Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,640, for Ebenezer Parmenter, Massachusetts
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Veteran's Declaration of Service:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss.

On this thirtieth day of August, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, personally appeared in open Court, before the Honourable Judge of the Court of Probate, in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, now sitting, Samuel O'Hara, a resident of Framingham, in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy-one years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832:

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:

He was drafted in the year 1777, in the town of Framingham, and served a tour of three months in Captain Lincoln's company, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel T. O'Neill. He was stationed at Saratoga and participated in the battle against the British. After this term of service, he was discharged by Captain Johnson.

He served another tour, beginning in March 1780, under Captain McNamara's company in Colonel Brown's Regiment. He served another 3 months before being discharged.
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Veteran’s Service:
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 any state,
Elihu Burnett

Witness Affidavits (continued):
We, Maryne Hebelitch, a clergyman, residing in the town of Ashland, and George Howard, a resident in Ashland, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel O'Hara, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; we believe him to be seventy-two years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
George Howard
Maryne Hebelitch

Final Certification from Court:
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above-named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.

And the Court further certify, that it appears to them that Elihu Burnett, who is a resident in Ashland, who has signed the foregoing certificate, is a clergyman, and who has also signed the same, is a resident in Ashland, and is a credible person; and that their statements are entitled to credit.

I Isaac Fitch, Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel O'Hara for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.

Isaac Fitch
Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex
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Affidavit of James Carter (Supporting Testimony for Pension Application)
I James Carter of Groton in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
of lawful age, testify and say that Elihu Proutmet of Sudbury in the county and state aforesaid, enlisted in Capt. Pelham’s Company, and was stationed in Sudbury to guard the public stores; said Proutmet served six months the same year in November or December A.D. 1777.

I was in the same company with said Proutmet during the term of said six months.
James Carter

Certification
Middlesex ss. June 27th, 1832

Then the above named James Carter made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed was true, before me
Paul Gerrish, Justice of the Peace.

I also certify that James Carter, who signed and swore to the above affidavit before me, is a credible person.

Paul Gerrish, Justice of the Peace