Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26721, William Eddy, Mass.
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
Mass

Eddy, William
King, Olive
Former widow

NUMBER
W. 26721

CONTENTS
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4689
Maine
Olive, King of Nova Scotia 
widow of William Eddy 
who died on the (May 3d) 1778 
of [illegible] in the State of [blank] 
who was Captain in the Compy. commanded 
by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded 
by [blank] in the Massachusetts, 
line for 6 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Portland 
at the rate of 120 Dollars [blank] Cents 
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of 
March 1849 and sent to 
Hon. H. Hamlin N.S. Senate

Arrears to the 4th of [blank]
Semi annual allowance ending  [blank]

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3d.}

Recorded by Leo Jenkins Clerk,
Book C  Vol. a,  Page 10

1888 March 29  F.M Eddy history Prior
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5941
Olive King
of Nova Scotia
Me
act 4. July 36

vid orderly Book of
Col Eddy filed in Dr
Crumfy Room

Captain 6 mo.
$120 per ann
from 4 Marh 1831


H. H. Hamlin
Senate U.S
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Province of Nova Scotia} 
Co. of Cumberland} 

On this ninth day of June A.D. 1843 before me Daniel Macfarlane Esquire a Justice of the peace and president of the Sessions in the County aforesaid, Olive King a resident of River  Philip in the said County, who being first duly sworn according to Law; doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836, and the act explanatory of the said act passed March 3d 1837 viz That she was born in Maidfield (Medfield?) in the State of Massachusetts, and her maiden name was Olive Morse; that she is now ninety two years of age: That she emigrated to Cumberland Nova Scotia when a child and was married at Fort Cumberland in the said Province on the Seventeenth day of March 1769 by the Reverend W. Gannette to the late William Eddy who entered the Service in November 1776, in a Company, then under the Command of his Father, Calvert Eddy, and a Captain West stationed in Tantarmara (Tantramar?) near Fort Cumberland  That shortly after having entered the Service, her said husband was one of a party who made an attack upon a British provision Ship that arrived in the
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in the Bay of Fundy with Stones for the Fort, and after a desperate conflict captured her and as this Deponent believes sent her to Boston. He was also engaged with his company in an attack on the said Fort; but in this they were beaten off: That the British Troops proving too powerful for them Colonel Eddy's Company, and her husband among them were forced to leave the province and flee to the United States in 1777, leaving his wife and three children behind him 

Deponent further declares that she was informed and believes that after her husband arrived in Boston, he received a Lieutenants Commission in the United States army was actively engaged, and that the said Commission is now in the possession of her Son William Eddy, residing in Corinth in the State of Maine; That she never saw her husband after he left her for Boston in 1777, but she understood and believes that after he received his commission, he continued in the Service of the United States, and was in the expedition to St John's under the command of his father Colonel Jonathan Eddy; That in the Spring of the year 1778, when in the Bay of Fundy, he fell in with and made an attack upon a British Vessel in the anticipation of capturing her. She proved to be a Vessel from Fort Cumberland and fired upon them and in the skirmish, as this deponent heard and he believes, her husband the said William Eddy was killed 

She
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she further declares that she was lawfully married to the said William Eddy on the Seventeenth day of March Seventeen hundred and Sixty nine; That her husband the aforesaid William Eddy was killed on the third day of May A.D. Seventeen hundred and Seventy eight; and that she was afterwards married to Hezekiah King, who died on the Sixteenth day of May A.D. Eighteen hundred and twenty nine, leaving her this deponent in destitute circumstances. That she was a widow on the fourth day of July A.D. 1836, and still remains a Widow, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed -
Olive King

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above within written, before me at Wallace in the County aforesaid, the said Olive King being infirm and unable to attend in open Court 
Daniel Macfarlane JP.}
and President of the Sessions} 
County of Cumberland} 

