Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,400, Samuel Ellis, N.C.

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(3-1776)

SERVICE                                     NUMBER

N.C.               Ellis, Samuel.        S. 30,400



Born in Md    {handwritten}

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Missouri {added above “Kentucky”

Kentucky {crossed out}  29.740
Samuel Ellis

{illegible} Co. in the state of Kentucky

who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Read of the Regt. commanded 
by Col. Locke in the N.Carolina mil
line for 15 months

________
Missouri
________

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 50 Dollars ———-Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Feb. 1835 and sent to Hon. M. Beaty, H.R.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. ‘34.      175.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March ‘35 25.00                                                       ————
                                                                   $200.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book E.-2. Vol. 7      Page 15

{Facing Page}
Letter to Pensioner 19. {illegible}    1844.
{illegible} to Pen Agt. 13 March 1844
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To Missouri, from 4th March
1843. {illegible} March 1844. Notifica
-tion to Pens. Knoxville, Mo
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let to {illegible} G. abalowell  feb17’45

d. of d. not on A B [handwritten on slant at bottom of page}

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                              (1)

State of Kentucky}
Russel County      }    SS

on this third day of October 1833
personnally appeared before the under
signed one of the Commonwealth Jus
tices of the Peace in and for the County
& state aforesaid Samuel Ellis a resid
ent of the County of Russel aforesaid
State of Kentucky aged seventy one
years on the ninth day of April
last 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 in the year one thousand seven
hundred and seventy eight he entered
the service of the United States as
a volunteer militiaman in Roan
County State of North Carolina under
Captain Samuel Reed his leuten
ant was by the name of Wilson his
ensigns name he does not now recall
[. ] as one Ensign did not serve the
whole time he was immediately
marched on to the Adkin [Yadkin] River
where he was Joined to Col. Locks
Regiment the army was stationed
on the adkin River at a place
called Mocks Old field where

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they remained for some time that
is that place was called head
quarters but they were consta
ntly kept scouting about up
and down the adkin River and
in the neighborhood suppressing
& keeping the Torries down as far
as they could; had many skirmishes
with them in this way he served
six months that being the length
of time he volunteered for and was
after the expiration of his term
Honorably discharged by his Captain
and returned home
Sometime thereafter he again enter
the service of the united States as a 
volunteer private militiaman in
a Company Commanded by Captain
David Caldwell and Wilson Leut
he immediately Joined Col. Irvins regiment
again marched on to the adkin River
where he was kept in constant
service scouting about in north
and South Carolina after the
Tortes & British had several skir
misses with the enemy about the
Adkin & the neighborhood [?]
about in this way he served six
months & was Honorably discharged
by his Capt he again volunteered
under the same Captain and

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was Joined to the said Col Irvins
Regiment and marched on in the
North State that is Carolina there
he served faithfully {smudged} a private
militiaman nine months and
in this tour he was at the Battle
at the Cowpens in which Battle he
Received a wound in the arm soon
after this Balttle he was again Hon
orably discharged and returned home
and immediately volunteered again
for six months under Captain
Jacob Nichols David Henry Leut
he does not recollect the name
of the ensign he again marched on
to the adkin river remained scout
ing about through the Country
on to the Catoba River where he was
in some skirmishes as also in the
adkin and in this way he contin
ued in service the full term
of his engagement being six months
and was again Honorably discharge
He positively states that he faith
fully served the [. ] tours in the
war of the Revolution in a corps
called into Service by Competent
authority that he was in the
field or in garrison and for the
time which the services was
performed he was not employed

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in any Civil pursuit and for which
Services he claims a pension he
further states that he is now so
much afflicted from bodily infi
rmity hat he cannot without great
injury to himself attend Court for
the purpose of making this decla
ration he further states that
there is no Clergyman residing
in the vicinity of this place and
therefore cannot procure one to Cert
ify for him he hereby relinquishes
every claim whatever to a pension or annuity
except the present and declares his
name is not on the pension roll
of the agency of any state
1 Where and in what year were you
Born
Ans. I was born in the County of 
Montgomery State of Maryland
on the ninth day of April in
the year one thousand seven
hundred and sixty two agreeable
to the information of my parents
and my fathers register which
I have often seen and all of which
I believe to be true
2 Have you any record of your age and if so where is it
Ans. I have one now in my testament
taken from my fathers record and it is of
the stated age
3 Where were you living when called
into service where have you lived

