Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6404, Elijah Walker, N.C. Also Served In 1794-1795
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(3 - 1776) SERVICE N.C Walker, Elijah Rebecca  NUMBER W. 6404 B.L.M. 35680-160-55-Also served in 1794-1795- CONTENTS
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5.992 Georgia Rebecca Walker widow of Elijah Walker Va who served in the Revolutionary war , as a private Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Sept 1852 and sent to S Lumpkin Present Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 216 of Vol. 3
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Vol W=1=19 201.399 Act 3 Mar Aug 16/33 Rebecca Walker Wid-of Elijah Walker Priv Capt: No. Car. Mil Ent: Dis: Revolutionary War. Revolutionary Pensioner under act 7 July 1838 See former application for bounty land 485992 Ad. 16000, July 23d 1856 ... N.M. Varnum Dahlonega Sumpkin Co Ga
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State of Georgia Gilmer County ⎬ SS On this 24 day of May 1852 before me a Justice of the Peace within and for said County and the State aforesaid personally appeared Sally King aged sixty nine (69) years past, a resident of the County and State aforesaid, known to me as entitled to full credit, who after being duly sworn according to law doth upon her oath make the following statements That her maiden name was Sally Cherry. That in the spring of seventeen hundred and ninety she removed with her parents from the State of Pennsylvania to Franklin County Georgia, that during this year 1790 she became acquainted with Elijah Walker and his wife Rebecca Walker as they lived near her fathers. That they were then living peacably together as husband and wife, and had a son dependent. She further states that she often heard said Elijah Walker speak of having been engaged for a considerable length of time, as a Revolutionary soldier in the State of North Carolina. She further states that said Elijah and Rebecca Walker were much respected, were members of the Baptist Church and deponant always understood that they were respectable members of said Church for several years before they moved from North Carolina to Georgia. And she further
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States that said Walker family lived in Franklin County but a few years and moved to what has since been called Habersham County State of Georgia where said Elijah Walker died about the year 1819. And she states that he always bore the character and reputation of of a faithful soldier of the Revolution in the State of North Carolina, and that his honorable marriage with said Rebecca was never questioned or doubted by any one as this deponent verily believes, that Rebecca Walker now living in Gilmer County State of Georgia, who has applied for a pension is the widow of the identical Elijah Walker above described, and that she this deponent is entirely disinterested in any money that said widow may recover for the services of her deceased husband Attest C.A. Ellington J. P.  Sally King her mark Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written And I hereby certify that the deponant Sally King is apparently as old as she represents herself to be, and I believe the statements made by her in the foregoing affidavit are true C.A. Ellington J.P.
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State of Georgia Gilmer County  } On this the 19th day of March eighteen hundred and fifty two before me Henry Pellett a Justice of the Inferior Court of said County personally appeared Rebecca Walker and after being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Elijah Walker deceased who was a private soldier in the State of North Carolina in the Revolutionary War, that her husband served several tours in said war, under the McDowells at Gilbert Town, that he was in the service at the time the Battle was fought at Kings Mountain, that about that time while in the army he was taken with the small Pox and lay very sick for several weeks, that after recovering he did not go into the army any more, this she well recollects from the age & size of their oldest and only child West Walker who was about two years old at the time his father lay sick as above stated. She further states, that her maiden name was Rebecca Carrell, that about two years before the service of her husband as described above, at the time he the said Elijah Walker and this deponent were engaged to be married, he was drafted to go to Wilmington, and that on account of said engagement, he the said Walker hired a man by the name of James Thompson to go in his place, for which he payed the said Thompson one hundred dollars the receipt for which she now sends with this supplimental declaration, and she further states
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that about the year 1788 she and her husband moved from North Carolina to Georgia Habbersham County where he the said Elijah Walker died in 1818 or 1819, and that she has never since married, she further states, that she knows of no person living by whom she can prove her marriage nor does she know of any record of said event, nor does she know of any person by whom she can prove the services of her husband in said war Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written  before me, A. Rudolph Henry Fettit J.J.C. 
