Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3,357, Ephraim Fish, New York
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Service: New York
Fish, Ephraim
S3,357
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9,8880
Ohio. Pittsburgh
Ephraim Fish of Huron Co. in the State of Ohio who was a [uncertain] in the company commanded by Captain Wright of the [uncertain] commanded by Col. Mc Kinstry in the New York State line for two years.
1 yr Pr.  40
1 yr. St. 160
              ----
              200

The pension confirms and proof of [uncertain]  have been on file but by some [uncertain] have been [uncertain]

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio Pittsburgh at the rate of 200 Collars -- cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of July 1835 and sent to Jews B. Sturges, Norwalk, Ohio

Arrears to the 4th of
[uncertain] allowance ending
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Wm S. Allison, Clerk
Book E 2 Vol. 5 Page 144
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[uncertain] Dec 19 1838
NORWALK
DEC
18
James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Norwalk
J L Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
[uncertain] Ephraim Fish
at the rate of $200 per year. He died 9th Oct 1838. Ephraim Fish his son was at the Court of Common Pleas held here appointed Administrator on his Estate [uncertain] Bonds according to Law at the time of the old Gentleman's [uncertain] there were between 17 & 19 dollars for this arrearage.
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State of Ohio Huron County So Norwalk 27th July AD 1832

On this 27th day of July AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Supreme Court for the State of Ohio within and for said County of Huron now sitting in said Norwalk Ephraim Fish a Resident of Lyme in the said County of Huron and said State of Ohio aged seventy two years, who first being duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress
 passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. that he was born March AD 1760 in what was then called America Precinct Dutchess County State of New York. At the commencement of the Revolutionary War his Father had removed to Saratoga, then in Albany County, now Washington County in said State. That in the year AD 1776 he was called to the roll of the Militia of said State, being then sixteen years of age in the Fall of that year. He was called out and served in said Militia that season for one month and served in a Company commanded by Captain Peter Van Vort in a Regiment  commanded by John McCray Colonel--went to Fort Edward. Left Garrison there & In the year of AD 1777, he served in said Militia in the same Company and Regiment commanded by the same Captain and Colonel. He was engaged in all the military operation which were conducted under the directions and command of General Philip Schuyler--was in several skirmishes but no important Battles with the British--was much engaged in Scouting and reconnoitering Expeditions. His Father lived about three miles from Bemiss Heights--General Horatio Gates commanded the American Army. They retreated under General Schuyler down to Vanscaik's Island, or as to the present Troy. They were then ordered by General Gates and marched up and took possession of said Beamiss' heights. The thus said Fish was present when General Burgoyne capitulated & surrendered--that the Enemy grounded their arms in their own Encampment and he saw them march out without their arms. General Gates allowed General Burgoyne several days to consider whether he would surrender himself and Army. The said Fish served about Two months about the time of said Capitulation--that they were dismissed after said Capture and returned home. He was frequently and almost constantly to the time of peace, for six weeks at a time every year called out to serve in the Militia, he living on the Frontier. That in the year AD 1782 he entered his three years service of the State Troops. The Legislature of said State having ordered two Regiments to be armed, to join the Continental troops. He the said Fish accepted a Commission and acted as a First Lieutenant in said raised troops. It
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Wright
was his Captain. There were two Colonels viz. Colonel McKinstry and Colonel Marinus Willett. He received a warrant to recruit men. He was engaged at one time recruiting three months, & enlisted and brought in fourteen recruits, & served then about one year in the whole--(illegible) post was  Saratoga Barracks where he was commanded by a Colonel Scott, who was a Colonel of Rhode Island troops--the Month he enlisted was the second of April, he was discharged at the time of the peace--he never received a written discharge. That he some years ago carried his Commission to Albany for the purpose of getting Bounty Lands, which had been promised by the Legislature of said New York, to induce people to engage in said new raised troops--in which however he did not succeed. That he left said Commission with the Clerk, he believes, of the Legislature that he never has seen it since. He said Clerk afterwards being called upon, was not able to find it. His Son John Fish has heretofore often seen & remembered it was signed by the late Governor George Clinton. He believes he served during the Revolutionary War, considerably more than Five years. He has as Documentary Evidence of his said services & no other Evidence except that of his said Son John. The Militia of said State was classed by order of Congress and were called Levies--divided into sixteen each for nine months. He lived, having agreed to serve as one for his class. Since one John Hawes to serve as his substitute, who did serve as such for nine months. He has no record of his age. He has never before this applied for a Pension, as no Law before this present and last one passed by Congress, on the 7th July 1832 embraced his case having heretofore been possessed some property, but is now poor. The duties he performed as aforesaid, very much confined to that part of the Country where he generally was an Inhabitant. That since the Revolutionary War he has lived in Chenango County Courtland County Washington County State of New York from whence to wit Chenango County. He moved into Lyme in said Huron County where he now lives
(signature) Ephraim Fish

He thereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State
(signature) Ephraim Fish

Sworn to & subscribed this day and year aforesaid
Attent G Gibbs Clerk Sup. Ct.
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We Joshua Phillips a Clergyman residing in the Town of Berlin & Daniel Tilden residing in Norwalk in P County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ephraim Fish and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be seventy two years of age. That he is respected and beloved in the Neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion & consider him a man of truth & veracity
Daniel Tilden
Joshua Phillips
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Attest. D Gibbs Clerk Sup. Ct.

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 Joshua Phillips who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Berlin in said County and that Daniel Tilden who has also signed the same is a resident in the Town of Norwalk in said County and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
Attest D Gibbs Clerk Sup. Ct.

