Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3177, Ebenezer Dyar, Conn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Dyar, Ebenezer

NUMBER
R. 3177
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Ebenezer D
Dyer

Luther Dyer was born Feb 23 1785 Wednesday
Bitta Dyer was born died August 23 1786 Wednesday
Mehitabel Dyer was born August 13th 1788 Friday
Manswer Dyer was born July 22 1791
Atanser Dyer died on Sunday morning dyed in August 13 1796
Dillis Dyer was born November 5th 1795 Thursday
Orrilla Dyer was born April 30th 1798 Monday
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I Joseph Dyer of Enfield in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire aged seventy two years depose & say:
That Ebenezer Dyer was my brother and we were brought up together at home. About the year 1778 at the time the British Army pushed through Connecticut, my brother Ebenezer enlisted into Capt Josiah Clevelands company and went with his own team of oxen and his own waggon chains &c with the provision team to transport the baggage. Other effect of said army to Yorktown in the state of Virginia at which place his team became diseased with the "bloody [illegible]" and all died, for wich his waggon chains &c he recovered no pay. And further Elijah Dyer lived in Canterbury Windham county & State of Connecticut. The said Ebenezer Dyer returned from the [illegible] in the winter and following the surrender of Cornwallis & his army.
Joseph Dyer

State of New Hampshire
Grafton Ss} Lebanon April 25 1848
Personally appearing the above named Joseph Dyer whom I certify to be a witness entitled to full credit and made solemn declaration that the above affidavit by him subscribed is just & true.
Beofre me Geo H. Lathrop Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont, Windsor County Ss On this 2nd day of December AD 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Probate Court of Hartford district now sitting Ebenezer Dyer a resident of the county of Windsor and state of Vermont, aged seventy seven 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 1839. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.

On the forepart of August 1776 I was detached from the militia in Canterbury in the State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Captain Butte in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Duglass, marched to New London and served a tour of two months as a private. 

In October 1776 I was detached from the militia in Captain Buttes company in Col John Duglass regiment and marched to the state of New York and was stationed at West Chester near Kings Bridge. The day that the British sailed up the North River by Fort Washington our troops moved to the White Plains. We were discharged in Jany following. I was out four months in this tour. 

I enlisted in the month of March 1781 in the company commanded by Captain Josiah Cleveland in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wadsworth of Hartford Connecticut, joined the army at the White Plains and was stationed there through the summer, or a part thereof. The latter part of July I marched into Virginia and joined Washington Army at Yorktown near the mouth of York River and was present at siege of taking Cornwallis and was discharged in December following a tour of nine months service.

Soon after my discharge from the tour above stated I was drafted from the militia at Canterbury in Connecticut under Captain Adams in Col McClannel regiment and marched to New London where we were stationed through the winter. It was the winter after Genl Arnold burned New London and took Ft Griswold. I was stationed there three months as a private.

I was born in Canterbury State of Connecticut. In the Town Clerk's office of that town is a record of my age. I have no documentary evidence. I moved from Canterbury into the state of Vermont afterwards of forty years ago. I do not know of any one that was out in the service with me that is now living.
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He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state.
Ebenezer Dyar

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Edwin Hutchinson, Register

We, Samuel Bascomb a Clergyman residing in Sharon Vermont and Jared Packhurst residing in Sharon hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Dyer who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be 77 years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Samuel Bascomb
Jared Parkhurst

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Edwin Hutchinson Register

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the 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 Samuel Bascomb, who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman residing in Sharon Vermont, and that Jared Packhurst who has also signed the same is a resident in Sharon and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Edwin Hutchinson, Register of the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Dyar for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 2nd day of December AD 1833.
Edwin Hutchinson Register
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State of Vermont
Hartford District
On this 4th day of February AD 1846 personally appeared before the Hon the Probate Court of the District of Hartford aforesaid Mehetable Hamilton a resident of Royalton in said District aged 58 years who being first sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 and other subsequent acts in that behalf.

That she is the daughter of Ebenezer & Mehetable Dyer late of Sharon in said District deceased, and that her said Father Ebenezer Dyer was a soldier of the Revolution and served as she has heard him say in the following manner to wit.
He was first drafted in the militia from Canterbury Connecticut and went to New London and also to New York and other places which she does not now recollect and was out in service in all in the years 1778, 79 & 80 ten months and a half, but who were his officer or officers, unless it was Capt Josiah Cleveland she cannot tell, or if she ever heard him say she has now forgotten, and at the expiration of the time aforesaid he returned home.

