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Subject: Witt.Elisha.Revwar.Estill.MILITARY-Pension


 Revwar 
Estill County KyArchives Military Pension

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.


Submitted by: Joy Fisher
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Additional Comments:
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SOME TENNESSEE HEROES
OF THE
REVOLUTION
Compiled From Pension Statements
PAMPHLET NO. IV

by Zella Armstrong

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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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