Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6972, John Davis, N.H.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
N.H. 
Davis, John
Eleanor
NUMBER
W. 6972
B.L.Wt. 26.309-160-55
CONTENTS
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5.062
OHIO
John Davis
of Goshen on the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Wellingsford of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Mooney in the New Hamp 
line for 6 months & 15 days private

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio-
at the rate of 21 Dollars /[illegible] Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of Feb
1833 and sent [illegible] 
vance House of Rep's
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $32.50
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 [illegible] 33 10.84
$43.34

[Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk,
Book D Vol. 10 Page 56


Dead
Letter to H. [illegible] & urd [illegible 27th
April 1841. 

Paid at the Treasury under
the Act of [illegible] 6 April 1838
from 4 March to 2 Sep 1840. 
Agt notified 18 May 1841
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John Davis
12.254
in Roll Capt Wallingsford's Company
Private
6 mos- & 15 days

Hon. G. Vance
HR
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State of Ohio}
Champaign county} .ss.

On this third day of August personally appeared
in open court before the Hon. George B. Holt president
and James Smith, William Runkle and Obed
Horr his associates judges of the court of common pleas
of the county aforesaid now sitting John Davis a resident 
of the township of Goshen in the county of Champaign
and State of Ohio aged seventy five 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 7-1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the
following named officers and served as herein stated (viz)
He entered the service in the fall of the year 1776, he does
not recollect the  month but it was after  corn harvest,
under Capt. Wallingsfords, he thinks his name was Samuel,
He volunteered for three months at the town of Lee, in
the county of Stafford and State of New Hampshire
and he served out his said term of three months at
Peekskill on Hudson river in the State of New York.
He marched from the town of Lee [?] to Peekskill
where he was engaged guarding a fort-Col. A[?]lus
Mooney commanded at the fort during this time. 

In 1779, he thinks in the Spring, he again entered the
service as a substitute for one Josiah Durgain for
the term of two months- He entered the service at Providence 
in the State of Rhode Island and served the
said term of two months at that place in the capacity
of a guard and [?].  He is not certain who his
capt. was at this time but he thinks his name was
Dinesmore.  He did not march out of Providence
and its vicinity and was not engaged in every battle

