Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2027, Ebenezer Abbott, Mass.
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Mass.

Abbott, Ebenezer
or
Abbot

NUMBER
S. 2027

carded

CONTENTS
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1950 -
Ohio, Pittsburgh Agency
Ebenezer Abbott - 
[illegible] Cuyahoga in the State of OHio who was a Private in the compy commanded by Captain Haskall of the Regt comma by Col Whitecomb in the Msst line for 8 months from 1775

Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh Agency at the rate of 26 - Dollars and 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 14  - day of Nov. 1832 - and sent to eh I. Lapham Chagrin, O. 
Arrears to 4th Septm 1832  3 9.99 
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4th   13.33
March 1933 $ 53.32 
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832. 

Recorded by Nathan Rice - Clerk 
Book D Vol. 2 - Page 126
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Abbots Application for Pension
P.O. 2684
filed Aug. 4, 1832
Examined on interrogatories
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State of Ohio
County of Cuyahoga Ss}
On this 4th day of August 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the Superior Court of said State now sitting in said County of Cuyahoga Ebenezer Abbot a resident of Chagrin township in said County Aged seventy eight years on the 14th day of October 1831. who being 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 7th 1832 that he entered the service under the following named officers and served as herein stated
Asa Whitcomb Col. Josiah Whitney Lieut Col. Ephraim Sawyer Major Andrew Haskell Capt. John Frederick Lieut. and Jonathan Sawyer Ensign. That he was born in Lancaster, Worcester County in the State of Massachusetts in the year 1753. that his birth is recorded in the records of Lancaster aforesaid. That on hearing of the Battle of Lexington he went down to the Army and enlisted for eight months. That he thinks it was about the 2d day of April in the year 1775 that he entered the service and that he left it in December in the same year that he served during the term of eight months to the satisfaction of his officers. That he did not ask for nor received a written discharge and he thinks known were given at that time That a day or two previously to the Battle of Bunker Hill he returned home to Lancaster on a furlough for ten days. That on hearing the canonading in that Battle he returned to the Army but did not arrive there in season to participate in the fight. That during the whole of his term of service the Army continued in the neighbourhood of Boston
That he was with the Army when Genl. Washington arrived & took the command. That some Regiments of Riflemen joined the Army during his term of services that he knows Genl. Putnam Genl. Lee & Genl. Warren That he removed to Chester in the County of Hampshire State of Massachusetts about the year 1780 where he resided about 30 years. and from thence
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he removed to Worthington in the last mentioned County and from thence in the year 1826 he removed to the County of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio where he now resides. That he has no Documentary evidence That he is known to Nemiah Allen John M Hudson Post Master Harry Cook Lowell Goodman and others whom he believes can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution 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 the agency of any state
Ebenezer Abbot his X mark
Sworn to in Open Court 
Aug 4. 1832
[signed] H. Perry Clerk

Mr Elijah Ward a Clergyman and Johnathan Lapham hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Abbot who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we reside in his immediate neighbourhood that we believe him to be seventy eight years of Age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
[signed] Elijah Ward
[signed] Johnathan Lapham
Sworn to in Open Court Aug 4. 1832
[signed] H. Perry Clk
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Ebenezer Abbot
Ohio
No. 2484
from 1775, private
8 months 
$26.66/100

J. Lapham
Chagrin Ohio