Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39472, Ephraim Dutton, [BLANK]
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(8-1776)
SERVICE [very faint] Mass.
Dutton, Ephraim
NUMBER S. 39472

CONTENTS
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10064-
Vermont
Ephraim Dutton of Ludlow in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Ballard of the Regt commanded by Colonel Alden in the Mass
line, for the term of 3 years from April 1777 to 4 April 1780
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 21 day of April 1818. and __

Certificate of Pension issued the 1 of May 1819- and sent to Judge Heald

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Continued the Roll on 11th day of February 1832 and notification sent to Hon H Hubbard at the House of Reps

Pension commencing on the 4th January 1892 -

Amount due on 4th of March 1832 $17.03

Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818, May 1, 1820.
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[entire page very faint]
[illegible] in the [illegible]
in the Massachusetts line [illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible] the fourth day of April in the year
seventeen hundred and eighty [illegible]
discharge from the [illegible] and has since lost his discharge
[illegible]
[illegible] as to need of assistance from
his Country for support
Ephraim Dutton [signature]

State of Vermont
Windsor County SS
Cavendish April 21st A.D. 1818
Subscribed & sworn to & declared
before me
Amos Heald one of the Judges of the County
Court for the said County of Windsor

I, Amos Heald one of the judges of the County Court for the said County 
of Windsor [illegible]
that the said Ephraim Dutton did serve in the Revolutionary War
as stated [illegible]
[illegible] Eleazer Mead of Cavendish aforesaid [illegible] being by me duly
sworn [illegible] that he was in the service with and well acquainted with
the said Ephraim Dutton [illegible] and served in the same company
with him the said [illegible] Dutton above stated
[illegible] the preceding testimony [illegible]
[illegible] Act of Congress
[illegible] April 21 1818
Certified by Amos Heald  [illegible] of W. County Court
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I Amos Heald, Judge as aforesaid do further certify, that from evidence to me adduced, it appears to my full satisfaction, that the said Ephraim Dutton is in indigent circumstances
and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support-
Amos Heald Assistant Judge
Windsor County Court

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Ephraim Dutton
77 to 80
Alden Mayotte Regt
Admitted

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State of Vermont
Windsor County ┃
Woodstock County Clerks Office June 12 1818
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court Do hereby certify that Amos Heald is one of the Assistant Judge of said Windsor County Court and that the within signatures are in the hand writing of said Judge-
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court the day above
Benj Swan
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State of Vermont
Windsor County ┃
Woodstock County Clerks Office June 12 1818
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court Do hereby certify that Amos Heald is one of the Assistant Judge of said Windsor County Court and that the within signatures are in the hand writing of said Judge-
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court the day above
Benj Swan

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Ephraim Dutton
77 to 80
Alden Mayotte Regt
Admitted

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I Amos Heald, Judge as aforesaid do further certify, that from evidence to me adduced, it appears to my full satisfaction, that the said Ephraim Dutton is in indigent circumstances
and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support-
Amos Heald Assistant Judge
Windsor County Court
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Schedule
Declaration in order to be continued on the pension list under the act of May 1, 1820.

State of Vermont,
Windsor District ⎬ 
At a Probate Court holden at Cavendish in and for the District of Windsor, on this 28th day of May 1831. Personally appeared in open Court (said Court being a court of record & constituted as such by the laws of this State) Ephraim Dutton resident of said district, aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and 1st of May 1820, that he the said Ephraim Dutton did enlist in the service of the United States in the revolutionary war for the term of three years on the 4th day of April in the
year 1777 in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain William
Hudson Ballard in the regiment commanded by Colonel Alden being the 7th regiment
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in the Massachusetts line on the continental establishment - that he continued to serve
in said corps until the 4th day of April 1780, when he was discharged from the service
at West Point N. Y. that his name has been placed on the pension list, that the number of his pension certificate is 1064-that he never before exhibited a schedule of his property. The reason of his not making earlier application for a pension is as follows,

At the time the act of 1820 took place he was in possession of a piece of lease land of about 73 acres and at that time was able to occupy said land; but in 1826 he became unable to occupy said land by reason of the Rheumatism and other infirmities and has since become totally unable to labour

