Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R.397, Ezekiel Bainbrook, N.C.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N.C.
Bainbrook, Ezekiel
Benbrook.
NUMBER
R.397
CONTENTS
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31.969
Ezekiel Bainbrook
Indiana
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832

State of Indiana}
Posey County} SS.

On this 10th day of of September A. D. 1834 personally appeared before the Judges of the Posey Circuit Court (the same being a Court of Record, Ezekial BainBrook a resident of [illegible] Posey County Indiana aged 86 years in December next who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following  Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - States that he was born in the year 1748 in Dubois County as it was then called (its name has since been changed by what name it is now known Declarant does not recollect) - removed from Dubois County to Montgomery where
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he resided whe he entered the service of the United States in the year 1779 (if his memory be correct) in the capacity of Lieutenant in a Company commanded by Captain Thomas Child - his commission as Lieutenant was given him by General Rutherford served in said company for the term of six months - marched from Montgomeory to South Carolina with the intentin of going to Eutaw Springs had marched to within about 25 miles of Eutaw Springs when our Colonel received information that our services were required on Drowning Creek (as it was then called) and by the Enemys changing their position we returned to Montgomery in North Carolina where we started from whie on our return from our march towards Eutaw Springs we had a Bttle on Drowning Creek at Beaty's Bridge Colonel Child & Colonel Wade & Major Musk commanded in this engagement we were whipt and beaten so that we were put to flight &
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Declarant lost a good Horse Saddle & Bridle being so closely pursued that that he had to abandon them and take to the swamp - for which he never received a farthing - this was in the fall season of the year - on our return to Montgomery Declarant was employed as an assistant to commisary work who was engaged in procuring Beef cattle provision &c for the Army collected a quantity of Beef Cattle and drove them to the Peedee River at Haleys Ferry was then discharged by Colonel Childs - Declarant then returned home to Montgomery where he started from - was out as a minute man in several skirmishes afterwards for a few days at a time but was out in no regular campaign Declarant further states that he soon after the war
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removed to Wilkes County in the State of Georgia lived there about 10 years then removed to Carolina again where he resided until about the year 1807 when he removed to the State of Kentucky Warren County from thence he removed to Mars Township in Posey County Indiana where he now lives says he has a record of his age at his son in Laws with whom he lives - says that his commission was signed by Gen'l Rutherford says that when he was preparing to remove from North Carolina to Kentucky his commission with other papers his wife burnt not thinking that it would ever be of any service to him - his discharge was also Burnt at the same time says that he has no documentary evidence whatever to prove his service nor does he know of any person or persons by whom he can prove his personal services as a soldier & officer of the Revolution says that he served the full term of six months as Lieutenant as above stated for which he claims a
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pension He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity Except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency of any state or Territory - Subscribed & Sworn to in Open Court the day & year aforesaid
[Signatures]
Ezekiel Bainbrook
W. E. Stewart, Clerk

We Ezekeal Sanders (a clergyman) James Hanna William Hutchinson Moses Calvin of the county of Posey (with the Exception of Ezekeal Sanders who lives in the county of Vanderburgh close to the posey count line) State of Indiana certify that we are acquainted with Ezekeal Bainbrook who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration & that we believe him to be 86 years of age that he is reputed in the neighborhood
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where he resides to have been an officer & soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
[Signatures]
E. Sanders
James Howard
William Hutchison
Moses Calvin
Subscribed & sworn to in open court the day & year aforesaid
W. E. Stewart, Clerk

We the said court do hereby declare their opinion after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department the above named applicant was a soldier of the Revolution and served as he states and that they are satisfied of the truth of his answers to the foregoing interrogatories and the court further certify that it satisfactorily appears to them that Ezekeal Sanders who has signed the foregoing certificate is a Clergyman and resides where he states and that James
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Hanna Wiliam Hutchinson & Moses Calvin who have signed the foregoing certificate are resident citizens of the county of Posey State of Indiana - that they are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit
[Signatures]
Sam'l. Hall
Samuel C. Reynolds

State of Indiana}
Posey County} SS.

