Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,582, Elisha Cahill, Md.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Md.
Cahill Elisha
NUMBER
R. 1.582
CONTENTS
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JECTED

1582.
P.O. Elisha Cahill
Service:
Enlisted:      , 18   .
Discharged:     , 18  .
Application filed:    ,  18  .
A[?]eges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.       Contract.
Cert. of Ds.    Searched for     , 18  .
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1582
Rejected
See letter to
R. A. Dabney
Jamestown Ten
27. Feb. 1835
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State of Tennessee  }
Fentress County   }

On this the 21st day of July AD 1834, personally appeared before me Robert H. Richardson a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Fentess State of Tennessee  Elisha  Cahill Resident of said County aged years the 2nd day of January Last; agreeable to his record now in his possession he being born the 2nd day of January 1762, he was born in the State of Maryland in Washington County 7 miles from Hagerstown lived there until Eighteen years of age who after being Duly Sworn for that purpose on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832.

He states that he was Drafted in the neighborhood that he was born and raised in the ninteenth year of his age, he served a tour of six months under Captain William Lewis and marched to South Carolina he march,d off from home some time in the fall of the year 1780 the precise time not Recollected and marched on to various places South Carolina and serv,d under General Green and was in the Battle at the Cowpen,s and General Green, and was finally marched back to Maryland and was Discharged had a written discharge from his capt having servd the full
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Term of six month,s he cannot recollect the precise month or day of Begining and quit service, in a few weeks thereafter he was again Entered the service a Volunteer to serve a tour of Six months, under Capt Walden March,d son and Ragnged through North and South Carolina and Georgia mostly against the Tories and was under General Morgan he was finally march,d back Toward home and was Discharged verbally in Virginia he believes it was in Bartluf County, it was near Harpers ferry he cannot indentify the precise month or day of Begining and Ending said tour he has lost his discharge a great may years ago, and he knows of no Documetitory Evidence to prove his service and he knows of no certain person by whom he can prove his service that there would be a chance of geting the evidence of he states there is no Clergyman in his neighborhood, but he has no doubt but he can prove a good character as a man of Common Truth by his intimate acquaintance generally he will name William Smith and John Smith and he believes all his acquaintances believe and understand him to be a Revolutionary soldier he lived in Maryland after the war untill about the year 1791 and the when Emigrated to the western country and Rambled as a kind of sojourning traveller through Kentucky and and Tennessee finally settled down
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in Pulaski County Kentucky where he has Long lived and thence to where he now is He hereby Relinquishes Every claim To a Pension or annuity Except the present and Declares his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State, 
Elisha Cahill
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me }
Robert H Richardson   J P.

We John West & Charles Benum Residing in the County of Fentress State of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elisha Cahill who has Subscribed and Sworn To the foregoing, Declaration that we believe him To be Seventy Two years of age that he is reputed among his acquaintance as and old Revolutioner and aman of veracity and We concur in the Same opinion
John West
Charls Benum
Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me.  }
Robert H Richardson   J P

I Robert H. Richardson Justice of the peace in and for the County of Fentress State of Tennessee hereby certify that after investigation of the matter and puting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant
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was a Revolutionary Soldier and Served as he States. and I further certify that that John West and Charles Benum who has subscribed and sworn to the forego ing certifficate are Resident citizens of the County of Fentress aforesaid and are credible men and that their Statement is entitled to credit.  and that applicant is unable To attend court from bodily infirmity-
Robert H. Richardson   J P

State of Tennessee  Fentress County   }  ss
I John H Richardson Clerk of the county
court of said County of Fentress
hereby certify that Robert H. Richardson is
amagistrate as above and that the foregoing
Signatures purporting to be his are Genuine
In testimony where of I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
my seal of office this 3rd. day
of October 1834
John H. Richardson Clerk of the County Court 
by his Deputy John Albertson
[folded paper covered seal left of signature]

[written right angle to others at bottom of page] 
32,766
Elisha Cahill   Pension Declaration
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act of Congress 7th June 1833
Tennessee
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32.766
Elisha Cahill   Tennessee

Boiling Spring P.O.  Fentress County Line  Oct. 5th 1834
free
J. L. Edwards
Washington City  D. C.

Rejected  not serv six month,

{War Department Pension office

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Nov. 8   Elisha Cahill    Tenn.
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Fentress County Tennessee
Boiling Spring,
Post office
Oct 3d. 1834.

I enclose to you in this letter the
papers Relative to the claim of
Elisha Cahill To a pension
under the act of the 7th June
1832 please communicate the
Result of your investigation of his
Claim To me at Jamestown
in this County or to this place
Your humble Servant &
Robert A Dabny

J L Edwards
Commissioner of pensions }