[illegible] of the 1st
May 1820, I solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof,
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with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act
of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and
naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed the 18th day of
March 1818; and that I have not nor has any person 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

That since the 18th of March 1818, the following charges have been made in my
property. In 1818 I owned about 73 acres of lease land at a rent of $14.72 to be
paid to the town yearly. December 15, 1821 I sold said lease and two cows $24, and
ten sheep $10, one horse $20.-- old cast $8.00 one plow, $3.00 one old cutter and harness at $6.00. The above articles were put with said land for which I received a bond for sixty
dollars per year during my natural life
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according to the terms of the bond

The following is all the property I now own except the said bond. Viz.
Iron ware 4.00 and irons 1.50 --5,50
Fire [illegible] & tongs,, 75. one desk 3.00 chest 3.75 --7.50
two old tables & furniture 3.50, Light stand, 50 --400 
wooden ware 1.25 old pewter 1.00 tinware, 50. --2.75
Brown leather, 17 one pair of Steel [illegible], 50 -- .67
one old wooden clock 3.00 looking glass " 75 - 3.75
seven old chairs 1.50 two old hand saws, 75 --- 2.25
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$26.42

I am a Carpenter by occupation totally unable to labour, and have a wife named Esther
aged 68 years not able to labor
Signed, Ephraim Dutton

Sworn to and declared before said court
attest, Nomlas Cobb, Register

the foregoing is truly copied from the original on file in the
Pension Office of the War Department
J Edwards
Dec. 24, 1831
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section MHF
May 10, 1825

Mrs. William McPherson
8738 Honor St.,
Chicago, Ill.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S39473 it appears that Ephraim Dutton in 1775 belonged to a company of minute men in Westford, Massachusetts and on April 19,1775 was at the battle of Lexington

Immediately after said battle he enlisted and served eight months as a private in Captain Joshua Parker's Company, Colonel William Prescott's Massachusetts Regiment

He enlisted in July 1776 at said Westford and served five months as private in Captain John Parker's Company, Colonel Jonathan Reed's Massachusetts Regiment.

He enlisted April 8 or 1777, served as a private in Captain William Hudson Ballard's Company, Colonels Alden and John Brooks' Seventh Massachusetts Regiment, was at the battle of Cherry Valley in November 1778 where
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he was captured by the Indians and held a prisoner by them until early in October 1779, when he was released and returned to said Captain Ballard's Company in the same regiment and served until discharged April 1780.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 21, 1818 while a resident of Ludlow, Windsor County, Vermont aged sixty-four years.

In 1831 he was still living in said Ludlow and referred to his wife Esther aged sixty-eight years. There is no further data on file as to his family.

Respectfully,
WILDER S. METCALF
Commissioner.
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[left side]
39472
INVALID.
Revy
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File No. 39472
Ephraim Dutton
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 18
Index: -- Vol. 3  Page 143
Arrangement of 1870.

[right side]
1927 May 12. Hist. to Mrs. W.W. McPherson
[illegible]
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DUTTON EPHRAIM
(MASS) S-39472
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Westpoint 4th April 1700
This Certify that Ephraim Dutton Soldier in Capt Wm H. Ballard Comp'y of Mass Reg't has turned in his gun and cartridge box into the Regimental Store they being the property of the United States

To whom it may Concern
Wm Kendry QM to said reg't
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[left side]
18.064
Vermont
Ephraim Dutton of Ludlow in the state of Vt who was a private in the regiment commanded by Col. Alden of the Mass line, for the term of 3 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
the 21 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 1 of May, 1819 and sent to Judge Hall

Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819 $83.69 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1848 48.--
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$131.69

Revolutionary claim,
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

14 mo 10/30  4/31

[illegible] 11 July 1830
[illegible] January ? 18??

