Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16075, Ebenezer Chaplin, Conn.
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SERVICE
Conn.

Chaplin, Ebenezer

NUMBER
S. 16075

carded
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22808
Connecticut
Ebenezer Chaplin
of Heartford in the State of Con
who was a Pri in the Com commanded
by Captain --- of the Regt commanded by Col. Mott in the Con Troops for 8 mo.

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Inscribed on the Roll of Con at the rate of 26 dollars 66 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of Nov. 33 and Reus W. 6
Gay Scoffield
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 33 to 6666
semi anl. allowance ending         1333
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                                                   $7999

Revolutionary Claim  }
Act June 7, 1832.       }

Recorded by E.D. Bullock Clerk, 
Vol. 3 Page 3 (cut off)
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State of Connecticut     }   Suffield 9 Sept. 1833
Hartford County            }
Suffield Probate District}

On this 9 day of September 1833 personally appeared Ebenezer Chaplin and (illegible) before Court, present Luther Loomis Esq. Judge, ad Court now in open session 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 session June 7 1832, that he entered into the service of the United States (illegible) on following vis. that in February 1776 he entered the army on the Connecticut Line; he enlisted at Suffield under Captain John Harmon for two months Wylly's Hardford was Colonel and General Washington commanded in chief. I served the whole town of Rexbury.  I had no discharge.  In April of the same year I again enlisted in the army of the United States in the Connecticut line under Capt. Harmon and served under him and Col Moll and General Gates.  I went to Ticonderoga and the country about it.  I enllisted and served for 6 months and was discharged at Ticonderoga.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity but the present.  He also states that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.  There is no clergyman in the town who knows anything about his service or his enlistment for the (illegible)  He was born in Suffield and has always lived there.  I have no record of my age, was born on Sept. 4, 1751.  I am aged 82 years.  I am known to David Hale and
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Harvey Bissell who can testify to my character for veracity.  I never had any discharge from the service except a verbal one.  And have no documentary evidence of my service.  He was not employed with any civil service during his military tour.
Ebenezer Chaplin
Suffield 9 Sept. 1833

Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid
Luther Loomis Judge

The David Hale and Harvey Bissell both of Suffield hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Chaplin who has signed the above declaration that we believe him to be 82 years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution.  That we concur in that opinion.  Sworn and subscribed this day and year aforesaid vis Suffield 9 Sept. 1833
David Hale
Harvey Bissell

Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid before me 
Luther Loomis Judge

and, the Court do hereby declare their opinion after an investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that David Hale and Harvey Bissell who have appeared this proceeding
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Certificate are residents in the town of Suffield, that they are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit.  Suffield 9 Sept. 1833
Luther Loomis Judge

I Oliver Pease of Suffield State of Connecticut Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Suffield with Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court with the matter of the application of Ebenezer Chaplin of the town for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the Office this 9 day of September 833
Oliver Pease
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Revolutionary War Records Section.  3-525
(illegible)  Department of the Interior,
S.16073  Bureau of Pensions.
Washington, D.C. --------, 19 ----

In reply to your request of ------------, received ------------ for a statement of the military history of Ebenezer Chaplin 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.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment - Feb. 1776
Length of Service - 2 mos.
Rank - Pvt.
Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered.
Captain. - John Harmon
Colonel. - Wyllys
State - Conn.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment - Apr or May 1776
Length of Service - 6 "
Rank - 
Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered.
Captain. - "     "
Colonel. - Mott
State - 

Battles engaged in, ----------
Residence of soldier at enlistment, - Suffield, Hartford Co. Conn.
Date of Application for pension, - Sept. 9, 1833  His cl. was ab.
Residence at date of application, - Suffield Conn.
Age at date of application, b. Sept. 4, 1751 at Suffield Conn.
Remarks: - Sol had a wife in 1777 or 1778  her name is not stated.  There is no further date on file as to his family.
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P. 16075
Invalid
File No. 16075
Ebenezer Chaplin
Pri. Rev. War

Act: June 7, 32
Index: Vol. 1, Page 67
Arrangement of 1870.

Written Vertically:
1918 July 24 Hist. to Frank A. Chaplin Suffield Conn. A.W.
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Note in Top Right Corner:
Rev. War LTH

Stamped:
Disbursing Office 
cannot identify.

