Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,135, Ebenezer Collins, Mass.
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Mass. Collins, Ebenezer. s. 42,135
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Ohio 2948,Ohio
-Ohio Pitt
-Ebenezer Collin’s
Capt Alden private
Massachusetts (?)
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of Sept. 1818 and forwarded to Sam B Beach Esq.
Oswego, New York
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Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818               $39.46
Semi-anl. all’ce ending 4 mos 1819.    48.00
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                                                              $ 87.46
Arrs 4 mos 28ds.
{Revolutionary claim,
 Act 18th March, 1818.}

   2 years 1781 Sprout
Hannibal, Oswego    Co
file Mch '79
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Left:
The signature of Judge must be attested by the Seal of the Court

Right:
NYK
Ebenezer Collins Pr.
7th April
Peter D. Hugunin Esq. Oswego
Oswego County

Written vertically:
Correct

Written upside down:
Not on roll
Additional affidavit of 2 credible witnesses needed as required  B. Brach
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State of New York
Oswego County }
Ebenezer Collings of the Town of Hannibal, County and State aforesaid, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that in the month of March in year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one, this deponent enlisted, for the term of three years, as a soldier in the army of the United States, on the continental establishment, in the Massachusetts Line, second Regiment, colonel Ebenezer sprout Commander, and was attached to the second Company of said Regiment commanded by Captain Judah Alden, and that he this deponent continued to do duty in the service aforesaid, in the line, Regiment & Company aforesaid from that time until the month of December in the year on thousand seven hundred and eighty three when he the said deponent was honorably discharged from the said service at West Point in the state of New York, in consequence of the disbanding of the Army.
And this deponent further saith that he is a resident citizen of the United States, ad that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support.- And further this deponent saith not,
Ebenezer Collins (signature)

State of New York, Oswego County}
I Peter D. Hugunin, one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid so respectfully certify to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States, that on the seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Ebenezer Collins to me personally known, appeared before me, and having first subscribed the same in my presence duly made oath that the preceding affidavit and the matters therein contained, are just and true. - And I do further certify that notwithstanding the said deponent produced before
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me at the time aforesaid no documentary evidence in support f his said affidavit, having or he states parted with his discharge to the parson to whom he sold his "final settlement certificates", still I have the fullest confidence that he performed the services as stated in his affidavit and that he is in other respects entitled to the relief provided in and by the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the lane and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" Oswego 7th April 1818
Peter D. Hugunin
Judge Oswego Cou. Pleas

State of New York, Oswego County}

I Joseph Davis, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County, do hereby certify that Peter D. Hugunin, whose name, in his own proper handwriting is subscribed to the preceding certificate; now is and on the seventh day of April last was one of the Judges of the said Court; and that full faith and credence are due to his acts in that capacity.
In witness whereof I have her unto prefixed the seal of the said Court, the 27th day of May 1818. Joseph Davis, clk.
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I Ebenezer Collins of the Town of Hannibal, County of Oswego and State of New York, do hereby fully, freely and absolutely relinquish all and every claim or claims against the United States to any pension or pensions allowed by any law or laws of the United States which was or were created prior to the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand and seal at Oswego the seventh day of April in the year of our Lod one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Signed & Sealed in presence of Peter D. Hugunin

Ebenezer Collins (signature)
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2948
E. Collins
PEnsion Papers
Ebenezer Oswego 
[illegible] Mar 19
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State of New York
Oswego County}
On this seventh day of June in the year one thousand and eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open court, in the Court of Common Pleas being a court of Record in and for said County, instituted and established as such by a public statute of the State of New York- Ebenezer Collins age fifty eight years resident in the town of Oswego in the County and state aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on hs oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war in Captain Judah Alden's company in the second Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Sprout at the time he was discharged that his first declaration or application to the war department of the United States for a pension under the act passed the eighteenth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen was dated the sixth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen in consequence of which application a Pension certificate was opened in his favor numbered two thousand nine hundred and forty eight. And I do solemnly sweat that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.  And that I have not since that time by gift sale 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 Sates n the Revolutionary War passed on the Eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen.  And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed.  Real estate I have now, personal property as follows, to wit: one cow, one old horse, one saddle & Bridle, a set of one horse harness poor and old, one scythe, one axe, two sickles, one five pail kettle, two small Iron pots
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both cracked, one frying pan, two chairs two chests an bake kettle four cups and saucers six earthen plates one table six knives and forks four table spoons one earthen platter one large spinning wheel one small one, one hoe, one churn, one pig, three trays four foot of a Log. chain. Ebenezer Collins (signature)