I William E. Stewart Clerk of the Posey Circuit Court do certify that the foregoing Circuit Court do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Ezekiel Bainbrook for a Pension.
In Testimony of whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Mount Vernon this the 11th day of September A. D. 1834 - 
W. E. Stewart, Clerk
[Signature]
[Seal]
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State of Illinois}
Hamilton County} SS.
This day personally appeared before me the undersigned clerk of the County Court in and for the county and state aforesaid Mary Sneed aged Sixty four years who is a person entitled to credit who after being by me first duly sworn according to law on her oath says that she is the only child now living of Ezekiel Bainbrook, who as she is informed and does veraly believe was a soldier in  the war of United States with Great Britain known as the war of the Revolution. That her said father entered the said service in Richmond County in the state of North Carolina. That while he remained in said service he belonged to the North Carolina Militia. That she is unable to state the date of his entering the said service. She is also unable to state with particularity in what capacity he performed the duties of a soldier as aforesaid. Or who ware his higher officers. But she is informed and does veraly believe that he was a captain during a portion of the time of his service. And that he was also a private soldier for a portion of said time. She is also informed and does veraly believe that for a portion of said time he was under the command of Colonel Childs. She is also informed and does veraly believe that her said father was honorably discharged from said service. but she cannot state the time or place, and knows not what became of his discharge or whither the same is in existance or not neither does she know of any person by whom she would be able to prove the services of her father as aforesaid. She also states that her said father died in the county of Posey and State of Indianna on or about the 18th day of May A. D. 1840, leaving no widow, nor children except said Mary. James Benbook & Lucy Rider
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who said James and Lucy have since died having no other children of said Ezekiel Benbrook than said Mary. - For further information touching the service of said Ezekiel Benbrook as aforesaid She would respectfully refer the Commissioner of Pensions to the records in the proper departments and more especially to the records of the Regiment commanded by Col. Childs, in said war, feeling unable to give any more definite statement of the facts than above set forth she makes this application for the purpose of obtaining whatever pension she may be entitled to receive on account of the Military services of her father as aforesaid.
She further states that she has never received any pension money on account of the military service of her said father, nor is she entitled to any other pension than that herein applied for.
She would further state that she is informed and does veraly believe that her said father some 4 or 5 years previous to his death as aforesaid made application for a pension but never received such pension. and she would state that his discharge may be with said application on file in the proper department. She futher states that  the name of her said father may appear on the rolls as Ezekiel Bainbrook and was sometime written in that way.
Mary Sneed X her mark
[Signature]
Sworn & subscried to before me this 15th day of May A. D. 1853.
In testimony thereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at McLeansboro the day & year last above written.
Jno. W. Marshall Co. Court 
Hamilton, Co. Ill.
[Signature]
[Seal]
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State of Illinois}
Hamilton County} SS.
This day personally appeared before me the undersigned, a justice of the peace in and for said county Sarah J. Benbrook and Thomas C. Benbrook who are persons entitled to credit who after being by me first duly sworn according to law on their oath say that Ezekiel Benbrook whose name is mentioned in the foregoing Declaration died in the county of Posey and State of Indianna on or about the 18th day of May 1840 and that these affiants were present at the time of his death as aforesaid that he left no widow and that Mary Sneed whose name appears to the foregoing declaration is the daughter of said Ezekiel Benbrook and the only child of said Ezekiel who now survives him.
Given under my hand and seal this 21st day of May 1853.
R. B. White J. P. Hamilton County Ill's.
[Signature]

State of Illinois}
Hamilton County} SS.
I John W. Marshall Clerk of the county court in and for said county certify that William B. White Esq'r. whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing affidavit, was at the time of signing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn.
Given under my hand and the seal of said court, at McLeansboro this 31st day of May A. D. 1853
Jno. W. Marshall - Clk
[Signature]
[Seal]
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November 30, 1934
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Ezekiel Bainbrook-R. 397
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. J. H. Jackson
Brake
Kentucky

Dear Madam:

The record which follows of Ezekiel Bainbrook was obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, R. 397, based upon his service in the War of the Revolution.
Ezekiel Bainbrook, applied for a pension September 10, 1834, then living in Mars Township, Posey County, Indiana. It is stated that while residing in Montgomery County, North Carolina, he enlisted in 1779, served as private, lieuenant and captain in the North Carolina troops, under Captain Thomas Childs, Colonels Culp, Wade and Childs, was in the battle of Drowning Creek, several skirmishes, and assisted Commissary Morse in collecting provisions for the army. The claim was not allowed as proof of six months' service, as required by the pension law, was not furnished.
Ezekiel Bainbrook married November 15, 1773 or November 7, 1774, Mary, her maiden name is not given. After the Revolution they moved to Wilkes County, Georgia, lived there about ten years and returned to "Carolina", in 1807 moved to Warren County, Kentucky, and
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from there moved to Mars Township, Posey County, Indiana, where he was living in 1834 with his son-in-law, name not stated.
Ezekiel Bainbrook's wife, Mary, died July 2, 1832 or 1833, he died March 10, 1840 or May 10, 1840 or May 18, 1840. The following children survived their father: Mary Sneed, Janet Bainbrook, and Lucy Reeder or Ruder. In 1833 Mary Sneed was the only surviving child, she was then sixty-four years of age, and in 1857 she was living in Hamilton County, Illinois. In 1853 William P. Sneed was in Hamilton County, Illinois, Thomas C. and Sarah T. Bainbrook were also there in 1853, and Ezekiel G. Bainbrook was living in 1837 in Hamilton County, Illinois. Their relationship is each other and to the family is not shown.
Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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McLeansboro Ill.
April 25th 1837

Dear Sir

Enclosed herewith I send the application of Mary Sneed the sole surviving child of Ezekiel Bainbrook, a soldier of the Revolution. She is poor and aged in fact lingering on the brink of the grave and if she obtaines any thing it is important, that it should be as soon as possible. For these reasons I have myself drawn up these papers for her as a mere gratuity - and as I know nothing about the forms a widow prescribed by the department - this application may in very defective. Ezekiel Bainbrook applied for a pension a short time prior to
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his death and I suppose the proof of his service will be found among the papers sent by him to your department.
I have no doubt of the Justice and good faith of this application and hope you will make as speedy and favorable a disposition of it as the law will justify. You will please notify me of the result as soon as possible.
I Remain Truly 
Your Obt. Srvnt.
S. S. Marshall
[Signature]

Hon. Com'r. of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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Revolutionary
Power of Attorney
heir of 
Ezekiel Bainbrook
Indiana rejected 1832

Filed 28 June 1834
F. E. Hassler
Washington
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State of Illinois}
Hamilton County} SS.

Be it known that before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county personally appeared Mary Sneed aged who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, stated that she is the only surviving child of Ezekiel Bainbrook, deceased, who was a revolutionary soldier in the State of North Carolina and that he died on the 10th day of May A. D. 1840, and that her mother named Mary Benbrook died on the 28 day of July A. D. 1833 and they were married on the 7th day of November the year A. D. 1774 and they were residents of Richmond County in the State of North Carolina that they resided there Thirty years and that she resides in Hamilton County state of Illinois, and that furthemore by these presents constitute, appoints and fully empowers and authorizes irrevocably and with power of substitution F. E. Hassler, Esq'r. of Washington City D. C. for her and in her stead. and name as her true and lawful attorney to examine into, to prosecute and demand and to receive from the United States government and State officers her rights in all and in any
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manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or land that may be due her as heir and only surviving child of Ezekiel Bainbrook, who died leaving the same undrawn as in right of law she may be entitled.
In witness whereof she has set her hand and seal this the 13th day of June A. D. 1854 -
Mary Sneed X her mark
[Signature]

attest
Nathaniel Harrelson}
Wm. P. Sneed}  [seal]

State of Illinois}
Hamilton County} SS.

I Sam'l. A. Martin, Clerk of the county, and for said county and state do hereby certify that Wm. L. Malone whose Genuine Signature appears to the above acknowledgement is & was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned official as appears of record in my office.
In witness where of I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court at McLeansboro this 17th June 1854 
Sam'l. A. Martin Clk
By Jno McIlvain Deputy
[Seal]
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State of Illinois
Hamilton County

Be it known that before me William L. Malone a Justice of the peace for said court personally appeared Mary Sneed a resident of said county and 68  years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law states that she is the daughter and only living child of Ezekiel Bainbrook who was a revolutionary soldier in the state of North Carolina and that he died on the 10th day of March 1840 and that her mother named Mary Bainbrook died on 2nd day of July 1832. That her said father and mother were married on the 15th day of November in the year 1773 and were residents in Richmond County in the state of North Carolina, and resided there 38 years and that she the said Mary Sneed now resides in said county of Hamilton and state of Illinois. Subscribed [illegible] she has on this 22nd day of April [illegible] signed her name. 
Mary Sneed X her mark
[Signature]
Witnesses
Mary Malone
John Livingston
Sworn to and signed before me and I further certify that said Mary Sneed has always by the community been known as the daughter of Ezekiel Bainbrook a soldier of the Revolutionary war. This 22nd day of April 1857
William L. Malone J. P.
[Signature]