Suffield Conn.
July 15 - 1918

Pension Office
Revolutionary War Dept.
Dear Sirs

Please send record of Ebenezer Chaplin who was a Connecticut Pentioner Page 651
in Connecticut men in the war
of the Revolution
and oblidge
Yours truly
Frank A Caplin
Suffield Conn. R.F.D. No. 1
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Certificates of
Wm. C. Gay
Horace Warner
Oliver Pease
Luther Loomis
Harvey Bissel
Charles Shermon
Asa Pomeroy and
Christopher Jones
on
Ebenr. Chaplin's
Petition Congress
1830 -
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To the Congress of the United States
We the Undersigned Citizens of Suffield in the State of Connecticut, do hereunto Certify, that Ebenezer Chaplin your memorialist living in said Suffield, with whom we are personally acquainted is a man of good moral character and industrious habits and is poor and destitute of both meal and personal property and is about 80 years old -
Suffield Dec. 6th 1830 -
W.C. Gay
H. Warner
Oliver Pease
Harvey Bissell
Luther Loomis
Chas. Cherman
Asa Pomeroy
Christopher Jones
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(illegible) 11 1832

Pension Office Ellsworth

to filed with admitted case 22.808
No - 
22,808  Ct.
This set of papers found in looking over a map old papers in Room 18,108
Oct. 21st 37
A. H. A.

Upside Down:
Ebn. Chaplin
Ct.

Vertically:
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secty at War
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Congress Hall
Dec. 10, 1832

Hon Lewis Cass
Secty of War

At the Request of the old soldier whom papers are enclosed, I forward these to you that he may obtain a pension under the late law

With Great Respect 
Yours (illegible)
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I Jonathan Kellogg Kent of Suffield in the State of Connecticut of lawful age do testify and say that I have been personally acquainted with Ebenezer Chaplin of the same Suffield for more than sixty years and that in the year 1776 he took a tour n the Northern army war about during the summer, and Reenlisted late in the fall and was then destitute an not subject to do Military  Military - except only under the criple roll and afterwards in 1777 as he was called upon and draughted, upon the cripple list, for a years tour to the southward, and on account of his family, he could not serve - and that he substituted one John Riley in his room and flead and paid Riley over and above the government's wages - one out of his own pocket being a large sum and according to my memory, I should say some where about 24 pounds - 
Jona K. Kent
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I Timothy Phelps of Suffield in the State of Connecticut of lawfull age do testify and say, that in 1776, Ebenezer Chaplin of said Suffield went away with Oliver Sheldon, Josiah Sheldon and others to join the army at the Northward up to Ticonderoga and that he was gone on a six months tour and that he is now wholly destitute of property and worthy of relief in his old age and is now about 80 years old -

Timothy Phelps

Personally appeared before me the subscribed on this 4th day of December A.D. 1830 John Warner Timothy Phelps Victory Sikes and Jonathan K. Kent subscribed to this witness and foregoing depositions all personally known to me and sworally made both that the depositions by them subscribed contained the truth and nothing but the truth
Wm Gay Justice of the Peace
for Hartford County in the 
State of Connecticut
I further certify that the said Warner, Phelps, Sikes and Kent are all men of good moral characters and respectable standing in society
Wm Gay Just Peace
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Depositions of
Timothy Phelps
Victory Sikes
John Warner
Jonth. K. Kent
on
Ebenr. Chaplin's 
Petition 1830
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I John Warner of Suffield in the State of Connecticut of lawfull age, do testify that in the year 1776 - I enlisted in the company of Capt. John Harmon of Suffield, for a two month tour, down to Roxbury - and that, Ebenz. Chaplin of said Suffield your Petitioner was there and that he Chaplin and myself was some of the first men that broke the ground on Dorchester Point - to build a fort; and he was there during my stay - and was a faithfull good soldier - and at this time is destitute of property - 
John Warner