And this acclaimant (sic) upon his oath aforesaid further states that he is by occupation a farmer, but from being severely affected with the rheumatism down but little work- and this declarant further states upon his oath aforesaid that the number of his family and ability to support him is as follows: first his wife Anna aged fifty four years who in infirm bed ridden and not able to work. Second two daughter one aged seventeen the other fifteen these  two fatherless grandchildren are aged Eight the other eleven years, both of whom have been supported by this declarant for six years past and are now supported by him.  And this declariant  (sic) upon his oath aforesaid further says that he is indebted to various persons but chiefly to the firm of Crock & Branson in the sum of about fifty dollars. Ebenezer Collins (signature)
Sworn to & Subscribed in open this 1st day of June 1820
James Bill, Judge Oswego Com pleas
State of New York
Oswego County}
I Joseph David clerk of the Court of Common pleas in aforesaid Oswego County do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the 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 Eighty three Dollars and fifty one cents.
In testimony where I have hereunto set my had and affixed the seal of the said Court this 11th day of July 1820.  J. Davis Clerk
12/6
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State of Ohio
Ashtabula Co}
On this sixteenth day of November 1835 before me the subscriber an Associate Judge for the said County of Ashtabula, personally appeared Ebenezer Collis who on his oath declares, that he is the same person that formerly belong to the Company Commanded by Cap'tn Juda Alden, in the 2 Massachusetts Regiment Commanded by Col. Ebenezer Sprout that his name was place on the pension roll of the state of New York from whence he removed to Kingsville, Ashtabula Co. Ohio, but since has removed to the town of Conneaut of the County and State aforesaid and has resided in said town of Conneaut for the last three years and calculates he spend the remainder of his days here with his children who also reside in said township of Conneaut That some five or six years since he made application he [illegible] Ohio Pittsburgh Agency and received a transfer to Ohio Agency payable at Cincinnati from whence he has drawn his pension, at a great sacrifice of time and money, on account of the great distance he residing in the North East Corner town of the state and Cincinnati being in the North West Corner of the state, he therefor would respectfully ask to be transferred to Ohio Pittsburgh Agency. Pittsburgh being about 200 miles nearer to his present place of aboad (sic) than Cincinnati and the communication with Pittsburgh is very direct and easy to what it is with Cincinnati.
Ebenezer Collins (signature)
Sworn and Subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid. A. Dart Associate Judge
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I Hiram Lake of lawful age do hereby Certify and make oath that I am well acquainted with Ebenezer Collins who has subscribed and sworn to the within affidavit and know him to be the identical Ebenezer Collins that he represents him selfe (sic) to be in the affidavit. Hiram Lake (signature)
Subscribed and sworn in before me this 11th day of November 1835  A. Dart Associate Judge

I hereby certify that the above witness Hiram Lake is a person of veracity and his statement entitled to credit and belief.  A. Dart Associate Judge
The State of Ohio
Ashtabula County }
I Sam'l Hendry Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Ashtabula do hereby certify that Ashbel Dart whose name appears above in his own proper hand writing is and was at thee time of his subscribing the same one of the Associate Judges of the said Court of Common Pleas "duly commission and sworn agreeably to the Laws of the State of Ohio. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed the seal of the said Court at Jefferson the 24th day of November A.D. 1835. Saml Hendry Clerk
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[cut off] sent to Joseph Davis Esq 19 Sep 1820.
Oswego New York

