Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14390, Ebenezer Brooks, Mass.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Mass.
Brooks, Ebenezer
Ede
NUMBER
W. 14390.

CONTENTS
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10.244.
Massachusette
Ebenezer Brooks
of Rutland in the State of Mass
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain - of the Regt commanded
Col Bradford in the Mass
line for 12 Mass.
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass
at the rate of 40 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of March 1833 and sent Rufus Putnam Rutland
Mass
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $80-
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep " $20
$100
Revolutionary Claim
Act 7, 1832
Recorded by I Steph Blain Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 2 Page 4.


Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $80-
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep "
20
Book.
$100 -
⎨ Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J Blair Clerk
Vol. 2
Page 4.
Let to Hon C
Dec 24
Cash
┃ Hudson
47
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Date of her death
not [illegible]

331.
Massachusetts
Ede Brooks
widow of Ebenezer Brooks
Mass
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Former payments to be deducted
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Sept 1849.
and sent to G.S. Bulfinch 
Boston Mass

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 8 Vol. 2
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Ebenz Brooks
application for a pension
This case in the care of
Rufus Putnam [illegible]
Rutland Mass.
On Roll
Col Bradford Regt
arrangement April 1774
for6 mo from 4 July [illegible]
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State of Massachusetts County of Worcester
On this sixth day of September A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared before the Honorable Judge of the County Probate now sitting at Worcester within and for the said County of Worcester, Ebenezer Brooks a resident of Rutland in the County of Worcester & State of Massachusetts aged sixty eight 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 provision made by the act of congress passed June 7, 1832 - that he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1780 in Captain Haskell's company and served in Colonel Bradford's Regiment of the Massachusetts line under the following named officers, to wit General Patterson, Colonel Bradford and Capt Haskell - that he resided in the town of Westborough in said County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts when he enlisted into the service in the month of June or July 1780, that he marched to Springfield in said State of Massachusetts and thence marched to Westpoint in the State of New York, and New Jersey and into the State of Pennsylvania, and afterwards returned to Westpoint into winter quarters, that he was  discharged at Westpoint in January 1781 after a full six months service, that during said term he was engaged in a skirmish with a foraging party of British soldiers,- that he was engaged during the term in fatigue duty & marching from station to station - that he again entered the service of the United States immediately after.
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his said discharge at West Point as a substitute for one John Stacy an enlisted Soldier belonging to a Company in said Bradford's Regiment but under what Captain he does not recollect, that he served another term of six months as such substitute in Capt. Haskell's Company, being permitted to remain in said Company, upon the transfer of another soldier into said Stacy's place and Company, that he served until into the month of July 1781, when said Stacy returned and relieved him from any further service, and he was dismissed in the State of New Jersey into which he was marched after leaving winter quarters at West Point, that he has no documentary evidence in his possession and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to the last six months service aforesaid, that he was born at Grafton in said County of Worcester January 26 1764, that he has no record in Court of his age, that he lived in Westboro, State of Massachusetts when called into the service, that since the Revolution he has lived in Oakham Hubbardston Westminster and Rutland in said County of Worcester, that he now lives in Rutland aforesaid, that for the first six months he enlisted and for the last six month he was a substitute for John Stacy, that he is known to Rev. Josiah Clark, Tilly Flint [illegible] Rufus Putnam Esq., Joel Davis who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his serves as a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is no on the pension Roll of any Agency in any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year abovesaid.
Eber Brooks (signature)
Before Nathnl. Paine, Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
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We Josiah Clark, a Clergyman, and Rufus Putnam residing in the town of Rutland County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Brooks who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be sixty eight years, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Josiah Clark
Rufus Putnam
Sworn and subscribed the day and year abovesaid.
Before Nathl. Paine, Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester

and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, 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 Josiah Clark who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the town of Rutland aforesaid and that Rufus Putnam, who has also signed the same is a resident in the said town of Rutland and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathl. Paine, Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester

I Theophilus Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Brooks for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Probate Court this seventh day of September in t he year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Theophs Wheeler Regr of said Probate Court
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W.13506-
Ede Brooks widow of Ebenezer
Mass
Act 7 June 1838
married 1791
Husband died 8 March 1847
3164

he served as a Revolutionary of
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State of Massachusetts }
County of Worcester } SS.
On this twenty first day of October personally appeared before the Judge of the Probate Court in and for the County of Worcester Ede Brooks a resident of Gardner in the County aforesaid and State of Massachusetts aged eighty two years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make this 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 and the acts in addition thereto.

