Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4307, Elijah Griffin, Va.
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Va. Griffin, Elijah R4307
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[This information appears to be written on a scrap of paper.]

Griffin, Elijah
Va.  R4307
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[This note appears to be written on a scrap of paper.]

This is to certify that Elijah Grifen Militia Soldier from Halifax County is Discharg of his [illegible] of Duty of three months
Apr the 9th 1781

Richd Gaines [illegible]

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Elijah Griffin
Va

Rejected.  did not serve 6 mo.  See [illegible]

JBaptist  July 24 18[illegible]

4307

4307 [crossed out]

[illegible] 7 June  ZN
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Elisha Griffin
Virginia

Rejected
[handwritten flourish]

[This line is illegible.]

Enclosed

[Illegible] 16 Mar. '35  N Goff

4307
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873, [Entire line is crossed out]

4307  [initials written sideways beside the numbers]

P.O.
Elijah Griffin

Service: ________________________

Enlisted: __ REJECTED [stamp]__, 18

Discharged: ____________________, 18

Application filed: _______________, 18

Alleges:

Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.

___________Recognized.   _________Contrac [Rest of word missing]

________Cer. of Dis.   Searched for _________, 18
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Elijah Griffin      33390

Va

23 Feb. 1836.

Pension office

[Illegible] Syl
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Griffin, Elijah

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Declaration
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State of Virginia
Mechlenburg County
[curly bracket]
SS

On this 15th day of February 1836 personally appeared in open court before John Davis Benjamin H Coleman George Tarry & Richd H Walker the court of Mechlenburg [illegible] [illegible] Elijah Griffin a resident of Mechlenburg County State of Virginia - 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 Acts 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 in the month of February 1781.  he resided in Hallifax County State of Virginia, he was then drafted - [illegible] to march in the lower part of Virginia [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] - under the command of [illegible] Hanfield and [illegible] Rogers - he was in [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] first of Hanfields Co Long and from Long to Capt. Gaines - and was discharged [illegible] by Capt, Gaines in April 1781 as [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] -  In the month of September following he was drafted and [illegible] to march in the lower part of Virginia he marched under the command of Captain Faulconer - he marched from Hallifax Courthouse through Petersburg by the way of James Town to Williamsburg in Virginia & from there to York Town -  he was then stationed until the  surrender of the British Army in York Town - he was then discharged  & returned home in November in the same year- he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]  [illegible] [illegible] the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of the agency of any state -  he has no documentary evidence of his having entered the service, or of his having been discharged from the service in his [illegible] [illegible] of duty --
[illegible]
Elijah X Griffin
mark

and the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after [illegible] the interogatories prescribed by the War department that - the above named applicant is a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and it is ordered to be certified that the affiants, Wallace Wilson & Robert W. Fitts are credible witnesses..

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Mechlenburg County - SS

This day Wallace Wilson came before me R.H Walker justice of the peace for the said County and made oath that he has known Elijah Griffin for many years that he [word scribbled out] [word scribbled out] knows he is upwards of seventy five years of age, and that he served a tour of duty in the Malisha, with him the said Elijah Griffin in the revolution war. and was with him when the British Army was captured at York Town - and that he knows that the said Elijah Griffin had before that served a tour of duty in the Malisha - and that the aid Elijah Griffin is a respectable man and deserving of credit - and that the said Wallace Wilson [illegible] old age & infirmity cant attend court - given under my hand and seal this 12. day of January 1836. 

RH Walker. JP - [illegible squiggle] 

Mechlenburg County SS

This day Robert W Fitts came before Richd H Walker justice of the peace for the said County and made oath that he has known Elijah Griffin for many years that he [word scribbled out] knows he is upward of seventy five years of age, and that he served a tour of duty in the Malisha, with him the said Elijah Griffin in the Revolutionary War, and was with him when he British Army was Captured at York Town - and he knows that the said Elijah Griffin had before that served a tour of duty in the Malisha, making on all six months and that the said Elijah Griffin is a respectable man and deserving of credit - and that the said Robt W Fitts from old age and infirmity cant attend court -  Give[rest of word is cut off] my hand & seal this 14 day of January 1836

RH Walker JP [illegible squiggle]
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Virginia Mechlenburg County SS
I John G Baptist clerk of the court of Mechlenburg County do hereby certify that the fore going contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Elijah Griffin for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 17th day of February 1836.

J. Baptist. C.C.

[A seal appears on the left side of the page.]