In the year 1782 he enlisted as a soldier under Captain Josiah Cleveland, who was a pensioner of the United States for service done as aforesaid (and he died in Boston a few years since while attending a convention there held, and the newspapers of the country gave testimony of the nobleness and worth of the man) and by arrangement with said Cleveland he was to be a teamster, and having some property which he could command. The said Dyer agreed to furnish three yoke of oxen, waggon yoke & chains, and any other articles necessary to the amount of four hundred dollars, and said Dyer was to serve as private and since his own team and receive his pay as a soldier and draw pay also for his said team.

Accordingly he furnished the team as above mentioned which he obtained money to purchase in the following manner to wit.
Her Grandfather Dyer hired said Ebenezer Dyer at his arriving
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to the age (in 1777) of twenty one to oversee and manage his business, and was to give him $140 per year. So that when said Ebenezer Dyer enlisted in 1782 he had due from his Father including interest $400 which he paid out in the purchase of the team aforesaid. And with his team with a load of baggage or cannon for the French Army in our service under Genl Lafayette he was ordered to Yorktown Virginia, and he had not been long there before his team all became sick with a disease called the bloody murrain and in less than ten days his oxen all died.

At the surrender of Cornwallis said Ebenezer Dyer was discharged from the service and received his pay in Continental money, then worth but little on the dollar, without any clothing except what he had on, which was summer ware. And he started for home it being the last of October 1782 which a heavy heart, as his property was all lost, stolen and gone (for which he never has received one cent for) and he had not proceeded far before he was taken sick with the small pox. And the doctor gave him Calomel, and not having proper care he took cold and suffered much by sickness, fatigue and hunger, and did not arrive home until the last days of December, having been this time in service ten months.

She further declares that her father aforesaid on the passage of the pension act of 1832 made his declaration under said act and obtained evidence from individuals to substantiate his service aforesaid, among which was that of Captain Cleveland before named, and handed said papers to the Hon Geo E. Wales then a member of Congress to procure him a pension. But from some cause the papers were mislaid and could not be found, which had cost her father much trouble and expense to obtain and he being far advanced in years he had not courage to try again and so it has remained to this time. 

She further declares that her Father the aforesaid Ebenezer Dyer died at said Sharon on the 23 day of August 1839, aged 83 years, and that her mother Mehitable Dyer wife of said Ebenezer Dyer died at said Sharon on the 13th day of October 1827 aged 63 years. And they left the following children viz Luther Dyer of Canada, Dillis Dyer of Louisville Kentucky, Orvilla Buswell of the state of New York and the declarant Mehitable Hamilton
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then of said Sharon but now of said Royalton. But whether her brothers and sister are now living is not known and I herewith send the Bible leaf of the birth of the children as recorded by her father.
She further declares that the said Ebenezer Dyer and his wife Mehitable aforesaid were married at Canterbury CT on the 24th day of June AD 1784 and lived together as husband and wife until they were separated by death as aforesaid.
Mehetable Hamilton

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written.
George E Water Judge

