Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8462, for Elijah Price, Connecticut
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SERVICE: Conn. 
New York.

Price, Elijah
Beulah

NUMBER: R 8462
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3,048
Beula Price
Act July 4th 1836

Agent
A Gould
Auburn NY [Agent name stricken]

Hon W.H. Noble
HR
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State of New York}
Oswego County } ss.   
Ruth Price of Richland in said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is seventy seven years of age, that previous to the Revolutionary war and when she was a child she was well acquainted with Elijah Price and Beulah Howard, and that afterwards she was married to Rufus Price, brother to the said Elijah Price- that she well recollects of the said Elijah being in the Army at several different terms of service, and further that during the said war and as she now recollects & believes as early as the winter of 1780 & 81, the said Elijah and Beulah were married to each other as she was then informed and believes, that she visited them several times before the close of the said war and that they the said Elijah and Beulah were living together as man and wife and that at that time after the said Elijah was so married and before the close of the said war she understood from the family that he was for some time absent from his family in the Army as a soldier, but cannot now recollect at what place he was then on duty, but understood it was at the north of Stephentown where his family resided. And further the said Elijah & Beulah continued to live together as man and wife until the year 1822, at which time she understands he died, & so understood it soon after and left the said Beulah a widow, and knows that she was living in 1836. And further saith not. 
[Signed] Ruth Price
Subscribed and sworn this 12th day of July 1837, before me }
[Signed] Hiram Hubbell, Judge of Oswego County Courts 

I certify that I am well acquainted with Ruth Price above named and believe her to be a person of truth and veracity, and notwithstanding her age, that full credit may be given to her statements 
Richland N.Y. July 12, 1837.  [Signed] Hiram Hubbell, Judge
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Oswego County 
Clerks Office ss.I
I Marrius W Mathews Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Hiram Hubbell Esquire before whom the within affidavit purports to have been taken and who has subscribed the within Certificate was on the day of the dates thereof a Judge of the County Courts of said County Commissioned and Sworn and duly authorized to take affidavit and to act as such ["as such" stricken] Judge. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe the signatures to the said Affidavit and Certificate are his Genuine hand writing- 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this 12th day of July AD 1837 
[Signed] M. W. Mathews Clerk 
note the words "as such," erased} 
and the word "believe," interlined}
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State of New York}
Rensselaer County} ss 
Abigail Rose of the Town of Stephentown aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth & sayeth that she is 79 years of age that she was well acquaintd with Elijah Price late Town of Owasco in the County of Cayuga & State of New York Deceased   that she is sister to the said Elijah Price who was about two years and half older than herself    that in the commencement of the revolutionary War that they both resided at their fathers house in Tolland Ct.   that in the spring of 1775 as near as she can recollect, information came that Lexington was on fire & immediately on hearing the news the Militia were calld out    that her Bro. the said Elijah Price was then a Sergean & inlistd as such for three months & marched from her fathers house   cannot recollect how long he was gon at this time   that in 1776 the said Elijah Price inlistd again for 6 months as a sergeant saw him when he marched off     that he was gon the 6 months or more when he returned home again in the month of December  -- that in 1777, he was gon again in said service and to the best of her recollection at this year she was informed & so believed that he was at the taking or surrender of Burgoin    That in 1778 this deponent moved from Tolland aforesaid to Stephentown aforesaid where she now resides    that the year after 1779 her Father moved from Tolland to Stephentown & her Brother the said Elijah Price came to Stephentown with her Father & resided with him in 1780    that the said Elijah Price was married to Beulah Howard at Stephentown aforesaid at the dwelling house of one Jonathan Howard    that this deponent was present & saw them lawfully married by one Elder Rogers a Baptist Clergyman in the Month of January 1781    that she does distinctly recollect that in the same year 1781 the said Elijah Price inlistd or was drafted into the service of said War as a sergeant again under Capt. Ichabod Turner    that she knew he went away in said service but cannot recollect how long he was gon at this time but her best impressions are he was gon 3 [?] months --  in 1782 recollects that he was calld out several times on alarms to fight the Indians near the Mohawk River & recollects he was called out several times after the above to quell the Torys who were taking off cattle & provisions to the Enemy &c.    She knew that he took a Tory (after he was married) & brot him to her Fathers house in Stephentown     the Tory was one Benjamin Greenman who was stiled [?] a cow boy
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on reflection [?] on the services she does distinctly recollect that he was gon 3 months in said War in 1777 & is strongly impressed that he was at the taking of Burgoin that season why she is of that opinion he returned form [sic] his 3 months service in the fall & recollects of hearing him relate his sufferings in fatigue & hunger & that he with some other of his fellows on their return from the North killed a swine & cut out pieces of it & boiled & eat it without salt 
[Signed] Abigail Rose
sworn & subscribed before me this 21st day of June 1837 
[Signed] Nathan Howard Com &c

I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Abigail Rose whose testimony may be relied on for truth & verasity as good & unimpeached [?]by any act of her life  
I have been personally acquainted with her more than 50 years a great portion of which I resided in the same dwelling with her 
[Signed] Nathan Howard Com &c.

