Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8206, for Ezekiel Phillips, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Mass.         
R.I.

Phillips, Ezekiel                    
Mary     

NUMBER
R. 8206
B.L.Wt.34,824.160-55         

CONTENTS
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168.428  Act Mch 3/55
                     In.    13/.
Mary Phillips Md.
Ezekiel Phillips Pen.
     Rev. War
Capt.
Col.
Private  
Capt Knapp
Mass. Mila.

Enl. 
Dis.
War Rev.

now a pension of the U. Stats,
Vt -July 38 Ins
      
Ad. 160 ac's July 18./56
Dodge
Chs. C. Tucker, Atty
Presents

(lower left side)
Val P=80

{written across page} No. 34824 iss July 23/56
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11269
Mary Phillips
Widow of Ezekiel
Vt
Oct 7 July 1838

8206
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester County, SS.
I, Joseph G. Kendall, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid do hereby certify, That Bezaleel Taft, Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature to the certificate, on the deposition of Amariah Taft, hereunto annexed, is genuine.

Given under my hand, and the Seal of said County, this eleventh day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
Jos G. Kendall Clerk
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Worcester SS  This may certify that Mr. Ezekiel Philips of Gloucester and Miss Molly Cummings of Uxbridge were married May twenty Second Seventeen hundred Eighty Eight - by me Benjamin Read
Justice of the Peace

Recorded by Aaron Taft Jr
Town Clerk

State of Massachusetts
Wocerster County SS  Town Clerks office in Uxbridge July 6th 1844 I certify that the preceeding is a true copy of the record in my office with the exception of the date which is  expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "May 22d 1788"
Amariah Taft
Town Clerk of Uxbridge

I, Amariah Taft above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Uxbridge in said Worcester County and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town the the exception above named as certified by me.
Amariah Taft
Town Clerk of Uxbridge
Sworn to before me - July 6th 1844
Bezaleel Taft   Justice Peace
over
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows
State of Vermont
District of Westminster SS on this 27 day of November 1843 personally appeared before the Probate Court for the District of Westminster in the County of Windham and State aforesaid Mary Phillips a resident of Townshend in the County of Windham aforesaid, being in said district aged seventy eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benifit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widow, that she is the widow of Ezekiel Phillips who was a private in the army of the Revolution 
and who as she believes enlisted into the United States service in the Company commanded by Capt. Abraham Turtellot in the regiment commanded by Col Owens that the enlistment was at Glocester in the State of Rhodeisland in the month of April 1778 for the term of Eight months, in the Rhodeisland troops, that he went onto the island & was stationed there and retreated off the island over Bristol ferry marched up the River to Providence where he remained in the service until the expiration of said term & was there discharged but received no written discharge, that he afterward, in the month of March 1779 enlisted in the town of Uxbridge in the State of Massachusetts for the term of five months in the Company commanded by
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Capt Knapp in the Regiment commanded by Col Amidou of the Rhodeisland militia and went on to Rhodeisland and was stationed at a place called Quaker hill he served out said term and at the expiration of it was discharged at a place called Hocland Ferry, and afterward in the spring of 1780 he enlisted for three months at Uxbridge Mass and entered the Company of Capt. Robert Taft, the name of the Colonel of the Regiment is not known by me and was not recollected by my deceased husband he went on to Rhodeisland and was stationed at a place called Brittons neck from thence he went on to Block Island and at the expiration of the term was dismissed at Britons neck near the light house and soon afterward he was in the service in the fall of 1780 as a substitute for John Moon of Smithfield who was a drafted militia man he entered a company commanded by a Capt from the town of Billingham whose name is not known he served at this time one month on Rhodeisland and was stationed at Brittons neck and was employed in guarding the coast & taking up refugees and at the end of the month was dismissed, that in the spring of 1781 being then living in Smithfield Rhodeisland he went out as a substitute for John Smith a drafted militia man for one month in the Company commanded by Capt. Smith went to guard the coast to Bristol and on the Island and was stationed to guard the harbor and at the end of the month was dismissed on the Island and returned by water to Providence and immediately after returning he went as a substitute for Daniel Malleron of sd. Smithfield who was a drafted militia man went to Providence & from there to Rhodeisland to Brittons neck near the light house and served one month and was there dismissed and in March 1782 at Smithfield Rhodeisland he engaged for a class to join the army for the term of Eighteen months in a Rhodeisland Regiment went with five others to Philadelphia under the command of Joseph Shippe or Shipley a sargeant went into the hospital at Philadelphia and was there inoculated and had the small pox and after remaining there a short time was dismissed by a Continental officer in command at Philadelphia and returned home to Smithfield after an absence of nearly three months - The declarant has no personal knowledge of the services abovementioned but believes that the said Ezekiel Philips served as above stated from what she has heard him say in his life time and also from the fact that in the
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year 1832 the said Ezekiel made his declaration under the act of Congress of the year 1832 alledging that he served as above stated which declaration was sent to the Comr. of Pensions or to the War Department & returned on account of some defects in it - she believes her deceased husband was born in Gloucester R Island in the year 1760 