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                            (2)
since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live
Ans. I lived in Rowan County state of 
North Carolina when called into serv
ice and that was my home during
the whole time of my service and
for several years thereafter about
three years after the close of the war
I moved to Surry County after some
time moved back to Roan county
where I remained a few years then
moved to Burk County where I rem
aimed some years when I moved to the
State of Tennessee Jefferson County
where I lived untill the year one
thousand eight hundred and twenty
six when I moved to Kentucky Cum
berland County where I lived untill
about one year ago when I moved to Russel County where I now live


4 How were you called into service
   were you drafted did you volenteer
    or were you a substitute and if a 
    substitute for whom
Ans. I was a volunteer in all my
Tours and services. I never was dra
fted or a substitute for any person
I chose to fight as a volunteer for 
my country

5.State the names of some of the [ ? ]
or officers who were with the troops

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where you served such Continental
and malitia Regiments as you can
Recollect and the general circumstances
of your service
Ans. I have given the names of the Colns
under whom I served I recollect Genl
Morgan Lee Colo Washington and 
others but the greater part of our
time of service, we were kept in our own Regiments and often
scouting in small detachments
and the general circumstances I have 
substantially given as far as I recollect
6. did you ever receive a discharge
 from the service and if so by whom
was it signed and what was [struck through]has Become of it
Ans. I received written discharges for
each of my tours signed by my respect
ive Captains, which discharges I have
lost long since but how when or 
where I know not nor have I any
Documentary Evidence and that I know
of no person whose testimony I can
procure who can testify to my service
7th. State the names of persons to whom
you are known in your present
neighborhood and who can 
Testify as to your character for vera
city and their belief of you services
as a soldier of the Revolution
I am acquainted with Captain Thos
Graves Smith Turner Jeremiah Algar Richard

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Perkins James Duncan and Jonathan Sweeney and others all of whom if present would speak well of me as to character for veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution Sworn to and subscribed this day and year of [@]

Robert Higgenbottom YP } Samuel Ellis

We Thomas Graves Smith Turner Jeremiah
Algar  Joseph Perkins. J [name crossed out]
Richard Perkins. James
Duncan. Jonathan Sweeney
Residing in the County of Russel State of Ken
tucky do hereby certify that we are well 
acquainted with Samuel Ellis who has
sworn to and subscribed the above decl
aration we believe him to be seventy
one years of age as he states that he is
Reputed and believed in the neighbor
hood where he resides to have been a soldier
of the Revolution and we concur in that
opinion & that there is no clergyman
Residing in this neighbourhood
Sworn to and subscribed the day and
year of —
                                    Thomas Graves
                                     Smith Turner
                                      [illegible signature]
                                       Richd Perkins
                                      James Duncan                                     
                                      Jonathan Sweeney
State of Kentucky}
Russel County      }   DJ

I Robert Higgenbotham a Justice of the peace in and for the County of do hereby Certify that on this third day of October 1833 the above named Samuel Ellis Signed and Sworn to the above declaration for a pension before me and I further certify and declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interroga

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-tories prescribed by the war department that
the above names Samuel Ellis the applicant
was a soldier of the Revolution and served as
he states and I furthur certify that there is
no Clergyman residing in the vicinity of
said Ellis and I furthur certify that the said
Samuel Ellis is as I believe the age he states
and that he is so afflicted from bodily infi
rmity that he is unable to attend Court
and that he the said Ellis is a resident of
Russel county Ky, and is reputiable and of good charactor, and I furthur Certify that Capt
Thomas Graves  Smith Turner  Jeremiah Algar
Richard Perkins  James Duncan & Jonathan Sweeney who had signed the preceding certificate are Residents of Russel County of State of Kentucky, and that they and each of them subscribed & sworn to the same before me; that they are credible persons and their statements are entitled to Credit given under my hand the day and year aforesaid

                 Robert Higgenbottom.    J.R.R.C.
State of Kentucky}  
Russell County     }Sct

I William S Patterson clerk of the county court
for the county of Russell [  ] do certify that
Robert Higgenbottom whose name is affixed to the foregoing certificate is and was at the date of the said certificate an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Russell duly authorized and commissioned as such and that full faith and credit is due all his official acts as such and that his signature attached is his genuine signature In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of office

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and Subscribed my name at office in Jamestown this 5th day of October 1833 and 42nd year of the Commonwealth
Will S. Patterson
Clerk of the Russell County Court
[illegible]

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                                 Samuel Ellis
                                       Russell Co.
                                                      Kentucky.
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                             [ j ]        [initial struck thru]

                            from ___ Jan 15 mo
                             $50.



                                        E





                        Hon. M. Beaty
                                        H R.