Rebecca Walker her mark
State of Georgia Gilmer County } We the undersigned Justices of the Inferior Court of said County in open Court do hereby certify that we have satisfactory evidence before us that Rebecca Walker is the widow of Elijah Walker who was reputed and believed to have been a Revolutionary soldier in the State of North Carolina, and that he died in Habbersham County State of Georgia in 1818 1819 and that she has remained his widow ever since that period Given under our hands and private seals this nineteenth day of March 1852 Samuel Jones J.J.C. Peter Patterson JJC JG Gudger JJC
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I Samuel Jones who have officially signed the foregoing certificate do further certify that I became personally acquainted with Elijah Walker deceased, and Rebecca Walker (the identical person who now claims a pension for the Revolutionary services of the said Elijah ) in the year 1814, that they were then living peacibly together as husband and wife that they were much respected in the community where they lived, and no one doubted that they had been lawfully married. I further certify that I also became acquainted with their only child West Walker, and do think that at the above time (1814) he was about thirty five years of age, and I always understood and believed that the said Elijah Walker was a faithful soldier of the United States in the Revolutionary War in the State of North Carolina Given under my hand and private seal this 19th March 1852 Samuel Jones J. JC
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State of Georgia Gilmer County I Ransome B. Perry Clerk of the Superior Court for the County aforesaid certify that Henry Pettit whose name appears to the foregoing supplemental declaration is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Inferior Court in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature is genuine. I further certify that Samuel James, Peter Patterson, and J G Gudger are acting Justices of the Inferior Court in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, that their Signatures are genuine as they appear to the within and foregoing certificate that this Court is a Court of Record Given under my hand and official Seal at Elligay this the 19th day of March 1852 R. B. Perry, Clk.
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State of Georgia Gilmer County } On this the 15th day of August 1851 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Inferior Court in said County Rebecca Walker a resident of said County and State aged 93 years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the law of Congress passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Elijah Walker who was a private in the militia of North Carolina that her husband lived in Burke County North Carolina on silver Creek about 3 miles from Burke Court House when he was draughted to go to Wilmington in said State that he employed a man by the name of James Thompson to go in his place as he Elija Walker was engaged at the time to be married to deponent that her husband paid said Thompson one hundred dollars in continental money for going in his place that about two years after her & her husband was married here husband was draughted to go into the army that was forted at Gilbert Town under she thinks a Capt. Yancy Maj McDowel & Genl Joseph McDowell that her husband served two or more towns in said war, but does not reccollect the daught of time, but would refer the Commissioner of Pensions to the Records in North Carolina. She further declares that she was married to the said Elijah Walker on the day of [blank] in the year
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Seventeen hundred & seventy eight by Ephraim McLane Esqr. that her husband the said Elijah Walker died in 1818 or 1819 in Habbersham County State of Georgia and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year before written Test W. M. Varnum Henry Pettit JJC Rebecca Walker her mark 
I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Mrs Rebecca Walker for thirteen years past that she has been reputed and believed by her oldest aquaintances to be the widow of a Revolutionary soldier that she appears to be of the age she represents herself to be and that from old age & infirmity she is unable to appear in open Court to make her declaration. Given under my hand & private seal this 16th August 1851 Henry Pettit
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Rebecca Walker
Lot. 399
N.M. Varnum
Dahlonger Ga
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Service                                                               Number
NC                  Walker, Elijah                               W     6404
                                   Rebecca                    B.L.W. 35680-160-55