State of Vermont
Hartford District SS
I Lyndon A March Register of the Court of Probate of the District of Hartford aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Mehetable Hamilton for a pension, and I further certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Ebenezer Dyer and his wife Mehetable Dyer named in the foregoing declaration died as therein stated and left the children therein named and that the declarant above, Mehetable Hamilton is the only child known to be living.
I further certify that Ebenezer Dyer aforesaid was reputed in his neighborhood to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Woodstock in said District this 4th day of February AD 1846.
L. A. March, Register
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State of Vermont
Hartford District
I Lyndon A Marsh Register of the Court of
Probate of the District of Hartford aforesaid
hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the
application of Mehitable Hamilton for a Pension.
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And I further if the
that  [Crossed out satisfactory then repeated] That satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Ebenezer
Dyer within named was reputed in his neighbourhood to have been a soldier
of the Revolution and that he died in Sharon in said District on the 23d
day of August 1839. aged 83 years and that the said Dyer wife, Mahitable Dyer died at the same Sharon on the 15 day of October 1827 and that they left the following children to wit Luther Dyer, Dellis Dyer, Orville Dyer
Mehitable Hamilton and that the declarant is the only child now
known to be living
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37,282
Ebenezer Dyer[]
[]
Act of June 32
claimd died in 1839
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I Samuel P Robinson Town Clerk of Canterbury in the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut on the application for the record testimony of marriage of Ebenezar Dyer and Mehetable Ensworth on examination of the records for that purpose find the following to wit:
"Ebenezar Dyer and Mehetable Ensworth were married." 
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair and legible figures as follows: "June 24th 1784 (viz being June Twenty-fourth Seventeen Hundred Eighty-Four)" Attest Samuel P Robinson Town Clerk
I Samuel P. Robinson above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in and for said Town of Canterbury and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town of Canterbury with exception as above named as certified by me Samuel P Robinson Town Clerk State of Connecticut County of Windham Canterbury The above subscribed and sworn to this 13th day of April AD 1846 before me William Dyer Justice of the Peace
[illegible] There is authentic evidence accompanying the other papers in this case to show that Wm Dyer is Justice of the Peace
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3177
P. O.
[Handwritten] Ebenezer Dyer
Service:
Enlisted: _______, 18
Discharged: _______, 18
Application filed:_________, 18
Alleges: 
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O:
Recognized.
Contract.
Cert. of Dis. 
Searched for ___________, 18
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Melistable Hamilton
Heir of Ebenezer Dyar
Application for Pension

January 13, 1848 Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pension

A[] R[]

Mr. Colls[]
Rev. Pension
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Ebenezer Dyer
rejected
let Jared Parkhurst
21 March 1835
Hon. J. Everett Oct []1/58
Mrs. M. Hamilton, Nov 24/60

No. 32,686
Ebenezer Dyer
Vt.

Act - 7th June 32
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John Edwards Esq.
Comr. Pensions

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Ebenezer Dyer

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H. Everett]
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Washington 7 November 1834
Sir I wish to examine the pension papers of Eben. Dyer (Vt) -- I will thank you to [illegible] to use for that purpose. Respectfully H Everett
J L Edwards
Com of Pensions
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2 July 34
Sir I return the papers of E Dyer. Respectfully H Everett
J L Edwards
Com. of Pensions
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J. L. Edwards Esq
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Connecticut J L Edwards Esq. Dear Sir Some time since the accompanying papers were sent me with a request that I would obtain the necessary prood and forward them -- I have only to say that there is sufficient proof to be found relating to the 9 months service under Capt Cleveland, but the service was in the Masters Department, for which I suppose a pension will not be allowed. As to the other services I have obtained a certificate from the Comptroller and from what I can learn the services were Seven months instead of Nine as the affidavit claims. Yours truly William Dyer
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State of Connecticut Windham County Probate District of Plainfield November [illegible] 1845
This certifies that William Dyer Esq is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly qualified by law to administer Oaths and that his signature affixed to the annexed affidavits is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Probate within and for said district, this 18th day of November A.D. 1845
Jos C. Spalding Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Plainfield
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Mrs. Hamilton Dear Madam
You will please say to whoever has the charge of your business that the papers of Josiah Cleveland who obtained a pension while residing in the State of New York and afterwards applied from Connecticut to have his pension increased, show what most of the service of your father was, and they were together in the service. 
Yours truly William Dyer
November 17th 1845
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2 October 1858 My dear Sir: I enclose a letter which has been addressed to me at the the suggestion of an old friend Col. Paine. P. M. of Rochester NY whom I would be glad to [illegible] as you will see, it relates to a matter under your jurisdiction. I suppose it will not be inconsistent with duty to you to favor me with such information as will enable me to answer Wm Hamilton's enquiries. I will be greatly obliged to you for such information. I am aware that Austin
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died, I think, about a year since. Sincerely yours Thos T Everett
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The undersigned will hereafter to business as an Attorney and
counsellor in Patent Cases. He will attend to the procuring of Patents,
and all other business before the Patent Office.
Throughout the several years in which he was engaged in the Parent
Office as an Assistant and Principal Examiner, extending from February,
1819, to the last of January, 1858, he had charge of the classes
Engine and Navigation; and during part of his term of service
also of the classes Metallurgy, Architecture Civil Engineering.
[illegible]Arms and General Miscellany. His experience extends over a
large part of the business of that office.
He will give special attention to [illegible] Extension, there[illegible]
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and before Office and before the Courts.
Having been admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the
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He will advise parties as to their rights and interests in invention
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Mr. van Buskirk
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[illegible] Dec 21st 1852