I Silas H. Moore Deputy Clerk of the Crown for the County of Cumberland in the province of Nova Scotia  Do hereby certify that Daniel Macfarlane is a Judge and President of the Court of Sessions for the County of Cumberland and that his signature as above is genuine 
Given under my seal of Office at Amherst in the said County of Cumberland this Sixteenth day of June A.D. 1843 
Silas H. Morse by C. C
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66.66 
     66
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67.33
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I Joseph Eddy of Corinth in the County of
Penobscot & State of Maine aged Seventy four years on oath depose & say that I am the son of the late William Eddy by his wife Olive Eddy whose maiden name was Olive Morse, but whose name now is Olive King of River Philip the County of Cumberland and Province of Nova Scotia - that I was born at Fort Lawrence in the said County of Cumberland - that after that my father moved to Sackville in the Province of New Brunswick - I remember when I was six years old that my father was engaged in an attack made on Fort Cumberland - the fort was about five or six miles from where I was across the bay or Marsh and I remember hearing the guns and seeing the flash of them in the night. that soon after that I remember my father left home & I have always heard & believed that he went to Massachusetts and that he there received a commission as a lieutenant in a Company under my grandfather Col Jonathan Eddy and as I have always understood & believe that he remained in the Service as a Lieutenant under said Commission until May 1778 when he was killed in the Service. I remember perfectly well when the news came that my father was killed and how he was killed
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He was in a boat making an attack upon a vessel in the Bay of Funday & was killed by a ball fired from on board the vessel. after my father left home I remember our house was burned by the British soldiers & my fathers horse, four oxen & five cows and all the provisions in the house taken and carried away - What I have above stated as having known by hearsay I heard at the time of or soon after the transactions referred to from my grandfather Col Jona. Eddy who died about thirty years ago & from my mother and other persons, who were then actors in the transactions or had personal knowledge of the transactions, but who have long since deceased Joseph Eddy 

Penobscot ss  5 Jany. 1846  Then personally Joseph Eddy above named & subscribed & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit Before me John Appleton J Peace
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I certify that I am personally acquainted with Joseph Eddy who subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit and that full credit is to be given to his testimony 
John Appleton 

State of Maine 
Penobscot ss 
I William T. Hilliard Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for said County of Penobscot hereby certify that John Appleton Esquire whose name appears in the foregoing instrument is a Justice of the Peace for said County duly Commissioned & qualified and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine 
In Witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of our Supreme Judicial Court this fifth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six 
Wm T Hilliard Clerk
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Revy 26721

WIDOW, &c. 

File No.  26721 
Olive King 
Wed of 
William Eddy 
Capt Rev war 

Act July 4th 1836 
Index: Vol A,  Page 403 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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I Joseph Mansell of Bangor in the County of Penobscot aged ninety two years on oath depose and say, that in the war of the Revolution I was a Lieutenant under Col Allen in the expedition to Machias in the spring of 1778. that when at Machias in that expedition in the spring of 1778, I knew William Eddy who was a Lieutenant in the Regiment of his father Col. Jonathan Eddy. He was not stationed at Machias, but was there several days on business. I was well acquainted with him and also with her father Col Jonathan Eddy. Soon after the said William Eddy left Machias, I heard that he was killed in a skirmish with the British and this statement has never so far as I know been doubted or contradicted. His father the said Col Jonathan Eddy lived for many years after the close of the war in Eddington near where I lived. He has been dead about thirty years. I have often heard him relate the particulars of the death of his son, in the manner I have above stated, and I have no reason to doubt the truth of the statement, 
           his
Joseph X Mansell
          mark
Witness C W Fellowes 

State of Maine Penobscot 1. Sept 1843 then personally appeared Joseph Mansell above named and made oath to the
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foregoing deposition by him subscribed 
Before me J.B. Hill J Peace

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Joseph Mansell who signed and swore the foregoing deposition and that full credit is to be given to his statemen 
JB Hill J Peace

I William T Hilliard Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for the County of Penobscot certify that John B Hill is a Justice of the Peace in above and that the foregoing certificates purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said County and subscribed my name this Second day of September in the year A.D. 1843. Wm T Hilliard 
Clerk
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Washington Feb 13 1844
While we are of opinion that a pension should be granted to Mrs Olive King for the Service of her husband Wm Eddy, from Aug 1777 to May 1778 - Yet wether (whether?) then further procrastinate the case,  we consent that a Pension shall be granted to Mrs Olive King, predication on six months service of said Eddy 
C Hamlin 
Jas. S Wiley