There was a Gen. Mc'Dougle then and he thinks he was
in command at that time in Providence.  The French
lay on the opposite side of the river part of this
time. and there was an English [?] landed below
the town.  He was called out to fight the English
but they left before he arrived-no battle.
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The State of [illegible]Champaign County ss
I John C Pearson clerk of the court of [illegible]
of the County afsd do hereby certify that the foregoing [illegible] the
original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application
of John Davis for a Pension.
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In 1779 after his turn of service in Rhode Island and during the same season but he cannot recollect exactly when he volunteered for one month and a half, at Peirce's Island below Portsmouth in the State of New Hampshire and entered the service in Capt. Smith Emerson's company, and served out his time at Peirce's Island ____ where he assisted in guarding a port at the mouth of Pishatayu river. There was no battle then. The British lay off at sea and were expected to land, but only landed on the Islands there.
There are Islands there called the Five Islands. They burned nearly all the buildings there. This was the last of his service in the revolution. He does not recollect the names of any of the officers at Peirce's Island except his Capt. as above stated. He has no documentary evidence, and he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service as aforesaid. His brother James Davis knows of his having gone into the service in the three times above stated but was not with him any of the time. Said James Davis now living in said (paper folded) He was born in the said town of Lee, Stafford County State of New Hampshire in the year 1757 on the tenth day of August. His age is recorded in the town record of the said town of Lee. He was living at said town of Lee when called into the service. He moved, after the war from New Hampshire in to the state of Vermont- then to Lower Canada, then to Cambridge in Washington county New York, then to said township of Goshen where he now lives and when he moved about 12 years ago and where he has lived ever since. He never received a written discharge although he served out his time faithfully in every instance and was regularly discharged by his commanding officer it was not usual for the militia to receive written discharge. The following are the names of some of the persons residing in his neighborhood who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution, and to whom he is known. (viz)
James Willard, Doctor Obed Horr, Doctor Ebenezer Owen, James Davis, John Owen and Noah Davis
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
John (his mark) Davis       much
Sworn to & Subscribed in Court
August ____1832
Jno C Pearson Clk
We Ebenezer Owen a clergyman residing in the township of Goshen county of Champaign and State of Ohio, and James Willard, John Owen, James Davis son, residing in the same township except John Owen who resides in the town of Urbana, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Davis, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years of age: that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Ebenezer Owen
James Willard
John Owen
James Davis
Sworn to and Subscribed in Court Aug. _. 1832
Jno C Pearson Clk
The said court do hereby declare this 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 Ebenezer Owen who has signed and sworn to the preceding certificates, is a clergyman resident in the township of Goshen County of Champaign and State of Ohio and that James Willard, John Owen, and James Davis who have also signed the same are residents in the said township of Goshen except John Owen who resides in the town of Urbana in said county, and are credible persons, and that this statement is entitled to credit.
By Order of the Court
John C Pearson Clerk
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State of Ohio
County of Champaign
On this third day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before the judges of the court of Common Pleas of the county aforesaid James Davis of lawful age and who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say that he is the brother of John Davis who has this day made and sworn to his declaration in order to take the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7-1832- deponent further says that the services mentioned in said declaration as having been _____by his brother were found by him as this deponent verily (smudge). He was not out in the service with his said brother but he knows of his going into the service at each of the times therein mentioned and that he served for the length of time therein mentioned and further that his brother is of the age he represents himself to be and that the matters and things therein stated are true in all respects as this deponent verily believes - James Davis Son
Sworn to & Subscribed August. _____1832
John C Pearson Clk
The state of Ohio Champaign County
I John C Pearson clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of this county aforesaid certify that James Davis Son on this day personally appeared in court and was by the Court duly sworn as above to the facts stated in said affidavit
_____ whereof I have ____ subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said Court at ___ this 3rd day Aug. 1832
John C. Pearson clk
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No 4,666
Ohio Lin
Eleanor Davis
widow of John Davis, NH
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 21 dollars 67 cents per annum,
to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued 28th day of Oct., 1854,
and sent to
R. W. Bates
Present.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 161,  Vol. A
W.R. Wilson 

1859 June 29. Duplicate issued and sent to Richard Hill, Cinc. Ohio
1859 Ape. 2  Let. to R Hill, Cin. Ohio
Let. David Davis
April 3d, 62

Reg. 3 m ss 105661
Af__
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Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefits of the 2nd Section of the Act of February 3rd 1853, 
The State of Ohio
Champaign County ss:
On this seventeenth day of October AD one thousand eight hundred fifty four personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas, of Champaign County, Ohio, in open Court Eleanor Davis, a resident of Mechanicsburg in the County of Champaign, and state aforesaid aged Eighty years, who first being duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the Third day of February AD 1853, 
That she is the widow of John Davis, who was a pensioner, under the act of June Seventh AD 1832, at the rate of Twenty one, 61/100 dollars was pensioned at Champaign County and was paid at (it is believed) the Cincinnati Agency, for paying pensions. 
She further declares that she was married to the said John Davis in the month of April AD 1807, the precise day she cannot state as she has no record of the same, nor does she believe that there is one in existence; That she was married in Canada East, at the time above stated, and removed to the state of Ohio in AD
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1820. That her said Husband died on the second day of September AD 1840. That she was nor married to him prior to the second day of January Eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated;
She further declares that she is now a widow
/s/X Her mark Eleanor Davis
Attest /s/Ich'd Corwin
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and  year above written, by Eleanor Davis, in open Court, before me,
/s/R. S. Hart Judge of the Court afores'd

