Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,329, Benjamin Ellmes, Mass.
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(8—1776)
SERVICE 
Mass.
Ellmes, Benjamin
Elizabeth
NUMBER
R. 3.329
CONTENTS
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873. [crossed out]
REJECTED [stamp]
3399
P.O. Elizabeth Ellmes
Service: wid. of Benjamin
Enlisted:___,18
Discharged:___, 18
Application filed:___,18
Alleges:___
Re-enlisted:___
Attorney:___
P.O.___
___Recognized. ___Contrac
___Cert. of Dis. Searched for___, 18
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Elizabeth Ellmes
Massachusetts

Suspended

Sulet [?] 15 Jan [?]
1838 E. T. Fogg

3329

Act of July 1838
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7543 [?]
Elizabeth Ellmes
widow of Benjamin Ellmes

Jonathan Turner Cif 
T. Marshall regt

no papers

E. T. Fogg
So: Scituate Mass
Sept 14
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State of massachusetts
Plymouth County} Ss.
On this twenty second day of August in th eyear eighteen hundred & thiry eight before the Court of Probate holden at Scituate within & for said County personally appeared Elizabeth Ellmes, a resident of Scituate in said County of Plymouth aged eighty five 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows, that she is the Widow of Benjamin Ellmes, who was a private soldier in the Army of the Revolution, that in the year 1779 or 80 he enlisted into said service for during the war and that he served until the end of the war, but how long she is unable to say but always understood more than two years. she thinks he was what was called a clap man and was taken from the clap and entered the service — she does not know who were his officers, [crossed out] but thinks he belonged to a Company commanded by Jonathan Turner

She further declares that she was married to the said Benjamin Ellmes on the sixteenth day of May in the year seventeen hundred & eighty five, that her husband the aforesaid Benjamin Ellmes died in the month of September in the year seventeen hundred & ninety six that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz at the time aforesaid
Elizabeth Ellmes
X mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written
before me Wilkes Wood Judge of Probate

Plymouth Ss. I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Hon Wilkes Wood is Judge of Probate for said County and that the above is his true and genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this twenty eighth day of August 1838
Jacob H. Loud
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I Cornelius Bates of Scituate in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts aged seventy six years testify and say that I was acquainted with Benjamin Ellmes late of Scituate deceased, that I well knew he was enlisted into the service of the Revolution as. private for three years the October before the peace, how long [illegible] was enlisted before that time I cannot say but [illegible] but know that he served from the first of said month of October until the peace and was then discharged.
Cornelius Bates

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Ss. August 26. 1838 Sworn & subscribed to 
Before me Ebenezer T. Fogg Just Peace
And I further certify that said Cornelius Bates is a credible person. Ebenezer T. Fogg Just Peace
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I Francis Litchfield of Scituate in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, aged seventy seven years on oath testify and say that I was personally acquainted with Benjamin Ellmes, late of said Scituate deceased, the husband of Elizabeth Ellmes his widow, now living and residing in said Scituate That in the year 1779 or so the said Benjamin Ellmes enlisted into the service of the Revolution as a private for three years, and served as I well recollect to the end of the War, the said Ellmes was taken from a clap —
Francis Litchfield

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth SS. August 24. 1838 Sworn and subscribed to before me
Ebenezer T. Fogg — Just peace
And I certify that said Francis Litchfield is a credible person —
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I James Southworth, Clerk of the Town of Scituate in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, do herby certify that the following is a true copy from the records of the Town of Scituate with the exception of the date, which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures as follows— towit "May. 15.. 1785"
"Married by rev David Barnes – May sixteenth One thousand seven hundred and eighty five — Benjamin Ellmes and Elizabeth Litchfield both of Scituate"
Attest - James Southworth Town Clerk of Scituate
I, James Southworth, above named, depose and say that I had the office of Clerk in the Town, County, and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town, with the exception above named as certified by me — James Southworth Town Clerk of Scituate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Ss. August 24. 1838 Sworn & subscribed to Before me
Ebenezer T. Fogg — Just Peace
And I certify that said James Southworth is a credible person — Ebenezer T. Fogg — Just Peace
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I James Southworth Clerk as aforesaid, do hereby certify that Benjamin Ellmes within named died in the month of September 1796 as appears by the records of the Town of Scituate — Attest James Southworth Town Clerk of Scituate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth S. August 24. 1838 Sworn & subscribed to Before me Ebenezer T. Fogg — Just peace
And i certify that said James Southworth is a credible person — Ebenezer T. Fogg — Just peace
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I George Cushing of Scituate in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts aged sixty two years on oath testify and say that I have always been acquainted with Elizabeth Ellmes of said Scituate, that she is the Widow of Benjamin Ellmes late of said Scituate deceased, that she still is his widow and has never been married since his decease, & is the same person now applying for a pension
George Cushing

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Ss. August 24th 1838 Sworn & subscribed to Before me Ebenezer T. Fogg — Just Peace
And I certify that said George Cushing is a credible person
Ebenezer T. Fogg — Just Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Plymouth Ss. I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Ebenezer T. Fogg is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that the Signatures to the several annexed affidavits purporting to be signed by him are his true & genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this twenty ninth day of August 1838.
Jacob H. Loud