Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11391, for Ebenezer Shelley, Connecticut
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SERVICE
Conn.

Shelley, Ebenezer

NUMBER
S. 11391

Carded
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2382
New York
Ebenezer Shelley of Easton in the State of New York who was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Munson of the Regt commanded by Col. Russell in the Connecticut line for 2 years and more.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 120 Dollars ~~ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of Nov 1832 and sent to C. S. Luzalles Greenwich

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1832  $180
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Ma '33   60
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$240

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk
Book D. Vol. 5 Page 204
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Ebenezer Shelly Shelley
Declaration & Schedule

A. Pension No. 945

Sept 1818
Conn.

Sent to 
John Barnard
Union Village 
Nov 9 1820
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State of New York
Washington County 
Ebenezer Shelly being sworn deposeth & says that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army of the United States of America. That he enlisted as such soldier on the fifth day of May in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven at Stratford, County of Fairfield and state of Connecticut under Lieut Aaron Benjamin in a company commanded by Capt. Theophilus Munson in the Eighth Connecticut Regiment commanded by Col. John Chandler. That on the first day of July of the same year this deponent was appointed Third Sergeant in said company. That on the eleventh day of June seventeen hundred and seventy nine, the said Regiment then being commanded by Col. Giles Russell this deponent was appointed First Sergeant in said company. 
That on the first day of January seventy hundred eighty three this deponent having been transferred to the Third Connecticut Regiment commanded by Col. Samuel B. Webb received the appointment of Sergeant to take rank from the 5th May 1777. That on the tenth day of June 1783 this deponent received an Honorable Discharge as such soldier from the said Col. Webb at West Point. That this Deponent is now possessed of the three above named appointments but cannot find nor does he know what has become of his discharge.
That this Deponent resides in the town of Easton of County of Washington and is aged seventy one years. That your deponent is now in indigent circumstances and without
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the means of support and that your deponent is unsound in body & unable to undergo the common fatigues of labour and by reason of his disability as aforesaid and his advanced age, his only claim & last hope is on that Country for his support for which he toiled for many years in attaining its independence and in which he [illegible] the best of his days. And your deponent further saith that the time as above specified was faithfully served in the Revolutionary War on the Continental Establishment & that he did so serve as aforesaid until the end of the War and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service.
Done at Greenwich in the County of Washington this thirty first day of March AD 1818.
Ebenezer Shelley [signature]

State of New York
Washington County Ss} Greenwich thirty first day of March AD 1818. Personally appeared before me Jonathan Sprague one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the county of Washington, Ebenezer Shelley the signer of the above affidavit and made oath that the same is true. And I hereby certify that it does fully appear to my satisfaction that the said Ebenezer Shelley did so serve as stated in his affidavit & that he is a proper subject for a pension under the law of the United States approving for persons
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"engaged in the land and naval service of "the United States in the Revolutionary War." And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Jonathan Sprague, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Washington

State of New York
Washington County} Ss. I, Daniel Shepherd, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington do certify that Jonathan Sprague Esq by whom the above certificate was made is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county acting under the authority of the said state and that the above is his signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 23d day of April 1818.
D Shepherd [signature] Clerk
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Ebenezer Shelleys Affidavit
No. 1

