Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,074, for Ebenezer Starks, Connecticut
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(3-1776) Service Conn. Starks, Ebenezer Number R. 10,074. Contents
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35,029 Ebenezer Starks declaration under Act June 7, 1832. 10,074
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Declaration in order to obtain a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
State of New York County of Clinton On this fourteenth day of May 1839 personally appeared in open court before the court of Common Pleas of said County, Ebenezer Starks a resident of Champlain in said County aged seventy one years who being first 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 7, 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated. I was born at Colchester Conn. on the 20th February 1768 & have a record of my age in my family bible. I resided at Hebron Connecticut and enlisted at that place in 1782 as a teamster for the Continental Army under Samuel Jones Junior as Captain or Conductor, Ralph Pomeroy was superintendent, one hundred teams were raised for the Continental Army. Ten teams to each company. I enlisted the first of April 1782 for six months or a year. & I served until the first of November of the same year, and Hatch  (I think [Illegible Name]) took my place and was permitted to return home. I served during said term under Capt Samuel Jones Jr & went with the Connecticut Continental teams and the Army to White Plains & continued there until the taking of Cornwallis. When I went to Crompond, where I was left with a guard and baggage until after the surrender, and but I did not obtain my discharge until June 1783 at Hebron Conn. I returned home from Crompond in Nov 1782 & remained at home during the winter. I believe we we were enlisted for a year, six months, or the war for which I don't remember. I served as above stated more than six months of actual service.
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Capt Jones was absent for about two months of said time during which Wm Hatch took his place. I claim a pension for said service. [Illegible Name] Norris, Roswell Davis, Lazarus Bazzus, Abraham Anderson, Zacchaeus Blackman, Lemuel Miner (Cook) served with me in the same Co. we were attached to the 1st Regt 2nd Brigade Massachusetts Troop, or the 2nd Regt 1st Brigade. The teams were distributed through the army. Nathaniel Loomis, Simon Loomis, Ezra Rawdrin, & Sam Hatch served with me. Many of the men were raised in Tolland Conn. I have a record of my age in my family bible which I have recently [illegible]. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or warrant except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension Rolls of the agency of any state. I resided in Hebron Conn. until 1789 where I moved to East Windsor Conn where I lived 8 years then moved to Grand Isle where I resided until 1820 when I moved to Champlain where I have since resided & now reside. Two years of the time where mentioned I lived in Rome, NY. I went from Grand Isle & returned there [Illegible]. I reside in Champlain & have no documentary evidence of my services or other proof of the same. 
Sworn & Subscribed to in open court this 14th day of May 1839 before one Smith Mead Clerk Ebenezer Starks 
And the said court hereby declare their opinion after investigation of the matter and [illegible] the interrogation, presented by the war department that the above named Ebenezer Starks was a Continental teamster and served as he states & i the clerk of said court certify that the foregoing [illegible] the proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Starks for a pension.
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In testimony where of I have hereto get my hand office seal this 14th day of May 1839. Smith Mead Clerk.
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Ebenezer Starks Sus.d Act 1832 NY 
C. M Bennett
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State of New York
County of Franklin
Be it known, that on this fourteenth day of December A.D. 1852 before me, the under
signed, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Ebenezer Starks
of Chateaugay in said County, and made oath according to law that he the said Ebenezer Starks is the identical who was a teamster in the service of the United States in the year of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of
the Pension Act of
That he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given, I herby constitute and appoint C. W. BENNETT, of
Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of Ebenezer Starks
for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency;
to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present.
Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Ebenezer Starks
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Sworn to, Subscribed, and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify that I believe the said Ebenezer Starks to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party
therein alleged.
Theodorus Douglas Justice of the Peace

State of New York
County of Franklin
It is Hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been established before me Deputy Clerk of the County Court said County that Ebenezer Starks the party who has sworn to, and
acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney, is the teamster reputed aforesaid. I further certify that Theodorous Douglass Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and 
acknowledge, was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office, this fifteenth day of December 1852
U. D. Mulkin
Deputy Clerk
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Ebenezer Starks 
Act June 7, 1832

For Col Edwards
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Plattsburg NY April 6 1840

Col Edwards

Sir, 
I doubt whether the case of Ebenezer Starks comes within the act of June 7 1832, [illegible] it appear he was bound to military service. 
For Examination of the records however may determine his rights, and the papers are sent for that purpose. 
Yours respectfully, 
J D Woodward
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Rouses Print Mar 21 1855
Hon L. P. Waldo
Court of Pensions
Dr. Sir.
Under the act of 7 June 1832. Ebenezer Starks, applicant for a pension, but his claim was disallowed on the grounds that his services were performed as a teamster. He has been since informed that the Pension department has decided that a teamster is entitled under that act. Will you please inform me of this is true. 
I am very respectfully your [illegible]
C. K. Averill
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N. York No 35,029
Ebenezer Starks
lot to J.D. Woodward 22 April 1840
C K Averill Mar 29 1855

Act June 7 1832
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Apr 20 1840 NY.
James L Edwards Esq. Comr. of Pensions. Washington.
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Acts of July 14 1862, and March 3 1873
Rejected
10,074
P.O. Ebenezer Starks
Service:
Enlisted: , 18  .
Discharged: , 18  .
Application filed: , 18  .
Alleges: 
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.
Contract
Cert. of Dis. Searched for , 18