Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35367, Ezra Twitchell, Continental (Mass.)
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Continental ( Mass) Twitchell, Ezra S.35367
                                  Twithchett
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5672
Maine
Ezra Twitchell
Capt. Watkins Private
Twitchell Mass.
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Dist. of Maine at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence the 23 or April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of Jany. 1819 and set to Judge Parris, Paris Maine

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1818 
4 mos. 12/30   35.20
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1819   48.00
$83.20

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

Continental
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Ezra Twitchell
No 5672
Oxford County

Jan 19
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State of Maine
Oxford SS at a Circuit Court of Common Pleas begun and holden at Paris within and for the county of Oxford on the fourth Tuesday of July A. D. 1820 before the Honorable Judah Dana Judge of said Court.
On this 25th day of July in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment" and being a Court of Record for said county of Oxford, Ezra Twitchell aged 74 years, resident in said county who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Nathan Watkins in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration made on the 23d day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension numbered 5672 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; ad 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 tht I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any prperty or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other that what is contained in the schudule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family are in fact and in truth as is particularly described below, also subscribed by me.
Ezra Twitchell
Sworn to and declared, on the 25th day of July A. d. 1820
Before Judah Dana Judge of said Court.

Schedule of real and personal estate (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Real este-an old saw mill and priviledge much out of repair-Household furniture valued at twenty Dollars.
Ezra Twitchell
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SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Ezra Twitchell who by occupation am a farmer which I am unable to pursue by reason of blindness and a breach

Names/ Ages/ Capacity of each to contribute to their support
Susanna my wife/ 72 yrear/very infirm.
Ezra Twitchell

Oxford ss.
I Thomas Clark. Clerk of the Circuit Court of  Common Pleas for the said county of Oxford do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do 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 Ninety four  dollars and eighty  cents $ 94.80
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said  Court on this 20th day of July A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty 
Thomas Clark Clerk of the Circuirt Court of C.P for the said county of Oxford.
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Bethel April 21 1818
We the subscribers Selectmen of Bethel being personally aquainted with the sircumstances of Deacon Ezra Twitchell of Bethel do sertify that in our opinion he is intitled to (by reason of his reduced circumstances in life) and is in need of his country support.
Joha. Abbot
Samuel Chapman Selectmen of Bethel
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Ezra Twitchell
Private
Col. Phinney-Mass line
Jan 7, 76 1 year
Apr 23, 1818

Admitted

Ezra Twitchell
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 I Ezra Twitchelle, a resident citizen of the United States of America an  inhabitant of Bethel in the county of Oxford and State of Massachusetts aged seventy one years , do testify and say that on the first of January A.D. 1776 I  enlisted at Cambridge  Massachusetts , into the army of the said United States on the continental establiment for term of  one year as a private soldier in Capt. Nathan Wadkin;s company Col. Phinney's regiment and according to my best recollection in Gen Wm. Heath's, brigade in the Massachuettes line. which term of one year I served at Boston,  Cambridge,  and Tionderoga at at the expiration thereof I was verbally discharged . I further testify that by reason of my reduced circumstances  in my life , I stand  in need of assistance from my country , for support and that I am not borne on any pension list of  the United States .
Ezra Twitchell
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United States of America
District of Maine ss.

