Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2754, for Elijah Mayfield, Virginia
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of
Congress of June 7th 1832
State of Tennessee
Court of Pleas & Quarter
Hickman County Sessions July Term 1834
On this 15 day of July 1834 personally appeared
in open Court before the justices thereof
sitting Elijah Mayfield a resident of
the County of Hickman & State aforesaid and aged
72 years last June 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 7th 1832
That he was born in the State of Virginia in
Hirst[?] County in the year 1762 on the 10th day of June
- where I resided until I was about
of age when was about 12 years of age when I moved with my parents to Montgomery County where I resided at the commencement of the Revolutionary war - I enlisted in Montgomery County Virginia in Captain Jesse Evans' Company of the first Virginia Regiment under the
command of Col John Montgomery - I enlisted
in January or February 1779 under the above named
the county of Montgomery aforesaid - from which place we marched to the Big Island of Holston River where we rendezvoused and remained for about the space of 30 days - we then marched down the Holston to
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the Tennessee River and down the Tennessee
to the month of the Ohio & then up the Mississippi
to Illinois where we joined Gel Clark and encamped at Casaskia - we arrived at the [illegible] Quarters of Genl Clark some time about
the 1st of May 1779 - at this place we remained
until the expiration of our tour of 12 month -
I was discharged some time in January or February
1780- my discharge was burnt up by an
accidental burning of a house-- I returned
after my discharge to Eaton's Station about 2
miles below Nashville when I remained about
12 months when I was taken a prisoner by the
Indians + British - they retained me about 2 years 
& half in captivity before I made my of escape from the
 them - I then I returned to the Long Island of
Holston where I married & resided about 18 months - I removed to South Carolina where I lived 17 years from thence I moved to Kentucky where I lived about 16 years - from Jefferson County Kentucky I moved to Hickman County Tennessee where I have resided for the last 14 years and still resides-
I have in no written record of my age but by
the best evidence I have been able to obtain from my parents. I believe I was born in the County of Amherst & State of Virginia
the 10th day of June 1762 I have no written
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22.070
Elijah Mayfield
Alabama
Revoly Rejected
See letter 17 Feb 1832
to Hon. C.C. Clay
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