The State of Ohio
Champaign County ss: I William F. Mosgrove, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County, and State aforesaid do certify, that the foregoing declaration of Eleanor Davis, was in open Court this sworn & subscribed by her, before and in the Presence of R. S. Hart, who is the sole Judge of said Court and whose genuine signature is above affixed in attestation of the oath of said Eleanor Davis,
I do further certify that I have now hereto attached the affidavit of Jacob Hayle in support of said Declaration made before John
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H. Spaier, Esq. on the twenty seventh day of September A.D. 1854. And that said J. H. Spaier, was on that day and still is, an acting Justice of the peace, and that his signature in attestation of the oath of subscription of said Jacob Hayle, as the same is affixed to said affidavit is genuine, And that the commission of said Spaier, as such Justice of Record, in my office is dated on the 20 day of October AD 1851. and will expire in three years hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Urbana this seventeenth day of of October A.D. 1834
/s/Wm F. Mosgrove Clerk.
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State of Ohio
Champaign County
On this 27th day of September One Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty four, personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State above named Jacob Hayle who being first duly sworn according to Law, deposes and says that he is Seventy three years of age; that he is well acquainted with Mrs. Elenor Davis; that she is the widow of the identical John Davis who was a Revolutionary Pensioner from Champaign County, that he also was well acquainted with said Pensioner; that the said John and Elenor Davis lived together & cohabitated as man and wife from his first recollection of them in the year 1820 to the day of his death; which took place it is he believed in the year 1840 at the time stated by declarant. That he has never heard the fact- of their marriage questioned; but has no doubt but they were lawfully married; that she is a woman of good and reputable character in her neighborhood and in every way entitled to credit for truth & veracity.
Jacob Hayle
Sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day and year above written and I further certify that Jacob Hayle whose genuine signature is attached to the foregoing deposition is a credible witness and is entitled to credit for truth and veracity.
J. H. Spaier Justice of the Peace
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105.661
Act March 2 /55
       April 28/55

Elenor Davis wid of John Davis, Pvt
claimant states that she is a pensioner under the Act Feby 3d 1853
Rev War
Ohio Feby 53-4666
W:160 ac mg 21/56
BO fifth
John Johnson
R. W. Bates
present
clr R. W. Bates Dec 22/55
Vol. D. 11.
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No. 105661
Elenor Davis - Ohio
Act of March 3, 1855

Revolutionary War

Filed April 28, 1855
by RW Bates
Present
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Declaration for Revolutionary Widow
Act March 3, 1855
State of Ohio
Champaign County  SS
On this 4th day of April A.D. 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Elenor Davis aged Eighty one years a resident of Champaign County and State of Ohio, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the identical Elenor Davis widow of John Davis died, who was a Revolutionary pensioner, that she deponent is now a Pensioner under the Act of Feb 3, 1855, at the rate of $21. 67 per annum, which Certificate of Pension was issued on the 28th day of October 1854 signed R W McClelland Secy of the Interior and Countersigned L. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions, that for proof of her marriage to the said John Davis she would refer to the papers now on file upon which the above named Certificate of Pension was issued - and she further declares that she is still a widow. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3, 1855, never having received Bounty Land under this or any other Act nor made application therefor, that R W Bates of the City of Washington and District of Columbia, is hereby authorized to prosecute this my claim and to receive any warrant that may be issued hereon
Elenor(her mark) Davis        Seal
We _____Bates and A J Savage residents of the County and State aforesaid upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by the above Elenor Davis in our presence; and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and we further declares that we are well acquainted
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with the said Elenor Davis, and know her to be the widow of John Davis deceased a Revy Pensioner, and that she is still a widow, and that we have no interest in this claim
Jesse S Bates  (seal)
A J Savage      (seal)
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to 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 person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim
A. B. Cowan    (seal)     Justice of the Peace