J. L. Edwards
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to Colo Buck 
Request for men 
Machias
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Machias August 8th 1777 
Sir/
from intelligence we have Received from Novascotia (Nova Scotia) of an Expedition forming against this Place, and a Quantity of Continental Stores being sent here under my care, the Continental troops from the westward not yet arrivd. Lay, me under the necessary Requiring of the assistance of the militia under such circumstances I am therefore to define youl will call out what men of your Regiments you can conveniently Spare, That they repair immediately to Machias well acquept (equipped?) with a Sufficiency of Provisions to Bring them to this place where they will be further provided for with provisions and ammunitions  I hope the time will be cut short. your Complyance (Compliance) in this will oblige your svt & (obedient?), Humble in behalf of the State
Jona. Eddy Colo. 
and commanding officer at Machias

Col. Jonathan Buck
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Deposition of 
Hannah Weston 
for the benefit 
of 
Olive King 

[illegible]

Hon 
J.S. Wiley
H. Rep
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I Hannah Weston of Jonesborough in the County of Washington and State of Maine do upon oath depose and say,

 That I am now eighty nine years of age, and that in the summer or fall of the year 1777 I resided the greater part of the time in the town of Machias, that in the subsequent year 1776 I was frequently at Machias and was well informed about affairs to said Machias, and especially affairs connected with the troops stationed there; my father's residence, at that time being in Jonesborough a town adjoining Machias, - that I well remember William Eddy (the son of Colonel Jonathan Eddy) who came with his father from the State of Massachusetts Bay to Machias in the year 1777, and, as I think, in the month of September, -  that the said William Eddy was a Lieutenant in the service of the State of Massachusetts Bay, that after he arrived at Machias, the expedition to St. John's River, which was first contemplated, was abandoned, as it was considered necessary for the troops to remain at (over )
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Machias to defend its inhabitants against the aggressions of the British Soldiery, - that he remained in Machias, or its vicinity until the Spring of the next year 1778. where he was killed while upon a Scouting party in the vicinity of Machias, that the time of his death, as near as I can recollect was sometime in the month of May of that year, 1778. that during the aforesaid time from September 1777 to May 1778 and until the time of his death, he continued to act as a Lieutenant in said service
          her
Hanna X Weston
         mark
Witness
J.C. Talbot
Joseph Weston

Washington County. ss. S Subscribed & sworn to this Eighth day of June A.D. 1848 
Before me J.C. Talbott Judge of Probate 

State of Maine 
Washington County ss. I Albert G. Lane Register of the Court of Probate for said County, a Court of Record to hereby certify that J. C. Talbot is Judge of said Court, and that, the signature above written purporting to be his is genuine. - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this Eighth day of June A.D. 1848.-
Albert G. Lane Register.
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Washington Feb 22. 1844. 
Dr Sir
Will you oblige me by forwarding me to the Commission of Wm Eddy name on file in your office with the Papers of Olive King - who has applied for a Pension - If it is not in accordance with the rules of your office to permit the original to be withdrawn, will you then send me a copy of the same - I also desire a copy of the declaration of said Olive King - The object is to use them in aid of procuring the necessary facts yet required to be proved, to enable said Olive to obtain her Pension. The data contained in said paper will enable her to refer to the proper rolls, place &c in supplying her evidence, yet required by you.
Respectfully Yours 
C. Hamlin 

 J. L. Edward Esq
Comm of Pensions
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Bangor Sept 2d 1843 
Sir 
Enclosed I send the remaining papers in the case of Olive King's application for a pension under the law of July 4th 1836 - I believe they are sufficient to make out a very clear case of service from the date of his, Lieut. Eddy's, until that of his  death - I do not know of any further testimony at present except that Sworn prove (proof?) by the Rev M Gannett of Boston that his father was a minister that be resided at the place mentioned by Mrs King & at about the time mentioned by her as the time that she was married to Lieut Wm Eddy. If that should be deemed of  importance, I will obtain his deposition, if notified of that effect 
Yours respectfully 
D.T  Jewett