State of Ohio Huron County Tn Norwalk 27th July AD 1832
As before Supreme Court aforementioned personally appeared on said 27 July 1832 in open Court now sitting John Fish of Ridgfield in said County of Huron and being first duly sworn, doth on his Oath declare that he is the Son of Ephraim Fish. The said John Fish being aged Forty six years that he has frequently heard his Father & others converse respecting his Fathers revolutionary services, & that has been his putation in all the neighborhood, in which he has lived since said War. That he did so serve, and further declares & testifies that he has frequently seen & read said Commissions granted by an Act of the Legislature of the State of New York as First Lieutenant of a Company in two Regiments raised for those years signed in the handwriting of Governor George Clinton. That he always understood that his Father carried
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said Commission in Albany when his said Father was a member of the Legislature of said State of New York That he has also seen a Warrant in his Fathers papers for recruiting men for said three years service but does not know where said Commission or Warrant are
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid
Attest D Gibbs Clerk Sup. Ct.

I D. Gibbs Clerk of the Supreme Court of Huron County Ohio do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ephraim Fish for a pension--this Stationery whereof I have set my hand and Seal of Office this 6th day of August AD 1832
D Gibbs Clerk Sup. Ct.

Ephraim Fish 
Pension papers
No. 6232.
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State of New York
Cattaraugus County
Personally appeared before me John Sample a justice of the peace in and for said County, Abigail Williams, who being duly sworn, saith that she is a sister of Ephraim Fish, and that she knows him to be the identicle person who inlisted for three years in the New York State Troop in the Revolutionary War, (and thinks he served under Job Wright and Marinus Willet was his Colonel.) that it was in the Spring of 1782 that he entered the servis, and continued until the close of the war, that he enlisted under a Lieutenant Commission that he has seen his Commission and red it, and had it red, a great number of times, that he serve about fourteen months
Abigail Williams
Sworn and Subscribed this 18th day of June 1834 before me John Sample Justice
I am personally acquainted with Abigail Williams who has subscribed her name to the above deposition and believe her to be a person of undoubted truth and veracity
John Sample J.P.

State of New York
Cattaraugus County
I, John W. Staunton, Clerk of the said county do certify that John Sample esquire whose name is subscribed to the certificate and before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly qualified, and that further I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and verily believe the signature "John Sample" subscribed to the said affidavit and certificate, to be his own proper handwriting and signature--
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this twentieth day of June A.D. 1834
John W. Staunton, Clk
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September 30, 1933.
 Mr. M. E. Tracy 
555 South Flower Street 
Los Angeles, California
 Dear Sir:
The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.3357, based upon the military service of Ephraim Fish. 
Ephraim Fish was born March 16, 1760 in America Precinct, Dutchess County, New York. In 1773 he moved with his parents, their names not given, to Albany County, New York , twenty-six miles north of Albany, and lived there many years after the Revolution.
 While a resident of Saratoga, Albany County, later Washington County, New York, he enlisted about October 1, 1776 and served one or two months as private in Captain Peter Van Wort's Company, Colonel John McCrea's New York Regiment. He enlisted July 5, 1777, served three or four months as private in Captain Peter Van Wort's Company, Colonel Van Veghten and John McCrea's New York Regiment and was at the surrender of Burgoyne and in several skirmishes. From about August 1, 1778 he served three months in garrison under Major Ashley or Ashford. In 1779 he served two months under Captain Woodworth at Fort Edward. From May 1780 he served two months, names of officers not stated, and went on an expedition to Lake George. He enlisted in the fall of 1780 and served one and one half months in Captain Thompson's New York Company. On April 28, 1781 he was commissioned lieutenant, served in Captain Job Wright's Company, Colonels McKinstry and Marinus Willett's New York Regiment; length of service fourteen months. 
In 1809 soldier lived in Cincinnatus, Cortland County, New York. He also resided in Chenango County, New York, and then moved to Lyme, Huron County, Ohio. He was allowed pension on his application executed July 27, 1832 while a resident of Lyme, Ohio. 
Soldier at one time was a member of the legislature of New York.
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He died October 7, 1833, place not stated, leaving no widow, but six or seven children and minors of deceased children; the only names given were those of his children: Ephraim Fish; John Fish, who was aged forty-six years and living in Ridgefield, Huron County, Ohio in 1832, and Benjamin Fish nearly fifty years old in 1835. 
In 1831 soldier's sister, Abigail Williams, appeared in support of the claim in Cattaraugus County, New York. There are no further family data.
 Very truly yours,
 A. D. HILLER 
Assistant to Administrator.
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Decr 2-1902 
Mattie F. Tiffing 
Toledo Ohio 
to above-- Pens not on copies of papers furnished 
Ag. 13, 1916 Hist to Mrs R. G. Taylor
1933 Sept. 30 Mat. to M.E. Tracy a NY
Rev War
 No. 3357  INVALID. 
No. 3357 
Ephraim Fish
 Lieut Rev War 
Act: June 7" 1832
 Index: -- Vol. A, Page 124
 Arrangement of 1870.]
 Mrs Aug 5,1904 
file- no
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By His Excellency GEORGE CLINTON, Esquire, Governor of the state of New-York, &c. &. &c.
To Ephraim Fish Gent GRITING
 PURSUANT the Authority in me vested, by an Act of the Legislature, entitled, "An 183 for raising two Regiment fore the defense of this State, on Bounties of appropriated Lands:
I Do by these Presents, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Council of Appointment, appoint you a Lieutenant in one of the said Regiment; hereby authorising you to inlist men for the said Service, for the Term of three years; and, as an Encouragement, to offer each Recruit in Lieu of every other Bounty on the part of this State, a right of five Hundred Acres of any unappropriated Land, within this State, the lands belonging to the Oneida or Tuscarora Indians excepted, which he shall locate and elect, to be granted to him or his legal representative, on the Expiration of the said Term, or regular Dismission or Discharge from the said Service, whichever may first happen, without Fee or Reward, or Quit Rent reserved. -- The Lands so to be granted, is to be laid out as nearly in a square as the next adjacent appropriated Lands will adm.- An actual Settlement and Improvement of these Lands, is to be made within three years next after the Expiration of the War -- If any number of Persons entitled to sixty-one Rights, shall join in one Location, the Land by them located, is to be laid out in a Township of seven miles square, and granted to them according to their respective rights therein - the remaining one right is to be reserved for the support of the Gospel, and the remaining three hundred and sixty Acres, for the use of a School the Expence of running the out Lines of such Township, will be defrayed by the State. -- The Officers will in like Manner, be allowed the following proportion of the Lands above-mentioned, viz. A Lieutenant-Colonel and Major, each four Rights; a Captain and Surgeon, each three Rights; and a Lieutenant, Ensign and Surgeon's Mate, each two rights. These Corps are to be armed, accoutred, clothed, paid and subsisted at the general Expence to be subject to the Rules and Articles of War, established for the Regulation of the Army of the United States, and to be under the command of the Commander in Chief of their Army; but not to serve out of this State, without the Consent of the person administering the Government thereof. Any person engaging an able bodied Man for this Service, may take a Transfer of his right; and any person who delivers his or her able-bodied male Slave, to serve in either of these Corps, will be entitled to the Bounty and the Slave, on his Dismission from the Service, is declared to be a free Man, and the Master or Mistress discharged from his future maintenance . The field officers (tho' appointed) are not to be commissioned until two thirds of the Regiment shall be raised and mustered, Jacob Lansing Esq. at Albany is appointed to muster the men, and grant the Certificates, which will entitle them to the Bounty to whom you will, from Time to Time, forward your Recruits to be mustered accordingly.--You will be particularly careful to inlist none but such as are able bodied Men, fit for active service.
 From the Opinion I entertain of your Zeal and Patriotism, it is expected your exertions will be equal to the pressing necessity of the Service, and that your Complement of Men, will be speedily ready to take the Field. 
 By his Excellency's Command Given at Poughkeepsie, this 28th day of April 1781. 
Rob. Benson Sury 
Geo Clinton
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1.9.880
Ohio Pittsburgh
 Ephraim Fish of Huron Co, in the State of Ohio who was a Pri & Lt. in the company by Captain Wright of the regt by Col. Willett in the N. York State line for two years 
1 yr Pr.--- 40 
1 yr Lieut.  160
 $200.(total of sums)
 Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio Pittsburg at the rate of 200 Dollars __Cents per to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 3d day of July 1835 and sent to Susan B. Sturges Norwalk Ohio, 
Arrears to the 4th of___
 Semi anl. allowance ending 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.} Recorded by Wm S Allison Clerk,
 Book E.2 Vol. 5 Page 144 
The commission of Ephraim Fish ,his petition to the Legislature of N. York 1807 and the certificate of the sec of State of New York with some other papers from Ohio, were mislaid and have been found in a drawer of one of the tables in the back story of the War Dept which has been used by one of the examiners under Preston's resolution.
 Letter to L. B. Sturges 27 Dec 1838 of
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see letter 5 Aug 1834
 to A. Campbell Sess? State Albany N.Y.
her letter 23 Aug '34 
to J. K. Campbell ? this do. 1 Jany 1835 
Said letter 18 Apr 35 to
 Lewis B. Sturges - Do to Same
May 18. 1835- do to same 
5 June 1835 
19880
Ohio Pittsburgh
Ephraim Fish
of Huron in the State of Ohio
who was a private in the com command 
by Captain Van Fort of the regt command
by Col McCray in the NY line 
for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio Pittsburg at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Sept 1833, and Lewis B Sturges Norwalk 
Arrears to the 4th of Sep 200.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Ma. 40.00 
(Total of) $240.00, 
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832 
Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk
Book E Vol. 7 Page 111
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July 28 Ohio
Free
 L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington
Norwalk Ohio June 24 (post mark)
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Service
New York
Fish, Ephraim
Number
S.3.357
Contents
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
New York
Fish, Ephraim
NUMBER
S.3.357
CONTENTS
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19880
Payments to be made
at Pittsburgh
by the Pt of WB Bank
Agent for paying pension-
ers, in the Agency of Ohio
Pittsburg





