Rev. War Pension - John ELDER of Cumberland Co, Franklin Co and Beaver Co PA

      From ORVILLE ELDER book: David and Isabella Elder and those who came after them.
Notes:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nancyelder/ed/OrvilleElder.htm

Pension record  #S23616  - Handwritten pages scanned at PA ARCHIVES for Footnote.com.

Page 7, mentions "Major James McCALMONT",
Google Books full text book:
"Pennsylvania in the war of the Revolution,  associated battalions and militia, 1775-83. 2 v."

lists County of CUMBERLAND - Fifth Battalion, page 264-265
Officers, Col. Joseph Armstrong and Major James McCALMONT
Privates, James Findley, John Vance

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Pension Page 11-12 Letter from War Dept returning papers
for answering questions:
Page 13 - Desired info
    May 1778 under Isaac Watts
        1778 12 days Scout
        3 mos. Noah Abraham's
Battles: Crooked Billet
Born: 1755 in Cumberland Co PA
"No data as to family"

Google.com Found: Battle of Crooked Billet
 at
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crooked_Billet

 ...American forces
    * Pennsylvania Militia, Bucks County Regiment (under Captain
 William Pugh)
    * Pennsylvania Militia, Cumberland County Regiments (under
 Colonels Frederick Watts and Abraham Smith)

WATTS family of Cumberland Co PA
Frederick WATTS...on Dec. 21, 1762, there was surveyed to him on a warrant
dated June 4, 1762, a tract of 331 acres of bottom land, lying three miles above the
mouth of the Juniata river, then in Cumberland, now in Perry county.
Upon this he made his home, and here he lived until his death.
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/cumberland/bios/zeamer/watts-fam.txt

PENSION PAGES, listing Capt. Noah Abraham:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nancyelder/ed/BeaverCoPA2.jpg
 

Questions on Rev. War  Pension:

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