Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2700, Elijah Davis, N H

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SERVICE
NUMBER
NH
David, Elijah
R.2700
Anna
CONTENTS

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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss. At a Court of Probate holden at Portsmouth
in said County on the thirteenth day of January
AD. 1857. before the Hon Ira St. Clair Judge of Probate for
said County.  It was proved to the satisfaction of the
Court, that Elijah Davis late of Effingham in the County of
Carroll and State aforesaid who was represented to have
been a Soldier of the Revolution, and died at said
Effingham on the first day of December AD 1825, leaving
a widow named Anna Davis who died at said Effingham
on the twenty ninth day of November AD 1844, leaving
the following children, who are the only surviving
children of said Elijah and Anna Davis, viz Joseph
Davis, Abigail Greenleaf, Eunice Taylor and Thomas
R. Davis, as set forth in a Deposition a true copy
thereof is hereunto annexed--

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the Seal of
said Court at Exeter aforesaid this
13th day of January A.D. 1857.
S. D. Wingate   Register

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act
of Congress of the 7th July 1838, entitled "an act granting
half pay and pensions to certain widows."

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County ⎬ SS
On this18th day of January
one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven, personally
appeared before the Probate Court of said County
Abagail Greenleaf, aged sixty-years a resident
of Exeter in said County of Rockingham, who being
first duly sworn, 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 7, 1838, entitled
"An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows,"
that she is one of the children and heirs at law of
of Anna Davis, who was the widow of Elijah Davis, deceased,
who was a private in the company of Capt.
Ezra Townes in the regiment of Col. James Reed
in the war of the Revolution (as she believes)
That her said Father (as she believes) entered the
service as aforesaid on the twenty third day of
April in the year 1775 and continued in the service
for more than eight months- That he (crossed out)
died at Effingham, New Hampshire, on the first day
of December 1825 - That he left a widow named

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Anna Davis, who died on the twenty ninth
day of November AD 1844. That the following
are the only surviving children of said Anne
Davis and of said Elijah, viz--Joseph Davis,
Abagail Greenleaf, Eunice Taylor, and
Thomas B. Davis. That the said Anna Davis
was married to the said Elijah Davis
at some place unknown (but it is believed
in some adjoining town), That the name of
the said Anna before her marriage was
Anna Blake, that said marriage was before 1794
and further that there is no public or
private record of the aforesaid marriage
that can be discovered by the children.
that they- and that the following are the
reasons of the children not applying
before. They first were ignorant of their
rights as children to draw what their mother
was entitled to.  Secondly they labored
under great difficulties in procuring the
necessary evidence in the case.  She
hereby appoints Arthur McArthur, Esq, of
Limington, Maine, her attorney, with power
of substitution, to prosecute his claim for herself
and the other children, to receive the
certificate when issued and to do all other acts
necessary and proper in the premises.
Witnesses
W B Morrill          Abagail Greenleaf herXmark

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Sworn to and subscribed before me
on the day and year first before written
and I hereby certify that I know the deponent
Mrs. Abagail Greenleaf and believe
the foregoing declaration foregoing by
her made, to be true in all its parts.
and further that I am not interested in
this claim as Attorney or otherwise.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court
affixed by order of said Court now in session.

J.D. Wingate
Register

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2700

Anna Davis
(stamped) REJECTED

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No. 15,438
Anna Davis, decd
Widow of Elijah
N. H.
Arthur McArthur, February
21, 1857.

2700
Act July 7. 1838.

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(on left side)
Elijah Davis N H
rejected
Elijah Davis Vt 31 and
31,123

(right side)
Elijah Davis died
1 Dec 1825
Anne Davis died
29 Nov 1844
Joseph Davis, Abigail
Greenleaf, Eunice
Taylor, Thomas R
Davis 4

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Limington, Maine
January 26 1857
Sir,
I herewith forward you the
application of Abigail Greenleaf for herself
& other children of Anna Davis widow of
Elijah Davis for Revolutionary Pension.
I am very respectfully your obt. serv't,
Arthur McArthur

Hon. George C. Whiting.
Comm'r. of Pensions 
Washinton, D.C.