Recorded in the Pension of-
fice, in Book E Vol 8
Page 111 by David Boyd Clerk
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War Department

Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1833 Ephraim Fish of the State of Ohio
who was a private in the Army of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Eighty dollars and
______________ cents per annum, during his natural life com-
mencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi- 
annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year

Given at the Wat Office of the United
States, this 18th day of
September one thousand eight hundred and thirty three

[signed] John Robb
Acting Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned.
[signed] JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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[top right]
June 5, 1835

[left side] Ohio June 15th
Ephraim Fish

[Center]
L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Norwalk Ohio 25 May 1835
J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I have this day rec'd your Letter of 18th instant in which you say "The papers in the case of Ephraim Fish have been carefully examined & the Statement containing a full and factual account of his service cannot be found & etc" It appears by your Letter of January 1 1835 to J N Campbell Esq of Lyme in acknowledging the rec't of his Letter of 30th November 1834 that you had received the affidavit of Mr Fish in support of his claim & also his Pension certificate, which back you some time since returned to me. The affidavit referred to contained a particular Account of his services as required & according to my recollection filled up three sides of a Sheet of paper & was duly authenticated, and you also say, in the same letter his Commission as Lieut and his Petition to the Legislature of New York for Land in 1809 should be returned to your office. In your letter of 23d August 1834 to Mr Campbell you state you have rec'd the said Commission and Petition both of which I presume you have found. Since my late Letter to you the date of which I do not now recollect , as you also say in your Letter of 1st Jan'y 1835 to Mr Campbell that before a final action can be had in his case his Commission and Petition must be returned to your office, which I conclude you have found. I had presumed the Affidavit
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containing a Statement of his services was Satisfactory--and it is my impression that it was very full and explicit--if however there are other essential facts necessary to be furnished you will please to inform me but I am not at present aware of it being in Mr Fish's power to procure any additional ones
I am very respectfully
Your Ob't Serv't
Lewis B Sturges
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[outer part of document]

