Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 2035, Elisha Cleaveland, N. H.
Page 1

(3-1776 )
SERVICE
N.H.
Cleaveland, Elisha
Hannah
NUMBER
R 2035
CONTENTS
Page 2

No 14558
Hannah Cleaveland
wid of Elisha
VT
July 7. 1838.

H.H. Sylvester
Present

Hannah Cleavland 
Declaration
Rets 1838, 1843, 44 & 1848
Page 3

State of Vermont
District of Georgia  ss.
 At a session of the Probate Court holden at St. Albans within and for said District on this 14th day of June 1857.  Personally appeared Hannah Cleaveland a resident of St Albans in the County of Franklin in the State of
Vermont aged 91 years who being first
duly Sworn according to law doth on her
Oath make the following declaration in order
to obtain the benefit of the provision, of the acts of Congress passed July 7th 1838, March 3d 1843, June 17th 1844 and February 2d 1848.
That she is the widow of Elisha Cleaveland
who was a Private in the war of the revolution, that the said Elisha lived in the town of
Bath in the State of New Hampshire during the
war of the Revolution, that she has heard
him say that he served at Several different
periods of time but she can not State the length of time but believes he served more than two years in all, that she thinks he served
in Col Starks Regt at one time & in Col Bedel
Regt; that she has heard him speak of Captain
Richardson, Post & Lovewell, & Adjutant Morey in connection with his service & believes he served under them or with them; that she was Married to the said Elisha Cleaveland at Haverhill
Page 4

in the State of New Hampshire on or about
the -- day of -- Seventeen hundred and
eighty three, that she can not State the exact time of the Marriage as she has not any Record or memorandum to rely upon, that they had four children born at Bath aforesaid before they moved from there.  That she and the said Elisha moved from said Bath to Georgia in the State of Vermont in the year Seventeen hundred Ninety six, where he (the said Elisha
Cleaveland) died on the Twenty eighth (28th) day of September in the year Eighteen hundred twenty.
That she has not intermarried but continues
the widow of the said Elisha Cleaveland; that
her name was Hannah Gardner at the time of her Marriage to the said Elisha, She then being the widow of John Gardner deceased & that her maiden name was Webber; that she & the said Elisha both lived in the town of Bath before their Marriage  by Justice Dowe & that they had a family record untill the year 1808.
when it was destroyed by the burning of their house in said George aforesaid; but that she is sure that the Marriage took place in the fall of Seventeen hundred & eighty three.
Hannah (X her mark) Cleaveland
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year first above written in open Court
Before me
Wm Bridges  Judge
J
Page 5

State of Vermont
District of Georgia  ss. 
I William Bridges, Judge of the Probate Court within and for said district do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has
this day been adduced to said Court, that
Elisha Cleaveland died at Georgia in sd
District on the Twenty eighth (28th) day of September in the year Eighteen hundred & twenty, that he left a widow by the name of Hannah Cleaveand who now resides in St. Albans in said district, & that she is still a widow.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
Subscribed my name at St Albans in said 
district this 14th day of June A.D. 1857.
William Bridges
Judge of Probate

State of Vermont 
Georgia District ss.
I Jeptha Bradley, Register of the Probate Court within & for said district do hereby certify that the Hon. William Bridges is Judge of the Probate Court within & for said district duly qualified & commissioned, and that Signature above written purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed
the seal of said Court & subscribed my name
this 14th day of June 1857
Jeptha Bradley Register
Page 6

I, Julia Minor of Georgia in the County of Franklin in the State of Vermont aged ninety years depose & say that I was personally acquainted with Elisha Cleaveland
late of Georgia in said County deceased & also was acquainted with this Elisha Cleaveland when he lived in the town of Bath State of New Hampshire, and that I was also acquainted with his Father
Eliphalet Cleaveland and his
other two sons Soloman & Eliphalet form who also resided in the town of Bath N.H. and that there was no other family
by the same name residing in that town that I ever knew of, and that I lived in the town of Bath until the close of the Revolutionary war, and there was no other
man by the name of Elisha Cleaveland in Bath & no other family there except his fathers by the name of Cleaveland during the Revolutionary war, by I removed from Bath N.H. to Georgia V.T. about sixty
years ago but do not recollect distincly [distinctly] the number of years but think it was about sixty years and that Elisha
Cleaveland moved into Georgia V.T. about the same time and lived in this town until he died and that I have lived in this town ever since I came from Bath and that I was personally acquainted with Elisha Cleaveland after he moved into George up to the time he died & further I say not in presence of
Truman Williams
Marg M Willey
Julia (X her mark) Minor

Sworn to and subscribed by the above affiant before me this 22nd day of December AD 1852 and I certify that
said affiant is personally known to me and that she is a credible witness
Truman Williams   Justice of the Peace
Page 7

2035
Hannah Cleaveland
Vermont
Susp. Act 7 July 1838
add evidence
filed 22 July 1854
Cole
Evans [Illegible]
Washington D.C.
Additional Testimony
Page 8

