Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1934, for Ezekiel Rhoades, New York
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Service Number
New York Rhoades, Ezekiel W. 1934
Anna B.L.29014-160-55
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Ezekiel Rhoades
of Elmira in the State of New York
whowas a private in the company commanded
by Captian Law of the Regh commanded
by Col Cuddington in the New York line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
at the rate of 80 dollars - cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.

Certificate of pension issued the 17 day of January 1833 and sent to J Robinson
Elmira Tioga Co N.Y.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $120.00
[illegible], allowance ending 4 Mar 33 40.00
$160.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by [illegible] Clerk,
Book D Vol. 5 Page 132
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Ezekiel Rhoades
Declaration
10,711.
admitted
2 years
80$
__?
Direct to the care
of James Robinson
? 
Elmira Tioga
County, New York
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State of New York 
Tioga County ? [Squiggle-like bracket] Personally appeared
before me the undersigned ? Justice of the 
Peace in and for the said County of Tioga
Ezekiel Rhoades who being duty sworn
deposeth and saith that by reason of
old age and the consequent loss of memory
he cannot swear positively as to the precise
length of his service but according to the
best of his recollection he served Not less
than the periods mentioned below and
in the following grades to wit - from
the first of May 1776 to the first of Novem_
ber of the same year he served six
months as a private_ from the
first of May 1778 to the last of December
of the same year he served at least
five months as a Private_ from the 
first of April 1779 to the first of June
1783 he served at least one half
of the time or six months in each year
as a Private amounting in the whole to
Three years and four months and for
such service he claims a Pension: and
that he is unable consistent with ?
to give a more detailed amount of his 
service than what is contained in his 
declaration __
Sworn & subscribed this
19 st day of December 1832
before me _  Hiram Gray J, P.
Ezekiel his [hand drawn X] mark Rhoades
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State of New York
Tioga County ? [Squiggle-like bracket] I hereby certify that
I am well acquainted with Ezekiel
Rhoades who has subscribed and
sworn to the foregoing affidavit _
that he is a credible person and that 
his statement is entitled to full credit
Hiram Gray JP? 

State of New York
Tioga County [Squiggle-like bracket] I Green M Tuthill Clerk of the County of Tioga aforesaid do
hereby certify that Hiram Gray Esqr
before whom the foregoing affidavit
was subscribed and sworn and who
has subscribed the foregoing certificate
was at the date thereof a Justice of the 
Peace in and for said County _ that
I am well acquainted with his hand
writing and that his signature is
genui [missing letters]   
In testimony when of I 
have hereunto set my
hand and Seal of Office
this 19th day of Dec. 1832
Green M Tuthill
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At a Court of Common Pleas holden at
the Court House in the Village of Elmira
in and for the County of Tioga in
the State of New York. Commencing
on the fourth day of September 1832
Present Hon. Grant B. Baldwin ? Judge Joseph
L Darling John R. Drake Darius Bentley & Elijah
Shoemaker Esquire Judges
State of New York
Tioga County JS __ [Squiggle-like bracket] On this 4th day of September
1832 personally appeared in open Court before
the judges aforesaid being a Court of Record
because made to by the Constitution and
Laws of the State having by law a Clerk
and Seal now sitting Ezekiel Rhoades a
Resident of the Town of Elmira in the County
of Tioga and State of New York aged
Seventy Years the 21st day of August last
who being first duty sworn according to Law
doth on his oath make the following declaration_
in order to obtain the benefit of the act
of Congress pass June 7th 1832 __ That
he entered the service of the United States
under the following named officers and
served as herein stated __ In the Spring of 
the year 1776 the Militia in what is now
the county of Putnam in the State of New York
were called upon to organize and be in
readiness for the Service __ those least able
to bear arms were allowed to stay [illegible]
home but the young and able bodied were
invited to arm, equip and enter the
service _ This deponent volunteered for no
definite period except for as long as his
Country should require his service in the
Company Commanded by Captain John Law
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Captain Solomon Hopkins raised another
company in the same neighborhood both
under the command of Col Ludding-
ton _ the first Season he was stationed
near the City of New York was with the
army at the battle of Kingsbridge and White
Plains and was with the army when the
Lines were drawn at the Harlem heights from
one River to the other _ the next Season
was mostly on Garrison duty at Kingston
and Fort Montgomery till the taking of
this Fort by the Enemy in October of
that year _ was at [illegible] or Kingston
when it was burnt by the Enemy _ late
in the fall or first of winter was ordered
with a detachment to scour the country of
Tories and succeeded in making prisoners of
many _ the next Season '78 was at West
Point and Fort Constitution under orders
and in the [illegible] __ one short campaign
to Albany received counter orders from
Gen. George Clinton and were marched
down the River again __ In the year 
'79 this deponent had become somewhat
attached to the service and having acquired
some degree of proficiency in the use of
arms was occasionally employed as a