Also served in 1794-1795
Contents
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widow at the rate of thirty dollars her annum, that she is now a widow, and that we are disinterested witnesses. 

Jacob Plemmon ('X'/his mark)
Isaac Newton Walker 

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn and subscribed before me on the day and year above written. And I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the identical presents she represents herself to be and that I am not interested in this claim.

William Warwick  

State of Georgia
Sumter County

I, James Rutherford Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that William Warwick whose genuine signature appears as above written is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Inferior Court of said County duly commissioned and qualified. 

Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this 2nd day of August 1855. 

James Rutherford
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 6404
Rebecca Walker
Widow 
Elijah Walker 
Pvt. Rev. War
Act: Feby, 2nd 48
Index:-Vol. M, Page 306 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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35.680

Nov And
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No. 7817

Rebecca Walker 
wid. of Elijah
GA. 
Let. 15 July 1862
T. Lumpkin 
same 27 July 1832
M. W. Varnum, Augt. 20/52

Act 4th July 1836
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9.280
Georgia 
Rebecca Walker widow of Elijah who was a Private in the Revolution. Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars - Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. Certificate of Pension issued 21 day of Sept. '52 and sent to T. Lumpkin (prest.). 

[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]

Recorded in Book A., Vol.2, Page: 177
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11.392
Georgia
Rebecca Walker widow of Elijah who died on the --- of --- in the State of --- who was a Private in the --- commanded by Captain --- of the --- commanded by --- in the Revolution. Inscribed on the Roll of Savannah at the rate of 30 dollars --- cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Sept. 1832 and sent T. Lumpkin (prest.)

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 7, 1838}

R. McRae, Clerk

Recorded by Book D., Vol. --, Page 327
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710.14.724

Rebecca Walker
wid. of Elijah
Ga. 

Acts 7 July 1838 & 6.

Adm.

9 mos pin - $30.

pen an: except 2 years. 

T. Lumpkin, present
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June 21st, 1852

Additional Evidence: case Rebecca Walker widow of Elijah. 

Kirby

Thomas Lumpkin, Present
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Washington

June 21st, 1852

Sir,

I herewith enclose two affidavits which I desire may be filed in the case of Rebecca Walker, of Georgia, widow of Elijah Walker, Act of 4th July, 1836. 

I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
your obedient servant, 
Thomas Lumpkin

Honorable J. E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
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Washington, D.C.

April 13th, 1852

Sir,

I herewith enclose the declaration of Mrs. Rebecca Walker, of Georgia, widow of Elijah Walker, Act 4th July, 1836. Also the certificate of the Comptroller of North Carolina showing payments to said Elijah Walker for military services rendered in the War of the Revolution

I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
your obedient servant, 
Thomas Lumpkin

Honorable J. E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
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Pension Office
August 20th, 1852

Sir, 

The evidence of the date of the marriage in the case of Rebecca Walker widow of Elijah of North Carolina and of the date of the performance of the service by him, is not sufficiently clear to authorize an allowance under the Act of 4 July 1836. A certificate under 1838, and subsequent acts will be issued if desired. Or if you will show by record or documentary evidence, that the service was performed subsequent to the marriage, the claim will be approved under act of 1836. The date of the birth of the only child, West Walker, should be shown by the family Register if one is in evidence. 

Your respectfully, 
your obedient servant, 
F. F. C. Triplett
Acting Commissioner 

W. M. Varnum Esq.
Dahlonega, Georgia
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Dahlonega, Georgia
22nd April 1852

Sir,

At the request of Colonel Varnum I send you a supplemental declaration of Mrs. Walker also, a certificate from Burk County, North Carolina in regard to marriage: The old lady states as you will see, that her husband hired James Thompson to serve in his place; for which he paid him $100.00 and stated that she had the receipt for the same but when we came to look for it, it could not be found. I am confident the old lady did have the receipt but in the great length of time that has passed it has been lost.

In looking over the old ladies papers we found the enclosed receipt, which will at least show that Elijah Walker had something to do with Revolutionary matters.

Please examine and do the best you can for the old lady

Respectfully,
A. Rudolph

Thomas Lumpkin Esq. 

Record of Elijah Walker. ten pound, fourteen shillings, and three pennies in full of his part of him in the first [] month draft.