         [next 3 lines struck thru] Wm.Owens
                                                            Cole [illegible]
                                                                  Kentucky

[written lengthwise along spine]
July 8, 1886

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                                         WAR DEPARTMENT,
                                                Pension Office,

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 in a tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, 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 compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
______________________________________

A Statement,  showing the Service of Samuel Ellis
_______________________________________

Period when the service was rendered
 1778
Duration of the claimant’s service. Years. Months Days
Rank of the Claimant
Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served.
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.     71.    N.C.
Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Traditional

    The militia were seldom if ever engaged for a longer period under one engagement than three months.  He cannot therefore be allowed for a longer period than three months under each tour’

I am, respectfully, 
Your obedient servant,
J.L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

The applicants amended declaration is unsatisfactory.  It is believed that a continuation of actual service was not performed by the applicant for the time stated. Unless therefore he can prove his service as stated, an allowance for fifteen months can only be allowed.   Jany 8, 1886

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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,” “State troops,” “militia,” and “volunteers,” all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to 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 served 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 claiming the benefit of this law as officers,  non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, 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 in 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.                                   }   88.
     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 provision 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 served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;] the town or county and State in which   e resided when he entered the service ;  the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched.    This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons 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 not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or [if any] only on that of the Agency in the State of
       Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.                                             A.  B.

      [And then 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 of 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 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 a 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 Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
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 credit.  
         I,        Clerk of the Court of         do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter 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 services 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 in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his 

[handwritten addition at bottom of page:]
John Scott the witness belonged to the Virginia line and can’t not have had a personal knowledge of the applicants service.  The claim is therefore still objectionable. March 20, 1834

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     [a] The declaration must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declaration will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
     [b]  The declaration must make his declaration in the county where he resides.  If he should failed 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 declaration 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 two 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 ament 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 in 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 pension to be paid. according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase [italicized]about three or four months, is too indefinite, 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 served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; 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 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 public 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 contains 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 witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under the seal of office.
     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.

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address Jess. Craddock atty
            Mumfordville
                   Kentucky

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Application for a Transfer
Kentucky.   County of Hart     SS
     On this Fifth day of March 1845 before me the subscribed a Justice of the Peace from the said County of Hart personally appeared Samuel Ellis now residing in said county who his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company Commanded by Captain David Caldwell in the Regiment commanded by Colonel.
      [.       ] in the service of the United States, that he also belonged to the company commanded by Captain Samuel Reed in the Regiment commanded by Ward Irwin            
and that he also belonged to the company commanded by Captain Jacob Nichols and in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Irwin all in the service to the United States. That his name was placed on the [. ] roll of the State of Kentucky where he then resided.  That he moved from Kentucky to the state of Missouri and had his name transferred from Kentucky to Missouri.  That he has moved from Missouri to Kentucky again and now resides in Hart County Kentucky where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable 
in future, The following are his reasons for removing from Missouri to Kentucky: That him and his family were taken sick shortly after he settled in Missouri.  That his wife died there and him and his son & two Daughters who composed his family remained sick the greater

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part of one year and he concluded that he & his family could not enjoy their health in the State of Missouri and for that cause alone he moved from Missouri to Kentucky again; Given with my hand the day & date above
              [signature]Samuel Ellis
              
Sworn and subscribed to [signature] 
S Waggener [initials] before me the day & date above

Kentucky Hart County [initials]
                  This day personally appeared before me this subscriber a Justice of the Peace from the county aforesaid William A Whitherspoon residing in said county and to me personally known and made solemn oath before me that he is well acquainted and had been for upwards of Twenty years with the above named Samuel Ellis and that he is the same person described in the above affidavit.  Given under my hand this 5th day of March 1845 I also certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Witherspoon and that he is a man of [ ] and respectability
                   [signature] S Waggener [initials]

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State of Kentucky }
Hart County [ ]       }
          I George T Wood clerk of the Court of Hart County certify that John Waggener whose name is signed to the certificate on the opposite page is and was at the time of signing said certificate a  justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified as such and that said signature purporting to be his genuine and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such
             In Testimony of all which I have hereunto affixed the seal of my office and subscribed my name the 10th day of March 1845
                      [signature] G.T.Wood

State of Kentucky. Hart County [ ]
I, Geo T Wood Clerk of the Court of Hart County do certify that the word “signature” occurring in the foregoing certificate was changed from the word “certificate” which had been inserted by mistake in place of said first mentioned word.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of my office and subscribed my name the 10th day of March 1845. [signature] G. T. Wood

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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION,3-525
DEPARTMENT OFTHE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D.C.    JAN23, 1922
[handwritten across margin] S30400

In reply to your request of ——-, received——- for a statement of the military history of Saml, Ellis- a soldier of the. REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [or his widow’s] [struck thru] application for pension on file in this Bureau. S 30400 [underlined]

Dates of          Length of      Rank 
enlistment or   Service
appointment

1778.                   6 mos.          Pvt.

x.                         15 mos


x.                          6 mos

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED

CAPTAIN.               COLONEL.              STATE.