J L Edwards Esq 
Comr. of Pens.
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Washington Mar. 18. 1844 
Sir
 I enclose you the Pet and papers of Nathan Smith of Orrington Maine - 
I also enclose you the Pet. & papers of Mrs. Aphath S [illegible] for a Pension - 
Will you give the same examination and inform me of the result of each case as soon as possible 
I wrote you some weeks since for a copy of the commission of Mr Eddy & the declaration of Olive King widow of said Eddy, on file in your office - Can I have the same, if so when? - the parties have written me a number of times 
You Respectfully Yours
 H. Hamlin
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5941 Sept. 9. 1842. 
Olive King 
July 4. 1836.
 Nov Scotia 

(Written sideways on the page:)
J. L. Edwards Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington City
DC
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Bangor Aug 31st 1843 

Sir
Enclosed is the application of Olive King for a pension under the act of July 4th 1836 - other papers will be forwarded soon - I sent on two or three deposition in this case some time ago
Yours resptly
DT Jewett

J L Edwards Esq
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To the Commissioner of Pensions - 
Mrs Olive King is an applicant for a Pension, founded upon the Service of her husband Lieut Wm Eddy in the Revolutionary War. 
The evidence proves her intermarriage with said Eddy, by whom she has a family of children. 
His commission, and the orderly book of the company shows that he entered the service in an Expedition against Nova Scotia in July 1777, and that he was killed in May 1778 - There is no record evidence to be found  in Massachusetts of said expedition, and the orderly book shows it was abandoned in about six weeks - there is no other record evidence of that expedition to be found, but it is believed that the history of Maine will fully supply the deficiency - as the State of Massachusetts failed to keep, or have not now any evidence of it - 
The said expedition was planed (planned?) by and entrusted to Col. Jona Eddy, the
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father of said Wm Eddy - It proceeded as for as Machias in Maine, and was then abandoned, as it is supposed in August of Sept. 1777 "in its original form" - It was changed by establishing a general rendezvous at Machias, which remained until the next year, & from which [illegible] several expeditions there made on the Province of Nova Scotia, and Fort Cumberland was attacked, - The History of Maine, Page 458 - 459 - 461. & 463- 
In corroboration I make the following extract from Halliburton's History of Nova Scotia Vol 1. Page 258 
"Nov. 6. 1777 the rebels who arrived from Machias at Cumberland in the whale boats, having failed in their attempts upon the fort, visited the Harbor of Pictou where they seized a valuable owner merchant ship which was heading for Scotland, and made preparation for plundering St Johns Manor - Lieut Keppel having been sent in pursuant of them recaptured the vessel & com'ed her into Charlotte town" - 
This is corroborated by the History
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of Maine Page 463 - But the precise time in the year is not given as it is in the History of Nova Scotia, 
I also present an original order of Col. Jona Eddy Dated Machias Aug 8. 1777 as commanding office at Mathias - showing the establishment of a fort at that place - It is a requisition on Col Jona. Buck for mean for the Militia -
All this, corresponding too, with the evidence in the case must prove beyond all doubt that said expedition existed & continued until 1778 - & the evidence of all of Eddys family & the other person that he was there engaged in it, and was killed in 1778 - That he was mustered into the service there can be no doubt as his commission & orderly book shows - after the nature of the expedition was changed into a Post at Machias, the evidence shows Eddy to have been there & was killed there - 
Besides - Massachusetts made a grant of land to said Jona. Eddy in
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consequence of these services. Vide History of Maine paged 515 & 618 in a note -
From all this historical evidence, showing the references of service, and from oral evidence of persons who served that Wm Eddy was connected with it, it seems to me that no reasonable doubt can or does exist, why his widow, Olive King should but have a Penson - I will only add that I trust you will grant it without any further delay - 
Hannibal Hamlin
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Decr. 7/41
[illegible]
Olive King

[illegible]



J.S. Wiley
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  
Secretary's Orice, Boston, August 9 1848.
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 there is of no evidence of Service of any one of the name of William Eddy a Commissioned Officer

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written. 
Wm Super Deputy 
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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3406 (Written sideways in top right margin)

I am now seventy three years old, and my memory does not enable me to state the services more fully than above stated. 

