Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1804, Ezekiel Barnard, Mass.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Mass
CONTENTS
Barnard Ezekiel
Mary
NUMBER
W. 1804
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330
Maine
Mary Barnard
widow of Ezekiel Barnard
who served in the Revolutionary war
, as a Private
Mass Line
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
23 Dollars 33 cents
per annum, to commence on
4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the
and sent to
day of Sept 1849
Miss Adaline Barnard
Warren
Lincoln Co
Maine

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act of Feby  29 1848, Page 23 Vol. 1
July
D
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress
of the 29th of July 1848
State of Maine
County of Lincoln Ss ⎬
On this sixteenth day of May 1849 personally appeared in the Court of Probate within and for the County
of Lincoln aforesaid the same being a Court of Record and held by me Arnold Blancy the Judge of said Court.
Mary Barnard sometimes called Polly Barnard a
resident of Waldoborough in said County of Lincoln aged
seventy eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declarration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions
made by an act of Congress passed the 29th of July 1848 in
titled "an act for the relief of certain surviving widows of
officers and soldier in the Revolutionary army. that she
is the widow of Ezekiel Barnard late of said Waldoborough deceased, that Ezekiel Barnard her late husband
 was a private soldier in the militia in the war
of the Revolution and according to her best knowledge &
belief when he entered the service he resided in the town of
Amesbury County of Essex Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that his grade and length of service is
clearly proved by the record and documentary we evidence from the Secretarys office Commonwealth of Masssachusetts herewith enclosed and to which she hereby
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refers amounting in the whole to seven months, but
she is not certain whether the above mentioned services
were performed in the Militia or Continental Army
she further declares that she was married to
the said Ezekiel Barnard on the first day of
March seventeen hundred and ninety five, that
her husband the aforesaid Ezekiel Barnard died
at Waldoborough aforesaid in the year eighteen
hundred and sixteen, he never was a pensioner
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving
the service but the marriage took place previous
to the second day of January eighteen hundred
to wit, at the time above stated. she further swears
that she is now a widow and that she has never
before made any application for a pension. Mary Burnard

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and
year above written before before
Arnold Blaney
Judge of the Court of Probate
within and for the County of
Lincoln, State of Maine
I certify that Mary Barnard above named
signed & made oath to the foregoing in my
presence in open Court this 16th day of May AD 1849
Edwin S. Hovey Register
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Edwin S. Hovey Register of the Court of Probate within
and for the County of Green State of Maine, hereby
certify that the Hon Arnold Blancy is the Judge of
said Court and that the same is a Court of Records
that the signature annexed is his genuine signature
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed
my name and affixed the seal of the said Court
of Probate this 16th day of May AD 1847
Edwin S. Hovey
Register of the of
Probate for the County
of Green in the state Maine
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382.
Mary Barnard
widow of Ezekiel