The Affidavit of W. Allen Potter -
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Albany County Ss:
Allen Potter of the Town of Caston in the County of Washington, and the State of New York former being sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Ephraim Fish of the Town of Cincinnatus in the County of Cortland from the age of twelve years, and the deponent further saith that the said Ephraim Fish was appointed a Lieutenant in a Company Commanded by Job Wright, Raised under an Act of the Legislature of the said State of New York entitled an Act for raising two Regiments for the defence of this State on bounties of unappropriated Lands, passed the twentieth day of March 1781." And this deponent further saith that the said Lieutenant Ephraim Fish by virtue of his appointment enlisted several men, to wit Caleb Cornell, Asher Ford, & John Davis, in the said Town of Eastern County of Washington, then the Town of Saratoga County of Albany, sometime in the spring of the year 1781--and further this deponent saith-- 
Allen Potter

Sworn to before me this 28th day of January 1809 Rich'd S. Treat
One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Albany

I certify that Allen Potter the person who made the above affidavit is personally known to me
Jan'y 28th 1809
Rich'd S. Treat
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Report E Fish
Com Claims
Rejected
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The Committee of Claims to Whom was Referred the Petition of Ephraim Fish praying a Grant of Bounty Lands for Military Services in the Revolutionary War--
Report
That it appears that the Petitioner Ephraim Fish was appointed a Lieutenant under the Act passed the 20th of March 1781 entitled an act for raising two Regiments for the defence of This State on Bounties of unappropriated Lands, and that the petitioner enlisted several men under his said appointment, it also appears that the Said Regiments not being filled within the Time by Law allowed, the petitioner was discharged as one of the Supernumary Officers--your Committee see no distinction in the above Referred to Between the Claims of those Supernumary Officers, so Discharged and those remaining in the Servis. They have added a clause for the relief of the petitioner to be added to some Bill and Directed their Chairman to ask for leave to present the same
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
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State of New York Secretary's  Office 
 Albany August 20, 1834. 
Sir, I have received your letter of the 16th instant, in which you state that "Ephraim Fish of Ohio has made application for a pension for services as a 1st Lieut in Col. Marinus Willets regiment of New York "State troops", and states "that he carried his commission some years since to Albany for the purpose of obtaining Land which had been promised him and there left his commission" &c.
 It appears by the minutes of the Council of appointment of this State that Ephraim Fish was appointed a Lieutenant in Col. Willis Regiment April 28. 1781. This you will find I presume in the certified list of Col. Willets officers which I sent you some time ago. Two or three years ago, certain petitions and papers heretofore presented to the legislature were deposited in this office by order of the House of Assembly - On Exami ing the same I found the petition of Ephraim Fish presented in 1809 together with his commission dated as above, and an affidavit of his services make before Judge Treat of this city with whom I am well acquainted-- as the said documents can be of no use here any more, I enclose them to you and I hope they will be found sufficient to entitle the applicant to his pension. at any rate I can furnish no better proof of his Services- From the information I have, I believe that the said Ephraim Fish now resides in the State of Ohio.
 I am respectfully your ob. Servant
Arch? Campbell Dep. Secretary
J L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
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Apl 13
J L Edwards Esqr 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington
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 Norwalk Ohio 31st March 1835 
J L Edwards Esq 
Sir
As soon as convenient it is respectfully requested that  you will decide relative to the application of Ephraim Fish for an increase of Pension whose papers were forwarded to you some months since at any rate to return his original Certificate for his pension under the Law of June 7, 1832 which was according to your directions sent with the papers. He wishes for the certificate to enable him to receive his last half years pension.
 Respectfully yours
 Lewis B Sturges
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 State of Ohio Huron County Ss
 On this third day of November one thousand Eight hundred thirty four before me Timothy Baker one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within the for said County personally appeared Ephraim Fish of Lyme in said County of Huron and being duly sworn doth on his oath declare supplementary to his former declaration heretofore ● made in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress & an increase of his Pension passed the 7th of June 1832. That he is now seventy years age that he was born in America precinct County of Duchess the State of New York on the 16 of March 1760. That his parents  moved to the County of Albany in said  New York Twenty six miles north of the City of Albany in the year 1772 & there continued to reside many years during the Revolutionary war with the exception of a few months in the year 1777 that they were obliged to retreat before Burgoyne to the Town of Alford County of Berkshire State of Massachusetts. That in the year of 1776 the Declarant being of the age of sixteen years was liable to do military duty was called out in the militia about the first of October 1776 as a Private in a company commanded by Captain Vanvort in a Regiment commanded by Colonel John McRea - that he was stationed at Fort Edward which post was commanded by Col. Seth Warner that he there served for two months & was then discharged.
 That he was then again about the first of July 1777 called out in the Militia & served under General Schuyler as Private in Captain Vanvorts- company in a Regiment commanded by Col. Vanverten and served four months untill after the Surrendering of General Burgoyne He was then discharged
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That about the first of August 1778 he was again called out & served for three months in Garrison the Fort was commanded by Major Ashby L or Ashford, he served at Palinestown about Twelve at North of Saratoga and was then discharged
That in 1779 he was again called out and served two months in the militia in Captain Woodsworths Company at Fort Edward the fort was commanded by Captain Chipman & he was then discharged.
 That in the year 1780 he was again called out in the month of May in George Clinton Esq Governor of the State of New York & served in the militia for two months on an expedition over Lake George & was  again discharged. 
That in the Fall of the same year was called out again and served in the militia for one and a half months in Captain Thompson's company and stationed at Fort Edwards the Fort was commanded by Captain Chipman & was discharged 
That on the second day of April 1781 the Declarant received Warrant or certificate that he was appointed a Lieutenant the three years service raised by the authority of the State of Newyork was ordered on the recruiting service that he was immediately ordered to open his Residence in Dutchess County State of New York. that he continued in that vicinity-- about three months  and was ordered to Saratoga Barracks with his accounts he after his arrival there.  He and others were organized in company commanded by Caption Job Wright. The Declarant being Lieutenant of said company   in the Regiment was commanded by Colonel McKinstry - the Company not being full the Declarant  was again ordered on the recuiting service and he continued in that service occasionally going into the ?? with Recounts untill the next Spring in 1782, when he was
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called to join his Regiment at Saratoga Barracks where he was ordered the command as Lieutenant from Saratoga Barracks he went on a scouting party which was commanded by Captain Center of the New Hampshire line to the North shore down Lake Champlain and that on his return to Camp he thinks about the first of June 1752 he was ?  by Colonel Scott of the Continental troops  He then  came on chart of that Post to return to his home on Furlough  until he should be called again. 
His Fathers Family then lived within ten miles of Saratoga Barracks this the Declarant residence, was at his Fathers house. that he frequently  reported himself to the Camp at Saratoga. but was ever afterwards called. The two Regiments of Home Guard as ever full. in the State of Newyork was commanded by Colonel Willet  and Colonel McKinstrey & he admits these were superior army officers. But he definitely denies that he the declarant was ever discharged as one.  
That in the Militia he the Declarent was frequently called on by George Schuyler to pilot scouts to the day North to Lake Champlain, Lake George and to the West  when not embodied in the regular Militia service above mentioned that he at all times professed the confidence of Genl Shuyler & that through his recommendation obtained the Commission of Lieutenant as before stated.
 That at all & every time & times in which he served as aforementioned in the Militia  the three years service, they were ordered and trained by the authority of the State of Newyork and the Declarant never did fill any civil office during any part of the time of his militiary services as aforesaid
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 That owing to the lapse of time & other casualties all his discharges are lost. That he was at every time mentioned honorably discharged. That the Declarant has forwarded to the War Department the official affidavits & depositions of John Punderson who was an Ensign who the declarant believes now draws a pension & also the Deposition of Abigail Williams. & Also Martha Mead which the Declarant believes will come in corroboration in part of this present statement which have been forwarded a short time since. That he never considered himself as a [?] officer.
 From a recapitulation of the Declarants service, it will appear at he served during the Revolutionary war Twenty eight months & one half of a month of which time he served under regular commission a Lieutenant for Fourteen months.
 The Commissioner of Pensions says in his Letter to the Declarant of the 23d August 1864 that it appears by a Petition which the Declarant inferred the Legislature of New York made in 1809 for Land that it is stated he commissioned on the 28 April 1781. & that he was discharged early in the winter of the same year.  that Petition was drawn by Jonathan Gailey & Declarant that there was a mistake in stating the dates this time of his discharge as a Lieutenant .
Sworn & Subscribed before me Timothy Baker Judge of ? ┃ The State of Ohio Huron County I David Gibbs Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County of Huron do certify that Timothy Baker is a lawfull Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County duly commissioned & sworn & authorized by law to take the acknowledgment of Deeds & other Instruments of military under seal - & that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is his genuine signature.
 In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of Said Court at Norwalk this 4 day of Nov AD 1834 D Gibbs Clk H.C. P.
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State of New York County of Chenango
 ss. On this fourth day of July, 1834, personally appeared before me Edward York a Commissioner of Deeds of the town of McDonough in and for the said County of Chenango, John Punderson of said McDonough, and who being duly sworn, according to law, says, that he, said that this deponent, was an Ensign in the Army of the Revolution, that he was then well acquainted with Ephram Fish, now of Huron County in the State of Ohio, that deponent knows said Fish was a commissioned officer in the Revolutionary Army; that he saw him while stationed at Ballston in the State of New York in the service, and he believes his commission was that of a Captain and that he was there engaged in the recruiting service, as well as doing other duty, in the year 1777; deponent does not know how long said Fish was in said service as such than officer but has reason to believe he was for more than Two years and that he was very zealous in the service of his country .
John Gunderson
 Sworn to, and subscribed this 4th day of July, 1834, before me and I certify that I am well acquainted with said deponent  and that he is a person of  truth and credibility 
Edward York Comm.
 Edward York Comr.of Deeds in and for said County of Chenango
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State of New York
Chenango County
I James K. Pike Clerk of said County do Certify that Edward York Esq before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn--And that his signature to the same is his genuine handwriting
Witness my hand and the seal of the said County this 23d July AD 1834
P D Pringle
Dep Clerk

