CABARRAS COUNTY, NC - MILITARY - Elias Baker, Revoltionary War Pension Papers --------------¤¤¤¤¤¤-------------- Following are transcriptions of Revolutionary pension documents for Elias Baker, originally from Rowan County, NC. The widow Baker, Sarah Holbrook Baker was the daughter of John Holbrook, sister of Vachel Holbrook of Cabarrus County and sister of Caleb Holbrook. The Holbrooks resided in Mecklenburg before the formation of Cabarrus. State of Georgia Forsyth County On this the 7th day of October one thousand eight hundred and forty eight before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State personally appeared Nicholas Sewell and after being duly sworn according to law Declares that he is in his 82nd year from the 4th of March last that he was born in Rowan County North Carolina and was well acquainted with Elias Baker and Sarah Holebrook in said county of Rowan and state of North Carolina before the said Elias Baker and Sarah Holebrook were married he states from his best recollection that they were marryed just before or about the close of the Revolutionary War and that he lived in the same neighborhood when said marriage took place in one & a half or two miles of John Holebrook the father of Sarah Holebrook now the widow Baker and since that time lived a neighbour to Elias Baker & wife in Franklin County in this State for the space of 20 years of more since that time Elias Baker moved to Illinois and back to Gwinnette County in this State and from that County to Walker or Chattooga Counties where he died some 3 or 4 years ago as he has been informed leaving his widow Sarah Baker. Sworn to and subscribed (signed) Nicholas Sewell before me this the 7th of his mark October 1848 (signed) Oliver Sewell (signed) David Talant J.Peace I David Talant do hereby certify that the foregoing Declaration was carefully read before & the said Nicholas Sewell was qualified to it and signed the same. (signed) David Talant J.P. I also certify that Mr. Sewells statements are certified to full faith and credit. October 7 - 1848 (signed) David Talant J. P. State of Georgia Hall County I John Dorsey an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County do certify that I have been acquainted with Mrs. Sarah Baker widow of Elias Baker who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States in Gwinnette County in this State for the last forty two years and was well acquainted with her husband Elias Baker from the fall of the year 1807 up to the death of said Elias Baker which occurred in Chattooga County a few years ago. I well recollect of knowing the said Elias and Sarah Baker as husband and wife as far back as 1807 as I went to live with them in that year and remained with them about 14 years at the end of that time I left them in the State of Illinois and returned to Georgia as I was then twenty one years of age and in a short time after I left them they moved back to Gwinnette Co. thence to Cass Co. and thence to Chattooga County where they remained until he died leaving said widow and I also certify that from the apparent ages of their oldest children and from the statements of the said Elias and Sarah Baker that they were married about the year 1790 in the State of North Carolina. I have frequently heard Elias Baker speak of his oldest child Charles Baker being six months old when he was in the Army at the battle at Guilford Court House. Given under my hand and seal this twenty first day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty nine (signed) John Dorsey J. Peace State of Georgia Chattooga County On this the 12th day of October one thousand eight hundred and forty eight before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace in & for said County and State personally appeared Sarah Baker Widow of Elias Baker, deceased, who being duly sword according to law declares that she is the lawful Widow of Elias Baker who was a Revolutionary Soldier and a pensioner of the United States in Gwinnett County in this State at the rate of 30 dollars per Annum and that she makes this Declaration in order to obtain a pension from the United States as the widow of said deceased Elias Baker from the date of his death which occurred on the 18th day of November 1843 during her life time as provided by a Resolution passed & approved by Congress on the first day of July 1848 and all other resolutions and acts passed and approved for the benefit of Widows of Revolutionary Soldiers who were married previous to the first day of Jan 1794. She states that she was married to her late husband Elias Baker in Rowan County N.C. by Esqr. Fifer in the 15th day of June 1780 and had in lawful wedloc ten children six of which were alive when last heard from. The enclosed record is a record of the ages of her children as put down by her late husband in his own handwriting taken from his family register some forty odd years ago owing to the mutilation of said original record. She states that she knows of no persons living that was present at her husbands marriage