[right side]
See letter to B. Swan Mar 15 129. do
to A.S. Campbell, 5 April 1831
do to same, June 30. 1831-
do the same Aug. 20. 1831

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Ludlow January 4-1832
This may certify that we the undersigned inhabitants of said Ludlow are well acquainted
with the farm formerly owned by Ephraim Dutton of said Ludlow & being called upon to appraise said farm we appraised it, with the incumbrance thereon at four hundred eighty three dollars said land is [illegible] land & under a yearly rent of Forty dollars & seventy two
cents
Silas Warren
Abel Woodward [signatures]

State of Vermont  Ludlow Jany 4 1832
Windsor County ⎬
Personally appeared the above named Abel Woodward and Silas Warren & made solemn oath that the above appraisal is the true worth of said farm according to their judgement

I hereby certify that the said appraisers are mn of truth & veracity
Before me [illegible] Justice of the Peace
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I, Ephraim Dutton of Ludlow in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont hereby certify that I enlisted in the Revolutionary War Apl 1777 & in November 1777 while at Cherry Valley in the State of New York I was captured by the Indians & remained a prisoner of war with October 1779 among the Indians & was then released at Fort Hancock  & joined the reg. to which I formerly belonged & continued in actual service untill the expiration of the time of enlistment at which time, I was regularly discharged
Ephraim Dutton [signature]

State of Vermont
Windsor County SS
Ludlow January 4 1832

Personally appeared Ephraim Dutton & made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth.

I duly certify that the deponent is a man of truth & veracity
Before me
Sewell Hallam justice the Peace
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B. Falls Vt Aug 26 
Mr. Rufus Barlow
Ludlow
Vermont
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War Department
Pension Office
20 August 1831

Sir,
the joint affidavit of Mssr's Stafford C Hanson, which you sent here has been placed on our files. This evidence [illegible]that the land consigned away by Ephraim Sutton is worth $600, and in consideration thereof he now received $60 annually [illegible] no case like this has a pension allowed.  Dutton's name cannot therefore be restored to the Pension List

Jonathan Ormes application for the benefit of the act of May 15 1828 was referred to the Secretary of the Treasury on the 9th of April last Enquiring should be made of this office in relation to the claim

I am respectfully
Yr Obt Sert
J.L. Edwards


Alex S Campbell Esq.
Bellows Falls
Vermont
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[envelope]
Lew Cass    War Dept. Pension Office
J.L. Edwards

Alexander S. Campbell Esq
Bellows Falls
Vermont

[illegible postmark]
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[envelope]
War Dept. Pension Office
J. L. Edwards

H Randolph
Dept'y Sec'y of War

Alexander S. Campbell Esq
Bellows Falls
Vermont
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[envelope]
War Dept. Pension Office
J. L. Edwards

H Randolph
Dept'y Sec'y of War

Alexander S. Campbell Esq
Bellows Falls
Vermont
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War Department,
Pension Office
June 30, 1831

Sir,
The papers in the case of Ephraim Dutton have been examined and placed on our files. The opinion of the Court as to the full value of the 73 acres of land must be given, and also the full value of the lease

The evidence as to the amount of the annual income arising from the lease is not of itself sufficient, in order to a proper understanding of the case

I am respectfully
Your Obt Sert
J L. Edwards

Alexander S. Campbell Esq.
Bellows Falls
Vermont
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[envelope]
[illegible postmark] 10

Mr. Rufus Barton
Ludlow
Vermont
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War Department
Pension Office
April 5th 1831

Sir,
The letter of the Hon H Hubbard accompanied by your's of the 29th ultima came duly to hand. The papers in the case of Ephraim Dutton have been examined and they are  herewith returned. In order to get his pension renewed, he must account for property disposed of March 18, 1818, in the mode pointed out in the note (9) in the enclosed printed sheet. The enclosed papers must be property authenticated; and the claimant must make a particular explanation as to the origin of the annuity he received. The enclosed papers are not sufficient.