Certified by me this 22nd Day of December 1781. Zack Birch
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State of Georgia
Gilmer County

I, Ransome B. Perry, Clerk of the Superior Court of said County, do hereby certify that Coke A. Ellington is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County and the State aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths, that his signature to the foregoing affidavit of Sally King is genuine. 

Given under my hand and Seal of Office at Ellyjay this 25th day of May 1852.

R. B. Perry, Clerk
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James Stephens
Affidavit 

W. M. Varnum
Dahlonega, Georgia
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State of Georgia
Lumpkin County

On this the fifth day of August A.D. 1852 before me Alfred Harris a Justice of the Peace within and for said County personally appeared James Stephens aged eighty seven (87) years passed, a resident of Gilmer County in said State and known to me as entitled to full credit, who after being duly sworn according to law doth upon his oath make the following statements:

That in the State of North Carolina, in time of the Revolutionary War, he became acquainted with Elijah Walker now deceased, the identical man whose widow, Rebecca Walker now lives in Gilmer County, Georgia, and has applied for a pension for the Revolutionary services of the said Elijah.

That he this deponent had two half brothers, namely Joseph and William Winchester, who acted as soldiers in said War; that towards the latter part of the War in 1779 and 1780, this deponent was in the Army to assist in taking charge and guard the baggage wagons that while thus engaged he often saw the said Elijah Walker in the service, that he does not know how long said Walker served, and cannot now remember the officers named under whose command he served, but he knows said Walker was a faithful
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Soldier in the Revolutionary struggle for liberty for a considerable length of time, and that he often heard his said brothers speak of him as such.

And deponent further states, that he had no knowledge of said Walker previous to his acquaintance with him in the Army as above stated but that during the whole of said acquaintance he always understood that said Walker was a married man and he often heard him speak of his family and his anxiety to see them that he never had but one wife and deponent verily believes that Rebecca Walker above was described, was at the time of the service above mentioned his lawful wife, that they were both very moral and respectable persons, and he swears that he is a disinterested witness.

James Stephen

Sworn to and subscribed before me, and I certify that I believe James Stephens the above deponent is as old as he represents himself to be and that the statements made by him in the above affidavit are true.

Alfred Harris (Justice of Peace)

State of Georgia
Lumpkin County

On this the 7th day of August 1852 before me the
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undersigned a Justice of the Peace in said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Joseph J. Singleton and after being duly sworn according to law states that he has been acquainted with James Stephens who has been sworn to the foregoing affidavit, for about 19 years past and he has been since his acquaintance with him been refuted as a truthful and respectable citizen. 

Sworn to and subscribed the day before written before me.

William Cox (Justice of the Peace)
Joseph J. Singleton

I certify that Alfred Harris and William Cox whose signatures appear to the foregoing depositions are and was at the signing of the said depositions acting Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Lumpkin and State aforesaid and that their signatures as appeared are genuine. I further certify that I am personally and intimately acquainted with James Stephens and Dr. Joseph J. Singleton and that they are both men of fair character and standing and that faith and credit should be given to their depositions
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as set forth in the foregoing.

E. W. Chastain

I certify that Col. Joseph J. Singleton, whose name is annexed to the foregoing affidavit is a gentleman of the very highest character and entitled to as much credit as any man. 

William C. Danson

Sinah Chambers
18.Aug.1852
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Brief in the case of Rebecca Walker, widow of Elijah Walker, County and State of Georgia, Act of 7th July 1838 and 1836.

Claim, ("original")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

Service ---- Record
Marriage ---- Parol

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what? 

Name and residence of Agent
Thomas Lumpkin, Present

Examining Clerk
Kirby
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a pension will be accepted under the Act of 7th July 1838, with an understanding that if the proof of the marriage before the service can be hereafter curtained, a pension will be allowed under the Act of 6th July 1836.

