Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23879, Ebenezer Crowell, Mass. Sea Service
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SERVICE
Mass. Sea Service
Crowell, Ebenezer
Crowell, Phebe

NUMBER
W23879
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Massachusetts, 4 30
Phebe Crowell, deceased,
widow of Ebenezer Crowell,
who died on the 23d Decr. 1831,
of Franklin in the State of Massachusetts,
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Gray of the Regiment commanded
by Col. Cushing in the Massachusetts line for 6.17 days private,
1.4 days corporal

Inscribed on the Roll of Boston
at the rate of 26 Dollars 02 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of 
March, 1831. Ending on the 14 Sept. 1843

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of
Nov. 1845 and sent to Nicolas
Pease, Lenox, Massachusetts

Arrears to the 4th of —
Semi-annual allowance ending 
$325.97
Revolutionary Claims
Act July 4, 1834
Section the 3

Recorded by W M Stewart, Clerk
Book 6 Vol 1 Page 51

Sent to Agt by letter
26th Nov. 1845
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin Cty
On this eleventh day of February 
in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty five, personally appeared before the Judge of
the Court of Probate [for the county of Franklin], Edward Crowell, a resident of Hawley in the County of Franklin
aforesaid, aged fifty years, who being first
duly sworn, according to law, on his Oath making
the following declaration in order to obtain
(for himself and the other children of Phebe
Crowell, deceased, who was the widow of Ebenezer
Crowell, also deceased) the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 4th, 1836, entitled 'An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows' — that the aforesaid Edward
Crowell, Ebenezer Crowell of Cicero, Onondaga
County, New York, Rebecca Baker, wife of 
Holister Baker of said Hawley, Elizabeth
King, wife of Maximus King of said Hawley,
Phebe Thayer, wife of Ebenezer Thayer of 
Greenfield, Massachusetts, & Ereda Hall, 
wife of Seth Hall of said Cicero, are the 
only children and heirs at law of said Phebe
Crowell, late of said Hawley, deceased, who died
on the fourteenth day of September
in the year eighteen hundred and forty three, and 
who was the widow of Ebenezer Crowell, late
of said Hawley, deceased, who was a soldier
in the War of the Revolution, and who died
on the twenty third day of December in the year
eighteen hundred and thirty one, and who served
as will appear by the accompanying proofs
to which this Declaration refers for the details
of the services of the said Ebenezer Crowell, deceased.
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The said Edward Crowell further
declaring that the said Phebe Crowell (deceased)
was married to the said Ebenezer Crowell
(deceased) on the third day of April seventeen hundred and seventy seven — that her said husband, the said Ebenezer Crowell died on the 23rd day of December eighteen hundred and thirty one, 
that the said Phebe Crowell was married to him prior to his leaving the service [viz] at
the time above stated. — The said Ebenezer
also declares that the said Phebe did not
intermarry after the death of said Ebenezer 
but continued a widow to the time of her 
death as aforesaid, and was entitled to
a pension by force of the act aforesaid.
[signed]
Edward Crowell
Franklin Co Probate Court, Greenfield, February 11, 1845

Sworn in the open court the day & year list above
witness before me Richard E. Newcomb, Juris Prob -

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Franklin SS I, Geo. Grennell Register of the Court of Probate
within and for the said County of Franklin do hereby certify
that Richard E. Newcomb, above named, is Judge of
the said Court for the said County and that the above signature
of the said judge is in his own handwriting
In testimony thereof I do hereunto set my hand
and affix the seal of the said Court this
11th day of February A D 1845
Geo Grennell Register of Probate
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Extract from the Records of the town of Yarmouth, County of Barnstable, State of Massachusetts
"Marriage solemnized by the Revd. Nathan Stone 
and returned unto Seth Tobey, town clerk for the year 1777
Ebenezer Crowell and Phebe Bangs both of
Yarmouth married April third seventeen hundred and seventy seven"
I, William P. David, Town Clerk of said town of Yarmouth, certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures as follows: April 3rd 1777"
William P. David, Town Clerk
Yarmouth
I William P. David above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the town, county and state aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town of Yarmouth with the exception above named and certified by me
William P. Davis
Clerk of the said town of Yarmouth
Barnstable SS February 15th 1845
Affirmed to before me
John Larkin, Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Barnstable Ss
I, Timothy Reed, Clerk of the Courts in and for said County of Barnstable, hereby certify that John Larkin, Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Barnstable duly commissioned and qualified and was so on the fifteenth day of the current month.
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and the signatures on the other side of this leaf of paper purporting to have been made by him I believe to be his genuine signature.
In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas this twenty fourth day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty five
Timothy Reed, Clerk
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1652
Phebe Crowell
Declaration

See the paper of
[Desire] Bangs
No. 461

Geo. Grennell for M. C. 