act 29 July 1848
Married 1790

admr of 7 Mo
at $23.33

4 March 1848


Miss Adaline Barnard
Warren
Lincoln Co. Maine
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Extract from the records of the town of
Haverhill, County of Essex and Commonwealth
of Massachusetts,
Married March
the first, one thousand
seven hundred and
ninety five
Ezekiel Barnard of Amesbury
Polly Bradley of Haverhill
I hereby certify that the above record is a
true copy, with the exception of the date,
which is expressed on the record in fair,
legible figures, as follows,
Married March the 1st 1795.
Attest,
A. B. Jaques, Town Clerk.
Haverhill April 28th 1849.
Addison B. Jaques, above named, depose
and say, that I hold the office of Clerk,
in the town of Haverhill, County 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,
Addison B. Jaques, Clerk
of the town of Haverhill
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex J. Haverhill April 18th 1849. Personally appeared
the within named Addison B. Jaques to me well known as Clerk
said Town of Haverhill, and made oath in due form of Law
to the truth of the within Deposition by him subscribed in my
Presence
before me Charles White Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston April 30th 1847
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the
annexed attestation Charles White was
Justice of the Peace for the County
of Essex,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted:
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
W B Calhoun
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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I John Barnard of Thomaston in the County of Lincoln State of Maine
Carpenter, on oath depose and make the following statement.
I was born in Amesbury Essex County Massachusetts on the 12 day
March in the you D. 1743
I recollect being at my Grandfather Thos
Barned in said Amesbury sometime during the revolutionary war
where I saw my uncle Ezekiel Barnard & my oldest brother Daniel, both
of whom had enlisted and were about to go to the war. I  Recollet
hearing my Grandfather say he had six sons, and had sent five of them
to the war my father the eldest was employed at that time in
building boats on Lake Champlain as I have been informed
do not recollect hearing any one say to what place my Uncle Ezekiel was going. nor
recollect when he returned, cannot say how long he was absent: heard him say what to was he passed through on his return
which were Brookfield, & I think Springfield in Mass.
I further on oath declare that I was ⌨ ⌨ of ship Carpenter an apprentice to the said Ezell Barnard as a ship Carpenter and
came with him to Waldoborough in the County of Lincoln State of Maine
when he died Feb. eighteen hundred & sixteen, I am well acquainted with
Mrs. Mary Barnard (formerly called Polly) The widow of the said Ezekiel Barnard
The widow, who had petition for a pension, and I know that she is now
living in said town of Waldobrough, and that she is still a widow and has
never been married since her said husbands death and that she is the identical
widow, who is applying for a pension. The name before she was married
was Polly Bradley
John Barnard
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County Personally appeared the within named John Barnard before
me, John Barnard, one of the Justices of
the Peace within & for the County of Lincoln
aforesaid, and after being duly cautioned
and sworn, made solemn oath to the truth
of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed
in my presence, and I further certify that the
within named deponent is a person of
good credit and reputation in whose testimony
confidence may be placed-
John Barnard Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine
Lincoln, ss:

I Edmund B Bowman, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said
County, certify that John D. Barnard
is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, as appears
by the papers hereunto annexed; that he is duly qualified to act as such; that his
Commission is dated March 27
the
1845, and will expire
March 27
1852, and that the above signature, purporting
to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the SUPREME JUDICIAL
Court for said State, this twenty second day of May
Anno Domini 1849
Edmund B. Bowman Clerk
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Rev. War
WIDOW, &c.
 File No. 1804
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Mary Barnard
Widow
Ezekiel Barnard
Pri. Rev. War
Act: July 29, 1848
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 29
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Washington
Comissioner of Pensions
Hon. J. L. Edwards
of
Warren M. May 23, 1849.
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir
I herewith send you
these papers asking for a pension
for my Mother
Please to direct
your answer to Miss Adeline
Barnard Warren Lincoln
Co. State of Maine and
you will oblige, yours,
very respectfully
Adeline Barnard
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston.
April 5th 1847
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 Ezekiel Barnard is borne
upon a Pay Roll of Capt Richard Titcombs Regt
in last Nathaniel Wades Reg from the County
of Essex as private from July to to October 10
1780 including allowance of 13 days to return
home 3 months and 18 days
upon a Pay Roll of Capt Joshua Bench's
Company on St Col Enoch Putnams Regt.
from the County of Essex, as a private of Amesbury
for September 9 to December 1781 including
allowance of 13 days to return home, 3 months and 12 days

preceding is all the evidence 
of service of any one of the name shown by
the military records in this Office
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence
of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this
Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the
search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said
application, 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
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APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES
made by the Widow
of the party who rendered the service.
County of Lincoln
State of Maine
Town of the Waldobourgh
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish
evidence from the Rolls in his office of the service of E Barnard
in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of
Amesbury
in the County
of
Essex
and State of
Maine
He enlisted from the Town of
Amesbury
in the County of
Essex
and State of Maine
1780.
in the year
as a private
in the Company commanded by Captain
in
Regiment
and he served as follows, *viz:--
I believe he served six month,
Here describe as fully as may be, the length of service, the rank, &c. of the claimant, or the capacity in which he
served, and all other particulars known.
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the widen; I am now 75 years old, and my memory does not enable me to state
the services more fully than above stated.
A. D. 1849.
WITNESS my hand, this twenty ninth day of April
By Attorney for the widow
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Adeline Barnard
Signed by said Adeline Barnard
in my presence, William Fisk
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.