Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 18679, Ebenezer Buxton, Mass.
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Mass.   Buxton, Ebenezer   W 18679
Susannah
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10891
Massachusetts
Ebenezer Buxton
of Reading in the State of Mass
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain   of the regt. commanded
by Col Bridge in the Mass
line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass 
at the rate of 80 Dollars   Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of May
1833 and sent to Joshus
Prescott  Reading Mass
Arrears to the 4th of Mar[?] 1833   $160
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept   40
$200
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J H McBlair Clerk,
Book #.  Vol. 2.  Page 5.
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Massachusetts - 519.
Susannah Buxton,
widow of Ebenezer Buxton - dead.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 - and who died on the 17th. October, 1835 - of Middlesex in the State of Masstts. who was a private in the compy commanded by Captain Bancroft of the regt. commanded by Col. Bridges in the Masstts. line for 2 years private.

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 80 Dollars ____Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th. day of September 1838 and sent to Isaac Fiske, E. Cambridge, Masstts.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1838         = $200.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar '39 = 
                                                                  40.00
                                                                   
                                                              ________
                                                                  
                                                             $240.00

{Act July 7,
1838}

Recorded by S.A. Elliot Clerk
Book A. Vol. 1. Page 70.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.

STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS:  COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, ss.

On this fifth day of September A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the HONORABLE SAMUEL P. P. FAY, Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, now sitting, Ebenezer Buxton, a resident of Reading, in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, aged 77 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832:


(Written in the margin alongside the following paragraph:) David Paker see Ebenezer Buxton Depo. for this
m.  d
8    16

That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated: viz
That in the first part of the year 1775 he was a minuteman in the Company in said Reading commanded by Cap Batchelder in Col Bridges' Regiment and on the 19th day of April in that year was called out on alarm occasioned by the British troops marching from Boston to Lexington and Concord and went with said Company to Lexington and there met the British on their return and pursued them to Bunker hill in Charlestown, where they arrived the same evening, and he says that his company was then marched to Cambridge and stationed there and he remained in service a few days and then enlisted as a private in the service of the United States for eight months in the Company aforesaid, and served from said 19th of April till the first day of January following on 17 Jany  1776, when his time of enlistment was out and he regularly dismissed.

(Written in the margin alongside the following paragraph:)
4
x
See
Secretary
certificate

He further says that in the latter part of summer 1777 he again enlisted in said Reading for four months as a private in the Company commanded by Cap Abraham Foster in Col Brown's regiment if not mistaken and went from Reading to Bennington Vermont in said Company where he arrived two or three days after the celebrated battle in that place in August; thence he marched to Saratoga , where his company were stationed and therein did duty till after Burgoyne was taken.  He says he was not in that battle, but he with about five hundred men were placed on guard to prevent the enemy from flanking the American army and had several sharp skirmishes in all which they were successful.  After Burgoynes Army was taken he says that his Regiment marched with them or some of them one day, when they were just under the charge of the troops who had enlisted for thirty days only, and that he and his company marched to Albany and from there to New York, and soon after to White Plains, where he served in his company till his time was out when he was dismissed at that place, about the latter part of December if he mistakes not.

(Written in the margin alongside the following paragraph:)
6
x
See
Secretary
Certificate.

He further declares that in the summer in June or July if he mistakes not of 1778 he again enlisted as a private in to Cap Edgells Company and if not mistaken Col Jacobs Regiment for the term of 6 months and marched to Rhode Island and was in the battle on the Island and there served in said Company till they were compelled to retreat from the Island and then he went to fall River where he served till his time was out if not longer, and was then (illegible) regular discharged
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(Written in the margin alongside the following paragraph:) 5

He further declares that he enlisted in the last of June or first of July 1778. as a private in the Company commanded by Cap James Bancroft in Col Reeds Regiment five months and went from said Reading to Ticonderoga with said Company where his company were stationed and there served till just before his time was out, and then the company were sent to Albany and then when his time was out he was discharged

(Written in the margin alongside the following paragraph:) Secretaries Certificate
2.

He further declares that in October 1779 he enlisted in to the company commanded by Cap Addison Richardson in Col Gerrish Regiment and went from Reading to Greenbush near Albony N. York, and there served till we were discharged which was about as near as he can recollect towards two months.