V1652
Phebe Crowell
widow of
Ebenr. Crowell
Mass.

M77@31

[Corpl] [C..?]. Sept 77 1 mo 4 days M [illegible]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin SS
I Elijah Alvord, Register of Probate 
for the county of Franklin do hereby certify that
Richard E. Newcomb named in the proceedings
hereunto annexed is the Judge of Probate for said county — that the said proceedings were filed by him in the probate office of said county as the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Phebe Crowell widow of Ebenezer Crowell, deceased,
and that the several signatures to the said proceedings,
purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my
hand and affix the seal of the Probate
Court for said county this twenty fifth day
of February A.D. 1837
E. Alvord Reg. Prob.
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State of Massachusetts
County of Franklin SS.
On this eighteenth day of February A.D. 1837
personally appeared before the Hon. Richard E. Newcomb
Judge of Probate within and for the County of Franklin
and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Phebe Crowell a
resident of Hawley in the County of Franklin and
State of Massachusetts aged seventy seven years who being
first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make
the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit
of the pension made by the act of Congress, passed
July 4th 1836: that she is the widow of Ebenezer Crowell
who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and who
served as herinafter stated, to wit, said Ebenezer Crowell
in April in the year 1775 enlisted or volunteered in the
same week of Lexington battle, and marched for Boston
under Capt. Joshua Gray in Col. Enoch Hallet's Reg't.
He was on various tours of duty until July in the same
year. Sometime in July 1775, I cannot tell the day
said Ebenezer Crowell enlisted for six months at
Yarmouth in the county of Barnstable, where he had
his residence during his whole periods of service,
and marched to Sandwich in Sd. County and performed
duty there for six months. Col. Freeman commanded
at said Sandwich as I have always understood. After the expiration of his six months service the said Eben. Crowell
returned home to said Yarmouth where I saw him.
After his return aforesaid he was enrolled as I have always understood as a Minute Man in said Yarmouth
until sometime in the summer of 1776, I cannot
state the month, when he enlisted under Captain
Hedge for two months, as a sergeant, and went to
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to Rhode Island and was absent there doing duty as a 
soldier two months, after which he returned home to said 
Yarmouth and continued to stand as a Minute 
Man as aforesaid. In the year 1777 in April the third day
I was married to the said Ebenezer Crowell by the Rev.
Nathan Stone, then the ordained and settled minister of
Yarmouth aforesaid. I had always lived in the same 
neighbourhood as the said Eben. Crowell lived
and from the circumstance I was well acquainted 
with the said Eben. Crowell's service as a soldier before
my marriage to him. In September after my marriage he enlisted as a sergeant for two months
and a half, and went to Fall River R.I. where
he served out his said period of enlistment. His officers
are not recollected. During his service aforesaid
the said Eben. Crowell was of the party that went
to Nantucket and took a large quantity of flower [flour?] by force
having first been obliged to fire after the tories who 
had collected the said flower [flour] for the enemy. The said
flower [flour] was carted across the cape and loaded into whale
boats in the Bass River. I saw the flower [flour] in boats and
it was taken into Plymouth, thence to Boston.
He was also one of those that went to Naushon Island
to prevent the British from taking off 500 head of 
cattle, but the expedition did not succeed. He was
at Hyannis, and was among those upon whom the enemy 
fired. The above, she declares, was the service  performed
by her said husband according to her best belief and
knowledge. She further declares that in May
1778 her said husband enlisted into the service of the
United States on board of a ship of War as a marine
and sailed with a crew of 110 men from Boston on 
a cruise to the English Channel. During the
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cruise, they took several prizes. In September in that
same year my husband, the said Eben. Crowell, returned
home, having come into Boston with a prize vessel,
loaded with wine and fruit. Himself being sailing 
master on board of the prize, and one Pisby being prize
master. That the said husband in October 1779 again
enlisted as a marine in the United States service
and sailed from Boston on a cruise to the West Indies.
On this cruise, one or more prizes were taken, and on
the ship's return cruise she was blown off from the 
coast in a vicious storm, and the ship's crew was
put upon short allowance for fifty two days, and
finally made Ocracoke Island, N.C. During the time they
were upon short allowance aforesaid, a British transport
was taken laden with horses & military stores.
The said Eben. Crowell, my said husband, returned home
to Yarmouth in May 1780 the day before the DARK DAY [May 19, 1780]. While at the South on the last above stated cruise
the said Crowell was engaged in a battle with the enemy
off Charleston, S.C. In April 1781, said Crowell
was a Captain of a Schooner, engaged in transporting
from the French fleet to Providence R.I. military store.
While engaged in the aforesaid business, he and his vessel
were taken in the night time, by four British ships
of the line, and he immediately taken on board of the 
British Commodore's ship. Next morning his papers
were examined and condemned. His crew and cargo were taken
on board the British ships, his ship burnt, and himself
& crew sent as prisoners of war to Halifax SS. Previous
to being carried unto Halifax they were 30
days on board of the enemy's ships, who were cruising for the
French fleet, and they were sent into Halifax.
The said Eben. Crowell remained a 
prisoner at Halifax until September following 1780, 
when he was exchanged as a captain. He was permitted while
at Halifax by an order of the government to remain on shore under guard in consideration of his
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rank, while the crew were confined in a prison ship lying in the harbor. His rank while
a prisoner was considered and treated as that of a captain,
and was exchanged for one that ranked as a captain
in the British Army. The said Crowell was always 
after called Capt. Crowell. That she is unable to give
the names of the vessels in while her said husband
served, nor the names of all the officers under whom
he served, but recalls some of them, to wit Capt.s
McGee & Rich, Leuts. Barney Howes & Sparrow
Howes. The aforementioned naval services of her said husband
are stated as fully as she can recollect and according
to her best belief and knowledge; that she refers the
Department to records of the war & Navy for further evidence
of said Crowell's services; and that she has no documentary evidence
of this service; and that he has never
been put upon the Pension Roll.
She further declares that she was married, as
before stated, to the said Ebenezer Crowell on the third day 
of April seventeen hundred and seventy seven; that her 
husband the aforesaid Ebenezer Crowell died on the 
twenty first day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen 
hundred and thirty one; and that she has remained a widow 
ever since that period, as will more fully appear by
reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year written, before
R.E. Newcomb, Judge of Probate
Phebe Crowell

