Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39577, Ebenezer Giles, Mass.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Mass.
Giles, Ebenezer
NUMBER
S.39577
CONTENTS
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17.321
Vermont R
Ebenezer Giles
of Rutland in the state of Vermont who was a private in the regiment commanded
Colonel Bailey of the Massachusetts
/illegible/, for the term of nine months, 1779 -
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the ate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence the 17th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issues the 1st of June 18
and sent to Amos /illegible. on /illegible/
Poultney, Vt.
Arrears to 4th of March 1820, 180..76
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept. 1820, 48..-
22.14/30 + 4/31 months
$228:76
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
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Dead 
Order to pay 1. Oct 1838. A. B.
Died Sept. 1 1831
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Dead
Order to pay 1 Oct. 1838

G.B. 
Died Sept 1 1938

Certificate sent May 24th 1821 to R. Pierpoint Esq
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STATE OF VERMONT, Rutland County ss ⎬ On this 28th day of June personally appeared before the County court for said county of Rutland in open court, said court being a court of record, agreeably to the laws of this state, having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c. ) Ebenezer Giles aged 61 years, resident in Percolett in said county of Rutland who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows: 

in Capt. Manfields Co Col Baileys Regt Nine months in 1779 & 1780 was taken prisoner & gone from home 18 months that he made his original declaration on the 17th day of April 1818 has received a Pension Certificate, No. And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States 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 than what is containin the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, 
two cows used for feed,  Security for $60-  four Deraster Fitch 1 yrling Calf 1 calf 3 service first of a lot of old Cooper tools 1 bottle & 2 wedges 4 old hose 1 scythe & tackling 2 pieces of cheese 1 was of decint steel 1 old Clock 2 old tables 1 old pail  1 soap tub 1 metal tub 1 picked tub 1 barrell feet tub 10 old forks 5 plates 4 leaves, 5 small plates 3 cups & saucers 10 milk pans 3 old knives 3 pewter spoons1 dish kettle 1 tea kettle 1  widow 2 fleet irons 1 old gridiron 2 old tankards 1 old grant where a very poor land & appreciates my family consists of myself aged as above & wife named Lydia aged 34 years in tolerable health Ebenezer aged 12 years feeble Abler 10 do Lydia 8 do, Ephraim 7 do & Lucy 4do.  
all in good health my occupation is their of a cooper set my it is so poor I am not able to labor little I have nothing due me except what I expect from my pension I am owing Clerk $76, without the means of paying 
Ebenr Giles 

Sworn to and declared on the 28th day of June 1820 R. Pierpoint CLERK
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Ebnr. Giles
val $50.
17.3.21
To {be sent?] to R. Pierpont
Richmond [?]
Vermont
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State of Vermont
Rutland County ⎬
I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of the County
Court for the County of Rutland do
certify that the foregoing oath and
Schedule are truly copied from the
the word of said Court and I do
further certify that it is the opinion
of said Court that the total
Account in value of the property
reflected in said Schedule is
fifty dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affix the seal of said Court
at Rutland in said County this 19th
day of January
A.D. 1821
R. Pierpoint
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Ebnr. Jobbs [strike out] Giles
(Private)
Bailey's Masht. Rgt.
20th April 1779 for 9 months
17th April 1 mo [?]
of
Not on the rolls. [strike out]

See endorsement in the case of Eli Brayford
On Rolls.
2 Mass reg: -- Apr 79
E. Giles, Maxwells Co.
25 July - 9 mo
prisoner 3 Feb 81 [?]
[illegible signature]
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State of Vermont Rutland County ss

On this 17th day of April 1818 before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of Rutland County Court personally appears Ebenezer Giles aged [blank] years resident in Pacolet in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions 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 Ebenezer Biles on or about the 20th day of April 1779 Entisted as a private Soldier in Capt Manns Company, Col Bailey's Regiment of infantry in the Massachusetts line of continental army for the term of nine months, that in June following he joined the said regiment at West point and continued therein & in the Service of of the United States untill the 13th day of January 1780 when he with others was ordered on a detachment R under the command of Col. Thompson towards the British lines and while on a detachment was captured by the Enemy and carried a prisoner New York and was then detained untill the 19th day of December in the same year where he was duly exchanged & returned to his Regiment at West point & was then honorably discharged from further service by the said Col Baily, and the said Ebenzer further declares that hath not his said discharge Evidence which he ever possessed of his said enlistment is disappeared. 

that he is poor & from his reduced he circumstances & needs the assistance of his County for support and that he has no other deter man in his power of his said services. 