If you have sent any other papers to this Department be pleased to mention the time
when they were sent, the nature of the cases, and the names of the claimants

I am, respectfully
Your obt sevt
J. L. Edwards

Alexander S. Campbell, Esq
Bellows Falls
Vermont
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Ep'm Dutton
January 6 1832
Ref to the Committee on
Rev. of Pensions

allowed
L.C.
Feb. 1. 1832

ren:ton: Jan. 4. 1832
Hon H. Hubbard

Hubbard 22 apr
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War Department
Pension Office
24 December 1831

Sir,
At your request I send herewith a Copy of the Schedule of Ephraim Dutton

John Clar'ks claim has been allowed as soon as I can obtain the signature of the Secretary of War, who is now indisposed, I will send a pension certificate to you for Mr Clark

In consequence of some remarks made on the papers of Jacob Taylor, by the late
Secretary of War, I am under the necessity of referring the case to the present Head of this Department. You may depend on a decision early the ensuing week.

I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Sent
J. L. Edwards

Hon. H. Hubbard
House of Representatives
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[no legible text]
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War Department
Pension Office
May 15, 1829

Sir,
The schedule of Ephraim Dutton, who has applied through you for a continuation of his pension, has been examined. It appears that he has an annuity of $60 per annum secured to himself and wife during their natural lives. He must shew how he obtained this annuity before a decision can be had.

I am respectfully
Your Obt Servt
James L. Edwards

B. Swan, Esqr
Woodstock,
Vermont.
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Ironware $4.00
2 hand saws $1.50 Fire [illegible] & tongs,,and irons 1.50
.75. one desk 3.00 chest 3.75 --
two old tables & furniture 3.50, candle stand, 50 --3.75
wooden ware 1.25 pewter 1.00 tinware, 50. --
Brown leather, 17 ct one pair of Steel [illegible], 50 --
one old wooden clock 3.00 looking glass " 75 - 3.75
seven old chairs 1.50 
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$23.42

Ludlow May 5 1831
I this day appraised the personally know of Ephraim Dutton to according to the pension act
Stephen Wright [signature]

Vt
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[no legible text]
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We the undersigned inhabitants of Ludlow Vermont certify that we are neighbors of
Ephraim Dutton of sd Ludlow and are well acquainted with the lease lot of seventy three
acres formerly occupied by said Ephraim Dutton and now occupied by [illegible] Dutton and on our oath certify that we consider the same to be worth six hundred dollars with the incumbrance of the rent Appraised this August 3rd 1831
Artemas Spafford
Stephen Hanson [signatures]
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State of Vermont
Windsor County
At Ludlow in said County August 1851 then personally appeared Stephen Hanson and Thomas Spafford and made solemn oath that the above appraisal by them made is truly made according to the best of their Judgement and abilities
Before me
Sewell Fallam
Justice of the Peace
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Ephraim Dutton
Pension declaration
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Schedule
Declaration in order to be continued on the pension list under the act of May 1, 1820.

State of Vermont  
Windsor District ⎬
At a Probate Court holden  at Cavendish in and for the District of Windsor, on this 28th day of May 1831. Personally appeared in open Court, (said Court being a court of record constituted as such by the laws of this State) Ephraim Dutton resident of said district, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and 1st of May 1820; that he the said Ephraim Dutton did enlist in the service of the United States in the revolutionary war for the term of three years on the 4th day of April in the year 1777 in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Capt. William Hudson Ballard in the regiment commanded by Col. Alden being the 7th regiment in the main line on the Continental establishment. that he continued to serve in said Corps untill the 4th day of April 1780, when he was discharged from the service at West Point N. Y. that his name has been placed on the pension list, that the number of his pension certificate is ten thousand sixty four, that he never before exhibited a schedule of his property The reason of his not making earlier application for a pension is as follows.-

At the time the act of 1820 took place, he was in possession of a piece of lease land of about 73 acres and at that time was able to occupy said land, but in 1820 he became unable to occupy said land by reason of the Rheumatism and other infirmities & has since become totally unable to labour.

And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a
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resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contract debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is  contained in the Schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed.

