Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11485, Ezra Whitney, N.H.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N.H.
Whitney, Ezra
Sally
NUMBER
R11485
CONTENTS
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State of New York
Allegany County
Clerks Office
I William Windsor Clerk
of said County, do hereby certify that Samuel C
Wilson is first Judge of said County Court, duly
Commissioned and qualified, and that his signature to the Jurats of the several affidavits hereto
Annexed is genuine
Given under my hand and the
official seal of said County at
Angelica, in said County the 15th
day of Decr A.D. 1845
[signature] William Windsor
Clerk of Allegany Co.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed
June 7, 1832, and the several acts amendatory thereof -
State of New York
Allegany County, ss. On this third
day of December
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and forty five, personally appeared before me, Samuel
C. Wilson, First Judge of the County Courts of said County
Sally Whitney, a resident of the town of
Burns in the County
of Allegany, and State of New York, aged seventy seven
years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth
on her oath, make the following declaration in order to
obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th
1832, and the act approved the 7th day day of July 1838.
and the act approved the 18th day of August 1842 and
the act approved the 3 day of June 1843, and the act
approved the 17th day of June 1844
That Ezra Whitney, the late husband of this declarant
served in the Revolutionary War as a soldier in the
first New Hampshire Regiment under Colonel Joseph
Cilley, in the army of the United States, in the year 1780.
for a period of six or nine months, and which she can
not now recollect, as she has always understood from
the said Ezra Whitney.
That the said Ezra Whitney was born in the year 1759
in the State of New Hampshire, as she has always understood from the said Ezra Whitney That the declarant
whose maiden name was Sally Hooker was married to
the said Ezra Whitney in the month of December 1785, at
the town of Athens, in the County of Windham in the
State of Vermont, by Seth Oaks Esquire, a Justice of
the Peace, and that after the said Marriage they
lived in the said County of Windham, Vermont, until
the year 1817, when they removed to the town of Burns
in the County of Allegany in the State of New York, where
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she continued to live with the said Ezra Whitney until
his death, which took place on the 8th day of May 1843
and that she still remains his widow; and that to her
knowledge the said Ezra Whitney never made application for a pension
[signature] Sally her x mark Whitney
Subscribed and sworn the
day and year first above
written before me and I also
certify that the reason why the
preceding declaration was
made and taken before me
out of Court, and not in open
Court is that the said declarant resides about seventeen
miles from the Court House in said County, and that
from a long continued Rheumatic affection, it is with
extreme difficulty that she could travel that distance
[signature] Samuel C. Wilson first Judge
Allegany County Courts

I further certify that the above declarant
Sally Whitney, is a respectable women and an
titled to full credit
[signature] Saml C. Wilson first Judge
Allegany County Courts
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State of New York
Allegany County ss Andrew Whitney being duly sworn
says he is a son of the said Ezra Whitney deceased
aged forty one years. That he resides in the town of
Burns in said County of Allegany- that he lived with
his father until he was twenty one years of age, and after
that time lived within about a mile of his father. That
he has often heard his father speak of being in the
Revolutionary army
That the paper hereto annexed, purporting to be a discharge signed by Col Jo. Cilley, this deponent found
among some old papers in an old chest, that his
father Ezra Whitney, kept his papers in, in the month
of June or July last, and that he remembers, his father
once showed it to him about seven or eight years
age, and he believes it to be the same paper. That the
paper is now the same as when found except
the small strip of paper put on the back with
[illegible], which this deponent put on to secure the
two pieces that had become detached
[signature] Andrew Whitney
Subscribed and sworn this 
day of Decr 1845 before me
[signature] Sam C. Wilson first Judge
Allegany County Courts
I also certify that the above deponent is a respect
able citizen and entitled to full credit
[signature] Saml C. Wilson first Judge
Allegany County Courts
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State of New York
Allegany County Lucretia Franklin on this
13th day of December, 1845, came before me Samuel C.
Wilson, first Judge of said County Court, and being by
me duly sworn deposes and says, that she now resides
in the town of Allen, in the said County of Allegany that
she is now in the seventy fourth year of her age, that
she is a sister of Ezra Whitney now deceased named
in the annexed affidavits, and declaration of Sally
Whitney widow of the said Ezra Whitney, deceased
That she distinctly remembers of seeing her mother and
older sisters preparing clothes for her brother Ezra,
and that they made him a knapsack, such as were usually
prepared for soldiers at that time. That she has no
district recollection of seeing her brother start from
home, but she well recollects that he was gone from
home several months, and it was understood in the
family that he had gone into the army that she distinctly
remembers the time when he returned, that it
was cold weather - that she was about nine years
old at the time, and does not recollect with sufficient distinctness to state how long he was gone
from home, but believes it to been six months or more
That she well remembers the time when her brother
Ezra Whitney was married to the said Sally Hooker
his present widow but she was not present at the
marriage. That her father at the time lived in the
town of Rockingham in the County of Windham and
State of Vermont, and that the said Ezra Whitney
was married in the town of Athens, in the said
County of Windham, Vermont that they continue
to live together as husband and wife until his
deceased. That she (the said Lecretia) remained
there until the year 1806, when the removed with
her husband to the town of Middletown, in the County
of Delaware in the State of New York, and lived
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there until the year 1826, when he removed to her
present place of residence, in the same County where
her brother Ezra Whitney, then lived, and where
he died
[signature] Lucretia her x mark Franklin