Sec War Washington City
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J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Norwalk Ohio 27 April 1835
James L Edwards 
Commissioner &c
Sir
I have rec'd your Letter of the 13th instant relative to the increase of Ephraim Fish's pension, & enclosing a Letter to John K. Campbell dated 1 January last. In the Letter to Campbell you say "Before a final decision or action can be made in his Case, his Commission as a Lieutenant and his Petition to the Legislature of New York for Land in 1809 should be returned to this office"
A copy of your Letter to Campbell dated "War Department Pension office August 23d 1834 is as follows
"Sir
Your Letter of the 6. instant with an affidavit in support of the claim of Ephraim Fish for an increase of Pension, was received on the 13th instant--Since the reception of it, the Secretary of the State of New York has been written to respecting Mr Fish's service as a Lieutenant. A Letter was received to day, enclosing Mr Fishs Commission as a Lieutenant and his petition to the Legislature of New York made in 1809 for Land--He was commissioned on the 28 April 1881 and as it appears from his petition, was discharged early in the Winter following of the same year, being a Supernumary officer. "Before an increase of his pension can be made, the applicant should make an amended declaration, giving a specific Statement as to the length of his service as a Lieutenant. Upon an examination of his papers on file it would appear that he did not give so full and specific a Statement of his Militia services as a Private as the enclosed regulations require--Unless he therefor shall give such a statement showing clearly under which officers he served in each town--the duration of each of Engagement, and the particular place or places where the services were performed his Pension on account of said Services will be suspended
His Pension Certificate should be sent to this office when
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he conforms to the above agreements
I am respectfully
Your Ob't Serv't
J L Edwards
Mr Fish accordingly has made a particular & specific Statement as required in the directions underscored, & which has been forwarded to you, & undoubtedly rec'd at your office, & I presume is satisfactory, as you have never since made any objections to it.
Mr Fish is and old respectable man, remarkably active for his age of good memory & quick apprehension, & says to one that his idea of his being discharged early, in the ensuing winter after the date of his Commission of 28 April 1781, is altogether erroneous & (illegible), & it may have been inserted in his Petition for Land as a fact--Yet that circumstance happened as follows--He says he was about starting from his home for Albany to petition for his Land. A Lawyer and neighbor happened at the time to come into his house whose name I think was Carwell & who was ready at drafting, undertook to draw his Petition for the Land, & inserted in it of his being a Supernumary officer. Mr Fish then stated to him that was wrong & not so--The Draftsman replied, it was of no consequence, & therefore did not alter the Draft, because he said, it can make no difference, as the Petition was not for wages or bounty but for Land.
Mr Fish also Says; that his Son Benjamin Fish, who is not far from 50 years old, was present at the time of drawing the petition & also perfectly recollects, the conversation between his Father and the Lawyer who drew the Petition, and is now ready to give his Affidavit--if your Department under all circumstances shall think it important--but presumes that after all his other proof that it cannot be considered as essential.
It must be owing to accidentally passing over the part of the Files of your office why you now  require the Commission and Petition for Land to be forwarded to you before any action can be had. Mr Fish's application for it appears by your Letter to Mr Campbell of the 24 August 1834
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that you had then received both
I am very respectfully
Your Ob't Serv't
Lewis B Sturges
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Ephraim Fish
Ohio
Huron Co
from 1776 private
2 yrs $80.