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin SS
I the aforesaid judge of Probate for the
county of Franklin do hereby certify that the above
named Phebe Crowell by reason of sickness and bodily
infirmity is unable to attend in court, that I therefore
proceeded to the home of Ebenezer Thayer of Greenfield
where she is resident that she there made oath to the
declaration aforesaid. And I do hereby declare my
opinion after the investigation of the matter that the
said applicant was married to the identical Ebenezer
Crowell who served in the war and navy of the
revolution as stated above, at the time set forth in
the preceding declaration; that the said Ebenezer
died at the time therein mentioned, and that she
the said applicant has ever since remained a widow
Dated at Greenfield the day and year first 
aforesaid
R.E. Newcomb, Judge of Probate
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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23879
Phebe Crowell
Widow of
Ebenezer Crowell
Priv. Rev. War
Act. July 4th 1836
Index: Vol A, Page 156
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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6411
Phebe Crowell Dec'd
widow of Ebenezer
 Mass
Act 4th July 1836
Set to Nial Pease, April 25th [year cut off]

Phebe Crowell
wid of Eben'r
Mass

[Sur?] let Geo Grennell to June 20, 1837 
Nial Pease, May 2d 1845
 
Act 4 July 1836
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No. 1652 
Phebe Crowell dec'd widow of Ebenezer Mass act 4 July 1836

Adm 6mos 17 days pri $21.88 
1-4 " Capt 4.14 
=$26.02 

from 4 March 1831 to 4th Sept. 1843 the day of her death payable to Ebenezer Crowell, Rebecca Baker, Elizabeth King, Phebe Thayer Edmund Crowell and Erede Hall only surviving children of Phebe Crowell dec'

 Niall Pease Lenox Mass
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin SS.
 
