Source:Elijah P. Ivey pension declaration
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- Publication Number
- M804
- Publication Title
- Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files
- Publisher
- NARA
- Short Description
- NARA M804. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files.
- State
- South Carolina
- Veteran Surname
- Ivey
- Veteran Given Name
- Elijah
- Pensioner Surname
- [BLANK]
- Pensioner Given Name
- [BLANK]
- Service
- S.C.
- Pension Number
- S. 15188
Transcription
State of Alabama | | SS County of Lowndes | On this twelfth day of October, A.D. One thousand Eight hundred and fifty five. personally appeared before me Wm. M. Curtis, a justice of the peace within and for the county and state aforesaid Elijah P. Ivey aged twenty years, a resident of Lowndes County in the State of Alabama, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the only minor child of Elijah Ivey, a revolutionary soldier, deceased, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain in the regi in the army of the revolution ment commanded by Col. in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain. that the said Elijah Ivey deceased served fo at least fourteen days in active service. He further declares that his said father, Elijah Ivey was entitled to and received an annual pension of eighty dollars, awarded him in conformity with the act of the 7th June 1832. That a claim or pen no. 22446 sion certificate ^ issued, on the fourth day of November 1833, from thi Pension Office, signed by Lewis Cass, then Secretary of War, which said certificate where with enclosed, as evidence of the services of his father. and to which, and the record now in the proper department at Washington, he refers, for further evidence to substantiate his claims. He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act approved on the 3rd of March 1855. He also declares that he has not received nor applied for a bounty land warrant under this or any other act of Congress. He further declares, that there is no widow surviving the said Elijah Ivey de ceased, and that he, the said Elijah P. Ivey is the only minor child. and that he has no guardian in this State. Elijah P. Ivey