Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16378, William Elliott, Penn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn.

Elliott, William

NUMBER
S.16378

Born in Penn.

carded
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Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from 4th March to 26th Aug 1839 the day of his death. Agent Notified & Act 1840
13853 
Indiana 
William Elliott 
Jennings Co in the State of Indiana was an ensign in the Company commanded by Captain Davis of the regiment commanded by Col Todd in the Pa line for 15 months 
13853 
Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 150 Dollars-Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of June 1833 and Sent to SS Warding Versailles 
Arrears to the 4th of March   300.00 
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 75.00 
$375.00 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832} 
Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk
Book 6 Vol. 7 Page 110
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Declaration of William Elliott for a Pension state of Indiana Jennings County}se On this 26th day of February in year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open Court before the House of the Judges Circuit Court of Jennings in the said State of Indiana now in session William Elliott a resident of the said County of Jennings in the said state of Indiana aged Eighty one upon the 12th day of next May, who being first duly sworn according to the Law doth and this oath make the following declarations in order to attain the benefit the act of Congress passed June the 7th. 1833 – He entered the service of the United States the first of June 1779 as an Ensign in Captain Todd's Company of the first Battalion of the County of Bedford in the state of Pennsylvania and served under Col. Davis, Major John Wood  Captains Samuel Todd and Lieutenant Todd, I served this term as a volunteer against the Indians on the Frontier of Bedford County Penn., He left the service for this Tour the last of October 1779 after serving faithfully for the term of Five Months when he was ordered home. He then in the month of June in the year 1780 , entered the service under the command of the above, named officers and served in the capacity of an Ensign as aforesaid against the Indians, he left the service the last of October or the first of November 1780, after serving faithfully for the term of Five Months more which added to the other tour of five months the terms of "10" months. In the month of June in the year of 1781 he was drafted to march against the British under the command of his former officers but proceeded as far as Carlisle in Cumberland when he was ordered back to Bedford. He then immediately [unreadable] with the first of June 1781 marched to the mountains against the Indians who frequently came down upon the defenseless settlers and on one occasion killed nine out of one family. He was at all the three several periods of his service commanded by Col. Davis, John Wood, Captains Samuel Todd & Lieutenant John Todd, this applicant is not shure but believes that the Battalion to which he belonged was under the
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command of General Thompson of Carlisle - He came out of the service this last and third time the last of October of the first of November 1781 after serving faithfully for five months more which added to the other two terms of service of five month each makes Fifteen months for which he claims a pension.  He resided at the time he entered the service in the County of Bedford Pensylvania during his first tour he marched from the town of Bedford, This applicant was a volunteer – during his first two tours he marched from the town of Bedford to a gap in the  Alleghany Mountain to the head waters of Jennings Creek from thence to another gap of the mountains to branch of the head waters of the Juniata from thence to the ruins of a fort Littleton, from thence over the mountains to York [unreadable] from thence to a place called the standing Stone from thence back & Bedford, this suit with some time immaterial transitions comprises the County through he marched of the three several tours of his service as it was the object of the company to which he belonged to scout the several gaps and passes of the mountains. There were no Regular or Continental troops in that part of the County at that time in the service. This applicant was well acquainted with one Captain Swearingin of a company of Riflemen in the regular service he has no documentary Evidence and he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify of his services – he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State 
Sworn to and subscribed the 26th day of February 1833 William Elliott
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The following are the Answers for the Questions a prescribed by the war department which Questions are answered in open Court. 
Ans to Quest 1st I was born in Cumberland County Pennsylvania the 12th day of May 1752. 
Answer to Quest 2d – I well remember seeing the record of my age in the old Family Bible but it has long since been destroyed 
Answer to 3d Quest – I was residing in the town of Bedford in the County of Bedford State of Pennsylvania at the time I entered the service & during the Revolutionary War - since that time I have resided in the State of Kentucky untill about twenty years since when I removed to Jennings County and where I now reside
Answer to  4th Quest. I was a Volunteer 
Answer to Quest 5th  There was no Continental or  or Malitia Regiments with the troops where I was as now remember of neither do I remember the names of any Regular officers who were with the troop the several circumstances of my service are stated within   
Answer to the 6th Quest I did receive an Ensigns Commission which I herewith transmit the certificate of my oath of allegiance to the War Department (See Commission and certificate)  
Answer to 7th Quest [unreadable] of Col. John Vauter, Major Sanford Colonel Alanson Andrus, Genls Peaboddy and Genls Finnical are all who ever knew me,
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We John Vauter a clergyman residing in the County of Jennings and State of Indiana and Alanson Andrus residing in the same County and State do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Elliott who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 81 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. 
John Vauter
Alanson Andrus
Sworn to and subscribed day and year aforesaid
And the said Court hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the said Court further certify that it appears to them that John Vauter who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Jennings and State of Indiana, and that Alanson Andrews who has also signed the same is a resident in the same County and State and is a credible person and that their statement to are entitled to credit
E. F. Pabody Associate Judge
Samuel Finical Associate Judge
The President Judge is absent but the two associates form a quorum for Business
I John Walker Clerk of the Jennings Circuit Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court – in the matter of the application of William Elliott for a pension – 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 26th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty three
John Walker Clerk
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Power of Attorney
Heir of Wm. Elliott Revolutionary 
Admitted case $150 per a.
F F C Triplett
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Know all Men by these Present, that I Robert Elliott heir of William Elliott, who was an Ensign in the war of the Revolution, and a Pensioner of the United States on the rolls of the Indiana agency, at the rate of One hundred  and fifty dollars per annum, and who died in Jennings County of the State of Indiana on or about the 20th day of August, A.D. 1838,  leaving no widow, she having died before him who was a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution, do hereby constitute and appoint GEORGE H. MONSARRAT, my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to prosecute against the government of the United States, before any Department thereof, any and all claims I have to arrears of pay or Pension money, under any Act or Acts, Resolution or Resolutions, of the Congress of the United States, and especially the Acts ,4th July 1836, 7th July 1838, 3rd March 1843, 17th June 1844, 2nd  February 1848, and 29th July 1848--as well as the more ancient Acts of 18th March 1818,15th May 1828, and June 1832.
Said Attorney I moreover authorised in my name to demand at any Department of the said Government, a reconsideration of any decision hitherto or hereafter to be given, touching my interests, and to obtain from any Department or the archives thereof, any and all information or evidence of whatever character relating to or in anywise bearing upon the claim or claims we hereby seek the investigation of.
Said Attorney is moreover  authorised to do any and all things necessary to carry out the foregoing purposes, and to receive the Certificates of Pension or other character of drafts or evidences of the amount due me and to appoint one or more Sub-Attorneys, and to confer upon him or them all the powers therein conferred upon the said G.H. Monsarrat hereby ratifying and confirming all that said Attorney may do by virtue of these presents.
Witness my hand and seal this 27th day of April 1853.