State of Illinois}
Hamilton County}

Before me William L. Malone the undersigned Justice of the peace with and for said Court this day Personally appeared Carolina M. Malone and Ezekiel G. Benbrook, who are residents of said county and well known to me as credible and reliable persons who [illegible] by me duly sworn [illegible]
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that they are well acquainted with Ezekiel Bainbrook from 8 to fifteen years & to his death - that the said Ezekiel died at or about the t e mentioned in the foregoing portion of Mary Sneed that he always [illegible] on his neighbors and acquaintances bore the reputation of having been a soldier of the Revolutionary war and that affiant never heard any doubts mentioned about that - and that the said Mary Sneed was always recognized and known as the daughter of the said Ezekiel and affiants have no doubt the facts are as established by her said declaration - and that the said Mary is the only child of him the said Ezekiel now surviving - Affiant further states that they have no interest whatsoever in the application of the said Mary Sneed.
[Signatures]
Carolina M. Malone
E. J. Benbrook
Sworn to and subscibed before me this 23rd April A. D. 1857
[Signature]
William L. Malone J. P.

State of Illinois}
Hamilton County} SS.
I Sam'l A. Martin, Clerk of the county court of said county do hereby certify that William L. Malone whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing affidaviats was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified as appears of record in my office and that as such full faith and credit are due to all his official acts.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court this 25th day of April A. D. 1857.
Sam'l A. Martin, Clerk
By John McElvain, deputy.
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Free
Official Business

Hon. Comm'r. of Pensions
Washington City D. C. 

McLeansboro Ill.
April 1

Mayo
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M Leansboro, Hamilton County Ills.
April 1st 1853.

Hon. Comm. of Pensiosn

Sir.

Ezekiel Bainsbrook ( or Benbrook) made his application for a pension to the proper department near 15 years ago. He was Captain of a company of North Carolina troops in the revolutionary war. He has since died and left one child & provision. Our object is to ascertain in what condition the claim is and what further proof said heirs will be required to make in order to substantiate their claim to the pension of the dec'd. By giving us information on this subject a great favour will be confered. We subscribe ourselves yours respectfully
Sisson & McElvain
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Sisson & McElvain
July 12/53
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Pension Office
July 12 1853

Gentlemen

Ezekiel Bainbrook of Indiana, claimed to have rendered service in N. C. but furnished no evidnce that he ever served a day. Application should be made to the Comptroller of N. C. for such evidence as he may possess in his favor. If he has evidence that Bainbrook served as much as six months, then the date of his death should be therein and the number and names of his children now living.

Messres Sisson & McElvain
McLeansboro
Hamilton Co. Ill.
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Messrs Sisson & McElvain
Aug. 22 1853
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Pension Office
August 22. 1853

Gentlemen

In the case of Ezekiel Bainbrook deceased, of Indiana, for a pension under the act of June 7. 1832, the proof of service not having been supplied, the evidence of death and heirship does not materially change the aspect of the case.


Meser's Sisson & McElvain
McLeansboro,
Hamilton Co. 
Ill.
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Wm. Manly
Feb 16 '48
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Pension Office
Feb'y 16 1848

Sir

In answer to your letter of the 1st inst. I have to inform you that no opinion can be given in any case prior to its presentation.
When the Certificate of the Comptroller of North Carolina shall have been prescribed in the case of Ezekiel Bainbrook, it will then be determined how far it goes to support his claim.