WITNESS my hand, this ninth day of Aught A. D. 1848. 

Wm Eddy

Signed by said Wm Eddy
in my presence, Chas H Lovett 
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
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June 5. 1843. 

Me 
papers of Olive Morse. 
wait for declaration.

(Written sideways on page:)
JL Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions 
Washington City
DC
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Banger May 31st 1843 
The enclosed papers are to be filed in the Pension office in the application of Olive Morse for a pension as a widow under the law of July 1836 - The are sent before the application of the sd Olive - [illegible] as that has not yet been sent to me in from the Province & the three months are about expiring
Yours respectfully 
DT Jewett

To JL Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
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June 20/48 
Olive King


Mr Ames 


Jas. S Wiley 
H. Reps
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Exter Mills June 13th 1848 
Mr Wiley,
 Sir: After a long time I have succeeded in getting a deposition from Hannah Weston taken in a proper form and in every respect correct. Mr. Hamlin told me that such an one was all I lacked to get my mothers pension, - I went to Machias and saw her last winter and got her deposition to the same effect of the one which I now send you, but, it was not taken in proper form as I learned when I returned to Bangor, consequently, I had to make another journey to Machias and did not get the right then, and made a third trip and have got it at last I think, right - The old Lady recollects my father well, and all the circumstances connected with his service at and in the vicinity of Machias She is an intelligent old Lady and recollects past events well I herewith inclose (enclose?) the deposition of Hannah Weston and wish you to present it to the pension department and wright (write?) me soon. It will be well to insist on an examination of the depositions and papers which have been sent previous, at the same time this is presented 

I am solicited to request you to examine the requests for pensions in the last war, and see if a request from John Chamberline has been received at Washington - Pleas do the favor and answer me soon 

Yours most obediantly (obediently?)
Wm Eddy
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[illegible] Powell
A. Ward 
W Spooner
Jedidiah Peeble
J Cushing
[illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible]
Benj Austin 
John Taylor 
Danl Davis 
FM Dean
Timo Danielson
Tim Edwards
N Cushing
Oliver Prescott 

STATE of the Massachusetts-Bay.}
The Major Part of the COUNCIL of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England.

To William Eddy Esqr. - Greeting.

YOU being appointed First Lieutenant, of the First Company, - in the Second Regiment, on an Expedition to St Johns River, whereof Jona. Eddy Esqr. is Colonel - 

By Virtue of the Power vested in us, WE do by these Presents, (reposing special Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty, Courage, and good Conduct,) Commission you accordingly.
- You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a First Lieutenant - in leading, ordering, and exercising said Company - in Arms, both Inferior Officers and Soldiers; and to keep them in good Order and Discipline: And they are hereby commanded to obey you as their First Lieutenant - and you are yourself, to observe and follow such Orders and Instructions as you shall from Time to Time receive from The [illegible] of the Council or your Superior Officers

GIVEN under our Hands, and the Seal of the said State, at Boston the Sixteenth Day of July, in the Year of our Lord, 1777.
 
By the Command of the Major Part of the Council}
John Avery Dpy Secy
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5941
Declaration of Olive King 
of Nova Scotia
the 
act 4 July 1836
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State of Maine
Washington ss: On the ninth day of July AD 1845 before me John S Tenney, a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of the said State, Olive King, a resident of River Philip in the county of Cumberland & Province of Nova Scotia, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836 & the act explanatory of the said act passed March 3, 1837 viz That she was born in Maidfield (Medfield?) in the State of Massachusetts, and her maiden name was Olive Morse; that she is now ninety three years of age; that she emigrated to Cumberland Nova Scotia, when a child & was married at Fort Cumberland in the said Province on the 17th day of March 1769 by the Reverend Mr. Gannett, to the late William Eddy who entered the service in November 1776 in a company under the command of his father Colonel Eddy & a Captain West stationed in Tantramar near Fort Cumberland.

