Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12881, Eber Everts, Conn. Continental Green Mountain Boys
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SERVICE
Conn.
Continental
Green Mountain Boys.
Everts or Evarts, Eber

NUMBER
S. 12881
carded
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28.121 Vermont
Eber Evarts
of Middlebury, in the State of Vermont who was a private in the _______ commanded by Captain Grant of the Reg commanded by Col. Allen in the Troops for 15 months Eber Everts 
Conn., Green Mt. Boys and Contintental
Records corrected January 22 /06

Inscribed in the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 50 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued on the 5th day of March 1834 and sent to Hon W. Slade Ho. of Reps

Arrears to the 4th of March 1834       150
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept.     25
                                                                 175
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by [] Burdine   Clerk, Book E Vol. 3 Page 63
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State of Vermont,      on this 16th day of July  Addison County, Yr A.D. 1832 personally appeared before me, Samuel S. Phelps one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont Eber Everts a resident of Middlebury in the County and State aforesaid aged 79 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—
The he entered into the service of the United States under the following named officer and served as herein states viz.
In the month of May 1775 being then a resident of Salisbury in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut but being in the town of Middlebury in said State of Vermont he volunteered in company with the Late Major John Chipman. Afterward a Captain in Warner's Regt. to go with Ethan Allen on a expedition against the Forts of Ticonderoga and Crown Point — that he joined the party under the command of Cols Ethan Allen at Whiting in this county and was present and serving at the capture of said two Forts  after the capture of the forts and when most of Allen's corps was about to disperse this deponent volunteered to remain for the [--] of composing one of the garrisons of the fort and on that occasion enlisted and engaged for one month and did remain and [--] during the month under the command of Capt Grant of Poultney Vermont who at that time had command
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of the fort at Ticonderoga. About the time said month expired the troops began to arrive from Connecticut, the first that arrived were a company under the command of Capt. Nath. Buell of Salisbury Conn & belonging to Colo. Hinman's Regt of Connecticut troops. This deponent enlisted into said company under Capt Buell (without leaving the Fort,) for the period of nine months and served under said Buell until some time in December 1775 when the term of service of the troops having expired we were discharged.

He further states that in Jany or Feby 1776 he enlisted with said Salisbury into Capt Luther Stoddard's Company in Colo. Charles Burrells Regt of the Connecticut line and in February 1776 marched with said Regt. to Lake George, Ticonderoga and Crown Point at which last place he being sick with the fever and ague and unable to proceed he was sent off by his officers into Vermont to regain his health. That  [illegible] in Augt. this deponent having sufficiently recovered to report himself proceeded to Mount Independence where the Regt. [Has] lay and reported himself to his Captain but in consequence of his ill health was furloughed for the [remainder] of the year. He further states that he volunteered afterwards on the following occasions viz at the time that the British [ascended] the Hudson and burnt Esopus, at the time of the Battle of Bennington, and when the [American] Army lay at Stillwater shortly before the battle at that place but was out only a few days at those times.

he further states that he has no document[ary] evidence to prove his said service and that
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he knows of only one witness now living by whom he can prove the same though he could prove [the] service as stated by Colo. John Chipman the Hon. Gamaliel Painter and others were they living. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Rolls of the agency of any State. 

Eben Evart

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me the deponent being most obviously unable to attend in open court for that person by a case of bodily infirmity.
Saml. S. Phelps Judge Sup Ct

We Justice Hyde and Paul Champlain both resideing in Middlebury in the county of Addison and State of Vermont hereby certify that we are acquainted with Eben Everts who has [--] and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood which he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion —
Joshua Hyde
PChamplin

Sworn and subscribed before me
Saml. S. Phelps Judge Sup. Ct.

