Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 19829-160-55., Ephraim Bacon, Mass.
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Mass. | Bacon, Ephraim | B.L.Wt. 19829-160-55.
Annah
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158.899            Act Mah
                         June 4/
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Annah Bacon, (illegible) of
Ephraim Bacon
           Rev War             Pres
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Capt. _______
Col. _________

(illegvle)
Private Col Hawes
Maj Mila
War Rev.
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Nona Pension of the U. States
map no papers
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Ad 16 (illegible)  April 4/56
     Dodge
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Elijah Clark, atty
                   Brighton, Mass.

Vol. B - 17.-


(written across paper)
No 19829 (illegible) April 7/56
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158899
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             Commonwealth of Massachusetts
                      County of Norfolk

On this twenty fourth day of May. AD eighteen hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Anna L Bacon, aged eighty (illegible) zero.  A resident of Needham in the State of Massachusetts, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Ephraim Bacon, a native of (illegible) in the County of Middlesex & State aforesaid.  That he was in a number of Service in the War of the Revolution as She verily believes, and  as she has not found proof of Sufficient Service to entitle her to a pension.  She is not able at this time to describe fully his Services, but that he was in the Service these months at Rhode Island/in the Spring of 1777, in the Company of Capt. Ebenezer Battles in Col. McIntosh, or Col. (illegible) Regiment, and who discharged from that Service with the rest of the company.  She further States that She was married to the Said Ephraim Bacon in Dover County of Norfolk By Revd Mr. Caryl on the first day of March in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety two, and that her name before her Said marriage was Annah Bacon.  that her said husband died at Needham aforesaid on the first day of February A.D. 1809, and that She is now a widow.  She makes this declaration for the purpos (purpose) of obtaining the bounty land to which She may be entitled under the Act approved March 8, 1855.

(signed)
Attest
Nathanil H. (illegible)  Annah Bacon X her mark
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Mr. Dexter Baker of Dedham and Harriet Tucker of Needham residents within the county of Norfolk in the State of Massachusetts upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Annah Bacon in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and Statements of the applicant that she is the identical person She represents herself to be.

(signed)     Dexter Baker
                  Harriet Tucker

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were Sworn to and Subscribed before me on the day and year above written.  And I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons.  That the claimant is the person She represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.  I also certify that the word (illegible) in the declaration on the first page and the letter H on the second page was (illegible) by me before signed by the affiant.

(signed)                Calvin Richards     Justice of 
                                                          the Peace
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“Married Mr Ephraim Bacon of Needham and
Miss Annah Bacon of Dover " March the first
one thousand seven hundred and ninety two -
I, Ralph Sanger of Dover in the County of Norfolk
and state of Massachusetts Clerk hereby certify that the
above extract shewing the marriage of Ephraim
Bacon and Annah is a true copy thereof on the book of
Church records in my possession and keeping with
the exception of the date which is expressed on the said
record in fair, legible letters and figures as follows viz [namely
“March 1, 1792”
Attest
Ralph Sanger
Clergyman of Dover
J. Ralph Sanger above named depose and say, that
I now hold and for forty years past have holden the 
office of Paster over the first Church and society in said
town of Wood, and that the above is a true extract 
from the Church Records of said Society with the exception above named, as certified by me
Ralph Sanger
Clergyman
of
Dover
Commonwealth of Massachusetts N.
County of Norfolk Ss.
Dover May 24th 1855
Then personally appeared Ralph Sanger and made oath
to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed
and I certify that I am not interested in the matter
for which this certificate is made.
Before Me.
Calvin Richards Justice of the Peace
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I Josiah Newell of Needham County of Norfolk
and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Seventy Nine years
of age do testify and say, that I was formerly acquainted with
Ephraim Bacon then of Needham, but was as I have
always been informed a native of Natic [Natick] in the County
of Middlesex in said Commonwealth, that I well recalled
that he resided with my father before and after his marriage, and at that time I often heard him speak
of his being in the service of the revolution, of his being
at Cambridge also at Rhode Island under Capain Ebenezer
Battle, and it is my belief that he was in the service
as he stated, and it was generally reputed by his associates
that he was in the service of the revolution, that he
bought a small place of my father where he resided
untill his death which took place the first day of
February 1809. I have a recolection of his marriage with
Annah Bacon of Dover, who now resides on the place
left by her husband Ephraim Bacon and that she
remains his widow, I also testify that I attended the
funeral of the aforesaid Ephraim Bacon and assisted
the family to the grave also that I am not related
and now wise interested in the matter for which this
affidavit is given.
Josiah Newell
Norfolk ss. Needham May 24th 1855
Then personaly appeared the above named Josiah Newell late
Post Master of Charles River Village, and made oath to the truth
of the above affadavit by him subscribed, and I certify that he
is a person of sound mind, and good character I also certify that
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the word Dover in the first line was erased by me
and that I am nowise interested in the matter for
the
which this affidavit is given.
Calvin Richards Justice of the Peace
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19,829
Revolutionary Army
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158.899
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Brighton, Mass. 
May 31, 1855 
Hon L P Waldo Commissioner of Pensions 

Dear Sir I enclose to you herewith the claims of Mrs. Annah Bacon of Needham for Bounty Land 

The town of Dover was formerly the fourth Parish in Dedham. Joined the towns of Natick, also of Needham. Charles River dividing the town of Needham from Dover & from Dedham Very Respectfully - Obt St Elijah Clark
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Secretary's Office, Boston, May 30, 1855 

I hereby Certify, That at the date of the attestatations hereunto annexed, Calvin Richards was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Norfolk 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 E M Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth
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158899
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Secretary's Office, Boston May 29 1855.

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 Ephram Bacon is borne on pay roll of Capt. Ebenezer Battle's Comp on the alarm of April 19, 1775 from the fourth Parish of Dedham 4 days and 30 miles as private 

also on pay roll of Capt Daniel Eames Comp Col. Benjamin Hawes Regt from Sept. 29th 1777 1 month 3 days as Corporal 

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth the date above written 
E M Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth
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I Annah Bacon of Needham in the County of Norfolk and commonwealth of Massachusetts, eighty six years of age do testify and say, that I have good reason to believe that I am entitled to a Pension from the United State, in continue of the service of Ephraim Bacon of Natick, who as I believe and may have been in the Alarm service of April 19, 1775 and may have been in the first eight months service and was in the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 1775, that he may have been in other services which am not able at this time to describe, but that he may have been in Capt. Ebenezer Battles company, in Col. McIntosh Regt in 1777, that he may have been at Ticonderoga in the year 1776, a five months service under Capt. Morse of Natick, and other service which I am not able to describe. I request that the Secretary of this State to examine the Roll & documents in his office for proof of the said Ephraim Bacon of Natick or of Needham aforesaid. 
Witness, Harriet Tucker 
Annah her X mark Bacon  

Middlesex Ss May 24, 1835. 
Subscribed to by the said Anna Bacon by making her mark. 

Before me Elijah Clark, Justice of the Peace