STATE OF VERMONT
Office of the Secretary of State,
Montpelier, April 8th 1853
I certify that Truman Williams Esquire, whose name is subscribed in his own proper
hand writing to the foregoing certificate, is and was at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Franklin
duly elected and qualified, and that to
his official acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are, and ought to be given
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of this Office, this eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Farrand F. Merrill
Secretary of State
Page 9

REJECTED
2035
P.O.
Hannah Cleaveland
Service:
Enlisted:   ,18 --
Discharged:  ,18--
Application filed:  , 18--
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.
Contract.
Cert. of Dis.
 Searched for  ,18--
Page 10

Hannah Cleaveland 
wid. of Stephen  VT
A.D 1843
Commr. of Pensions
Washington D. C.
(STAMP)
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
MAR 3 18?2
[Illegible]
Page 11

Hannah Cleveland
VT  sus 38
Mary Hopper
N O sus 56
A Cole
Hon. L. P Waldo
Commr. of Pensions
Page 12

No 14558
Hannah Cleveland [Cleveland]
wid of Elisha
[Illegible]
Page 13

Paid
Mr. Stephen Thomas Esq
West Fairlee
VT
(STAMP)
ST. ALBANS VT
NOV 12
Page 14

S.P. Cleveland
Franklin, VT  Nov 11/'50---
[Illegible] (I think)
Margaret Morey
Wid. of Israel  Pension
Act 38 Vt
Page 15

Franklin Vt Nov 11, 1850
Mr Stephen Thomas Esq
Dear sir having seen your advertisement
in the Truman ad Agency for Pentioners
I have concluded to write to you respecting
my case I am the son of revolution Soldier
by the name of Elisha Cleaveland he served
in the Revolution as he has told me in Seven
different campaigns from 3 to 12 months each.
he made application under the first pention [pension] Law and was not Enrold [enrolled] on the Pention [Pension] list because one years service did not come under that law.  He was blind and did not Live But for years after the necesary [necessary] papers were all made out at that time and sent to Washington and I know not but they are there now.  He was an inhabitant at that time of Newhampshire 
[New Hampshire] and removed
before my birth to Vermont. his wife my
Mother is still living at the age of 93
Laboring under infirmaties and for these
Reasons if I should be required to make
any proof I think it wood be impossible
I suppose every Soldiers name is or ought
to Enrold [enrolled] at Washington, as to what proof is nuary [necessary] I am ignorant, if the old papers are at Washington Still I think there is all the proof mussary [necessary]
Page 16

I wish you[Illegible] to look into it and write
to me as soon as may be
if any more information is necessary from me
before you send to Washington with
direct your letter to S P Cleaveland
Franklin Vt
-
Page 17

West Fairlee V. Feby 28th 1862
To the Comr of Pensions
Sir
I had pending before the Pension Office in 1853,
the claim of Widow Hannah Cleaveland under the act of February 2d 1848, for a Pension.
Mrs Cleaveland died during the pendency of the claim leaving three children & although the claim was fully established, the then new ruling of the Department rejected the claim.  I now ask that the claim may be examined and a certif't of
Pension forwarded to me
I am Truly yours
Stephen Thomas
Page 18

Washington Dec 19 1857
Sir,
I present herewith, the declaration as proof of
marriage of Hannah Clevland [Cleaveland] widow  of Elisha of Vermont, under the Act of July 7 1838.
Elisha Clevland [Cleaveland] I believe made an
application under the act of March 18. 188 from
VT.
I am Respetfully [Respectfully]
H H Sylvester
G. E. Heath Esq
-
-
---
Page 19

June 14 /52
Add'l evi in case
of Mrs. Cleaveland
widow of Elisha
B B French Esq
Present.
Capt. Triplett
Present
Page 20

Pension Office
June 10, 1852
Capt. Triplett
My Dear Sir,
You will confer upon me a very special favor by
causing the enclosed case to be examined.  It will not take half an hour, and Judge Thomas is now here, and very anxious to have it settled before he leaves.  It is the case of Mrs. Cleveland, widow
of Elisha, in which new evidence is herewith filed
Yours very truly
B.B. French
Page 21

Certif't of Secy of VT
4 mos 26 ds
See Margaret Morey
application wid of
Israel Morey, under
act 1838 
OF
Page 22

STATE OF VERMONT,
Office of the Secretary of State,
Montpelier, May 25th 1852.
I hereby certify that there is on file in this office a
"Pay Roll of Lieut. Morey's party under the command of Lieut. Col. Benj Waite in the service of the State of Vermont 1781; on which Roll is the name of "Elisha Cleveland" with an allowance for four months and twenty six days service as a private, commencing July 1st and ending October 23d.

