Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20791, Ebenezer Drake, Conn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Drake, Ebenezer
Brewer, Lois

NUMBER
W. 20791

CONTENTS
[blank]
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11, 189
Vermont

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Ebenezer Drake
of [blank] in the state of [blank]
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Wyllis of the Connecticut
line, for the term of 6 years


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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 7th of April 1818

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Certificate of Pension issued the 31st of May 1819
and sent to Josiah Dana Esqr
Chelsea Vermont

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Arrears to the 4th of March 1819 10m(24)/30 4/31 = $87"43
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819  48"
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$135"43

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
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Agt. notified by Letter
April 6. 1844

Examined with Orig.
Rolls Sept. 1883.  M.G.
1896 [last digit illegible]
Oct 8 Hon E J Davis history [illegible]

8271
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Vermont
Montpelier

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Lois Brewer deceased who died on the 2nd day of May 1843 & formerly widow of Ebenezer Drake deceased Conn who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 1 day April 1824
of Orange Co. in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Reg commanded by Colonel Wyllis in the Connecticut line for 2 years

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

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Certificate of Pension issued the Sixth day of April 1844 and sent to John Kimball. Barton. Vermont

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Whole amount due $400.00

[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by F. S. Swann Clerk.
Book D Vol 1 Page 123.
Payable to Polly Payne, Clarissa Hutchins,
& Laura Comstock only survg. children
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Ebenezer Drake,
private,
Orange County
Vermont.
1777 to 1783, in 
Colo. Wyllys's regt.
Connt. line.
7th April, 1818

[illegible signature]

Josiah Dana,
Judge,
Chelsea, Vermt.
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Ebene. Drake
Vershire
Vermont
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Ebenezer Drake
Vershire
April 7th 1818
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I Ebenezer Drake of Vershire in the County of Orange and State of Vermont testify and declare that on the first day of January  A.D. 1777 I enlisted into the army of the United States in Captain Judd's Company in Colonel Samuel Willis's [Wyllys's] Regiment in General Parsons' Brigade, for during the War, and served in the Connecticut line until the 8th day of  June A.D. 1783 when I was honorably discharged at West Point by his Excellency George Washington but which discharge I have not now in  my possession. I further state that I am  in embarrassed circumstances and not able to labour but very little and am in need of assistance from my country for support and therefore request to be put on the pension  list according to a late Act of Congress.
[signed: Ebenr. Drake]

Chelsea April 7, 1818

State of Vermont }
Orange County ss } Chelsea April 7, 1818 personally appeared Eben. Drake and made oath that the above written declaration by him subscribed is true

Before me, 
Josiah Dana Chief Judge
at Orange County Court
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I do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Ebenezer Drake did serve in the revolutionary War on the continental establishment as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and I also certify that it appears to my satisfaction that he is poor and needs the assistance of his country for support, and I now transmit the proceedings taken and had before me to the Secretary of the War department pursuant to the aforementioned Act of Congress

Chelsea Feby 2nd 1819

[signed: Josiah Dana Chief Judge of Orange County Court]


State of Vermont Orange County Clerks office February 2nd AD. 1819, I H E McLaughlin of Chelsea in the County of
Orange hereby certify that Josiah Dana Esqr. of Chelsea in the County of Orange before whom the foregoing Declaration was taken is Chief Judge of Orange County Court acting under the authority of the State of Vermont & that his name subscribed to the foregoing - Certificate is in his own handwriting. 
Attest [signed: H E McLaughlin Clerk]
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State of Vermont
District of Bradford ss - Probate office

August 19. 1843-

I, M. D. Parker Judge of the Court of Probate within and for said district do hereby certify that the within named David Price is a credible witness - that he signed & made the within declaration in my presence - that he has been by me duly appointed administrator of the estate of Lois Brewer late of Vershire deceased and that satisfactory evidence has been presented to this? Court that said Lois died at said Vershire on the 2d day of May 1843. that she left as heirs who will succeed? her the daughters to wit - Polly Paine Clarissa Hutchins & Laura Comstock - who were all & the only children who survived her.