Sam’l Reed                Locke                    NC

David Caldwell         Irwin

Jacob Nichols
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Battles engaged in, Sev. Main Cowpens where wounded in arm;

Residence of soldier at enlistment,  Rowan Co. NC

Date of application for pension,  Oct 3, 1833, al

Residence at date of application, Russel Co., Ky

Age at date of application, b Apl 9, 1762 in Montgomery Co., Md.

   Remarks: In 1834 he lived in Adair Co. Ky and removed from there to Ray Co. Mo. in 1844 where his wife died and in 1848 he returned to Ky. [Hart Co.] with a son and 2 daus.  No names are stated


Respectfully,

                                   Commissioner.

6-2856

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[handwritten note]

Hon. Wm. Beaty says he will be satisfied with a cert for 15 mo. [illegible] in the case of S. Ellis of Ken.

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                                                   29.740

Kentucky
Samuel Ellis
of Adair Co in the State of  Kentucky who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Read of the Regt commanded by Col. Locke in the N. Carolina militia for 15 months.
_______________________________________

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 50 Dollars ___ cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
____________________________________

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of February 1835.     and sent to. Hon M Beatty. H. Re[ ].
_____________________________________

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1834.     175.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March 35 25.00
_________
$200.00
_________

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book E.D.  Vol. 7. Page 15.


[  ] to Pension. [ ] 20 March 1845
_________________________________

[  ] Missouri to Kentucky from 4 March [ ]13
12 April 1845–notification to [ ] Craddock. 
Mumfordville, Ky.
____________________________________

Duplicate certificate [ ] 7 July 1845, and sent to Mumfordville, Kentucky
______________________________________

Paid at  [ ] under act 6 April, 1838, from 4 March 1843 to March 1844.  Agent notified 3d April, 1846

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                                                Knoxville, Ohio
                                                 20th July, ‘44
J.L. Edwards, Esq
                         Commissioner of Pensions
                                          Sir, in my application
for a transfer, I have stated service under three Captains viz. Samuel Reed, Jacob Nichols, & David Caldwell in the Regiment commanded by Col. Irwin—-
—-I served 27 months, but was only able to prove 15 months.  A portion of the time I served was under each of the aforesaid Captains, tho’ all under the command or Col. Irwin.
                                            I make this explanation, as the transfer seems only to enquire for one captain.
                                           Very Respectfully Yours, 
                         Saml Ellis
JL Edward’s Esq

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Knoxville Mo Sept. 16/43
Saml Ellis.
For transfer of his pension to us.

[illegible]
pension office
______________
[upside down]
Secretary of War
War Department
Washington DC
_______________
October 2 1843
______________
[upside down]
Knoxville Mo
16 Sept

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State of Missouri }.     Be it known that before
County of Ray.      }.    me, Charles Funk a Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Samuel Ellis and made oath in due form of Law, that he is the identical person named in an original Certificate in his possession, of which [I certify] the following is a true copy:
         “War Department — Revolutionary Claim.
I certify, that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th of June, 1832, Samuel Ellis of the State of Kentucky, who was a private in the war ———— [struck thru]
of the Revolution is entitled to receive Fifty dollars per annum, during his natural life commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year.
                      Given at the war office of the United States this 11th day of February one thousand and eight hundred and thirty five.
                                Lew Cass
                                 Secretary of War
Examined and Countersigned}
          E L Edwards
          Commissioner of pensions”
that he now resides in Ray County Missouri and has resided there for the space of two months past—

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and that previous thereto he resided in Adair County Kentucky
Sworn & subscribed           }
this 6th day of September }     Samuel Ellis
1843, before me,                   }
Charles Funk J.P.                   }


State of Missouri }. I, William M Jacobs clerk
County of Ray.     }   of the County Court of Ray County certify that Charles Funk is a magistrate as above. And that the foregoing signature purporting to his is genuine.
 