State of Ohio
Champaign County}   SS 
I hereby certify that A. B. Cowan before whom the foregoing declaration and Affidavit were made, is and was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature above is genuine
In testimony where of I have here to set my hand and affixed the seal of my office on this 24th day of April One Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty five
John Russell, Clerk
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State of Ohio
Champaign County
On this 24 day of April One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty four personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State afore said, David Davis, to me well known as a man of good and reputable character, and makes oath in due form of law, that he is the sone of John Davis who was a Revolutionary Pensioner, and Elenor the present applicant for a Pension under the Act of Feby 3, 1853, That the said John Davis (his father) did on the 2nd day of September Eighteen Hundred and forty since which time his mother the said Elenor Davis has resided with him that the said Elenor is now abut the age of 80 years and that deponent is now in the 44th year of his age having been born in the _____November One Thousand Eight Hundred and nine and further deponent sayeth not
David Davis
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 24th day of April 1854, and I further certify that the deponent is a man of good and reputable character and every way entitled to credit for truth & veracity, and I further certify that Mrs Elenor Davis, the present applicant for Pension is the reputed widow of John Davis who was a Pensioner of Champaign County and I have no doubt but they were man & wife from the fact that they lived and cohabited together for many years.
Jennison Hall, Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio Champaign County
I William F. Mosgrove Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County certify that Jennison Hall is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly com
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misioned and qualified that full faith and credit in ___ to all his official ___ as such, and that his signature to the foregoing certificate is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Urbana this 26th day April AD 1854
Wm F Mosgrove  Clerk

Elenor Davis - Ohio
Declaration for Pension
Act 7 Feb 3/53

Filed May 3, 1854
by R W Bates
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State of Ohio
Champagne County   SS
On this 25th day of April 1854 personally appeared before the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Champaign County & State Ohio. Elenor Davis a resident of Mechanicksburg in the County and State aforesaid aged about Eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3rd day of February 1853, That she is the widow of John Davis, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner under the Act of June the 7th 1832, at he rate of $21.67 per Annum, and was Pensioned while living in Champaign County but she does not recollect at what Agency for paying Pensions her husband was paid. She further declares that she was married to the said John Davis on or about the 22nd day of April Eighteen Hundred and Seven, and that her said husband died on the second day of September Eighteen Hundred and Forty; That she was not married to him prior to the Second day of January Eighteen Hundred but at the time above stated - she further declares that she is now a widow
Elenor (her mark) Davis
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before
Wm F Mosgrove Clerk
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January 26, 1939.
BA-J/ady
John Davis
W.6972

Mr. Frederick C Haacker
325 East 194th Street
New York City

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of a John Davis who is recorded as a pensioner in the 1840 Census of Pensioners and a resident of Goshen, Champaign County, Ohio
The record has been found of a John Davis who, at one time, resided in Goshen Township, Ohio. His record follows as shown in the papers on file in pension and bounty land claims, based upon his military service in the Revolutionary War.
John Davis was born August 10, 1757, in Lee, Strafford County, New Hampshire. The names of his parents are not shown.
While a resident of Lee, New Hampshire, John Davis enlisted in the fall of 1776 and served three months in Captain Samuel Wallingford's New Hampshire Company and guarded the fort at Peekskill, commanded by Colonel Mooney. He enlisted in the spring of 1779 and served two months in Captain Dinsmore's New Hampshire Company as a guard at Providence, Rhode Island. He then enlisted and served one and one half months in Captain Smith Emerson's New Hampshire Company and guarded the fort at Pierce's Island in New Hampshire.(at the side it says "did not use archives as it perhaps was Hercules."
After the Revolutionary War he moved from New Hampshire, to Vermont, then to Lower Canada, then to Cambridge, Washington County, New York, and in 1820 moved to Goshen Township, Champaign County, Ohio.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 3, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Goshen Township, Champaign County, Ohio.
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He died September 2, 1840, place not stated.
John Davis married April 22, 1807, in East Canada, Eleanor, the name is also shown as Elenor and Ellen, her maiden name not given.
Soldier's widow, Eleanor Davis, was allowed pension on her application executed October 17, 1854, at which time she was aged eighty years and a resident of Mechanicsburg, Champaign County, Ohio.
Soldier's widow, Eleanor Davis, applied for bounty land April 24, 1855, at which time she was a resident of Champaign County, Ohio. She was allowed one hundred six acres of bounty land, on account of the Revolutionary War services of John Davis, on warrant No. 26309, under the Act of March 3, 1855
She died in 1860, place not stated.
David Davis, son of John and Eleanor Davis, was living in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, in 1862. He was born in November 1809. He was the only child of soldier. (1862)
In 1832 soldier's brother, James Davis, Sr., was residing in Goshen Township, Champaign County, Ohio. There are no further family data.
For information in regard to the location of the land, you should address the Commissioner of the General Land Office, this city, and furnish that official the number of the warrant, acreage, and the date of the act.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the exact date of widow's death, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and cite the following data: "Eleanor Davis, widow of John Davis, Certificate No. 4666, issued October 28, 1854, rate $2167 per annum, commenced February 3, 1853, Act of February 3, 1853, Cincinnati Ohio Agency."
Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