Worthy Sir

Being very anxious to gain some more information concerning a pension belonging to my Father which was in the care of James Austin for collection.  I having written a number of letters to him at Washington, but reveived no answer am writing to his son in Minestola was informed of his Fathers Death and likewise that his Fathers buissness and papers were in your care & having [illegible] Mr. Austin [illegible] this buissness [illegible] a number of years since he [illegible] me that there was so much buisness in [illegible] [illegible] do that he could not get them to attend to it, therefore I have been waiting over [illegible] years since Mr Austin has never been to any expense that I know of as the Depositions were in the office at [illegible] It was a very singular case I should like to inform you of the particulars of the case
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Dyar, Ebenezer R. 3177
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Respectfully referred to the Commr. of Pensions
Nov 19 1866
W.C. Barton
[?] Pen. Agt.
Washt. D.C.

[A received stamp reading "PENSION OFFICE NOV 20"]
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Cambria, Nov 6th, 1860.
Honorable Sir

Please excuse my writing, a few things
to your honor for information is I do not know of any other way to obtain correct information 12 years since I was then residing in Rochester A gentleman by the name of James G Austin and said he was in the business of collecting Pensions and had obtained sufficient  evidence (as I suppose) to obtain a pension for the service of my Father (Ebenezar Dyer) who was in the Continental Service at 3 different times and the last tour was at the time Burgoin was taken He went from Canterbury in Connecticut. He went as a teamster and found his own team My Father [hav] never received a pension 

But after my Fathers death if having a large family and being very anxious to educate them for unfeeling prompt me to obtain sufficient evidence to obtain my Fathers Pension if obtained a Affidavits from Persons who were knowing [at the time] of his service and the lots of his team and his sufferings Mr Austin was very anxious that I should allow him the privilege of collecting the pension
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therefore I gave him the papers which he said were sufficient and I gave him power Attorney for collection. Mr James G Austin was then residing in Phelps in Ontario County. But in the term of 2 or 3 years Mooved to the City of Washington as he was in the buisness of collecting Pensions he answered my letters and said they had so much buisness to attend to that he must wait his turn, therefore I have waited untill I heard of his Death which I was informed took place 2 or 3 years since
He being a stranger I do not know of any one that I can gain correct information concerning the buisness which he undertook for me Therefore please excus the freedom which I have taken in asking you to be so obliging as to answer a few questions (if consistent) it will greatly relieve my anxieties. It is ten years last June since I engaged Mr. James G Austin to apply for my Fathers pension.  I had obtain a certificate of my Father and Mothers Marriage in Canterbury Conn. and of my being their 3rd child. 2 Brothers older are not living He took those with with the affidavits. I wish to enquire If he ever received the Pension or whether he was in buisness or in company with any one or who setted his buisness at Washington, or if he has never receive the pension shy this [illegible]; or if he has received it what means can I take to recover it. I should be very happy to [illegible] you [[illegible] for this intrusion and trouble if in power But if I ever receive my pension I will ---
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endeavor to recompence you for your trouble in kindness
Yours with Respect
Mehetable Hamilton

P.S. Please answer and it will greateley oblige me much and greately relieve an anxious mind.

Mehetable Hamilton
Lockport
New York

in the care of 
Rev D.D. Hamilton

(Excuse Sir your Name is unknown to me)
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I Elijah Dyer of Canterbury in the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut aged Eighty two years do testify and say that Ebenezer Dyer late of Sharon in the State of Vermont was my oldest brother, was drafted in the militia of said Canterbury and went to New London, as was then said where he remained in the service of the United States as a soldier, also that he went in the same service to near or at the City of New York, and other places in the State of New York all of which was about Eleven months service, as was then said, during which time he the said Ebenezer Dyer was said to be in the service as a soldier of the United States, afterward my said brother went in a company under Capt Josiah Cleveland with a company who went with teams to carry the baggage for the French Army under La Fayette. He left home with three pairs of good oxen, a new ox Cart and all the necessary yokes, chains &c. none of which property over came back, but was said to be in part lost. He was absent on said last tour of duty about ten months.  my said brother was said to have been, and often told me that he was, at the taking of the Army
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under Lord Cornwallis, and that during that
action he drew cannon balls for use on that
occasion in the first named service was
in the years 177-79 & 80

the last service was in 1781 or 82
Elijah Dyer

State of Connecticut 
Windham County ss

Canterbury November 7th AD 1845

Then personally appeared Elijah Dyer
above named who is well known to
me to be a credible witness and signed
the above deposition in my presence and
made solemn oath to the truth
of the same before me

