Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41291, Elisha Ward, Mass.
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Ward, Elisha
Service Mass
Number S41291

Contents
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Declaration of Elisha Ward
No. 62 soldier
77
Jackson's Masstts. Regt.

This case will be admitted when the claimant shall return to this office his certificate of Pension as an Invalid
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District of Vermont, Windsor County ss
At Chester in sd. County of Windsor, on the 13th day of April 1818 Before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the County Court for the County of Windsor, Personally appeared Elisha Ward aged sixty two years, Resident in Chester in sd. County of Windsor who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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" that he the said Elisha Ward, enlisted in Leicester in the State of Massachusetts in the month of January 1777 in the Company commanded by Capt. Benjamin Brown in the Regiment commanded by Col. Michael Jackson, of the Massachusetts line, and that he continued to serve in sd. corps, or in the service of the United States untill the Battle at Bemis Hights and that he was wounded while in actual service of the United States in the aforesaid Battle by having his left leg broken by reason of which he was by act of Congress of the 17th of July 1785 placed on the Pension list of the United States & has ever since received sd. Pension and that he said Elisha Ward does hereby (illegible) & absolutely relinquish all further
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claim to his sd. former Pension for in consideration of his being placed on the list of Pensioners agreeably to the late act of Congress as aforesaid. that after receiving the wound as aforesaid he was removed to the Hospital at Albany when his wound was so far healed as to enable him to return to his Regiment, he obtained license of Colonel Jackson to return home, being unable to perform duty as a soldier. And that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support ad that he has no other evidence now in his power of his sd. services.
Sworn to& declared before me the day & year aforesaid
Amos Heald, Assistant Judge of 
Windsor 
County Court
I Amos Heald Assistant Judge of Windsor County Court as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Elisha Ward did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and I hereby transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had therein, before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress.
Dated at Chester in sd. County the 13th day of April 1818.
Certify by Amos Heald, Assistant Judge
of Windsor County Court
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State of Vermont
Windsor County ss
Woodstock County Clerk's Office
June 11th AD. 1818

I Benjamin Swan Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Windsor do hereby certify that Amos Heald is one of the assistant Judges of said County Court and that the foregoing signatures are in the hand writing of the said Judge 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Court the day above.
Benj. Swan
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41 291
Revy INVALID

File No. 41,291
Elisha Ward
Pri Rev War

Act 18 March '18
Index: Vol. D, Page 535

[Arrangement of 1870]
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15,705
Vermont
Elisha Ward
of Chester in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel M. Jackson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of during war 1777
Inscribed on the roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month to commence on the 13th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th of Nov. 1819
and sent to Amos Heald Esq. Chester Vt.

Arrears to 4th Sept 1819    $133.86
Semi-anl. all'ce ending March 4 1820   48.00
arr. by 4-22/30   $181.86
Cont.

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March 1818}'

arr'd as Rev Pensr. $133.86
amt. paid as Invalid Penr. from 13 Apr. 1818 to 4 Sept. 1819 1 year 4 mo 22/30 at $5.33 per month  $89.2?(paper torn)
Cet. Invd. & Rev pension  $44.6? (paper torn)
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Free

Honbl. John C. Calhoun Secretary
at War
City of Washington
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18
4
22 /30

5.33 1/3
22
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1066
1066
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30/11726  3.90
90
272
70   

64.00
21.33
3.91
_____
89.24

5.33 1/3
4
21.33 1/3

96
32
5.86
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133.86
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Chester Nov 1 1819

Dear Sir,
After delaying a long time in order to give time for Mr. Ward to find his original certificate which  he is not able to effect, I again transmit his application; with it enclosing a copy from which I have myself written his power of atty-to draw his money for twenty years past, & I am confident he never has shown me any other; & he now states he has had no other in his possession, that period, having entrusted it with some person, & intirely lost it.--he has made all diligent search for it, but cannot find it--he has drawn 64 dollars per year up to the 4th Sept. last.
His circumstances are reduced his disability daily increasing & his present pension insufficient to support him, & should he not obtain in the present mode he will undoubtedly apply for an increase to a full pension & you will therefore have the goodness to inspect his papers, & if consistant with your duty, & the laws of the Union, send his certificate to me as soon as convenient. Due attention to his case will confer a favor on him, who is realy in need of it & much oblige your Hum. servt.
Amos Heald

N. B. His name is on the pension list Roll of Massachusetts agency & wishes to have it transferred to that of Vermont. All communications have been duly received.
A. Heald
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Elisha Ward
15,705
March 1820
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State of Vermont
Windsor County ss.