she further declares that she was married to the said Ezekiel Phillips as she believes in the month of May one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty Eight.  That her husband the aforesaid Ezekiel Phillips died on the ninth day of September 1833 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen
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hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated.
          her
Mary   X    Phillips
         mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written before
Ellery Allbe Judge of Probate

State of Vermont
District of Westminster  SS  I James H Philps register of the Probate Court for the District of Westminster in said State certify that Ellery Allbee is Judge of the Probate Court for said district that said court is a court of record and that the foregoing signature of the said Ellery Allbee Judge of Probate is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have herein to set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 29th day of Novr
AD 1843
James H Phelps Probate Register

[written perpendicularly on right side] 11249  Mary Phillips
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168.428. [underlined]

Bounty Land Claim

Act of Mar 3. 1855

Mary Phillips wid of Ezekiel 
Rev. Services

See Susp a. Rev. Pension Claim.  Act of 1886

Chas C. Tucker Atty
Present
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To the Commissioner of Pensions
State of Vermont
Windham Co.  SS
On this 18th day of May AD1855
personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Windham aforesaid Mary Phillips aged 89 years a resident of Townshend in the County of Windham & state of Vermont who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Ezekiel Phillips deceased who was a private in the company commanded by Captain [blank] in the regiment of [blank] commanded by [blank] in the war of the Revolution and her said husband continued in actual service in said war for more than fourteen days as by the papers on file in the pension office in case of Mary Phillips appears
She further states that she was married to the said Ezekiel Phillips on the last part of May - AD 1766 by one Benjamin Reed Justice of Peace in the town of Veslind & state of Massachusetts and that her name before her said marriage was Mary Commings; that her said husband died at Townshend on the 9th day of Sept. AD 1833 and that she is now a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act of March 3 1855 and she hereby constitutes Charles C. Tucker of Washington DC her attorney to prosecute her claim and
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and receive her warrant, Hereby authorizing & empowering her said attorney to obtain from the proper authorities at Washington City or elsewhere certified copies of any Army records or documents in which the service of the said Ezekiel may be recorded & to procure any and all other evidence that may be necessary to establish her said claim as fully as if she was present in person.
          her
Molly   X   Phillips
         mark

We Hiram Barnes and Ezra Barnes residents of Townshend in the county & state aforesaid upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed & acknowledged by Mary Phillips in our presence and that we believe from the appearance & statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be
Hiram Barnes 
Ezra D Barnes 