I certify that I have for many years been personally acquainted with the said Eben Evert as aslo with Joshua Hyde Paul Champlain and Stephen Holley whose affidavits accompany this declaration that they are all persons of high standing in public estimation as men of probity and general
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integrity and that full credit may safely be given to their statements. — And further that I have no doubt that said Everts served in the Revolutionary War as stated by him in his declaration above subscribed by him.
Saml. S. Phelps Judge Sup. Ct. of the State of Vermont

State of Vermont Addison County [--] }
On this 26th day of July A.D. 1833 personally appeared before me Saml. S. Phelps one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont, Eben Everts the deponent named above; and being duly sworn deposeth and saith the he served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary War for the following periods viz under Colo Ethan Allen as stated in his original declaration for one month, and under Capt. Buell in Hinman's Regt. for the further period of nine months and under Capt. Stoddard of Burrell's Regt. including the time that he was on furlough as stated in his original declaration for the period of twelve months which was the term of his last mentioned enlistment making in all the period of twenty two months for which he claims a pension.

Eben Evarts

Subscribed and sworn the day and year above written before me Saml. S. Phelps Judge of the Sup. Court of Vermont
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Rev'nary
12.881
INVALID.

File No. 12.881
Eben Everts
Brv. Re[?] [--]
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:—Vol. [blank], Page [blank]
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Eber Everts
Records corrected
Junly22, 1906.
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[Surfunded?]
15 w'
$50 per annum
Hon. W. Slade
HR
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J.S. Edwards, Esq.
Sir,
I hand you herewith the [declaration] of Eben Evarts. I perceive that Mr Evarts statement of his services is sustained as to 6 months in 1775, and 7 months in 1776. The fact of his sickness up to August 1776 (which occasioned a part, at least, of the furlough which has been deemed improbable) having established by the testimony of Stphen Holley, whom I know to be a man of truth, renders more probable his statement with regard to his being further furloughed for the remainder of the year.

I am well acquainted with Mr Evarts. He is one of the oldest and most reputable of the inhabitants of the twon in which I reside, is a man of established reputation for the truth, has the full possession of his faculties — and I have no doubt of the truth of his whole statement.
William Slade Mc
January 8, 1834
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I Stephen Holly of careful age testify and say that in the spring of the year 1775 I [i]nlisted into the service of the United States, under Capt. Nathaniel Buell in Col Hinman's Regiment at Canaan in the state of Connecticut, I soon afer marched from thence to Ticonderoga [--] Eben Everts then of Salisbury in the state of Connecticut now of Middlebury in Vermont [i]nlisted into same Company for the time of nine months & served in said Company through the said term.

I further say that in the month of January of the year 1776 I [in]listed at said Canaan into the Company of Capt. Luther Stoddard in the Regiment of Col. Charles Burrall for the term of one year and that the said Eben Everts [in]listed about the same time into the same Company. From thence we march to Mt. Independence in Orwell VT where the said Eben Everts was taken sick & we left him behind and pursued our march to [Liesbeck] where we arrived the 29th day of March & stayed until the 6th day of May when we commenced a retreat and got back to Mt. independence in the Course of summer of the same year when I again saw the said Eben Everts who reported himself to the Captain of said Company. 
Stephen Holley
Thereabove sworn to this 19th day of July 1832
Before me
Norman [Tupper] Just. of peace

I hereby certify that the above deponent Stephen Holley is a creditable witness
Norman Tupper Just. peace
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STATE OF VERMONT,}
Addison County ss.    }

I, EDWARD D. BARBER, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Addison, do hereby certify that the annexed documents contain the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Eben Everts for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 31st day of July A.D. 1832
Edward D. Barber 
Clerk
[seal]
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State of Vermont
I, William A. Palmer, Governor of the state of Vermont, do hereby certify, that Saml S. Phelps, before whom the foregoing Declaration was taken and sworn, was at the date of said Declaration, a judge of the Supreme Court of said state, duly appointed and qualified as such, and that the signature attached to said Declaration is in his own proper hand writing. I do also hereby certify, that Norman Tupper, before whom the preceding affadavit of Stephen Holly was sworn, was at the date of said affadavit a Justice of the Peace for the County of Addison in said state, duly appointed and qualified as such and that his hand writing; and that full faith and credit are due to the official attestations of both Phelps and said Tupper.