William M. Varnum 
by
Thomas Lumpkin, his attorney
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State of North Carolina
Burke County

I, William S. Sudderth, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the County of Burke do hereby certify that I have made diligent search in my office for the Marriage Bond of Elijah Walker in relation to his marriage to Rebecca Carrol, and that I cannot find any such Bond, neither can I find any Marriage Bonds in the office, from the year 1774 to
1780. And I also further certify that there was a great many of the old Marriage Bonds destroyed in removing the from the old Court House to the present one.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office at office in Morganton on this the 2nd day of April 1852.

William S. Sudderth, Clerk
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Washington, D.C.
April 29th 1852

Sir,

I herewith under a supplemental declaration of Rebecca Walker of Georgia, the Act of 1836, widow of Elijah, and also a certificate of the Clerk of Burke County, North Carolina, touching marriage in said case.

I have the honor to be his obedient servant,
Thomas Lumpkin 

Honorable J. E. Heath,
Commissioner of Pensions 

I also send Mr. Rudolph's letter whom which is a receipt given in 1791 to Elijah Walker which I hope may prove identity.
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State of North Carolina
Comptroller's Office

I, William J. Clarke, Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that it appears of record in my office, among the payments made by said State to sundry persons for Military services in the Revolutionary War, as follows, to wit: 
Elijah Walker
Book G., No.16, page 9m 6.S15-specie
No.24 / 86,1S8
A. acct.7732, 6
No.23 page 123, 11S12

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this 24th December 1851.

William J. Clarke, Comptroller
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I hereby certify that Henry Pettit is and was at the time of making the foregoing declaration an acting Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the County of Gilmer and State of Georgia April 15th 1852.

E. W. Chastain
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State of Georgia
Cherokee County

On this second day of June A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty two, before me a Justice of the Peace within and for said County and the State aforesaid personally appeared Henry Holcombe, aged eighty four (84) years, a resident of said County and State, known to me as entitled to full credit, who after being duly sworn according to law, doth upon his oath make the following statements. That he moved from the State of South Carolina, to Georgia, Franklin County in the year 1788 or 1789 that one or two years after this, Elijah Walker and his wife Rebecca moved from the State of North Carolina to Franklin County, Georgia and settled within three or four miles of where this deponent then lived. That said Elijah and Rebecca Walker were at that time living peaceably to this as husband and wife, were respected by all who knew them, were members of the Baptist Church and deponent then understood, had been respectable members of said Church for several years before they came to Georgia. And deponent further states, that he was with said Elijah Walker in the Indian War of 1794 and 1795, that he was forted with him at Fort Morris in Franklin County, Georgia under the command of Captain Stonecypher that their families were with them a portion of the time in said Fort. That West Walker son of said Elijah and Rebecca, was also with them in said Fort that he was then nearly a grown man and acted as a Soldier in said War. And deponent further states that he often heard said Elijah Walker speak of having been engaged in the
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Revolutionary War in the State of North Carolina And her further states that he was intimately acquainted with said Elijah and Rebecca Walker that they always lived peaceably together that a doubt of there having been lawfully married was never entertained by any one as this deponent verily believes. He further states that soon after the Treaty with the Cherokee Indians which terminated the aforementioned War said Walker's removed from Franklin County into the Cherokee Country where said Elijah Walker died in what is now called Habersham County, Georgia, about the year 1819, and that Rebecca Walker now living in Gilmer County, Georgia, who has applied for a pension, is the widow of the identical Elijah Walker above described. 

Henry Holcombe

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and hereby certify that I believe the statements of Henry Holcombe above made are true and that he is of the age above stated. 

Isaac Ingram, Justice of the Peace

State of Georgia
Cherokee County

I, Jasper L. Keith, Clerk of the Superior Court of said County do hereby certify that Isaac Ingram whose genuine signature appeared to the above affidavit is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County and State duly commissioned and qualified as such.

Given under my hand and Seal of Office this 8th day June 1852.

J. L. Keith, Clerk