That shortly after having entered the service her said husband was one of the party who made an attack upon a British provision ship that arrived in the Bay of Fundy with stores for the Fort, and, after a desperate conflict, captured her and, as this Deponent believes, sent her to Boston. He was also engaged with his company in an attack on the said Fort but in this they were beaten off. That the British troops proving too powerful for them. Colonel Eddy's company & her husband among them, were forced to leave the Province & flee.
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to the United States in 1777, leaving his wife & three children behind him,

Deponent further declares that she was informed & believes that after her husband arrival in Boston, he received Lieutenant commission in the United States army & was
actively signed & that he this commission is now in the possession of her son William Eddy residing in Corinth in the State of Maine;  - that she never saw her husband after he left her for Boston in 1777 but she understood & believes that after he received his commission he continued in the service of the United States & was in the expedition to the St John's River under the command of his father Colonel Jonathan Eddy. That on the spring of the year 1778, when in the Bay of Fundy, he fell in
with & made an attack upon a British vessel in the anticipation of capturing her. She proved to be a vessel from Fort Cumberland & fired upon them & in the skirmish, as this
deponent heard & believes, her husband the said William Eddy, killed.

She further declares that she was lawfully married to the said William Eddy on the Seventeenth day of March Seventeen hundred & sixty nine; that her husband, the aforesaid William Eady, was killed on the third day of May AD 1778 & that she was afterward married to Hezekiel King, who died on the sixteenth day of May AD 1829 leaving her, this deponent, in destitute circumstances, That she was a widow on the fourth day of July 1836 & still remains a widow as will more fully appear
by reference to the proof hereto annexed
Olive King
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Sworn & subscribed on the day & year above written before me at Machias in the State of Maine, the said Ohio King being infirm & unable to attend Court.
John S. Tenney} Justice of Supr Jud Court
                           for State of Mary

Washington ss.
I Albert Pilsbury Clerk of the Supreme Judicial
Court for the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that John S Tenney is a Judge of the said Supreme Court & that his signature as above is genuine
Given under my hand & seal of office at Machias
in said County of Washington this ninth day of
July AD 1845
Albert Pilsbury Clerk
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Province of New Brunswick
I George Shore Clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature for the Province of New Brunswick do hereby Certify that the Humble William
Botsford before whom the Several affidavits of Obadiah Ayer, George Lawrence and Mary Lawrence hereto annexed were taken and sworn is one of the Judges of the Said Supreme Court and that the Signatures of said William Botsford to such "Jurats" are the proper hand writing of the said William Botsford

Given under my hand and the Seal of the said Court at Fredericton in the County of Kent in Said Province this Seventh day of March 1843,

Geo. Shore Clerk of the Pleas in the Supreme Court of Judicature for the Province of New Brunswick
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Sackville, County of Westmorland
Province of New Brunswick ss
Be it remembered that on this second day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three before me William Botsford one of her Majetys Justices of the Supreme Court of Judication in and for the Province of New Brunswick personally came and appeared Obadiah Ayer of Sackville in the County & Province aforesaid, yeoman, who being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposeth and saith, that he is seventy nine years of age that in his youth, he was well acquainted with one William Eddy
and Olive Morse, that he remembers the
time when they the said William Eddy and Olive Morse were married to each other. that after the intermarriage, they resided in Tantramar now called Sackville, aforesaid, that they lived together as man& wife, and were always reputed so to be, that Mary Lawrence of Sackville the widow and Relict of George Lawrence late of Sackville deceased was a daughter of the said William Eddy and Olive his wife, and this Deponent further saith that at the time the
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attack was made against Fort Cumberland
by Colonel Eddy he was informed and believes
that the said William Eddy was one of the
party who made the attack, and that he was afterwards killed in the month of May1778 in an attack upon a British vessel as he was informed and verily believes and while as he understood he was in the service of the State of Massachusetts; that sometime after the death of the said William Eddy his widow the said Olive Eddy was married to Hezekiah King - that the said King departed this [illegible] sometime in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, leaving the said Olive his widow as he was informed and believes. that she continued and remained his widow on the fourth day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty six. and still continues to be and at this present time is a widow
Obadiah Ayer

