Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,806, Ebenezer Upham, Mass
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Mass     Upham, Ebenezer. R.10,806
                             Tamar
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Vermont 
Ebenezer Upham
Shepherd’s Reg Private
Massachusetts?
In the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed in the Roll of Vermont at the rate of eight Dollars per month 1st [  ] the 4th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of November and sent, HonB O.C. Merrill, House of Representatives 
Arrears in [ ] of September 18, 1818
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Ebenezer Upham
Petitons -

Admitted
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I Ebenezer Upham of Bennington in the county of Bennington and that of Vermont testify and say that in the month of June AD 1780 I enlisted into the Continental Service for three years, under Capt. John Drury in the Second Regiment Massachusetts line. commanded by Col. John Sprout. In August I was selected to drive a team for about 3 Mo under Capt Holland - I was then transferred into Capt Caleb Clapp's company. 4 Massachusetts regiment. Commanded by Col. Sheppard - I was afterwards transferred into Col. Dorci's or Dori's regiment; I then was placed back into Col. Sprouts regiment -- I did duty sometime in boating from Peekskill to Fiskill. I had a command. I served by time out faithfully, and was honorably discharged at West Point from Col. Sprouts regiment, but have lost my discharge.
I further testify, and say, that by reason of reduced circumstances in life, I am in need of assistance from my country for support - that I am now confined on the. limits of the goal for the sum of nine dollars.
- Ebenezer Upham
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State of Vermont
Bennington County
Bennington April 4th 1818

Then personally appeared Ebenezer Upham and made oath that the facts by him stated in the written affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth - 
before me John H Olin Cers' Judge of C.Court

The written named Ebenezer Upham resident in Bennington made the foregoing declaration under oath, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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"
John H Olin Cer' Judge of C Court
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We Louis Upham & Symon Upham testify and say that our father some years since was a man of handsome property but is now so reduced that he owns no real estate - Tis not possesed of any house or or law - & is now on the limits of the gaol yard & cannon support himself & others in the family without assistance.

Louis Upham
Symon Upham

Sworn before me
Charles Cushman Justis of Peace

I Herman Robinson of Bennington in the county of Bennington testify & say that I am acquainted with Ebenezer Upham of Bennington and consider that he is destitue of every kind of property except a little household furniture.
Herman Robinson
Sworn before me John H Olin Cert Judge C Court [somewhat illegible]
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I Anthony J Maxwell of [illegile] do testify and say I live next door to Ebenezer Upham and that his family daily suffer for the necessities of life and that if he or his family should be sign for any length of time he must be supported by Charity of neighbors for the town.
Anthony J. Maswell

Sworn before John H Olin Cert' Judge of C Court
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To the Honourable John C Calhoun Secretary for the Department of War
I John Olin Judge of the County Court with in & for the County of Bennington of State of Vermont, having carefully examined under oaths E. Upham am satisfied that he served in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy - as stated in his affidavit by him described; I have also examined his and other persons of credibility  whose supporting his property & consider him in need of assistance from government for support. I therefore herewith transmit his affidavit together with the affidavits of Herman Robinson, Louis Upham & Lymon Upham and Anthony J Haswell. In witness where of I have hereunto caused the seal of our Court to be affixed. Done at Bennington this 4th  day of April AD 1818
John H Olin Cert Judge of C Court
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Ebenezer Upham
Bennington, Bennington Vt
declaration
DRS
Col Sprout

declaration 4 April 1818
no date of certificate
no number

4510
18 Nov 1818
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DISTRICT OF VERMONT, SS/
ON this 22nd day of June 1820 personally appeared in open court, being a county court and court of record, which has power to fine and imprison, and is constituted a court of record by a special act of Legislature of the state of Vermont, creating said court, within and for the county of Bennington, and state of Vermont, Ebenezer Upham aged 56 years, resident in Bennington is said county of Bennington who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary was, as follows:

I served in the company, commanded by Capt. John Drury in the 2nd regiment, commanded by Col. John Sprout of the Massachusetts line, during the service I was several times transferred into either companies + other commands. as will appear by my original declaration on file in the War office, dated 4th day of April 1818 on which original declaration I have received a pension certificate bearing no number-

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed 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 further persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 18418; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, and debts, due to me; not have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

The following schedule of all real and personal estate, to wit:
one pig. 1/2 dozen knives and forks. Tea kettle, 1 table. fine chest. 1 pan kettle, chains, 1 bureau, 5 old pewter plates, 2 old platters, shovel and tongs, 2 pt tumblers, 1 pine chest, 1 candlestand, and some tilling articles.
I am a day laborer + unable to labor only about one third part of the time. I have a wife Tammar aged 47 afflicted with an asthma. one girl, Maria aged 6 years healthy. one daughter May aged 2 years healthy.
[Signed: Ebenezer Upham]

