Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6465, Elias Wellborn, N. C.
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A.C.
Wellborn, Elias Mary

S.6462
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Georgia No. 23661

Elias Wellborn
of Columbia co. in the State of Georgia who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Hines of the Regt commanded by Cpl. Fannin in the N.C. line [illegible] for 18 months.

Inscribed in the Roll of Georgia.
at the rate of 60 Dollars ~ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of March.
1834, and sent to Hon. W. Forsyth. Senate [crossed out: H. of Reps.] [illegible]
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Arrears to the 4th of March '34. $180.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep. '34. 30.00
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$210.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by D. Brown       Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 6 Page 106
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28 July '53
109 [Afinrkle] [illegible] Y- children not entitled to pennon " " Mr S H Hill _ Same as above

Date of death not on AB

6083
Georgia
Mary Wellborn widow of Elias Wellborn NC who served in the Revolutionary War, as a Private _ 
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Subscribed on the Roll at the rate of 60 Dollars ~ Cents per annum, to commence the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of May 1853 and sent to J Sturges Present 

[illegible] of Pensioners under act [illegible] 216 Vol. 3.
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Elias Wellborn
Ga
No. 19591

[Adunt] a private 18mo. & ho.n n

John Ha M, Forsyth Senate

(crossed out) Simmons Crawford Clk. Court of Ordinary Cloumbia @ a (crossed out)
Ga. Applingville
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War Department, Pension Office, April 16th 1833

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case is a babular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections eixist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
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A Statement, showing the Service of Elias Wellborn
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Period when the service was rendered / Duration of the claimant's service.: Years. Months. Days. / Rank of the claimant / Name and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. / Name and Rank of the General and Field officers. / Battles in which the applicant was engaged. / Country through which he marched. / Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. / Evidence by which the declaration is supported.

1778 vol. / 10 or 12 mos was sub. part of the time per hap 3 mos. until latter part of 1779 / Pri. / Capt. Otines  " York / / / / 73 years /

1780 sub. / / / Pri. Cavalry / Capt. Cleve=land / Major Davie / From Wilkes Co. towards Camden through roan Co. and Charlotte to Santee river to Rudgoly's miles / Wilkes Co. No. Ca. / Traditionary

' vol.  / / / " / ' / Col. Armand Maj. Gordon Genl. Green / / / / 
 / / / " / Capt Will=son / Maj. Gordon / / / / 

vol. / from 3 to 6 weeks has no doubt was an actual service 3 years _ and is [illegible] with the belief that it was not [illegible] tran form under half years / stl Nat. Cavly / Capt Beverly Capt. Bluton / Col Har=nondon / / / /

I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions.
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Regulations Under the Act of June 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental  Line,V "State tropps," "militias," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound in military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who erved on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. 
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claim-ing the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, or privates, will in the first in-stance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record. 

Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of County of   } ss.
On this    day of    personally appeared (a) before     A.B. a resident (b) of     in the county of     and State, Territory or District of    aged (c)    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 proven made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)     , with     and served in the      (e) regiment of the      line, under the following named officers:

(Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he serv-ed under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county through which he marched. (hand pointing symbol) This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and per-sons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.)

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is ot on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the of      
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.       A.B.
(And the will follow the certificate of the Court.)
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
I      of the Court of      do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter od the application of       for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of     &c.

If, on examination of the proper record the names of the applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. 
Every applicant who claims pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the      and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with       , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be        years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
(And then will follow the certificate of the Court.)
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 Revo-lutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the       and is a credible person,  and that their statement is entitled to the credit. 
I,      Clerk of the Court of     do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, int he mater of the application of       for a pension. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal     of office, this    day of       &c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the ser-vices of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction. 
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and is the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The fact state I will afford on of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be at-tempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case. 
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia. 
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services. 
6. { To a Soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it giv-en and what has become of it?
{ To an Officer. { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can tes-tify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a solider of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant. 
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons - one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the char-acter and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject. 
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration be-fore required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court. 
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can pro-cure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reasons of bodily infirmity ; in which case the declarant will fol-low the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not  conforming to the rule. 
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned. 
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served. 
{[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, 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. 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." 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 m\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 indefintie, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that 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 objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown 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 with an embodied corps called into service by competent au-thority; 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. }
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable. 
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case. 
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no pub-lic seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

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 con-tains the affidavit, or other papers 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. 
Proof of Service. 
[j] 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 claimant's 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 wit-nesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
(hand pointing symbol) The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only. 
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases. 
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact. 
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

# The applicant shall specify his service of above.
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Georgia
Columbia County } 