Free
 L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Lewis B Sturges
Norwalk,
Ohio
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Norwalk 5 June 1833
J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I return to you Ephraim Fishs pension patent, corrected according to your last requirement (as I understand you);
Have secured Lambert Schaefers Certificate for his allowance of pension
Respectfully yours
Lewis B Sturges
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The Petition of Ephraim Fish
M Assembly
Jany21st 1809
Com of Claims
M Ostrom
Report in favor
Reported on and
a Clause to be added
to some proper Bill
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To the honorable the Legislature of the State of New York Convened at at [sic] the City of Albany in the year of our Lord 1809 [tilde]

The Petition of Ephraim Fish of Town of Cincinnatus in the County of Courtland [sic] Farm in -

Humbly [sh - -- th] 

That on the twenty Eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty one [1781] in pursuance of an act of the Legislature of this State [illegible] Entitled " an Act for [illegible] two Regiments for the defence [sic] of the State on Bounties of unappropriated Lands, your Petitioner was appointed a Lieutenant in one of the said Regiments and [illegible a-ly] commissioned as such  - that your Petition in obedience and pursuance of such commission proceeded [illegible] [ime---ately] thereafter to Enlist private Soldiers to fill a company in one of the said Regiments, and continued in such Service during the [illegible] summer and Fall of the [illegible] Year one thousand and seven hundred and Eighty
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one, But that in the fore part of the winter in the same year it appeared that the Enlistments for the said Regiments were not sufficient to fill the same and that the Suppernumerary [extra letter p is crossed out] officers thereof should be discharged from service

Accordingly your Petitioner was discharge [sic] from such Service as a Supernumerary officer -

