Pension Application of Robert and Elizabeth Childers Elliott: W3404

                        Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

Virginia

            At a Superior court of law continued and held for Montgomery county on the 10th day of April 1827

            On this 10th day of April 1827 personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the county of Montgomery aforesaid, Robert Elliott a resident in said county aged about eighty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820. That he the said Robert Elliott was in the year 1777, (probably early in that year) commissioned as Lieutenant in the twelfth Virginia regiment commanded by Colo James Wood, on continental establishment and served in the company commanded by Capt. Rawland Madison  that he continued to serve as Lieutenant in the said 12th regiment until sometime in the latter part of the year 1780, at which last mentioned period, the term of three years for which he had engaged to serve in the capacity aforesaid expired, and he stood regularly discharged from the service (he further stated for explanation that he understood that the whole of the above mentioned regiment, officers as well as privates had engaged to serve only for the term of three years) he further declared that he was in the battles of Brandywine [11 Sep 1777], Germantown [4 Oct 1777] and Monmouth [28 June 1778], and many skirmishes of minor character, that he has no other evidence of his said service, having incautiously given up his commission as Lieutenant to a certain James Taylor to whom, he had sold his claim to his bounty lands, and who resides as he is informed in the state of Kentucky at a great distance from the residence of him the said Elliott. And in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not by gift sale or in any manner since that time, disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or security contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.  Schedule of the whole estate both real and personal of Robert Elliott. A tract of mountain land supposed to contain 150 acres worth Two hundred & fifty dollars. – One horse beast (very old & inferior) worth Ten dollars. five head of neat cattle worth twenty five dollars, some household furniture corresponding in quality with my humble circumstances, and some farming utensils worth very little say about Twenty dollars. My family at home consists of myself and an aged wife only.     [signed] Robert Elliott

NOTES: On 1 April 1839 in Montgomery County Elizabeth Elliott, about 66 years old, stated that on 20 June 1790 in (she thought) Botetourt County VA she married Robert Elliott, who died 3 Jan 1838. Her bounty land claim gives her maiden name as Childers.