Direct to Jno. C. Walker
County of Washington N. York

Correct DM
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State of New York
Washington County ss on this twenty ninth day of August eighteen hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court of being a Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Washington holden at the Court house in the town of Salem in said County which proceeds according to the Court of the Common Law with a jurisdiction unlimited in print of amount. Keeping a record of their proceedings, having the power of fine and imprisonment and having a Seal- Ebenezer Shelly of Easton in Said County who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows Viz -  as a sergeant in the Connecticut line- the eighth regiment from the year Seventeen hundred Seventy Seven till the close of the war-the first part of the service under Col. John Chandler, Capt. Theophilus Munson-next under Col. Giles Russell, then under Col. Isaac Shearman & last under Col. Sam B. Webb by whom he was discharged as appears by his original declaration dated March Thirty first eighteen hundred & eighteen as appears by his pension certificate No 948-bearing date the ninth of June eighteen hundred & eighteen.  And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property in any thereof with intent thereby to diminish it or to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain pensions (illegible) in the land and Naval service of the United States
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in the Revolutionary war passed on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred & eighteen and that I have not [illegible] any pension in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed viz
In right of my wife whom I married in May eighteen hundred and nineteen Her right of dower as the widow of Silas Tilton deceased forty one acres of land lying in Easton and part of a Dwelling house thereon the yearly value of which is $45.00
2 cows - 30.00
5 sheep 2 lambs - 7.00
6 chairs - 2.25
1 porridge pot -1.00
1 dish kettle - .75
1 tin kettle - .87 1/2
1 frying pan - .50
1/2 doz earthen plates - 37 1/2 
1 set teacups & saucers - .31
1 tin coffee pot - .19
1 black tea pot broken - .06
2 old cider barrells - 1.00
1 pork barrell - .62 1/2 
1 old bake pan - .05
1 old barrel - .25
1/2 doz knives & forks - 2 spoons - .25
1 pair tongs - .50
1 tin pail - .37 1/2
=91.38
Bedding and clothing excepted
In my own right
2 chairs - .76
1 axe - .50
1 hoe - .37 1/2
1 scythe & sneath - 2.00
3 tin pails - 1.87 1/2
=5.50
96.88
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1 Set tea cups & saucers- 31 - 96.88
3 Small Bugles - 19
2 Langan dish - 28
1 Bible - 5.00
1 Pair Spectacles - 25
I Razor - 12 1/2 
2 foot glasses. 2 Tumblers - 25
2-2 quart Jugs - 25  6.6 5 1/0 
Total [appears to be] $103.53 1/0

Income none but my pension except as above stated - I am a weaver by trade but am unable to pursue it - and in consequence of a rupture of the Scrotum and unable to do but little labour - I was seventy years old in May last-- I have no family residing with me but my wife who is in her fifty seventh year and so infirm as to be unable to support herself. 

Ebenezer Shelley
Sworn & subscrinbed to August 29, 1820 in [illegible] D Shepherd [signature] Clerk

I Daniel Shepherd Clerk of the County of Washington do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court, and I further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount [crossed out] in number of the property  inherited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred three dollars and three tenths

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 29th day of Aughttps://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.pngust 1820
D Shepard [signature] Clerk
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Rev War (check mark)
11391.
INVALID.
File No. 11,391
Ebenezer Shelley
Serg Rev War
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Act: June 7 1832
Index: --Vol. A, Page 9 339
(Arrangement of 1870.}
File No. 11391
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New York Rolls
948
Ebenezer Shelley
Sergeant
Connecticut line-777 6 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31st of March 1818.
Certificate of Pension Issued the 9th of June 1818 and sent to the care of Jno C. Walker, Esq. Greenwich, Washington Co. New York
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818
Months 1/31 & 4/30            $41.31
Revolutionary Claim,
Act 18th March 1818
Chandler
Continued
Easton Washington Co

Notifications sent Nov. 9, 1822, to John Barnard
Union Villages N. York

96   240
48  144
144 96
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Payable on the 4th of March & 4th of Sept. of each year at the stated Branch Bank, New York.
Ebenezer Shelley.
Pension Certificate.
Recorded
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the law of the  UNITED STATES, of the 18th of March 1878, Ebenezer Shelley, late a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency at the rate of eight dollars ----cents per month, to commence on the 31st. day of March on thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Given at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES this ninth day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 
J.C. Calhoun
Sect. of War.
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Jerem-h Bennet
Affidavit-
No 1.
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State of New York}
Washington County, Greenwich}
April thirty first 1818--

Jeremiah Bennet of said Greenwich depseth and saith that he knew Ebenezer Shelly when a Segt. in the Revolutionary War - that he has for a number ^ of years lived within a few miles of the said Shelly, and that he knows him to be a man of advanced age - of unsound body - and in indigent circumstanes - Jeremiah Bennett [signature]

State of New York
Washington County} Greenwich the thirty first day of March AD. 1818 Personally appeared before ^ me Jonathan Sprague one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Washington, Jeremiah Bennet, the signer of the above Affidavit and made oath that the same was true 0 And I further certify that I have be acquainted with the said Bennet for a number of years and that I consider him a man of truth and veracity Jonathan Sprague [signature]