On this third day of December 1832 personally appeared in open court before Nathaniel Baily, James Luke and Ebenzer T. Williams justices of the Inferior Court now sitting as a court of ordinary Elias Wellborn resident of the county and state aforesaid of the age of seventy three 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 the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, that is to say: In the year 1778 I volunteered my service under the command of Captain Hines in Randolph County North Carolina (I think about the first of the year) cannot recollect a [boxhat] time exactly served with Captain Hines ten or twelve month, part of the time as a substitute for one [ellis] Cheek perhaps three months mostly after the times of whom there were a great many in that and the adjoining counties, a large portion of our was engaged in hunting a celebrated tory sometimes called by the name of Colonel Fannin and his men. had a great many skirmishes with the tories in one of which some of us were detached and surrounded by thirty five in number as I think was stated, four of our party was taken prisoners and shot, two wounded very badly myself and two others escaped unhurt. After I had served my [titerm] out as a substitute with Capt. Hines I then volunteered under the same officers for several months longer after wards I volunteered under the command Captain York continued after the tories until the latter part of the year 1779 personally engaged in putting down the tories in Randolph and the adjoining counties _ Some time in the first of the year of 1780 my father was drafted in Wilkes county North Carolina. I went in his place do not distinctly [werback] the name of the officers but believe it was Captain John Cleaveland was marched from Wilkes county towards Camden in South Carolina through Roan County was Salisbury + through Charlotte on the way was attacked ~ number of tories collected in a house and [souted] and(crossed out) killed several of them; several of our company was [everunded] and among them was [ettay] of Dame. the [vouled luirer] left their horses and we took twenty five or thirty of them about twenty five of us was [ruounted] and placed in the Cavalry company under the command of Colonel Arming or Armand we continued the march to the [illegible] (Chateau) or Sautee River when we with the Virginia + allary land troops and proceeded on to Rudgelys mills or Claremant
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I was here taken sick and lost my horse, another being procured continued in the Cavalry, though unwell. In the night of the 16th of August we  ordered to advance on the Britian and torries and met the main body of them at day break, the militia retreated and the cavalry  company that I was attached to was ordered to the bridge at the north to stop the militia from retreating, we succeeded in stopping many after countereding some time _ General Gates came up in full speed and told us to retreat. he was defeated, we did so. the enemy in close pursuit [agterne] afterwards I went back to Wilkes county and volunteered under the corures and of allegor Gordon in a cavalry company and joined General Greene's army in the lower part of the state do not recollect when or where we joined Genl. Greenes army they even on the retreat and closely pursued by Corwallis and Garlton to the Yadkin river, and lost some of our baggorge having to leave before we could get it over the river, it being in the  night and the many arriving and camping on one side and we on the opposite (opposite) bank. the river racsed and provided the enemy crossing near us. they were compelled to go as the river served at the shallow ford some distance above us, we crossed the Provad Catawba Deep + Dan rivers as the retreat closely purtued all the way to Virginia, the company to which I attached returned to Wilkes County again _ Some time before Eutau battle I joined General Greene's army again in a horse company commanded by Captain Millson and Major Gordon, at the battle of the Eutau Springs Capt. Wellson [illegible]; killed. Shortly after, the company I was attached to went back to Wilkes county _ Soon after my as [rval] horse I volunteered my service + joined a large company of Cavalry supposed to be seven hundred in number commanded by Colonel Harrondon _ I was attached to a company commanded by Captain Beverly was elected + served as first Lieutenant _ we marched to the Cherokee nation of Indians to suppress lawless invasion committed by the Indians on the white inhabitants on the frontier was out on the expedition from there to six weeks + returned + continued in the same company until the close of the war, a part of the time this company was commanded by Captain Barton _ During the great and arduous conflict (crossed out text) for our [endepen]dener I have no doubt that I was in actual service of the United States three years + am impressed with the chief that it was not less than
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four and a half years but cannot say certainly to this or many other immaterial in [] detailed from memory alone, for all of which I never received any compensation except the gratitude of my country [] with the exception of one horse which the Tories afterwards took from me the above declaration was made in open Court when the following interrogatories every propounded to the deponent. 

1. Interrogatory, where and in what year were you born
He answer - I was born in Randolph County North Carolina the 9th of September 1759

To the second interrogatory, he answers I have a record of age [] is hand by my father in a bible now belonging yo my brother Abner Wellborn.

To the third interrogatory, he answers I was living in Wilkes County but entered the services in Randolph County. I lived a short time after the War in North Carolina and ever since in the State of Georgia, Columbia County, where he now live.

To the fourth interrogatory, he answers I first entered the service as a volunteer I never was drafted and was also a substitute for one Mr. Cheeks and my father.

To the 5th interrogatory, he answers General Green, Major Gordon, Colonel Lee, Colonel Malmady, who took command of the regiment to which I belonged at the Battle of the Eutaw to the best of my belief and Captain Wilson.

To the 6th interrogatory, He answers I never did receive a written discharge as I know of and if I did cannot say by whom it was given or what has been of it. 

To the 7th interrogatory, He answers I was elected first Lieutenant in Captain Beverly company of Calvary I have no recollection of ever receiving any commission but presume I did and if I did cannot say by whom it was signed or what has become of it am known in my neighborhood by Doctor Nathan Crawford, Reverend Juriah Harriss, Reverend James Blanchard, Basel Neal, Thomas N. Hamilton, Esquires and Colonel Horatio Gartrell there is no person in my neighborhood who know me in the time of the Revolutionary War there is a man that was with me by the name of Absolem Cleveland who is now deranged and lives in Franklin County in the State as I am informed. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension
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roll of the agency of any State as I know of.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and date above written.

Nathaniel Baily
James Luke
E. T. Williams
Elias Wellborn

We, Juriah Harriss a clergyman in the State of Georgia and County of Columbia and Nathan Crawford residing in the same do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elias Wellborn and have been for many years say fifteen or twenty at least who has subscribe and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy three years of age as stated in his declaration that he is refuted and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and the we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Nathaniel Baily
James Luke
E. T. Williams
Juriah Harriss
Nathan Crawford

And the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after pulling 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 the Reverend Juriah Harriss who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman in the State and County aforesaid and that Doctor Nathan Crawford who has also signed the same is a resident in the State and County aforesaid and are creditable persons and that their statement are entitled to credit.

Nathaniel Baily
James Luke
E. T. Williams
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Georgia
Columbia County

On this the third day of June eighteen hundred and forty four personally appeared before the Justice of the Inferior Court for the County aforesaid Mary Wellborn a resident of Columbia County and State of Georgia aged seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838, entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows that she is the widow Elias Wellborn late of said State and County declared who was a private in the Revolutionary War as will more fully appear by refered to the records of the War Department in the pension office recorded in Book 6, Vol. 6, page 106, No. 236611. She further declares she was married to the said Elias Wellborn on the fifth day of March in this
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fifth day of the [ineligible] year seventeen hundred and eighty nine in the County of Richmond as it was then called and State aforesaid and that her husband the aforesaid Elias Wellborn, died in the year eighteen hundred thirty six that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above said.
Sworn to before me this day and year above written.
John A. Stapler 
Edward Ballard
Mary Wellborn ('X'/her mark)
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Georgia
Columbia County
June 3rd, 1844

Personally appeared before me the Justices of the Inferior Court of said County, Marshall H. Wellborn, who being duly sworn saith that he was personally acquainted with Elias Wellborn in his lifetime, that he died in the year eighteen hundred thirty six and that Mary Wellborn his widow has not since married and is still the widow of the said Elias Wellborn deceased.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written
M. W. Wellborn 

Georgia
Columbia County

I David Harris Clerk of the Inferior Court of the County of Columbia do certify that William L. Blunt, Edward Ballard and John A. Stapler are Justices
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of the Inferior Court of said County and that full faith and credit is due to them acts as such.
Given under my hand and seal of office this day of June 1 1844. 
David Harriss

Georgia
Columbia County

I, John A. Stapler, a Justice of the Inferior Court of said County certify that David Harris in Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County and that full faith and more are due to him acts as such this 3rd June 1844.
John A. Stapler
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August 31, 1937 

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BA-J/EEL
Elias Wellborn-W.6465
William Welburn-S.7856

Helen Alene Welborn
11 Higgins Court
Arlington, Massachusetts

Dear Madam:

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.6465, based upon the military service in that war of Elias Wellborn.

Elias Wellborn was born September 9, 1759, in Randolph County, North Carolina. The names of his parents are not shown.

Elias Wellborn enlisted about the beginning of the year, 1778, and served at various times on short tours until 1781, as a private under Captains Hines, York, John Cleveland, and Willson, Major Gordon, Colonels Dowgen (?) and Isaacs, also under Colonels Armand and Malmady. All of his service was rendered in the North Carolina troops. In 1782, he was commissioned 1st lieutenant in Captain Beverly's Company, under Colonels Harrendon and Isaacs and served three months as such officer, later served six months, rank not given, in Captain Barton's Company, Colonel Isaacs' North Carolina Regiment. He was at the battles of Gates' Defeat and Eutaw Springs and in many skirmished with the Indians and Tories. Soldier stated that he served until the end of the war and that his entire service amounted to four and one-half years.

After the Revolution, he resided for a short time in North Carolina, then moved to Columbia County, Georgia, where he was living when he was allowed pension on his application executed December 3, 1832. 

The soldier married in March 5, 1789, in Richmond County, Georgia, Mary Marshall, date and place of her birth not stated. They were married by the Reverend Abraham Marshall. The marriage bond was dated in Richmond County, Georgia, March 3, 1789, and was signed by Elias Wellborn and Moses Marshall. No relationship of Moses
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Marshall and the Reverend Abraham Marshall to Mary Marshall was shown.

Mary, widow of Elias Wellborn, was allowed pension on her application executed June 3, 1844, at which time she was  aged seventy-two years and resided in Columbia County, Georgia.

No reference was made to children. 

One Marshall H. Wellborn lived in Columbia County, Georgia, in 1844; his relationship to the soldier and his wife not shown.

Abner Wellborn, a brother of the soldier, is referred to, but no particulars in regard to him are given. 

In 1844, one Solomon Marshall lived in De Soto County, Mississippi and in same year, one J. G. Marshall was a Justice of the Peace for Columbia County, Georgia; no relationship to the widow, Mary Marshall Wellborn, was stated. 

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William Wellborn
S.7856

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.7856, based upon the military service in that war of William Wellborn.

William Wellborn was born in Accomack County, Virginia, The date of his birth and names of his parents are not shown. 

While residing in said Accomack County, William Wellborn enlisted in 1777 or 1778 and served as a private in Captain Thomas Marshall's Company, under Colonel Selby, Corbin and Cropper in the Virginia troops. Soldier stated that his company was divided and that he served half of each year until the close of the war protecting the inhabitants of Accomack County and keeping guard at the forts and that his entire service amounted to more than two years. After the war, he served as commander of a company of militia pf Accomack County, Virginia, for many years and was referred to as Captain William Wellborn.
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William Welburn [Wellborn] was allowed pension on his application August 1, 18---. at which time he was aged seventy years and resided in Accomac [Accomack] county, Virginia. 
       
He died between october 15 and 20, 18--. in said Accomac county. ---------- He left no widow, but the following children survived him:
Susan Wall----
Margaret Marshall
Elisa Rowley
John D. Welburn
Peter Welburn
William Welburn.
the ages of the above named children and the names of the husbands of the daughters are not given nor is the name of soldier's wife stated.
   very truly yours
   A. D. Miller
   executive assistant to the Administrator
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[illegible]
Crawford, Nebr.
April 1- 1915

Gentlemen_
Will you please send me a copy of the pension papers of Elias Wellborn- who was born 1759, d-1836, was placed on the pension roll of Georgia 1831, for service as a private in N.C. Militia. he as born in Randolph C. N.C. d- in Columbus Co. Ga. 1836. please give names of his children.
Yours -
Mrs. Geo. McAdams.
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Brief in the case of Mary Wellborn, widow of Elias 
Columbia County and State of Georgia act 1 2 Feb 1848

____
Claim, ("original," (crossed out or "for increase).")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state of substance.
Originally [peupowed] under the acts of 7 July 1838. 3 March 1843 + 17 June 1844. Renewed under Act 2 Feb 1848.

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

Name and residence of Agent 
J. Sturges, of Georgia, now Present

S. Cole 
Examining Clerk.
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Georgia
Columbia County 

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Inferior Court for said County Nathan Crawford. Elias Wellborn who is believed to be a revolutionary Soldier, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of olde age and the consequence 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 period mentioned below and in the following grade and entered the Militia service, which was called but by the proper authority of the United States, under the command of Captain Hines in the year 1778 and served nine months in the military service of the United States, three as a substitute and six asa volunteer and attached to the regiment commanded by Colonel Dewgan which services was performed in the County of Randolph, North Carolina after these two tours of [word ineligible] I volunteered under the same patriotic officer Captain Hines for three months which was with an embodied Corps called into service by the competent authority of the United States, and performed in like manner and in the aforesaid County (Randolph, NC) as a [word ineligible] afterwards I volunteered under the command of Captain York for three months which was in the year 1779 I cannot retest the beliefs but that it was six months which was called but by the regularly constituted authority of the United States, which services was performed as military and [word ineligible] the County of Randolph N. Carolina sometime in the
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early part of the year 1780. I served one tour as a substitute, in the place of my father for three months, under the command of Captain John Cleveland called into service by the competent authority of the United States, which services was performed as military and as follows in Wilkes and Rowan Counties North Carolina and in the regiment commanded by Colonel Isaac during which time marches through South Carolina perhaps it was in the months of July or August and did suffer great distress with my fellow soldier for the want of food and shortly after the army or served at Clearmount before the battle of that place known as Gates' defeat, which I was [word ineligible] was transferred from the Infantry to the Calvary commanded by Colonel Armand after this tour of service was  cut I went home to Wilkes County North Carolina and entered the military service of the United States as a volunteer for three months under the command of Captain Wilson and Major Gordon which was in the year 1781 I was in the Battle of Eutaw commanded of that place Colonel Malmedey, in this hard fought battle I saw the brave Colonel Washington when he made the bold charge upon the British line and was made a president during the same action I also saw the brave intrepid Colonel Lee make three charges upon the British and at the last charge it was believed that he brought out upwards of three hundred presences Shortly after General Green withdrew the infantry from the galling fire, from the brick building myself and four or five other soldiers was sent out as spies to view the selection of the British Army this tour service was performed in Wilkes and Rowan Counties North Carolina
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and part in South Carolina near Eutaw and Camden which was under and by the proper authorities of the United States of this tour I volunteered under the command of Captain Beverly for three months believe to be in the year 1782 commanded by Colonel Isaacs, which tour of services was performed as military and at the instance of the United States, in Wilkes, Randolph, and Surry Counties North Carolina. I served one other tour of six months in gounding as military in Wilkes County North Carolina which was also at the instance and by the authority of the United States and commanded by Captain Bartey and Colonel Isaacs. It is with no little regret that I find my memory so fast declining and impaired by old age that it is almost impossible to give a full detail of my Revolutionary services with precision and clearness that I desire. I however have no doubt in saying that from the time I entered the services of the United States, all of which tours as above stated was performed under the regularly constituted authorities of the United States, I served with an embodied Corps under some one of the officers, and march through, the several counties and places, named in my original and this amended declaration. Until the end of the War with Great Britain which established our independence. I performed other services in the Revolutionary War, as a Soldier, which I do here undertake to detail. All of which statement is made and declared, to the best of my knowledge, and belief for all which services I justly consider myself entitled
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to a pension and verily believe it to be my right and privilege to claim it at the hands of my government and for the time during which the above services herein stated, was performed I was employed in any civil pursuit.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the fourth (4th) day of November 1832.

Elias Wellborn
Nathan Crawford
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Georgia

Know all men by these presents that we Elias Wellborn, and Moses Marshall, are held and Firmly Bound unto Lewis Gardner Register of Probate for the County of Richmond in the full and just sum of five hundred pounds specie for which payment well and truly to be made and done we bind ourselves, our heirs, Executors and Administrators jointly and severally, firmly, by these presents for and in the whole,

Sealed with our seals and dated the 2nd day of March in the year of our Lord 1789. 

The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the said Lewis Gardner Register of Probates hath this day licenses the Reverent Abraham Marshall to join in the honourable state of matrimony, Elias Wellborn and Mary Marshall now if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage and the said Elias Wellborn, and Moses Marshall do well and truly have harmless the said Register, and all persons concerned and interested in the same, then this obligation to be void, and of none effect, or else to remain in full free and virtue. 
Sealed and declared in presence of J. L. Marshall 
Elias Wellborn
Moses Marshall

Georgia
Richmond County

I, Leon P. Duglas, Clerk of the Court of Ordinary in and for said County in said State, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is the true copy of a bond filed in my office, and
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I do further certify that, records were at that time very imperfectly kept is this department, that it was not the custom to have marriage license returned and recorded, not was that custom adopted in this office until 1813. As I find no records of marriages in my said office until said date. 

Witness my hand and the seal of the said Court this fifteenth day of February 1844. Eighteen hundred and forty four.

Leon P. Dugas, Clerk
Honorable A. H. Stevens 

State of Georgia
Richmond County

I, James Harper, one of the Justices of the Inferior Court, in and for said County, do hereby certify, that Leon P. Dugas, is the Clerk in and for said County of the Court of Ordinary, that the foregoing certificate is in due form of law, and that due faith is to be placed in his acts and doings as Clerk of the Court of Ordinary, 
Given under my hand this fifteenth day of February 1844. 
James Harper
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rep. 23 June

8497
Georgia 

Mary Wellborn, widow of Elias Wellborn who was pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died in the year 1836 of Columbia in the State of Georgia who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Hines of regiment commanded by Colonel Fannin in the North Carolina line for 18 months. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 60 Dollars ---- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of June 1844 and sent to Honorable A. H. Stevens, Crawfordsville, Georgia. 

Total Amount, $300.

[Act July 7, 1838.]

Recorded by F. L. Swann, Clerk, Book D., Vol. 1, Page 327
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Letter to Pension Agent 22 March 1845

2 Certificates: 1838 (reported 25 June) and 1843. See A. H. Stephens letter evidence forms sent April 10, 1848.
Letter D. Cooper 2 November 1832

5764
Georgia

Mary Wellborn
widow of Elias Wellborn
who was a Private
in the North Carolina Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 60 Dollar 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of June 1844 and sent to Honorable A. H. Stephens, Crawfordsville, Georgia.

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

Recorded in Book A., Vol. 1, Page 216
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Record Division 
3-525

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

In reply to your request of -----. received ------ for a statement of the military history of Elias Wellborn a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 

Widow 6465

Dates of enlistment or appointment: 1778, 1779, July or August 1780, 1781, and 1782.

Length of Service: 9 months, 3 months, 3 months, 3 months, 3 months, 3 months, and 6 months. 

Rank: Private, 1st Lieutenant

Officers under whom service was rendered: Captain Hines, Captain York, Captain John Cleveland, Captain Willson, Captain Beverly, Captain Barton, Colonel Dewgan, Colonel Isaacs, Colonel Armand, Colonel Malmady and Colonel Harrendon.

State: North Carolina

Battles engaged in: many skirmishes with Tories, Camden, Eutaw Springs

Residence of soldier at enlistment: Wilkes County, North Carolina

Date of application for pension: December 03, 1832

Residence at date of application: Columbia County, Georgia 

Age at date of application: born in Randolph County, North Carolina, September 09, 1759, died in 1836.

Remarks: Soldier married in Richmond County, Georgia, March 5, 1789, Mary Marshall. She was allowed pension in an application June 3, 1844 while residence Columbia County, Georgia, age 72. No reference to any service in War of 1812.

(brother Abner)

Very respectfully,
Commissioner
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Section.

August 23, 1915. 

Miss Claire Anderson,
Commerce, Georgia.

Madam:

In response to your letter dated the 12" instant, relative to Elias Wellborn, W. File No. 6,455, you are advised that in the pension applications of Elias and Mary Wellborn, there is no reference to any of their children, but in a letter (filed with their claims) dated March 25, 1893, their daughter Mrs. S. H. Hill, of Kiokee Columbia County, Georgia, an octogenarian, claimed to be their only surviving child. She referred to her brother Marshall Wellborn and stated that their mother Mary Wellborn has been dead about 40 years. Soldier had a brother, Abner Wellborn. There is no further family data.

Very Respectfully, 
E. C. Tieman
Acting Commissioner.
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[many ineligible words]

Mr. Edwards
Pension Office

Sir

A Mr. Elias Welborn is firmly {ineligible] [ineligible] right to a higher pension then the allowed for eighteen months service but us in 


eighteen months.
Yours truly
John Wright
November 12, 1833

Elias Welborn of Columbia County, Georgia
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Respectfully referred to the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions. 

Respectfully,
H. C. Hansbrough

File with OW Widow 6465

FILE WITH CASE
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Address: "Chief of the Record and Pension Office, War Department, Washington, D.C."

362,466.

BJW.
Subject:

Record and Pension Office,
1 encl. War Department
Washington City 

April 4, 1893.

Honorable H. C. Hansbrough
United States Senate.

Sir: 

In returning herewith letter, received by your reference this morning, of Mrs. S. H. Hill, of Kiokee, Columbia County, Georgia, who desires you to obtain for her a record of Elias Wellborn, of Appling, Columbia County, Georgia, in the Revolutionary war, I have the honor to inform you that the records of that war have not yet been transferred to this Department, but are still on file partly in the Pension Office and partly in the State Department. 
It is believed that you can most readily obtain the information you desire by referring the letter of your correspondent to the Commissioner of Pensions. 

Very respectfully,
F. C. Ainsworth 
Colonel, U. S. Army,
Chief, Record and Pension Office.
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6096 act 44 No 2

Mary Wellborn widow of Elias Wellborn, married March 1789, husband died in 1836, $60 per annum to commence 4th. March 1836.

Acts 1838 and 1844.

I put 2 certificates and enter and number the case under act'43

8497

Honorable A. H. Stephens, Crawfordsville, Georgia
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Kiokee, Columbia County, Georgia

March 25, 1893

Gentleman:
You will please look on record, of Revolutionary soldiers and see the name of Mr. Elias Wellborn, Appling, Columbia County, Georgia.

He was a soldier and drew pension and his widow Mrs. Mary Wellborn or his son Marshall Wellborn drew it for her during her life: you will please tell me [ineligible word] battles he was in [ineligible word] promoted. And all about
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his record in full. His only surviving child Mrs. S. H. Hill is a daughter of Revolution and I hear is entitled to a pension. We Would like to have his record to subj: initiate claim. Do you know how much she can draw. Her mother has been dead about 40 years; Mrs. S. H. Hill is an octogenarian and needs the money; You will please give that your earliest attention and truly oblige.

Mrs. S. H. Hill
Columbia County, Georgia
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Address

Respectfully referred to Major F. C. Ainsworth, Record and Pension Division, with the request that the information requested be furnished.

Respectfully,
H. C. Hansbrough
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Rev. War

E. B. ANDERSON, BANKER,
CAPITAL STOCK 825,000.00
SURPLUS AND PROFITS 812,500.00

COMMERCE, GA. 

July 26, 1915.

Commissioner of Pensions,
War Department,
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir:

Could you give me the Revolutionary record of Elias Welborn, private in the North Carolina militia, supposed to have drawn a pension from Columbia county of Georgia, age seventy-five; also the record of William Bush for the War of 1812. Thanking you in advance for the kindness of looking those records up, I am,

(Miss) Claire Anderson,
Commerce, Georgia

P.S. William Bush lived in Franklin County, Georgia.
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E. B. Anderson, Banker,
Capital Stock $25,000.00
Surplus and Profits $12,500.00
Commerce, GA. 

Aug.12,1915.
Commissioner of Pension, War Department, Washington, D.C.

Rev. Sec. TWL

Dear Dir:
When you sent me the Revolutionary War records of Elias Welborn of Columbia county ,Georgia; you did not give the names of any children. Does his pension state that there were any children,or that of his wife;s if so will you please send me the names of the same and all the informa-tion given about them from the pension. Thanking you in advance for your kindness , I am
(Miss) Claire Anderson, 
Commerce, Georgia

(stamp U.S. Pension Office. Aug 13 1915)
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Revolutionary War. 

Georgia: (check)William Wilbourne; OEd Wilburn; OThomas Wilburn; O Curtis Welborn; O Curtis Welborn Jr.; ODavid Welborn; O Edward Welborn; 1 Elias Welborn (check) Maj. O Thomas Wellborn; Elias Wellborn; OThomas Wellborn; OThomas Welbourne; only one ODaniel Welbourne O David Wellborne

Viriginia: only one (check) William, Oct. 1780 spelled Wellburn, Wilborne, Wilbourn, Wilbourne, Welburn, Wilburne, Welbourne.
Where there six Welborns in the Revolution from Virginia: ORichard Welburn, Wilbourn, Willburn. OJohn Wilburn OThomas Wilbern in Capt. John Morten's Co. Prince Edward Co. 

Original Wars
Virginia: Robert Welbourne 1652 by John Bayles , Lancaster Co. Mathew Welbourne 1653 by Charles Grimes, Lancanster Co. Sam Welbourn 1654 by Maj. Miles Carey, Westmoreland Co A William and a Richad in Colonel spelled five ways. Thomas Wilborn. 

(stamp Received Jul 6 1937 Mail Sub-Div. Vets. Adm. Reader / 30)

The great desire is to obtain the name a/of the parents of these men.
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11 Higgins Court
Arlington, Massachusetts

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

I recently wrote to the War Department asking about a Major William Welborn of North Carolina, Randolph or Guilford Counties said to have been in War of 1812 and Mexican War 1836 |?| The War Department suggested your department.

I am working on the Genealogy of Welborns. The name
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is spelled many ways, Wellbourne, Wilbourn, Wilborn, Wilburn, etc. I am hoping to connect the early branches through deeds, wills or war records. 

Can you advise the easiest way to accomplish this in your department. Is it not a fact soldiers give their parents names when they sign for service?

I enclose the Revolutionary names I have from pension rolls but these do not give the parents.

Can you, rather will you help me?

Sincerely yours
Helen Alene Welborn
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August 31, 1937

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Helen Alene Welborn
#11 Higgins Court
Arlington, Massachusetts

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Colonial records of Robert, Mathew, Sam, William, Richard, and Thomas Welborn, all of Virginia, and the Revolutionary War records of William, Ed., Thomas, Curtis, Senior, Curtis, Junior, David(2), Edward, Elias(2), Thomas (4) and Daniel Welborn, all of Georgia, and the Revolutionary War records of William, Richard, John, and Thomas Welborn, all of Virginia, also, the War of 1812, Indian War of 1837, and Mexican War records of Major William Welborn.

This office has no record of services rendered in the Colonies prior to the Revolutionary War, hence no record of the above first named soldiers.

The Revolutionary War records have been searched and no claim for pension found based upon service in that war of any soldiers named on your list except an Elias Wellborn, of North Carolina and a William Welburn, of Virginia.

In order to identify the record of the officer, William Wellborn, named above, please furnish as much as possible of the following data: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of widow.

The records of Elias Wellborn, W.6465 and William Welburn, S.7856, are furnished you herewith.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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JAMES W. CAMAK.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ATHENS, GA.

Athens Ga. July 15th. 1903

Pension Department U.S.
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen:-

I wish to get a certified copy of the commission of my great grandfather Elias Wellborn who was a first lieutenant in the Revolutionary war as shown by his application for pension dated December 3rd, 1832, which was granted. 

Please give me the name of the proper department and official to write to in regard to it.

Thanking you for your courtesy I am
Yours truly,

James W. Camak

Dic. to W.
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160 West 59th Street, 
New York, April 9, 1908.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir: - 
Can you give me any information regarding service of St. Elias Wellborn of North Carolina or Georgia during the Revolutionary War of the War of 1812?

Yours very truly,
E Howard Martin 

(stamp of U.S. Pension Office A Apr 10 1908)
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3-595.
Record Division.
[illegible]
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
April 13, 1908
Searched by S. D. Lanparter
Original No. ____
Certificate No. ____
Claimant, ____
Soldier, St. Elias Wellborn
Service, of N.C. or Ga. Rev. War + War of 1812
Remarks: No such claim as above except Wid. #6465 No 1812. Sur. or Wid. No D. W. Inv. or Wid. (1812) G. 
give this

Chief of Division. 
27498b4m2-07
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The State of Mississippi
DeSoto County }

Be it remembered that on this the 18th day of April 1844, personally appeared before me William H. Wise and [activy justier] of the sever in + for [drink lecufty] of DeSoto, Solo=rusy Mean shall, who being duly sworn makets oath and suith that he was per=sonally acopnurnted with Elias Wellborn and Mary Marshall now Mrs. Mary Wellborn widow of [survig] Elias Wellborn [redofclicenant] and that he this service Solomon Marshall was pursant at the marraige of [susil] Elias Wellborn + Mary Marshall and that he saw their marriage to such other sometime in the month of Mary A.D. 1789, and he believes it was upon the 5th day of March 1789, in the County of Richnihid, (as it was then called in the State of Georgia, 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 18th day of April 1844 } Solomon Marshall.
W.H. Wise (circled IP)

The State of Mississippi 
DeSoto County } I William H Wise an activy Justice of the piner in + fer [acuril] leoun + do hereby certify that I am personally acquaintes with Solomon Marshall, [illegible] in the foregoing affidavit, and that his credibility is undoubted, and that his affidavit is gratittue to full endit. Given under my hand + send this the 18th day of April A.D.  W.H. Wise (circle IP)
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State of Mississippi
DeSoto County }

I John C. Pryor Clerk of the Probate Court in Shafer puril County + of DeSoto, do hereby certify that William H. Wise whose name appears to the forgoing certificate, is + was at the time of signing the same as acting Justice of the Peace in + fer said County of DeSoto, duly elected + qualified as such. and that due faith and credit should be given to all his official acts as such, and I do hereby further certify that the signing of his name to the foregoing certificates is his genuine signature, having been signed by him a [huy passnger]. 

In writing whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said [leoust] of office this the 18th day of April 1844  John Pryor clerk 

The State of Mississippi
DeSoto County } 
I John T. Mosely Judge of the Probate Court in + fer said County of DeSoto, do hereby certify that John C. Pryor whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is + was at the time of signing the same, the Clerk of said Probate Court, duly elected + qualified as such, and that  due faith + credit should be given to all his official acts as such and thus his certificate is in due form of law. 
Given under my hand + said this the 18th day of April 1844 John T Moseley Judge of Probates
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No. 1

State of Georgia
Columbia County

On this the 18th day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally came before me Robert S. Pounds a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Mary Wellborn a resident of the County of Columbia and State aforesaid aged about eighty years of age, 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 an Act of Congress passed on the second day of February 1848, granting pension to widow of persons who served during The Revolutionary War, that she is the widow of Elias Wellborn who was a private in the Revolutionary War, for the proof of which fact she would refer to the Records of the Pension Office recorded in Book E, Vol. 6, page 106, Certificate No. 2366 as she is informed in the number book H. 

The deponent Mary Wellborn further states that she was married to said Elias Wellborn to her best recollection on the 5th day of March in the year 1789, and that her
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husband as aforesaid did some time in 1836, for proof of which facts in a positive and particular manner she would refer to the evidence now on file in the Pension Office, under which this deponent swears that she received, and is the identical Mary Wellborn who did receive, as the widow of Elias Wellborn aforesaid, a pension at the rate of sixty dollar per annum under Acts of Congress 7th July 1838, March 3rd 1843, and June 17th 1844.

Deponent further states that the original certificate granted to her by the Pension Department at Washington is not now in her possession, and that she is advised and is informed by her agent that the same is now on file in the Office of the Agent for paying pensions at Savannah, Georgia.

Deponent further states on oath that she has been since the death of her husband Elias Wellborn, and is still his widow and has never intermarried and makes this application for renewal of his pension under Act of Congress 1848. 

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above, deponent using her mark for her signature.

R. S. Pounds, Justice of the Peace
Mary Wellborn ('X'/his mark)
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No. 2
State of Georgia
County of Columbia

I, Robert S. Pounds, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State do hereby certify that I am personally and well acquainted with Mary Wellborn the widow of Elias Wellborn who made and subscribed the foregoing declaration, and that I have satisfactory reason for affirming as my opinion that she is the identical widow of said Elias Wellborn, and has never intermarried since his death, and that she is also the identical Mary Wellborn whose name is inscribed on the Pension Roll at Washington as such widow, and contained in the pension certificate to which she has referred. 
Given under my hand on this the 18th day of April in the year 1855.

R. S. Pounds 

No. 3
State of Georgia
County of Columbia

Clerk Office Superior Court of said County, I, Anderson M. Crawford, Clerk of the Court in and for said County holding general jurisdiction and being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Robert S. Pounds, before whom the foregoing declaration of Mary Wellborn was made and subscribed, and also who signed the foregoing certificate of the identity of
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said Mary Wellborn, was at the time of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly authorized by laws to administer oaths so, in testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my seal of office this 25th day of April 1853. 

A. M. Crawford, Clerk

State of Georgia
Columbia County

I, Mary Wellborn do hereby constitute and appoint Joseph Sturges at Washington City my time and lawful agent to apply for in my name and in my behalf for the obtainment of a pension under the foregoing declaration this 18th day of April 1853.

Signed and acknowledged before me this 18th day of April in the year 1853.

R. S. Pounds
Mary Wellborn ('X'/her mark)
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 6465
Mary Wellborn 
Widow
Elias Wellborn
Pvt. Rev. War

Act: February 2nd, 1848
Index:-Vol. M, Page 319

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1893, April, 29 - History to Mrs. S. H. Hill, Kiokee, Georgia

1903, July, 02 - History to James W. Camak, Athens, Georgia

1908, April, 16 - History to E. Howard Martin

1915, April, 10 - Mrs. George M. [last name ineligible] furnished history

1915, August, 04 - History to Miss Claire Anderson

1915, August, 23 - History for names of alleged son and daughter in 1893

1937, August, 31 - History to Helen Alene Wellborn
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To what time was Elias Wellborn, of Georgia, Act June 7, 1832, last paid?

J. L. Edwards
June 21, 1844

Paid to 4th March 1836. 

