Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16063, Ebenezer Buck, Mass N.H.
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Service                                     number
Mass         Buck, Ebenezer      S. 16063
N.U.                                          
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Pittsburgh   Ohio 19759  
(right of fold) Was placed on the Ohio book by mistake
Ebenezer Buck of Ashtabula in the State of Ohio who was a private in the Conf. command by Captain ___--- of the Regt. command by Col. Sprout in the Mass_________  line for [illegible]  MH and  _
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Inscribed on the roll of Ohio ______
at the rate of 80 Dollars _____ Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of march 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Sep.
1833  and  [illegible] S. Hendry Jefferson
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Arrears to the 4th of Sep.' 33             $200
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Ma "34     40
                                                             $240

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7th 1832.
Recorded by Go C. Stiles Clerk
Book E. Vol. 8. Page 107
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The State of Ohio
Ashtabula County
On this seventeenth day of August in the year of our Lord  one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before the clerk of the supreme court, Ebenezer Buck a resident of Salem township, in the county aforesaid and the state aforesaid age a Sixty seven years. Who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth and his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress group passed June 7th A.D., 1832.__ In the month of March A.D. 1781 I was residing town of Chishim in the state of New Hampshire and during in a month of March I enlisted as a private, at Chishim aforesaid, into Captain Ebenezer Deeming's company of New Hampshire militia, for the tenure of seven months. I took my part in such a company then stationed at Fort Washington near Portsmouth and continued in the same the seven months for which I understand our duty during that period was to guard the public stores and to take charge of & to conduct to Boston the provisions brought in by the American Privateers. After I received my discharge from Captain Deeming's Company I returned to Wilmington Middlesex county & state of Massachusetts, my native place. In the month of February following (in the [illegible] 1782), I enlisted again or rather I agreed to Join the Army as one of the two men the town furnished. In March the following month I responded to Boston and maintain a [illegible] State officer. I remained in Boston two or three weeks and then marched to West point & found the ninth Massachusetts Regiment Company marched by Colonel Henry Jackson, the major's name was Prescott and the adjutant's name was Sullivan. General Washington commanded this
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Army at West Point at the time. ___ Our regiment remained at West Point a short time & then we marched down to Dobb's Ferry & remained there two weeks & then we returned again to West Point. where we remained a short time & then the whole line marched down to Beifslawks Point where we remained during the summer. In the fall we marched again up the river to New Windsor and then we built huts and remained there during the winter. When we arrived at New Windsor our regiment the ninth was distributed and I was put into the second regiment of Massachusetts troops commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Sprout, the major's name was Gibbs and my Captains name was Williams. The number of our company I do not now recollect. Our regiment remained at New Windsor until some time in the summer of 1783. When we marched to Philadelphia and we remained near to Philadelphia until late in the fall when we marched back to West Point and were disbanded. I received my discharge, which I have since lost.
He hereby relinquishes his every claim what-ever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
Ebenezer Buck
Sworn to & subscribed the army & ____ afore-said
Saml Hendry  Clerk

And the supreme court do hereby declare their opinions that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states.

I Samuel Hendry, clerk of the Supreme Court in and for the county of Ashtabula.
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& state of Ohio, do herby certify that the for going contains the original proceedings of the 
supreme court in the matter of the appreciation of Ebenezer Buck for a pension.
In [illegible] any whereof I have [illegible] set my hand & seal of office this seventeenth day of August A.D. 1832
Saml Hendry, Clerk
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State of Ohio
Ashtabula County
Court of Common Pleas
March term AD 1821
On this 27th Day of March AD 1821 personally came in upon court being in court of record forsaid county Ebenezer Buck of Salem in said County aged fifty seven years being duly sworn according to him makes the following declarations in order to obtain the provisions of an act of congress prepared on The 15th Day of March AD 1818 and first of May 1821 to note that he enlisted in to the services of the United States in the month of April in the year AD 1782 at Wilmington in the County of Middlesex in the state of Massachusetts for the time/term of three years in the fourth Company in the ninth Regt commanded by Col Henry Jackson in the Massachusetts line of the Continental Establishment that he served in said Company of Regt. until the month of Dec in the same year as year (as he recollects) when he was transferred to the second regiment in the line aforesaid commanded by Colonel Sprout that he continued to the serve in the last named regiment until the months of November AD 1783 when he was honorably discharged by reason of the war being [illegible] at West Point in the state of New York for that he applied for a pension on the 21st Day of May AD 1818 that his application was returned for want of sufficient proof of his service that he has now not other proof of his service expect the declarations of Ebbenezer Collins
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Samuel Finker and Nathaniel Bird hereunto and here with [illegible]
In conformity to the act of the first of May AD 1821 I Ebenezer Buck do solemnly swear that I was a Resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March AD 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or any manner displaced of my property as fourth there of with intent thereby so to diminish myself as to bring myself within the provisions of _____ of Congress   ____to provide for certain persons engaged in the  ____ and manual service of the United States professed on the 18th Day of March of 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, securities, contracts or debts due to me than what are contained in the schedule hereto commented on by some [illegible]

