Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39443, Elijah Dickinson, Ga.
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Service Ga.
Dickinson, Elijah
or Dickenson 
Number S. 39443
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Tee letter May 17,1821 to Hon. J.M. Patton.
5.916
Virginia
Elijah Dickenson of Louisa County in the state of Virginia who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel D. Marbury of the Light Dragoons for the term of two years
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 19th of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of Jan. 1819
and deliverd to the  Pensioner
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1818                  28.26
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819      48.00
                                                            $76.26
Discontinued
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.
Marbury is recognized by the State of Georgia as continental - see roll.
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Stricken from roll 21 Feby. 1821, See direction from Mr Edwards within this envelope
To the Secretary for the Department of War United States Washington
Admitted
For 
Elijah Dickenson
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Virginia
At a Superior Court of Law continued to hold for Louisa County on Tuesday the 19th day of May 1818. This day Elijah Dickinson aged sixtyfour years came into Court, and on oath made the following declaration. To wit: That he enlisted as a private soldier in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War in the year 1777 in the months of January or February in the Company commanded by Samuel Scott in the first Regiment of Continental Light Dragoons commanded by Col Leonard Marbury and which regiment was raised on Continental establishment  for the defence of the State of Georgia, that he served from the time of his enlistment till the 19th day of March 1779 at which time he was badly wounded so much so that some time after he procured an honorable discharge from the said Colonel Marbury and returned home in August 1779. That he sold his discharge to a certain John Darricott of the State of Georgia to enable him to recover his land; That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the aid of his country to support him
That he has formerly supported himself & family by teaching School. But by a severe sickness which he experienced during the last winter, he is afraid he shale be obligated to abandon his occupation which he has pursued upwards of twenty years; That he has no other evidence
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Mr. Hicky will strike the name of Elijah
Dickenson from the Revolutionary Pension
List, Virginia Agency - he having relinquished
his claim on acct of his property. He appeared at
the office, and informed me that he owned two negroes and other property to a considerable amount. 

J. L. Edwards
21 Feb. 1821
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within his power to offer : which  is ordered to be recorded.

State of Virginia
I John Poindexter clerk of the Superior Court of Law for Louisa County do hereby certify
foregoing is a true copy from the record
laration made upon oath by Elijah Dickenson in open Court.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my own private seal there being no public Seal provided, this 19th day of May 1818

John Poindexter (seal)

I William Daniel one of the Judges of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Virginia and Judge of the 7th Judicial Circuit
including the County of Louisa do certify that John Poindexter whose name is subscribed to the above attestation is clerk of the Superior
Court of Law of the County of Louisa aforesaid, and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such -

I do also certify that Elijah Dickinson came into open Court and before me made declaration upon oath to the facts above stated and set forth by the Clerk in order that he might obtain the provision lately made by an act of Congress for certain persons who were engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War - and
that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Elijah Dickinson did serve the United States against the common enemy in
the Revolutionary War, as in the above declaration is stated -

In testimony whereof I do hereby certify and send this to the Secretary for the Department of War of the United States under my hand and seal there being no official seal this 19th
day of May 1818
Wm Daniel (seal)
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admitted
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At a Court held for Louisa County at the Courthouse on Monday the 11th April 1831.

District of Virginia, to wit
On this 11th day of April 1831 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for the County of Louisa Elijah Dickinson aged between seventy seven and seventy eight years, resident in the County and State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, that he enlisted as a private soldier in the service of the United States, in the said war in the year 1777 in the Company commanded by Samuel Scott in the first regiment of Continental Light Dragoons commanded by Colonel Leonard Marbury and which regiment was raised on Continental establishment for
the defence of the State of Georgia; that he served from the time of his enlistment till the 19th day of March 1779 at which time he
was badly wounded so much so that sometime after he procured an honorable discharge from the said Col. Marbury and returned home in August 1779, that he has received a pension under the act of Congress
the 18th of March 1818, the number of the certificate is not recollected having been returned as well as he remembers by direction of the pension agent for the State of Virginia after the papers of the act of 1st May
1820 And in pursuance of the act of 1st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift sale or in any other manner
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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 service of the United States in 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.

The following is a true Schedule of all my estate (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) Viz. One hundred and eleven acres of land, one cow and 1 yearling. I was for many years a School master which occupation I followed until the last year, when by infirmity and loss of sight by age, I became unable any longer to follow it. I have one daughter living with me named Elizabeth C. Dickinson aged
about forty years, very infirm and not more than able to support herself, and also a son named Ballard S. aged about forty four
years old, who is a bricklayer by trade and occasionally make my house his home, and capable of supporting himself and that I
have no other family, nor have I any other income than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed.
That since the 18th of March 1818 no changes have been made in my property by sale, or any other disposition thereof, that I have not since the passage of the act of the 1st of May 1820
applied for the continuance of the pension drawn by me under the act of 18th of March 1818, because I was, until unable any longer
to pursue it, enabled to support myself in comfort by my personal services in my occupation of a teacher.

Sworn to and declared on the 11th day of
Elijah Dickinson
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of April 1831, before James Michie, Richmond Terrell, Archibald Anderson
& Nathaniel Thompson Justices of the peace for the County Court of Louisa now sitting, which said Court is a Court of record

State of Virginia
Louisa County to wit,

I John Hunter Clerk of the County Court of the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration, oath and the
Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record 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 Three hundred and fifty dollars.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 16th day of April 1831.

John Hunter Clerk
of the Court for the County of Louisa
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September 23, 1936

Elijah Dickinson-S.3944
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. R. C. Perkins
Corinth Hill
Fork Union, Virginia

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you
request the Revolutionary War record of Elijah Dickinson from Louisa County, Virginia.

The data which [illegible] obtained from pension claim, S. 39443, based upon the service of Elijah Dickinson in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of birth of this soldier are
not given, nor are the names of his parents stated.

Elijah Dickinson (the name also appears Dickenson) enlisted, place not stated, sometime in January or February, 1777, served as a private in Captain Samuel Scott's company and in Colonel Leonard Marbury's
Georgia Regiment; he was wounded March 19, 1779, and returned home in August, 1779. The nature of his wound is not stated.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 19, 1818, at which time he was sixty-four years of age and living in Louisa County, Virginia. He then stated that he had taught school for twenty years.

His son, Ballard S. Dickinson, was forty-four
years old in 1831, and his daughter, Elizabeth C. Dickinson, was forty years old in 1831.

Elijah Dickinson died August 10, 1833, leaving
heirs, whose names are not designated.

The papers in this claim contain no further data
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in regard to the family of the soldier, Elijah Dickinson.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of
pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of the pensioner, Elijah Dickenson, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C.,
and cite the following-

Elijah Dickenson (as he was pensioned)
Certificate # 5916
Issued January 28, 1819
Rate $8.00 per month
Commenced May 19, 1818
Acts of March 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820
Virginia Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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See letter 11 Apl 1832 to [illegible],
See letter to Hon. J.M. Patton
May 7. 1832
New certificate
issued 28 May 1832
and sent to Hon. J.W.
Patten N R
=dead.= See letters to P.H. Jones & P. Agt
14 Nov. 1836
P.H. J. & Pen Agent May 27, 1837

5,916
Virginia
Elijah Dickinson
of Louisa Co, in the State of Virginia
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Scott of the regt
commanded by Colonel Marbury in the Georgia line, for the term of two years,
from February 1777 to March 1779

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to
commence on the 19 day of May 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of January 1819 and delivered to the
Pensioner.

Restored to the Roll on 13 day of
July 1831 and notification sent to
Hon J. M. Patton at Fredericks

Pension commencing on the 9 of July
1831.

Amount due on 4th of
Sept 1831
$15.

Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
May 1, 1820.
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Louisa C.H.
Nov. 10

J.L. Edwards esq.
Pension Office
Washington City

mail
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Louisa C House Va
Nov. 4th 1836

Sir

I am authorized by the Heirs of Elijah
Dickinson decd, a pensioner of the United States, to draw balance due to him on that account, and on presenting it to Anthony Robinson Esq the pension agent in Richmond
in this State, I was informed by him that the time had elapsed for payment of that Office, that the heirs of Mr. Dickinson had no other remedy than an application to you & that you would inform me the course to be pursued. It will be seen by you that he did on the 16th day of Aug 1833, from a paper herein inclosed
& such is the difficulty of getting a power of attorney properly & legally authenticated, is the only reason that the time has lapsed at the Office in Richmond for payment. Attempt after attempt has been made to do it, which always failed, until the power was made to me, which Mr. Robinson says is now correct & that there is now no other difficulty in the way than
to write to you on the subject. The heirs are very poor & will be thankful to you for early attention to the subject. Mr. Dickinson drew his pension up to the 4th of March 1833 & is now entitled to draw
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from that time to the 10th day of August of the same year, the day he died. He received ninity six dollars a year.

I am Respectfully
Yr. Ob. Svt.
Philip H. Jones

J. S. Edwards esq.
Washington City
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L. Edwards Esq.
Pension office
War Depart.

[illegible] a certif.
for Hon. Mr. Patton
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Washington 24th May 1832.

Sir
I inclose you the new affidavit of
Elijah Dickerson for the purpose of procuring his certificate of pension, together with a letter
from John Hunter the Clerk of the Court of [illegible], explanatory of the apparent
conflict between the two affidavits.

Mr Hunter is a gentleman of the finest
reputability and character and Old Mr. Dickinson is a very meritorious and much respected old
soldier. deed from the [illegible] he is I believe
entirely incapable of a misstatement, except by mistake.

Yrs.
J.M. Patton
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Pension Office
July 9 1831

Restore-pen: to com:
July 9, 1831

Hon. J. M. Patton

Secretary at [illegible]
War Department
Washington
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[illegible] 8th July 1831

I had the honor to enclose to your Department some weeks ago a schedule and declaration of Elijah Dickinson a revolutionary
soldier, in support of his application for a renewal of his pension under the law of 1818.
In answer to which I received a
letter from Mr. Edwards of the pension office stating the fact that Mr. Dickinson had admitted in his office in 1821 that he had [illegible] two negroes, and that it was necessary to know what disposition had been made of them before his pension could be renewed. I immediately
forwarded the letter of Mr Edwards to M. Dickinson, and I now enclose the required explanation
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which I trust together with the [illegible]deces mouts heretofour finished will remove all further difficulty and have no doubt from all that I have heard of this old Soldiers character to [illegible] suidci- that the barest of the country cannot be bestowed on any [strikethrough] more more meritorious.
I am very respectfully yr fifty [illegible] less
Mr. M. Patton
N.B. I urgent that the answer of the Dept. may be addressed to
Lucion Minor
Atty at Law
Louisa C. House
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Masseyvills, Louisa Co. Va
May 22nd 1807.

Dear Sir

     I wrote to you in the course of th last fall that I presented to Mr. Robinson the pension agreed in Richmond a power of attorney f
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[stamped] TREE

The Secretary of War 
War Department
Washington

[upside down text]
Pension Office
May 5, 1831
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4th May 1831

Sir.
     I have been requested to forward to the Department the included declaration and schedule in support of W. Dickinson application for a renewal of his pension - in conformity with the acts of Congress of 1808 and 1820.
     The letter which accompanied it is from a gentle-man of the first respectability and of scruples  corse integrity and veracity. I send that also, as a furnishing and additional proof of the prospect of the Department making a relaxation of its general rule, in this particular case. Under the direction which is allowed to the Department by the case, aforesaid. it is at liberty to judge of all the circumstances can-not, with the amount of volunteers-and to have regard to the restoration of the application and I trust it will be forced consistent with your course of Duty of prosperity- to award  to this worthy old soldier the bounty so necessary to walk the path of his declining years.
I am very respectfully,
V. F. Least
J, M. Patton
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Louisa C. House   [illlegible]Hsee
April 28, 1831

John M. Patton, Esq.
Fredericksburg
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Louisa, Co. 27th April '31

Dear Sir,

     Enclosed you have W. Elijah Dickinson's declara-tion in order to the obtaining of his pension a a revolu-tionary soldier. It is send to you, with the request that you will forward it to the proper authority, sending the application in such manner as your feelings of kindness and justice may dic-tate.

     I regret to receive that the country court has fixed the estimate of W. Dickinson's land so high. It was a va-luation somewhat hastily formed, by justices of whom none reside in that neighborhood, or are properly acquainted personally with the land. No sworn testimony as to the value was taken, but only some bystander or bystanders were asked their opinion about it. I am credibly informed (& some little personal observations from having several times seen the tract, further convinces me) that it is almost entirely cleared of wood and worn out--& hardly worth the above two dol-lars per acre, or $222 in all. Perhaps this may avail nothing, sta-ted in opposition to a certificate of record, but certainly the Board of Pensions ought not too nicely to gauge the charity dealt out to a meritorious & ready old soldier, by a conjectural and probably excessive estimate of the value of his property; and that prospects land- of all, the least productive of money when retained in kind, and the most valued auths parted with. If it were sold, and bought $350 each - a most im-probable supposition - that would yield, at 6 per unit, $21 a year. It would not rest for more. Destitute as he is of stock and implements for farming, he could not make it produce above twice that value annually, in the gross.
     I am led to write this detail, by having understood that the War Department had by wager established $300 on the maximum of property which they would allow a revolutionary soldier to possess, and get be a pensioner. If such a wager exists, I trust it will give way to the special circumstances of this case.
Respfy your friend & oft levt
Lucion Minor
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Louisa C House        Five
May 24

John M. Patton, esq.
Member of Congress
Washington
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Louisa [illegible] May 22nd 1832
Dear Sir
In the affidavit of Elijah Dickinson made on the 2nd last and forwarded to you, and which has been returned-he stated that the Regiment in which he served, was commanded by Col. Baker which produced a seeming discrepancy between his original certificate and the said affidavit, in the original certificate he stated the Col to be Leonard Marbury-this is the explanation he makes-"that he enlisted for 3 years to serve in a troop of Light Dragoons under Capt. Samuel Scott, was marched to Georgia attached to a Regiment commanded by Col. Baker, who was at that time commanding a Regiment at Fort Barrington-that they were sent to a treaty hold at Golphintown, and from thence to guard the frontiers of the Creek indians.
That Col. Baker resigned Hol Leonard Marbury succeeded him-that in 1779 he attained an honorable discharge from said Marbury-"
The draftsman of the affidavit, from the account given him by Mr. Dickinson [illegible-adopted?] Baker as the Col. instead of Marbury-I hope however the affidavit enclosed will answer, the affidavit was brought to me in its present shape, and to prevent any delay (as Mr. Dickinson is much in want of his pension) I have forwarded it on to you-I would have preferred that the explanation given to you should have been embodied in his affidavit-but as it was not-I have given it to you, to enable you to make the explanation of the seeming discrepancy
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discrepancy would be urged against him.
Yours very respectfully,
John Hunter
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County of Louisa, State of Virginia SS.
     On this eighteenth day of May 1832, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the peace for the said County of Louisa, personally appeared Elijah Dickinson, who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company Commanded by Captain Samuel Scott in the regiment commanded by Colonel Leonard Marbury in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Virginia, that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate; on or about the twentieth day of September 1821 he either lost or mislaid in the City of Richmond
Elijah Dickinson

Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid Thos Johnson

County of Louisa, State of Virginia set 
     On this eighteenth day of May 1832, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the peace for the said County of Louisa, personally appeared William Gibson, who, on his oath declares that he well knows Elijah Dickinson (who made and subscribed the above affidavit) to be the same person described in the above affidavit

Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid        William Gibson

Thos Johson 
County of Louisa, State of Virginia set
     I Thos Johnson a Justice of the peace for the said County of Louisa, do hereby certify that William Gibson who made and subscribed the affidavit made above, is a person of veracity, Given under my hand this 18th day of May 1832
Thos Johnson
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State of Virginia, Louisa County Sct.
     I John Hunter clerk of the County Court of the County afore-said, do hereby certify that Thomas Johnson before whom the forego-ing affidavits were made, is an acting Justice of the peace in and for the said County of Louisa, duly commissioned and qualified according to Law, and that his signatures to the foregoing certificates are genuine.

     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Public seal of said court to be hereto affixed, this 22nd day of May 1832, in the 56th year of our foundation.
     John Hunter
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At a Court Continued and held for Louisa County, at the Courthouse, on Thursday June the 16th 1831.

District of Virginia to wit:
     On this 16th day of June 1831, personally appeared in open court, being a Court of record for the County of Louisa, Elijah Dickinson resi-dent in the state and County aforesaid, being the same person whose declaration for the purpose of obtaining a renewal of his pension from the United States as a revolutionary soldier, was made in the Court, on the 11th day of April 1831, and being duly sworn according to law; doth in addition and explanation of his said declaration of the 11th day of April 1831, on his oath declare, that one of the negroes which he owned at the time he gave a statement of his property in Washington died before he returned home, and the other a few months after-wards, which will explain the difference between the schedule on the said 11th day of April 1831, and the statement of his property rendered to the Officer of the pension office in Washington in person in the year 1821.
     The said Elijah Dickinson does not now re-collect any material change of property in other respects; there clearly has been no disposition of any of his property by sale or other-wise to entitle himself under the pension laws to renewal of his pen-sion.
     Elijah Dickinson

Sworn to and declared on the 16th day of June 1831. before James Michie, James Poindexter, Nathaniel Mills and Oliver Cross Justices of the peace for the County Court of Louisa, now sitting, which said Court is a Court of record.

                                                                  This
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This Court doth certify that the said Elijah Dickinson hath always during a long life spent among us, sustained a fair and unimpeachable character, and we consider any statement made by him worthy of belief.

     I John Hunter clerk of the Court of the County of Louisa, in the state of Virginia, do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration of Elijah Dickinson, and the certificate of the said Court, are truly copied from the record of the said Court.
     In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 29th day of June 1831.
          John Hunter clerk of the
          Court for the County of Louisa
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CORINTH HILL
FORK UNION, VIRGINIA

Aug 28- 1936-

Veterans Administration,
Washington, DC.

Gentlemen:-
     I would greatly appreciate all the information you can give me on Elijah Dickinson from Louisa. Co. Va. I'd like his war record who he married and when and who his children were. I need this information so as to be able to give the D.A.R.'s-

     Thanking you for an early reply [illegible],
yours truly-
Mrs. R. C. Perkins.
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39 443 
19[illegible] Sept. 23- Louisa Co
Mrs. R. C. Perkins

Ref INVALID.
File No. 89,443
Elijah Dickenson
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18th
Index:--Vol. 3, Page 129

[Arrangement of 1870.]