but knows of some individuals that were alive when last heard from that was acquainted with her & her husband as husband and wife previous to the first day of January 1794 to wit Sarah Baker of Hall County, Nicholas Sewell of Forsyth County and James Sewell of Merriweather County Ga and deponent further declares that she has not married since the death of said Elias Baker but still remains a widow. (signed) Sarah Baker Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me her mark (signed) J. S. Chastain John Montgomery J. Peace I John Montgomery do certify that the foregoing Declaration was carefully read before Mrs. Baker swore to same and made her crop and that she is not able from infirmity and old age to go before the Court of said County to make her Declaration before said Court and that her statements are entitled to full faith and credit. (signed) John Montgomery J. Peace Georgia Gwinnett County Benjamin T. Undersgrand a justice of the peace of said County personally appeared Elias Baker & after being duly sworn makes the following statement & amendment of his annexed Declaration in order to obtain a Pension to wit that in the year 1779 he entered the service of his second tour as a drafted man & served as stated in his eclaration. That in the year 1781 he served his third tour under the officers stated in his said declaration as a drafted militiaman & he recollects the date of this last tour from the fact that at that time the battle was fought at Guilford & Cornwallis marched on toward Virginia and that in each service he was a private soldier that he was living in Rowand County North Carolina each time he entered the service. after the War he removed to Elbert County Georgia from there to Franklin County Georgia there to Madison County Illinois there remanded to Gwinnett County where he still resides. That Thomas Laning, John Laning, and William Frizzall knew of his wife in the first service - that Beall Baker, Benjamin Baker, & Capt Joseph White knew of his wife in the second service - and that Beall Baker & Samuel Killian knew of his wife in the third service - That he was born in Baltimore County State of Maryland on the 22 day of January 1760- That he has a record of his age in an old Book entitled "Saints visit" - That James Williams a clergyman - Thomas Worthing Esq. William Guien Esq. Samuel Maloney & Col. Nathaniel Burge four of whom he has been long know & many others of his neighbors can testify to his character for veracity & of their belief on his service as a soldier of the revolution was and that since his former declaration he has found Beall Baker by whom he can know last of his service. Sworn to and Subscribed (signed) Elias Baker on this 5 August 1833 [document has actual signature] (signed) John Mills J.P. State of Georgia Gwinnette County Inferior Court Sept Term 1832 On this 25th day of September 1832, personally appeared in open Court (it being a Court of Records) now sitting, Elias Baker a resident of the said County of Gwinnett, & State aforesaid aged seventy-two years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the follow declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officer and served as herein stated (to wit) that he entered the service in Rowan County & State of North Carolina where he then resided as a Volunteer under the command of Capt. John Graham & Lieutenant Frances Ross under the Command of Genl. Rutherford for the Term of three months & was afterwards discharged by said Capt. Graham in this tour who were fighting against the Cherokee Indians and the service was rendered in the year 1777. Afterwards That he entered the service on a Tour of three Months under Capt. Joseph White and Lieutenant Benjamin Knox attached to Col. Madison Inf. Regiment & was commanded by Genl. Lincoln and was in the Battle of Stone under said officers & discharged by Genl Rutherford, afterwards entered the army again for three months more under Capt. Hasselbury & Lieutenant George Ligman attached to Col. McDowell's Regiment commanded by Genl. Rutherford & was regularly discharged by Col. McDowell at Wilmington N.Ca. that he was a resident of Rowan County & State of NCarolina during all of the before mentioned Three service Tours. That all three of his discharges are mislaid or such that he cannot find them that he recollects of no person living who can prove the before several services except Joshua Baker who can prove our living neither has he any documenting evidence by which he can prove said several Tours of service that since the Revolutionary War he removed to the State of Georgia then to the State of Illinois thence back to the State of Georgia again where he now is a resident of Gwinnett County as above mentioned. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any State. Sworn to & Subscribed (signed) Elias Baker the day & year aforesaid [document has actual signature] in open Court. Wm. Maltbie C.I.C. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. 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