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State of New-Hampshire
Carroll, SS.
I, Francis R. Chase, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for said County, hereby certify the John Wingate- John Demeritt & Thomas P. Drake Esqs before whom the annexed affidavits are made, and who have thereunto
subscribed their names, were at the time of so doing a Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn, and that their signature thereunto are genuine.
In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed
the Seal of said Court, this Eighth day of March 1856.
Francis R. Chase
Clerk.

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I Polly Bickford wife of Joseph Bickford
aged Eighty four years last December and 
resident of Wakefield in Carroll County
New Hampshire on my oath depose testify
and say that my father who lived in Lee
New Hampshire was John Emerson- that when
I was a child believed plainly that
Eliah Davis who died in Effingham in
Eighteen hundred and twenty five, came
home on a visit to my fathers house.
he was then in very poor health, and 
I remember that he and my family spoke
of his having just returned from the
continental service, I often wished to set
in his lap, but was not allowed to by
my parents as he was weak, and (illegible)
I was afterwards when older and married
my present husband, Joseph Bickford I
was well acquainted with the said Elijah
Davis and his wife who was Anna Blake
their oldest child was Deadion Davis who
I have always heard Mrs Anna Davis son was born
in January-Anna Davis aforesaid
always told me that they were married
soon after her husband got home from
one of his tours of service.
Witness                           (signed) Polly Bickford herXmark
John Wingate
James Gunmark

State of New Hampshire
County of Carroll SS  On this third day of
November in the year one thousand eight hundred
and fifty five before me the subscribed Justice
of the peace in and for the County and State

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aforesaid personally appeared Polly Bickford
above subscribed and made oath to the
foregoing affidavit, and I certify that the
facts therein contained were first related by
the said Polly Bickford before they were
committed to writing and were read to her
before she subscribed and made oath to the same and the said Polly Bickford is of
unimpaired mind and good memory and
further that I have no interest as agent
attorney or otherwise in the claim of the
children of Anna Davis for Revolutionary
pension
John Wingate Justice of the
Peace

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I Joseph Bickford aged Eighty four years
a resident of Wakefield in the County of
Carroll and State of New Hampshire on my
oath depose, certify and say, that I am
Brother of Elijah Davis who died in
Effingham in the year one thousand eight
hundred and twenty five and who was
a soldier in the Continental service in the
Revolutionary war - that after the death of
the father of the said Elijah his mother married with my Father whose name was called Joseph Bickford - that the said Elijah served in the early part of the war of the Revolution as was also said in the family and as I have often
heard him say that the said Elijah married
Anna Blake of Pittsfield in New Hampshire
by whom he had a large family of children
and with whom he lived till his death
aforesaid their oldest child was Seaborn Davis who died last spring at Hingham in the County of Carroll and State of New Hampshire
Joseph Bickford

Witness
John Wingate
James Quinn

State of New Hampshire
Carroll County ss
Sworn to and subscribed of the said Joseph Bickford on this third day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred
and fifty five, and I certify that the said Joseph
Bickford is a respectable and highly credible in
and that his faculties are unimpaired by a
and his memory especially is good that

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He related the facts contained in the foregoing affidavit before the same was committed to writing and that the same was then used to him before he subscribed and made oath to the same and I further certify that I have no interest as agent attorney or otherwise in the claim of the children of Anna Davis to revolutionary pension.

John Wingate Justice of the Peace

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I John L Davis aged fifty three years a resident
of Effingham in the County of Carroll and State of New Hampshire
on my oath depose testify and say that I am a
Son of Dearborn Davis who was the oldest child of Elijah
and Anna Davis that my said Father died on the first
day of May in the last year and was at the time
of his death aged seventy seven years and three months.
that Elijah Davis my said Grand father died on the
first day of December in the year one thousand eight
hundred and twenty five- that I have often heard my
said Grandfather say that he served in the continental
service in the Revolutionary war. I recollect distinctly of
hearing him say that he served at one period a term
of eight months and it is so long since he died that
I do not recollect plainly any other particulars of his
Service.
John L. Davis
Witness
Louisa Lewis
State of New Hampshire County of Carroll SS on
this twenty second day of January in the year
eighteen hundred and fifty six John L Davis is
credible witness and respectable resident of Effingham
in the State and County aforesaid personally appeared
before me and swore to and Subscribed the 
affidavit fore going and I certify that I am not interested
in the result of the claim of the children
of Elijah and Anna Davis for arrears of Revolutionary

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pensions nor am I concerned in its prosecution.
John Demerritt Justice of the Peace.