Given under my hand and the seal of this
office this 25th day of May A.D. 1852.
Ferrand F Merrill
Secretary of State
Page 23

Personally appeared before me the subscribing
authority Henry Mc Laughan and
deposeth and saith that I am of the age of
seventy four years, that I lived in the immediate neighborhood of Elisha Cleveland of Georgia in the State of Vermont and used
very frequently to hear him talk of his
being in the service of his country during the
Revolutionary War, and I further state that
it was the general opinion of the people in
the vicinity in which he lived that he was
in the service of his country and at the
time he said he so served.
And further I state that he was the husband
in his lifetime of Hannah Cleveland who is now deceased. 
Henry McLaughlin
Georgia, June 1st 1854
Franklin County ss.
Personally appeared before me, the signer and Sealer of the above deposition and made oath to the truth of the above statement. 
Before me Joseph Bowker Justice of the Peace

I would further state the above named Henry
Mac Laughlin is a man of truth and verasity [veracity] and of good and sound mind and would constitute a good witness in any cause.
Joseph Bower Justice of the Peace
I Joseph Baker the above subscribing authority are of the opinion that the above named Elisha
Cleveland was in service of his country as
stated in the above deposition
Georgia June 1st 1854. Joseph Bowker
Page 24

State of Vermont ⎬
Franklin County ss
I, Joseph H. Brainerd Clerk of the County
Court of the County of Franklin aforesaid do hereby certify that Joseph Bowker is on this
1st day of June A.D. 1854 a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Franklin aforesaid duly
elected and qualified to act as such magistrate
that I verily believe the signature within
purporting to be said Bowkers to be genuine & that full faith and credit ought to be given to the official acts of said Bowker.  And I further certify that I have no interest in the result of this case & that I am not concerned in its prosecution.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the County Court aforesaid and Subscribed my name officially at St. Albans
in said County of Franklin this first day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four
Joseph H. Brainerd    Clerk
Deposition of Henry Mc Laughlin
Page 25

Town Clerk Certif't of
Marriage
Page 26

I James T. Barstow Clerk of the town of
Haverhill in the County of Grafton and State of
New Hampshire, hereby certify that the following is a true copy from the records of said town
"Elisha Cleaveland & Hannah Gardner, alias
Hannah Webber both of Bath in the County of
Grafton being personally present before me the Subscriber, the said Cleaveland took the said Hannah by the right hand and declared that he took the said Hannah to be his wife, to bed & to board,
to take care of & provide for & to live with
as his wife; and the said Hannah took the said
Cleaveland by his right hand & declared that she took the said Cleaveland to be her husband, to bed and to board to take care of and provide for and to
live with as her husband. At Haverhill the
twenty seventh day of January Seventeen hundred  eighty four.
Coram
Moses Dow   Jus Peace
James Marshall & Edward Webber
Were witnesses present
I certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible
words and figures as follows
"twenty Seventh day of January A.D. 1784 "
James T. Barstow, Clerk of the
Town of HaverhillI
Page 27

I James T. Barstow named in the foregoing
depose and say, that I hold the office of Clerk in
the County, town, and State aforesaid, and that the foregoing is a true extract from the record of said town with the exception of date named, as certified by me
James T. Barlow
Sworn to and Subscribed on this 31st day of July 1857.
Before me
Hiram Morgan   Just of Peace
Page 28

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Secretary of States Office,
I, JOHN L. HADLEY, Secretary of State aforesaid,
do hereby certify that Hiram Morgan
is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Grafton duly commissioned and qualified, and duly authorized by the Laws of said State to administer Oaths, take the acknowledgment of Deeds &c.  His Commission was dated on the 25th, day of June
1850, and will expire on the 25th day of June
1855.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the State,
this fifth day of Decr. 1857.
John L. Hadley Secretary of State
Page 29

Elisha Cleaveland
Certift of Secy N. H.
19 Mo 18 Ds
Page 30

State of New Hampshire
Secretary of States Office
I do hereby certify, That from
an examination of the Books and Documents
relating to Military Services in the
war of the Revolution, which remain
in this office, it appears that the name of
Elisha Cleaveland is borne upon
the Pay Roll of Capt. Jeremiah Post's 
Company in Col. David Hobart's Regiment
& Brigadier Gent. John Starks
Brigade Militia July 1777 command of 
which company was given to Lieut.
Jabez Vaughan as Captain by order of
General Stark the 27 day of August,
as a private in said Company, Time
of engagement July 24, Time of discharge 
Sept 25, Time in service 2 mo. 3 da.
And upon "A Pay Roll of Capt. Luther
Richardson's Company raised for the defence
of the frontier on and adjacent to
Connecticut River whereof Timothy Bedel
Esqr. is Colonel", is borne the name of
Page 31


Elisha Cleaveland as a private "Commencement of pay 4th April 1778; Time in service 11 months 27 days,  pay for month 6 2/3 dollars; 
Amount of pay £23. s16."
And upon a list of New Levies for
1780 in the following:-- "No. 9 Elisha
Cleaveland, Bath: Entry July 11; Discharge
Dec. 13, Days allowed to travel home, 15;
Time in service 5 mos, 18 days."
And upon an "Act of travel money paid to Capt. Port's compy, General Starks Regt. 31 July 1777" is the following:
Elisha Cleaveland, No miles at 3 pr. mile
80, sims paid £1."
Given under my hand and the seal
of State this third day of April 1852
John L. Hadley
Secretary of State