Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,313, Jeremiah Ellis, Penn. Va.
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SERVICE
Penn.
Va.
Born in Md.
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Ellis, Jeremiah
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NUMBER
R.3.313
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State of Ohio}
Brown County} ss.
On this ninth day of May 1838 personally appeared in open Court before the
Court of Common Pleas of Brown County aforesaid Jeremiah EllIs a resident of
Brown County Ohio Aged Eighty four years the 21 Jany [January] last who being first 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 passed the 7 June 1832
That he joined the Army of the United States in the year 1777 with Captain John Wall and served under him; the name of the Colonel & regiment, if his company was attached to any, he does not remember. That he entered the army as a substitute for another man who had been drafted in the militia & served under the following officers - to wit - Captain John Wall, Lieutenant John Crow, Ensign Daniel Jacobs;  That he was first sergeant of this company &  served under no officers of higher rank than Captain. That at the time of his entering the army he resided in Washington County Pennsylvania. The company to which he belonged & with which he served rendevouzed [rendezvoused] on the west side of the Monongahela River in Washington County Penna. about seven miles below Red-stone (now Brownsville) and from thence marched to the Fort at Grave Creek on the Ohio River in the State of Virginia. This was in the month of September October & November of the year 1777. his time of service was three months commencing with the month first named & ending with the last. During all this term of service (which was three months) he was in the Fort at Gran Creek aforesaid, except the
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time employed in marching there & when he was sent out of the Fort to hunt & reconnoitre [reconnoiter] and another time when he was sent down the
River about a hundred miles, with others out of the Fort to bring up some wounded persons from Hackhocking to the Fort & bury some that had been killed down there by the Indians That he was in no battle. That he was born
in Frederick County State of Maryland & lived there until he was going on twenty one years of age when he removed with his Father to Washington County Penna. & settled therein on the Monongahala [Monongahela] river. That he has often seen the record of his age in his Father's Bible where it was registered, but he has not that register now & does not know where it is. After
the term of service aforesaid had expired he lived with his Father in Washington Penna. till he Married in the year 1779; then he purchased land in Brook County Ohio & settled on it in 1781 & lived there until the Land office was opened at Straitsville for the sale of land in what is now the State of Ohio, when he sold his farm in Virginia & bought land in Ohio in Jefferson County and removed there, & resided there until the year 1807 when he removed to 
what is now the County of Brown (Ohio) where he has resided ever since & still resides. He cannot recollect what has become of his discharge or when I received it; but he thinks he received one nor can he recollect for whom he served as a substitute: He stood the draft, but was not drafted himself & went as a substitute for one that was drafted. The company to which he belonged served with no other Company or Regiment of Regular Militia or volunteers during his term of three months, except that on the occasion before
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mentioned when he was sent down the Ohio to Hookhocking he think tho' [though]  he is not quite certain some regulars from Wheeling were sent down with him & his comrades * Benja. [Benjamin] Evans Esq. & Wm Middleton Esq. are acquainted with him & can speak as to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a Pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State, or (if any)
on that of the agency of the State of Ohio.
Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
G. W. King Clerk
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Jeremiah X Ellis
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We Benjamin Evans & William Middleton residing in Brown County Ohio hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jeremiah Ellis who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be Eighty
four years of age: that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, & that we concur in that opinion. Sworn & Subscribed the day year aforesaid
G W. King Clerk
Wm . Middleton
B. Evans
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier
and Served as he states. And the Court further certifies that Benjin. [Benjamin] Evans & Wm Middleton, as it appears to them, who have signed the foregoing certificate are residents in the County of Brown aforesaid, and are credible persons & that their statement is intitled [entitled] to credit
I George W. King Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the County of Brown aforesaid do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Ellis for a pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & Seal of Office this tenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty eight
GW. King Clerk 

V 34,54.4
Jeremiah Ellis 
claim
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In addition to the services stated & set forth in the foregoing the said Jeremiah Ellis States that after he removed to & settled on his land in Brook County Va. in the year 1781. he and the settlers of that neighborhood Forted every summer, more or less time of a summer, for five consecutive years Namely during the years 1781, 1782, 1783, 1784 & 1785 in a Fort called Ramsey's Fort on Buffalo Creek; during which time he did Military duty in said Fort and as a spy, under Col Hedge, Captain Foute & he think [sic] Lieut. Derrick Hogeland The time which he did duty in said Fort during said Five years exceeding in all six months, but he cannot say certainly how much more: he is certain it exceeded Six months, & is also certain that he did duty in said Fort the two first years named to wit 1781 & 1782, exceeding three months.
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Am[initials]