Sworn to and declared before me the day & year aforesaid Amos Thompson Judge of Rutland County Court. 

I Amos Thompson Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Ebenezer Giles did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding declaration against the Common Enemy & I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for this department of War pursuant to the dirrections of the aforementioned act of Congress 

Amos Thompson order of Judge Thompson of 
R Temple Clk
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State of Vermont

I Amos Thompson as Judge of Rutland County Court do certify that it has been made to appear to satisfaction that the abovesaid Ebnr. Giles is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the [illegible] assistance of his country support.
Amos Thompson
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The affidavits of
John Wilson, Abram
Wright and John Giles
to be used on the application of Ebnr. Giles for a
Pension
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I John Wilson of Elmbden, in the District of Maine, do depose and say that in the year 1779, I lived at Townsend, in Massachusetts, and was then seventeen years of age, the said Town, were called upon to furnish five men to go into the service, to fill the ranks of the Continental Army I was applied to by Lt Lemuel Potts, and Mr Abner Adams a Comr of said town to go as one of the five men, and James Pitt, Ebenezer Giles, Howard Reed, Timothy Shattuck the other farm were engaged for nine months early in the month of July aforesaid, went premisiously to Springfield in Massachusetts, where we made our first rendevous, and were received by Capt Bailey of the Army, who conducted us, to West point, and we all were ordered into Capt Hugh Maxwell's Company, Col Bailey Regiment, in the Massachusetts line of the Army - we all continued to do duty in said Company, and in the month of October or November following I was taken sick, & was confined in a hospital at fish Kiln nearly eight weeks, & while there, the said Ebenezer Giles, came to see me, & staid a short time, & soon after, Interred to Camp & joined my Company I found, that my Townsman, Ebenezer Giles had been taken prisoner on the lines of the army between New York & Wests point, while on duty and I never saw him again till after, I had served out my time, then at home, more than six months, & he then informed me, that he had been in prison in New York, he gave me a circumstantial account of his capture & imprisonment in New York aforesaid 
John Wilson 

I Abraham Weight, otherwise called Abram B Wright do depose and say that I lived in Ashby, in the State of Massachusetts, in the year 1779 the said town were called upon to furnish two men to go into the army to fiel the wants for nine month, and Caleb Noewe & myself and by Capt Jonathan Locke to go & perform that service, I was and at Concord Mass & proceeded to Springfield, where I found the above named five men, who had gone from Townsend, all of whom I well knew, I wandered into Capt Mannells Company aforesaid, & massed with the said five men -  there was several men detached about the last of December, & first of January to go due therein, and I the said
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the said Detachment, march off down the river, and the said Ebenezer Giles, was with them, it was soon reported, that they were attacked by a party of Infantry, and some refugee Conley, and the said Giles was among some others taken prisoner, a part of said detachment, escaped and again joined the Army, but I never saw the said Ebenezer Giles till a long time after, I returned home, when he gave me, an account of his capture & imprisonment in the City of New York where I understand he was detained one year - 
Abraham Wright 

I John Giles of Townsend in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Do depose & say that I lived with my Father Elenezer Giles in Townsend aforesaid in the year 1779 & well remember that my Brother Eben he went into the Continental army, for nine months he left Townsend in July & marched to Camp, we occasionally heard from him by letters from the Army, & in the winter we were informed by letters from the Army, & by Soldiers who left the army or furlough, that the said Eben had been taken prisoner on the lines, & we never had any letters him him, or heard from him untill the 31st day of Decr AD 1780  when he returned to his fathers house, & stated that he had been exchanged & came from a prison in New York City, I distinctly remember that the Neighbors came in next morning to congratulate him on his return & wished him a happy new year -- 
John Giles 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
On the ninth day of October in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and nineteen, personally appeared before me the Subscriber afsaid Justice of the Circuit Court of Common pleas and a Justice of the Peace throughout the same Commonwealth and the above named depends and each for himself severally made Oath, that the foregoing Depositions by them respectively subscribed are just and true in all their particulars and I certify that the said John Wilson, Abraham Wright, and John Giles are all of them reputed to be men of good fame, and credit, well entitled to belief in all places and before all courts and magistrates whatever and that they and each of them, are wholly disinterested in the application of
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application of Ebenezer Giles to be placed on
the pension list
Given under my hand [illegible] said Circuit the day and year aforesaid
Saml Dana
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February 2, 1940. 
BA-J/ILL Ebenezer Giles 
S. 39577

Mr. James W. Giles 
134 Buffalo Street 
Jamestown, New York. 

