Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20642, Ebenezer Austin, Conn.
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(3--1776)
SERVICE
Conn.

Austin, Ebenezer.
Amy

NUMBER
W.20642

CONTENTS
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3131.

4
New York Roll

Ebenezer Austin
private
Connecticut Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 6th of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Sep. 1818 and forwarded to Jesse L. Billing Esq. Salem Washg County New York

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 $39:73
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819 48.00
$88:73
arrs. 4 mo: 29:0

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

Durkee Nine amounts continued 1778--City of Cambridge Washington

Notif. Jont R Gro W. Germain,
Cambridge, NY
17 Oct. 1820
see note
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NY
Ebenezer Austin's affidavit
pr. Apl. 6. 1818 [crossed out: 11th Sept.]

[crossed out: Not on Rolls]

DH
Capt Wm Cleft'sCompany
Col. John Dursey Durkee
Regt. Connecticut line
Admitted
To Anth'y Blanchard 
Salem
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State of New York
Washington County

Ebenezer Austin the person named in the annexed declaration under oath being duly sworn saith, in addition to the parts in that declaration contained, that he this deponent did in the beginning of the year 1778 ^04 1779 enlist as a private soldier in Captain William Clift's company, in Colonel John Durcey's Regiment in the Connecticut line for one year & tha the this deponent did serve in said company Regiment & line in the war of the revolution on the Continental establishment against the common enemy for on year at the exhaustion of which year this deponent was honorably discharged which discharge has been lost by time & accident
Ebenezer Austin
Sworn this 11th day of September 1818 before me
Anthony Blanchard First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington in the State of New York---
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State of New York
Washington County

Ebenezer Austin of the town of Cambridge in the County of Washington & State of New York being duly sworn doth say depose & declare that he this deponent did sometime in the month of August in the year of our Lord one thousand and seven hundred & seventy six enlist as a private ^into Captain Butts Company in Colonel Douglas's Regiment in the Connecticut line for four months & that he did serve in said Company Regiment and line in the war of the revolution against the common enemy on the continental establishment untill sometime in the month of December in the said year at which time this deponent was honorably discharged which discharge has been lost by time & accident and this deponent further saith that in the month of May 1777 he enlisted as a private in Captain Ebenezer Mosely's company in Colonel Elis's Regiment in the Connecticut line for six months and that he did serve in said company Regiment and line in the war of the revolution against the common enemy on the continental establishment untill the month of December in the last mentioned year at which time this deponent was honorably discharged which discharge has been lost by time & accident, & this deponent saith that the abovementioned services was about ten months & this deponent further saith that he is still a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of his ^reduced circumstances & condition in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support
Ebenezer Austin
Sworn 6th April 1818
Before Anthony Blanchard
First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington in the State of New York--
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State of New York
Washington County

Eben Wilson of the town of Salem County of Washington & State of New York being duly sworn saith that he is acquainted with the within named Ebenezer Austin and doth believe that his character for truth & veracity is good also that he is acquainted with the circumstances & condition in life of the said Ebenezer and doth believe that he is in need of assistance from his country for support
Eben Wilston
Sworn 6th April 1818
before
Anthony Blanchard 
First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington in the State of New York--
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To the Honorable John C. Calhoun Secretary of the Department of War

The case of Ebenezer Austin of
the town of Cambridge County of
Washington & State of New York}
Whereas it appears to the satisfaction of me Anthony J. Blanchard first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington & State aforesaid that the above named Ebenezer Austin hath served in the war of the revolution on the continental establishment against the common enemy for and during the periods respectively mentioned in the declaration under oath of the said Ebenezer & in the manner therein specified.  I do therefore hereby certify & transmit the testimony in the said care & proceedings had thereon all which are hereunto annexed
Dated 6 April A D 1818.
Anthony Blanchard

