Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,938, for Elisha Plummer, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Plummer, Elisha
S. 22,938
CONTENTS

Deposition of Ann Whilleulch

State of Pennsylvania) personally appeared Before me one of & Greene County The justice of the peace in said County
Ann Whittatch & after being sworn as The law Directs Deposeth & sayeth that She well recollects that Glisha Plumer served as a substitute under Captain James Archer to go in the revolutionary war in the year 1779 or 1780 & further sayeth not Sworn & subscribed before me
The 12 th day of September 1833
Lewis H. Keller
her Ann Whittatch mark

State of Pennsylvania of Greene County
Personally Appeared Before me one of the Justices of the Peace in said County William Whittatch & after being sworn as the law
Directs Deposition & saith that he well Recollects that Elisha Plummer served as Guard at Ankrams fort on ten Mile Creek in Washington County now Greene County from Early in the spring to same time about Harvest in the year 1781 or 1782 & further saith not
sworn & subscribed Before me the 3rd Day of June 1833
his William Whittatch mark
Jacob Bailey

State of Penn a } ss. Green County }
Subscription of William Whitlock
I Enos Hooke clerk of the Court of Commons Pleas of the County aforesaid Certify that Isaac Barly & Lewis Purdie an magistrates in the said State and that their signatures hereunto are genuine - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court the 20 th day of November A. D. 1833
Enos Hooke Clerk
I hereby certify that William Whitlock and Ann Whitlock the foregoing named witnesses are credible. Witness my hand this 5 day 1833 with resident in Green Co Pa Ann Stewart mile

Revolution
22938
INVALID.
File No. 22,938
Elisha Plummer
Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 324
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Pittsburgh Agency 25.139.
Elisha Hummer Benton, Pa - in the State of Penn a who was a S er in the Company commanded by Captain J. Tracy of the Reg t commanded by Col Clark in the Pennsylvania Militia -
✓ Cr 1.5 Do P er p 41. 66 2/3
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh - Agency at the rate of 41 Dollars 66 2/3 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th day of Dec r 1833 and sent to Hon A Stewart, Ho of Rep
Arrears to the 14th of Apr 1833 - 104.15 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Mar 34 20.83 1/3 p 124.98
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. J. Spayden Clerk Book C Vol. 5 Page 84.

Elisha Stewart Securities
Adm. 1. apr 15 days
Hor A Stewart Ho of Rep

Greene County Pa Pennsylvania 3 rd p t
on the 19 th day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the court of Common Pleas in & for Greene County Elisha Shumner aged sixty four years who upon his oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of the 9 th of June 1832.
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named Officers and Served as herein stated viz.
That he first entered the Service of the United States during the revolutionary war in Greene County Penn a on Muddy Creek under Captain James Archy about the first day of April in the year 1778 as a volunteer Militia man under General Clark and continued in the Service until about the middle of October making six months and a half - he marched to Wheeling in Virginia and from there descended the Ohio against the Indians and was employed against the Indians from place to place until he was discharged on the Ohio about three days before leaving Wheeling - That he next went into the Service under a draft as a Militia man he belonged to Captain James Hays Company that they marched to Fort Ligonier in Greene County Penn a where they remain some weeks from thence they marched against the Indians to a place called Clinch's Fort - that he went out the first of March and continued in the Service acting against the Indians until the first of July making four months two of which he served as a drafted Militia man & two afterwards as a volunteer under the same officers. That was in the year 1780 That the next year about the first of August he was drafted again and went into the Service under Captain Pigeon for a tour

of four or two months that they marched to Fort Davis and continued in the service until the middle of September when they were discharged about two weeks before their term was out. This was the last requisition for service he performed. Most of the time he was under Colonel Jacob Kline. That his whole service amounted to twelve months for which he claims a pension. That he has no discharge or documentary evidence but can prove his service by William Whitlock & Francis Whitlock and can prove his character as a revolutionary soldier by Wm Seals Esq and Thomas Colvert.
That he fully relinquishes any claim to any other pension or annuity whatever and declares that his name is not on the rolls of the agency of any State.
In answer to the interrogatories required to be put by the war department he answers as follows viz
 1 That he was born in the State of Maryland about fifteen miles below Frederick town the  2. That he has no record of his age  3 That he has resided since the revolutionary war in Greene County Penn t where he still resides.  4. That he went into the service & served as a drafted militia man & volunteer  5 That he served under Captain James Leitch, James Seals & Pigeon under Col Jacob Kline & Genl Clarke as before stated  6. That he never had any written discharge or if he had it has been long since lost 

7. That William Leaks & Thomas Colvert of Green Co. Pa will prove his character as a revolutionary soldier
Sworn & subscribed in Open Court Nov 19 1833
For Elisha X Plummer mark
West Hook
We William Leaks & Thomas Colvert both residents of Greene County and the neighbors of Elisha Plummer do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elisha Plummer who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that they believe him to be twenty five years of age that he is reported in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and was conserved in that opinion.
Sworn & subscribed in Open Court Nov 19 1833 East Hook Prothonotary
Wm Leaks Thomas Colvert
And the court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the two reportants that Elisha Plummer was a revolutionary soldier and servant as he states in the above declaration which he has sworn to and subscribed. And the court do further certify that it appears to them that William Leaks & Thomas Colvert are both residents who have signed the above declaration in presence of both residents of Greene County, Penn a and on credible persons.

Green County Pa Pennsylvania
Enr. & Cook Party of the containing as hereby certify that the forgoing in the nature of the original proceedings of the said Court for a peremptory. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the said Court at Waynesburg this 28th day of November A D 1833.
Enr. Hook Party
Eliza Chapman Bureau now
Adm. 1. per 15 days
Don A. Stewart He of the