That since the 18th of March 1818, the following changes have been made in my property
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In 1818 I owned about 73 acres of lease land at a rent of $14.72 to be paid to the town yearly - December 15. 1827 I sold said lease and two cows $24. - and ten sheep $10. one horse $20- old cart $8.00, one plow $3.00 one old wither & harness at $6.00

The above articles were put with sd land for which I received a bond for sixty dollars
per year during my natural life according to the tenor of the bond

The following is all the property I now own except the said Bond, viz -
Iron ware $4.00 Andirons 1.50 -- 5.50
Fire stice & tongs 75 one desk 3.00 one chest 3.75 -- 7.50
two old tables & furniture 3.50 Light stand, 50 -- 4.00
wooden ware 1.25- old pewter 1.00 tin ware, 50 -- 2.75
Brown Earthern, 17, one pair of Steelyards .50 -- .67
one old wooden clock 3.00 looking glass .75 -- 3.75
Seven old chairs 1.50 two old hand saw, 75 -- 2.25
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$26.42

I am a Carpenter by occupation totally unable to labour, & have a wife named Esther aged 68 years not able to labor.
Ephraim Dutton [signature]
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Sworn to & declared before said Court.
attest Nomlas Cobb Register
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State of Vermont  
Windsor District ⎬
I Nomelas Cobb Register of  the Probate Court for said district, hereby certify that the foregoing declaration is truly copied from the record and that it is the opinion of the Judge of said Court that the property of the said Ephraim Dutton is no more than $26.42, and the said annuity of Sixty dollars 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said
Court at Springfield in said district, this 14th day of June A.D. 1831-
Nomlas Cobb Register


State of Vermont 
District of Windsor ss.⎬
 I Jabez Proctor Judge  of the Probate Court for said district, hereby certify that Nomlas
Cobb in the Register of said Court, and that full faith and credit may + ought to be given to the certificate by him above subscribed-

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court & subscribed my name at Reading in said district, this 15th day of June A.D. 1831
Jabez Proctor Judge
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Deposition of [illegible]
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I Zelotes Dutton of Ludlow in the County of Windsor and state of Vermont of lawful age testify and say that in December 1827 at the same time that I Bought of Ephraim Dutton his lease of 70 acres of publick land.  you will see the situation by the copy of the lease. I bought two cows at $12 each ten Sheep one horse at $20 one cant at one plow & with tether  and harness & the above articles were put with the lease land for which I gave him a bond for Sixty Dollars to be paid yearly as you may see by the copy of the bond 
Zelotes Dutton [signature]

State of Vermont
Windsor County
Ludlow May 20th 1831 personally appeared the above Deponent and after being duly cautioned and carefully examined made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is the truth

I Hhere by certify that the above deponent is a credible witness
Moses Haven Justice peace

State of Vermont 
Windsor County ⎬ 
Woodstock 2 June 1851 County Clerks Office, I Benjamin Swan Clerk of the County  Court for said County of Windsor, Do hereby certify that Moses Haven is one of the Justices of the Peace within for said County, and that the above is his signature

In Testimony whereof, I have hereto affixed the Seal of said County Court, and subscribe my name the day of year above --
Benj Swan
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Ephraim Dutton
Declaration
1 May 1820
Vermont

(Sept 1819)
B. Swan
Woodstock
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State of Vermont
Windsor County
At a Supreme Court of Judicature begun at Woodstock within & for the County of Windsor on the Fourth Tuesday of February in the year our Lord One thousand eight hundred of twenty nine

On this twenty seventh day of February 1829. being the fourth day of the said Term,  personally appeared in open Court, the same being a Court of record agreeably to the laws of this State, having the power of fine & imprisonment) Ephraim Dutton, resident in Ludlow in County of Windsor aforesaid, aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818, and the first of May 1820, that he the said Ephraim Dutton enlisted for the term of Three years on the fourth day of April AD 1777 in the State of Massachusetts, in the company commanded by Capt. Ballard, in the Regiment commanded by Col Alden, being the seventh regiment in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental Establishment; that he continued to serve in said
Corps until the fourth day of April AD 1780, when he was discharged from the service in West point in the State of New York

That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension except the present; that his name has been placed on the Pension List, that the number of the Pension Certificate is 10,064, and that he never before exhibited a schedule of his property because untill the late instructions of the of the Secretary of War to the officer having charge of the Pension Office, he had understood & been advised, that no pension could be retained by any Revolutionary
Soldier who was in possession of any real estate who had any amount of personal property or income: and in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820, I do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with future thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the said and
Naval Service of the United States in Revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, con
tracts or Debts due to me, nor have any income, other than
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what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, to wit

an annuity secured to me, and my wife Esther Dutton, and the survivor of us of sixty dollars a year, during the natural lives of us, and the survivor of us. 
Ephraim Dutton [signature]

I am by occupation a Carpenter, but on account of the debility, and infirmities of old age, and not able to Labour any, nor have I been able to labour for about two years last past.