I Geo Grenell Register of the court of Probate in & for this County of Franklin hereby certify that at a Court of Probate held at Charlemont in said county on the 21st day of October A.D. 1845.  It has proved to the satisfaction of said Court that Phebe Crowell, the widow of Ebenezer Crowell late of Hawley in said County died on the fourteenth day of 
September A.D. 1843, and that she left the following named children, namely Edward Crowell of Hawley, Rebecca Baker, wife of Hollister Baker & Eizabeth King the wife of Warriner King of said Hawley, Phoebe Thayer, the wife of Ebenezer Thayer of Greenfield and Ebenezer Crowell of Cicero in the State of New York and Erede Hall wife of Seth Hall.  The above names were the only children of the said Phoebe Crowell living at the time of her death, which occurred in said Hawley.

In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the said Court, the twenty first day of October A.D. 1845

Geo, Grennell Register of Probate
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March 18, 1845
Adal Lecarr
Abigail Weston
&
Phebe Crowell

[sideways]
J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Lenox March 10th 1845
Mr Edwards Esq
Sir I send you the Deposition of John Weston - and the Deposition of George 
Richmond in the case of Abigail Weston which Declaration here is forwarded to you Feb 3rd I believe.
Nial Pease

Also I send you the Certificate of the Marriage of Ebenezer Crowell and Phebe Bangs the
Declaration of Edward Crowell was forwarded to you by Austin Pease Esq of Charlement and
it appears without the Certificat of their 
Marriage - after he had sent the papers on
I ascertained that the Marriage Certificate
was not sent and I now send it 
Respectfully yours
Nial Pease
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Oct 30, 1845 [unreadable postal stamp with handwritten "27"]
Adal Le Carr
Phebe Crowell
[flourish]

[sideways]
J.L. Edwards Esq,
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City 
D.C.
[20...]
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Lenox Octr 27, 1845
J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir
I have got a Certificate 
from the Probate office in Franklin County
after repeated efforts for six months it seems
to be a great pity that office should not be 
filed by some one that knows how to hold business
 & will do it when it should be done
I send you the Secretary Certificate with
the other I think the one I sent you 
gave him some Naval Service, as 
Massachusetts Rolls has verry few [paper cut out]
being searched as they should be in my
view. I have detected therein a verry many errors
Respectfully yours
Nial Pea[paper cut out]

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I Edward Crowell of Hawley in the County of
Franklin & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age depose and say that I am the son of the late Ebenezer Crowell, ^deceased who was a soldier of the Revolution. My father, the said Ebenezer Crowell, 
died on the twenty first day of December in 
the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred & thirty one
I was present when he died_ and saw him buried My Mother, Phebe Crowell, is now his widow and has never intermarried since my father's death. 
Edward Crowell

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Franklin } ss.
Greenfield February 18th 1837-  Personally appeared the above named Edward Crowell and Made Solemn oath
that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is true 
Before me Almon Brainard Justice of the Peace

Franklin ss.  Feb 18- 1837 - I certify that Edward Crowell
signer of the above deposition is a credible witness
Almon Brainard Just. of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Franklin ss. I Elijah Alvord, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Franklin, do hereby certify [that - crossed out]
that the above named Almon Brainard is a Justice of the Peace for the said county - that full faith and credit are and ought 
to be given to his acts and attestations in said office-- and that the several signatures above, purporting to be his, are genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix 
the seal of said court this twenty fifth day of 
February A.D. 1837. 
E. Alvord  Clerk
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Mary Ann [Cintas?]
Deposition
 Phebe Crowell decd
widow of Ebenezer
 [Rd?] March 10 1845
 Mass
Act 4 July 1836

Married  1777
husband died 1831
Claimant 1843

Please Answer to Nial Pease Esq
of Lenox Berkshire Co., Mass
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I Ephraim Baker of Hawley in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged thirty-seven years do testify and say that I have been well acquainted with Ebeneser Crowell & his family that they lived in this town of Hawley and County aforesaid, The said Ebeneser Crowell died 23 of December Eighteen hundred & thirty-one I was present at this death, he left six children--two sons, and four daughters, Edward lives in Hawley and also two daughters Rebecca wife of Holister Baker & Elisabeth wife of Warriner King, one other daughter lives in Greenfield, Phebe wife of Ebenezer Thayer in the County & Commonwealth aforesaid, the other son Ebenezer, and one daughter Ereda live in Cicero Onondaga County State of New York, said Ereda married to Seth Hall, and further the deponent saith not    Ephraim Baker