That she is the Widow of Ebenezer Brooks who was a private in the service of the U. States in the war of Revolution, that he entered the army sometime in the spring of 1777 and left it in the spring of the year 1781 according to her best knowledge and belief for which service he drew a pension of forty dollars annually. She further declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Brooks on the tenth day of March in the year seventeen hundred and ninety one, that her husband the aforesaid Ebenezer Brooks died on eighth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and forty seven, 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 and ninety four at the time above stated, and is still said Brooks widow.
X her mark Ede Brooks

Subscribed and sworn to me the twenty first day of October AD 1847 her name being written by me and the mark made by her, her hand being directed by me.
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and I further certify that the reason of her declaration not having him made in open court was her [illegible] from likeness and uniformity to have her [illegible]. The two last lines before her signature were made by me.
Benj. F. Thomas
Judge of Probate

We Rhoda Reed and Harriot [Reed] of Gardner County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts do on our oath depose and say that we were present at the time of the deal of the within named Ebenezer Brooks and personally witnessed his death and further that the within named Ede Brooks is his widow, and have full confidence in her statements having known them both many years.
Rhoda Reed
Harriot Reed

Worcester Co. Oct 30, 1847
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of Oct 1847
William S. Bradbury, Justice Peace

I hereby certify that I have been the family Physician of Ebenezer Brooks for more than twenty years, that I attended upon him in his last sickness, that he died on eighth of last March, and that the within named Ede Brooks who signed the within declaration, is the widow of the aforesaid Ebenezer Brooks.
John White, M.D.
Worcester Co. Nov 4th 1847
Subscribed and sworn to before me
William S. Bradbury, Justice Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester SS
I Charles G. Prentiss Register of the Court of Probate in and for the said County of Worcester do certify that Benjamin F. Thomas Esquire is the Judge of said Court duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature to the certificate upon this paper to which this is annexed is genuine.

In testimony whereof I do hereto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court at Worcester this fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.

Charls. G. Prentiss, Register
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Town Clerk's Office, Hubbardston,
County of Worcester, State of Massachusetts
October 14, 1847.

" The Reverend Mr. Nehemiah Parker, Pastor of the Church in Hubbardston, has made return to me of the following marriage solemn by him viz.
March tenth, on thousand seven hundred and  ninety one were married Ebenezer Brooks & Ede Wheeler.
Attest Elisha Woodward, Town Clerk."

I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of t he date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows, to wit "March 18th 1791"
Attest Wm. Bennett Jr. Town Clerk
 
I Wm. Bennett Jr., the above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County, Town 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.
Wm. Bennett Jr. Clerk of the Town of Hubbardston

Worcester Co. Oct 14, 1847.
Sworn to before me.
William S. Bradbury, Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that William S. Bradbury above named is a justice of the Peace and that the above is his own signature.
Charles Hudson, M.C.
Westminster Nov. 19, 1847
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Worcester County, SS.

I, Charles W. Hartshorn, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, do hereby certify, That William S. Bradbury, Esquire, was, on the fourteenth day of October, 1847, and ever since has been and now is, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature to the certificate, on the depositions of Rhoda Reed, Harriet Reed, John White, and William Bennett Jr. hereunto annexed, is genuine.
GIVEN under my  hand, and the seal of said County, this fourth of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
Chas. W. Hartshorn, Clerk
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5937
Ebenezer Brooks
Private
12 Months
admd

Rufus Putnam
Rutland
Mass
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BRIEF in the case of Ebenezer Brooks
of Rutland in the State of Mass
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court

2 If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 68 Years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
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Period. | Duration of Service. | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

June in 1780 | 6 Months | Private | Cap. Haskell, Col. Bradford
Jany 1780 | 6 Months | " | Col. Bradford, Cap. Haskell

5. In what battles was he engaged? none named

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Westborough, Mass

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditionary evidence

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? correct

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
D. D. Addison
Examining Clerk.
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February 27, 1935

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BA-J/EEL am
Ebenezer Brooks-W.14390

Miss Loura L. Brooks
242 Woodland Avenue
Gardner, Massachusetts

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the pension record of Ebenezer Brooks, who enlisted in Westboro and served in the Revolutionary War, and died in 1847, in Gardner.