My wife Esther Dutton is sixty six years of age, and is able to labour but very little, she can do nothing of consequence
Ephraim Dutton [signature]

Sworn to and declared on this 27th day of February AD 1829
before said Court.-
Attest Benj. Swan Clerk
State of Vermont 
Windsor County⎬
 Benjamin Swan Clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature for the County of Windsor do hereby certify, that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Ephraim Dutton did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding Declaration against the common enemy, for the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment, I also certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the  opinion of said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is the aforesaid annuity of Sixty Dollars annually

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Supreme Court aforesaid on this sixth day of March 1829.-
Benj. Swan Clerk Court
for Windsor County
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[envelope]
This bond has no date  When was it executed
it is dated Jun 5 1827

Ludlow Vt.

Alexander S Campbell
Bellows Falls Vermont

[postmark]
Woodstock Vt 
8 Dec
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Know all men by these presents that I Zelotes Dutton of Ludlow in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont am holden & firmly bound unto Ephraim Dutton and Esther Dutton, wife of the said Ephraim Dutton both of Ludlow aforesaid in the sum of one thousand Dollars to be paid to the said Ephraim Dutton & Esther Dutton or either of them or their certain attorney executors administrators or assigns for which payment to be well & truly made

I bind my self my heirs Executors and administrators firmly by these presents. sealed with my seal dated the fifteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty seven
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The conditions of this obligation are such, that if the above bounden Zelotes Dutton his heirs Executor or administrators or any of them do & shall yearly & every year during the
Natural lives of the above named
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Ephraim Dutton and Esther Dutton and the survivor of them well & truly pay or cause to be paid to them the said Ephraim Dutton & Esther Dutton and the survivor of them or their assigns, or the assigns of the survivor of them the clear yearly sum of sixty Dollars of lawful
money on the fifteenth day of December in each year the first payment thereof to begin and be made on the fifteenth of December next ensuing the date of the above within obligation then this obligation shall be void & of no effect but if default shall happen to be made of any of the said yearly payment or and part thereof on the day on which the same
ought to be paid as aforesaid then the same shall stand and remain in full force & valid
Zelotes Dutton [signature]

Signed sealed and delivered
in the presence of
Reuben Washburn
R. Shuche Washburn

Ludlow December 17th 1830
Town Clerks office this may Certify that the above Bond is on Record in book Records
in the town had one of which this is a true copy
Moses Haven, Town Clerk
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State of Vermont
Windsor County
Woodstock County Clerks Office Decemr 15. 1830

This certifies that Moses Haven is the Town Clerk of Ludlow in the County of Windsor, and his signature as such within is genuine-

In Testimony whereof I Benjamin Swan Clerk of the County Court for said County of Windsor, have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and subscribed my name, the day year above -
Benja Swan
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Copy Lease, School Lot
Selectmen of Ludlow
Ephraim Butler

Town Clerks Office
Ludlow July 13th 19
I certify the within to be a true copy from the town records of Ludlow
Moses Haven Law Clerk