Franklin Ss February 8th 1845  Personally appeared Ephraim Baker and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed, and I certify that said Ephraim Baker is a credible witness
 Before me Austin Pease; Justice of the Peace
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I Maryann Curtis of Hawley in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massashusetts aged Sixty years do testify and say that I have been well acquainted with Ebenezer Crowell & his wife Phebe Crowell and ^ his family - that they lived in the town of Hawley in said County Said Phebe died in said Hawley on the fourteenth day of September Eighteen hundred and forty three and I was present at her Death and funeral - she left Six children two sons and four daughters one son Edward and two daughters Rebecca and Elisabeth live in Hawley Franklin County Massachusetts and one other daughter Phebe lives in Greenfield in the County and state aforesaid - The other son Ebenezer and^ one Daughter Ereda live in Cicero Onondaga County State of New York - The above named Ebenezer Crowell died some years before his wife the said Phebe  I think in 1831 __ and further the deponent saith not
  Mary Ann Curtis
Franklin Ss, December 24th 1844 Personally appeared Mary Ann Curtis and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by her subscribed, and I certify that said Mary Ann Curtis is a credible witness
 Before me  Austin Pease, Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin ss.
I Henry Chapman, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Franklin do certify that Austin Pease Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on this paper, was at the date thereof, One of the Justices of the Peace, within & for said County, duly commissioned, & acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith & credit is & ought to be given to his acts & attestations done in that capacity: & that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Austin Pease Esq. & believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
 In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial court for said Commonwealth this 27th day of December A.D. 1844
 Attest. H. Chapman, clerk
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's office, Boston:
Aug 2 1865

I hereby Certify, That from an examination of the Books
and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of
the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears
that the mane of Ebenezer Crowell is borne as a
private upon a pay roll of Capt Joshua
Gray's compy. in the sea coast service, and upon
a master roll of the same, from July 8 to Dec 31,
1775- 5months 27 days, (being allowed and
made up upon the rolls)---these rolls are both sworn
to at Barnstable, (to which town, or to Yarmouth,
Capt. Gray appears to have belonged)---Upon a
pay roll of Captn. Joseph Palmer's compy, Col
John Cushing's regt. for service at R. I. from
Sept 27, 1776,---56 days;--roll sworn to at Falmouth,
---As a corporal from Yarmouth, upon a pay
roll of Captn Elisha Hedge's compy in Col. Nathl.
Freeman's regt. for service in the expedition to
R.I. from Sept 27, 1777,---1 month, 4 days;---Upon
a pay roll of Captn. John Blunt for service on the
expedition against Penobscot between June and
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Sept 1779, the name of Ebenezer Crowell is found, for 20 days
service,-but there is nothing upon it to indicate any identity
between him and the individual referred to in the Commis.'
letter. There is no one of the name upon any of the Naval
rolls in this office; and no other of the name upon any of
the records, than as herein before described.

And I further Certify, That before search made for evidence
of said facts, the Commissioner's letter of June 20th 1837,
was filed in this Office; that the search was made by myself
and my clerks alone; and that said letter, and the certificate above
set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowl=
edge, pertaining to the case.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal
of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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407