Dear Sir: 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Ebenezer Giles, who served in Colonel Bailey's Massachusetts regiment. 

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 39577, based upon service of Ebenezer Giles in the Revolutionary War. 

Ebenezer Giles lived with his father, Ebenezer Giles, in Townsend Massachusetts, at the time he entered service in the Revolutionary War. The name of his mother was not given. A brother, John Giles, lived at home then with their father, said Ebenezer Giles. 

This son, Ebenezer Giles, enlisted April 20, 1779, served as private in Captain Hugh Maxwell's company, Colonel Bailey's 2nd Massachusetts regiment, and on January 13, 1780, while with a detachment under command of Colonel Thompson on duty between West Point and New York City, was taken prisoner by the enemy, was carried to New York City, where he was confined until December 19, 1780, at which time he was exchanged. He reached home December 31, 1780. 

He was allowed pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War on his application executed April 17, 1818, at which time he resided in Pawlet, Rutland County, Vermont. 

In June 1820, Ebenezer Giles gave his own age as sixty-one and that of his wife, Lydia, as thirty-six years. He did not state Lydia's maiden name, nor the date and place of their marriage. At
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that time, his family living at home consisted of the following persons: Ebenezer, aged twelve years; Abbe, aged ten years; Lydia, aged eight years; Ephraim, aged seven years; and Lucy, aged four years. 

In October 1819, this soldier's brother, John Giles, was a resident of Townsend, Massachusetts; he made affidavit in behalf of Ebenezer. 

In June 1818, one Sarah Pratt, of Pawlet, Vermont, stated that she was acquainted with Ebenezer Giles in Townsend when he left home in 1779 for service in the Revolutionary War. She did not state any relationship to this soldier's family. 

Ebenezer Giles, this pensioner, died September 1, 1838. A. B. [handwritten arrow pointing to between the first and second paragraph on this page]

In order to obtain the name of the person to whom the last payment of pension was made, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and furnish the following data: 

Ebenezer Giles 
Certificate #17321 
Issued June 1, 1820 
Commenced April 17, 1818 
Act of March 18, 1818 Vermont Agency.

Very truly yours, 
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator. 
The claim for pension of John Giles his pensioner's brother, is in our Rev. file. J.LL
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39577
Revy INVALID.

File No. 39,577
Ebenezer Giles
Pri. Rev War

Act 18th March 18

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West point December 01 1780

Recd of Ebenezer Giles three Orders one upon the paymaster Genll one year the auditor and one upon the payment of the 2d Massth Regt which I promise to pay to said Giles on if I can Drew it family
Ebenezer Richardson
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I Sarah Pratt of Pawlet in the County of Rutland & State of Vermont testify & say that I was well knowing that Ebenezer Giles formerly of Townsend Masssachusett now of Pawlet Vermont -- inlist in April 1777 for nine months in the service of the U. States in the revolutionary War & that he went from home & did not return to the expiration of about eighteen Months The Ebenezer Giles entered having a storm on  his head which the said & I believe he relived from the enemy while in service
Sarah Pratt 

State of Vermont On this 24 day of June 1818 before me as Judge of Rutland County Court personally appeared Sarah Pratt & was duly sworn to the truth of the facts set forth in the forgoing account by her subscribed. The said Sarah Pratt is well known to me a redible witness Amos Thompson
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JAMES W. GILES 
134 BUFFALO STREET 
JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK 

January 22, 1940. 
Mr. A. D. Hiller, Executive Asst. to the Administrator, Veterans Administration, Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: Would you kindly give me any information you have in regard to the service, pension, etc., of Revolutionary Soldier Ebenezer Giles. He entered service July 25, 1779, and served as a Private in Col. Bailey's 2nd Regiment of Mass. Thanking you kindly I am, Very truly yours, James Giles