State of New York }
Rensselaer County ss} 
I Henry R Bristol Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Nathan Howard Esqr. before whom the above affidavit purports to have been Sworn and by whom the above Certificate purports to have been signed was on the day of the date thereof a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified 
And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing. and his Signature above subscribed are his genuine signature, and proper hand writing 
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Troy this 23d day of June A. D. 1837.
[Signed] Henry R Bristol Clerk.
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3,048 
Beula Price 
Act July 4th 1836  

Agent 
A Gould 
Auburn NY [Agent name stricken]  

Hon W.H. Noble 
HR
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State of New York 
Cayuga County} ss. 
On this 4th day of Eighteen Hundred and thirty seven, personally appeared before me Ebenr. Smith one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, Beulah Price a resident of the Town of Owasco in the County aforesaid, aged Seventy seven years on the second day of September last, 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 made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836, that she is the widow of Elijah Price, who was first sergeant in the company of resident militia of Stephentown in the County of Rensselaer and State aforesaid of which Ichabod Turner was Captain Hosea Moffit Lieutenant and Joel Curtis Ensign in the spring of the year Seventeen Hundred & Eighty one and until the close of the Revolutionary war, that shortly after they commenced House Keeping deponent thinks in the month of May 1781 the said Elijah Price enlisted or was drafted or detached from the company aforesaid and called into service and marched off to quell the Indians and Tories which were said to be committing depredations west of Albany and it was also said he served in the capacity of orderly or first sergeant, the captain in consequence of age and infirmities remained at home and Lieutenant Moffit took the command of those who went into actual service (which was generally the case)   deponent cannot recollect how long the said Elijah was absent at this time but is sure not less than Ten Days [10 noted in margin] deponent further saith that the militia of Stephentown aforesaid were often a portion of them called into service against the Indians and Tories for short Periods and the said Elijah generally went on such excursions   recollects at one time when he returned that he informed her he had been to Schoharrie [sic] on the Mohawk River and that the Indians & Tories had burnt and destroyed the settlement, deponent does not recollect how long he was absent at that time, but it was not less than fifteen days [15 noted in margin] deponent feels confident that during the Spring Summer and Autumn months that the said Elijah was engaged at least one fourth of time in mustering the company for drafts and in marching against the Indians &c. until the close
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of the war   deponent further saith that she has no documentary evidence in relation to the services aforesaid. she she further declares that she was married to the said Elijah Price at the dwelling house of Jonathan Howard in Stephentown aforesaid by Clark Rogers Pastor of a Baptist Church in the Town of Hancock, Massachusetts adjoining said Stephentown on the 18th day of January Seventeen Hundred Eighty one - that her husband the said Elijah Price died at Owasco aforesaid on the thirteenth day of December Eighteen Hundred & Twenty one and that she has remained a widow ever since that Period, as will more fully appear by reference to proof hereto annexed. She further says that she has always understood & believes that said Eliah Price was in service as Sargeant whilst he reside in Connecticut & before she became acquainted with him but of said service she has no other knowledge except what is derived from the affidavit of Abigail Rose herewith accompanying 
She further says she has no record of said Marriage. That the Clergyman who performed the ceremony is either dead or now resides in parts to her unknown, that she has never received a certificate of Said Marriage and has no other evidence thereof except the affidavit herewith accompanying. That her name previous to said marriage was Beulah Howard.
[Signed] Beulah Price
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written before 
[Signed] E. Smith Judge of Cay Co Pleas