A very careful examination has been made of the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.14390, based upon the military service of Ebenezer Brooks in that war and his history is furnished you herein as found in said papers.

Ebenezer Brooks was born in Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, January 26, 1794. The names of his parents are  not shown.

While residing in Westborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Ebenezer Brooks enlisted in the summer of 1780, served as a private in Captain Haskell's Company, Colonel Bradford's Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged in January, 1781, having served six months; during this tour, he was in a skirmish, place where said skirmish took place not shown; immediately after his discharge from the above noted tour, he re-enlisted, served as a private in Captain Haskell's Company, Colonel Bradford's Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged in July, 1781, having served six month.

After the Revolution, he lived in Oakham, Hubbardston, Westminster, and Rutland, all in Worcester County, Massachusetts.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 6, 1832, while residing in Rutland, Massachusetts.

He died March 8, 1847, place not shown.

The soldier married March 10, 1791, at Hubbardston, Massachusetts, Ede Wheeler. Their marriage was recorded on the town records of said Hubbardston.
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Ede, widow of Ebenezer Brooks, was allowed pension on her application executed October 21, 1847, while residing in Gardner, Massachusetts and aged eighty-two years.

No reference is made to children.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Ede Brooks, widow of Ebenezer Brooks (W.14390), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:

Ede Brooks, widow of Ebenezer Brooks, Certificate No. 337, issued September 28, 1849, rate $40 per annum, commenced March 4, 1848, Act of February 2, 1848, Massachusetts Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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Veterans' Administration,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
Will you please send a copy of the pension, if any, of Ebenezer Brooks, born in Grafton, who enlisted in Westboro at the age of 17? He died in Gardner in 1847 and according to the Vital Records was married and was the son of Peter of Grafton. I have not found the name of his wife and his name is not in the Massachusetts Census of 1790, the only Ebenezer Brooks being in Sterling (Lancaster) and not of the right age.

signature? (handwritten)

Miss Loura L. Brooks,
242 Woodland Ave., Gardner, Mass.
Feb. 13, 1936.

STAMP-
RECEIVED
FEB 15 1935
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1935 - Feb 27 - Hist to Miss Loura L. Brooks - E ES

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Revy
WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 14390
Ede Brooks
Widow of
Ebenezer Brooks
Pri Rev War
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Act: Feb 2d 48
Index:--Vol. A, Page 84
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, }
Worcester COUNTY, } SS.

ON this twenty second day of September 1849, before the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, personally appeared Ede Brooks and made oath in due form of law, that she is the widow of Ebenezer Brooks who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution; that she is now receiving a pension from the United States, at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, under the Act of February 2d, 1848, that her husband drew a pension at the rate of forty dollars per annum; that she asks for an increase of her present pension, to which she may be found entitled under any and all of the Acts and Resolutions of Congress, which are applicable to her case; that she is a resident of Gardner in said County, and is a widow, and is eighty three years of age.

x her mark Ede Brooks

Witness,
William S. Bradbury
Nancy M. Reed

Sworn and subscribed this twenty second day of September 1849
Before me,
William S. Bradbury Justice Peace.

I CERTIFY, That I am personally acquainted with the above named declarant, and that she is the same person she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit.
William S. Bradbury Justice of the Peace.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
=====Secretary's Office, Boston, September 24th 1849
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed alterations William S. Bradbury was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

R. Wm. Tufts
Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
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Boston 24 Sep. 1849

Sir

Enclosed is the Application of Mrs. Ede Brooks for an Increase of Pension under Joint Resolution of 1 July 1848. She wishes that her new Pension Certificate may be sent to my care.

Very Respectfully
Your obedt Servt
G. S. Bulfinch

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions.
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Payment to be made at Boston
by
Franklin Haven Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the
Agency of Massachusetts

Payable on the 4th September and 4th
March

Recorded in the Pension Office on the
Roll of Pensioners under act February
2d, 1848, Page 6, Vol 2.

Leo. J [illegible]

Admd Act 17 June '44
at $40 per annum fr
8 March 1847, decng
for payb at
$211 per annum

Admd Act 2 Feb 48
at $40 per annum,
dedct as above.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
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I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Ede Brooks, widow of Ebenezer Brooks, who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.

Given at the War Office of the United States this twentieth day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.

Examined and Countersigned
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Ebenezer Brooks, Mass. Act 7 June 1832 $40.00 peranum
To what time was he last paid?

