Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34953, for Elijah Lankford, Maryland
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Service
Md

Lankford, Elijah

Number
S.34953
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Aud eighteen
John Dome C. Clk Somerset MD

Susp'd for Maryland Role
E. Lankford

Admitted

Hon. T Bayly
H.R.
Quarters

Judge's certificate as to claimants' circumstances wanted
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State of Maryland
Somerset County

On this sixteenth day of April Anno Domini 1818 before me the subscriber an associate judge of the fourth judicial district of the state aforesaid personally appears Elijah Lankford of Somerset County and state aforesaid aged sixty-six years who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged int he land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War"; That he the said Elijah Lankford enlisted in Salisbury in Somerset County state of Maryland in the company commanded by Capt. John Gunby of the second Maryland regiment - that he enlisted in 1776 and continued in the said corps or in the service of United States
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until about the year 1781 or 1782 when he was discharged from service in Morris Town in the state of New Jersey - that he was in the battle of the White Plains at the narrows York Island; at Brunswick, at Trenton, Staten Island, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth Courthouse, Jersey - that he was one selected from his company to storm Stoney Point under Gen Wane and finally that he was at the battle of Little York. That with a number of skirmishes. That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. That he gave up his discharge to the Hon. John Henry while a senator in Congress from Maryland and never had it returned to him and that he has no other evidence than what is hereto annexed.
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This deponent further saith that he was well acquainted with a certain William Hillman who enlisted about the same time in the same company and regiment and continued in the service during nearly the whole war.

Sworn to and declared before me the day & year aforesaid.

James B Robins
Asso. Judge

I James B Robins Associate Judge as aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Elijah Lankford did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the proceeding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of congress.

James B Robins
16 Apr 1818
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State of Maryland Somerset County to wit

I hereby certify to all whom it doth or may concern that the honorable James B Robins before whom the foregoing deposition was made and the within certificate was made and whose signature appears respectively thereto was at the time of taking the said deposition and making the said certificate one of the associate judges of the fourth judicial district of the state of Maryland duly commissioned and sworn and qualified according to law and that full faith and credit ought to be given to all acts done by him as such as well in courts of Justice as thereout.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eigh hundred and eighteen.

John Done - Clerk Somerset County

SEAL

Susp'd for Maryland Role
E. Lankford

Admitted

Hon. T Bayly
H.R.
Quarters

Judge's certificate as to claimants' circumstances wanted
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Elijah Lankford's
Certificate
5264

March 20, '19

Con

Contd

Hon Wm Bayly
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State of Maryland Somerset County To wit

On this second day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the said county Elijah Lankford aged sixty-seven years and two months resident in said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: he enlisted in a company commanded by Capt. John Gunby in the second regiment of the Maryland line as heretofore stated in the original declaration made in April 1818 as well as recollected but does not distinctly recollect and that he has received a pension and now has a certificate in his possession from the Hon'b the Secretary of War dated on the 11th day of January 1819 Number 5264. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of march 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval services of the United States during the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818. And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.

Schedule of Property Real & Personal
1 horse in possession but not paid for
2 old sheep and two lambs, 1 sow and 2 pigs and five small shoats, 6 old flag bottom chairs, 3 cows and 2 calves, 1 plough and 1 hammer and 1 old car
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3 hoes, 2 axes, 1 iron wedge, 1 old saddle and bridle, 1 gun (old), 2 old iron pots, 1 old iron oven, 1 old skillet, 1 old spider, 1/2 doz knives and forks, pair metal spoons, [illegible] forks and some old trumpery and a pension from the state of Maryland or Revolutionary service amounting to forty dollars a year.

Elijah Lankford

The occupation of the declarant is that of a laborer unable to do much in consequence of having his leg broken a few years ago by reason whereof he has become very infirm. The family of the declarant who reside with him consist of his wife Hannah aged near sixty years infirm, and unable to contribute much to her own support, his son William in the 16th year of his age and able to support himself, one daughter Matilda aged 27 years and resides about one third of her time with the declarant and able to support herself and that previous to receiving the small pension from the state of Maryland and the pension which he had received from the United States he was supported in part by the charitable assistance of his neighbors.

Elijah Lankford

Sworn to and declared on the second day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty before the undersigned who is a Judge of the fourth judicial district of the state of Maryland which districts includes the county of Somerset and in his judicial capacity forms a court of record having a common law jurisdiction according to the court of the common law in cases civil to and unlimited amount and in all criminal cases cognizable under the laws of the state of Maryland with power to fine and imprison for contempt.

James B Robins
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State of Maryland
Somerset County to wit

I John Done Clerk of Somerset County Court in the state of Maryland do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is sixty dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.

John Done - Clerk of the Court for the County of Somerset

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I am will acquainted with Elijah Lankford an applicant for a pension under the law of the last session of Congress making provisions for the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war having lived in the same neighborhood with him for many years and know that his circumstances in life are very slender having very little property except a pension from the state of Maryland of forty dollars per annum without which he could not at present support his family having been so unfortunate a few years past as to get one of his legs broken.

Thomas Bayly
January 9th 1819
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INVALID

File No 34953
Elijah Lankford
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March '18

Index Vol D Page 237
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Capt. Bennett
4th Auditor's Office
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Application for a new certificate
by Elijah Lankford

Maryland
Somerset County to wit

On this fourteenth day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty-nine before me the subscriber a justice of the peace for the said county of Somerset personally appeared Elijah Lankford who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain John Gunby in the second Maryland regiment in the service of the united States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Maryland that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the secretary of war; which certificate in the month of September in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-six in the town of Slaisbury in the county of Somerset aforesaid he lost having carried his certificate there for the purpose of executing a power of attorney to draw his pension then payable, he either mislaid it in the magistrates office or lost it out of his pocket he has never been able to find it.

Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid.

Benjamin J Jones
a Justice of the Peace
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Maryland
Somerset County to wit

on this fourteenth day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty-nine before me the subscriber a justice of the peace for Somerset County aforesaid personally appears Joshua Hitch who makes oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that he is well acquainted with the within named Elijah Lankford and knows him to be the same identical Elijah Lankford described in the within affidavit and that he has seen the certificate alleged to have been lost in the possession of the said Elijah Lankford.

Sworn before Benjamin J Jones

I Benjamin J Jones the Justice of the Peace above named do on this fourteenth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine certify that Joshua Hitch the deponent above named is a person of veracity and that all due faith and credit ought to be given to what he has above deposed.
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Maryland - I hereby certify that Benjamin J Jones Gentleman whose name appears signed to the annexed probate is a justice of the peace of the state of Maryland for Somerset County duly commissioned and qualified according to law on testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of Somerset County Court this 17th day of March 1829.

Geo Handy - Clerk S.C.C.