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston;
Oct 14, 1844.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books
and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of
the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears
that the name of Ebenr Crowall of Yarmouth
(Dennis) is borne upon a pay roll of Capt
Joshua Gray in 1775 for 5 mos & 27 days
upon a pay roll of Capt Elisha Hedge Col Freeman  from Sept 27 1777 as Corporal 1 mo 4  days
and upon a pay roll of Capt Jn. Blunt in the
expedition to Penobscot in July 1779 20 days
no other service appears on the rolls in this
Office.
20
6 17
1-4
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And I further testify that before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
  In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
  John G. Palfrey
 Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Application for Certificate of Revolutionary services made by the only Heir beneficially interested in the Estate of the party who rendered the Service. The Secretary of the commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his Office, of the service of Ebenezer Crowell in the War of the Revolution.
 He enlisted from the town of Dennis on Cape cod in the County of Barnstable and State of Massachusetts in the early part of the war. In seventeen hundred seventy five he served six months under Captain Joshua Shays in seventeen hundred seventy six he served two months under the command of Captain Hedge in Rhode Island, in seventeen hundred seventy seven he served ^ at Fall river ten weeks, in seventeen hundred hundred seventy eight and nine he did service under the command of Col Hallett at Yarmouth and Dorchester, was in two or three conflicts on Land, in seventeen hundred eighty one in May was taken by British and kept in prison by British till September following. When taken he was carried to Halifax and kept in a prison Ship and was exchanged and returned hence, he was Captain of the vessel when taken, when taken he was returning from convoying the French fleet around the Cape.
 Witness my hand this fourth day of June in the year eighteen hundred forty four
  Edmund Crowell only Heir beneficially interested in the Estate of the above named Ebenezer Crowell
  Signed by the said Edward Crowell in my presence
  John C Wolcott  Justice of the peace.
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I Jonathan Bangs of Dennis in the county of Barnstable and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age depose and say that I was present when Ebenezer Crowell was married to Phebe Bangs, The marriage took place in April, the third day, in the year seventeen hundred and Seventy seven  The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Nathan Stone of said Dennis, formerly Yarmouth, then the regular ordained settlr officiating minister of said Yarmouth. The said Ebenezer Crowell is now dead and has left Phebe Crowell his widow
  Jonathan Bangs

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Barnstable - }ss.
  Dennis Mar 16th 1837 Personally appeared Jonathan Bangs, above named, and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true  Before me
  Nehemiah Baker  Just. Peace

Barnstable ss. Mar 16, 1837 I certify that the above named Jonathan Bangs, who has subscribed the foregoing deposition is a credible witness.
  Nehemiah Baker  Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable Ss.  I Timothy Reed, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County and state aforesaid do hereby certify that Nehemiah Baker Esq is a justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly Commissioned and qualified, that his Commission is dated on the twenty Sixth day of February A.D. 1831 and will expire on the twenty sixth day of February A.D. 1838 and that being well acquainted with his hand writing I believe they above to be his genuine signature - Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this Sixteenth day of March A.D. 1837
  Timothy Reed  clerk
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Barnstable Ss. March 16, 1837
 I hereby certify that the Rev Nathan Stone who solomnized the Marriage of the within named Ebenezer Crowell and Phebe Bangs has been deceased for more than twenty five years
  Nehemiah Baker  Justice of the Peace
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I Lewis Bangs of Springfield in the County of
Hampden and Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall of lawful
age depose  and says that I am the sister in law to the late Ebenezer
Crowell deceased. I know that the said Ebenezer
Crowell soldier was a soldier in  the war of the Revolution, and he has always been reporteth to  have been a soldier as aforesaid
among his friends and relatives.  It has always been said among 
his acquaintances, that he served out one year
on land  before he served as a seaman, but the particulars said Crowell's service on land I can not
State 1778, in May, the said Ebenezer Crowell
enlisted on bond as American ship of War its crew consisting
of 110 men, and sailed on a cruise to the English Channel
In September following said Crowed returned into Boston
as sailing master of a prise, brought in to Boston. And the said Crowell
brought letters  to me from Joseph Bangs, who was
afterward my husband. I know the time of said Crowell's
Sailings and his return because my husband was enlisted
and lived with him, those services I was well acquainted with
in the year 1779 about the first day of October, the said
Crowell sailed again on board of a vessel in the service of
the United States from Boston on a cruise to the West Indies
and did not return home until May 1780, the day before
the dark day. I know the time of said Crowell's sailing
on this cruise, from the fact that I myself, and said
Crowell wife lived together in the same house, and
we were each of us removed to our husband's father's
house to be taken care of during their absence, my husband
having enlisted in the same cruise, and served with said
Crowell. I know the time of their return, it being the
day for the dark day in 1780 - I have always understood
that from the said Crowell, and also from my husband
that while on this cruise prises were taken, and on their return voyage, they were blown off Nantucket in a storm and
was at sea fifty two days on short allowance but finally
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put in through Acracoke Inlet N.C. I have heard the said Crowell & my husband both say, that during this period of their service, they were engaged in a battle with the enemy off Charleston S.C. I know also that it has always been said, and reputed, that the said Ebenezer Crowell in the year 1781 - was taken a prisoner of war and carried into Halifax N.S.; and remained there until he was exchanged by  [cartel?] with the British. which was in September 1781 - when he [words crossed out] said Crowell returned home to Yarmouth, where I saw him shortly after - when taken prisoner as aforesaid, Said Crowell was a Captain of a Sloop, and As I have always understood was exchanged for a British prisoner whose rank was that of a Captain -
  Desire Bangs

