Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7,285, for Elisha Mix, Connecticut

SERVICE
Mix Elisha
NUMBER _____
NUMBER R. 7285
CONTENTS

Unpaid See letter to Alex St John by 26 Nov
1823

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
72 85
P. O.
Elisha Mix
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized.
_____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis.
Searched for _____, 18

753.
Elisha Mix
7285

Declaration in order to be Restored to the Pension list under the act of the 1 st of March 1823
State of New York Montgomery County Gs. On this frontante day of October 1823 personally appeared in open Court Elisha Mix, aged Seventy two Years Who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath Make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of the 18 th March 1818 the 1 st of May 1820 and the 1 st of March 1823 that he the said Elisha Mix, enlisted for the term of during the War in the Month of July 1777, in the Company (Commanded) by Capt Titus Watson in Colonel Hermon Swifts Regiment in the State of Connecticut in the Connecticut line that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the close of the war when he was discharged from the said service at West Point, in the State of New York and I do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident Citizen of the united States on the Eighteenth of March eighteen hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of any property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an "Act of Congress intitled an "Act to provide for Certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the united States

In the revolution my War passed on the Eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or secu- rities Contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule herunto annexed and by me subscribed Schedule of Property owned by the said Elisha Mix as follows (to wit)
One Cow Valued at _____ 2 Hogs . . . . . " _____ 7 Sheep . . . . . " _____
Elisha Mix
And the said Elisha Mix further declares that his occupation is a Labourer that he is infirm In Body and health on Account of a Breach In his body- that he has a Wife by the name of Martha Sixty Years of Age and in poor Health for Some Years past
Elisha Mix
I Wm F Yates Clerk of Montgomery County And Clerk of the Court of Comm- on pleas of said County do hereby Certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Elisha Mix did serve in the revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration against the Pensions on the Continental Establish-

the Said Elisha Mix did serve in the revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy on the Continental Establish- I also Certify, that the foregoing and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly Copied from the Records of the Said Court; And I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the Said Court, that the total Amount in Value of the property exhibited in the Aforesaid Schedule is Seventy four dollars In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the Said Court this 17 th day of October 1823
Henry J. Bates Clerk By A. S. Conner Secy.