In Testimony thereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name this 12th day of September in the year 1843

William M. Jacobs 
Clerk of the Ray County Court

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     Knoxville Ray County Mo.
                                 Sept 16th 1843
To the Secretary of War.
           Sir, having emigrated from Adair County Kentucky to Ray county Missouri. My pension which was formerly paid at Lexington & lately at Louisville Kentucky, is now very inconvenient on account of the distance.
         Will you please order the payment to be made by the Agent for paying pensioners in the agency of Missouri.  My semi-annual payment of the 4th of September current is probably ready in Kentucky, but I can not get it at so great a distance.  Will your Honor, please inform me at this Post office where I will receive my payments in future.
                             With Great respect
                                      I am       Yours
                                            Samuel Ellis

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                                        Washington City,
                                                 Feby. 14th, 1845

Sir
     You will much oblige me by attending to the request of the enclosed letter from Mr. Ellis an old friend and former Constituent of mine.  And give me all the instructions necessary in the case Please return Mr. Ellis’s letter
                                      Very respectfully
                                       Your obt servant
                                             G.A. Caldwell

Hon J. L. Edward’s
    Comm of Pensions

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                                 TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
               SECOND COMPTROLLER’S OFFICE,
                           SEPTEMBER 16TH, 1845
Sir:
      Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled “An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States” and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Samuel Ellis,
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky 
Agency, at the rate of Fifty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1843, to the 4th March 1844.
                         Respectfully, yours,
                            Albion K Parris
                              Comptroller.

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Pension Agency, St. Louis, Mo
                       March 31, 1845
Sir
     Your letter of 20th inst, was rec’d yesterday requiring the date to which Samuel Ellis, a pensioner on the Roll of this agency, under the Act 7 June 1832, was last paid.  By the Roll he appears to have been last paid to 4th March 1843 in Kentucky, and had never rec’d any pay in Missouri.
                     I am very respectfully
                           your obd. svt.
                      Wm C Anderson
                                          Agent


J L Edward’s Esq
Comm of Pension
Washington City

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                          Kentucky Pension agency
                                March 20. 1844.
J.L.Edwards Esq
      Com. of Pensions
                     Sir
                                   In reply to your letter of 13 Inst.    Saml. Ellis a pensioner on the roll of this agency under act 7 June 1832 at 50$ per annum was last paid at this agency to the 4th March 1843
               I am with much respect
                     Your obd. st.
                   G. W. Merwether Pen agy

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Josephine Miller Burris     Rev.&1812 Wars                                                  Section MLB
2655 Rutland
Des Moines, Iowa

Dear Madam:
          You are advised that a careful examination of the papers on file in the pension claim of Samuel Ellis (S.30400) fails to reveal the date of soldier’s death or the name of his wife.  

           As a possible means of obtaining the date of last payment of pension, the name of the person to whom paid and possibly the date of soldier’s death, it is suggested that you address The Comptroller General,  General Accounting Office,  Records Division, Washington, D. C. , citing the following data:

         Samuel Ellis, Certificate 29740, issued February 11, 1835, rate $50 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831 Act June 7 1832, Missouri Agency.

                    Very truly yours,

                                A. D. HILLER
                                Assistant to Administrator

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Pension Bureau.                        count 
          Washington.                             /search

Dear Sirs.
             Referring to File No. S-30-400
Dept. Interior, Pension Bureau
I wish to know if you have the date of the death of Samuel Ellis; and the name of his wife- at any time. (1st wife was Martha Howard)
              I have a copy of the records as follows-
     Application ————Russell Co. Ky
———-Dec 5, 1883
      On Feb 24, 1834  etc -
—————born Apr 9, 1762 in Montgomery Co. Md —————-On Feb 15, 1844 etc———-

     In June 25, 1845 —Hart Co. Ky ect - - - -
in 1843 and stayed there about one year.
                 ————————

     The above paragraphs in full I have.  Have you anything further that I may have 
                Sincerely
                       Josephine Miller Burriss
                             2853 Rutland
                                   Des Moines Iowa

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30400
INVALID
Re[??]
          ____________

File No. 30,400
Samuel Ellis
Prv Rev War

_____________ 

Act: June 7th, 32”

Index:—Vol. 2, Page 124

[Arrangement of 1870 ]


[handwritten in upper R corner, blurred]

192 Jan. 23 List to Mrs. Asa E Leeka (Eu] Letter in Jno Crooks.   .30897–
193 Josephine Miller Burris advised possible means of obtaining date of death, etc  MLB.

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                            Madisonian Office
                            _________________

APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.

State of Missouri }
County of Ray      } 88.

On this fifteenth day of February—1844, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Ray ——personally appeared Samuel Ellis who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captains
Samuel Reed, Jacob Nichols and David Caldwell in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Irwin, or Irvin) in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Kentucky whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State of Missouri — where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.  The following are his reasons for removing from the State of Kentucky to the state of Missouri
1st This his relatives live in Missouri.
2nd Chose with whom he has formerly lived
have moved to Missouri and he still wishes to live with them
              Saml Ellis —
Sworn and subscribed to before me, the day and year aforesaid} 
Saml Nydes J.P.