In testimony of all which I have set my hand and affix the seal of said Bolton? Court the day & year first above written.
[signed J WD Parker Judge of said Court]
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State of Vermont
Bradford District ss. At a Probate Court holden at Bradford in said district on the 19th day of August AD 1843. Personally appeared before said Court David Paine of Vershire in said district administrator of the estate of Lois Brewer late of Vershire in said district deceased, and on oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 or such other acts as may be applicable to the case of said Lois that she was the widow of Ebenezer Drake late of Vershire deceased who was a soldier of the Revolution and drew a pension of 96 dollars per annum on the Vermont roll of agency - that  she was married to the said Ebenezer Drake by Ebenezer West in January 1790 that she lived with the said Drake till the 1st day of April 1824 when he died - that she intermarried with Mr David Brewer in December 1824 that said Lois remained the wife of the said Brewer till October 9. 1842 when said Brewer died at Tunbridge that said Lois remained the widow of the wise David Brewer till the 2 day of May 1843 when she died at that she was not married to the said Drake previous to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred ninety four for at the time above told.
[signed: David Paine]

Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year first above written before me
[signed: M. D. Parker Judge of said Probate Court]
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7 July 1838, Lois Brewer who died on the 2d day of May 1843 dec. formerly the widow of Ebenezer Drake who was a private in the Rev. War [erase mark: at the rate] was entitled receive a pension at the rate of eighty Dollars per annum commencing on 4 Mar 1836 & ending on 4 Mar. 1841, which will be paid upon the production of the proper vouchers to Polly Payne, Clarissa Hutchins and Laura Comstock only surviving children of Lois Brewer deceased.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 6th day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty 4.

Secretary of War.


Examined and }
Countersigned.}
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.   3 -- 525

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
W. 20791

BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C. ,[blank], 19[blank]

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Ebenezer Drake a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

[start table]
[Column headings: "DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT." "LENGTH OF SERVICE." "RANK." "OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED." "STATE."]

row 1: "Jan. 1, 1777" "June 8, 1783." "Pvt." "CAPTAIN: Judd., COLONEL: Samuel Wyllys." "Conn."

[end table]

Battles engaged in, [written: none stated]

Residence of soldier at enlistment, [written: not stated]

Date of application for pension, [written: Apr. 7, 1818, His cl. was al.]

Residence at date of application, [written: Vershire, Orange Co Vermont]

Age at date of application, [written: not stated]

Remarks: [begin written] He married about Jany 1790 Lois Hale and died Apr. 1, 1824 at Vershire Vt. She then married in Dec. 1824 David Brewer who died Oct. 9. 1841 at Tunbridge Vermont. She died May 2, 1843 at Vershire Vt. leaving the following children Polly Paine, Clarissa Hutchins and Laura Comstock
[end written]

Respectfully,
Commissioner.

6 -- 285C
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1918 July 30 Hist. to Alice M. Gay
Letter in S. 31655 Lemuel Drake.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 20.791
Lois Brewer
Widow of
Ebenezer Drake
Priv. Rev War
---
Act July 7th 1838
Index: Vol. A Page 90
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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9697

Lois Brewer
Decd
Act 7th July '38
yes
Adm of
2 years
priv
---
$80 per an
---

Certificate to issue in favor
of
Polly Payne
Clarissa Hutchins &
Laura Comstock,
only surviving children

John Kimball
Barton
Vt.
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[crossed out: Evin? 1792 in Vershire]
Ebenezer Drake
In April 1818 of Vershire Orange Co Vt. aged--
died April 1. 1824

Mard. in Jany 1790 to Lois Hale in Verkshire
2d. m' to Davd. Brewer Dec 1824 & he died Oct 9 1842 at [^Orange Co] Tunbridge & she died May 2 1843

[crossed out: Jany 1777] July 1778 Fifer under Capt [^Wm] Judd [^of Framington] & Col. Saml. Wyllys [^Hartford] (Conn) for the war 
discharged June 8, 1783 at Westport

Children Polly (probably wife David Paine of Vershire) - Clarissa Hutchins, Laura Comstock all of Vershire
David [^Paine] aged in (July 1843) 54 year [crossed out: David Paine Adm.]

The regt. served in Military Post on Hudson river 
White Plain summer of 1778 
[illegible] 78-9 [illegible]
Reading 78-80 
at Morristown [NJ?] 80-1 
[illegible] West point
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Barton [^Vermont] 19th September 1843

James L. Edwards Esqr

Sir enclosed is the papers of David Payne [Paine] administrator of Lois [^Brewer] [crossed out: Drake] for a pension for the services of her first husband Ebenezer Drake in the war of the Revolution-

In case you should not be satisfied as [^to] Marriage I can add my own testimony that in the winter of 1792 I became acquainted with Ebenezer Drake and his wife Lois and know that they lived together in the relation of Husband and wife during the the time I lived in the Town of Vershire which was about five years from my first acquaintance with them-

Drake received a pension under the Act of 18th March 1818 but was dropped on account his property

Respectfully Yours
John Kimball
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I Alethea Weltoon? of Vershire in the County of Orange and State of Vermont, testify and say, that I am seventy eight years of age, that I have lived in the town of said Vershire fifty three years, that I have lived in the neighborhood of Ebenezer Drake and Lois Hale; that my oldest child was born the 27th day of November AD. 1790, that one of my near neighbors had a child born on the 24th day of Jany. 1791 - that I well remember that Lois Hale was residing with sd. woman when she was sick with said child, and she continued in sd. family two Weeks, during which time Ebenezer Drake and Lois Hale were married, altho' I was [^not] present at the wedding I know that they sure? lived together as man and wife untill [until] his death, which took place the 1st day of April 1824. I being present at his death, that she the sd. Lois afterwards was married to David Brewer that the said Brewer died last year [^and] that the said Lois the widow died on the 2d. day of May 1843

Her mark + [signed: Alethea Weltoon?]

