Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,910, Elisha Vansandt, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Va.
Vansandr, Elisha
RE 10,910
Margaret
CONTENTS

Know all Men by these presents that we Elisha Vansart and William Hawkins of the County of Botetourt are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency Edmund Randolph Esq: Governor of Virginia, in the sum of fifty Pounds Current Money of Virginia, to be paid unto our said Governor or his successors, to the which payment, well & truly to be made, we bind ourselves and each of us, our heirs executors & administrators jointly and severally firmly by these presents, Sealed with our Seals and dated this 8 th day of April 1788.
The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas there is a Marriage shortly intended to be had and solemnized between the above bound Elisha Vansart and Margaret Crawford. If therefore there be no lawful cause to obstruct said Marriage, then this obligation to be void or else to remain in full force and virtue.
Sealed & delivered in presence of us Elisha Vansart (Seal) Wm Hawkins (Seal) A B Bowyer
Virginia Botetourt County } S et
I Ferdinand Wath Clerk of the County Court in the County & State aforesaid, do hereby Certify that the above is a true Copy from the original bond filed in my office. I further Certify that it is the only record evidence of the Marriage of Elisha Vansart & Margaret Crawford filed or recorded in said office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Fincastle, this 3 rd day of January A D 1856
F. Wath clerk

No Margaret Vanzant Widow of Elisha Kentucky
July 7 / 1838
Be Margaret Vanzant Widow of Elisha of Ky has also applied under the Act of 1838

State of Kentucky County of Fleming } ss.
On this 24 th day of December A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfive personally appeared before the court of Fleming County the President and Judges within and for said County and state, and the President and Judges of the court court for the the District of said County - being a court of record, Margaret Vansandt, a resident of said County of Fleming and state of Kentucky, aged Eighty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed 29 th July A. D. 1848. That she is the widow of Elisha Vansandt, deceased who was a private soldier in the Company of Captain Stanley in some Regiment of the Virginia line in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain. She does not know what Regiment or by whom it was commanded: but she knows that said Elisha Vansandt served under General Green, and was in the Battle at Yorktown at the surrender of Cornwallis - in the fall of the year 1781 and believes he was also in other battles in the state of Virginia prior to that time.
That said Elisha Vansandt was substituted for his father Isaac Vansandt, who was drafted, she believes, in Botetourt County and state of Virginia, some time in the year seventeen hundred and eighty, and continued in actual service in said war until after said Battle at Yorktown but she does not know how long afterwards. She believes he served for a term of Five months at least. Said Elisha Vansandt entered the service in said war at said County of Botetourt, in the state of Virginia; he at the time being a resident of that county. She is not able to state the names of any other of the officers under whom he served that those above mentioned: nor any more of the

particulars than those above set forth.
She further declares that she was married to the said Elisha Vansandt on the 9 th day of April A. D. one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight, in Botetourt County in the state of Virginia: That her said husband died in Fleming County in the state of Kentucky on the 30 th day of June A. D. eighteen hundred and twenty eight, and that she remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
She was not applied for a pension earlier because she was not, until lately, informed that she might have a right to it.
Witness W. J. Dudley
Her Margaret J. Vansandt Mark
Sworn to and subscribed by said Margaret Vansandt before said court the day and year first above written.
John Alexander
And the said County hereby declares its opinion that Elisha Vansandt named in the foregoing declaration was a revolutionary soldier and served. Witness the undersigned sole Judge of said Court this 26 th day of December 1855.
John Alexander presiding Judge of the County Court
State of Kentucky } ss County of Fleming }
On this 26 th day of December A. D. 1855 personally came before the Fleming County Court for Fleming County in the state of Kentucky Polly Henderson & St. Clair Emmons residents of said County of Fleming and state of Kentucky, who being sworn according to law, state they have been acquainted with Margaret Vansandt named in the foregoing declaration for upwards of forty years. That they were acquainted with her husband