Your Petitioner therefore begs Leave to state that inasmuch as the act aforesaid under which your Petitioner was appointed, made [illegible] [provision?] that a Lieutenant [illegible] [thircl k? ey thusley?] appointed should be entitled to a Bounty of two rights of Land as therein described, which by reference [illegible] will more fully appear - And your Petitioner having accepted a Commission and placed himself at the care and command of his country, who discharged him from such service  That in the Humble oppinion [sic] of your Petitioner he is Entitled to such two rights of Land [mark that looks like a tilde]
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your Petitioner therefore humble prays that the honorable Legislature may grant him such relief in the premises as to them shall appear Just and Equitable and your Petitioner shall ever pray on
Ephraim Fish
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Lyme O
Nov 30 Free
Sec 15
Ephraim Fish for increase
J. L. Edwards Esq--
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington D. C.
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Lyme Nov. 30th 1834
J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir: I inclose according to your request Ephraim Fishs papers concerning his services in the Revolutionary Army, together with his Certificate. Your Obt. Sevt. 
J. E. Campbell
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Pension Office
21 August 1834
Ephraim Fish
Ohio
Addl evidence
Sgnu?
August 11th
Secretary of War
Washington City
D.C.
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Lyme O. Aug 11th 1834
Dear Sir,
inclosed you have two affidavits for Ephraim Fish
Yours Respectfully
J K Campbell
P. M.
of Lyme Huron Co. Ohio
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Pension Office
15 August 1834
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Lyme O Aug 6th 1834
Sir
You have inclosed an affidavit from the Clerk of Chenango County State of New York Testifying to Ephraim Fish being and serving in the army of the Revolution as Captain. Yours Respectfully
J. K. Campbell P. M.
Lyme Huron Co. Ohio
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Lyme O
Aug. 6th
Secretary of War
Washington City
D. Columbia
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Ephraim Fish's
Pension papers
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State of Ohio Huron County Ss Norwalk
On this twentieth day of March AD 1833 personally appeared before me Timothy Baker one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County. Ephraim Fish a Resident of Lyme in said County; who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following supplemental declaration in addition to his former declaration made before the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio, held in said Norwalk on the 27th of July AD 1832 in order to obtain the benefit of the Provisions of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That as mentioned in his former declaration when he entered & served in the Militia in 1777 he served from the 5th of July 1777 to the 17th of October 1777 to the time when General Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga in the time from the time he served at Fort Edwards Van Kaicks Island & on their march to Saratoga and was at least four months at Saratoga. That after said Burgoyne surrendered he served in said Militia two years under Captain Nordworth, Captain Thompson in McCray's Regiment and he believes General TenBrook was the Brigadier General...being called out often for six weeks at a time, The Declarant living on the Frontier. That when the said Declarant entered into the three years service in 1782, as mentioned in his former Declaration, he received a Lieutenant Commission which he held and acted under until the time of the Peace, which was one year, during which time he served as such. That when the Militia of said State of New York was classed by order of Congress as mentioned in his former declaration he altho he was then serving in said three years service voluntarily agreed & did have
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John Hawes to serve in one of the Casses as his the said Fishs substitute for nine months & he said Hawes did accordingly serve for nine months which are exclusive of the Services aformentioned performed by the Declarant. That he at all times he enlisted into the Services upon his Services at the different times mentioned. The Declarant says that John K Campbell and Obadiah Jenny are living in his Neighborhood and are well acquainted with him and can testify to his reputation of having been a revolutionary Soldier, and his reputation as a man of truth & veracity. And the said Declarant, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades
For one year I served as a Lieutenant and for one year and six months I served as a private Soldier and for such services I claim a Pension
Ephraim Fish
sworn & subscribed to before me the day and year aforementioned
Timothy Baker
Judge of Huron Com Pleas
State of Ohio Huron County ss Norwalk 20 March 1833
We John K Campbell and Obadiah Jenney certify that we the undersigned are the neighbors of Ephraim Fish the above named & well acquainted with him, that it is his general reputation that he was a Revolutionary Soldier & that his reputation as to truth & veracity is good.
J.K. Campbell
O. Jenney 
Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforementioned, and I also certify that the above named John K Campbell and Obadiah Jenney are credible persons
Timothy Baker
Judge of Huron Com Pleas
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David Gibbs Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Huron in the State of Ohio do certify that the Honorable Timothy Baker is an Associate Judge of the Court of Common pleas and his signatures on the foregoing pages of this Sheet purporting are genuine.
 In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office in Norwalk in said County this 20 March AD 1833 11 D.
D. Gibbs Clerk H.C.P.
 State of Ohio Huron County So. Norwalk the On this 5th day of June 1833 I Timothy Baker one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas for said County do certify and declares that I was made  acquainted with John Fish of Ridgfield in said County that he is a credible person & a man of undoubted truth & veracity and that he is the same John Fish who on the 27th of July 1832 swore to an affidavit which is annexed to the foregoing papers before the Supreme Court on the 27th of July 1832 
Then sitting in said Norwalk within & for said State of Ohio and I also certify that Daniel Tilden & the Man Joshua Philips are persons of credibility- as also are J. K. CampbellI  & Obadiah Jenney 
Timothy Baker --- Judge of the Com Pleas
I  D. Gibbs Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of for in the State of Ohio do certify that Timothy Baker Esq is an Associate Judge of the Court of Common pleas. & that his signature last & above mentioned purporting to be his is genuine 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office in Norwalk in said County this 5th day of June AD 1833
 D. Gibbs Clerk C.C.P.
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State of Ohio Seneca County 
Ss⎬ Personally appeared before me Zimri F Butler a justice of the peace in said County, and State aforesaid Martha Meed of Adams Township, who being duly sworn saith that she was acquainted with Ephraim Fish before and during the Revolutionary War, that he now resides in the township of Lyme, Huron Co,Ohio; that she knows he held a commission (as the has saith) in the New York State Troops, in the time of the Revolutionary war that it was as a Lieutenant commission, that she will recollects his going into the service, and his returning, that it was in the spring of 1782 when he entered that he left the service in the Spring of Seventeen Hundred and eighty three that the name of the captain under whom he served was Jobe Wright that they both resided in what was then called Albany County in the State of New York. The witness further saith the his Colonels name was Marinus Willett, and that she is now in the seventy-first year of his age 
Martha her mark Meed 
Sworn and subscribed before me this fourteenth of July A.D. 1834 
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above mentioned witness, and believe his to be a person of truth and veracity 
Zimri F Butler 
Justice of the Peace
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 The State of Ohio Seneca County for
I  Luther A Hall Clerk Protem of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that Zimri F.  Butter, before whom the within affidavit appears to have been taken, and whose name is thereunto subscribed as such was at the time of subscribing the same, and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that full  faith and credit are due to all his  official acts as such.
In testimony whereof of I the Clerk aforesaid, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at office in said County this 14th day  of July 1834
  Luther A. Hall Clerk Protem
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Abigail Williams being duly sworn deposeth and Saith that Ephraim Fish is a Brother of mine and that know him to be the identical person who enlisted three years in the New York State troops in the revolutionary war and Served about fourteen months, and then was discharged, it being at the close of the war. and further swith the above service was under a Lieutenants commission as this deponent believes and thinks she has seen his Commission and read it, and has heard it read a great many times. 
Sworn and subscribed this  28th day of April 1834 bore me John Sample justice of the peace 
Abigail Williams
I hereby certify that I am acquainted with Abigail Williams and believe her to be a person of truth and veracity John Sample justice State of New York 
Cattaraugus County 
I John W. Staunton Clerk of the said County do certify that John Sample Esquire is a Justice of the peace in and for the said County duly elected and qualified and further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his signature subscribed to the preceding affidavit & certificate is his proper hand writing and signature 
Witness my hand and seal of Office this first day of May A.D. 1834 John W. Staunton, clk
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19880
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Monroeville, Ono, Nov. 6th 1902 
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C. Dear Sir 
I wish to become one "Daughters of the Revolution"
 My great grand Father, Ephraim Fish lived and died at Huron Co Ohio and drew his last pension at Norwalk the County seat of Huron Co. which must have been the last of September or first of October 1838, as he died October 7th 1838 
We do not know what Regiment or what state he enlisted from, but think  N. Y. State, 
Any information you can give me on the above will be gratefully received
 Reply address.
 Mrs Mattie Fish Tiffany
The Hattersley
 Toledo, Ohio
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B.M.
Department of the Interior?
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D. C.
June 29 1904

