Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44730, Ezra Carlton, N.H.
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(3-1776) SERVICE N.H. Carlton, Ezra or Carleton NUMBER S.44730 CONTENTS
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6216
Albany New York
Ezra
Carlton
Capt Robinson NH line
private
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine
at the rate of 8 --- Dollars per month, to commence on
the 13 of April 1818

Certificate
of Pension issued the 28 of Jany 1819
and de
R. C. Vose

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818.
20 37.86
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 Mar 18
48 or
$85.86

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

Plantation No 2.

[Stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES

Continued

Paper Cop for Land agt of Maine, by
June 21. 1839
to Pen Age 12 June 1841.
Albany New York from
4 Sep 1840 24 June 1843. NotI
fication to Pension you
New

Notification sent December 20 1820
R. C. Vose, Augusta, Maine
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Ezra Carlton, Plan No.

Oxford County Jr Col. Reed
N. H. Reg. 1781 to Jane
1783 during
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April 13. 1818.
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---
Admitted
Copy
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Ezra Carlton, aged fifty years, a citizen of the U. States.
born in Andover, Massachusetts, now resident in plantation
Number two, in the County of Oxford, and District of Maine
upon oath testify and declare, that in April 1781 I enlisted
as a private soldier in the war of the revolution, against the
common enemy, upon the continental establishment
for the period of during the war, in Capt Robinson's
company, and Col. Reed's regiment, New Hampshire line
I served until June 1783 when I took my final and
honorable discharge from the army at New Burgh. I sold
my bounty land, and with it my discharge, to a Mr
Witham who went to Ohio, an immense distance
from me, and whether it is now in existence or not I
do not know. It was more than twenty years ago
that I sold it. from my reduced circumstances, I am
he need of assistance from my country for support. And
I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every pension
heretofore allowed me by the laws of the U. States, if any;
but I am not to my knowledge borne on any pension
list whatever. I request that I may be placed upon
the pension list for the District of Maine
[Signature] Ezra Carlton

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec SS
On the thirteenth day of April AD 1818
Ezra Carlton above
named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration
by him subscribed Before me [Signature] Nathan Weston Jr
Chief Justice C. Court C. Pleas
second Eastern Circuit

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Reuben Perry, of Planation No 1. County of Oxford
Maine, upon oath
testify and declare, that I well knew the above named Ezra Carlton
Continental soldier, in the revolutionary War, and I fully believe
he served as he has above stated. From his reduced circumstances he
needs the assistance from his country for support he pertains the
character of a man of truth-- I am fifty one years of age
---
[Signature] Reuben Perry
Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Kennebec ss.
On the second day of May AD 1818, Reuben Perry above named after having been
examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed-
Before me
[Signature] Nathan Weston Jr
Chief Justice C. Court Com
Pleas and Eastern Circuit
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402
Ezra Carlton Mar 19
No. 2
No 6,216
Blind, & poor, & nearly naked
Declarations to be made in the court of Me County where declarant resides.
Robert C Vose Augusta Maine

Subscribed sworn and declared both the oath and schedule one the thirteenth day of June 1820  Before me [Signature] Nathan Weston CH C.C.C. Pleas

I hereby certify that the within is a true copy of the original oath and schedule filed in the Clerk's office at Norridgewock in the county of Somerset Nov. 9 1820
Attest [Signature] William Allen Clerk of Courts Somerset
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Copy
402

State of Maine.
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
On this thirteenth day of June , 1820,
personally appeared before in open court before
 the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset,
being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common
law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and
having the power of fine and imprisonment, Ezra Carleton
fifty five years, resident in Plantation No 2 in the County of Somerset
within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he
served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain
Robinson and Regiment commanded by Colonel
of the line of the State of New Hampshire upon the Continental Establishment, for
the period of from April 1781 for during the war, being
upwards of two years and was in battle with the
Indians on Mohawk river
 
that his original declaration was made before Judge Weston
thirteenth day of April
1818; that he is now on the Maine
Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 6216. And I, the said Ezra
Carleton do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States,
on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not,
since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part
thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the 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 eighteenth day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any
property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is
contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
[Signature] Ezra Carleton