Witnesses A.S. Remy
E.M. Bennett
Robert Elliott

(stamp with initials L.S.)

State of .........................County, sec..................
BE IT KNOWN, that on the       day of    185 , before the subscriber, a     in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared subscribers to the foregoing Power of Attorney, and acknowledging the signing, sealing and delivering the same to be         own voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein set forth.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I do hereunto subscribe my name,

J.P.
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M. Botts 
Rev. War Section 
OWN 
May 13, 1914.
 Mr. Joseph A. Gendotti 
First Nat. Bank Building, 
San Francisco, Cal. 
Sir: 
In response to your undated letter received the 9" instant, you are advised that William Elliott a resident of Jennings County, Indiana, ser. File No. 16,378, is erroneously printed on the list of pensioners of 1835 as having served in the Virginia line. He served in the Pennsylvania line during the Revolution. 
Very respectfully, 
G M Saltzgaber 
Commissioner.
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No good
16378 
INVALID   
File No. 16,378
William Elliott 
Ensign Rev War 
Act: June 7" 32 
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 113 
[Arrangement of 1870.] 
Dec 14 ‘98 J G Johnston Pens Bureau See Ind 10428,
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 
Second Comptroller's Office, 
September 26th 1840 
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,"  The child of William Elliott a Pensioner on the Roll of the Madison Inda Agency, at the rate of one hundred & fifty Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 of March to the 26th August 1839 the day of his death. 
Respectfully yours, 
Albion K. Parris 
Comptroller. 
To the Commissioner of Pensions Present.
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S. S. Harding 
Versailles Ind
March 11th
Free  Versailles Ind Mar 1
Indiana
Continued
To the Honble Secretary of War Washington City District Columbia
3 Pension Applications
Wm Elliott
Jennings Co Indiana 
From 1778 Ensign 
15 mos. $150
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Versailles Ind March 1st 1833 
Dr Sir 
Enclosed I send you the amended declaration of Jacob Dawes (and others) – I am aware that the instructions of the War Department are not entirely complied with in as much as one affidavit is wanting.  Every effort has been made to procure the original discharge from Pensyl but I have recently learned that all of his papers which we in the possession of his mother as stated in the affidavit of Conard Dawes (see affidavit) are lost or destroyed as he had supposed that they would never be of any service to him.  I have thought proper thus to submit his whole case with the had proof in his power to procure & the department, believing that they will consider it and the extreme case and do in the matter what to them seems just.  His pay would not be much and ever were it considerable he could not long enjoy it, but that he is really entitled to it. There is not the least doubt  - In the case of William Elliott an Ensign (whose commission is herewith transmitted) if it is not against all the Rules of the department please transfer it back with the certificate of his claim, if he should Succeed 
With much Respect Sir   
S. S. Harding Atty
J.L. Edwards Esq Washington City
Pls direct your communication to me at Versailles Ripley County Inda   
S. S. Harding Versailles Ind
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Wm. Elliott
Pa. 
S. F. 16378
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I Do hereby CERTIFY, That 
William Elliott of Bedford County 
Hath voluntarily taken and subscribed the OATH of Allegiance and Fidelity, as directed by an ACT of General Assembly of Pennsylvania, passed the Sixth day of June, A. D. 1777. Witness my hand and Seal the Sixth day of October A.D. 1777 
Robert Galbraith No. 43 
PRINTED BY JOHN DUNLAP.
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Penn
S. F. 16378
William Elliott
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In the NAME and by the AUTHORITY of the FREEMEN of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, THE SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL  of the said Commonwealth, 
To William Elliott Gentleman
WE, reposing especial trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Ensign of a company of foot in the first Battalion of Militia, in the County of Bedford You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Ensign by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And We do strictly charge and require all Officers to be obedient to your Orders as
Ensign   And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as you shall from time to Time receive from the Supreme Executive Council of this Commonwealth, or from your superior Officers, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, and in Pursuance of the Acts of Assembly of this State. This Commission to continue in Force until your Term by the laws of this State, shall of Course expire. 
GIVEN under the lesser Seal of the Commonwealth, at Philadelphia, this twenty third Day of May in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and seventy eight 
George Bryan Vice President
ATTEST
T. Matlack Secy