(along the side there is written)

We drew all 0.10. cases and went thru all 1812 flat files in this search as the John D. on 1840 census cited as of Goshen Ohio was aged 65 years at the time. We did not go thru all Rev. cases only stopped searching when we arrived at this one.
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1939 Jan. 26 Hist. to Fred Haacker. AD
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 6972
Eleanor Davis
Wid"
John Davis
Privt Rev War
Act: July 3 1853
Index:___ Vol. A, Page 168
[Arrangement of 1870]
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26.309
No Any
(envelope)
__________________________________on side
The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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No. 4648
Elenor Davis
Wid: of
Pno:
Sent to R. W. Bates  5th May / 54
Act / 53
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Sir
John Davis, Ohio Rolls, Act June 7 1832. $21.67 a year. Please state to what time paid.
Very Respectfully
F. Cole,
chgblv Pench
Triplett

RJ Atchirartes
_____ Auditor
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John Davis died 2 Sept 1840 paid in full.
Sand S Rind
Acting Auditor

(upside down)
Pen of Act 25 - 1854
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County of Lake
State of Indiana   SS

Know all men by these present that I Elenor Davis widow of the late John Davis, who was a Pensioner under the Act of June 7, 1832, in Champaign County State of Ohio at the rate of Twenty One Dollars Sixty Seven Cents per Annum, having reason to believe that my husband was pensioned at too low a rate, do hereby constitute and appoint R. W. Bates of the City of Washington District of Columbia, my true & lawful Attorney for me and in my name and stead, to examine into, make application for, and obtain from the Commissioner of Pensions, whatever increase of Pension my said husband may have been entitled to during his lifetime.
Witness my hand and seal this 10th day of January A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Four.
Elenor (her mark) Davis        (Seal)

Sealed and delivered in the presence of Silvester T. Greene
David Davis
State of Indiana, County of Sake

Be it known that on the 10th day of January 1854 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County personally appeared Elenor Davis above named and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her Act and Deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day & year last above mentioned. Silvester T. Greene, Justice of the Peace
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State of Indiana
County of Lake                 SS

I D. K. Pettibone, Clerk of Circuit Court of in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby Certify that Silvester T. Greene before whom the foregoing Deposition of Mrs. Elenor Davis was taken was at the time of signing the same and is now a Justice of the Peace and and for the County and State aforesaid.
Witness my hand as Clerk and seal of the Lake Circuit Court this 10th day of February 1854
David K. Pettibone
Clerk
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Washington Feby. 21, 1854
L. P. Waldo Esq.
Court of Pension

Sir
I enclose herewith a Power of Atty. in my favor from Mrs. Elenor Davis, for increase of Pension, in the case of her husband the late John Davis Revy. Pensioner of Champaign County Ohio

Yours Respectfully - R. W. Bates
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State of Ohio
Champaign County      SS

On this 26th day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Four personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid. Jacob Hazle to me well known as a man of truth and veracity, and makes Oath in due form of Law that he was well acquainted with John Davis of the County & State above named that he had known him since the year Eighteen Hundred and twenty that he also in the same year became acquainted with Elenor his wife, that she the said Elenor, continued to reside in Champaign County for nearly twelve years after the death of the said John Davis, when she removed to the State of Indiana, that the said Elenor Davis cannot at this time be less than 80 years of age, as she could not have been less than 46 years when she in company with her husband and family emigrated to this County, that her husband the said John Davis died about the year Eighteen Hundred and forty, that he knows that the said Elenor, was the reputed wife of the said John from the fact that they cohabited as man and wife, that she the said Elenor is a woman of irreproachable character and every entitled to credit for truth & veracity, that he is also well acquainted with, David Davis, sone of the aforesaid John & Elenor, that he believes him to be about 45 years of age and a gentleman of Character & Standing in this county and every way entitled to credit for truth and veracity