We, Arvine Dunton & Louisa Dunton of the town, County & state aforesaid upon our oaths duly declare that we have known Mary Phillips for more than Twenty five years, that we knew the said Ezekiel Phillips & wife in his life time & that the said Ezekiel & Mary lived together as husband & wife & were always so regarded, & that the said Ezekiel always during his life time claimed to have been a soldier in the War of the Revolution & that he died on or about the 9th day of Sept. AD1833 - and that the said Mary Phillips is now his widow
Arven Dunton
Louisa Dunton
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The foregoing declaration & affidavits were sworn to & subscribed before me on the day & year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be & that I have no interest in this claim
John H Brigham Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont,
WINDHAM, S. S.
I, Royall Tyler, Clerk of the County Court, for the County of Windham, being a court of record and having a seal, as hereto attached, do certify that
John H. Brigham 
was at the date of the paper writings to which this is attached, and now is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his signature to the certificate thereon written is genuine; that the said paper writings are executed according to the laws of this State, and are in due form; and that as such Officer, he is duly authorized by the laws of this State to take acknowledgments of Deeds, take Depositions, administer Oaths, &tc.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of court, at Brattleborough, this 19th day of May Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Royall Tyler    Clerk
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873[crossed out]
REJECTED [stamped]
8206
P.O. ___________________
Mary Phillips
Service: Ezekiel

Enlisted:_______________, 18
Discharged: ___________, 18

Application filed: ___________, 18

Alleges: ________________
Re-enlisted: ____________
_______Recognized.  _________Contract
_______Cert. of Dis.  Searched for_____, 18
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1. Folded paper
11269
Mary Phillips
Copy[?] to A. S. Campbell
Nov 4th 1844
F. F. C. Triplett  Apl 26/54
July 1. 1831 [written along right side]

2. Folded paper
34824
[illegible]
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Ezekiel Phillips

RI  1778   8 mo  Private  Capt A Turlettot Col Owens

Mass  1779  5 "     "  Capt. Knapp Col Amidin

 "         1780  3 "    "  Cap Robert Taft

RI           "      1 "    as a Substitute for Jno Morr Officer [illegible]

 1781 [crossed out]  1 [crossed out]  not given

"   1781   1 "  as a Substitute for Jno Smith under Cap Smith

        "      "  "   "  Substitute for Dave Mattresen

"   1782   3 "    " Col Shipley or Shepple - Enlisted for 18 mo but returned home, having been taken sick and discharged

______
21 mo
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston
May 21     1853.

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 Ezekiel Phillips is borne on a roll of Capt. Job Knapp's Co. on R.I. service from March 2. 1781.    17 days as private of Worcester Co.
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Washington D. C.
6" May 1833

Hon Secy of State of Massachusetts
Boston, Mass
Sir.
I respectfully request to be furnished with a certificate of the services of Ezekiel Phillips in the Revolutionary war, as they may be of record in your office.
It is stated that he served as follows:  viz. "Served under Capt. Abraham Tourtellot, Colo. Owen, Rhode Island  April 1778, 8 months.  March 1779 enlisted at Uxbridge Mass  5 months  Capt. Knapp, Colo. Amidon.  R Island Militia.
Spring 1780  3 mos. Capt Robt Taft.
March 1782 at Smithfield R. I. Engaged for 18 mos, went to Philadelphia  Sgt. Joseph Shippey (or Shipley) in charge."
Very Respectfully Yrffl Svt.
F. E Hassler
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Bellows Falls Vermont Augt. 14th 1844

Sir
Enclosed is the Declaration of Mary Phillips Widow of Ezekiel Phillips deceased, together with the proof of marriage & proof of identitiy, &c
Very Respectfully
yr [?] Servant

A S Campbell

Hon J L Edwards
Com? of Pensions
Washington City
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I Louisa Dunton of Townshend in the State of Vermont testify & say that I am well acquainted with Mary Phillips of Townshend VT[?] widow of Ezekiel Philips deceased a revolutionary soldier that I was well acquainted with the said Ezekiel that the said Ezekiel Philips died September 8 1833 leaving the said Mary his widow who is still living I further testify that the said Mary Phillips has not been married since the death of the said Ezekiel but continues single & unmarried
Louisa Dunton

Sworn to before ^me by the above named Louisa Dunton who is a credible person this 28th day of June AD 1844
Before
Timothy H Whitney   Justice Peace