Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,044, for Elisha Reeve, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Reeve, Elisha
S 17044
CONTENTS
carded

11.97 New York 24 975
Elisha Peck 20
of Orange Co in the State of N York who was a First Lieut in the Com y of Artillery by Captain Thompson of the 2 d Reg t by Col. Ellison in the N York Ar y was promoted to the rank of Sergeant 28. day of Dec r 1830
Issued on the Roll of N York Ar y at the rate of 70 Dollars 88 Cents per m th to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension from the 27 th day of Nov r 1832 and sent to New York
Amount to the 4th of Dec r 1831 $210.90 Pension, allowance etc. Sept 1831 p 85.38
$21,572.8
{ Revolutionary Claim, due June 7, 1832 }
Recorded, by John B. Whiting Clerk Book V Vol. 1 Page 117

Richard Reece
20348
11 1/2 11 1/2

St. Louis, Mo.
Waverly, N. H. Dec. 1832.

was very peculiar. I think some people used to say at Southport they were painted. I think it was peculiar to all the Indians at all times. The Indians had many tales among us during the whole time. He says he has no written account of his services. He received a pension and a certificate of his services being given to the Military Department. He was entitled to a pension and he was entitled to a pen- sion certificate. He says he was born at Southport, Suffolk County, New York in 1750. He has recorded his age in his pension. He was admitted to the Pension Office. He was admitted to the Pension Office. He was admitted to the pension office. He cannot now recall, he was in the Battle during the war, he is remembered with most of the people where he served. He has pensioned just as the family of his son. He is the son of his son.
He has, however, a very limited vocabulary, and can only say a few words, except the usual and familiar. That his name is real and the pronunciation of the age is, I think, Saki.

Edward H. Lewis in open Court
- The day of December 1852
Dear Dunning Clark

Albany, N.Y.
On a complaint of Benjamin Tuttle of Calhoun in the County of... ...with Eliza Dacey who has... ...the above mentioned... ...with the... ...that he was a Soldier of the... ...to the... ...he was in the United States... ...with the... ...at Fort Point... ...at... ...he... ...of the... ...he... ...he is of the... ...he states...
Given under my hand this 3 day of December 1872
B. Tuttle
The Common Pleas
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the court department that the above named plaintiff was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to that David Dacey and Benjamin Tuttle who have signed and sworn to the above affidavits are both residents of said County each residing in the town mentioned in their respective affidavits and that they are both credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.

Isaac Dunning Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Elisha Nourse for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office this fifth day of December 1832.
Isaac Dunning Clerk