State of New York
Washington County ss}  I Daniel Shipherd Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington in the State of New York do certify that Anthony J Blanchard is first Judge of the said Court of Common Pleas & that the signature of the said Anthony to the above Certificate & annexed affidavit is of the proper hand writing of him the said Anthony  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this fifteenth day of April A D. 1818

D. Shepherd
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Ebenezer Austin
2131


Conn
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And I do solemnly swear that I have been a blacksmith by trade, but on account of the partial loss of eye sight have some years since relinquished that occupation, and am now afflicted with the Rheumatism, and only able to improve half my time as a common laborer. That my family consists of a wife aged sixty one years of the ordinary health and ability of females of her age named Amy - and a son name Anson aged seventeen years who is in ill health, and unable to perform the ordinary labour of lads of that age.
I am indebted to Kezekiah King in the sum of Thirty dollar for house rent and Ig McNiel and M. C. Naughton sixteen dollars for family necessities
Sworn August 30th, 1820
in open court D. Shipherd clerk Ebenezer Austin
I David Shipherd Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington in the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule therein contained are truly copied from the record of the said court and I 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 Nineteen Dollars one an half cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on the thirty first day of August 1820
D Shipherd Clerk
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I David Shipherd Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington in the State of New York do hereby that the foregoing - words have been crossed out
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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 s contained in the schedule of mowing subscribed by me
Real Property- I have none
Personal Property; necessary clothing and bedding excepted
1 bake kettle $.50     
1 small kettle .25 
1 pail & 1 half kettle .35
1 old tea kettle .25
6 old kitchen chairs .75
2 old chests 1.50
2 spinning wheels 1.50
1 old [unk] .50
1 pail .25
2 small tin pails .37 1/2
1 small pail .12 1/2
1 pair [unk] irons .30
1 pr. shovel & tings 1.
1 pr. small andirons 1.
2 barrels 1
1 wash tub .25
3 old bags .60
1 mead trough .25
2 old baskets .50
4 table spoons .50
6 knives & 4 forks .50
6 tea spoons .37 1/2
? table plates .40
3 butter plates .12 1/2
4 earthen plates .25
4 cups & saucers .25
amt ban.d up $13.65
[second column]
amt. brot. up $13.65
1 milk pan & 1 earthen platter .20
1 earthen mug 4 tin cups .40
1 earthen tea pot 1 tin basin .22
1 cream pot & sugar bowl .12 1/2
2 small jugs & 2 small bottles .35
1 tin platter .15
1 table .75
1 axe & hoe 1.50
1 looking glass 1.50
2 candle sticks .16
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$19.01 1/2
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State of new York
County of Washington} ss.
On this thirteenth day of August 1820, personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record and the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington in the State of New York, Ebenezer Austin aged sixty one years resident in the town of Cambridge in the County and State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: He enlisted in the company commanded by Captain Willis Clefts in the Regiment commanded by Colonel J. Durkee in the Connecticut line, at the town of Canterbury in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut and served in the said company one year and was discharged in the State of New Jersey as stated in the original declaration of this declarant sent to the Secretary of War, the date whereof he believes is the sixth day of April 1818. That he has since received from the Secretary of War a certificate that he is entitled to a pension of eight dollars per month to commence on the sixth day of April 1818, which certificate bears date the 29th day of September 1818, and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the united States on the eighteenth 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
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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 following subscribed by me.
Real Property- I have none.
Personal Property; necessary clothing and bedding excluded
1 bake kettle $.50
1 small kettle .25
1 pail & 1 half kettle .35
1 old tea kettle .25
6 old kitchen chairs .75
2 old chests 1.50
2 spinning wheels 1.50
1 old [unk[ .50
1 pail .25
2 small tin pails .37 1/2
1 small pail .12 1/2
1 pair [unk] irons .30
1 pr shovel & tongs 1.
1 pr small andirons 1.
2 barrels 1.
1 wash tub .25
3 old bags .60
1 mead trough .25
2 old baskets .50
1 table spoons .50
6 knives & 4 forks .50
6 tea spoons .37 1/2
10 table plates .40
3 butter plates .12 1/2
4 earthen bowls .25
4 cups & saucers .25
amt. ban.d up $13.65
[second colemn]
amt. brot. up $13.65
1 milk pan & earthen platter .20
1 earthen mug 2 tin cups .40
1 earthen tea pot & 1 tin basin .22
1 cream cup & sugar bowl .12 1/2
2 small jugs & 2 small bottles .35
1 tin platter .15
1 table .75
1 axe & hoe 1.50
1 looking glass 1.50
2 candle sticks .16
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                     $19.01 1/2
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and I do solemnly swear that i have been a blacksmith by trade, but on account of the partial loss of eye sight have been some years since relinquished that occupation, and are now afflicted with the Rheumatism, and only able to improve, half my time as a common laborer. That my family consists of a wife aged sixty one years of the ordinary health and ability of females of her age named Amy and a son named Anson aged seventeen years who is in ill health, and unable to perform the ordinary labour of lass of that age.
I am indebted to Kezekiah King in the sum of thirty dollars for house rent and to McNeel and McNaughton sixteen dollars for family necessaries.
Ebenezer Austin
Sworn August 30th 1820 in open Court.
D. Shipherd, Clk
I Daniel Shipherd Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington in the State of new York do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule therein containing are truly copied from the record of the said Court and I 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 nineteen dollars, one and an half cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this thirty first day of August 1820.
D. Shipherd Clk
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Albany 632
Amy Austin
widow of Ebenezer Austin
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 March 1818 and who died on the 12th March 1836
of Cortland Co in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain West of the Regt commanded by Col Douglass in the Connt. line for 9 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 30 Dollars per annum
to commence on the 13th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of pension issued the 8 day of Oct. 1838 and sent to E. W. Edgecomb, Cortland Village, N.Y.

