Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15069, Eliakim Davis, Mass.

SERVICE
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Mass
Davis, Eliakim
S15069
boarded
CONTENTS

21. 7 31  Massachusetts  Eliakim Davis
of Worcester in the State of Mass'ts who was a Private in the Comp commanded by Captain Earl of the Regr. commanded by Col. Keys in the Mass. line for 6 months
Mile
74 Worcester
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass'ts at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Oct.  1833 and Supto J. G. Kendall  M.B. Worcester
  Arrears to the 4th of Sept'33  $ 50    Penst-ant. allowance ending Apr'34  10     $ 60  
Revolutionary Claim, Ex. No. June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. G. Steele Cler Book C Vol. 2 Page 18

Eliahim Davis's Application
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Eliahim Davis
For the 6 Months
Capt Earl Col Key's
Reg Mass
Hon: J. G. Kendall Worcester Mass
Amplified in the of 2nd Genl -

DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss. Eliakim Davis ON this seventh day of May in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty Three personally appeared in open Court, before Nathaniel Paine Judge of a Probate court now sitting at Worcester a resident of Fitchburg in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 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 benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. He states that he was born in the town of Rutland, in the county of Worcester, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & sixty one; he states that there is a record of his age; and that it is at said Rutland; he states that he was living at said Rutland when called into service, and that since the Revolutionary War he has lived at said Rutland until the year of our Lord 1824; from A.D. 1824 to A.D. 1831 he has resided in Fitchburg, and since that time and at the present time he resides in Worcester in the county of Worcester; he states that he enlisted for the term of six months into a company under the com- mand of Captain Ralph Earle of Paxton in said county; that said com- pany was attached to the regiment under the command of Col. Danyforth Regis of Western in said county; he states that he enlisted in the latter end of June, A.D. 1777; he states that he left the service on the first day of January A.D. 1778; and that he was honorably discharged at that time; he states that he marched from Rutland through Leicester Worcester, Grafton, Mendon, Cumberland, Smithfield to Providence and that the company was stationed at the College in Providence and that the com- pany marched from Providence to Swanton where they remained a short time from thence thinks they marched to Swansea; from Swansea to Fall River he states the company was stationed a short time at Warren, Four- corners, Kingston, and then the company returned to the College in Providence where he remained until he was discharged; he states that the company to which he belonged was attached to the Brigade under the command of General Spencer; he states that he was not in any battle; he states that he received a written discharge and that he has not seen it for the last thirty years and does not know where it is. he states that John Pike of Paxton in said county, & Abiather Child of Rut- land in said county can testify that he was out in the service; he states that Asahel Bellows and John G. Clark both of said Worcester. can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Eliakim Davis Before Nathaniel Paine Probate For the County of Worcester

We Asahel Bellows & John F. Clarke clergymen residing in the Town of Worcester County of  were co-residing in hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Davis who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be twenty two years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Before me Asahel Bellows John F. Clarke Melony Worcester
Asahel Bellows John F. Clarke
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Asahel Bellows & John F. Clarke who signed the preceding certificate, are clergymen , resident in the Town of Worcester and that  who has also signed the same is a resident in the  are and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathl. D. Dames Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
I, Clerk of the Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty
day of
Worcester ss.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Theophilus Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Davis for a Pension - and that Brad. Livermore and Joel Davis Esquires, before whom the annexed affidavits were made, are Justices of the Peace in & for the said County of Worcester, each of them being duly commissioned and sworn, and that the signature in each case, which purports to be their signature is genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this seventh day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three -
Theophilus Wheeler of said Court -
Ebenezer Davis's Application
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Ebenezer Davis
4 in 6 Months
Capt Earl Col Keyes
Regt Mass.
Genl J. G. Kendall
Quartermaster
Miss

I Neither Childs of Rutland in County of Worcester twenty nine years of age Testify and Say that Elishua Davis in the year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Seven was a Soldier enrolled in Capt Ralph Earle Company and in Col: Danford H.eyes Regiment and did do duty with me in the said Earle Company to the end of the Campaign which was the first day of January Seventeen Hundred Seventy Eight and that day was Discharged with me said Company was then and Stationed in Providence College before I joined it therefore I cannot say when when the said Davis joined it further the deponent sayeth not
I am his Abiather Childs mark
Worcester ss. April 19 th 1833 Personally appeared the above named Abiather Childs and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true Before me Joel Davis justice of the peace
In the opinion of the subscriber the above deposition is entitled to full credit Joel Davis

I John Pike of Paxton in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of Twenty-five years of age do depose and say that I am well acquaint- ed with Elisha Davis now present and that he was a soldier with me in Capt. Ralph Earle Company in Col. Dunforth Hyes Regiment at Rhode Island in the year A.D. 1777 for the term of six months in the time of the Revolution war and further your deponent saith not
John Pike
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss April 23 d 1833
Then the above named John Pike appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said county and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed in my presence
Bradley Livermore Just Peace
Worcester ss April 23 d 1833 I certify that John Pike above named deponent is a Gentleman of mine and that he is considered a gentleman of strict truth and that full credit ought to be given to his testimony Brad. Livermore Just Peace

15069 INVALID.
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File No. 15,069
Eliakim Davis
Briv. Rev. War.
Act: June 9 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 428
[Arrangement of 1870.]