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th day of March A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty four.
J. H. Spaier, Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio, Champaign County

I William Mosgrove Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county certify that J. H. Spaier is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, that full faith and respect is due to all his official acts as such and that his signature to the foregoing certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at  _____ this 21st March A D 1854
Wm F Mosgrove Clerk
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['State of Ohio
County of Champaign}ss I [blank] Clerk of the [blank] in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that [blank] before whom the foregoing Deposition of [blank] was taken was at the time of signing the same and still is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified to administer Oaths' crossed out]
Clerk
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Mrs. Elenor Davis  Ohio
Champaign County
John Ohio
Act Feb. 3, 1853



Boynton

R. W. Bates
Presant
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Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pension   
Washington Oct. 24, 1854
Sir
I enclose herewith the Declaration of Mrs. Elenor Davis of Mechanicksburgh, Champaign County, Ohio, for Pension under Act of Feb. 3, 1853, together with the Deposition of Jacob Hazle, in support of her claim. I would also beg leave to call your attention to the papers filed in the case on the 3rd of May last
Very Respectfully yours
R. W. Bates
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Brief in the case of Eleanor Davis widow of John Hamilton County and State of Ohio
act February 3, 1853
Claim for New Pension Certificate,
Proof exhibited,
That the originals was lost in transmission by mail.
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Ohio
Mrs Eleanor Davis
Ohio 5062
John
Application for benefits of Act Feb 3. 1853
Boynton
May 4/54
Filed by R. W. Bates
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L. P. Waldo Esq.     Washington May 3, 1854
Com. of Pensions
Sir
I enclose herewith the application of Mrs. Elenor Davis widow of John of Ohio, for Pension under the Act of Feb. 3, 1853 together with the Deposition of Jacob Hazle with reference to the same.
Very respectfully yours,
R. W. Bates
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Act Feb. 3rd, 1853
2nd Sect.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Roll
Eleanor Davis
For Duplicate Pension Certificate 

Richard Hill
Cincinnati
______
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I Richard Hill of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, do upon my oath declare, that a pension Certificate (issued under the 2nd Section of the Act of Congress of 3rd February 1853 to Eleanor Davis, widow of John Davis deceased) was placed in my hands by J. S. Perkins of Cincinnati aforesaid, for the purpose of procuring some arrears of pension to which I believed she was entitled, and that on the 30th day of June 1858, I mailed said Certificate addressed then at Reeves, Ohio. I have twice ascertained that I made a mistake in so directing it there being no Post Office of that Name in Ohio.
Richard Hill
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 4th day of December 1858, as witness my hand and Seal ________
Joseph McDougal
Notary Public
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The State of Ohio
Champaign County
On this 31st day of December 1858 before me WG Famler, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Eleanor Davis a resident of said County, who being duly sworn according to Law, declares that she is the widow of John Davis deceased and a pensioner of the United States, on the Cincinnati Ohio roll, at the rate of $21.67 per annum. under the 2nd Section of the Act of Congress of 3rd February 1853, that she entrusted her pension Certificate to J. S. Perkins of Cincinnati Ohio, who she is informed placed it in the hands of Richard Hill for the purpose of procuring arrears of pension on the part of Deponent, that she is informed from the affidavit of said Hill that he mailed it then on 30th June 1858, addressed to Reeves, Ohio. She further declares that she has not received same, that her last payment was ______the 4th day of March 1858, and that for the purpose of enabling her draw the payment due on 21st September 1858. She requests that a Duplicate thereof may be issued and directed to her in care of said Richard Hill, at Cincinnati, Ohio
Eleanor (her mark) Davis
(in the margin)
___________
WG Fowler
David Davis