Wm. Manly Esq.
Marshall, Ill.
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McLeansboro, Hamilton County Ills.
May 30th 1853

Hon. Comm. of Pensions,
Sir, Enclosed you will find the application of Mary Sneed for a pension please correspond with us at our address as above and oblige.
Your Obt. Srvt.
Sisson & McElvain
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Marshall Ill.
Feb. 1. 1848

Sir.
In regard to your letter of the 22d ultimo in case of Ezekiel Benbrook I wish respectfully to enquire whether his claim can be allowed upon showing by the Records of N. Car. payments made to him as Lieutenant which cover six months service & make the inquiry in advance for the reason that the office in charge of the records charges $5 for an summation of the Records - an expense which it is not desirable to incur unless it might be availing- 
Very respectfully
W. Manly
[Signature]


J.L. Edwards Esq.
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Evansville In. Sept. 13    Free

Department of War
Pension Office
Washington D. C.
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Sept. 1834

Evansville VanderBurgh
County Indiana

Dr. Sir Enclosed I send you the application of Ezekeal Bainbrook for a pension under the act of June 7th 1832 with the hope that his application may be successful I have the honour to be sir
Respectfully your obediant
Servant
James Lockhart

Hon. J. L. Edwards Esq.}
Washington D. C. }
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Pension Office,
May 6, 1857

Sir,

Ezekiel Bainbrook while a resident of Indiana, made application for a pension for alleged service in North Carolina, during the war of the Revolution, it is and was disallowed, as he furnished no evidence of the service for which he claimed a pension: nor has any evidence upon that point been addressed since his death. Application should be made to the Comptroller of North Carolina for any evidence he may possess corroborating the statements made by Bainbrook.



Hon. S. S. Marshall,
McLeansboro
Illinois.
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Pension Office
January 22nd 1848

Sir

In answer to your letter of the 10th ultimo I have to inform you that Ezekiel Bainbrooks claim was rejected in consequence of his not having rendered as much as 6 months service in a military capacity. In his declaration he states that entered the service in 1779 as a Lieutenant and after marching from Montgomery County North Carolina, his place of residence toward Eutaw Springs the regiment to which he belonged was recused and after his return home he was employed in procurring cattle in the Commissarys Department. No proof of service or of his rank as a Commissioned or staff officer was ever furnished by him.
Frederick Maberry alleged in his application for a pension under the act of 7 June 1832 that he served several tours of duly in the militia of Virgina in 1782 amounting to 6 mos. his statement did not agree with the course of the service at that peiod of the war. The militia
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of that state were not called out to perform military duty after the winter of 1781, and the service of "Runjins" and "Scouting" in which he alleges he was employed afford no grounds for a pension  his claim was of course rejeted. His widow Priscilla Maberry has not applied for a pension.
It does not appear that the widow of John Forrister or James Holliday has any papers on file in this office or that they have ever applied for a pension.

W. Manley Esq.
Marshall Ill


Mrs. William Holliday
widow of John Forrester
James Holliday


Uri Manly
Jan'y 22 ' 48
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(Official Business) Free -

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Coumm. of Pensions
Washington D. C.

McLeansboro Ill.
May 6
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31.969
Ezekiel Bainbrook
Indiana

Ja.'s. Lockhart Sep 214, 1834 - Did not find

397

June 7. 1832 -
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McLeansboro Hamilton Co. Illinois

Hon. Commissioner of Pensions.

Hon. Sir. About thirteen or fifteen years since one  Ezekiel Bainbrook a  Captain in the North Carolina militia (or volunteers) made application & you Hon. Department for Pensions &c for his services in said war - 
He since learned that his said application was placed upon the suspended files in the proper department on account of some informality - or objectionable feature in his papers - Of what the infavourability consisted of nor those interested was never informed - He is since dead having one heir & that - heir (an elderly spinster) is desirous of Recovering her rights in the premises. What - further proof has to be made before the objections can be resended &c
Your Hon - deparment will confer quite a favour by giving us early notion &c - 
May 9th 1853 -
H. Sisson
[Signature]

Hon. L.P. Waldo
Com'r, of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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397
P.O. Ezekiel Bainbrook
REJECTED

Enlisted:______________, 18  .
Discharged: _______________, 18  .

Application filed: _______________, 18  .
The printed list of 1852
Alleges: shows reasons for rejection - "He did not serve six months in a military capacity."

Attorney: ___________________
P.O. ________________________________
___________Recognized. _______________Contact.
________Cert. of Dis. Searched for ___________, 18.
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1934 - Jun 22 Hist to Miss Frances Richards awf
1934 - Nov. 30 - hist. to Mrs. J.  H. Jackkson awf
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Rejected did not serve six months in a military capacity 
see letter 24 Sep. 34 to Jas. Lockhart. 