Witnesses
T. Keyes
H. T. Keyes


State of Vermont }
Orange County ss. } Vershire August 15th
1843. Then Alethea Weltoon?, a credible witness personally appeared and made oath that this instrument by her subscribed to be true.

[signed: Thos. Keyes, Just. of Peace]
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Vt?

I Thomas Keyes town Clerk for the town of Vershire in the County of Orange and State of Vermont, certify that I have examined the records of said town, and confirmed record of the marriage of Ebenezer Drake and Lois Hale -

August 15, 1843

[signed: Thos. Keyes, Town Clerk]
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I Phebe Fuller of Vershire in the County of Orange and State of Vermont, testify and say that I am seventy eight years of age; that I have lived in the town of Vershire about fifty five years, that I have lived in the neighborhood of Ebenezer Drake and Lois Hale when I first removed? to the place, that the said Ebenezer and Lois were married some time afterwards but the precise time I was not able to state, neither was I at the wedding but I know the marriage (as it was said) took place between the births of my two oldest children, [^one of] which by one family and was born on the 18th day of August 1789, the other on the 20th day April 1791. That the sd. Ebenezer Drake and Lois Hale have lived together as man  and wife untill his death which took place about Eighteen years ago- that the sd. Lois Hale afterwards married to one Mr. Brewer who died during the last year - and the said Lois Brewer formerly the Wife of the sd. Ebenezer died during this present year - I believe [^in] the month of May last -

[signed: Phebe Fuller]


State of Vermont }
Orange County ss } Vershire August
15th 1843. Then personally appeared Phebe Fuller, a credible witness and made oath to the truth of what she has subscribed to in this instrument before me -
[signed: Thos. Keyes, Just. Peace]
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STATE OF VERMONT
Secretary of State's Office,
Montpelier, September 13th 1843 }
I certify that Thomas Keyes Esq whose name is subscribed in his own proper hand writing to the foregoing certificates, is and was at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county of Orange, duly elected and qualified, and that to his official acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of this office, at Montpelier, this the 13th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three
[signed:Ferrand F. Merrill]
Acting Secretary of State.
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State of Vermont
Orange County ss
Probate District of Bradford-
In Probate Court at
Bradford in said district on this 25 day of July
AD 1843 - before me J.W.D. Parker Judge of said Court personally appeared David Paine of Vershire in said District aged fifty four years and being duly sworn does on his oath depaso [depose and say] that he was well acquainted with Ebenezer Drake formerly of said Vershire now deceased that said Drake was a pensioner and drew a pension from the United States as a revolutionary soldier - that said Ebenezer Drake died at said Vershire on the first day of April AD 1824 - that this deponent was present and saw said Drake die - and that he left a widow Lois Drake, who was married to David Brewer in December 1824 and saw them married, that said Lois remained the wife of said Brewer till October 9, 1842 when said Brewer died at Tunbridge in Orange County Vermont as this deponent believes - and said Lois died also on the 2d day of May 1843 and this deponent was present when she died and saw her decease and that the said Lois at her decease left living heirs and children Polly Paine, Clarissa Hutchins & Laura Comstock who were all and the only children who survived her and they all still survive? that this deponent has ever understood and verily believes that said Ebenezer Drake was married to said Lois whose maiden name was Hale by Ebenezer West in January 1790- and further say not

[signed: David Paine]


Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25 day of July AD 1843
[signed: J.W.D. Parker Judge of Probate]
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State of Vermont
Bradford District ss.
I, J W D Parker Judge of Probate within and for said district do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to me that Lois Brewer late the widow of Ebenezer Drake late of Vershire in said district deceased died at said Vershire on the second day of May AD 1843- and that at her decease she left surviving children & heirs Polly Paine of said Vershire - Clarissa Hutchins and Laura Comstock also of said Vershire - who all yet survive and reside in said Vershire.  I also certify that I am personally acquainted with David Paine whose deposition is within written & by him subscribed and that he is a credible witness

In testimony of all which I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of said Probate Court at Bradford this 25 day of July AD 1843
[signed: J.W.D. Parker Judge of Probate Bradford Court]