller which states that it was 51 days must be correct, tho’ his impression is that it was much longer. The officers as far as he can recollect, were Capt. Duff, Major [William] Farr and Col [Thomas] Brandon. The second Tour he thinks in the next year (as the year must have been nearly out when he returned from the first) he entered the same way, and served as a private under the same officers, was drafted he thinks, for Six months, and served out his time and was regularly
discharged, tho’ he does not now know what has become of it. That he resided in Union District S.C. when he entered the service, he was in no Battle. Marched from Brown’s Creek to Grindalls Shoals [Grindal Shoals] and there joined Gen’l. [Daniel] Morgan’s Camp, and crossed Broad River at mouth of Bullocks Creek, through Chesterfield District, and much through that part of the State, but does not recollect that he was out of the State. He further states that by reason of
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old age and the consequent loss of memory  , want of education  to keep memorandums of  passing events, he cannot swear positively  as tot he precise  length  of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served more that six months, yet he would  rather be under than over so he puts it down at six months. 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, except that of South Carolina . Swor to and subscribed  the day and year aforesaid .. Elias Hollingsworth ( his mark  )  William D. Steele ( signed ) Judge of the Court of Ordinary for Pickens District S.C.  We William G. Mullinax a clergyman residing  Pickens District S.C   and Silas Kirksey residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elias Hollingsworth   who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration  ; that we believe him  to be eighty one years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution a and that we concur in that opinion.  Sworn  & subscribed , the day a & year aforesaid . Wm. G. Mullinax ( signed ) Silas Kirksey ( signed ) William D. Steele ( signed ) Ordy & Ex-officio Mag  Pickens Dist.  And the 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 name applicant was a Revolutionary  soldier and served as he states. And the Court  further certifies that  Wm G. Mullinax  , who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman , and that Silas Kirksey  Esq. who has
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also signed the same , are residents of Pickens Dist. S.C.  and both  highly respectable , and their statements entitled to full credit. s/ William D. Steele Judge of the Court of Ordinary  Pickens District S.C.  
The following  interrogatories were propounded to Elias Hollingsworth   and  answered as follows viz :  
1st. When and where were you born ? In  Londen County Va.  in  1763 . 
2. Have you  any record of  your age ? Has no record of his age. 
3. Where were you living when called into the service ?  where have you lived since the Revolutionary  War, and where do you now live ?  In Union Dist. on Broad River, then to Newberry Dist. & now in Pickens Dist.  
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer , or were you  a substitute ? Drafted. 
5. State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops when you served ; such Continental and Militia Reg'ts. as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services ? Capt. Duff, Capt. [Benjamin] Jolly, Major Farr, Major McJunkin, Col. Brandon, Capt. [Thomas] Savage & Genl. Morgan - served as stated in body of  declaration . 
6. Does not recollect whether his discharges were written  or only  verbal, or from whom they were received. 
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood  etc. Maj. W. L. Keith & Genl. F. N. Garvin Pickens C.H. , Col. T.J. Pickens , Rev'd  W.G. Mullinax, E.B. Benson Esq. & F. Burt Esq.  Pendleton . 
I , William L . Keith  clerk of the Court of Common Pleas  certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the application of Elias Hollingsworth for a Pension  & that W.D. Steele is Judge of the Court of Ordinary  & the foregoing  his genuine signature . Witness my hand  & seal of office this 18th August 1845 s/ W. L. Keith  clerk of the Court of Pickens District So. Ca.
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[ South Carolina Pickens District ] Before me personally appeared  Joseph McJunkin  an old and highly respectable  citizen  of Unio District  S.C.  and made oath that he knows Elias Hollingsworth  of Pickens, and that  he knew him  and his family during the Revolutionary  War, and knows that  he done service as a  friend to liberty, under  Capt. Benjamin Jolly  & Capt. Daniel Duff  and in the  Regiment ( he thinks ) commanded by Col. Farr , who was a Major   & Col. during the War. , but he was not intimate enough with  him  during the War to state how long he served, but he  recollects that a brother of his ( Aquilla Hollingsworth  ) was killed by the side of this deponent at Cowpens and that his Father was with this deponent  a considerable portion of the War, and they were   all good  Whigs  & soldiers, and afterwards good honest respectable citizens, and  no one who knows Elias Hollingsworth could  doubt his statements. Joseph  McJunkin ( signed )  Sworn to  & subscribed this 1st April  1845 before Miles M. Norton ( signed ) Notary Public  & Ex. M.P.D.   I , William L. Keith Clerk of the Court of  the Court of Pickens District , certify that Miles M. Norton is a Magistrate as above  & that the foregoing  signature purporting to be his is genuine. In  testimony whereof I have hereunto ser my hand and seal of office this eighth day of September   A.D. 1845. W.L. Keith ( signed ) Clerk of the Court of Pickens District So. Ca.