Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1173, Ephraim Breed, Mass.
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Service
Mass   Breed, Ephraim Number R1173
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1884 4 January J.H. Breed Sent History



1173


Ephraim Breed

Rejected
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Charlestown Mafs Sept 1 1829
To the Hon The Secretary at War
I enclose you the documents in the case of my husbands application for a pension and hope they will prove sufficient to entitle him to it one great inducement for me to write was thinking all without any exception came under the last act of 1827
Respecfully your Hum Servt
Dorcas Breed
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31024


Ephraim Breed

Massachusetts

Act 18th March 1818


1173


See letter 30 July 1829
to Mrs. Dorcas Breed

The name of Ephraim is found on the final settlement certificates Vol. 2
page 60 No. 30912


Claim rejected 8 Sept. 1829 see letter to Mrs. Dorcas Breed 25 Sept. 1829
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Charlestown July 25, 1829
Sir after much hesitation I deemed it a duty to addrefs you in behalf of one who spent his youthful days in Americas service one who has been for upward, of his years severely afflicted with the palsy and is now unable to seek for himself and despairs of getting what is justly his due because no one is living to come forward and testify that he was in the army at least none to his reccollection for all those who left their home in company with him have long since fled to the tomb they have gone far beyond the confines of time were all search for them is vain but believing your goodnefs extended to far to let one revolutionary soldier go unrewarded who spent the vigour of his youth to serve his country I thought proper to state the circumstances to you as the only resource now left hoping you will bestow that benifit on him which I have seen deservedly bestowed on many of them hoping through your influence he may obtain his rightful claim that which he sought not after before because by a trifling income when he might have found several living who would have come forward and proved his right the inclosed is a correct copy written shortly after he lost his discharge and to my knowledge long before anything was in agitation concerning a pention search has been made at the land office in Boston but his name could not be found on many books because of there ending with the year 1780 he belonged to the first Mafsachusetts regiment Capn Trotters Company after the serving of the war men were discharged he went into Cap Bomans company Doc Enstis Surgeon of the Regiment Adjutant Wales Adjutant of the regiment
Dorcas Breed
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Charlestown September18 1829
Sir I received your letter of the 1st concerning Mr E Breed declaration and was sorry to learn that a mistake of his owing to feeble state and carelefsnefs on the part of those that assisted him was the cause of his not obtaining a pension but doubtlefs we should have been more particular had not your first letter gave information that the evidence of his service appeared in the rolls in the Mafsachusetts line where we believed the term of time that he served was also he entered the service as stated in his Declaration in December 1782 joining the army that then lay in winter quarters over the north river back of New Winsor at Newburg butts. The first Mafsachusetts regiment the Camp he belonged to was Commanded by Capn Trotter but he is not certain the regiment was commanded by Col Newell after the during the  of the war men were discharged he went into Capn Bomans Compy as stated in my first letter where he says he remained in the butts till July then had orders to march to Philadelphia on account of a mutiny among some soldiers in regard of there pay where he remained without the city till the last of August or the beginning of September then had orders to march to West point where he lay in tents till he received orders to march to Kingsbridge then west with a detachment on to long island there remained till he received orders to march up towards New York crofsed the ferry and marched back to West point where he lay in the Barracks till he received his discharge with the rest of the three years men which he says was in the last of October or the month of November 1783 making 10 or 11 month that he served as he says on the continental establishment. I hope Sir you will pardon the mistakes of me whose memory is greatly impaired by sicknefs and long confinement.
Respectfully Your
Obt. Servt.
Dorcas Breed
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Commonwealth of Mafsachusetts
County of Middlesex fs
On this twenty eighth day of August AD 1829 personally appeared, before me, the subscriber, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Middlesex, a court of record, proceeding according to the Court of Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, Ephraim Breed, a resident in said county, aged sixty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath, make the following declarations, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congrefs, of the 18th March 1818, and the 1st May 1820, that he the said Ephraim Breed enlisted for the term of eighteen months (to supply the place of a three years man), in the month of December AD 1782, in the state of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Capn Trotter, in the regiment commanded by Col Newell (to the best of his recollection), in the line of the state of Massachusetts, in the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the close of the war, when he was discharged from the service at West Point, in the state of New York, that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever except the present; that his name is not on the roll of any State, except Massachusetts; and the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension; viz. that while he enjoyed his health, he was able to maintain himself and family and was apprehensive that while such was the case an application might be rejected in consequence of his having a little property. 
And, in pursuance of the Act of 1st May 1820, I the said Ephraim Breed do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with any intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War"; passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any properties or securities, contracts, or debts due me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule, hereto annexed, by me subscribed; that by reason of a shock of palsy, with which I have been afflicted for more than two years past, I am unable to attend personally in court. Sworn to and declared on the 28th day of August AD 1829 before Artemas Ward Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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I, Artemas Ward, Esquire, as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, holder in the County of Middlesex, where the declarant resides, do hereby certify, that the above named Ephraim Breed, is from a disease, called the palsy, with which, I am credibly informed and believe, he has been afflicted, for the space of more than two years last past, unable to attend the Court of which I am Judge, and, I do not think, from present appearances, that he will be able to attend the Court before named, at its next session, I have therefore, in ???nance of the Act of Congress of the 1st of March 1823, attended at his place of abode, and administered the foregoing oath.
Artemas Ward, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Schedule of Property and Income
The&c Subscribers real estate consists of a small two story wooden house more than 50 years old on a small lot of land, 26 feet on the street, and cost twenty seven years since 500 dollars, but is much decayed and in bad state of repair, he has a few articles of furniture, viz. a Bureau of the value of $5, large table $3, smaller table $2, round table $1.50, light stand 75/100, 2 looking glasses $3, 2 chairs $3, cooking utensils, crockery, & glassware etc. etc. the whole of which furniture if exposed at public auction would not be likely to produce more than 40 dollars. The subscribers occupation has been shoemaking, but by a shock of palsy he has been deprived the use of one arm and one leg, is unable to help himself, and is under the necefsity of being lifted & carried from his bed to his chair, and has been in this condition for more than two years; his family are his wife, aged 51 years, a daughter, aged 26 years, a considerable portion of whose time is required in the care of him, a son aged 18 years, who is now an apprentice learning a trade. The subscriber has an income in right of his wife, derived from an undivided portion of real estate descended to her from an ancestor which amounts to 30 dollars per annum
X [the mark of Ephraim Breed]

Lest Artemas Ward
James K. Frithingham
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I, Abraham Biglow, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Middlesex, certify, that the Hon. Artemas Ward, before whom the above affidavit of Ephraim Breed, who is now sick and confined to his house, was made, is Judge as aforesaid. I also certify that the said Schedule and oath have been admitted to the record of said Court, and that the same are truly copied therefrom - And I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is fifty dollars and no more.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of seal of said Court on this twenty ninth day of August AD 1829
Abrm Biglow
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West Point 1783

Copy of my Discharge by recollection

Ephraim Breed solider in the first Massachusetts Regiment being enlisted for three years is hereby honourably discharged from the army of the United States

Signed by Henry Knox
Adjutant