Sworn and subscribed this 
13th day of December 1845 before me
mark
[signature] Saml C. Wilson first Judge
Allegany County Courts

I also certify that the above named Lucretia Franklin
is personally known to me to be a creditable
witness and entitled to full credit
[signature] Saml C. Wilson first Judge
Allegany County Courts
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State of New York
Allegany County John Bennett being duly sworn
depose and says that he resides in the town of Nunda
in the County of Allegany and that he has resided there
since 1835. That he is now seventy two years of age
he was born in the town of Rockingham, County of Windham and State of Vermont, and that he resided there
until he moved to the said County of Allegany in the
year 1835 - That he has been acquainted with Ezra
Whitney, now deceased, since he was a small boy-
That the father of the said Ezra Whitney lived
about two miles from this deponents father. That
he distinctly remembered that the next day after the
said Ezra Whitney returned from the army, he came to
this deponents father's house, and showed his father
his discharge, and that his father took it and read
it that he remember the time he started to go into the
army, and the time he returned, but does not recollect
how long he was gone but has always had the impression, that he was a three years under
That he well remembers the time when the said Ezra
Whitney was married, and was acquainted with his wife
Sally Hooker, before their marriage, and that her father
lived within one and a half miles of this deponents father
that he remembers of hearing Seth Oaks speak of marrying
them, a few days after they were married and that he
has been acquainted the said Ezra Whitney and Sally
his wife ever since to the time of his death, and that
he knows the said Ezra Whitney to be the identical
person for whose services in the revolutionary war the
said Sally his widow has made her application,
hereto annexed, for a pension
[signature] John Bennet
Sworn and subscribed this
3d day of December 1845 before me
Saml C. Wilson first Judge Allegany Co. Courts
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I also certify
that the said John Bennett is a
reputable citizen and entitled to full credit
Saml C. Wilson first Judge
Allegany County Courts
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"Ezra Whitney said Sally his wife Married."
I Isaac B. William of lawful age depose,
testify and say that the above is a
true Copy of the record with the
exception of the date, which is expressed
in the record in fair legible figures as
follows "December 12 1785" Joseph Dutton 
Isaac B. William above named depose & say
that I hold the office of town Clerk of
the town of Athens in the County of
Windham and State of Vermont
and that the above is a true extract of
the records of said Town with the
exception above named as certified
Newfane November 1 1845

[signature] Isaac B Wilson

State of Vermont
Windham County SS
Newfane November 1st 1845
Personally appeared Isaac B. William &
made solemn oath that the above
affidavit by him here is true
Before me Benj Ormsbee
Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerk's Office
Newfane November A.D. 1845
I Marshall Miller Clerk of said court, certify that 
Benjamin Ormsbee is a Justice of the Peace within and upon said County duly commissioned and 
qualified, that his commission bears date
October 31st 1844 and will expire on
the 30th day of November 1845 and
that his signature within written is
Genuine.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my official hand
and affix the seal of said Court, the day and year first
above written
 
Attest [signature] Marshal Miller Clerk
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 The Bearer Ezra Whittney being a now Leavy in the first N. Hampsr Reg is unfit for duty is hereby Discharged from the service  has leave to return to the State of NewHampshire
All [illegible] Commissaries are desired to [illegible] Provisions to the above named Ezra Whittney until the fourteenth Inst. he [illegible] a Certificate of his last drawing [illegible] 
Soldiers Fortune Dec 1th 1780
[signature] Jos Cilley Col
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This certifies that
Ezra Whitney is [illegible] up to the [illegible] Wm Thompson
Dec 1930
[illegible] the Contents
M Church
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Ezra Whitney [illegible] 5 mo 11 days
See Role [illegible] by the State of New Hampshire for 1780 for 6 month - filed with A Hnly
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[stamp] REJECTED

11,485
Sally Whitney
Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged:
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Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney-
P. O.
Recognized.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for
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J.L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington DC
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Washington Jany 31 1849

Dear Sir
Mr Joy wishes me to ask "What the objection are to granting Sally Whitney widow of Ezra Whitney an applicant from New York a pension. & what service is admitted"
yrs
S Blackman

JL Edwards
Com of Pensions
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No 12413
Sally Whitney
widow of Ezra
NY
Act 7 1838
Married 1785
husband died 8 May 1842

New [illegible] from 1780 NH
Ezra Whitney 5 mo 11 days
not entitled
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Washington Dec 24th 1845
Dear sir
Herewith I transmit to you the application 
and papers of Mrs Sally Whitney Widow of Ezra
Whitney Decd for a pension. Your early attention
to this case is respectfully solicited. If there is any
defect in the papers be so good as to advise me
yours Respt
[signature] Martin Grover