Fauquier County, Virginia, Military Pension Records:  Elisha Barton

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Elisha Barton
26 March 1834, Bedford Co., VA.  Elisha (X) Barton of said county, aged 76,
declares he entered service in 1781 for six months as a volunteer in the militia
in a company of cavalry from Fauquier County where he then resided.  He marched
under Capt. William Triplett to the Court House of Fauquier County where he was
stationed seven weeks awaiting a call to join the army.  The company was
designed to defend those places where danger was apprehended from sudden
incursions of the enemy.  They were ordered to march to Falmouth near
Fredericksburg on the Rappahannock.  They remained about three weeks and were
then ordered to march to Bowling Green on the great road leading from Richmond
to Fredericksburg.  They wwere stationed there a short time and then ordered to
march to Yorktown.  He remained there until discharged.

Samuel Gibson was lieutenant and John Barker was ensign.  The chief commander of
the forces was ___ Triplett.  The company never joined the main army.  He was
discharged a short time before the surrender of Cornwallis.

He was born in Fauquier Co., Va., in 1757 and moved to Bedford County two years
after the close of the war.

Elisha Barton of Bedford Co., Va., private in the company of Capt. Triplett in
the Virginia line for six months, was placed on the Virginia pension roll at $25
per annum under the Act of 1832.  Certificate 23926 was issued 28 April 1834.

Source:  Book from Tulsa Genealogy Library...but I forgot to write the name
down...but it may have been the following source.  

Elisha Barton is indexed in:
Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War
by J. T. McAllister
copyright 1913
McAllister Publishing Co., Hot Springs, VA
Page 235:  Pensioners residing in VA in 1835 who received pensions as VA
Militiamen, Part IV
Barton, Corp. Elisha, Bedford Co., 76.