Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,907, Elijah Devore, Penn.

SERVICE
Penn.
Devore, Elijah
NUMBER
R. 2907
Born in N. J.
CONTENTS

Elijah Severy Indiana
Rejected see let 9 Sep 42 H. W. Talbott.
did not serve six months by order of competent authority.
2907
Act 7 June 1832

8 Sep 1842. Mr Allison.
E. Devore Ind.
Free
J. S. Edwards Esqr War Department, Pension Office Washington City. D.C.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
2907
P. O. _____
Elijah Devore
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Mr Coe
Jan 29 1837.
Ex by Feb 5 67
Mr Ellis

Bartholomew County Indiana
January
A.D. 1851.
The Commissioner of Pensions will please permit Mr. Vespasian Ellis to examine the claim for pension filed by my deceased husband Elijah Devore about the year 1842 or 18
attest:
Barbary Devore Pmark
William Brown
Elijah Devore sr.

State of Indiana County of Decatur ss on this 26 th day august 1842 personally appeared before me David Jewett a justice of the peace for said county Elijah Devore of Indiana in the county of Decatur aged eighty three years the 16 th day of october last who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the ben- efit of the act of congress passed June 7 th 1832 that he entered the service of united states under the fol- lowing officers and served as herein stated that he entered the service of the united states under Capt Cornelius Devore in Bedford County Pennsylvania in the year 1778 went to Frankstown in the state of Pennsylvania thence to Pipers station thence to the cross- ing of the Juniatta thence to bloody run thence to Washcarver that he entered the service in June 1778 as volunteer and was discharged in December 1779 and was Discharged by Lieutenant William McIntire and that he was drafted in the service of united states service in the year 1780 from the county of Bedford in the state of Pennsylvania under Captain Cornelius Devore and was stationed at Frankstown in the state of Pennsylvania that he entered the service in the month of september in said year and served one month and was discharged by Lieutenant William McIntire the discharge is lost I knew Colonel Martin and Colonel Davis that he has no Documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service, 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
Elizah his Devore mark
sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid David Jewett J.P.
We Thomas Bird a clergyman residing in the county of Decatur and state of Indiana and William Ryan resi- ding in the county and state aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elizah Devore who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration.

That we believe him to be Eighty Three years old the 16th day of October last that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid sworn to and subscribed before me David Jewett J.P.
Thomas Bird William Ryans
Question by the Justice to Elijah Devour where and in what year was your born answer was born in 1758 in Huntingdon County Pennsylvania question have you any Record of your age and if so where is it
answer all the Record of my age is what was told me question where was you living when called into service where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live
answer I was living in Bedford county Pennsylvania state Londondary Township Resided in the state of Ohio Eleven years thence in the state of Indiana where I now Reside
and the said Justice do hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the inter- rogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Justice further certifies that it appears to him that that Thomas Bird who has signed the proceed- ing certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Deatur and state of Indiana and that William Ryan who has also signed the same is a resident in the county and state aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
David Jewett J.P.
I David Jewett a justice of the peace for said county do certify that he believes Elijah Devour the signer of the appli- cation for a pension is unable to attend court and further sayeth not
David Jewett J.P.

The State of Indiana § Decatur County § Set.
I Henry A. Talbott Clerk of the Decatur circuit court, do certify that David Jewett Esquire before whom the foregoing proceedings in the matter of the application of Elijah Devore for a pension were had, was at the time thereof, an acting justice of the peace within and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn into office, and that to all his official acts as such full faith and credit are due and ought to be given.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court at my office in Greensburgh this first day of September 1842.
Henry A. Talbott, Clerk Decatur Circuit Court.
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