Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17271, Eleazer Bennett, N. H.
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SERVICE N.H.

Bennett, Eleazer

NUMBER  S. 17271

carded
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10,383
New Hampshire
Ebenezer Bennett
of Strafford in the State of N H who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain [blank]of the Regt commanded by Col Tash in the N H line for 9 mo 24 days

Inscribed on the Roll of N H at the rate of 32 Dollars 67 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of April 1833 and sent John A. Richardson Durham N.H.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 - - - - - $65.34
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sepr " - - 16.33
[total] $81.67

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by J H McBlair Clerk
Book E  Vol.1st  Page73.
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Eleazer Bennett
Application for Pension
18667
on Roll Capt Emerson's Co. Col Tash's Regt.
9 Mo 24 days
Private
$32.67

John A Richardson E[sq}
Durham
N H
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State of New Hampshire
County of Strafford ss }  Probate Court for said County holden at Dover On this Seventeenth day of September A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of Probate for said County of Strafford now sitting at Dover in said County, Eleazer Bennett a resident of Durham in said County of Strafford aged Eighty two 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 7th 1832.
That he entered the army of the United States in September 1775 as a substitute for Trueworthy Durgin, a private in the Revolutionary army in the Regiment commanded by Col Enoch Poor, Lt Col John McDuffie and Major Joseph Cilly, under the following company officers to wit, Winborn Adams Captain, John Griffin Lieut and Zebulon Drew Ensign, at Winter Hill near Boston, and continued through said Durgin's term of service which was three months in the continental line. The first of December following, he enlisted in the Militia service of New Hampshire in the Regiment commanded by Col. John Waldron, and in the Company commanded by Alpheus Chesley Capt, ,Archelaus Woodman, Lieut, and Zacheus Clough, Ensign for the term of six weeks which service he performed with said Company at Cambridge Mass.  At the expiration of the first term of service of six weeks, he renewed his engagement for a further term of six weeks in the same company at the same place and commanded by the same officers.  The Lt Col and Major of our Regt I do not remember, although I remember that adjutant Gen. Scammel was the acting officer in command.  I was discharged about the middle of March 1776.  In September 1776 he volunteered to go to New York in the Militia company commanded by Smith Emerson Capt, Joseph Thomas 1st Lieut. James Libby 2d Lieut & John Church Ensign, said Company belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Tash, Lieut Col. ___ Welch and Major ___  McGregor for the term of three months.  The company marched from Durham New Hamp to Exeter thence on through Haverhill and Worcester Mass to Hartford and New Haven Conn. thence to Horseneck so called, to Kingsbridge to Courtlands Manor in New York on the East side of Hudson River below Kings Ferry, where he was stationed
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and thence up and down said River guarding three English ships of war called the Rose, Roebuck and Phoenix and their Tenders then lying in said River. That he continued at said Station four months although his term of enlistment was but for three months, the inhabitants of the manor requesting it, being in an excited state of alarm, and was paid for four months service in the currency of those times.  At the times of the said several periods of enlistment he resided in Durham New Hamp where he was born and where he now resides. He further says, that he has no documentary evidence of his service, his discharges having been parol [parole?]  discharges, and that after diligent inquiry and search he can procure no other evidence of his services except what is contained in the accompanying affidavits of Dan Woodman, David Davis and Robert Hill.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any State
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid. 
[signed] Eleazer Bennett

And the said Court do hereby declare its opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.
[signed] Daniel C. Atkinson Judge of Probate

I James Bartlett, Register of Probate for the County of Strafford do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court of Probate in the matter of the application of Eleazer Bennett for a pension.  In testimony. whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 17 day of September AD. 1832
[signed] James Bartlett
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17,271
INVALID.
File No.  17,271
Eleazer Bennett
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index: -- Vol. 1 Page 423
[in brackets] Arrangement of 1870.
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10,383
New Hampshire
Eleazer Bennett
of Strafford in the State of N H who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded by Col Tash in the N H line for 9 mo 24 days

Inscribed on the Roll of N H at the rate of 32 Dollars 67 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of Apl 1833 and sent John A. Richardson Durham N.H.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 - - - - - $65.34
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sepr " - - 16.33
[total] $81.67

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by J H McBlair Clerk
Book E  Vol.1  Page73.
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Widow of Ebenezer Bennett  21665 [NH crossed out] X crf 2268
[ditto marks   -   -  -  -  - -  - ]   470 N.J.
[ditto marks   -   -  -  -  - -  - ] 23118  Conn.
[ditto marks   -   -  -  -  - -  - ] 12163  N.Y.

