Estill County KyArchives Military Records.....Witt, Elisha 
Revwar - Pension 
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ELISHA WITT
Of Kentucky

    Elisha Witt applied for revolutionary pension while living in Estill County,
Kentucky. He was born September 18, 1759, in Albemarle County, Virginia. He
enlisted in Amherst County, Virginia, and served in Virginia troops in the years
1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, under Captains Richard Ballenger, John
Jacobs, John Biggs and William Harris, and Colonels Hugh Row, Francis Tadlor and
John Pope. He was at the Siege of Yorktown and at the Surrender of Cornwallis.
He married July 17, 1781, Phebe Dodd.

    Note: He died December 16, 1835, in Estill County, Kentucky. His children
were William, Annie, Charles, Abner, Elisha, Nathan, Rachel, David, John and
Silas.


Additional Comments:
From:

SOME TENNESSEE HEROES
OF THE
REVOLUTION
Compiled From Pension Statements
PAMPHLET NO. IV

by Zella Armstrong

This was in the section marked:

RECORDS OF SOME REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS WHO DID NOT LIVE IN TENNESSEE BUT WHO 
HAVE TENNESSEE DESCENDENTS OR SOME OTHER TENNESSEE INTEREST 

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