B. L. Boyan
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Pension Agency Planters Bank
Savannah 18 March 1845

Sir,

Enclosed I hand you the Pension Voucher of Martha Wellborn who claims a pension under a Certificate dated 25 June 1844, and in conformity with the Act of 3rd March 1843 and 17th June 1844. I submit the question whether two vouchers are not required in this case one applicable to the act of 1843 and one to that of 1844 in order that the respective accounts may be properly charged, or is the pension in this instance chargeable alone to the act of 1844.

I make this inquiry as a guide in future cases.

Respectfully your obedient servant,
H. W. Mercer 

J. L. Edward, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington City
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Columbia Co. Georgia
To Appling [illegible]
Honr Sec" of the Interior July 19th 1853 =

Dear Sir personall me, to ask the farror of nocy, to since my the [illegible] that puensp fo aid to Elias Wellborn by the department as a Revolutionary + Soldier _ also the amle paid to widow Mrs. Mary Wellborn, and the amt not due her to therde of Marche Laske_ the favsur of alhiche shall be thankfully acknowledge_
Acceptses my very sincere regards + high consideration for your health and prosperity _
Nath. Bailey
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Washington, D.C.
22 March 1848

Dear Sir,

Please examine the enclosed letter and give me the necessary information at your earliest convenience.

Respectfully, 
A. D. Stephen 

return the letter
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Elias Wellborn

19591
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State of Georgia
Columbia County 

I Simmons Crawford Clerk of the Court of Ordinary do hereby certify that the three persons to wit Nathaniel Baily, James Luke and Ebenezer T. Williams and those names appear to the foregoing certificates and affidavit an Justices of the Inferior Court of the County aforesaid, which from and composes the Court of Ordinary, that they did on the third day of their just cause the foregoing declaration of Elias Wellborn to be recorded as well as the affidavits and certificates and that the same is truly extracted from the journals of the Court of that day. 

Given under my hand as Clerk of the Court of Ordinary for said County and State with the seal of my office affixed this sixth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.

Simmons Crawford, Clerk 
Court of Ordinary, Columbia County 

Should any inquiry be necessary, reference is give to the Georgia Delegation in Congress, particularly to Honorable R. H. Wilde, John Forsyth, and Henry G. Lamar.
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Official Business 

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

Mary Wellborn
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State of Georgia
Columbia County

Be it known that before me J. G. Marshall, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Mary Wellborn and made oath in due form of law, that she is the identical person named in an original certificate in her possession of which I certify the following is a true copy.

War Department 
Widows Pension

I certify that in conformity with the acts of March 3rd 1843 and June 7th 1844 Mary Wellborn, widow of Elias Wellborn, who was a private and died on the ---- day of --- 1836, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of sixty dollars per annum commencing on the 4th of March 1848, unless the pensioner shall marry or die before the last mentioned date, in which case, the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage or death. 

Given at the War Office of the United States this 25th day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty four.

William Wilkins, Secretary of War 
Examined and countersigned, J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions

That she has not intermarried but continues the widow of the above mentioned Elias Wellborn and that she now resides in Columbia County State of Georgia and has resided there all her life to the truth of which statement I am fully satisfied.

Sworn to and subscribed this 10th day of Sept 1844. 

J. G. Marshall, Justice of the Peace
James Flemming
Mary Wellborn ('X'/her mark)
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State of Georgia
Columbia County

This tenth day of September 1844, I, Joseph G. Marshall a Justice of the Peace in the county above named do hereby certify that I have the most satisfactory evidence viz from personal knowledge that Mary Wellborn who has this day appeared before me to take the oath of identify is the identical person named in the pension certificate which she has exhibited before me numbered 8497 and hearing date at the War Office the 25th day of June 1844 and signed by William Wilkins Secretary of War. Given under my hand at Columbia County on the day and year above written

Joseph G. Marshall, Justice of the Peace

Be it known that I, Mary Wellborn, of Columbia County, State of Georgia, widow of Elias Wellborn do hereby [ineligible] and appoint Simmons Crawford my true and lawful attorney for me, and in my name to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions in Savannah my pensions from the 4th day of March 1843 t0 the 4th September 1844. Given under my hand and seal this the tenth day of September 1844 sealed and delivered in presence of 

Joseph G. Marshall (Justice of the Peace)
James Flemming 
Mary Wellborn ('X'/her mark)

State of Georgia
Columbia County

Be it known that on the tenth day of September 1844 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Mary Wellborn, widow above named and acknowledge the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned.

Joseph G. Marshall, Justice of the Peace
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I Gabriel Jones, Clerk of the Superior Court of Columbia County, State of Georgia certify that Joseph G. Marshall a Justice of the Peace as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and subscribed my name this 11th day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty four. 

Powelton Hancock County, Georgia

Dear Sir,

On the above and preceding pages you have a verbatim transcript of the original papers of Mary Wellborn very accurately expired. She applies to me to obtain a continuance to her of her pension and states that she drew it from the death of her husband up to the year 1848 since which time from affliction paralysis she has made no application and consequently has not obtained it. These kind of cases bring attended with much intricacy and requiring rigid particularity in order that I may do her justice by proceeding correctly I appeal to you for the necessary information, instructions and forms to enable me to proceed correctly. Doubtless her name is to be found on the Pension Roll in your, or the appropriate Department if so I presume all that is necessary to obtain her Pension from 1848 till now, will be to identify her as yet living and as the wife and widow of her former husband, Elias Wellborn deceased, she is yet his widow. If you deem it essentially necessary I will enclose the original of which the above and foregoing are copies.

Very respectfully,
D. Cooper
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P. S. As before often said, I regret to trouble you so much, but it grows out of the nature of the cases applying to me for their right. 

yours and c.
D. C. 

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