Sworn to at Sackville by the
said Obadiah Ayer a
credible witness and a respectable
inhabitant of Sackville
Before me
W. Botsford
one of the Majestys
Judges of the Sup. Court
New Brunswick
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Sackville, County of Westmorland
Province of New Brunswick ss.
Be it remembered that on this
second day of March in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty
three before me William Botsford one of the
Majestys Justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature in and for the Providence of New Brunswick personally came, and appeared Mary Lawrence of Sackville in the County and Province aforesaid widow and relict of George Lawrence late of the same place, yeoman deceased, who being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposeth and saith that she is sixty five years of age. that she was born in the County of Westmorland aforesaid, that her Fathers name was William Eddy. that he was killed by the British on the third day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight while he was in the Service of the State of Massachusetts, as she has been informed and verily believes. that her mother, Olive Eddy, whose maiden name was Morse, sometime after the death of her Father was married to Hezekiah King - that after her said marriage with the said King, the this
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Deponent resided with her mother and the
said Hezekiah King until she was a woman grown. That from her earliest recollection she remembers being told by her mother, that she was the daughter of the said William Eddy, and not the daughter of the said King - That this
Deponent has always been reputed to be and she verily believes herself to be, the legitimate daughter of her mother Olive King by her first husband William Eddy That the said Hezekiah King died sometime in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine leaving the said Olive King his widow who continued so on the Fourth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six and she
continues to be, and at this present time is a widow, and resides in the Province of Nova Scotia
Mary Lawrence

Sworn to at Sackville by
the said Mary Lawrence
a credible witness, and
respectable inhabitant of
Sackville. before me
W. Botsford
one of her Majestys
Justices of the Sup. Court
New Brunswick
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Sackville County of Westmorland
Province of New Brunswick ss
Be it remembered that on this third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three before me William Botsford one of Her Majestys Justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature in and for the Province of New Brunswick personally came, and appeared George Lawrence of Sackville in the County and Province aforesaid Yeoman, who being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposeth and saith as follows. That he is the grandson of William Eddy who was killed in an attack upon a British vessel, in the year one thousand one hundred
and seventy eight, as he has been informed,
and verily believes, That his grandmother
who is now living in the Province of Nova
Scotia after the death of the said William
Eddy was married to one Hezekiah King now deceased. That sometime in the month of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty four he was present at the house of John Bowser in Bucktouch (Bouctouche?)in the County of Kent and Province aforesaid, when one Elijah Ayer of Bucktouch (Bouctouche?) made his affidavit before John Bower aforesaid, he being a
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a Justice of the Peace in and for the said
County of Kent of the marriage of the said
William Eddy and Olive Morse, and was
present when the said Elijah Ayer was duly sworn by the said John Brown, to the matters contained in the said affidavit - That the said Elijah Ayer, died within two years after he had so made his affidavit as aforesaid. And this Deponent further
saith that he had the said affidavit in his possession from the time it had been so made as aforesaid until about three years when the same was lost or mislaid that he has made dilligent (diligent?) search for the same but without success - that he cannot account for its loss in any other way than by a falling into the hands of his children who may have had access to the Dock where it was. That this Deponent will
recollect the purport of the said affidavit which was to the following effect. That he the said Elijah Ayer was well acquainted with the said William Eddy and Olive Morse, that he was present at the intermarriage. and stood as
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bridegroom, man, at their marriage & that he knew them after their marriage, that he the said Elijah Ayer lived in their neighborhood, and knew of them living together as man and wife and
were so considered and reputed to the by all their neighbours (neighbors?) - that he said
Elijah Ayer also stated that as after the death of the said William Eddy, his widow the said Olive Eddy was married to Hezekiah King 
George Lawrence