Transferred to Ohio from 4 March 1827 - May 10 1827 & Notification sent to the Pensioner, Jefferson, Ohio.  Tran Ohio Dec. 14 1835. Transf'r to Ohio Pitt from 4 Sept 1835, Jan 4 1836 & not'n sent to Pens. care of A Dart Esq Conneaut, O
Letter to 3 auditors 18 Oct 1841
Paid at the [illegible] under Act of Ap 1838 From 4 Mar [cut off} to 2 Sep 1840 Ap. notified 11 Nov 18[cut off]
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42135
INVALID
Rev'y
File No 42.135
Ebenezer Collins
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18th
Index: Vol E , Page 94
[Arrangement of 1870]
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State of New York:
Oswego County ss

Silvanus Bishop of the town of Oswego, County
aforesaid, being duly sworn deposeth and saith:
that he has been shown the affidavit of Ebenezer
Collins hereunto annexed and has heard the same read:
That he was a soldier in the Continental establishment
during the Revolutionary War:
That same time towards the close of the year seventeen
hundred and eighty two, he was transferred from the eighth
Massachusetts Regiment into the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Ebenezer Sprout and remained attached
to the same until towards the close of the year following,
when he was discharged.
That this deponent first became acquainted with the
said Ebenezer Collins between two and three years since,
and in several conversations with the said Collins shortly
after thus becoming acquainted with him, the said
Collins mentioned his having belonged to Sprout's Regiment
in the manner mentioned in the said Collins affidavit
and mentioned such facts and detailed such
circumstances as having taken place in the said
Regiment, and which within the personal knowledge
of this deponent did take place in the said Regiment,
that this deponent was at the time aforesaid convinced
that the said Collins had belonged to the said
Regiment, and is still convinced and verily believes
that such was the fact; but this deponent has no
other knowledge of the said Collins having belonged
to the said Regiment or of his having done duty
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therein in the manner stated in the affidavit of the
said Collins, except such as he has derived from the
circumstances above mentioned and from others of a
similar nature.
Silvanus Bishop

State of New
Oswego County ss
I Edmund Hawks one of the Judges of the Court of
Common Pleas of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that
in the fourteenth day of August eighteen hundred and eighteen
Silvanus Bishop, to me personally known appeared before
me & took & subscribed the preceding affidavit. And I do
further certify that I consider him a disinterested and
credible witness in the premises.
Edmd  Hanks Judge

State of New York
Oswego County ss
I Joseph Davis Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas of the County of Oswego do certify that Edmund Hawks
whose name in his own proper hand writing is annexed to the
preceding certificate, is one of the Judges of the said Court: In
testimony whereof I have affixed the seal of the said Court to
his said signature, at my Office this fourteenth day of
August eighteen hundred & eighteen.
Joseph Davis Clk
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State of New York
Oswego County ss
Elijah Snow, at present a resident in the
Village of Oswego, County aforesaid, being duly sworn
deposeth and saith:
that he has been shown the affidavit of Ebenezer
Collins hereunto annexed and has heard the same
read:
That he is well acquainted with the said Collins
and has been since the said Collins was a child;
that this deponent and the said Collins resided in the
same neighborhood during the American Revolutionary
War; that this deponent knew of the said Collins
enlisting in the spring of the year one thousand
seven hundred and eighty one to serve against the
common enemy on the continental establishment
for the term of three years, that the said
Collins left home in company with a number
made who had enlisted at the same period for the
purpose of joining the army; that this deponent
frequently heard in his neighborhood at and after
the time alluded to that the said Collins had
joined the army in consequence of his aforesaid
enlistment and was doing duty accordingly, and
this deponent verily believes he did so serve according
as is stated in the affidavit of the said Collins
although this deponent never saw the said
Collins in the army, not himself belonging to
the same. This deponent further saith that
after the close of the Revolutionary War, he well
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remembers that the said Collins returned to his former
place of residence, and it who universally understood that the
said Collins had just been discharged from the
continental service by the neighbors of this deponent
and the said Collins, and this deponent
verily believes that such was the fact.
Elijah Snow

Oswego County ss
I certify that Elijah Snow personally appeared before me Edmund
Hawks, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the
County aforesaid on this fourteenth day of August eighteen
hundred & eighteen & took & subscribed the preceding affidavit;
also that I am personally acquainted with the said
Snow and have full confidence in his credibility and
believe him to be totally disinterested in the testimony he has
given.
Edmd Hawks, Judge