He further declares that he was born in Middleton in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts on the ninth day June AD. 1755, that he does not know that he has any record of his age, that he lived in said Reading when called in to service, and has lived in Reading since the Revolutionary war and now lives in the place that he was called into service as above stated, and that the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where he served, and with continental and and Militia Regiment as he can recollect, and the general circumstances of his services are as above stated.  That he never had any written discharge from the service Col David Flint, Joshua Putman, David Davion, and George Flint Esquires all of said Reading can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.

(Written in the margin alongside the following paragraph:)
_________
25.m  12d
whole amount served

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. 
Ebenezer Buxton

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
S.P P. Fay JUDGE OF PROBATE.

We, Reuben Emerson a clergyman, residing in South Reading aforesaid, and John Hart Esquire, a magistrate, residing in South Reading aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Buxton who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 77 years of age; that he reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
John Hart                Reuben Emerson

Subscribed and sworn to before
S.P.P. Fay J. Prob.
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And the said Court herby declares its opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that Reuben Emerson who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman resident in South Reading and that the said John Hart who has also signed the same is a Magistrate resident at South Reading and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
S.P.P. Fay J Prob
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DECLARATION

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows,"

State of Massachusetts,} 
County of Middlesex} ss

On the twenty first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the Judge of the Court of Probate in said county Susannah Buxton a resident of Reading in the county of Middlesex aged seventy eight 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 7, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of Ebenezer Buxton of said Reading who was a *private in the army of the Revolution, & according to the best of her knowledge & belief he was from the nineteenth of April in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy five, to the first of January in the succeeding year under Capt. Batchelder in Bridges Regiment, at Cambridge, a period of eight months & twelve days; that about the last of June or first of July, in the year Seventeen hundred & Seventy Six, he enlisted in Capt. James Bancrofts company, Col. Reed's Regiments, for the term of five months & continued there during that period, at Ticonderoga; that in the latter part of the Summer of the following year he enlisted in Capt. Abraham Foster's Company, Col. Benj. Browns Regiment, & continued there four months; that he was at the taking of Burgoyne & marched through Saratoga, Albany & other places to White Plains & New York; that in June or July in the year Seventeen hundred & Seventy eight, he enlisted in Capt. Edgell's company, Jacobs Regiment, in Rhode Island, & served six months; that in October of the next year he was at Albany in Capt. Addison Richardson's company & Gerrish's Regiment & served there two months & she positively declares that she is the widow of the said Ebenezer Buxton, & has never been married since his decease. (See the other side for continuance of declaration)

She further declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Buxton on the third day of June in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four; that her husband, the aforesaid Ebenezer Buxton died on the seventeenth day of October in the year eighteen hundred & thirty five 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 and ninety-four, viz.:  at the time above stated.
               her
Susannah X Buxton
               mark

Sworn to, and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me, 
S.P.P. Fay Judge of Prob -

*Here insert the rank the husband held in the army, navy, or militia, as the case may be, and specify the service performed, as directed in rule number one of these regulations.
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Continuance of Declaration - 
That he was a Pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress passed the seventh day of June in the year eighteen hundres & thirty two, & so continued until his death - I that at the time of his enlistment above mentioned, he was a resident of the Town of Reading in the County & State aforesaid; and the his name was placed on the Pension List Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, on the third day of May A.D. 1833
               her
Susannah X Buxton
               mark

Subscribed & sworn to by the said Susannah Buxton, the day & year first above written before me 
S. P. P. Fay Judge of Prob.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex County ss.
I Isaac Fiske (illegible) of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid hereby certify that Saml. P.P. Fay is now Judge of said Court & that his signature above written is his genuine signature: -

I also certify that Joshua Prescott Esquire is a justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned & (illegible) & that his signatures written on several papers hereto annexed are his genuine signatures:

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty first day of August in the year eighteen hundred & thirty eight
Isaac Fiske (illegible)
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792
Savannah Buxton
widow of Ebenezer
Mass.
act 7. July 38
3 years

Married in 1784

died in 1835

admd
2 years pri
80$

no deduction

Isaac Fiske
E. Cambridge 3Mass
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State of Massachusetts
Middlesex County ss.
Town of Reading     August 14th. 1838

I Daniel Pratt Jr. the subscriber do hereby certify that it appears by the Registry of Marriages in the Records of the Town of Reading County of Middlesex, that there is contained the following entry of Marriages viz.  June the Third Seventeen hundred eighty four Ebenezer Buxton & Susannah Damon were married by Eliab Stone Clerk."