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '38  74.27
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 39  15.00
                                  ----------------------------    
                                                 $89.27
{Act July 7, 1838}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book A  Vol. 2  Page 66


Let. to E. W. Edgecomb Mar. 15, 1839
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State of new York
Cortland County} ss.
On this sixth day of August 1838, personally appeared before the subscriber William Bartlit a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cortland the same being a Court of Record, Amy Austin a resident of Cortland Ville Cortland County & State of new York lately of Dryden Township County N.Y. aged seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838, entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Ebenezer Austin who was a private soldier in the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States under the act of the 18th day of March 1818, and that he was placed on the pension Roll at the rate of eight dollars per month from the 6th day of April 1818. She further declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Austin on the seventeenth 17th day of January seventeen hundred & eighty one 1781 that he husband the aforesaid Ebenezer Austin died on the twelfth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty six (1836). That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four viz. at the time above stated.
Amy Austin her mark X
witness E W Edgemont
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before
subs William Bartlitt
Judge of Cortland County Court

I hereby certify that the above named Amy Austin cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court.
William Bartlitt
Judge of Cortland County Court
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State of Vermont
Rutland County ss.|
Personally appeared before me Roswell Bottum Jr. the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Rutland aforesd Lucy Parks, who first being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and says, that she is well acquainted with the widow Amy Austin who was the wife of Ebenezer Austin late of the Town of Dryden in the County of Tompkins and State of New York, deceased, and that from information, the said Amy Austin now resides in said Town of Dryden, and that she the said Lucy Parks was well acquainted with the said Amy Austin in the time of the Revolutionary War, this deponent further says, that she was present at the time the said Amy was married to the said Ebenezer Auston and seen the said Ebenezer Austin and the said Amy joined in wedlock by Elder Valentine Rathbone a Minister of the Gospel at the Town of Pittsfield in the State of Massachusetts in the month of January in the year 1781, that her name before she was married to the said Austin was Amy Scofield. This deponent further saith not.
Lucy Park
Sworn and subscribed before me this 3d day of March 1837.
Roswell Bottum Jr. Justice of the Peace