Sworn to and declared in Bennington in the county of Bennington, and state of Vermont, on the 22nd day of June 1820 in open court, before [Signed: Joel Pratt] Clerk

I, Joel Pratt clerk of Bennington County Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration, oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify it is the opinion that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is 15 dollars and 96 cents.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 27th day of June 1820
[Signed: Joel Pratt] Clerk of the Court for the county of Bennington
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V 4419

James Upham
AD July 5th 1838
[this is very faint and may be transfer from another document]

Hon. C H Mitchell H R
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838 Entitled an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.
State of New York
Orleans County ss. on this twenty-fifth day of January 1839 personally appeared before the Judge of the County of Common Pleas in the County of Orleans sitting as a Court of Record, Tamar Upham, a resident to the Town of Shelby, County and State aforesaid, aged sixty-five years on the thirteenth day of February next to 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, papered[?] July 7th 1838, Entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of Ebenezer Upham who was a private soldier in the Army of the Revolution of the Massachusetts line. She further declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Upham in the town of Leicester, Worcester County, State of Massachusetts on the twenty-first day of July in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-three by Nathan Daney of the town, County, + State aforesaid, and that her husband the aforesaid Ebenezer Upham died on the seventeenth day of August Eighteen hundred and thirty-one and that her maiden name was Tamar King, that she was not married to the said Ebenezer Upham prior to his leaving the service and that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four viz: at the time + place above stated, and this affidavit further states that in the month of October eighteen hundred and seventeen she and her said husband Ebenezer Upham removed from Massachusetts and came to Vermont town of Bennington, Bennington County, where they resided when her said husband was enrolled as a pensioner as she, this affidavit has always been informed + believes about the year 1819 and from that term until his death her drew a 
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838 Entitled an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.
State of New York
Orleans County ss. on this twenty-fifth day of January 1839 personally appeared before the Judge of the County of Common Pleas in the County of Orleans sitting as a Court of Record, Tamar Upham, a resident to the Town of Shelby, County and State aforesaid, aged sixty-five years on the thirteenth day of February next to 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, papered[?] July 7th 1838, Entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of Ebenezer Upham who was a private soldier in the Army of the Revolution of the Massachusetts line. She further declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Upham in the town of Leicester, Worcester County, State of Massachusetts on the twenty-first day of July in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-three by Nathan Daney of the town, County, + State aforesaid, and that her husband the aforesaid Ebenezer Upham died on the seventeenth day of August Eighteen hundred and thirty-one and that her maiden name was Tamar King, that she was not married to the said Ebenezer Upham prior to his leaving the service and that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four viz: at the time + place above stated, and this affidavit further states that in the month of October eighteen hundred and seventeen she and her said husband Ebenezer Upham removed from Massachusetts and came to Vermont town of Bennington, Bennington County, where they resided when her said husband was enrolled as a pensioner as she, this affidavit has always been informed + believes about the year 1819 and from that term until his death her drew a 
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pension of thirty-six dollars per annum and this affidavit further says that she has ever lived with her said husband Ebenezer Upham until his death which happened in the town of Bennington at the time aforesaid and the year after the death of said husband Ebenezer Upham the affiant removed from the State of Vermont the town of Shelby, County of Orleans where she has since resided and that since the death of her husband she has unmarried and still remains unmarried, and this affiant further declares that the annexed Bible leaf is the only record within the knowledgeable of this affidavit and the first entry upon said leaf was made by her said husband Ebenezer Upham and in his proper handwriting as this affiant believes but upon this point she will not be positive and that the aforesaid entry was made at or about the time of her marriage to the said Ebenezer Upham and that the Bible was given her by her father Henry King - before her marriage and that the same Bible + record leaf here unto annexed has been in the possession of the said affiant + her said husband Ebenezer Upham until his death + since that time kept by her the said affiant and that the leaf has been rendered imperfect by the long use of the same in the family and that the entry of the births of three children have also been on the same Bible record and by use has been worn out + torn of 
[Signed: Tamar Upham]
Subscribed and sworn this 25th day of Jan. 1839 before me [Signed: T.C. Strong]