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Hampden Ss Feby 27th 1837  Desire Bangs above named being [ink blotch] known in town as a person of truth personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition  Before me
 Oliver B Morris  Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Hampton

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Hampden  SS:
  I Justin Willam [Willard?] Clerk of the Probate Court within & for said County the name being a Court of Records do hereby certify that Oliver
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B. Morris Esq. is the Judge of said Court duly commissioned & qualified and that his signature subscribed to this certificate is the execution of the Deposition of Desire Bangs before him above written is genuine
 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Springfield this twenty seventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine
 Justin Willaid  Clerk
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I Rufus Sears of Hawley in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age, depose and Say, that I was for a long time acquainted with Ebenezer Crowell, before his death; and he was always reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolution. Prior the year 1782 I was a resident in the town of Yarmouth in the Countyof Barnstable. And the said Crowell ^ was a native of the same town. In the year 1779, I know that the said Crowell sailed from Boston on board an armed ship, on a cruise to the West Indies. I know the fact from the circunstate [circumstance] that my brother in law, Joseph Bangs, Sailed at the same time and in company with said Crowell. And I also know, that they returned home to Yarmouth aforesaid, together in May 1780- And I have heard both the said Crowell and the said Bangs, [nanate?] the incidents upon this cruise, to wit  the being blown off from Nantucket when returning, & being out at Sea [words crossed out] on short allowance [words crossed out] and [word crossed out] of their puting [putting] in to Ocracoke Inlet N.C. and being engaged in a battle with the enemy off Charleston S.C.
 It has always been said also, by the friends and acquaintances of the said Crowell, and, I have heard the said Crowell say, also, that in the year 1781 he was taken, while a Capt. of a Sloop, a prisoner of War and carried by the enemy into Halifax N.S. and that he was exchanged with others for British prisoners.
   Rufus Sears
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Franklin } ss
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 upon this cruise, to wit  the being blown off from Nantucket when returning, & being out at Sea [words crossed out] on short allowance [words crossed out] and [word crossed out] of their puting [putting] in to Ocracoke Inlet N.C. and being engaged in a battle with the enemy off Charleston S.C.
 It has always been said also, by the friends and acquaintances of the said Crowell, and, I have heard the said Crowell say, also, that in the year 1781 he was taken, while a Capt. of a Sloop, a prisoner of War and carried by the enemy into Halifax N.S. and that he was exchanged with others for British prisoners.
   Rufus Sears
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Franklin } ss
 Charlemont Feb [2]3d 1837 Personally appeared the above named Rufus Sear and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is true   Before me George Winslow Justice of Peace

Franklin Ss Feb 23 1837  I certify that the above named Rufus Sears who has signed the foregoing deposition is a credible witness
 George Winslow Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin ss.  I Elijah Alvord, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Franklin, do hereby certify that George Winslow, who is named in the paper hereunto annexed, as a Justice of the Peace for said county - that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations in said office, and that the several signatures to the said annexed paper, purporting to be his, are genuine
  In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court this twenty fifth day of February A.D. 1837
  E. Alvord  Clerk
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Payment to be made
at
by
Agent for paying Pensions, in the Agency of

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book  Vol.  Page  by  
  Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT 
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the 4th of July 1836, Phebe Crowell, decd who was the widow of Ebenezer Crowell, who was a private & corporal, was entitled to a pension at the rate of $26.02 per [blurred words]  on the 4th March 183[?] and ending on the 14th Sept 18[?] , the day of her death which will be paid upon the [?] of the proper vouchers to Ebenezer Crowell, Rebecca Baker, Elisabeth King, Phebe Thayer, Edward Crowell & Ereda Hall, only surviving children of Phebe Crowell, decd.
[words crossed out]
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 24th day of Novr one thousand eight hundred and forty five.  Secretary of War
 Payment to be made at  Boston Massachusetts}

Examined and Countersigned}  [blank]
  Commissioner of Pensions