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State of Missouri County of Ray  s.s.
          This day personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace Felix H. McKinney of the county & state aforesaid, who being duly sworn deposits and saith on his oath, that Samuel Ellis, who has made oath on the foregoing page that he is a pensioner & is the identical person therein described & known to said deponent as a pensioner as therein described Since the 4th day of March 1831.  Felix H. McKinney

Sworn and subscribed to by Felix H. McKinney, who is personally known to me, and is a Gentleman of respectability, entitled to full credit in his affidavit. Given under my hand and seal this 17th day of February 1844.
                        Jesse W. Garner J.P.

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State of Missouri} S.S.
County of Ray    }
                               I William M Jacobs Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Ray aforesaid, do hereby certify that John P. Gryder and Jesse W Garner whose names are subscribed to the foregoing affidavits are Justices of the Peace within & for the County of Ray aforesaid, that their signatures are genuine and all their official acts entitled to full faith and credit.
                In testimony whereof I as Clerk aforesaid have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said court, at office in Richmond Mo. on the 18th day of February 1844.
                           William M Jacobs
                            Clerk of Ray County Court

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[Appears to be an envelope]

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
District of Columbia

July 3 1845
Application for new Pens certificate
[smeared, illegible]
Mr. Evans

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Kentucky Hart County set
      This day Samuel Ellis of said county appeared [smeared] made solemn oath before me the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, that a certificate of pension was issued to him from the War department on the 11th day of February. 1835, giving him a pension of fifty Dollars per annum during his natural life payable semi annually commencing the 4th day of March 1831 and payable on the 4th day of March and the 4th day of September in every year, that he was where when he obtained said certificate a resident of this state [Kentucky], that in the year 1843 he moved from this state to the state of Missouri and resided there about one year and then moved back to this state and now resides in Hart county aforesaid.  That when he resided in the state of Missouri as aforesaid he placed said original certificate in the hands of Jarvis W Hunt esq of Ray County Missouri to prepare his papers so that he could draw his said pension in that state.  That shortly after he placed said certificate in the hands of said Hunt as aforesaid he said Hunt left that country and that this applicant has not since heard of said Hunt and has no knowledge where he is

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or what he done with said certificate. That he has made diligent inquiry to ascertain where said Hunt is and what he had done with said certificate and in this way said certificate has been [smeared] and beyond his [smeared] trace and out his possession so that he can not find it. He states that he is the identical person named in said certificate and that he has not sold or disposed of the same in any way or manner other than before stated this 25th June 1845
                                 Samuel Ellis
Sworn to and subscribed by the above named Samuel Ellis before me th undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Hart aforesaid this 25 June 1845
                       B. L. Kerr

Kentucky Hart County set 
     I William Witherspoon of Hart county aforesaid do state on solemn oath that I am well acquainted with the above named Samuel Ellis and have been for upwards of twenty years last [ ] and that he is the identical person named in the certificate mentioned in his affidavit above that this applicant has frequently seen

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and read the certificate mentioned by said Ellis in his said affidavit before he moved to Missouri in the year 1843 and that he is in no manner or way whatever interested in the pension or any part of it coming to said Ellis mentioned in said certificate; this 25th June 1845.              William Witherspoon

Sworn to and subscribed by the above named William Witherspoon before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in & for Hart County aforesaid this 25th June 1845 I also certify that I am acquainted with the above named William Witherspoon and that he is a man of veracity and respectability. 
                     B. L. Kerr Justice
State of Kentucky Hart County set
I George T Wood clerk of the Court of Hart County do certify that B L Kerr is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be His are genuine In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 25th day of June 1845
               George T Wood - Clerk of the Court of Hart County

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State of Kentucky }
Cumberland County}.  SS
on this 24 day of February 1834
personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the County afs John Scott a resident of the County afs aged 74 years who being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Samuel Ellis now a resident of the County of Russell State of Kentucky he states that he was well acquainted with said Ellis in the war of the Revolution he knows that said Ellis served as a private volunteer militiaman from the state of North Carolina in Captain Samuel Reeds Company. Colo Locke Regiment for six months and he states that said service was performed without said Ellis leaving the army but whether it was in one engagement for six months or one for three and renewed he knows not but he knows he did serve six months in that tour this he thinks was in the year 1778
He further states that said Ellis again volunteered under Capt David Caldwell & in Colo Irwins regiment six months but as before states he does not know whether it was in one or two engagements but knows he served the term of six months without quitting the army he further states that said Ellis