Schedule
One pot
one kettle
one tea kettle
one set knives ad forks
one set of tea dishes
four pewter tea spoons
eight earthenware plates
four earthenware bowls
four tin basons
one old table
six [illegible] chairs
one
one ___ whisk
one reel
one brass bason
one pair fire tongs
three pails
one skillet
part of set of copper tools
one old cart
three _____
two Chip ___
One _______
One Plow share
Two ______
Two chains
Two hoes
One cow 
One horse
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one sow three pigs
That the following debts were due to him
from Samuel Beemis $ 14.00
      Nathaniel Harman $2.00
    Joshua Z, Cosnens    $2.00
    Aaron Wright            $2.00
                                     ______
                                   $20.00
                             Ebbenezer Buck

That he is indebted to the following in the amount following
To Elias Keys                  $ 31.00
To Elias Clark                    15.00
To Josiah Brown               15.00
To Amos Hallaway             2.00
To---Partridge                   2.50
To ---Fullmore                  3.00
To Edward Farfield            1.25
To Joshua Fuller                2.00
                               ______________
                                        $71  00

And the Said Ebbenzer further said that by occupation he is a cooper and that he is unhealthy and able to labor but little that his family consists of four persons including himself.Sarah his wife aged sixty one years unhealthy and able to labor but little Henry his son aged twenty ____ healthy and able to labor  Silvester his son aged sixteen unhealthy and able to labor but little
Sworn to and
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I Timothy R. Hawley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Ashtabula in the state of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule hereto commanded are truly copied from the records of said Court and that it is the opinion of said Court the total [illegible] in value of the property exhibited in the foregoing schedule is six and one fourth cents

For testimony whereof I have herein to set my hand and seal of said Court of Jefferson this twenty seventh day of March A.D. 1821
     T.R. Hawley Clerk C.P.
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Ebenezer Buck 
Ashtabula County
Ohio

Return for (crossed out)
Adm 2 years
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War Department,
Pension Office,
April 18th  1883

Sir:  The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832 has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before the pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace (this:}) You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
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(A tabular chart with the following information)
A Statement, showing the Service of Ebenezer Buck
Period where the service was rendered
March. 1781
Feb 1782
duration of the claimants Service Years/Months -7/Days
Discharge was late in the fall of 1783
Rank of claimant  Private
Names and rank of the field officers under whom he served Not stated
 Col Henry Jackson  Col Sprout Major  Prescott

Age at present and place of abode when he started the service by Chisholm New Hampshire Middlesex County Massachusetts
Proof by which the declaration was supported
Living Witnessed
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J.L. Edwards.
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
The law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State Troops," "militia,"t and volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but to those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, $c Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are a;so excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out on patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night and were not recognized as being actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops
2. The State Troops, Militia and Volunteers,
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which would be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832.

State, Territory, or District of } ss.
County of             aged (c)           years who being duly sworn, according to the law, doth on his oath make the following declaration. in order to obtain the benefit of the 
On this      day of         personally appeared
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will be indispensable t a favorable action upon his case.  The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted ; and unless, therefore, these ar amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.  All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County un which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.