Elisha Vansandt for about Twenty years prior to his death. That said Elisha Vansandt, during the time of their acquaintance with him, and up until his death; and said Margaret Vansandt cohabited as husband and wife, and were so generally reputed and considered in the neighborhood, and fully recognized and acknowledged as husband and wife; that they, said Elisha & Margaret, were highly respectable in society, and raised a respectable family of children. That said Elisha and Margaret Vansandt resided in Fleming County from about the year 1806, and removed to said County from Pottelous County, they believe, the state of Virginia.
Rawleigh Kendall Bt Blevins & Morong
Subscribed and sworn to by said Rawleigh Kendall & Pt. Blevins , before said court, the day and year aforesaid; And it is hereby certified that said affiants are well known to the undersigned Justice of said court and that they are persons of the highest credibility; and it is hereby further certified that the undersigned has no interest in this claim.
John Alexander
I, John Alexander sole Judge of said court hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Margaret Vansandt for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have set my hand and seal this 24 day of December A. D. 1855.
John Alexander
State of Kentucky, County of Fleming, ss.
I William T. Dudley clerk of the Fleming County court hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings

of said court in the matter of the application of Margaret Vansandt for a pension. And I further certify that Joseph M. Alexander, Esq. whose genuine signature to the foregoing three certificates, is the same and Presiding Judge of said court, duly commissioned and qualified. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court this 24 th day of December 1855.
W. J. Dudley, clerk.

№ 15,386.
Margaret Vanzant Widow of Elisha
Kentucky
In. A. Levan Feb 12/56 same Jan 24. 1857
10910
July 7 1838
234795

Until I know more definitely how this name is spelled, let it go as it is
Asst.
Aug. 28, 1906

10910
P. O.
Maj J Van Zant
Service: Under of Elisha
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Hemingsburg (Ky.) Jan'y 30 th 1856
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Please find enclosed application of Mrs. Margaret Vanandt for bounty land and pension. I hope record evidence may be found of services of her husband, at Washington.
The best evidence attainable here is furnished.
Very respectfully
You Hts. Svt.
John A. Gavan Agent

State of Kentucky County of Fleming § 55
On this 8 th day of September A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six personally appeared Elijah Story, aged seventy years a resident of or Fleming County, Kentucky, before me George Havens a Justice of the Peace within and for said County and State, and made oath that he was well acquainted with Elisha Vansandt, from about the year 18 00 up until the time of his death in the year 1829, and that said Elisha Vansandt was a highly respectable man - and a man of strict veracity, and generally reputed to have been a revolutionary soldier: And affiant had heard him state that he had served a tour in said war under General Green; and that said Elisha Vansandt had emigrated from the State of Virginia to Kentucky, where he had resided, in Fleming County, for about 30 years before he died. Affiant further states that Margaret Vansandt, is the widow of said Elisha, and now resides in said County - when she resided with said Elisha as his wife from about the year 18 00 until the death of said Elisha.
Elijah Story
Sworn to and subscribed by said Elijah Story before me, on the day and year aforesaid. And I certify that said Elijah Story is well known to me and is a man of strict veracity and entitled to the highest credit.
George Havens J.P.

State of Kentucky County of Fleming } ss
On this 8 th day of September 1856 per- sonally appeared Margaret Vanandt, the same who is named in the foregoing communication from the Com- missioner of Pensions, before me George Havens a Justice of the peace in and for said County and State and makes oath that she cannot give any more par- ticular statements of facts than those set forth in her declaration for Pension heretofore made: and as yet she has been unable to ascertain means of proving facts connected with her claim.
Margaret her mark - Vanandt Sworn to and subscribed by said Margaret Vanandt before me the day and year aforesaid.
George Havens J.P.

State of Kentucky, County of Fleming } ss.
I William J. Dudley, Clerk of the Fleming County court - certify that George Harens, Esq. before whom the foregoing affi- davit was made - and whose genuine signatures appear to the two foregoing cer- tificates was, at the date thereof and still is an acting Justice of the Peace with- in and for said County of Fleming, duly com- missioned and qualified. In testimony
Whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court at Flemings- burg, this 15 th day of December 1856.
W. J. Dudley of c c

To Ensign Office
Feby 12 1856
Sir
The application of Margaret Vanzant Widow of Elisha of Kentucky has been filed under the Act of July 7. 1838.
Before any Search can be made for the Name of her husband she must state where, and under what Officer, he entered the service. If he served in the Militia of V a We have no rolls upon which his Name can be found.
Very Respectfully Your Ob t Serv t R. M. RAO for Commissioner
John A. Cavan Esqr Flemingsburg Kentucky

Pension Office
Feby 12 1856
Sir
The application of Margaret Vanzant Widow of Elisha of Kentucky has been filed under the Act of July 7 th 1838.
Before any Search can be made for the name of her husband she must state where, and under what Officer, he entered the service. If he served in the Militia of Va We have no rolls upon which his name can be found.
Very Respectfully
Your Ob t Serv t
R. M. Rao
for Commissioner
John A. Cavan Esqr Flemingsburg Kentucky