State of New York}
Orleans County ss.}
We Harry of Shelby, County of Orleans and Norman Harry of Bane, County + State aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Tamar Upham of the town of Shelby, Orleans
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County and State of New York and that she is the widow of Ebenezer Upham deceased and that we believe her to be of the age of fifty-five years on the nineteenth day of February next and that she is reputed and believed to have been the lawful wife of Ebenezer Upham while living and that we believe her to be a person of truth + veracity and that the said Ebenezer Upham was generally reputed + believed to be a pensioner under the Act of Congress of 1818.
[Signed: Harry Kinsley]
[Signed: Norman E. Harvey]
Subscribed and sworn this 25th day of January 1839 before me
[Signed: T.C. Strong] Clerk

And the court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orleans sitting as a county of record on the twenty-fifth day of January eighteen hundred and thirty-nine do adjudge and declare that after investigating the matter in the foregoing affidavit and petition and examining the said affidavit it is the opinion of the said Court that the said Tamar Upham is the widow of the said Ebenezer Upham deceased and that she was lawfully married to the said Ebenezer Upham deceased at the time and in the manner as set forth in the declaration and that the said Harry Kinsley and Norman Harvey, who have signed the proceeding affidavit and artifacts an reputable and credible men  residing in the towns of Shelby + Bane in the County + State aforesaid and we further certify that the annexed record or bible leaf was by us taken out of the family Bible in the possession of the said Tamar Upham and by us annexed to above declaration.
[Signed: Alexis Ward]
[Signed: Lyman Bates]
[Signed: George Squire]
Judges
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State of New York ss.}
Orleans County}
I Timothy Strong of the said Orleans County, County of Orleans in the State aforesaid do certify that Alexis Ward, Lyman Bates and George Squires, Esq. before whom the above affidavit or deposition was taken were at the time of taking the same Judges of the Common Pleas Court in and for said County duly appointed and sworn, and that I am well acquainted with their handwriting and [illegible] believe the above signatures to be genuine.
Given under hand and the Seal of said County at Albion this 29th day of January A.D. 1839
[Signed: T.C. Strong] Clerk
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Tamar King
born Feb 19th 1774 [b in born is missing]
And married July 21st 1790

Lewis King Upham was
born [illegible] 6th 1795

Jamma Upham was
born December 16th 1796

Limon Upham was born [missing]
May 26th 1799
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THE NEW
TESTAMENT
OF OUR
LORD and SAVIOR
JESUS CHRIST

Translated out of the
ORIGINAL GREEK:
And with the form Translations diligently
compared and revised,
By His Majesty's Special Command
__________
Appointed to be read in CHURCHES.
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Tamar Upham 
Oten1832 - N York




[Signed: A.H. Markland]
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State of New York]
County of Orleans]

Be it known, that on this twenty-second day of February A.D. 1853 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State of aforesaid, personally appeared, Maria Demoray a resident of the town of Shelby in said County, and made oath according to law that she is the legal heir of the identical man who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution+ of Tamar Upham his widow and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of__________ that she is directly interested as a claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.

Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney, and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint C.W. Bennett, of Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney, to prosecute the claim of Ebenezer Upham or Tamar Upham late his widow for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere. to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D.C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
[Signed: Maria Demoray]

Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Maria Demoray to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged.

[Signed: Jno. H. White] Justice of the Peace

State of New York}
County of Orleans}

It is hereby certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the County, Court of Orleans County that Maria Demoray the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney is the identical child of the reputed soldier aforesaid. I further, certify that, Jno. H. White Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.

In Testimony Whereof, i have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office, this twenty-second day of February 1853
[Signed: Dan H. Cole] Clark
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State of New York
County of Orleans} ss.

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, henry R. Curtis, County Judge of said County, and ex-office Surrogate thereof, that Ebenezer Upham who was reputed to have been a Revolutionary Soldier of the United States, died on the seventeenth day of August eighteen hundred and thirty-four, leaving surviving him his widow Tamar Upham who also died on the twenty-second day of December A.D. 1841, leaving the following named children vis: - Tamma Richardson, Tamar Kinsley, Maria Demoray, and Mary Harvey as the only surviving children and heirs at law of the aforesaid Tamar Upham.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office this 21st day of May, one thousand eight hundred fifty-three at Albion in said County.
[Signed: H.R. Curtis]
County Judge
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V N. York
Tamar Upham
Oct. to Nov. C.F. Mitchell 18 March '39
A.H. Markland Aug 9/53
She died before Aug 16, 1842
10806

Act July 1838
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[redacted] Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
10806
P.O. Tamar Upham
Service:__________

Enlisted:__________, 18  .
Discharged:__________, 18  .

Application filed:__________, 18  .

Alleges:__________
Re-enlisted:__________

Attorney:__________
P.O.__________
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for __________, 18  .