Ebenezer Bennett  ($43.33 Oct 20 1832) arrow from above 12163  X same  Crf 873
widow Sarah [Bennett]  crf 7427  July 14, 1843  7427

Eleazer Bennett   17271  crf 10383
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Payments to be made at Portsmouth N H 
by the [Pry?] the U. S. Bank
Agent for paying Pensioners, 
in the Agency of N H

Corrected

Recorded in the Pension Office, 
in Book E. Vol. 1st Page 73,
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 Bennett of the State of New Hampshire who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Thirty Two dollars and Sixty Seven 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 Sixth day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
[signed] Lew Cass
Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned. }
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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I Dan. Woodman of New Market, N Hamp aged Eighty three years, a Pensioner of the United States for Revolutionary services, depose and say that I have known Eleazer Bennett of Durham from childhood, that in the year 1775 in September he went from Durham New Hamp. where he then resided as has ever since resided, to Winter Hill in Massachusetts and entered the Company there stationed commanded by Capt Winborn Adams as a substitute for Trueworthy Durgin, a private in said Company, with whom also I was well acquainted, and that said Bennett remained and in said Company three or four months, and then returned to said Durham where he remained but a short time, and then returned to Cambridge Mass and joined the company commanded by Capt. Alpheus Chesley of Durham - after that time in Decr 1775, I had no acquainted with Capt Bennetts services
Dan Woodman X his mark
Witness to Dan Woodmans Signature [signed] Jno A. Richardson

I David Davis of Durham in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire aged seventy two years in October next depose and say that I have known Eleazer Bennett of said Durham from my earliest childhood, that in September 1776, he the said Bennett and myself volunteered to go to New York in the militia Company commanded by Capt Smith Emerson of Lee N Hamp . Said Bennett with myself marched from said Durham to Worcester Massachusetts and thence to Hartford and New Haven Conn. thence through Horse neck so called, Kingsbridge to Courtlands Manor in New York on the East side of Hudson River where we were stationed thence up and down said River, guarding three English Ships of war and their tenders then lying in said River.  The said Bennett and myself enlisted for the term of three months but at the urgent  request of the citizens of the manor was continued four months on the same duty, and was paid for four 
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months in the currency of that period. After the expiration of said four months Bennett and myself returned from New York to Durham where we both resided and still reside
David Davis X his mark
Witness, Jno A. Richardson

I Robert Hill of Nottingham in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, in the Seventy fourth year of my age depose and say, that in the year 1775 I resided in Durham New Hampshire as an apprentice at the Hatters trade, that the first of December of that year I enlisted in a militia Company commanded by Capt Alpheus Chesley of Durham, Lieut Archilaus Woodman and Ensign Zacheus Clough, and marched from said Durham to Cambridge near Boston Mass. (halting for a few days at Mystick) where we barracked in the upper story of one of the College buildings, in which Company I remained doing duty until the British left Boston in March 1776.
I further depose and say that Eleazer Bennett of said Durham joined said Chesley's Company at Durham with me and marched in said Company to Mystick & Cambridge and remained in said Company doing duty as a private during the whole time until we returned home together about the twentieth of March 1776, where I served out my time as an apprentice to the Hatters trade
Since which time I have been well acquainted with said Bennett.
[SIGNED] Robert Hill 

State of New Hampshire,
Strafford ss. }   January 31st, 1833. I hereby certify that Dan Woodman, David Davis & Robert Hill who have subscribed the foregoing affidavits are entitled to credit, and are entirely disinterested persons.
[signed] John A. Richardson, Jus. Peace.
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss }  September 12th 1832, Then Dan Woodman and David Davis who have subscribed the foregoing affidavits personally appeared, and severally made oath to the truth of the statements therein contained, before me,
[signed] John A. Richardson, Justice of the peace

State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss. } September 13th 1832 Then Robert Hill personally appeared and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true, before me,
[signed] John A. Richardson, Justice of the peace

State of New Hampshire
Stafford ss   I James Bartlett Register of the Court of Probate for said County do hereby certify that John A. Richardson whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is a Justice of the peace for said County of Strafford and that said signature is genuine
In witness whereof I have hereto caused the official Seal to be affixed this 17th day September AD 1832
[signed] James Bartlett Reg
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-31
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Bennett, Eleazer    GRADE Private  LINE Connecticut

WARRANT NUMBER 5412   ACREAGE  100   ISSUED Sept. 24, 1790 to Peleg Sanford

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.