17.044 INVALID.
File No. 17.044
17.044
17.044
Act: 17.044
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 313
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New York
Deceased County of Ulster. Deceased William Ellison County of Orange and State aforesaid being under the weight of years and infirmity that he is the same William Ellison who made his declaration in the Court of Common Pleas in and for Ulster and State aforesaid in December last and at a time and additional affidavit before John Penn Esquire and read the following list of which are said to be on file in the Pension Office in the City of Washington - and this declaration with that by reason of old age and loss of memory he cannot recall particularly to all the different terms of his Revolutionary services but from his best recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned before and in the following regiments. That he belonged to Col. William Ellison Regiment in 1776 in which he served during the Revolutionary war and that in the latter of the year 1776 as he thinks the whole Regi- ment was ordered to Fort Montgomery on the Hudson River in which position went as a private in Captain Thompson's company and served there for four weeks helping to build said fort which was not then completed then a part of the Regiment was discharged and sent home and his discharge was dismissed - and that in a very short time he returned to the same place the same season he was again called out with a detachment from said Regiment in Captain Thompson's company this detachment was then appointed Sergeant and went to the mountains and stayed two weeks and then returned home and stayed a very short time, and
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The same season he was again called out and went to Fort Meigs where as Sergeant and came and served two weeks and returned home David Sweeney was then appointed Captain and this Department was the same season called to Detroit Fort on the frontier in Ohio. Sweeney's Company and was there as Sergeant and that year after the same year he was accepted for his monthly and served his term as Sergeant in Captain Sweeney's Company Col. William Ellison Regiment the most of the time at Fort Meigs in the Huron River and that in the next season 1779 he served six months at Detroit Fort and had the responsibility of it on the frontier against the Indians. Major Thomas
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Detroit Commanded at the Fort David Sweeney was Captain but did not stay all the time, and he says that the following season he was called out several times but cannot distinctly state how long he served nor all the different places, but that in 1779 as British Colonel Sweeney's Company and a number of companies in the Col. Ellison Regiment were elected and took terms and served two weeks each at Detroit and this department served his term in the class for two seasons until the Army each season went into Winter quarters he thinks eight or nine months each season he served his term but he does not know how long he served for or five months as quarters master but says he held the rank of Sergeant during
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the whole Revolutionary war, and the respondent says that he served as great many more short terms than he has specified but cannot state the period he says that in his different terms he served more than two years as a sergeant four or five months as a quarter master some little time as a private - and this respondent says as he has before stated that he was under arms during the whole Revolutionary war and that some part of Col. Ellison's Regiment was all the time in service during the Revolutionary war, Col. Ellison was taken prisoner by the British at Fort Montgomery and - after that until Col. Benjamin Russell commanded until he was killed at the Minisink Battle by the Indians near - the close of War, but the Regiment was - called Ellison's Regiment during the whole war, and this respondent says that during the whole terms he has above specified was in the 19 light Artillery Regiment, that his Regiment has been blown to pieces by guns and by cannon thereof cannot write his name that he has heard the above stated until read to him and believes it correct. This respondent says that in the last two years of his above mentioned service he was frequently called out to stand on guard and at times when he was his turn to be on guard but cannot say for a many times nor how long he was on guard these.
Subscribed and sworn to the 26th day of August 1833 before me
Abias L. Reed
John Tenney Justice of the peace

State of New York
Salem County ss - I A. Dunning Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that John Pennycuick Esq. - before whom the within affidavit heretofore has been sworn - was at the death of the said a Justice of the peace in and for said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and hereby believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his true hand writing and signature -
Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 7 th day of September 1833.
As Dunning Clerk
She will be here on Monday for the day.

Amoco Floating
Take Down  the  sign
Then I have had the pleasure of the per- usal of your letter of the 10th inst. and I am truly yours affectionately your father and friend John D. Sleeper

with his hand writing and hereby believe his name Subscribed to the said affidavit and certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature -
Witness my hand and Seal of this 11th day of June 1833
Richd Dunning
Eliza Dunning

Subscribed and sworn to before me the 4 th day of June 1833
the 4 th day of June 1833 before me -
John Quincy Adams

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New York February 1864
John G. Hon. John D. Edwards Commissioner of Pension Pension Office Washington City

Mount Hope Jan'y 29th 1834
Sir
I have returned to you Oliver's Pecuniary papers with an Affidavit containing a acknowledgment of all, but what you allow 13 mo & 12 days as Sergeant 28 days as Private see your statement on back -
Pleased to give you his Certificate Hon. J. S. Edson, Young Representative. Joseph Chittenden

Enlistment Received
App't of Peterborough
of all but 13 months,
as present
28 days as present
Admitted
Sergeant 13 mo & 12 days
Priato 28 days
J. Lewis Mountain Gap N.Y. 14/12

State of New Jersey
James County v. David Deane of Wallkill in the Court of Sessions... the above entitled matter...
That he is unable to write his name by reason of a being blind...
Elisha X Deane
Subscribed and sworn to the 28th day of June 1834. Before me J. Chubb County Clerk of Sussex
State of New Jersey County of Sussex } I do hereby certify that the within copy of the said County of Sussex... at the date of the same a Commission of Justice in and for said County...