I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the records with the exception of the date, which is expressed in fair legible figures on the record. viz 
1784.
June 3. Ebenezer Buxton & Susannah Damon were married by Eliab Stone Clerk.

I Daniel Pratt Jr above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County Town & State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Reading with the exception as above named as certified by me
Daniel Pratt Jr. Clerk of said Town of Reading

State of Massachusetts}
Middlesex County ss} August 14th AD. 1838 then the above named Daniel Pratt Jun personally appearded (appeared) and made oath the foregoing certificate by him subscribed was true And I further certify that the said Daniel Pratt Jun is a credible witness
Before me
Joshua Prescott Justice of the Peace
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21509
Ebenezer Buxton


Private 2 years
Adm'd


$80 ~




Joshua Prescott
Reading
Mass
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BRIEF in the case of Ebenezer Buxton
of Reading in the State of Mass
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Court

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  blank

3.  How old is he?  77 years

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
In 1775 - 
Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days
   - - - - - 8 - - - - -
Rank.
As a
private
Names of Generals and field Officers under whom he served.
Capt Batchelder Col Bridges

Period.
In 1777 - 
Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days
   - - - - - 4 - - - - -
Rank.
As a
-,- (private)
Names of Generals and field Officers under whom he served.
" (Capt) Foster " (Col) Browns

Period.
In 1778 - 
Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days
   - - - - - 6 - - - - -
Rank.
As a
-,- (private)
Names of Generals and field Officers under whom he served.
" (Capt) Edgells " (Col) Jacobs

Period.
In 1776 - 
Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days
   - - - - - 5 - - - - -
Rank.
As a
-,- (private)
Names of Generals and field Officers under whom he served.
" (Capt) Bancrofts " (Col) Reeds

Period.
In 1779 - 
Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days
towards 2
Rank.
As a
" (private)
Names of Generals and field Officers under whom he served.
" (Capt) Richardson " (Col) Garrish

5.  In what battles was he engaged? -

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service:  Ready Mass

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  one living witness and documentary proof

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Court

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
JW Clagett Examining Clerk.
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 18679
Susannah Buxton
Widow of
Ebenezer Buxton
Priv. Rev. War

Act: July 7th 1838
Index: - Vol. A, Page 105

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary's Office Novemr. 1832.

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 Ebenezer Buxton has served under the following Officers Viz (with allowance of extra days for Mileage.

Captains                Colonels
^ Jno. Bachellor   /  Bridge
Term of Service when Enlisted  / Ended on rolls   
1775 / April 10th                       /    Augst. 7.
Claimed    /   found       /   Rolls not
service      /   On rolls     /   found
Mo.  days  / Mo.  days   /  Mo.  days
  8      12        3..   19           4.     23.
Where Stationed.
Cambridge

Captains                Colonels
x Jas Bancroft      /  Reed
Term of Service when Enlisted  / Ended on rolls   
1776 / in June or July for
Claimed    /   found       /   Rolls not
service      /   On rolls     /   found
Mo.  days  / Mo.  days   /  Mo.  days
  5.      0         0..     0           5..     0
Where Stationed.
Ticonderoga

Captains                Colonels
^. Abram. Foster  /  S Bullard.
Term of Service when Enlisted  / Ended on rolls   
1777 / Augst. 18.                       / Novm: 30th.
Claimed    /   found       /   Rolls not
service      /   On rolls     /   found
Mo.  days  / Mo.  days   /  Mo.  days
  4.      0         3.     24           0     6
Where Stationed.
(illegible)

Captains                Colonels
^ Ben Edgell        / Jacobs
Term of Service when Enlisted  / Ended on rolls   
1778 / July 1st                          / Decm: 31st.
Claimed    /   found       /   Rolls not
service      /   On rolls     /   found
Mo.  days  / Mo.  days   /  Mo.  days
  6.      0         6.     3..          0     0
Where Stationed.
Rhode Isle

Captains                Colonels
^Adisn. Richardson  / Gerrish
Term of Service when Enlisted  / Ended on rolls   
1780 / Octr. 14th                       / Nov. 22d.
Claimed    /   found       /   Rolls not
service      /   On rolls     /   found
Mo.  days  / Mo.  days   /  Mo.  days
  2.      ..         1.     20.                  10
Where Stationed.
at (illegible)
    (illegible)

Claimed    /   found       /   Rolls not
service      /   On rolls     /   found
Mo.  days  / Mo.  days   /  Mo.  days
                                           10     9  Short
                                                    3  over    
 25.     12.       15   ..6           0      0

Amont of whole time Fifteen months & six days found on Rolls.  

