Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7860, for Ebenezer Inglee, Massachusetts
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State of Maine
County of Washington Ss.

On this twelfth day of July A D one thousand
eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared
before me William A. Crocker a Justice of the
Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid
Elizabeth Otis Inglee, aged Seventy five years, a
resident of Machias in the same County and
State, who being sworn according to Law, on oath declares that she is the widow of Ebenezer Inglee deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner under the act of the Congress of the United States;
that said Ingles was such a pensioner up to the
time of his decease - that her name before she
was married to said Ingle was Elizabeth Otis
Smith;- that the proof & date of her marriage
with said Inglee is connected with the papers
relating to her application for pension on widow
of said Ingles- upon which a pension was granted her on the 13th Oct. 1853, by Widows Pension Certificate 2426; that she is still unmarried; that she is the identical Elizabeth Otis
Inglee, widow as aforesaid, and that the hereby
refers to & make a part of her present statement
& declaration, the several papers and statements connected with & which make a
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State of Maine
County of Washington Ss.

On this fourth day of December 1832, personally appeared before the Probate Court held at Machias in & for said County, by Hon. John Dickinson, Judge of Probate, 
Ebenezer Inglee, Esquire, a resident of Machias
aforesaid, aged sixty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted on the first day of July, 1779
as a private in Capt. Edward Sparrows company, in Col. Nathan Tyler's Regiment, in the service of Massachusetts in the war of the Revolution, & served from the time of his enlistment till he was discharged on
the first day of January 1780:
That he also about the 24th day of June 1780, enlisted as a [[recruit]] for the Continental army, for six months and on the distribution of the recruits he was placed in Col. James Weston's Company in Col. James Weston's Regiment (each field officer then having a particular Company commanded by a [[subofficer]]) & served therein in the continental army, until he was discharged, on January
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second 1781. six months & nine days: That at the time of his enlistment he resided at Halifax in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and on his first enlistment aforesaid he was marched to Providence,  thence in the autumn to Bristol, & thence to Newport where he was stationed till discharged. 
That on his second enlistment he was ordered to Springfield with other recruits to report
himself where an officer took command & marched them to West Point, there they were distributed among the regiments & he was
placed in the company of Col. Weston as before stated, command [[ ]] most of the time by one Lieut. Welsh if he recollects right;
Soon after joining the Regiment he was detached to King's ferry, [[encampted]] there about a month, [[guarding]] the ferry then marched to join his Regiment & [[ ]] in different places in [[New Jersey]] till about November where they returned to [[ ]] quarters at West Point where he was discharged. In the winter he was deployed for a [[forage & such]]. 

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll.
He further states that the only documentary evidence he has of his services, is the annexed certificate of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts.
Eb.


Sworn to the day & year aforesaid & subscribed
Eben Inglee

And the said Court doth hereby declare its opinion that Ebenezer Ingle Esquire above named was a revolutionary soldier & served as he has above stated.
John Dickinson Judge
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I, Hannah Smith of Machias, in the
County of Washington and State of Maine, do depose and say that I am well acquainted with
Mrs Elizabeth Otis Inglee, the widow of the late
Ebenezer Ingle of said Machias; 
that she was a sister to my late husband, William E. Smith, her maiden name being Elizabeth Otis Smith; that I knew her and her late husband before their marriage; that I was present at the marriage and have a distinct recollection of the same, the I am unable to state with certainly who solemnized it, but I think it was the Rev. Marshfield Steele, that said marriage took place about fifty years age, this I cannot state the day of the year; 
that I have always resided in Machias and was acquainted with said Ebenezer Inglee up to the time of his decease,
Hannah Smith


State of Maine,
Washington County, Ss:
I hereby certify that on this nineteenth day of April, in the year of in Lord One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Fifty three, personally appeared before me, the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, 
Hannah Smith of Machias, in
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I, William Inglee of Machias, in
the County of Washington and State of Maine, on on oath testify and say that I am the son of Widow Elizabeth Otis Inglee of said Machias and the late Ebenezer Inglee, deceased, who was a resident of this town; 
that my age is forty seven, that the record of the marriage of my father and mother and of the births and deaths of their children attached to the declaration of said Elizabeth Otis Inglee, and marked "A E. O. Inglee", was detached by me from my father's family Bible a few days ago; that said record is throughout in the hand writing of my late father, said Ebenezer; that I remember said record from my earliest years.
I further depose and say that my late father died October 29. A.D. 1851, at said Machias, and that my said mother has since remained unmarried.
Wm Inglee

State of Maine
Washington County Ss:
I hereby certify that in this nineteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Fifty Three, personally appeared before me the undersigned,
a Justice of the Peace in and for said County,
William Inglee of Machias in said County,