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