G. C A

Pension Office
Feby 3d '48

Paid to 4th March 1847
BSB
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Est 44 659
No 13506
Ede  Brooks
widow of Ebenezer
Mass
Act 7 July 1838
Rejected, husband died
8 March 1847

Adm Act 17 June 1844
6 mo 1 day Priv
$20.00 per annum
from 8 March 1847

Hon. C. Hudson
House of Reps
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Reported

right column
471
Massachusetts
=====
Ede Brooks
widow of Ebenezer Brooks
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Husband died 8 March, 1847,
=====
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
20 Dollars ---
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 8th day of March, 1847.
=====
Certificate of Pension issued the
9th day of Feb. 1848
and sent to
Hon. C. Hudson
House of Reps.
=====
[Act of JUNE 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book W
Vol. 2 Page 26.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester County, SS.
I, Charles W. Hartshorn, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, do hereby certify, That William S. Bradbury, Esq. was, on the third day of June, 1848, and still continues to be, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature to the certificate, on the deposition of Ede Brooks hereunto annexed, is genuing.

GIVEN under my hand, and the seal of said County, this sixth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
Chas. W. Hartshorn Clerk
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admitted

Hon. C. Hudson
H of R
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State of Massachusetts
County of Worcester
On this third day of June 1848 personally appeared before me William S. Bradbury a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Worcester Eda Brooks a resident of Gardner in the County of Worcester aged eighty one years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2 February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Ebenezer Brooks who was a private in the Revolutionary army and served therein two or three different periods of time, for which service he drew a pension of
forty dollars annually, that he lived in Garden the last six years of his life previous threto he lived in Rutland, that she now lives in Gardner, and drew an annual pension of twenty dollars under the act of 17th June 1844
She further declares that she is still a widow
Sworn to and

her
Eda x Brooks
mark

subscribed the day and year above witten
Before me William S. Bradbury Jus. Peace
I certify that the above declarant is personally known to me.

Witnessed by
Nancy M. Reed

William S Bradbury Jus. Peace
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Pension Office
December 24th, 1847.

Sir,

I have the honor to return herewith the declaration in the case of Ede Brooks, widow of Ebenezer Brooks, that the Official character of the Judge of the Court of Probate before whom it was made may be certified by the Clerk of said Court under his seal of Office.

The evidence filed in this case is satisfactory to establish the date of the marriage of these parties. But the alleged service of Mrs. Brooks' husband for six months in 1780, and six months in 1781 as a substitute for John Stacy under Capt. Haskill, of Col. Braford's Regiment should be sustained by the records in the state Department at Boston to justify the issuing of a certificate to her for that service.

I have the honor to be, Sir, Very respectfully, your obt. servt.
J L Edwards

Hon. C. Hudson
House of Reps.
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471
Massachusetts
=====
Ede Brooks
widow of Ebenezer Brooks
who was a private
in the Revolution
Husband died 8 March 1847,
=====
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
40 Dollars --
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 8th day of March, 1847
former payments to be deducted.
=====
Certificate of Pension issued the
28 day of Sept 1849
and sent to
G. S. Bulfinch
Boston
Mass
=====
[Act of JUNE 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 26.
H. E. Robinson
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Reported

right column
337
Massachusetts
=====
Ede Brooks
widow of Ebenezer Brooks
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
=====
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
20 Dollars --
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
=====
Certificate of Pension issued the
20 day of June 1848
and sent to
Hon. C. Hudson
H of R
=====
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 6 Vol. 2
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
January 19th 1848.

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Ebenezer Brooks is borne upon a Pay Roll of the 6 Months min of the town of Westborough as a private from July 1 to December 21 1780, including allowance of 10 days for 200 Miles travel, 6 months & 1 day. 
Upon a Descriptive List of 6 months min in 1780 as a private of Westborough enlisted at the age of 17 years, was 5 feet and 4 inches high.

Not upon rolls of Capt. Haskell Col. Bradford previous to 1780.

No roll of Capt Haskell. Col. Bradford subsequent to 1780.

The rolls of Capt. Haskell, Col. Shepard from May 1781 to March 1782 inclusive do not contain the
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of either Ebenezer Brooks or John Stacy. No evidence that said Brooks served as a substitute for John Stacy from military rolls in this Department.

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the Commissioner's letter of December 24 1847 was filed in this Office; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said letter, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

W. B. Calhoun,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.