I certify that said Beulah Price is unable to attend court by reason of old age & infirmity, & further that she is entitled to to full credit 
[Signed] E. Smith Judge &c
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State of New York}
Cayuga County} ss 
[SEAL]  I Michael S Myers Clerk of Said County do hereby certify that Ebenezer Smith before whom the foregoing declaration was made & by whom the foregoing certificate was made was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County and that full faith & credit are due to his acts in that capacity. That I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Judge & believe his signature to said declaration & certificate to be genuine. Witness my hand and seal of office the 18th day of December 1887 
[Signed] M. S. Myers Clerk
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State of Wisconsin}
KENOSHA COUNTY.} ss.
[SEAL] I Lansing B. Nichols Clerk of the Circuit Court of Kenosha County, in the State aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY That Obed. P. Hale whose name is subscribed to the certificate of acknowledgement or proof of the annexed Affidavit or Instrument and thereon written by himself was at the time of taking such acknowledgement of proof, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected and sworn and authorized to take the same, that his signature thereto is genuine, and that full faith and credit are due and of right should be given to all his official acts as such, and that the same is executed and acknowledged in conformity with the laws of this State. 
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court Eighth day of December A. D. 1856 
[Signed] Lansing B. Nichols, Clerk.
by S.Y. Brande Dep Clk
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State of Wisconsin}
County of Kenosha} ss. 
Be it known that on this 1st day of December A.D. 1856 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Mrs Abagail Bailey, a resident of the Town of Paris in the County of Kenosha & State of Wisconsin, and made oath in due form of law that she is daughter and heir of Elijah & Beula Price (deceased) late of Owasco, Cayuga County New York - That the said Beula Price before her decease made an application for a pension as the widow of the said Elijah Price who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. That the said application was made under the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 and that the said claim was Suspended - That this deponent has lately been informed and believes that said claim should have been allowed and a pension granted thereon, and that she is directly interested therein, as heir of the said Beula Price - That she makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as her said agent or attorney may use in the prosecution of said claim 
[Signed] Abigail Bailey 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me and I hereby certify that Abagail Bailey who executed the foregoing papers, is a reputable resident of Kenosha County, Wisconsin and is I believe directly interested in said claim as therein set forth - [Signed] Obed P. Hale
Justice of the Peace
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Know all men by these presents that I Abagail Bailey of Paris in the County of Kenosha & State of Wisconsin do hereby constitute and appoint George C. Ames Esq of Washington D.C. my true and Lawfull attorney for me and in my name to prosecute the claim of Beula Price deceased late of Owasco Cayuga County N.Y. I being the daughter and heir of the said Beula Price - and I hereby authorize my said agent to examine any or all papers and documents relating to the said claim, on file in the departments at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional proofs, evidence or arguments, and to receive any certificate that may be issued for the said claim, to appoint one or more substitute for the purpose herein expressed, to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said agent or attorney shall lawfully do in the premises-- and I do hereby revoke all other agents or attorneys heretofore appointed by me in relation to said claim- Witness my hand and seal this 1st day of December A.D. 1856 
[Signed] Abigail Bailey [SEAL]
Subscribed and acknowledged the day and year above named before Me - 
[Signed] Obed P. Hale 
Justice of the Peace
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State of Wisconsin} County of Kenosha} ss. 
 Be it known that on this 1st day of December A.D. 1856 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Mrs Abagail Bailey, a resident of the Town of Paris in the County of Kenosha & State of Wisconsin, and made oath in due form of law that she is daughter and heir of Elijah & Beula Price (deceased) late of Owasco, Cayuga County New York - That the said Beula Price before her decease made an application for a pension as the widow of the said Elijah Price who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. That the said application was made under the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 and that the said claim was Suspended - That this deponent has lately been informed and believes that said claim should have been allowed and a pension granted thereon, and that she is directly interested therein, as heir of the said Beula Price - That she makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as her said agent or attorney may use in the prosecution of said claim  
[Signed] Abigail Bailey 
 Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me and I hereby certify that Abagail Bailey who executed the foregoing papers, is a reputable resident of Kenosha County, Wisconsin and is I believe directly interested in said claim as therein set forth - 
[Signed] Obed P. Hale 
Justice of the Peace
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Know all men by these presents that I Abagail Bailey of Paris in the County of Kenosha & State of Wisconsin do hereby constitute and appoint George C. Ames Esq of Washington D.C. my true and Lawfull attorney for me and in my name to prosecute the claim of Beula Price deceased late of Owasco Cayuga County N.Y. I being the daughter and heir of the said Beula Price - and I hereby authorize my said agent to examine any or all papers and documents relating to the said claim, on file in the departments at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional proofs, evidence or arguments, and to receive any certificate that may be issued for the said claim, to appoint one or more substitute for the purpose herein expressed, to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said agent or attorney shall lawfully do in the premises-- and I do hereby revoke all other agents or attorneys heretofore appointed by me in relation to said claim- Witness my hand and seal this 1st day of December A.D. 1856 
[Signed] Abigail Bailey [SEAL]
Subscribed and acknowledged the day and year above named before Me - 
[Signed] Obed P. Hale 
Justice of the Peace
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This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services. 
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department . Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States. 