It further appears that he was enroll'd & served in Ben Edgell co. as Corporal 6 mo. and in Addison Richardson Co. as Sergent, one month & twenty days, also that was a Corporal in Abraham Fosters Company three months & twenty four days.
Edward D. Bangs Sec.
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David Parker's
Depo for
Ebenr. Buxton



Ebenezer Buxton

21509
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I David Parker of Reading in the County of Middlesex and state of Massachusetts do depose and say, that I enlisted in Cambridge as a private in the service of the United States for the term of eight months in the Company commanded by Cap John Batchelder in Col Bridge's Regiment and in said Cambridge, and service from the time 19th of April AD. 1775. till the first of January 1776 when we were regularly discharged.  I had at first went as a minute man in said Company to Lexington and pursued the British Troops to Bunker hill in Charlestown thence the company in which I was went to Cambridge where we were stationed and there performed military duty till we enlisted, which was for 8 months as aforesaid and was also in the forepart of May or the latter part of April, and I served as aforesaid from the 19th of April 1775 to the first of January 1776. a period of time between eight and nine months, during which time I was well acquainted with Ebenezer Buxton of the same Reading who went in said Company with me to Lexington on said 19 of April and served with me in said Company from that time to the first day of January 1776. 
August 30th AD. 1832
David Parker
David Parker

State of Massachusetts
Middlesex County ss.
On this thirteenth day of August AD. 1832 personally appeared the above named David Parker and made oath that the facts stated in the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed were true before me & I further certify that said David Parker is a credible witness. 
Joshua Prescott Jus. Peace
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Payments to be made
at Boston Mass
by The Pay U S B Bank
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the 
Agency of Mass. 





Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E. Vol.2
Page (illegible) by
J H Mc Blair, Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Ebenezer Buxton of the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Eighty dollars and ___ cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this Second day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Lew Cass
Secretary of War.

Examined and}
Countersigned.}
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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State of Massachusetts}
Middlesex County ss}

I John Weston of Reading in said County of Middlesex Esquire do depose and say that Ebenezer Buxton of said Reading who was a pensioner of the United States at his decease, died some time in October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five.  that Savannah Buxton of said Reading the within applicant is his widow and has never been married since his decease.
August 21t AD 1838.
John Weston

State of Massachusetts}
Middlesex County} ss.
August 21t 1838 the above named John Weston personally appeared and made oath that the facts stated in the foregoing deposition by him subscribed were true; and I further certify that said John Weston is a credible witness.

Before me.
Joshua Prescott Justice of the Peace
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State of Massachusetts
Middlesex County ss.

I Elijah Buxton of Reading in the County of Middlesex aforesaid do depose and say that Ebenezer Buxton late of said Reading yeomen deceased who was a pensioner of the United States at the time of his decease, died on the seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five; that Savannah Buxton of said Reading the within applicant is his widow and has never been married since his decease.
Elijah Buxton
August 21t 1838


State of Massachusetts}
Middlesex County ss} August 21t AD 1838
Then the above named Elijah Buxton personally appeared and made oath that the facts stated in the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed were true.  And I further certify that the above named Elijah Buxton is a credible witness

Before me Joshua Prescott Jus. of Peace
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2127
Ebenezer Buxton







Jushua Prescott
Reading 
Mass
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Ebenezer Buxton which require further proof or explanation.

I.  does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  yes

II.  Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?  yes

III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?  blank

IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  yes

V.  *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?  yes

VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  yes

VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  yes

VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion?  yes

IX.  Has the Clerk given his certificate?  yes

X.  Is the Clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?  yes
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XI.  Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman, and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  living witness

XII.  If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  no

XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?  blank

XIV.  +If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?  yes

XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?  yes

XVI.  ++Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  yes

XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  And, if not, which of them is not so answered?  blank

EXPLANATIORY NOTES.

* QUERE V.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades;  For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a __________  For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____;  and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

+ QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

++ QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
-> In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
FORM VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*


NAME Buxton, Elyjah  GRADE Private  LINE Maryland

WARRANT 
NUMBER 10951  ACREAGE 100  ISSUED March 11,1791
To - not shown -

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.