At the term of the Supreme Court of Judicature, begun and holden at Woodstock in the County of Windsor, on the last Monday in August Anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty.
On this thirty first day of August 1820, being the Fourth day of said term, personally appeared in open Court, (the same Court being a Court of record agreeably to the laws of this State, having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c.) Elisha Ward aged sixty four years, resident in Chester in said County of Windsor, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: as a private soldier enlisted in the Month of January 1777 during the war, entered the service at the ame time in Capt. Benjamin Brown's Company in Col. Michael Jackson Regiment Massachusetts line and marched to Albany State of New York, and was stationed at Fort Stanwix, afterwards marched to several places and stationed at Bemis Heights where in the Battle at that place was wounded while in actual service of the United States, having his left leg broken for which he was afterward placed on the pension list by Act of Congress and has since received a Pension. After receiving said wound he was removed to the Hospital at Albany and after his wound was healed so far as to enable him to return to his regiment obtained License of col. Jackson to return home, being unable to perform duly as a soldier.
That he made his original declaration on the Thirteenth day of April 1818, has received a Pension Certificate 15705 And I do solemnly swear that I was a residence citizen of the United State on the 18th day of March, 1818' and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with 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 18th day of March, 1818; 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 that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, to wit:
1 plough.60, 1 rake .20, 2 pitchforks .40.....1.20
2 chains 1.08 1 shovel .40 1 hoe .10 
1 iron bar 1.26 steel yard .50 axes 1.............4.34
shave .20 saw .17 augur .25 scythe & 
(illegible) .50 sickle .10 yoke 1 
hon. pot .40.......................................................... 2.62
kettle .75, crane & hook 1.67, flat iron ,25
shovel & tongs .37 file .12..............................2.12
knives & forks .67, plates .42, cups &
saucers 8, mil pans .20...................................1.47
1 pair cards ,50 salt morter .6 pudding
pot 6, 2 bottles .20 shears 8......................... .90
hammer 10,pincers 10 mugg 10 candle
stick 4 2 pails .42...............................................,76
half bushel 17 chain .50, seive .25 
meal barrel .25, basket .25..........................1.42
barrel .50, chest .30, 5 chairs .83 
table 50 whetstone 6....................................2.19
1 cow 12. 2 piggs 1.33  2 1/2 tons 
hay 20. 1 1/2 bushel peas 1,
old pewter .60.............................................34.93
$51.95
And that he now owes & is indebted to Otis Gould $35.--To James Robinson 45.00 To Heald & Howell 39.--to Amos Heald $20 and sundry other sums amounting in the whole to the sum of $139.--
That he is lame and out of health and for the greatest part of the time unable to labour by profession a former. has no family
Elisha Ward
Sworn to and declared on the Thirty first day of August 1820 before said Court.
Attest, Benj. Swan Clerk

State of Vermont
Windsor County ss.
I Benj. Swan Clerk of the Supreme Court for the county of Windsor, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said 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 is Nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Woodstock, this sixteenth day of September 1820.
Benj. Swan
Clerk of the Supreme Court for Windsor County
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This may certify that Elisha Ward came before me, one of the Justices of the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont (Suffolk County, Mass.--crossed out) and made Oath that he is the same Elisha Ward to whom the original Certificate in his Possession was give, of which the following is a copy:
"This certified,, That Elisha Ward Soldier and In habitant of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who belonged to the Massachusetts  Regiment commanded by Col. Mich. Jackson and in the Service of the United States of America, aged twenty eight, as appears by Certificates lodged in the Pension Office-having been examined by me, is found to be disabled in said Service by having his left leg broken.
And I do hereby certify that he is entitled to receive twenty shilling per Month, commencing March 17, 1786, agreeable to a Resolution of Congress of the 17th June 1785, and to an Act of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the 17th March, 1786 and that sd. Ward is now found fit for guard or garrison duty.
Given under my Hand at Boston, this Eleventh Day of November, in the year of our Lord 1786 and in the Eleventh Year of Independence of the United States of America"
John Luker Commissary.
That he served in the Massachusetts Regiment at the time he was disabled, and that he now resides in the Town of Chester and County of Windsor and has resided there the last three years previous in which he resided in the Town of Paxton in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Chester ss March 11 1794
Daniel Heald Justice Peace

I Elisha Ward of Chester in the County of Windsor State of Vermont do hereby constitute and appoint Joseph Bonsan of Newbraintree in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, my lawful Attorney, with Power of Substitution, irrevocably, to demand in my Name, and receive in my Behalf, and for his Use, the whole of my Pension for Six Months from the fourth day of Sept. 1793 and ending the fourth day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety four due me as an Ivalid Pensioner of the United States of America.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal, this Eleventh day of March (smudged) in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety four.
Elisha Ward
Signed and sealed in Presence of
Daniel Heald
(illegible)