Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,360, Elisha Franklin, R.I.

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Service R.I   Franklin, Elisha  Number S34.360

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16 631 New Jersey
Elisha Franklin
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of Hopewell in the state of New Jersey
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Olney of the R. Island line,
for the term of months
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Inscribed on the roll of 1776 New Jersey
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 11 of May 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of Sep 1819
and John White & Nathan Stevenson Lambertville, N. Jersey
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Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1819.
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1810
[to the right the following addition]
126.47
   48.00
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$174.47
 15 mo 21/31 4/30

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
Constitution [check mark]

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New Jersey, Hunterdon [symbol]:
I, Jonthan [F?] Blackwell, Clerk of the court of Common rule as for said County do certify  that Elnathan Stevenson, Esquire, before whom this written Deposition of war taken then was and now is and of the Judges of the Court of Common law duly came me now and sworn and full credit is due to his acts as such
[outline of stamp or seal] Witness my hand and the seal of said county the 23rd June 1818
[signature Blackwell, CHE?]

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State of New Jersey}
Hunterdon County   }
                Be it known that on the 11th Day of May
                   Anno Domini 1815 before me Elnathan
            Stevenson one of the Judges of the Court
        of Common Pleas in and for the said County
of Hunterdon personally appeared Elisha Franklin of the Township of Hopewell in said county aged about sixty four years who being duly sworn according to law did declare that in the Spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five he enlisted in the american army for eight months under Capt. Blackmore in Colonel Hitchcock's regiment in the Rhode Island line and  after the expiration of his time he enlisted again  under Captain Jeremiah Oney in the same regiment for one year says he was at the taking of the Hessians at Trenton and at the battle of Trenton and Princeton, says he continued in the army one month after the expiration of his time when he was regularly discharged by his officers but has left his discharge, and further says that after the taking of Cornwallis at Yorktown he enlisted again under the afore [symbol] Captain Oney in the afore regiment at Providence in Rhode Island afore [symbol] for nine months at the expiration of which he was again regularly discharged =[symbol] at Saratoga, but has also left this last discharge, says after he left the army he returned to New England where he resided three or four years, when he went to Deleware where he lived about nine years and then came to the township of Hopewell afore [symbol] where he had resided more than twenty years, and says he is now in reduced and [necelysitous?] circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for his support and further saith not 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above [symbol] before me 
[Signature Elnan Stevenson]  [ signature  Elisha Franklin  his mark]

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I the within named Elnathan Stivenson judge as afore do now certify that since the date of the within declaration and certification have been made more particularly acquainted with the situation of the within named Elisha Franklin, he is in law and indigent circumstances and not able to earn much for his support; therefore again ?? the within proceedings with the additional evidence to the declaring for the Department of War.

Am well(?) July 19th. 1819.

Elnan. Stivenson - Signature

Bottom - written sideways
Elisha Franklin
11 May 1818  private
Orange (struck out) New Jersey
.75 one year. .81 nine months
Wanted the judge's certificate of the reduced circumstances of the officiant.

Further evidence of service required.

Admitted upon the Certificate

Major John Dexter

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Signature at top of page

Elijah Franklin

Con
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Schedule
STATE OF NEW JERSEY,} ss
Hunterdon county,

ON the second day of May eighteen hundred and twenty one personally appeared, in open court of common pleas, being a court of record _______ for the said county, Elijah Franklin aged fifty seven years, resident in his ??? in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath doth, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: He enlisted in 1782 in Col: only Regiment of Rhode Island under the Continental establishment for this term of nine months which he served and was regularly discharged with discharge was last ??

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th of March 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, 

List follows:
6 ¾ acres of land ... $65.00
1 milk cow ... 12.00
1 chest ... 1.00
1 table ... .50
4 chairs ... 1.00
1 ?? hat(?) ... 50
1 tea kettle ... 25
1 tub ?? ... 30
1 ?? of cord irons & tongs ... 50
2 ?? cash ... 1.00
Eighty two twenty five cents $82..25

Note next to list:
and he owes more than one hundred & sixty dollars besides this interest on the same for afterwards of one year, that his ??Pention corte ficate is No. 14.6.31 Jersey agency - his family cow lists of himself & wife he has no trade
Elijah X (his above X) Franklin 
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Sworn to, and declared, on the Second day of May 1821 before Elnan Stevenson

I John T. Blackwell, Clerk of Hunterdon Pleas, do hereby certify, that the foregoing and the schedule thereto annexed, are tryly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is eighty two dollars and twenty five cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 2d day of May eighteen hundred and twenty

Signature
Clerk of the Court for the county of Hunterdon.

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It appears by the Regimental Book now in my ??, in which the Entries of Casualties and Occurrences from and after the 1st day of January 1781 were principally made by me. That Elisha Franklin fraid to be resident at Hopewell in the State of New Jersey, ?? for, and served the continued term of Nine Months a Private Soldier in the Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Jeremiah Olney in the Rhode Island Line on the Continental Establishment, and that he was honourably discharged from said Regiment at Saratoga in the State of New York on the twenty eighth day of December 1782, being the expiration of the term of his said enlistment.

Providence July 13th. 1819.

Signature JW Dexter Major of said Regiment codem(?) tempore

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34360
Invalid
File No. 34,360
Elisha Franklin

Act: 18th March 18th
Index: - Vol. 8, Page 145

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Flemington NJ
July 21st                                          Free

Hon. J.C. Calhoun,
Secretary of War, Washington

rec'd 25 July 1821                          428

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Sir
I inclose the Schedule of Elijah Franklin, it has been mislaid (sp. ?).
Your Hum. Serv.
J.L. Blackwith
Flemington, July 21, 1821