1832
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1340 College St., Bowling Green Ky., 
Jan. 8, 1934.

Dept. of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C>

Gentlemen:

Will you please give me the Revolutionary War records of William Prout, of Bedford County, Virginia, whose wife was Nellie Poole Prout?
I should also like very much to know if there is any record of service
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by Ezekiel Benbrooks, of North carolina, on the Yadkins River, I think, Benbrooks' wife's name was Rebecca. 
I shall appreciate any early reply.
[illegible]
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Drake, Ky.
Nov. 12 1934.

Dept. of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions Washington D. C.

Sirs:

Will you please furnish me the Revolutionary War records of the following persons.

1. Gideon Herrington born in Maryland in 1745.

2. Joshua Reeder of South Carolina (father of Louis & two other sons who moved to Ky.

3. Jessie Kirby, born in  N. C. 1757. His wife was  Sophia Chaice. He moved to Ky at some unknown date.

4. Charles Dodson - born in Eng. came to Va. from there to S.C. & then to Ky. wife was Lucy  Morgan.

5 Joseph Logan - a Baptist preacher of S. C. wife's name  Anna Boyas or Bias.

6 Ezekiel Benbrook - wife Sarah Clarke of S. C. or N. C. later moved to Ky. [note - only one]

7. The father of William Dixon of Va. English descent.
Yours truly
Mrs. J.H. Jackson
[Signature]
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November 21, 1934.

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BA-J/ady

Mrs. J. W. Jackson
Drake
Kentucky

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative to Gideon Herrington, Joshua Reeder, Jessie Kirby, Charles Dodson, Joseph Logan, Ezekiel Benbrook and the father of William Dixon, all soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers in that war.
A careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of Joseph Logan as described by you, or Gideon Herrington, Joshua Reeder, or Charles Dodson, all spellings of the names searched.
As a means of identifying the record of a soldier with surname Dixon, the full name is essential with as much as possible of the following data: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and
after service and given name of widow.
The records of Jesse Kerby and Ezekiel Bainbrook (Benbrook) are furnished you herewith on separate pages, as found in the claims for pension based upon service in
the Revolutionary War.
Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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January 22, 1934
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Ezekiel Bainbrook-R. 397
BA-J/AWF

Miss Frances Richards
1340 College Street
Bowling Green, Kentucky

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you
request the Revolutionary War records of William Prout and Ezekiel Benbrooks.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this
office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers in that war. A search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the services of a William Prout as described by you.
The record given below were obtained from
the papers on file in pension claim, R. 397, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Ezekiel Bainbrook (Benbrook).
He was born in December, 1748 in Doubs (?) [Dobbs] County, state not definitely shown, from there he moved to Montgomery County, North Carolina.
It is stated that while residing in said county,
Ezekiel Bainbrook (Benbrook) enlisted in 1779 and served as private, lieutenant and captain in the North Carolina troops, under Captain Thomas Child, Colonels Culp, Wade and Childs, was in the battle at Drowning Creek, several skirmishes, and assisted Commissary Mosre in collecting provision for the army.
After the Revolution, Ezekiel Bainbrook (Benbrook) moved to Wilkes County, Georgia, was there about ten
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years and returned to "Carolina", in 1807 moved to Warren County, Kentucky, and from there moved to Mars Township, Posey County, Indiana. Ezekiel Bainbrook (Benbrook) applied for pension, September 10, 1834, then living in said Mars Township. The claim was not allowed as proof of six months' service, as required by the pension law was not furnished.
Ezekiel Bainbrook (Benbrook) married, November 15,
1773 or November 7, 1774, Mary, her maiden name is not given. She died July 2, 1832 or 1833. He died March 10, 1840, May 10, 1840 or May 18, 1840.
The following children survived their father
Mary Sneed, James Bainbrook (Benbrook) and Lucy Reeder of Ruder. In 1853 Mary Sneed was the only surviving child, she was then sixty-four years of age, in 1857 she was living in Hamilton County, Illinois.
In 1853 William P. Sneed was in Hamilton County, Illinois, Thomas C. and Sarah T. Bainbrook (Benbrook) were also there in 1853, and Ezekiel G. Bainbrook (Benbrook) was living in 1857 in Hamilton County, Illinois. No relationship to the family nor to each other is
shown.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator