Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1273, Elijah Wright, Continental Md. Penn.
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Service
Continental 
Md
Penn.

Wright, Elijah

Number S1273

Carded

Contents
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See letter 26 Dec 31 to Hon B. Hardin

See letter 22 July 34 to Pensioner & Pen Agt. 

Letter to P Agt, Gallatin Sept 21 1834

19442
Kentucky 
Elijah Wright
of Galattin Co the State of Kent.
who was a pr in the co. commanded
by Captain Graiffee of the regt commanded
by Col Howe in the Penn’a
line for 8 mos & 15 days
Md.  
Continental

Inscribed on the Roll of Kent.
at the rate of 28 Dollars 33 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of Sept
1833 and G F Pope Shepherdsville

Arrears to the 4th of Sept  70.72
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 14.16
$84.88

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Dan’l Boyd Clerk
Book C Vol. 7 Page 33
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19.442
Kentucky
Elijah Wright dec’id
of Bullitt Co, in the State of Kentucky
who was an Artillery Artificer in the —-- commanded
by Captain - of the Regt commanded
by Col Flower's in the Penna 
line for 2 years
Md
Continental

Inscribed on the Roll of Louisville
at the rate of 240 Dollars 00 Cents per
annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
& End’g Aug 19 December 1843

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of
February 1837 and sent to
Hon C. B. Smith

Arrears to the 4th of Present
Seal allowance ending
Inc’d from $28.33

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by H M Weightman Clerk

Book E. 2. Vol. 7 Page 52

Letter Wm Preston
Jany 19, 1854
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State of Kentucky County of Bullit
On this 17th day of December 1850 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared James Wright
and made oath in due form of law that he is the son
of the identical Elijah Wright dec’d, late of said County,
who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States
at the rate of $28. 33/100 per annum. That his said
father died on the 19th day of December 1843, that there
is no widow surviving, and that the said James Wright is the
only surviving child of the said Elijah Wright
deceased, & that he makes this affidavit for the purpose
of procuring any amount of pension to which is agent
shall establish lawful claim.
James Wright

Subscribed & Sworn to before me this 17th
day of December 1850. & I further certify that the
said James Wright is a credible person & his statement
entitled to full faith & credit.
Austin Hall
Justice of the Peace

State of Kentucky Bullitt County Sct 
I Robert F Samuel Clerk of the County Court in and
for the County aforesaid do certify that Austin Hall Esq
before whom the foregoing and annexed affidavit
were made was at the time of signing the same an
acting Justice of the Peace for said County of Bullitt
duly commissioned and sworn & full faith is due
to all his official acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court
this 18th day of December 1850
R. J. Samuel Clerk
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State of Kentucky
Bullitt County

On this fifteenth day of July 1833 personally appeared in open court before the justice of the Bullitt County court now sitting Elijah Wright, a resident of Bullitt County, state of Kentucky, aged seventy-seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered into the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.  

I was living in Warrington Township, York County, State of Pennsylvania and on the ____ day of July 1776 I enlisted for five months in what was called the Pennsylvania Flying Corps in the company commanded by Captain Jared Graiffe (a Dutchman) First Lieutenent Christopher Coffman, second Lieutenant Henry Lewis and ensign Thomas Stewart. 

The company was marched from the county of York, Pennsylvania, through Lancaster to Philadelphia.  From Philadelphia we went up the Delaware River by water to Trenton and thence across New Jersey through Princeton by land and thence to the city of New York and were encamped one or two miles above the city until the 26th day of August 1776. 

On that day we were ordered over to Long Island where we went the same day and on the next morning a battle took place between the British and American forces, and the Revolutionaries were defeated and the declarant, with about five hundred others, were taken prisoners by the Hessians and put on board a prison ship and
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there confined until about the first of November of said year when we were put in a building in the city of New York, called the New Dutch Church, where we remained, that is such as lived, until the 26th day of January 1777.  About four hundred of the five hundred prisoners died in confinement on aboard the prison ships of the church from exposure, bad treatment, cold and hunger.  Those who survived were on said day paroled by the British and suffered to return home.  

In the month of March 1778 he again enlisted in the army of the United States for three years in Captain Thomas Wiley's company in Col. Flowers  (Benj. Flower) or Fleurs regiment of Artillery Artificers stationed at Carlisle, Cumberland County, State of Pennsylvania where he worked the greater part of said three years (he being a blacksmith by trade.)  After serving out the period of his enlistment for three years he was discharged.  

After his discharge aforesaid he moved to Washington County, Maryland, August 1781. He  joined a company of Maryland militia for four months as a substitute for a class who were found to [illegible] one man. And during said service as a substitute he was attached to the company commanded by one Horatio Cliggett. After the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at York Town in Virginia in October 1781 but before the four months had expired he was discharged from the service and received a written discharge.  He has now no documentary evidence in his possession by which he can
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prove his services and he knows of no person now
living by whom he can prove the same and
there is no Clergyman residing in his neighbourhood
 and he cannot procure the Certificate of one proving his character for veracity and good behaviour without
great inconvenience & Expence.
I hereby relinquish my claim whatever to
a Pension or annuity except the present
and declare that my name is not on the
Pension Role of any Agency of any State
To the Interrogatories directed by the War
Department to be propounded by the Court
to the applicant he makes the following
Answers. To the 1st Interrogatory he answers
that he was born in Warrington Township
York County Pennsylvania on the 7th day
of February 1775.
To the 2nd Interrogatory he answers that his
age was recorded in his Fathers family
Bible. Which Bible he believes is in the
possession of his youngest brother James
Wright in York County Pennsylvania.
To the 3rd Interrogatory he answers. That
he lived in Warrington Township York
County Pennsylvania when he entered the
Service of the United States. After the war
he lived about ten years in Washington
County State of Maryland, he then moved to
Kentucky and now lives in Bullitt County Kentucky.
To the 4th Interrogatory he answers that for the
first and second service he enlisted and
for the third he Entered & served of a
substitute for a class of Maryland Militia
who were bound to furnish one man out of
said class.
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To the 5th Interrogatory He answers that he
cannot now recollect the names particularly
of the Regular Officers who were with the
Troops where he served. He day not now
recollect that there was any other Company
except his own who marched from York
County Pennsylvania to Philadelphia
& thence to New York as before stated. The[re]
was so short a time with the army about
New York & before the Battle of Long Island
that he does not recollect any of the
Regiments or Regular Officers except Genl
Stirling (called Lord Stirling) & General
Sullivan. He entered the service of the
United States early in the month of July
1776 & was paroled by the British about the
26th day of Jany 1777 but he does not
now recollect the day, precisely, when he
entered the service or when parolled,
but believes it to have been on the 26th Jany
1777. He does not recollect the day of March
1778 when he entered the service in Col.
Flowers or Fleurs Regiment of Artillery
Artificers or the day on which he was
discharged, but he is positive that he
served full three years. There were three
Companies of said Regiment stationed at
Carlisle, the Officers of which were Capt
Nathaniel Irish Capt Thomas Wiley &
Capt John Jordan. He does not recolect
the day of the month he entered
the service as a substitute but he thinks
it was early in August 1781. From Washington
 County Maryland the company marched
through Frederick Town to Annapolis & was
there stationed & remained until a short
time after Cornwallis surrendered but he
knows that it was after the 19th October 1781.
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that he was discharged.
To the 6th Interrogatory he answers that he had
no discharge for his first service, having been
taken a prisoner. For his second
service he received he discharge in writing as
well as he now recollects, if he did he
does not now know what has become of it.
For his third service he did receive a
written discharge but he does not now
recollect who signed it, in as much as he sent it
 to the war department attached to his application for a Pension made in the year 1832,  together with a muster
Roll of his Company, which papers still
remain there or have been lost, his agent
George F. Pope has informed him that he
has never received them from the war
department
To the 7th Interrogatory he answers that he is known
to Austin Hall, Jesse Willson Esquire &
Jacob Peacock Esqr & Genl Henry Crist
of his neighbourhood who can testify as to
his character for veracity & good behaviour
and the belief in the neighbourhood of
his having been a soldier of the Revolution.
Subscribed & sworn to on the day &
year aforesaid
Elijah Wright

We Austin Hall, Henry Crist, Jacob Peacock
and Jesse Willson residing in Bullitt County in the State of
Kentucky do hereby certify that we are
well acquainted with Elijah Wright who
has subscribed & Sworn to the above declaration;
 That we believe him to be seventy seven years of age; that he is reputed & believed
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in the neighbourhood where he resides to
have been a soldier of the Revolution &
that we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed to the day & year
aforesaid
Austin Hall
H Crist
J Peacock
Jesse Willson

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after
the investigation of the matter, and after putting the
Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department
that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier, and served as he states. And the
Court further certifies, that it appears to them,
that Austin Hall, Henry Crist, Jacob Peacock & 
Jesse Willson who have signed the preceding
Certificate are residents in the County of Bullitt and
State of Kentucky and are credible persons &
that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Noah C Summers Clerk of the County
Court of Bullitt County in the State of Kentucky
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the
Original proceedings of the said Court in the
matter of the application of Elijah Wright for
a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of Office this 15 day of July 1833.
N’o C. Summers
Clk Court
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In Council Annapolis 30th Octr 178[illegbile]
Elijah Wright a Substitute from Washington
County to serve until the 10th of December is
being deemed unfit for the Service, is hereby
discharged therefrom
By order
Wm Hyde

State of Kentucky Bullitt County Court Office
July 23 1833
I Noah C Summers Clerk of said Court do
hereby certify that George F Pope Esq, agent for the
applicant Wright this day produced to me the 2
foregoing papers - a Discharge, & Roll - and that the
same accompanied a former application return’d
from the war department for pension and are
the same I formerly enclosed for s’d Wright to said
Department and at the Instance of said
Pope I again have attached them & forwarded
them to s’d department. In Testimony to which I
scribe my name official & Seal of Office there attach.
N. C. Hammond
(In Council Annapolis 30th Octr 170
Elijah Wright a Substitute from Washington
County to serve until the 10th of December in
being deemed unfit for the Service, is hereby
discharged therefrom
order
Wm Hyde
State of Kentucky Bullett County Court Office
July 23 1833
I Noah C Summers Clerk of said Court do
hereby certify that George F Pesse Esq agent for the
applicant Wright this day produced to me the 2
foregoing papers - a Discharge,
& Roll - and that the
same accompanied a former application relievd
from the war department for pension and are
the same I formerly enclosed for a Wright to said
Department and at the Instance of said
Cope I again have attached them & forwarded
them to department. In Testimony to which I
in my name official & Seal of Office the
N. C. Summers 
Clk Court
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3 -- 525
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____19 __
OWN S. 1273

In reply to your request of ____, received ____
for a statement of the military history of Elijah Wright
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension
on file in this Bureau.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
July 1776
Mar 1778
Aug 1781 to Oct 30 1781

LENGTH OF SERVICE. 
5 mos
3 yrs

RANK.
Pvt

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Jared Graiffe  
Captured at battle of Long Island and confined on prison ship & in N.Y. City until paroled January 26, 1777.

Thomas Wiley
Horatio Cliggett - Horatio Claget see Md. Archives

COLONEL.
[name not listed] in the Flying Camp of Pa.

Benj. Flowers Art. Artificers in militia of Md.

STATE.
Pa
Md

Battles engaged in, [blank]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Warrington Twp, York Co, Pa  
Date of application for pension, July 15, 1833 His claim was al
Residence at date of application, Bullitt Co Ky.
Age at date of application, b. Warrington Twp, York Co, Pa  
 Feb 7. 1756
Remarks: (2) Soldier’s youngest brother James lived in York Co, Pa in 1833 (1) Sol. died Dec. 19, 1843, he left no widow and the only surviving child was James. There is no further data as to his family on file.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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June 16/91, Mil. Hist to
J. C. Wright 351- 5th St
Louisville Ky. 

Dec 8/03. Report of Cap. Clagit’s 
Co to War Dept Sec. see letter c

1913 Aug 1. Hist to O. Neal
& O'Neal Kenyon Bldg.
Louisville Ky. see letter
in claim of Henry
Briscoe, Md. S 30888 aw


INVALID.
Rev War
File No. 1273
Elijah Wright.
Pri. Pa. Line.
& Md. Continental
Act June 7, 1832.
Index: - Vol. A, Page 417
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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April 20. 1853

Rel: to claim of
Elisha Wright
dec’d to arrears

S A Peugh
Present

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
PENSION OFFICE OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Commissioner
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REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE.
O. W. & N. Div.
MEMORANDA.

Please supply as much as possible of the
data called for below.
Full name of soldier:

Elijah Wright Not I. in R.

Residence before service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Possibly York Co Pa

Place of residence after service;
Town, county, and State, if possible)
Md, Washington, Bullitt Co, Ky

Date of death (as near as possible): 
about 1840

Christian name of widow
Clemency

Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
his son Jas Wright

Remarks:
Need Some pension
two of his Bros were in
Revolution Dan Ruben

Your name and address:
J C Wright
331 - 5th St 
Louisville, Ky
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I have no ancestral
letter written at Lewisburg 
Pa in 1850 by my father’s 
relative.
If you  think of any
[illegible]I will mail you. 

His two bros were in
 Capt Crafts Co (in Elijah’s)
 and were from Dover Pa.

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PENSION OFFICE U S
MAY 11 1894
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(3 - 464.)
O. W. and N. DIVISION – W
Department of the Interior,
F. S.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D.C. Apr. 27, 1894.

Respectfully returned to
Mr. James C. Wright,
310 W. Market St.,
Louisville, Ky.

For purposes of identification
please fill up the enclosed blank
as fully as possible and returnt to
this Bureau with your letter
of March 26th.

11889 R.

D. 1273

Wm Lockren
Commissioner.
( 6 -- 059)
12392 b -- 50
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P
MAY 11 1894
OWN

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PENSION OFFICE U S
MAY 11 1894
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[left margin]
Nolan Ky Agent

Stallings & Moran,
Tailors
2 cent stamp attached

Louisville, Ky. Mar 26th 94
Col C S Ainsworth
Washington D. C.

Esteemed Sir
My grandfather Elijah Wright was a revolutionary
Soldier and being without knowledge of his record
 because of loss of family papers on our Civil War, 
I appeal to you for what information you may
 perchance give me relative to him &
promise my grateful thanks. If he was not from Ky 
when enlisted he must have been from Md or Pa. 
His home at  time of his death was Bullitt Co Ky. and he secured some pension by James Colesmeniel an official under Jas Guthrie.
Respectfully
Jas C Wright
3rd [illegible] Mark x

Pardon error
above
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R
MAR 28 1894
385653

Louisville Ky,
Mch. 26, 1894.

James Wright
Pa., Md. or Ky Vols.
(Revolutionary War)

James C Wright
requests information
relative to service of
the above named man - 
his grandfather.

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PENSION OFFICE U S
APR 3 1894

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OLD WAR & NAVY U S P B
FILES
APR 3 1894

Record and Pension Office,
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, March 28 1894.

Respectfully returned to
Mr. James C. Wright,
No. 310 W. Market Street,
Louisville, Kentucky,

with the information that the records
of the Revolutionary War are
filed in the Pension Office and in
the Department of State.

Communications of this nature
should, therefore, he addressed to
to the Commissioner of Pensions and
to the Secretary of State Washington, D. C.

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PENSION OFFICE U S
MAY 11 1894

BY AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY
OF WAR:
F C Ainsworth
Colonel, U.S. Army, Chief of Office
Per 4th
(300s)
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Elijah Wright
Ad 19599

[illegible] [2 lines on bottom of page too dark to read]
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State of Kentucky Bullitt County ss
On this seventeenth day of December 1850 before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the aforesaid, personally appeared Edward Helsey and made oath in due form of Law that he was well a[c]quainted with
Elijah Wright late of said County who was a
Revolutionary pensioner of the United [States]. The said
Elijah Wright died on the 19th day of December
1843. That he leaves no widow surviving him
and James Wright is the only surviving child of the
said Elijah Wright dece’st.
Edward Helsey
Subscribed and sworn to before me Seventeenth
day of December 1820 and I do further certify
that Edward Helsey is a man of truth and veracity
and Intitled to full faith and credit.
Austin Hall
Justice of the peace for Bullit Ky

State of Kentucky Bullitt County ss
I Robert F Samuel Clerk of the County Court
in and for the County aforesaid do certify that
Austin Hall Esq before whom the annexed affidavit and acknowledgements, were made, and
who has thereunto subscribed his name was at
the time of so doing an acting Justice of the Peace
in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn
and that full faith and credit is due to all his official
acts as such. In Testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said Bullitt County Court this
18 day of December 1850.
R. F Samuel Clerk
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Mr Cole

S A Peugh
Present
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State of Kentucky Bullitt County ss
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been
exhibited to the County Court of Bullitt County & State of
Kentucky as aforesaid that Elijah Wright was a
Pensioner of the United States of America, at the rate
$28. 33 cents per annum, that he died on December 19th in
the year of 1843 that there is no widow surviving &
that James Wright is now living, vis the only child
surviving him & that this certificate is made to obtain any
arrears or increase of Pension that may be due to the
aforesaid Elijah Wright.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal of office, this eighteenth day of December
Eighteen hundred & fifty.
Robert F Samuels Clerk
of the County Court of
Bullitt County Kentucky
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Washington 7 Feby 1857
Mr Cole
Will oblige me by
handing to the bearer the
Certificate in the case
of Elijah Wright if issued to-day
Very Respf’y
C B Smith
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Hon. L. P. Waldo
Comm Pensions
[illegible]
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Washington City D C 
18 April 1853
Hon L P Waldo
Sir
Some time last year
I addressed your office asking for the arrears
of Pension due Elisha Wright deceased of the
Kentucky Roll.
There is a balance due from the time
he was stricken from the Roll, at the increase
rate of some $200, which the Agent at
Louisville at the time the enclosed was
granted did not feel justifiable in paying.
Your early attention to this long
defered matter is earnestly requested.
I am very Respectfully
Yours
S. A. Pugh
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Elijah Wright dec’d
Artillery Artificer
in Col Flowers Regt.
2 yrs
Inc’d to $240 per annum
ded’g former payments
at $28.33 per annum,,
Com’g 4 March 1831 &
ending 19 December 1843.
when he died. Payable
to James Wright only
surviving child

Hon Caleb B. Smith,
Present
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Treasury Department
First Auditor's office
 December 29th 1851

Dear Sir

[illegible] [ink is faint and handwriting is mostly indecipherable.unable to count the words]

to inform you that

[illegible] [applies to almost all of body of letter]

 respectfully 
Your ob’t serv’t

Jno A Gallaher 
Auditor 

Hon Caleb B Smith 
Washington City
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Washington 29 Nov 1850
J. L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
Sir
I beg leave to ask
your attention to the application
of Elijah Wright dec’d Ky. for an increase
of Pension for his services as Artillery
Artificer in the war of the revolution
for a period of more than two
years, in Col. Flower's regiment, in
conformity with the rule establish
ed by recent decisions.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
Caleb B Smith
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13526
Elijah Wright
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Elijah Wright which require further proof or explanation.
1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? –  
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes 
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Citizens

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? No
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? —--
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? —
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? –
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? —

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how
long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being
duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he
cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection
he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ___ year – months, and --- days, I served as a -- For ___months and ____ days, I served as a ___; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served,
and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the
pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite
, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions
merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the
officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objection
able. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration
of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the
applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either
in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed
in any civil pursuit.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must
prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of
the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the
regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths
must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate
must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not
written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate
must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass
under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly
attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the
certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Ky ret
Shepherdsville ky
July 24
Free
The Hon’ble
Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
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Shepherdsville Ky July 23d 1833
Dear Sir
I rec’d on the 21st Instant a packet
from your Office enclosing Elijah Wright’s
application for a pension and the objections
thereto. I had previously drawn
up another Declaration for him and
on the 15th Instant in Court it was
Examined & corrected by him. Believing
that the original could not be so
amended (as it was on different pieces
of paper), as to meet the Requirements
of the Department I determined
to keep it & send on the last one.
I therefore caused W Sumners the
Clerk to detach the Muster Roll &
discharge from the original & attach
them to the new one & certify the same
under his seal of Office, I herewith
 send the declaration & objections
to the first application.
You will discover that the
objections to his case have been
removed as far as it is possible for
them to be at this late period, as he
says that he now cannot prove service
by a living witness or Witnesses.
An early attention to this case
be duly appreciated
I am very Respectfully
yr Ob’t Ser’t
Geo. F. Pope