I Victory Sikes of Suffield in the State of Connecticut, of lawfull aged do testify and say that in the year of 1776 that Ebenezer Chaplin of said Suffield went with me in the company of Capt. John Harmon Company down to Roxbury on a Two Months Tour - I was honorably dismissed that E. Chaplin was a good soldier and did his duly faithfully or will on Dorchester Heights as Else when and that he is now a poor man, and about 80 years old.
Victory Sikes
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Ebenezer Chaplin
Ebenr. Chaplin
Petition to
Congress 1830
Dec. 13, 1830
Rep. to Congress Mil. Pensions
December 13th 1831
Referred to the Committee 
on Revolutionary Pensions
Dec. 21 1831
Report against to his
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To the Congress of the United States of America Convened at Washington in the City of Washington and District of Columbia, within the United States of America on the first Monday of December in the year of our Lord 1830
The Petition of Ebenezer Chaplin of Suffield in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, within the United States of American Humbly therewith - 
That your Petitioner in the Winter and Spring of the year 1776 voluntarily tendered his services as a soldier to the Continental Army, nearby Boston in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was one of the first men that broke ground on Dorchester Heights was then poor and destitute of property, and not a subject of military duty - war absent from his family two months, was honorably dismissed without fee or reward returned home to Suffield on the 20th April 1776 - and your Petitioner would further state that in the month of May following he voluntarily enlisted (not being then a subject of military duty) in the Company of Capt. John Harmon of said Suffield, and with said Company did march to the northern army to Ticonderoga
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and there did his duty, as a faithfull and good soldier - for the term of six months and was then honorably dismissed, and for thou services, your Petitioner has not reward from this state, or the Government of the United States one cent for a reward.
And your Petitioner would further state that in the year of 1777 or 8 when the alarm roll was called on the criple list for duty, and such, he was called upon to perform one years tour of duty as a soldier in the Southern states.  That his wife then lay at the point of death and consulantly with his duty to her he could not leave home - nevertheless he substituted on John Riley in his Room and sted, and executed to the Treasurer of the State of Connecticut a bond in the sum of $300 for the said John faithfull performance of that tour and duty and also paid the said John, over and above the governments pay, the sum of $24 - and your Petitioner would for this state, that he is now old and infirm and has arrived to the age of 80 years and that in his old age, infirm and described states he has not one cent of property to (illegible) the evening of life, only what he procures by his daily labour -
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Therefore he prays the congress of these United States, to take his unfortunate can into your wise consideration and grant him in some way, some aid and relief, for his good and voluntary services rendered, in his described state in the Nations struggle for Liberty and Independence obtained - that the residue of his days may be closed with necessary comforts and conveniences of life or he in duty bound will ever pray - dated at Suffield this 20th day of Nov. AD 1830
Ebenr. Chaplin

Personally came before William Gay Justice of the Peace in and for Hartford in the State of Connecticut on this 4th day of December AD 1830 Ebenezer Chaplin and made oath that the foregoing Petition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth.
Witness  Wm Gay Justice Peace

I further certain certify that the said Chaplin contains a good moral character and is destitute of property
Wm. Gay
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I Timothy Phelps Sheffield State of Connecticut aged 72 years do testify and say that in the Spring of 1776 Ebenezer Chaplain then and now of the town enlisted in the Connecticut line of the army of the United States for six months under Capt. John Harmon and jointed the Army.  He was absent during the season and I have no doubt served out his tour.  I was at home and knew of his enlistment and return.
Suffield 9 Sept. 1833
Timothy Phelps

State of Connecticut
Hartford County of Suffield 9 Sept. 1833
Personally appeared Timothy Phelps and who is known to me to be a man of truth and credibility and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed
(illegible) W C Gay
Justice Peace
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I Jonathan K. Kent of Suffield State of Connecticut aged 74 do testify and say that in the spring of the year 1776 Ebenezer Chaplin then and now of the town enlisted the Connecticut line of the army of the United States for six months under Capt. John Harmon and joined the northern army.  He was absent during the summer and I have no doubt he served out his enlistment.
Suffield 9 Sept. 1833
Jon K. Kent

State of Connecticut Hartford County and Suffield 9 Sept. 1833  Personally appeared Jonathan K. Kent of town who is known to me to be a man of truth and credibility and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed.
Before me  W C Gray
Justice Peace
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I David Sikes of Suffield Connecticut aged 77 years do testify and say that in the Winter of 1776 Ebenezer Chaplin and myself then and now of Suffield entered the service of the United States for two months and performed that duty in the months of February and March of that year.  John Harmon was Capt. and Wyllys was Colonel and Washington was Commander in Chief.  He was on the Connecticut line and served two months this tour.  Dorchester was fortified that tour I served in the same company. 
Sept. 11, 1833
David Sikes

State of Connecticut
Hartford County and Suffield 11 September 1833.
Personally appeared David Sikes who is known to be a man of credibility and made oath that the deposition by him above subscribed contains the truth.
Before me
W C Gay
Justice Peace
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State of Connecticut  }
                                  }  ss.
County of Hartford    }

I Jared Griswold, Clerk of the County Court for said County of Hartford, do hereby certify that William C. Gay, Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits of Timothy Phelps, Jonathan K. Kent, and David Sikes were resforetively taken, was, at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Hartford, duly commissioned and qualified according to law; and that the several signatures, purporting to be said Wm. C. Gay's, are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 12th day of September A.D. 1833.
Attest Jared Griswold, Clerk

27.540
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