L.W.B. 
R. 8462
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS, 
WASHINGTON, D. C., 
O. W. & N. DIV. 
Revolutionary
August 1st, 1898.

Sir:-
Replying to your recent communication you are advised that Beulah, widow of Elijah Price, made an application for pension on December 4th, 1837, at which time she was 77 years of age and residing at Owasco, N. Y. In her application she alleges that her husband enlisted at Stephentown, N. Y., in Capt. Turner's Company, N. Y. troops, in May 1781, and served against the Indians and Tories several short tours. Length of service not stated. He died at Owasco, N. Y., December 13th, 1821.
Owing to the fact that there is no appropriation by Congress for carrying on work of this character this Bureau must decline to comply with your request for a copy of the papers in the above mentioned claim.
Very respectfully, 
Commissioner.

Mr. Fred K. Baker,
Menominee, Michigan.
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Left side, upside down:
5.10.8
20
8/110
13-75

Right side:
3048 N. York 3048
Beulah Price - Elijah
Letter to Hon. W.H. Noble 4 Jan '38.
"         "   Hon John DeMott 21 Mar '46

8462 [?]

act 4th July 1836
J
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[STAMP]
U.S.P.B.
OLD WAR & NAVY FILES
APR 23 1900
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REV. (3-469.)
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Wid Rej.
Application No 8462
Certificate No. [blank]
NAME OF SOLDIER:
Elijah Price
Co. [blank] Reg't [blank]
INFORMATION DESIRED.
Papers for personal ex'm'n.

[Stamped} First Deputy, Commissioner.
Apr 28 1900
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Left side:
Aug 1 '48
Fred K. Baker
Menominee, Mich.
May- 14 -1900 -
To above. Claim was reject

CD [illegible] &

Right side:
["Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873" stricken]
8462
Beulah Price
REJECTED
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[STAMP:]
U.S.P.B.
OLD WAR & NAVY FILES
FEB 15 1898
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Fred K. Baker 
Lumber and Shingles 
Menominee, Mich. Feby 9 1898

The Hon. Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C.
Sir,  Will you please have sent to me a copy of the papers on file in your department relating by the Revolutionary War services of  Elijah Price who served in a Connecticut regiment and afterward in a New York Regiment during most of the Revolutionary War Elijah Piece died in 1820 and I believe that after his death his widow made an application for a pension; as to whether this was successful or not I do not know, but regardless of that I should like a copy of the papers on file.
If you will advise me of the expense of making the complete copy I will forward same to you.
Awaiting your reply and thanking you in advance for any trouble you may be caused, I am 
Yours Respectfully 
Fred K Baker

[Stamped:] U.S. PENSION OFFICE, FEB 12 1898
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State of New York}
Comptrollers Office }
Albany 26th Feby 1846 }
I certify as appears from from a Military Register now remaining in this Office for the pay of the year 1781 that Elijah Price served as a Bombardier for twelve month in Capt Bliss Company Col John Lambs Regiment 
[Signed] Philip Phelps
Dep Compt.

Beulah Price made her application under law of 1836 from Cayuga Co. N. York Dec 1837 if the above & the attached both conform to her declaration, it may clear her case for a pension, the widow may be deceased
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Beula Price
wid of Elijah
NY act 4 July 1836

Geo C. Ames
Present
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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent. per annum, viz: 
13 Nov 1799 Elijah Price  Srgt.	L [British pound symbol] 3 6 6
27 Oct 1780  Do.              Do			                           2 4 2

STATE OF NEW YORK}
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany 26th Feby 1846}
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 9 now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz: 
First - under Capt. John W Schemmerhorn in Col. William Van Rensselaer Regt.
Second  "      "  	Ichabod Turner                 "                    Do			         "

[Signed] Philip Phelps
Dep. Compt.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51 
12 - 5 - 41 
Division of Veterans' Administration Archive

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Price, Elijah   GRADE Sergeant   LINE Lamb's Artillery (New York)
WARRANT NUMBER 7650   ACREAGE 100    ISSUED Sept. 24, 1790 to Thomas Lawrence, assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.