drill sergeant in the company evolutions
and manual exercise as then practised
by the continental army and that he stilll
retains a full knowledge and recollection of 
the drill Service as then used _ thus he contin_
ued in the service without any intermission
save sometimes going home on leave
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to refit his clothing, till the fall of
1780 about the time of the execution of
Major Andre at which he was present
When the Company was disbanded
by the expiration of enlistment and
joining other companies _ from this period
to the close of the war his services were
confined chiefly to voluntary excursions
against the tories from time to time ____
That he has no documentary evidence of his
services and that he knows of no person
whose testimony he can procure who can
testify to them; and in answer to the
several interrogatories put to him by the
Court he says that he was born in the
now town of Carmel, County of Putnam 
and State of New York on the twenty
first day of August in the Year of 1762 _ that
he has no record of his age but that his
Parents had it set down in this bible
which he well remembers having seen
and has no doubt of the correctness of
his memory on that Point _ that at the 
time he entered the service he lived at
the place of his Nativity __ that at the
Close of the Revolutionary War he enlisted
for four years in the Service of the
United States as a Private soldier under
Captain Henry Buskirk, and served
out the term _ was stationed a part of 
the time at Springfield in Massachusetts
and during the said term of four years
was marched to the frontier of the State
of Georgia against _ the Indians _ that on
the expiration of this term he lived 20
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years at Kingston Ulster County, then removed
to his present residence in Elmira _ that in
all his services as before stated he was one 
of the Volunteer militia _ that while in the
service he was acquainted with Gen James
Clinton _ with Gen. Gates who had his head
quarters at the house of an uncle of this
deponent then living at Saratoga in '77
he knew Gen. Arnold, Col [illegible] and
Col. Samuel Drake and some of their corps
that during the Revolutionary war
he never received any other than a verbal
discharge he would refer to Thomas
Maxwell Esquire late member of Congress
Col John Hendy and Gen Matthew
Carpenter as persons well acquainted
with him in his neighborhood and who
can testify to his reputation for truth
and veracity and this belief in the
truth of the foregoing declaration __
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or an annuity except
the present and declares that his name
is not on the pension dole of the agency
of any state ___
Sworn to & subscribed 
the day and year aforesaid [squiggle-like bracket] 
[signed to the right] Ezekiel his [hand drawn X] mark Rhoades
Green M Tuthill [illegible]
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We Christian Greatsinger a clergy man of
Elmira Tioga County New York and
John Hendy of the same place __
hereby certify that we are well acquainted
with Ezekiel Rhoades who has subscribed
and sworn to the above declaration; that
we believe him to be Seventy years of age
that he is generally 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 & subscribed ___
the day and year aforesaid [squiggle-like bracket]
[signed to the right] Christian Greatsinger
John Hendy
Green M Tuthill Clk
of Tioga [illegible]
And the said Court do hereby declare this opinion
after the Investigation of the matter and after putting
the interrogatories prescribed by the War Depart_
ment that the above named applicant was 
a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he
states. And the Court further certifies that 
it appears to them that Christian Greatsinger
who has signed the preceeding Certificate is
a Clergyman resident in the Town of Elmira
and that John Hendy who has also signed 
the same is a resident of the same place and
is a credible person and that this statement
is entitled to credit _
[signed to right] J. B. Baldwin
First Judge
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State of New York
Chemung County Ss 
On this 4th day of June 1855
personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace
in & for said County, Anna Rhoades of Southport in
said County aged seventy eight years, who being duly sworn
according to law declares that she is the widow of Ezekiel
Rhoades late of said County deceased who was a soldier
& pensioner of the Revolutionary War and served
therein for more than fourteen days; for which
service she refers to his declaration under the act
of June 7 1832 under which he obtain a pension
certificate placing him on the Roll of the Albany
New York agency at the rate of Eighty dollars per
annum commencing March 4. 1831: that in virtue
of his said services she is in the receipt of a pension
under the act of July 29. 1848 at Eighty dollars per
annum commencing 11th August 1849 by pension
Certificate No 384. dated at the Department of the
Interior the 24th October 1849 & has been paid
thereon up to the 4th of March 1855. She further
States that she was married to the said Ezekiel
Rhoades at New Paltz Ulster County New York
in the month of May 1795-
by John Demund
Esq a Justice of the peace of the said County duly qualified
and her name before marriage was Anna Treats 
The proof of her
marriage are annexed to her declaration under
which she obtained the pension certificate above
alluded to, which with great difficulty, she then
procured, but it is not now in her power again
to produce them as also proof of her husbands death
she further states that her said husband died
at the town of Southport aforesaid on the 11th August
1849 the proofs of which are also appended to
her said pension declaration-