Sworn to at Sackville
by George Lawerence a
credible witness and
respectable inhabitant
of Sackville
Before me
W Botsford
one of her Majestys
Justices of the Sup. Court
Province of New Brunswick
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I William Eddy of Corinth in the County
of Penobscot Esquire, aged sixty eight years on
oath depose and say that I am the son
of William Eddy who was appointed a Lieutenant out in the first company in the second Regiment on an expedition to Johns River, whereof Jonathan Eddy Esqr was Colonel, that my mothers maiden name was Olive Morse, that after the death of my father who as I have always 
understood and believed was killed in the
service on the third day of May 1778. She married to Hezekiah King and lived with him till he died in 1829 at a place called River Philip in Nova Scotia, that I was about three years old when my father was killed as I have always understood & fully believed: that the Jonathan Eddy who died about thirty years ago at Eddington in the County of Penobscot was my grandfather, that I lived with him from the time I was thirteen years old till I arrived at the age of twenty one years. - that I was always treated by him as a grandson and always understood from him and all my relatives & friends that the said William Eddy was my father, and that my mother was
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the wife by a second marriage of the said Hezekiah King, from the time of my fathers death till I came at the age of thirteen years to live with my grandfather as above stated I lived
with my mother or with my uncle Jonathan
Eddy Jr. in the same neighborhood. I have
frequently heard my Grandfather Col Jonathan
Eddy say that he commanded the expedition to St Johns above referred to, and, that my father was a Lieutenant under him, and that he was killed while in the service May 3 1778. and I have frequently heard Capt. Zebulon Rowe with whom I was well acquainted, and who was in the expedition, and who died about twenty five years ago, State the same facts, and also say that he was with him in the boat when he was killed, and, that he assisted in burying him. He also shew me his grave, where he was buried at Lubec, Maine. My grandfather the
said Col. Eddy has been dead about thirty years. I have heard the said Rowe frequently state the particulars of the death of my father, in which he was confirmed by my grandfather. and from them I learn that he went out in a boat in Cumberland bay. that they made an attack on a small British vessel. that they were beaten off that they were fired upon from the vessel and my father killed and that Rowe was one of the men in the boat
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and was wounded by the same that, among my Grandfathers papers I recently found my fathers commission as a Lieutenant as aforesaid dated July 16 1777 which is hereunto annexed. I also found among said papers my grandfathers orderly book which also is annexed to this deposition by what it appears under date of Aug 4. 1777. that my father was the officer of the guard on that day. There is
also on the fourth page of said book an entry in the following words. "William Eddy was killed may the 2d 1778." This entry is in the hand writing of my grandfather.

I further state that in 1840. I called on the
parish Clerk of the town or parish of Fort Lawrence or Fort Cumberland in Nova Scotia
at which place my parents as I understood lived when they were married, and at which place I always understood they were married, and requested him to make search in the records of such parish for the record of the
marriage of my said parents: that the said Clerk, whose name was Bent did in my presence make search in said records for the record of said marriage, but that no record of marriages in said records could be found of an earlier date than about the year 1779. The parish records aforesaid were then kept at Fort Lawrence - Fort Cumberland was in the same parish I further state that in March last, I visited
my mother the said Olive King at River Philip Nove Scotia
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that she was then being at that place in good health, considering her extreme age, that she was then a widow. and that so far as I knew she is still living, and a widow and has always remained a widow since the death of her second husband, the said King. I have never been able to find any family records of the marriage of my said parents or of the birth of their children.
Wm Eddy
⎬
State of Maine}
Penobscot ss} ss
August 18 1843 then personally appeared
before me the subscriber William Eddy above named and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition
JB Hill J Peace

I certify that I am acquainted with William Eddy
Esquire who signed and swore to the foregoing deposition & that full credit is to be given to his testimony.
J B Hill J Peace

I certify that on the second page of the foregoing deposition before the date "May 3 1778. the words "under him in that expedition" were crossed before the deposition was signed
B Hill J Peace

I William T. Hilliard Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for the County of Penobscot certify that John B Hill is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing certificates purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of Supreme Judicial Court for Said County and subscribed my name this eighteenth day of August in the year 1843.
Wm Hilliard
Clerk