In testimony whereof I have hereby set my hand and pressed the seal of said state to be affixed, [ad Domini], this 31st day of July D. 1832 and of the Independence of the United States the fifty seventh.
WA Palmer
By the Governor
Edward D. Barber, Secretary.
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Declaration of Eben Everts
No. 5226
[PO] Aug 1832

Hon W. Slade
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Explanatory Declaration of Ebe[n] Everts.
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State of Vermont, on this 18th day of February 1834, [before] Addison District } the Probate court for the said District of Addison, personally appeared Ebe[r] Everts residing in [--] [--] in said District aged eighty one years, and being duly sworn make the following declaration, in addition to and explanation of his former declaration, made before the Hon. Samuel S. Phelps, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832:
In the month of January or the first of February 1776, at the town of Salisbury, County of Litchfield, Connecticut, where I then resided, I enlisted into a company of Connecticut State troops, commanded by Capt. Luther Stoddard in a regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Burrell — in the month of February we marched to Albany — where I was taken sick, with the fever & ague, contracted, as I always supposed by being in the service on Lake Champlain the year before; notwithstanding my sickness, I was carried along with the company to Crown Point on Lake Champlain. At this place, being too sick to proceed further, Captain Stoddard agreed with Gen. John Strong, who resided in Addison, Vermont, opposite to Crownpoint [Crown Point], to take me to his house and take care of me: I think it was about the first of March that I went to Gen. Strong's, and I remained there until about the first of May: the cˆompany to which I belonged in the meantime went on to Canada. At this time, I requested Gen. Strong to send word to Joshua Hyde, my brother-in-law, who then resided in Middlebury aforesaid, about twenty miles distant, & inform him of my situation[.] I request him to come & carry me to his home: this he did and said Hyde came after me with a horse and carried me to his house. Here I continued sick,  — having the fits of fever & ague every other day until the middle of June after which I had them irregularly, — sometimes every day, and sometimes one in two or three days, until about the
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middle of July, when they left me entirely. About this time finding a horse, which, it was wanted should be taken to Carleton, I went to that place, where I had an uncle serving, it being about thirty miles, I was able to reach that place on horseback the second day. At this place I remained from the last of July to about the 20th of August, when my uncle assisted me to go to Whitehall, at the south end of Lake Champlain; where I found a boat going to Mount Independence, in which I went to that place; where I found the regiment, and reported myself to Captain Stoddard; who directed me to go into a tent with the company. A few days after, the Colonel & Captain saw & examined me together, and in some doubt what ought to be done with me — and a few days after, Capt. Stoddard came to see me, & said he wanted procure a furlough for me to the end of my term of enlistment. — which was one year. — Soon after, he brought me the furlough, signed by an officer, then stationed at Ticonderoga, opposite Mount Independence, whose name I have forgotten, but who signed as Major General, if I am not mistaken. I then left the camp and with the assistance of my uncle at Castleton, I reached my home, at Salisbury, Connecticut. About the expiration of the term of enlistment, — about the middle of January 1777. Captain Stoddard & his company returned home; and he called to see me. I had remained sick & am unable to do any business until this time, & for some time after. — Not long after the return of the troops, the paymaster came to Salis'. and I received my pay for the whole year. — In the spring of the year 1775, I came to Middlebury, for the purpose of working through the summer, and was in this place when I enlisted in the service, that year; but I returned to Salisbury in the fall, where my residence there was
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with my father & where I resided in 1776 when I entered the service above mentioned. 
E[u]ben Everts

Subscribed, at the request of the declarant, he being[--], and sworn this 18th day of January 1834.
Saml. Swift, Judge

State of Vermont}
Addison District} I, Edward D. Barber, Register of the Probate Court for the said District of Addison, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the general proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the applicatioin of Eben Everts for a pension.

Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 18th day of February 1834. —
E. D. Barber, Register.