record in Lot No 266

Fees 31
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This indenture made this 16th day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and eleven between the Selectmen of Ludlow in the County of Windsor and State of
Vermont viz Justin Penn and Abel Hall in conjunction with Thomas Keys, Robertson Spaulding,  Justin Penn, Abel Hall, Jesse Bailey, Ruben Cady, Parnell Goodall and Andrew Pettigrew all of said Ludlow chosen and appointed trustees of the the several School districts in the said town of Ludlow for the purpose of seeking out, public lands in said town of Ludlow appropriated for the use and support of schools in Each District agreeable [illegible] law of this State for that purpose authorizing the selectmen in conjunction with the trustee and rent out and put to use public lands for the benefit of Schools in this State all of whom confirm the our part and Ephraim Dutton of
Ludlow in the County and State aforesaid composeth the other part witnesseth that the said Selectman and trustees aforesaid in the Consideration of the rents covenants and agreement
herein after mentioned on the part of the said Ephraim Dutton to be paid done and performed hath granted, [illegible] & leased land to farm leased said Ephraim Dutton ,his heirs and assigns  certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the town of Ludlow aforesaid granted by the Legislature of this State for the support of schools it being the south part of the [illegible] being called lot twenty seven, Beginning at the Southeast corner of the [illegible] lot thence North 6 degrees 30" East 73 rods to [illegible], thence west 6 degrees  north 162 rods to other corner thence South 6½ degrees West 73 rods to the place of beginning and contains sevennty three acres and 146 square rods
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Lease
To have and to hold the above described premises with all the privileges and appurtenances thereto belong so long as wood grows and water runs and paying there for after the first
day of February 1814 yearly and and every year, to the selectmen and trustees & their successors in office provided nevertheless It is the true intent and meaning of these present and the parties hereunto subscribing that if it should happen that the yearly rent being twenty cents per acre  or on all the land said described premises does contain to be paid at the Expiration of such year as aforesaid, should it be paid annually as aforesaid after the same is demised by the selectmen or trustees of either of them or their successors in office of the said Dutton his heirs Executors administrators or assigns that the said farm thence forth it shall be lawful for the selectmen and trustees of said town or a  committee chosen for that purpose by said town to enter in and upon the said [illegible] premises and carry post and parcel thereof with the appurtenances in the name of the whole to re-enter and improve [illegible] the same to have and employ again repossess
and keep as in their first and former estates and the said Ephraim Dalton his heirs Executors administrators and assigns and every other person occupier or possessor of the said [illegible]
to demised premises from thence utterly to expel remove and put out of possession any thing in these presents continued to the contrary notwithstanding and of the said Ephraim Dutton his heirs and assigns the aforesaid yearly rent being twenty cents per acre at the day aforesaid at as before
limited and appointed shall pay or cause to be paid according to the true intent and meaning of these presents, then and in that case the said Ephraim Dutton his heirs
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Executors Administrators or Assigns shall lawfully and peaceably occupy and possess the aforesaid tract of land as before granted for the term of time aforesaid without any let suit or molestation by any person or person lawfully [illegible] the same and with said selectmen and trustees in our said capacities of selectmen and Trustees do bind our selves and our successor in office to warrant and defend the aforesaid described premises against all lawful claims on the said Ephraim Dutton his Executors Administrators and assigns fulfilling the conditions of the aforesaid lease also all claim by from or under us or our successors in office
In witness of the said Selectmen and trustees and the Lessee we hereinto set our hands and Seals this 26th day of in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and eleven
in presence of us 
Asahel Smith 
Isaac Bowen 

Austin Fenn (L. S.)
Abel Haild (L.S.)
Austin Fenn (L.S)
Abel Haild (L.S.).
Jared Goodell (L.S.)
Andrew Pettigrew (L. S.)
Jesse Bailey (L.S.)
Reuben Cady (L. S.)
Zebulon Spaulding (L.S.)
Ephrain (L.S.)

State of Vermont 
Windsor County SS Ludlow August 26 1811
Personally appeared the Lessors and lessees signers and sealers of the within instrument and
acknowledged the same to be their free act and lease August 26 A.D. 1811 Before me me Asahel Smith Justice Peace

this Land to record and truly recorded by me
attest Asahel Smith Reg
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6126 Honore St.
Chicago Ill.
Mar. 11, 1925
Dept. of Pensions
Washington D,C.


Dear Sir,
Will you kindly send me the pension records of Ephraim Dutton of Cavendish, Windsor Co. Vermont and death date

Yours very
respectfully
Gladys F Mc Pherson
(Mrs William Wallace)

[stamp]
US PENSION OFFICE
MAR 24 1925