William Dyer Justice of the Peace
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I Asa Phiney of Canterbury in the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut aged eighty five do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Ebenezer Dyer from childhood and that in the year 1781 the said Ebenezer Dyer went with six oxen, a wagon and ox chains ox yoked and other necessary appendages necessary for carrying baggage for the French Army, that the said Dyer was absent said to have been in the service of the United States for about ten months-when the said Dyer returned from said service he came without his [illegible], and at the time it was said that the said Dyer lost the whole amount of his [illegible], worth four hundred dollars. I then lived in his fathers or brothers family-Asa Phinney
State of Connecticut Windham County of Plainfield November 7th 1845-[illegible] personally offered Asa Phinney above named signed the above deposition in my [illegible] and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me. I certify that he is a credible witness
William Dyer Justice of the Peace
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I Eli Washburn of Hanover in the County of Grafton & State of New Hampshire aged eighty six years a revolutionary pensioner of the United States depose & say 

That I was well acquainted with Ebenezer Dyer from our boyhood and lived in the same neighbourhood with him in Canturbury in the County of Windham State of Connecticut untill about the year 1800 at the time the French Army [illegible] [illegible] Connecticut Ebenezer Dyer (aforesaid) left home with his own team of three yoke of oxen for the purpose of transporting baggage and other [illegible] belonging to the American Army and went with the aforesaid army to Yorktown in Virginia at which place his oxen became diseased “with what was called the bloody [thurvain?]” and all died & the said Dyer did not  receive any compensation for said team- he also went with his own Yokes and chains) which were lost, for which the said Dyer received no payment.  the said Dyer was an enlisted soldier in Capt [illegible] Clevelands company but I do not recollect the name of the Colonel of the regiment to which Capt Clevelands company was marched= Mr Ebenezer Dyer was a man of good morals and of undoubted truth & verasity – the said Ebenezer Dyer returned from the army in the winter next following the summer of Cornwallis [illegible] Army
Eli Washburn

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss
Lebanon April 25 1845 = Personally appearing the above name Eli Washburn whom I certify to be a witness entitled to full & made solemn oath that the above affadavit by him subscribed is  just and true.
Before me Geo H. Lathrop – Justice of the peace
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton County set
I Nathan B Felton, Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid
do hereby certify that George H. Lathrop is an acting Justice of
the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned and
qualified; that his commission was dated on the second
day October AD 1840, and will expire on the second
day of October AD 1845 and that his two signatures
above written on the first & third pages of this package)
are genuine
Given under my hand and the seal of said
Court this first day of October AD 1845
N B Felton Clerk
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J.L. Edwards Letter
Dcr. 24 1846-

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Mrs. Mehetable Hamilton
Royalton, VT

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Ebenezer Dyer
Heirs of

Mrs M. Hamilton
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Ebenerzer Dyer
Heirs of
Mrs. M Hamilton

Mrs. Mehitable Hamilton
Royalton
Vt



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J.L. Edwards Letter
Dcr. 24. 1846-
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Pension Office
December 24th, 1846.

Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 14th last, you are informed that the Commissariat, in which
Ebenezer Dyer was employed in 1781, was that of the French Army, and therefore not embraced in the Act of June 7, 1832.
The office adheres to the decision communicated to Aton. Mr. Collamer on the 15th June last.
Mrs. Hamilton has no claim in her own right, but is claiming the arrears of pension which might have been due her Father at the time of his death. She cannot be relieved from fulfilling all the requirements which the


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regulations imposed on him.

The service of Ebenezer Dyer, must therefore be set forth and established before a pro-rata pension can be allowed.