Sworn to and Subscribed before me the day and year first above written, and I certify that the Claimant is known to me to be the identical person she represented herself to be
W. G. Fowler J.P.
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The State of Ohio
Champaign County
I John Russell, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, testify that W. G. Fowler, Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was made, and whose genuine signature appears in the foregoing Certificate was at the date thereof an active Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Clerk commissioned and qualified as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 8th day of January 1859.
John Russell, Clerk
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105.661
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Washington April 28/55
Hon. L. P. Waldo
Sir
I enclose herewith the Declaration of Mrs. Elenor Davis of Champaign County, Ohio for Bounty Land under Act of March 3, 1855.
Very Respectfully yours,
R. W. Bates
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Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of Pensions.
Walt Smith
Clerk
Dept. ___
March 31/62
Whitney
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Mechanicsburg O.  March 26, 1862
Hon. C. B. Smith
Secretary Interior
I am the Son the only child of John Davis a Revolutionary Soldier who died in the year 1840. My mother Ellen Davis was his wife who died in 1860, they both drew pensions, and my purpose in addressing you is to ask the question do the children of such Revolutionary pensions, are entitled to anything. (pensions or Bounty) by virtue of such heirship under any law of the United States.
You will greatly oblige me if you will cause to be forwarded to me a reply.
Respectfully
David Davis
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List of _____Rev.
Claims




_____________
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Claims suspended for want of _______proof

(all entries are initialed Rd)

Judith Hammerly  No 40.949 - Wid. James and Ky July 18 - 845

Abigail Saw of ____ No 40.950 - Wid. Alex Penn Feb.  48-5823

Hannah Graves P. No. 33.501 - Amos Penn Feb. 48-3645 

Lucretia Wilcox N. Y.  No. _____ ____ NY Feb. 48 - 1418

Elizabeth Dewitt Pa.  No 88.849 - Paul Feb. 48-3516

Elenor Davis Ohio  No. 105.661 - John Feb. 53 - 4666

R. W. Bates
Feb. 8/56
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Eleanor Davis, widow of John of Champaign Co.
5764                    Ohio
Adm. Feb. 3, 1853
6 mo. & 15 days on pn. $21.67
per annum. from
3rd Feb. 1853

Cert to
R. W. Bates Esq.
Present
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Brief in the case of Eleanor Davis, widow of John 
Champaign County and State of Ohio
act 3rd Feb. 1853
Claim: ("original")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Her husband was pensioned under the Act of June &, 183_ at $21.67 (____ ____ in his papers) ____ proof in her case! Marriage, her identity as the widow of the pensioner and the date of his Death, these facts are proved by Jacob Hazle and David Davis, who have known her for many years,   that she lived with him as his wife, that he was a pensioner and that she is still a widow. She is further identified by the agreement of her statement as to the time of his death with the facts shown by the backing of the 3 ______
Thomton Triplett
Examining Clerk.

Name and residence of Agent
R. W. Bates Esq.
Present
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[handwritten letter]
Cincinnati Ohio
22nd March 1859
The Comm'r of Pensions - 
Sir,
Some two months since I sent for an application on part of Eleanor Davis (widow of John, and a pensioner of the Cincinnati Agency at $20.66 per annum, under 2nd Sect Feb 3rd 1853) for a duplicate of her pension Certificate, which has been Lost, on account of my having giving it a wrong direction in June 1858 - I have not heard from you since that time, and as she has not received her pension since March 1858, it would be a great favor to her if you would send me the Duplicate as soon as possible - 
respy
/s/Richard Hill
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Cincinnati Ohio
20th January 1859

The Comm. of Pensions
Sir:
Have the goodness to send me a duplicate of Eleanor Davis Pension _____ which was misdirected then in June last.
Respectfully
Richard Hill
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office
May 11, 1841
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of John Davis, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of Twenty one Dollars and 67 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March to the 2nd Sept. 1840.
Respectfully yours
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
   Present.
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325 East 194th St.,
New York City, N. Y.,
December 11, 1938.

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.,

Dear Sirs:
The Census of Pensioners in 1840, list a John Davis, of Goshen, Champaign Co., Ohio, and as living with John Odle. Kindly inform me if the records show his services for whom he was granted a pension, and if there is any material relating to his family, where he was born, and etc.

Very truly yours,
(his signature)
Frederick C. Haacker