The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding
excepted, viz: one cow of the value of fifteen dollars
one swine of the value of three dollars. old
household stuff besides necessary beding, not
Exceeding five dollars, one axe worth our dollar
and fifty cents would axes both worth one dollars
old hoe worth twenty five cents, Horse traces worth
three dollars, one set of harrow teeth nine in
number, worth two dollars, and fifty cents
I have no debts due to me that can be collected, and
I owe as much as one hundred and thirty dollars
My income from the above property does not exceed
the interest of the money some my occupation
is that of a farmer; but from age and infirmity having lost entirely the sight of an eye, and
nearly that of the other, and my right shoulder
being dislocated, unable to do very little-
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My family at home consists of myself
my wife Susanna aged forty three who has not
done a days work for six months being sick, my
daughter Lydia aged twenty one years, my son Ezra
aged twenty years, my daughter Sally aged eighteen
my daughter Nancy aged sixteen has had her ribs
broke by fall and is able to do but little, my
daughter Jane aged twelve who has the dropsy
and is unable to labor, my daughter Susanna aged
ten has been under the doctors hands three years
my daughter Mary aged seven years, my daughter
Sophia aged four, and my daughter Melinda
aged seven weeks who has been sick from her
birth we are very poor and my family often
suffer for food.
Except the foregoing and my
necessary clothing and beding
I have no estate or income whatever
[Signature] Ezra Carleton

Subscribed sworn to and declared both the oath and schedule on the thirteenth day of June 1820
Before me [Signature] Nathan Weston Jr Cj C.C.C. Pleas.

a True copy  [signature] John Davis Clk


402 Carlton
Ezra Carleton Mar'19
No. 2
No 6,216
Blind & poor & nearly naken
Declaration to be made in the court of the County where declarant resides.
Robert C Vose, Augusta Maine
Con

I hereby certify that the within is a true copy of the original oath and schedule filed in the Clerk's office at Norridgewock in the county of Somerset Nov. 8 1820
Attest [Signature] William Allen Clerk of Courts Somerset
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over
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau. Ezra Carlon S.F. 44730

[Chart]

DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
Apr. 1781

LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
June 1783

RANK.
Pvt.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
317936510 - 07
CAPTAIN.
Robinson
COLONEL.
George Reid

STATE.
N. H.

Battles engaged in, with Indians on Mohawk River
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
Date of application for pension, Apr. 18, 1818. His cl was al
Residence at date of application, Pentation of Oxford Co. Maine
Age at date of application, 50 yrs born Andover Mass. Died July 12  1834. [Date of death crossed out]
Remarks: Soldiers wife Susanna - was 43 years old in 1820,
Children, Lydia 21 years  Ezra S. Sally 18: Nancy 16. Jane 12.
Susanna 10: May 7: Sophia 4; and Melinday 7 weeks.
Very respectfully,
There is an application for
transfer in 1841
book Commissioner
[illegible]
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44730
Revy INVALID.
File No. 44730
Ezra Carlton
Priv Rev War

Act: 18 March 1818
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 74
[Arrangement of 1870.]

June 24'97 Hist
to awsteard
Manchester NH
1908 Feby 21 Hist to P. Fair ar V.L.M.
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Portland July 30th 1819
To whom it may concern
this may certify
that Ezra Carleton entered the
U.S. service in the year 1780 being at
what time an apprentice to my brother and that after the war closed he returned
to my house and showed me his
regular discharge having served out
three years for the Town of Nottingham
 [Signature] Tyler Porter

at Judge Bagby, old house man the jail Portland
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[Stamp] FREE

J.L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions.
Washington D.C.

June 21 1841
NoWary

[Stamp] PORTLAND ME. JUN 16
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Maine Bank
Portland June 16th 1841

J.L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Sir

your letter of the 12 is new
Ezra Carter & Pensioner under Act of March 14. 1818. was paid
last up to Sept. 4. 1840
Respectfully
your Obt Serts,
[Signature] A Hewhall Prest
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[Stamp] FREE

James L Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington D.C

June 12 1841

[Stamp] LYONS NY. [ILLEGIBLE] 6.
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Application for a Transfer
County of Wayne SS.
on this first day of June, 1841
before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace
for the said County of Wayne personally appeared
Ezra Carlton who on his Oath declares that
he is the same person who formerly belonged to
the Company commanded by Captain
Roberson, in the Regiment commanded by
Colonel
Reed. In the service of the
United States that his name was placed on the
Pension Roll of the State of Maine from whence
he has lately removed, that he now resides
in the State of New York, where he intends to
remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable
in future; the following are his reasons for removing from the State of Maine to the State of
New York, are these, that he is in the seventy ninth
year of his age, that his children removed to the
State of New York and that it was the wishes of
himself and wife to reside near where their
Children lived
[Signature] Ezra his x mark Carlton

Sworn and subscribed before me
the day and year aforesaid
[Signature] James Edwards Justice of the Peace