I am Sir
 Respectfully your obt Servt 

J L Edwards 



Oels Billings Esq
Woodstock
Vermont
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Woodstock Nov. 24. 1847
Mrs Hamilton,
I send you this letter of the Commissioner
of Pensions which is the last I have recd from that department, since which, I have been to Connecticut for further proof but cannot find any. I therefore relinquish all claim to your case and give it up into your hands to do as you think best. The papers are all at Washington with Mr J. L. Edwards the Commissioner of Pensions.
Mr Collamer State tomorrow for Washington and you can write him to attend to your business. I am sorry that I could not obtain it as I have paid out money I must lapse.
I am yours Respectfully
Oel Billings
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The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions to whom we refered the petition of Mehitable Hamilton for a pension report 

That the petitioner claims the pension which the alleges is due her father Ebenezer Dyer at the time of his decease in 1839. The services which she claims to have been rendered by her father were not, in the opinion of the Committee, sufficiently of a military character to entitle her father to a pension; and if he would have been entitled to none in case he had made application it follows as a necessary consequence that the petitioner can be entitled to nothing.

She introduces no proof of the services of her father except [illegible] and that is of a very loose and unsatisfactory character.  They therefore report adversely to her claims-
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Department of Wars Pension Office July 11 1834 Sir Therewith return the declaration of Ebenr Dyer on the Department possesses no rolls of the since therein alleged. I would advise you to apply to Elisha Phelps Esq. Comptroller at Hartford Conn., where proof can be found, [illegible] [illegible] as he has set forth [illegible] Respectfully [illegible] Henry H Sylvester on behalf of the Commv. of Pension Jared Parkhurst Esq Sharon
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Mahitable Hamilton
daughter of
Ebenezer Dyer

Act 1832, Vt [illegible]

[illegible]
J.J. Coombes

James J Austin Esq.
Phelps
Ontario Co.
N.Y.

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E Dyer pension
Letter of
Mrs Hamilton
Annum July 23 1849
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E Dyer pension
Letter of
Mrs Hamilton
Annum July 23 1849

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Mahitable Hamilton
daughter of
Ebenezer Dyer

Act 1832, Vt [illegible]

[illegible]
J.J. Coombes

James J Austin Esq.
Phelps
Ontario Co.
N.Y.
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Rochester July 14th
Mr [illegible]

Please inform me how you have
succeed in obtaining my fathers pension
Have you found those papers (or affidavits)
left in the office at Washington if so
are they sufficient. They were left in the
of care of Esq. Colemer.
Please inform me and you greatly
obliged
Mehetable [Mehitable] Hamilton
Rochester
South Sophia St
The pension belonging to Eben Dyer
formerly of Sharon '74 (decesased)
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I George E. Wales of Hartford in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont do depose and say that during the time I was a Representative in Congress which was from March 1825 to March 4, 1829 Ebenezer Dyer who then lived at Sharon in the County of Windsor, placed in my hands his declaration for the purpose of obtaining a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier, and in proof of service and to establish a claim for [illegible] lost he had the deposition of Capt Josiah Cleaveland, who as I recollect knew and testified in respect to the service of said Ebenezer Dyer.
These papers were never acted upon either by the Commissioner of Pensions or by Congress and remained in my hands I believe.
Since which time I have either lost or mislaid said papers, as I cannot now find them.

George E. Wales

State of Vermont
Windsor County
The above affidavit subscribed and sworn to this 5th day of February 1846 before me.
O.P. Chandler Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont
Windsor County
I, Norman Williams, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that Oliver P. Chandler is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said country, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 24 day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature (OP. Chandler) above written is genuine.
Given under may hand and the seal of said County Court, at Woodstock, in said County of Windsor, this 5th day of May A.D. 1846
     Norman Williams, Clerk.
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State of Connecticut 
Comptroller's office
Hartford
10th March 1835

On examination of the books of this office, it appears that on the 17th February 1777, the committee of pay table made the following entry on their journal [illegible] War Dv. to order on the treasurer in full to Col John Douglas Abstract for 21st Regiment militia New London [illegible] Sept '76...$253.17.7. and that the same was subsequently charged to the United States.
That Sherebiah Butts of Canterbury was a captain in the 21st regiment militia.
That on the 6th day of September 1776, several regiments of militia, among the number was the 21st regiment, were ordered to march to New York, and rendezvous at or near Westchester to cooperate with the Continental Army; that Colonel John Douglas marched there with said regiment, that the wages of said troops were not paid by this state, that the contingent expenses & bounties were paid by this state, and charged to and allowed by the United States.
That on the 19th of September 1781, Col Samuel McClellan was appointed to the command of the Post of New London, and continued in command until  April 1783.
     Certified by Roger Huntington
     Comptroller of Public Accounts