To Amos Hills of Bethel in said District, esq.
Greeting
Whereas at a special District Court of said United States for Maine District holden at Paris within said District on the twenty third day of April AD. 1818.
Ezra Twitchell of Bethel in said District presented himself and claimed a certificate of his having served in the War of the Revolution against the common enemy for the purpose of acquiring a pension from said United States, agreeable to the provisions of an act of Congress passed March
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18, 1818 entitled " an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States during the  Revolutionary war" and whereas in the course of the examination here had it appears that the testimony of Eli Twitchell and Moses Mason both of Bethel in said district is material and necessary in support of said application. Therefore to the end that the testimony as foresaid may be had and by virtue of the power vested in this Court, by the laws of the United States, you the said Amos Hills are hereby appended and authorised at the proper expense of the applicant to take the depositions of the said Eli Twitchell and
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Moses Mason and the same when taken together with this warrant to certify and return to the Judge of said Court without unnecessary delay.
Given under my hand and seal at Paris in said District this twenty third day of April A.D. 1818
Albion K. Parris
Judge of the United States in and for the Dist. of Maine
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Maine District, ss
(seal)
BE IT REMEMBERED that on the twenty third day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came Ezra Twitchell the applicant named in the papers hereunto annexed and after being duly cautioned and examined, made oath that the several statements by him made in the annexed application, signed in my presence, are wholly true.
And the said applicant further offered in evidence the depositions of Eli Twitchell and Moses Mason taken before Amos Hills, a reputable magistrate appointed by dedimus for this purpose, and the certificate of Jona. Abbot and Samuel Chapman municipal officers of the corporation to which said applicant belongs, relative to said applicants circumstances in life, all which are hereuntoannexed.
And it appearing to me in the examination her had, that the several persons above named are credible witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexed declaration as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory proof to me that the said Ezra Twitchell the applicant, served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for the term of nine month and upwards, in continuation on the continental establishment. And I do further certify that from the declaration of the applicant made before me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appear that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support; all which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War agreeably to the provisions of an Act of Congress, passed March 18,1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war".
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused my official Seal to be affixed the day and year first mentioned.
Albion K. Parris
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine.
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information as contained in his (missing)
sion on file in this Bureau. Ezra Twitchell S. File 35,367

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment: Jan 1 1776
Length of Service: 1 yr
Rank: Sgt.
Officers under whom service was rendered:
Capt. Nathan Watkins, Colonel Phinney
State: Mass (continental)

Battles engaged in: (blank)
Residence of soldier at enlistment: enlisted at Cambridge, Mass.
Date of application for pension: Apr. 23, 1818 His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application: Bethel, Oxford Co., Maine
Age at date of application: 71 yrs.
Remarks: Soldier died May 26, 1821
In 1820 Susannah his wife was 72 yrs of age.
Very respectfully
Commissioner

from A. B.
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We Eli Twitchell and Moses Mason of Bethel in the county of Oxford and Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify and say that as we are well acquainted with Ezra Twitchell now of said Bethel in the continental services in the revolution war and to our certain knowledge said Ezra Twitchell served the full term of one year as a sergant in Capt. Wadkins company, Col Phinney regiment in what Brigade no not but in the Massachusetts line on the continental establishment.
Eli Twitchell
Moses Mason

Oxford ss April 30 1818
Then personally appeared the above named Eli Twitchell and Moses Mason and made oath to the truth of the foregoing statement by them subscribed before me,
Amos Hills Justice peace.
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Rev sec

134 Lavinwith St.
Milwaukee, Wis.

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir:
Have you any record of a pension being granted to Ezra Twitchell of Colonel Edmund Phinney's Regiment who was a Revolutionary soldier.
I would like to know whether he was an officer and if so, his rank.
Can you tell what battles he was in?
His father Joseph Twitchell of Sherborne Mass. is credited with being a Captain as well as Representative. he is reported
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as Commissary in the War of 1776. Have you any record of this? Would his service as a Captain of Militia entitle him to the  title?
Please send me whatever records you may have of these two men.
Very Sincerely yours,
Mrs. W. E.) Mary E. Anderson
May 5th 1918
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35367
Revy INVALID
File No. 35,567
Ezra Twitchell
Pri Rev. War
Act 18th March 19
Index: Vol. D, Page 426

[Arrangement of 1870]

1911 Jan. 20 Hist. to Mrs. Milton J. Brittain
1911 Apr. 14 Hist to Miss Anna C. Mason
1918 May 14 to Mrs. W. E. Anderson