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again volunteered in the same company and Regiment and served nine months in that service this affiant was with Sl Ellis at the Battle at the Cowpens in which Battle said Ellis was wounded in the arm and this affiant assisted in taking care of said Ellis and assisting him off the grounds.
He further states that said Ellis again volunteered in Capt Nichols Company and served six months he states that he was well acquainted with said Ellis and states without any hesitation that said Ellis did serve more than two years as a private volunteer in the army of the Revolution in Corps Called into service by competent authority he states that he was frequently with said Ellis and being so intimately acquainted with he cannot doubt that he served the time before stated and longer although he was not always with said Ellis yet from his long and intimate acquaintance with him both in the army and before  &  since he has no doubt he served more that two years subscribed and sworn to this day & year and.              John Scott
                                                              X
                                                      his mark

 State of Kentucky Cumberland County Sct
I John Coe a Justice of the Peace certify that on this day the above named John Scott subscribed and was duly sworn to the above declaration befor me and

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I further certify that I believe he is the age he states in his deposition and that he is a resident of the county [   ]  and that he is a credible person and his statement is entitled to credit given under my hand as a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Cumberland the day & year of ____
                     John Cox P.C.C.

Kentucky Cumberland County  [  ]
I Milton King Clerk of the County afore’d Do Certify that John Cox whose name is assigned to the foregoing Certificate is & was at the time of assigning the same an active Justice of the Peace in and for [  ] County duly authorised to administer oaths as such & this is his Genuine signature

Given under my hand and the seal of office in the Town of Burnsville this 28th of February 1834
                            making cert
By James Heaggard [  ]

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State of Kentucky}   SS
Adair County         }

On this 2d day of January 1835 Samuel Ellis a resident of said County personnally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County who being first duly sworn according to law makes the following amended declaration in addition to those heretofore made for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 he states that he need not again Repeat that he served as he has alledged in his first amended Declaration as therein stated and explained, tho he does in his stating state that he did serve the times and tours as he there stated in the service of his Country in the war of the Revolution in an
[      ] Corps called into service by Competant authority, as he has there stated he again states that whether he volunteered for 3 0r 6 months he serv—- as there stated, and although it might n— have been the practice to enga—

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for a longer time than three months at or under one engagement as is intimated by the department yet as he served either 6 or 3 months under one engagement if such has been the case without a re-engagement he does not believe that he ought to be deprived of the Benefit of the law for he hopes the Case is properly explained in his said Declaration, and whatever the general practice or Custom was in relation thereto in other places he knows not as to the objection made to the affidavit of John Scott it may be that he (Scott) did belong to the [    ] line which he believes to be true yet this declarant was well acquainted with Scott before he entered the service & while there and after the close of the war up to the present time and the facts proved by him, are as this Declarent believes all Correctly states he had many interviews with Scott while in service & he cannot believe that there should be any further doubt as to his Claim, he further states that he does not know of any further proof he can make he has delayed making this amendment until the present time in hopes he Can[—-] have

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procured other & further proof of his services so as to render it altogether satisfactory and not only satisfactory but clear of doubt or suspicion. But in Consequence of his helpless condition he has not been able to find a witness.
He therefore respectfully solicit another examination in to his claim relying on the proper authority to give such decision as may comport with Justice & law and should the proof in the case not Justify an allowance for more that 15 months as [      ] his infirmity & poverty would induce him to say allow it (tho he consciously know he is entitled to full pay but what may be done I shall not [     ]

Subscribed and sworn the day & year of

                                  Saml Ellis

State of Kentucky Adair County SS
I Milton P Wheat a Justice of the peace in and for said County do Certify that on the Day & date above [  ] Samuel Ellis described the above amended declaration and was duly sworn to the same before me according to law & I further Certify that said Ellis is now a Citizen of the County of Adair Given under my hand January 2d 1835

                                     Milton P Wheat JD

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State of Kentucky } SS
Adair County          }

              I William Caldwell Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do Certify that Milton P Wheat whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is a Justice of the Peace as therein stated & that the Signature thereto purporting to be his is his genuine Signature & that he was a Justice at the time of signing the Same & Still is a Justice as afs’d & that full force & credit is due & aught to be Given to all of his official acts as Such.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed theSeal of the Said Court this 2nd day of January 1835 & 43rd Year of the Commonwealth

