Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16112, Ezekiel Farmer, S.C.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE S. C.
Farmer, Ezekiel
NUMBER S.16112

Born S.C. Carded
CONTENTS
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19839
Ohio
Ezekiel Farmer of Monroe in the State of Ohio who was a private in the com commanded by Captain Hopinger of the Regt commanded by Col ---- in the S.C. line for 2 years 

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Sept 1833, and John G Telford Troy

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 200.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 40.00
$240.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7 1832
Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk
Book E Vol. 8 Page 8
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see letter 14 Aug. 1835 to T.S.S. Smith.
Dup Cert iss Dec 8 1835 & sent to same

Letter to Hon P.G. Goode 3d Auditor
10. March 1840

Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6th April 1838 from 4th Sept 1837 to 4 March
1839. Agt Notified 2 April 1840

Lett to W.C. Best July 21 1854
Act 1853
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S.12311

1 Decr. 1835.
Pension Office
Ezekiel Farmer
Ohio roll for dup cert

Ohio 19839
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The State of Ohio 
Miami County ss. 
On this 11th day of September A.D. 1850 before me John T Tullis a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Ezekiel Farmer who on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Thomas Blessenger in the Regiment commanded (he thinks) by Col. Thomas Brown & afterwards by Col William Fair (in which Regiment Benj. Jolly was Major) in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Ohio; that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature seal of the Secretary of War, by which he was enabled to draw his pension (Eighty dollars a year during his natural life), which certificate, on or about the first day of March A.D. 1835 at or near the house of Thomas Penney in [illegible] Township, in Darke County & State aforesaid (where he had been boarding a few months) he lost it, how he does not know, unless (as he believes must have been the case) it was stolen from his trunk where he had placed it that, consequently, he has been unable to draw his said pension which has since become due, in semi annual payments, on the 4th of March 4th of September A.D. 1835; that having made diligent search for, he has disposed of finding his said certificate. that his object in making this affidavit is to procure a new certificate in place of the original one which he has lost as aforesaid, & further this deponent saith not
Ezekiel Farmer [signature]

Sworn to & subscribed this 11th day of September A.D. 1835 before me
John T. Kelly J. P.
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The State of Ohio
Miami County ss 
On this 27th day of November in the year 1835, before me John T. Tullis a Justice of the Peace for said County of Miami, personally appeared George Keifer who, on his oath, declares that he well knows Ezekiel Farmer who has made the foregoing Affidavit to be the same person described in said affidavit
Geo Keifer [signature]

Subscribed & sworn to the day. & year aforesaid before me
John T. Tullis J.P.

The State of Ohio
Miami County ss. 
I John T. Tullis a Justice of the Peace for said County of Miami as aforesaid hereby certify that George Keifer by whom the foregoing affidavit was subscribed & sworn to is a person of truth & veracity. Witness my hand  & seal this 27th day of November in the year 1838
John T. Tullis J.P.

The State of Ohio
Miami County 
I John G. Telford Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said County hereby certify that John T. Tullis Esquire before whom the foregoing depositions of Ezekiel Farmer & Geo Keifer were taken is now and was at the time of taking said depositions one of the acting Justices of the peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified & that full faith & credit is due to all his official acts as such in all courts of Justice as well as elsewhere

In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Troy the 27 day of November AD. 1835
John G. Telford Clk
Miami Com Pleas
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Troy Miami County Ohio, November 27th 1835

Dr Sir
The affidavits of Ezekiel Farmer a Revolutionary Pensioner & George Keifer made in [illegible] of directions received from the War Department are herewith forwarded to you

If Vouchers are necessary for me reference is made to Judge Crane & Gen McLane members in Congress from Ohio

In behalf of the Applicant your early attention to this subject is solicited by
Your Humble Servant
Thos J. Smith

Hon Lewis Cass Sec. of War
Washington City D.C.
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Ezekiel Farmer
Ohio
from 1778 private
2 yr $80.

John G. Telford
Troy Ohio
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State of Ohio
Miami County. 
On this tenth day of August the year one thousand Eight Hundred & Thirty three personally appeared in open Court, before the Hon George B. Holt President & his associates Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas of Miami County & State of Ohio now in session, Ezekiel Farmer a resident of the Township of Union of the County & State aforesaid, aged 69 years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make & subscribe the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June seventh one thousand Eight  hundred & thirty two

That he is a native of South Carolina & resided in that state till the year 1800. that he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer in April of the year 1778 & served under Gen. Green & Capt Blassinger for a term of seven months, part of which time he was with the 4th Regiment of Continentals-- that he started with the company from Farmins Creek which reinforced Gen. Gates on the high hills of the Santee after the battle of Camden, thence, after a skirmish, at Camden, he passed with the army, into North Carolina for safety, Charleston & Camden being then both in possession of the Enemy- that he received his discharge there from Gen. Green & returned home to south Carolina; that he was drafted, he thinks in January or February of the year 1779 for three months & again served under Capt. Blassinger & Gen. Green. that he proceeded from Union County to George Town in South Carolina, thence to North Carolina, where his time expired & he received his discharge from Gen. Perkins, that in April of the year 1780 he was again drafted for the term of three months & served under Gen. Green Capt. Blassinger & Maj. Jolly, during which time he was engaged in no Battle, but most of the time near St. John's Island watching the Enemy who were on the Island- that his time having their expired he received his discharge from, he thinks Gen Branmire that he again volunteered in the summer of 1780 & served as a Ranger under Capts. Avery, Young, & Watson in South Carolina for a term of eight months; that in the fall of 1781 he was engaged with a scouting party under Capt John Putnam, & Daniel Cromer, & Benjamin Watson for six or eight months; that he served in all more than two years- that in the year 1800
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he removed from South Carolina to the State of Tennessee where he resided about six years, thence he went to Kentucky & after a short residence there back to Tennessee- that in the year 1822 he removed from Tennessee to this state, Ohio, since which time he has been, alternately a resident of Darke County & Miami County, in the latter of which he now resides - that he has lost his certificate of discharge that he has no Documentary evidence of his services- that he knows of no person other than Henry Penny Sr., whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service - that he has no record of his age & that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Ezekiel Farmer [signature]