As the above named Ezra Carlton informs me
that he formerly Sign his name in writing,
now is blind which is true
Jas Cuwens J P
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State of New York
County of Wayne SS
on the first day of June 1841, before me the
Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said
County of Wayne personally appeared
David Handy who on his Oath declares
that he is acquainted with Ezra Carlton
who formerly resided in the State of Maine
and has been for twenty years and more, and
that he is the same person who subscribed
his name to the within affidavit
[Signature] David Handy

Sworn and subscribed before
me the day and year aforesaid
[Signature] James Edwards Justice of the Peace

This certifies that I am acquainted with
David Handy the above named e
and that he is a man in good standing &
for truth & veracity
Jas Edwards J P
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State of New York
Wayne County Clerk's office & ss:
I Edmund A. Griswold Dep Clerk of said County
do hereby certify that James Edwards Esq whose
signature appears to the foregoing certificates, was
on the day of the date thereof, a Justice of the
Peace in and for said county, elected and worn
and duly authorized to act as such that I am well
aqainted with his hand writing, and that his
said signatures are genuine, and I further certify
that the term of office of the said Justice commenced
on the 4th day of January 1840 and will expire
on the 31 day of December 1843
In witness whereof I have hereto
set my hand and thereof
said County this 2nd day of
June 1841
[Signature] E. A. Grswold D Clerk
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Ezra Carlton
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Reuben Parry aged
fifty
five years
upon oath testify and declare that being
myself a non commissioned officer at the time
I know that Ezra Carlton, Now of plantation
No 2 in the District of Maine, served in
that the war of the revolution, as a soldier
from some time in the year or so until the
end of the war, in Col. George Rud's
regiment, New Hampshire line, and that he
was honorably discharged.

[Signature]  Rueben Perry

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Kennebec
On the seventh day of October
A.D. 1818
Reuben Perry above named
being a credible and disinterested witness
made oath to the truth of the above
deposition, by him subscribed. Before me,
Nathan Weston her
Unit C. Peas E. Circuit
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I Wm Plummer, aged fifty five years upon
oath testify and declare that being myself a
soldier at the time, I know that Ezra Carlton
Now
of plantation No 2 in the District of
Maine, served as a during the war's in an
in the war of the revolution, in Col George
Reid's
regiment New Hampshire line, for more
the
the year and an half in 1782 and
1783.
I have reason to believe that the
said Carlton served longer, and that he was
honorably discharged.
[Signature] John Plummer

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Kennebec
On the seventh day of October
A.D. 1818, John Plummer above named
be a credible and disinterested witness
made oath to the truth of the above
deposition, by him subscribed. Before me
[Siganture] Nathan Weston her C.
C.C.C. Pleas 2 E. Circuit
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the
United States.
the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common
Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the
Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor,
that Ezra Carlton
a citizen of the United States, now resident in
plantation No 2 in Oxford County but applying before me at Augusta in the said county of Kennebec, of the District of
Maine, on the thirteen the
day of April
A.D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A.D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.

And I further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier, in the war of the revolution, until the end of the war against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, and for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which
I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty second day of May
in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
[Signature]Nathan Weston Just C
C.C.C. Pleas 2d East Circuit
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, SS.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County
of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire,
before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of
Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties
of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have
affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he
presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand:
Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth
day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and eighteen.
[Signature] John Davis
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State of Maine.
I William Allen Clerk for the County
of Somerset of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for
the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec
and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and
the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the
said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open Court; 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,
including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is thirty
one dollars and twenty five cents; and deducting therefrom
the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property
in the opinion of said Court, is thirty one
dollars and twenty five cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said
Court, on this
day of November 1820
[Signature] William Allen Clerk of said Court for the County of
of Somerset
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Ezra Carlton
50.
born Andw. Mass
Plan No 04 [illegible]
in the County a
Entered at 81 during was
Robinson, Col. George Reed
2d New Hampshire
Reg. he with close
of the worn June 1783
& then look & be
die at Newburgh dischage
I hold with my land county
to Wit is
now most like-- We depo
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Phillips April 5, 1818
We the subscribers selectmen of Phillips hereby certify that the Ezra Carlton of No 2 a planation adjoining this town is a man poor & needy of help.
[Signature] Benj Robbins
[Signature] Joel Whitney
Selectmen of Phillips
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1820.
The Merchants' National Bank,
MANCHESTER, N. H.
NATHAN P. HUNT, President.
A. M. HEARD, Cashier

Manchester, N. H. June 1, 1897.

Commissioners of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Sir: --

Will you kindly furnish me the military history of Ezra Carlton,
a soldier of the Revolution, who enlisted at Nottingham West, State of
New Hampshire, April 19, 1781, and was probably a pensioner.
an early reply will be greatly appreciated.
Respectfully yours,
[Signature] A M Heard
.