Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File Old War Inv. File 4342, Elijah Hedges, Not Rev. Va. Rangers 1791
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SERVICE                                                      NUMBER
Not Rev.          Hedges, Elijah                 Old War Inv. File 7342
Va. Rangers 1791
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State of Virginia}
County of Brook} SS

Be it Known that on the thirteenth day of November in the year One thousand eight hundred and twenty four before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Elijah Hedges, formerly of the county and state aforesaid but now a resident of the county of Fairfield county and state of Ohio, who after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says, that an account of a wound he received in an engagement with hostile Indians, at a station then at the mouth of Indian Wheeling creek on the second day of May in the year One thousand seven hundred and ninety one, and whilst engaged as a private in a company of Virginia Rangers in the service of the United States for the protection of the frontier under the immediate command of Ensign Joseph Biggs the said deponent, together with the said Ensign Biggs was wounded on the day and at the station aforesaid on Indian Wheeling creek. That in consequence of such wound, deponent was placed on the invalid pension roll of the United States and received from the Honorable Jam McHenry Secretary of War, a pension certificate, dated, as well as deponent now recollects sometime in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety six, at the rate of five dollars per month in pursuance of a law of the United States passed the 25th day of March 1796, that deponent when about to remove from the County of Brook aforesaid to his present residence in the State of Ohio, deposited his pension certificate for safe Keeping with his brother Hiram Hedges and that an application, now for his said certificate, the said Hiram ha lost or mislaid it so that it cannot be found. 
deponent
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Deponent therefore prays the Honorable the Secretary of War to furnish with an exemplification, or renewal of his said certificate, so that he may be enabled to receive the pension now due, and such as may hereafter become due to him. Deponent further respectfully prays that he may be transferred from the roll of the Virginia agency to that of the State of Ohio.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written 
Before me
[signed] Robert Marthel, J. P. }
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The State of Virginia Burke County to wit
I John Connell clerk of the County Court of Burke aforesaid do hereby certify that Robert Marshel before whom the foregoing affidavit was made was at the time of the making thereof a justice of the peace within and for the said County duly commissioned and qualified according to the constitution and laws of the sate aforesaid to whose official full faith and credit are due and ought to be given. 

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In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at the Court house of the said county this 13th day of Nov. 1824. & in the 49 year of our foudation.
[signed] John Connell, C. B. C
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
O.W. Inv. File 4342
MMHF/eel

October 31, 1929

Mr. B. H. Gast
The Prospect Citizens Bank
Prospect, Ohio

Dear Sir: 

I advise you that from the records of this bureau it appears that Elijah Hedges while serving in a company of Virginia Rangers under the immediate command of Ensign Joseph Biggs in the protection of the frontiers, was wounded on May 2, 1791 in an engagement with Indians at the mouth of "Indian Wheeling Creek".

His place of residence at enlistment, nature of wound, length of service and his age are not stated. He was allowed pension from September 4, 1796. In 1824 he had moved from Brooke County, Virginia to Fairfield County, Ohio.

He referred to a brother Hiram Hedges. There are not further data on file relative to his family and the date of his death is not shown.

Very truly yours, 

EARL D. CHURCH 
Commissioner
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1929- Oct. 23 - Hist. to Feo. D. Hedges [illegible]
1929 - Oct. 31 -   "    "   B. H. Gast AWF
See letter in Robert Hedges W. 113(?)4

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NW Indian
1791
4342 
INVALID

File No. 4342

Elijah Hedges

Prvt W. S. Army

Act:                               
Index: -Vol. M, Page 168

[Arrangement of 1870]
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To Ohio from Virginia
Elijah Hedges
Private
in the U. S. Army.
Inscribed on the roll of Virginia, at $5, and increased to $8, per month by law 24th April 1816
Formal certificate issued 25 Novr. 1824, and sent to Wm McCluney, at Brooke Ct. Ho. Va. --
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The Honorable 
John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City

Wellsburgh

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(written sideways on page) Mr. Edwards
For 
formal certificate 
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transfer -
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Wellsburgh, Brooke County, V. Nov. 13th 1824
Sir
Inclosed will be received an application from me for a renewal of my pension certificate, and to be transferred from the pension roll of the Virginia to that of the State of Ohio agency.
Please address to the care of William McCluney Brooke Court house, Virginia.
I have the honor to be 
Your most obd. servt.
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The Honorable
John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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Washington, D. C.
August 26, 1929.

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

Sir:-

I am writing to you hoping that you may be able to help me, that is, from the record of the Pension Office.

My great-grand father was in the Revolutionary War. I do not know whether he enlisted in Virginia or Pennsylvania.  His father was born in England, and settled in Virginia. Some vague information I have is the reason I say I do not know whether he enlisted in Pennsylvania or Virginia.  

However, he was a pensioner from 1789 to 1796, but it appears he received a pension in Pennsylvania.

Elijah Hedges is his name.

Can you supply me with his record as you have it. showing date of birth, date of death, name of widow, which unit he was in, private, officer, etc.?

Any information you may give me will be greatly appreciated.

Respectfully yours,
Geo. B. Hedges
10 Fourth Street, Southeast (underlined)
Washington, D. C. 

(STAMP) PENSION OFFICE 
U. S. 
AUG 26, 1929
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Washington, D.C.
October 24, 1929

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Sirs: -

Your answer, "Rev. and 1812 War Section, M M H F. OLB. Inv. File 4342," to my letter of recent date was received today.

Please accept my thanks.

The information that you have sent me is really more than I imagined you could give. Though there was some sort of a system in vague way back there in those days. Naturally it cannot be compared with the records of the military branch of our government today.
Thanking you again for your kindness in this matter. believe me to be,
Respectfully,
Geo. B. Hedges
10 Fourth Street, Southeast,
Washington, D.C.
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
MMHF
O.W.Inv. File 4342

October 23, 1929.

George B. Hedges,
10 Fourth Street, S. E.,
City.

Dear Sir:

I advise you that from the records of this bureau it appears that Elijah Hedges while serving in a company Virginia Rangers under the immediate command of Ensign Joseph Biggs in the protection of the frontiers, was wounded on May 2, 1791 in an engagement with Indians at the mouth of "Indian Wheeling Creek".

His place of residence at enlistment, nature of wound, length of service and his age are not stated.

He was allowed pension from September 4, 1796. In 1824 he had moved from Brooks county, Virginia to Fairfield County, Ohio. It does not appear that he ever lived in Pennsylvania.

He referred to a brother Hiram Hedges. There are no further data on file relative to his family and the date of his death is not shown.

Very truly yours, 

EARL D. CHURCH,
Commissioner
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