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I Elijah Taylor aged fifty two years a
Resident of Effingham in Carrol County
State of New Hampshire do affirm &
say that I am a son of Betsy Taylor
dec'ed formerly Betsy Davis who was a
daughter of Elijah Davis who died in
Effingham in the year eighteen hundred
& twenty five that I recollect that my
grandfather Elijah Davis aforesaid often
in his lifetime of me of having served
as a soldier in the Revolution War that
that he was called out after the battle of
Lexington & served one whole summer
that he served at some other time
but how long & where I cannot remember
with certainty that it was
always believed by his neighbors &
all who knew him & was need to
my knowledge disputed that he was a
soldier in the Revolutionary war.
Witness              (signed) Elijah Taylor
Clarissa Taylor
State of New Hampshire
Carroll County SS On this
second day of November in the year
one thousand eight hundred & fifty
five before me the subscriber a
Justice of the peace in & for said
County & State aforesaid personally
appeared Elijah Taylor aforesaid

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and affirmed in due form of
law under the passes & penalties
of purpory threats? that the foregoing
affidavit subscribed by him is
true in all its particulars and
I certify that the said Elijah
Taylor is a highly respectable
resident of Effingham in said
State & County aforesaid & and a
reliable witness & further that I
am not in any way interested
as agent attorney or otherwise
in the name of the children
of Elijah Davis.
Thomas P. Drake
Justice of
the Peace

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No.
Anna Davis, dec'd, 
Widow of Ellijah
N.H.
Act July 7, 1838.

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State of New Hampshire
Secretary of State's Office

I do hereby certify, that from an
examination of the Books and Documents
relating to Military Services in the war
of the Revolution which remain in this
office, it appears that the name of
Elijah Davis is borne upon a "Pay Roll
of Capt. Ezra Towns Company in Colo. James
Reeds Regiment to the 1st of August 1775"
as a private in said Company-Time of
Entry, April 23; Time in service 3 months
16 days.
Army Rolls Vol. 8. Page 12.
Same Vol. Page 29 the name of Elijah
Davis is signed to a receipt of which
the following is a true copy:
"We the subscribers belonging to Capt. Towns
" Company in Col. Reids Reg't do hereby ack -
" nowledge that we have recd. of Timo.
" Walker Jun. four dollars each man in full
" for the Regimental Coats which was promised
" us by the colony of New Hampshire"

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And upon "A muster & pay Roll of men raised
for Canada out of Col Evan's and Col. Badgers
regiments muster & paid by Otis Baker Esquire
is borne the name of Elijah Davis as a
private, with an allowance of 1 mo. pay &
bounty to soldiers" of L 9.18; Travelling fees
8. 4; Sum Total L10.6.4.4.
The date at the bottom of the foregoing
Roll is 1776.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the State
this 15th day of June 1855.
John L. Hadley
Secretary of State

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We John L. Davis aged fifty three years and
Mary C. Welch aged forty nine years both residents
of Effingham in the County of Carroll
and State of New Hampshire on our oaths depose
testify and say that we were well acquainted with
Elijah Davis who was represented to be
a soldier in the war of the Revolution and
with his wife Anna Davis, that said Elijah
died at said Effingham at the House of
Joseph Palmers on the first day of December
in the year one thousand eight hundred
and twenty five; and that his wife living Davis
died at Effingham aforesaid at the house of
Benjamin Taylor on the twenty ninth day of
November in the year one thousand eight
hundred and forty four, and the following
are the children and only surviving children
of said Elijah and Anna Davis, viz Joseph
Davis Abigal Greenleaf, Eunice Taylor
Thomas B. Davis.  (signed) John L. Davis
Witness                               Mary C Welch
Louisa Lewis

State of New Hampshire County of Carroll ss
sworn to and subscribed by the said John L
Davis and Mary C. Welch on this twenty second

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day of January in the year eighteen hundred
and fifty six, and I certify that the
said affiants are respectable and reliable
Witnesses.
John Demeritt  Justice of the Peace
A true Copy
Attest J.D. Wingate
Regr Probate