Sworn to & subscribed in open Court on the 10th day of August in the year one thousand Eight Hundred & thirty three
John G. Telford Clerk

State of Ohio
Miami County ⎬ Court of Common Pleas
Personally appeared in open Court, before the Hon. George Holt President & his Associates Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County & State aforesaid now in session, Henry Penny a resident of the County & State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth & saith that he has been acquainted with Ezekiel Farmer who has subscribed the above Declaration from the time he was twelve years of age; that he knows of his having served for some time as a volunteer during the Revolutionary war, but that he does not know how long he can also recollect of his having been drafted two or three times, but that his memory does not serve him so as to enable him to recollect the time; that this deponent served with the said Ezekiel Farmer at the time the British vacated Charleston, at the siege of Ninety-six & subsequently as a Ranger; that from his personal knowledge of the said Ezekiel Farmer he believe the foregoing Declaration subscribed by him to be
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substantially correct
Henry Penny [signature]

sworn to & subscribed in open Court the 10th day of August in the year one thousand Eight
Hundred & thirty three
John G. Telford Clerk

We Amos Alexander, a Clergyman in Union Township of Miami County & State of Ohio & Henry Penny residing in the Township of Union of the County & state aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted in the Ezekiel Farmer who appears to have subscribed & sworn to the foregoing Declaration, that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age; that he is reputed & believed; in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, & that we concur in that opinion
Amos Alexander
Henry Penny [signatures]

sworn to & subscribed in open Court the 10th day of August 1833
John G. Telford Clerk

And the Court do hereby declare the opinion after their investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories put by the war department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he States. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Amos Alexander who has signed the above certificate is a clergyman & that Henry Penny who has also signed the same are residents of said Miami County that their affidavit is entitled to credit

I John G. Telford Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Miami hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ezekiel Farmer for a pension

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our Court of Common Pleas at Troy the 15th day of August A.D. 1833.
John G. Telford Clerk
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Rev. & 1812
AWF/eel-
October 11, 1928

Mrs. Cora M. Landis
205 Wayne Avenue
Greenville, Ohio

Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 16112, it appears that Ezekiel Farmer was born in South Carolina, date not stated.

While residing in South Carolina, he enlisted and served with the South Carolina troops as follows:
From in April 1778, seven months in Captain Thomas Blassinger's Company, Colonel Thomas Brandon's Regiment; from January or February 1779, three months in Captain Thomas Blassinger's Company; from April 1780, three months in Captain Thomas Blassinger's Company, Colonel William Fair's Regiment; from the summer of 1780, eight months as a ranger under Captains Avery, Young and Watson, and from the fall of 1781, six or eight months scouting under
Captains John Putnam, Daniel Cromer and Benjamin Watson; it is also stated that he was at the siege of Ninety Six.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
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August 10, 1833, at which time he was living in Union Township, Miami County, Ohio, aged sixty-nine years.

There are no data as to family.

The above named Ezekiel Farmer is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.

In order to search the Revolutionary War records of this bureau for soldiers named John Reed, and William Graham, some of the following data relative to them is essential: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service, and given name of widows.

Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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P 16112
INVALID.
File No. 16112
Ezekiel Farmer
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7" 32
Index: --Vol. 1, Page 124
Arrangement of 1870
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1909 July 20. Hist. to Mrs Elizabeth B. Robison, 523 Caldwell St. Piqua, Ohio, for tombstone, 
see letter in S F 44342
A W for V L M

1928 - Oct. 11. Hist to Mrs Cora M. Landis
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office
March 13th 1840

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, Ezekiel Farmer a Pensioner on the Roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of Eighty
Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the
4th of Sept. 1837, to the 4th March 1839

Respectfully Yours
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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July 20" /52
when this case is reported by Mr Bart,
See letter enclose in case of Henry Penney, to 3rd Audr
Boynton
Set in case of Henry Penney
Ohio, Act 32,
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Pension Office
July 20 1854
Sir
Please certify the time to which the within named
Pensioner was paid, or the date of his death
Very Respectfully
S Cole
for Commissioner


Francis Burt Esq
Third Auditor, Treasury
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Ezekiel Farmer, Act 1832 $80 per annum.
Paid to 4 Sept 1841
Sam'l G Reid
Acting 3rd Auditor
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Dec 13 - 1927
Greenville Ohio
Pension Office

Sirs
John Reed, a Revolutionary soldier is buried at Hollinsburg Darke Co. Ohio- have you any more of his record there. also Ezekiel Farmer, said to be from Twin Township and William Graham Harrison Township, - but I can't locate their graves, do you know any thing about them

I am getting information for State records, & not for family history

Respectfully
Mrs Cora M. Landis
Chairman, Revolutionary Soldiers' Graves
Fort Greenville Chapter
D.A.R.
205 Wayne Are
Greenville
Ohio