View source for Source:Elijah P. Ivey pension declaration

;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