In reply to your request of , received for a statement of the military history of Jeremiah Ellis a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [(or his widow's) crossed out] application for pension on file in this Bureau.
R. 3313

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Sept. 1777
every summer
1781 - 1785

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
3 mos. 
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RANK.
1st Sergt. [sergeant]
Spy

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
John Wall in fort at Grave Creek
Foute
stationed at Ramsay's Fort on Buffalo Creek. 
COLONEL.
Hodge
STATE.
Penna.

Battles engaged in, [check mark]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Washington Co., Penn.
Date of application for pension, May 9, 1838. R
Residence at date of application, Brown Co., Ohio from 1807
Age at date of application, "84 years, 21 Jany [January] last." born in Frederick Co. Md. where he resided until going on 21 yrs. of age"
Remarks: when he removed with his father (name not stated) to Washington Co. Penn. & settled in Monongahela river, married in 1779 name of wife not stated, removed to Brook Co. Va. in 1781; then to Jefferson Co. Ohio, & to Brown Co. This claim was rejected on the grounds that the soldier did not serve 6 mos. in a regularly organized corps, guard duty in fort not being so construed by the pension law.
Respectfully,
Commissioner. 
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[stamped] Ripley May 15 0

JL Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City D.C.

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May 23
Ohio
Jere Ellis
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Ripley, Brown County, Ohio
14 May 1838
Jas. L. Edwards, Esq
Comr. of Pensions

Sir: 
I herewith transmit the application of Jeremiah Ellis, a Revolutionary
Soldier, for a Pension under the Act of 1832
Very Respy 
Yr Obt St [Respectfully Your Obedient Servant]
A. Liggett
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Jeremiah Ellis
Ohio
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Rejected
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See let 13th 
July 1838 A. 
Liggett.
Hon A. Ellison Apr 6 1834
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did not serve six months in a regularly organized corps
3313
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One 2 cent self add env.        WCA
Rev 1812
st. rcd.
JRK

Fairbury, Nebr.
Sept. 24th, 1916.

Comm. of Pensions.
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

    Will you kindly tell me if you have Jeremiah [R. 3313 written above name] Ellis on your Revolutionary War Rolls as a pensioner?  I have the record of his brother Samuel Ellis born in Frederick Co. Maryland in 1754.  I do not know whether Jeremiah was older of younger.
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Samuel was pensioned on 1834 $8.00 per mo. when he lived in Ohio. He enlisted in the Rev. War from Washington Co. Pennsylvania and Jeremiah would have also, or from Fayette Co. possibly.  After the War Jeremiah lived in Brooke Co., Va. - now W. Va. and later went to Ohio - Adams or Beaver Co.  There were four other brothers - James, Jesse (S.8402), Hezekiah and Nathan. The eldest born in Wales - were any of them on your rolls? 
   There was the father James Ellis who came from Wales about 1750 - was he on the rolls? Were any of these on your rolls in the War of 1812?
    Col. Nathan Ellis of the War of 1812 was a son of Jeremiah Ellis, whose records I am especially interested in.
    Hoping you will give this your earliest convenient consideration and thanking you in advance I am, very sincerely,

//s//
Effie Louise Endleman
Mrs. F. G. Endleman
Fairbury 
Nebraska

I am advised that only 2 records can be furnished her.
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1916 Oct. 30. Hist. to Mrs. F. G. Endelman [illegible] [cent sign]

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33136
P. O.
Jeremiah Ellis
Service:
REJECTED
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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Washington DC
April 1st 1854
Sir:
Permit to call your attention to the application of Jeremiah Ellis for a Pension
He served in the Army of the Revolution and applied for a pension from the State of Ohio I hope, Sir, that you will reconsider the
decision in the case of Mr Ellis and allow the claim If you cannot
allow the application, please State upon what grounds the claim is disallowed
Respectfully your obt servt [obedient servant]
A Ellison
Hon Judge Waldo}
Com Pensions}
Washington D.C.}