             Wm Caldwell CAC
              by WB Caldwell DC

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State of Kentucky}
Russell County     }   SS

on this fifth day of December 1833 personnally came before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Samuel Ellis a resident of the County af’d who being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that on the third day of October last he made his Declaration for a pension to which he offers this as an amendment he states that by way of explanation to his former declaration that he did faithfully serve in the war of the revolution the time he has therein stated but states that upon Reflection he did not at the entering of the service volunteer for the whole time he did serve but that he served the full time stated in Each of the Terms therein claimed;  that is he served as volunteer under Capt Samuel Reed six months Colo Locks regiment but he now recollects that he volunteered for three months and when his term had expired he again volunteered and continued in service for three months longer making in that tour six months at the time he made his former Declaration he did not think of stating it in that way he supposed as he had served as a volunteer six months without leaving or quitting

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the service that it was unimportant whether there was an explanation of the renewal of his engagement or not and I do now state that the same explanation is given as to all his other tours he does most positively state that he served faithfully as a private in the army of the Revolution twenty seven months in the tours as there in stated but instead of its being done and performed in four tours as he has before stated he supposes and so states that according to what he presumes would be the proper definition of tours it ought to be stated nine tours of three months each for he does positively state that he did at every time when his term of three months had expired he again entered for three months longer, that is to say in the first & second tours he continued in service two tours of three months each and in the third tour he served three tours of three months each and in the fourth tour he served two terms of three months each under the officers as is stated in his original declaration making nine tours of three months each, all of which services he again repeats was done and performed by him as a volunteer private malitiaman in the army of the revolution in a Corps called into service by competent authority and for which he believes a pension

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sworn to and subscribed the day and year of A. Jackman J.P.R.C.  Saml Ellis

Mr Pinckney W. Dryden John Coe Jesse Easley & Harrison D Flowers
 Residing in Russell County Certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Ellis who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration & we state that he is [ ] and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion and we further state that the report is General and we believe doubted by none who knows him we further state that he is a man of High Respectability sworn to and subscribed Before me this 5th day of Dec 1833
A Jackman J.P.R.C.
Pinckney W. Dryden
John Coe
Jesse Easley
Harrison D Flowers

State of Kentucky] ss     
Russell County    ]

I Alexander Jackman a Justice of the peace for said county certify that Samuel Ellis this day subscribed and was sworn to the above declaration before me and I further certify that Pinckney W Dryden John Coe Jesse Easley and Harrison D Flowers

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who signed the preceding Certificate subscribed the same and was duly sworn to the same before me and that they are residents of this County and are credible persons and their statements are entitled to credit. Given under my hand the day & year of
            A. Jackman J.P.R.C.

State of Kentucky Russell County   [ ]
I William Patterson Clerk of the County Court for said County of Russell do hereby certify that Alexander Jackman whose name is affixed to the foregoing certificate is and was at the date of said certificate an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Russell duly qualified and Commissioned as such and that his signature annexed to the foregoing certificate is his genuine signature In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of office. Given under my hand this 10th day of December 1833 & 42nd year of the commmonwealth
          Will S Patterson
Clerk of the Russell County Court

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State of Kentucky }
Adair County          }   SS

On this fifth day of March 1834 personnally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Adair  [ ]
Samuel Ellis now a Resident of the County of — and made oath that he heretofore made his declaration Before Robt Higgenbotham [ ]
in the County of Russell state of Kentucky for a pension under the act of Congress of June 7th 1832 & afterwards he made an amendment thereto & to which original & amended declaration he offers this as a further amendment. He states that on the third day of this month March 1834 he moved from the County of Russell to the County of Adair where he now lives and that previous thereto he was informed when inquiry that John Scott - of Cumberland County Ky. could prove his this declarants services whose Deposition he has procured bearing date the 24th day of February last and herewith annexes as part of his claim, he again most solemnly declares he did serve faithfully as a soldier of the Revolution the time and in the manner stated in his former declaration and respectfully prays a pension Comensurate with his services according to the provisions of the before [ ] act. Subscribed and sworn to this day and year of …
                                                 Saml Ellis

State of Kentucky } ss
Adair County.          }

I James G Yates a Justice of the peace in and for the County of  — do hereby Certify that on the day and year of — the above named Samuel Ellis subscribed to the above amended declaration and was

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Duly sworn to the same before me and that he is a resident of this County that he is a respectable person. Given under my hand the day and year of — 
                       James G Yates J.P.A.C.

State of Kentucky Adair County SS
I William Caldwell Clerk of the County Court of the County of Adair aforesaid do hereby Certify that James G. Yates Esq. whose name is signed to the foregoing Certificate is now and was at the time of his signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Adair — duly Commissioned and qualified as such and that full faith and Credit ought to be given to all his official acts as such and that he is signature In testimony whereof I have hereunto I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office at office this sixth day of March in the year A D 1834 & 42 year of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
                         Wm Caldwell