I certify that I am well acquainted with Lucy Parks who has sworn and subscribed to the foregoing affidavit, that she is a reputable person and that her statements are entitled to implicit credit.
Roswell Bottum Jr. Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont
Rutland County ss.} I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland certify that Roswell Bottum Jr is a Justice of the Peace for said County duly commissioned and that his signatures above are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of sd Court at Rutland this 11th day of April AD 1837.
R. Pierpoint
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 20642
Amy Austin
widow of
Ebenezer Austin
Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 7th 1838
Index:- Vol. A, Page 22
[Arrangement of 1870]
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632
1146
Amy Austin
act July 7, 1838


Admitted
Private 9 months
Pension to commence 
13th March 1836

E. W. Edgecomb Esq
Cortland Village
N.Y.
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State of New York
Cortland County} ss.
On this 30th day of August 1838 personally appeared before the subscriber William Bartlitt a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cortland and State of New York, the same being a Court of Record Francis T. Hastings resident of Cortland Village Cortland County N.Y. aged forty years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say that Ebenezer Austin described as a pensioner in the [unk] of Amy Austin was the husband of the said Amy Austin, he further states that the said Amy Austin is the widow of Ebenezer Austin and that the said Ebenezer Austin died on the twelfth day of March 1836, and that Amy Austin has remained his widow ever since that period, and further this deponent sayth not.
F T Hastings
Sworn & subscribed the day and year last above written before 
William Bartlitt
Judge of Cortland County Courts

I hereby certify that the above named Francis T. Hastings is a person who sustains a good character for truth and veracity in the neighborhood where he belongs.
William Bartlitt
Judge of Cortland County Courts
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State of New York
Cortland Count ss.}
I Oren Stimson Clerk of said County do hereby certify that William Bartlitt Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits purports to have been taken was at the date of the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Cortland duly commissioned and sworn & further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge & verily believe that his signatures to the said affidavits are genuine.
in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County this 31st day of August AD 1838.
O. Stimson Clerk
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From Geo: W: Germain
Cambridge, Wash Co
Masstts 2 Oct. 1820
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Cambridge NY Oct. 3
Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington City
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Cambridge Wash. County N.Y.
2 Oct. 1820
The Hon. Secy at War
Four or five weeks since I enclosed to your office the pension papers of Ebenezer Austin of this place, agreeable to law, to obtain a continuance of his pension, and no answer has been recd. The suffering state of his family is the apology for asking an answer to his application directed to himself or to me as soon as consistent with the arduous duties of your office.
Yours very respectfully
George W. Jermain
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N Yk
200
Recd 7 Sep 1820


Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington City
Cambridge NY Sept 2nd
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Cambridge, Washington County, N.Y.
1 Sept. 1820
Hon. J. C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
Sir, at the request of Mr. Ebenezer Austin I inclose the written certificate copy of his pension oath & inventory. It will confer a great favor on himself and his suffering family to hear the result of his application, and be informed if he is continued on the pension Roll. [unk] if you please to himself or to me at this place.
Yours very respectfully
G. W. Jermain
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Cortland Village, Cortland Co., N.Y. August 31, 1838
J L Edwards Esq
Sir,
I send you the papers of Mrs Amy Austin widow of Ebenezer Austin deceased for you to pass upon.
I am sir with respect your obedient servant
E. W. Edgcomb
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Mar 15
Amy Austin
Alby roll
632


J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Albany March 11th 1839
J L Edwards Esq
Sir
I have just called at the Pension Agency Albany for the pay of Amy Austin (widow of Ebenezer Austin) pensioner which is rejected on account of the difference in the Pay Roll and the original certificate.
In the certificate it says she is to [unk] his few years pay on the 13th March 1836. In your direction to the agent you order him to [unk] pay on the 30th March 1836.
Will you correct the mistake and write me at Cortland Village Cortland Co, N.Y., also inform the agent at Albany so that the pension can be paid.
I remain with respect your obedient servant
E. W. Edgcomb