State of New York
Oswego County ss
I Joseph Davis, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of
the county aforesaid, do certify that Edmund Hanks whose signature in his own proper hand is affixed to the preceding certificate is one of the Judges of the said Court. In witness whereof I have to the signature of the said Judge affixed the seal of the said court at my Office in Oswego this fourteenth day of August, Eighteen hundred & eighteen.
Joseph Davis Clk
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(stamp) Cincinnati  Dec 23
Dec. 30
(addressed)
J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, DC
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Office B W States
Cincinnati Dec 23 1835
Dear Sir
Your letter of 14 "Just is at hand
I have to say this Ebenezer Collins a private
at Eight Dollars per month was last
on the Fourth Day of September 1835.
Respectfully Yours
Pat Reynolds  P.A.
& E. H. Rosa

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Com. of Pensions
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office
October 21st, 1841
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States," Ebenezer Collins --
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Pillsburg, Pa. Agency, at
the rate of Eight Dollars and ---- Cents
per  [crossed out] (annum) month, under the law of the 18th March 1818, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1819
to the 4 Sept. 1840
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
The State of Ohio
County of Ashtabula ss.
On this fifteenth day of March 1827 before
me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of
Ashtabula personally appeared Ebenezer Collins
who, on his oath, declares that he is the
same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded
by Captain Judah Alden in the regiment commanded
by Colonel Ebenezer Sprout in the service of the United States;
that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of
New York from whence he has lately removed;
that he now resides in the District of the
Pittsburg Agency where he intends to remain, and wishes his
Pension to be there payable, in future; and that his reasons for
removing to the State of Ohio are that, as most
of his family resided there, he wishes
to reside amongst them, and has so resided for more
than six years last past.
Ebenezer Collins
Lemuel Jones Just. Peace

NOTES. -- The oath to be taken before a duly qualified Magistrate, whose official character and signature
must be proved by the certificate of the proper officer, setting forth that the person taking the testimony
is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be, and that the signature
The Pensioner oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity. The person
must swear that he well knows him to be the same person described in the above affidavit. The Magistrate
must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity. This oath must also have the authentication
as above required.
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State of Ohio
Ashtabula County ss

Be it Remembered
that on this 15 day of March 1827 personally came
before me the subscriber an acting Justice of the peace
of said County Ebenezer Collins and took a solemn
oath that he is the Identical person named in the foregoing
Affidavit, Sworn to and subscribed before me.
Lemuel Jones Just Peace

State of Ohio
Ashtabula County
Be it remembered that on this 15
day of March 1827 personally came before me the
subscriber acting Justice of the peace of said County
Aron Wilson and made oath that the before mentioned Ebenezer
Collins is the Identical person named in the foregoing
affidavit.  Aron Wilson
Sworn to and subscribed before
Lemuel Jones Just Peace

I certify that the above named Aron Wilson
is a person of truth and veracity to the best of
my knowledge and belief.
Lemuel Jones Just Peace
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The State of Ohio
Ashtabula County
I Saml Hendry Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas of said County do hereby certify that
Lemuel Jones Esq. whose name is to this Instrument
subscribed, is and was at the time of his
subscribing the same a Justice of the Peace of
said County duly commissioned and sworn according
to law, also that I am well acquainted
with his hand writing and signature and that I verily believe
the several signatures of Lemuel Jones Justice of the Peace to this
instrument subscribed to be the proper hand writing and signatures
of the said Samuel Jones Esq.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court at
Jefferson in said County the 29th day of March AD. 1827 -
Saml Hendry Clerk


Pension Office
May 10th 1827
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Connant?
Dan (illegible)
Dec 11
for transfer
Ohio
15 Sept. 1818

J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington City
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Conneaut Ohio
Nov. 31st 1835
Sir
Enclosed I forward (Ebenzer)
Collins (a Revolutionary Pensioner
application for a transfer which I
hope may prove acceptable.
Very respectfully your
obd. servant,
A. Dart

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

Ebr. Collins priv. $8 per mo. from
Ohio to Ohio Pitt for 4 Sept 1835
Not'n to A Dart
Conneaut, Ohio