 
Mrs. Mattie F. Tiffany, 
"The Hattersley"
Toledo, Ohio. J
Madam:
In response to your attached communication, you are advised that if you will return same to this Bureau with an endorsement , stating the service of Ephraim Fish, the pensioner mentioned, and the number of his certificate, and also stating your reasons for desiring a certified copy of any papers on file in same, and the uses to which it is intended to apply same, you will be further advised in the premises. Very respectfully
, B. F. Ware
Commissioner
July 26 1904 Files
[Post Mark]
U.S. Pension Office A
Jul 19 1904
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Toledo Ohio
 June 4th 04 
E. T. Ware of Commissioner of Pensions
 Washington D. C.
Dear Sir.
Please send me certified Copy of Ephraim Fish pension certificate.
 Very respectfully 
 Mrs Matter F. Tiffany 
Toledo O
"The Hattersley"
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Rev Sec Waterloo, Iowa
 Aug- 4-1916
Countioner Bureau of Pensions
 Washington D.C. 
Dear Mr. Ware. I have applied for membership the D A.R. and would you kindly send me the necessary data for such a Membership along the following line
Ephraim Fish a solder of the Revolutionary War He enlisted at Albany Co. N.Y. applied for pension July 24, 1882
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Residence at date of application
Lynne Ohio
Age at date of application
Born, Duchess Co. N. Y.
March 16, 1760
Thanking you
I am 
Sincerely
Florence Drake Tayler
(Mrs R G Tayler)
517 Vermont Blv
[Postal Stamp]
U.S. Pension Office
Aug 7 1916
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Toledo Ohio July 16-’04
E. J. Ware
Commissioner
Washington D.C. [circular stamp on reverse bleeds through RECEIVED LAW DIVISION JUL 22]

Dear Sir -
In reply to yours of June 29th 1904, will say that Ephraim Fish was a soldier of the Revolutionary War. Enlisted from State of New York, made application for pension July 27 1832 [dash precedes 1832] from Lyme Ohio. A
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certified copy of this [underlined] pension certificate is what I wish; the no. of which I do not know. My reason for desiring this copy is for the purpose of joining the Daughters of the Revolution and which they request me to have.
Very Respectfully
Mrs. Mattie F. Tiffany
Toledo, Ohio
The Hattersley
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[handwritten letter]
555 So. Flower St
Los Angeles, Calif
September 16, 1933

Veteran’s Administration
Washington,  D. C.
Gentlemen:-
Please furnish an extract of the names, relationships, localities, and dates, of the following Revolutionary soldiers, as recorded on their pension applications and supporting papers.
1. [superscript check mark] Caleb [check mark above Caleb]Fish, [Fish is underlined] [“only one” written above Fish] living at Saratoga Springs, Saratoga Co., NY., in 1840
2. [check mark]Pardon [check mark above Pardon]Fish, living at Springville, Susquehanna Co., Pa., in 1840
3. [superscript check mark]Ephraim [check mark above Ephraim]Fish, living at Lyme, Ohio or Monroeville, Ohio in 1832
I am principally interested in the relationships from a family history viewpoint, so would appreciate all courtesies.
Yours very truly
[signature]

M. E. Tracy [underline Tracy]
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[correspondence]
ISC
I.3357 :Rev.War.
August 5, 1904
Madam:
In reply to your request, you are advised that this Bureau is not in possession of the certificate upon which Ephraim Fish
drew pension up to the time of his death, and that it is not the practice of this Bureau to furnish copies of the papers on file.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner

Mrs. Mattie F. Tiffany,
"The Hattersley,” Toledo, Ohio.
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September 30, 1933. XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
 BA-J/ADY. 
Mr. M. E. Tracy 
555 South Flower Street 
Los Angeles, California 
Dear Sir
 Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Caleb Fish, Pardon Fish and Ephraim Fish, Revolutionary War pensioners. Their records are furnished you herewith on separate pages, as found in the respective claims for pension based upon service in the Revolutionary War. 

Very truly yours, A. D. HILLER 
Assistant to Administrator.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION
3-525
 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS. 
Washington, D. C. 19
S. F. 3357
 In reply to your request of--- received--- for a statement of the military history of Ephraim Fish a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 
| DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. Oct. 1,, 1776 ,July 5, 1777, Aug. 1, 1778 ,1779 May 1780, Feb 1780, Apr. 28, 1781 | 
| LENGTH OF SERVICE.|
1 or 2 mos. 3 or 4 mos. 3 mos. 2 mos. 2 mos.  1 1/2 mos. 14 mos.
|RANK. |
Pvt. Pvt. Lieut. 
| OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.|
 CAPTAIN.              Colonel
 Peter Van Wart     John McCrea
 Peter Van Wort     John McCrea
in Garrison under Major Ashley or Ashford 
Woodworth at Ft Edwards
in expedition to Lake George 
Thompson 
Job Wright  {McKinstry Marinus Willett}
STATE. NY 
 Battles engaged in, Surrender of Burgoyne Residence of soldier at enlistment, Saratoga, N. Y. 
Date of application for pension, July 27.1832 His cl was al 
Residence at date of application, Lyme Huron Co. Ohio 
Age at date of application Mar 16, 1760 in America Precinct, Dutchess Co. N.Y
 Remarks: Ed. Oct. 7. 1838 
His parents moved to Albany Co. N.Y. 26 miles north of Albany in 1772 lived these many years after the Rev. He left no widow but "6 or 7 children, are referred to  John,("& minors of discharged children") Benjamin (1835 nearly 50 years old) and Ephraim are the only names of children stated. Soldier at one time was a member of the Legislature of New York Respectfully, 5-2856 
Soldier's sister Abigail Williams 
Commissioner.