Laurens-Houston-Chattahoochee County GaArchives Military Records.....Dean, Elijah November 7, 1850
Warof1812 - Pension Laurens Troop of Light Dragoons, 2nd Brigade, 5th Division
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Elijah Dean/Deen's War Of 1812 Pension Records
Elijah Dean/Deen (son of RS Richard Dean/Deen b. 1760 Halifax, NC. d. 1840 Muscogee
                Co, GA)
     b. 1794 Washington Co, GA.  
     d. 10 Nov 1858 Dale Co, AL.  
     m. 27 Sep 1814 in Laurens Co, GA, to Martha Page b. 1796 Burke Co, GA. d. 1874
Dale Co, AL  Both
                buried Mt. Olive Cemetery, Dale Co, AL.

•  The following information comes from copies of Thomas Herbert Dean of Elijah
Dean's pension papers filed in Muscogee Co, GA, 7 Nov 1850, and his wife Martha Page
Dean’s widow’s pension papers filed 26 Aug 1873 in Dale Co, AL.  Also included are
papers certifying Elijah and Martha Page Dean's marriage.  Elijah Dean/ Deen served
in the War of 1812 as follows:

  The Laurens Troop of Light Dragoons, 2nd Brigade, 5th Division under General David
Blackshear; stationed at various times at Hartford, GA and at Ft. Early, GA.

  1.  Oct 1812 to 31 March 1813.  1st Corp. Chambers Battalion Infantry; Capt
Shadrack Adkinson, Col. Smith, Major Manning.  Discharged Ft. New Hope, FL. 
Mustered out by Major Manning.
  2.  21 Nov 1814 to 20 May 1815. 1st Lt. Wimberly’s Regiment, Capt John Thomas’
Company, mustered in at Ft. Hawkins, GA.  Discharged Darrien, GA. 

•  Additional service:
  1.  From 1816-1824 Elijah Dean was a Captain in Laurens Co, GA.
  2.  From 1829-1832 Elijah Dean was a Major in Houston Co, GA. (Major Dean’s
Battalion, newly formed from the 13th and 14th and the new 14th and 15th Districts,
was ordered by the Court of Inquiry, Perry, Houston County, GA, 17 May 1830). An
area of Houston County (around what is now Elco) also bore the designation of Dean's
Military District.

•  Georgia Military Affairs, Vol 4 1814-1819 (copied, indexed, and bound by the
authority of John B. Wilson, Secretary of State, under the direction of Mrs. J. B.
Hays, State Historian 1940, and bound by the General John Floyd Chapter, Daughters
of the War of 1812, from original papers in the Department of Archives and History,
W. P. A. Project 5993) has the following information:

5th May 1819, Dublin, Laurens County.  The following officers served at the court
martial of Captain Jacob Robinson, of the Laurens Troop of Light Dragoons:

Col. Ezekiel Wimberly of Twiggs County, Pres.
Lt. Col. Elijah Blackshear
Major John Thomas
Capt Adam Jones
Capt Leroy G Harris
Capt Davis Smith
Capt Elijah Dean
Capt. Uriah Kenchen
Capt Reason Watson
Capt. James Harrison
Capt Sion Smith
Lt. James Brown
Lt. Charles S. Guiton
Lt. Daniel Roberts
Lt. Thomas Saunders
Lt. Jesse See
Lt Mathew Smith  
Major Neill Munroe Judge Advocate
David, Blackshear, B. Gen. 2 B. 5. D.

The president Col. Ezekiel Wimberly not being present I do hereby appoint Lt. Co.
Elijah Blackshear to preside in his stead. 
                                  David Blackshear B. Gen.

 



Additional Comments:
Elijah Dean resigned from the Georgia Militia in 1838 after writing and receiving
permission to be excused from the activities surrounding the events that led to the
Trail of Tears.  I will post that document, a document detailing the events of the
burning of a Seminole village, and the document of 17 May 1830 for creation of Major
Dean's Battalion separately. 

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