Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,576, Ebenezer Wyeth, Mass.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER                                                     
Mass       Wyeth, Ebenezer                     S.  34.576
CONTENTS
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9,028
Massachusetts.
Ebenezer Wyeth, 4
of Ashby, in the state of Mass..tts
Who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Knox. of the Massach tts line for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of May, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5. of April
and sent to John Davis, judge,
Boston, Massachusetts.
Arrears to the 4th of March, 1819...81.03
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4  Sept. }     48"
9mos 4/31}                     1819  }    $:129.03

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Discontinued

[illegible] sent to Abraham Bigelow Esq. 22d September, 1820. Cambridge Massachusetts.
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Mass Roll '17

Adm.
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Massachusetts District, ss.
16 March 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Ebenezer Wyeth by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
Jno Davis {District Judge U.S. Massachusetts Dist.}
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
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Massachusetts District, ss.
Boston June 15 1815
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Ebenezer Wyeth
Subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, persuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid together with this certificate. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
Jno Davis} Judge of the District Court U.S. Massachusetts District.
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United States Massa District
Ebenezer Wyeth of Ashly Massachusetts a resident citizen of the United States maketh oath that he served in the war of the Revolution on the Continental establishment; namely that he served as a private soldier in Capt. Eliphalet Newell's company in Colo Henry Knox's regiment, Massachusetts line for the term of twelve months commencing in December AD 1775: that he was honorably dismissed from the army after the expiration of the said time, but received no discharge in writing.
 that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in much need of assistance from his country for support.
Ebenezer Wyeth

Massachusetts District Ss
Boston 1st May 1818
Sworn to before me
Jno Davis  Dist. Judge Mass. Dis.
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I Richard Frothingham of Charlestown Mass
make oath that I served in the army on the continental establishment in the war of the Revolution at the same time that the within- named Eben Wyeth served therein and that to my knowledge he served in the within- named Capt Newel's company for six months.
      Rich Frothingham

Massachusetts District                                        
Boston 1 May 1818                                            
Sworn to before me                                           
Jno Davis     Dist. Judge Mass Dist.                     
Eben Wyeth Knox Mass/Arty 75 one year 1 May 1818

Ebenezer Wheyth
Mem: Mr. Frothingham produces an account Book.
procured from a widow of Capt Newell decd. in which appear accounts settled with [illegible] soldiers of his company. Ebenezer Wyeth is credited for 12 months service and stayed with [illegible] for that term.- Jno Davis    D. J
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194. Ebenezer Wyeth.
[illegible]
9020
april 1819
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex, ss. 
At the circut court of common pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A.D. 1820. Before the Hon. Samuel Dana, Esquire, Chief Justice,
and William Wetmore, and}  Associate Justices
Stephen Minot, Esquires} of said Court.
In open court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of it's proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Ebenezer Wyeth resident in said circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 9078 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 
"18th March, 1818, Ebenezer Wyeth of Ashly Massachusetts late a private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the 
"Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight
" dollars per month to commence on the first day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
"Given at the War Office of the United States this second 
"day of April one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War,"
appears and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
"Real Estate containing by estimation about fifty acres of pour land appraised at the sum of $ 475. Personal estate to wit two cows at the sum of $37
1 cow at $8 & yearling heifers at $16, 7 pigs at $4. 1 old saddle and bridle at $6 [illegible]
Elect being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he owes Oliver Cook of Boston three hundred and fifty dollars and the interest on the same from February AD 1815 for the payment of which the above Real Estate is mortgaged is to owe the said Cook fifty dollars on note and interest from Feb 1815 for the payment of which sums of will take all my Real Estate or thereabouts I also
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owe Mary Castering of Boston thirteen dollars , I also owe John Caldwell of Ashburnham six dollars, John Kidder of Ashby five dollars, Elnathan Lawrence of Ashburnham three dollars, I also owe David Whitney of New Ipswich 8,00. Also to the  Chevers of New Ipswich 3.50 Abraham Edward of Ashby 3,00 Stephen Adams paid Ashly 7 00 Josheph Myette 13,00 and the said Myette declares that he will be sixty eight years old next December his occupation is more a toll gate tender at only four dollars and twenty five cents per monthe but while he was able to work a farmer he is very unable to laborer, he has a Breack which is a very bad one, unfits him for any business a considerable part of the time he otherwise has all the infirmaties of old age upon him, that he has a wife who is fifty eight years old next February who enjoys a tolerable degree of health as well as people in general of her age , that he has three children one girl of nineteen years of age who is incompetent to take care of herself on account of ill health and and probably never will be any better or able to take care of herself, one girl of eighteen years old in August next who enjoys pretty good health and one boy fourteen years old who is pretty well, and the said Wyeth on oath further declares that he served in the Revolutionary army on the Continental establishment for the term of one year AD 1776, feutered under Capt. Eliphalet Newell of Charlestown in Col Henry Knox's Reg of artillery, I then marched from Cambridge to New York in the Massachusetts line, I was in the battle at Long Island and at the battle of White Plain, I was a while in the Hospital at North Castle at which place my time for which I enlisted expired
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and from thence returned home by receiving a pass from the office of the same whose name was Howard.
Ebenezer Wyeth

Sworn and Declared to before Sam Dana Judge

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Sam Dana
a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Ebenezer Wyeth do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not , since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, ot any pary thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled " an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or any securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
Ebenezer Wyeth
Middlesex ss. C.C.C.P Jan Term, A.D. 1820
Then the above named Ebenezer Wyeth
took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Sam Dana Judge of said Court
I, Abraham Biglow, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court, that the total amount in the value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is 
One hundred [illegible] dollars & fifty cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20th day of July 1820
Attr. Abraham Biglow
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34576
Revy INVALID
File No. 34,576
Ebenezer Wyeth
Pri Rev War


Act:18 March 18 7
Index:--Vol.2 Page 491
[Arrangement of 1870
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I, Oliver Cook, of the City of Boston, in the County of Suffolk, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do depose and say, that on the first day of March AD 1815 I loaned the Ebenezer Wyeth, then of Westford in the County of Middlesex, and now of Ashby in the same county, who has since been a Pensioner of the United States & whose name has been struck from the roll on account of his property, the sum of three hundred dollars for which I took his promissory note (payable in three years with interest) and mortgage on a parcel of real estate situated in said Ashby, as collateral security for the payment thereof; that soon after that transaction, the said Wyeth became greatly indebted to me in another sum of fifty dollars for which he also gave me his promissory note for that sum payable in five years with interest, that after that time and previous to September 5th AD 1822. The said Wyeth became further indebted to me for groceries consumed in his family in the sum of about one hundred dollars, and on the said 5th day of September 1822, the said Wyeth, not having paid either of the aforesaid notes, or interest thereon, or any part thereof, agreed to give me a deed and did give it, of the said parcel of land mortgaged as aforesaid, he having no other property within my knowledge to secure to me the payment of said real estate, being a little less than the sum, he then owed me on said notes and account.
And I do further depose and say, that I consider said sum of six hundred dollars a high price for said real estate, and more than I should willingly give for it, but to secure a precarious debt.
Oliver Cook
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Middlesex, On this tenth day of December AD 1823 personally appeared before me Caleb Butler, Notary Public for said county, duly admitted and dwelling in Groton in said county, the above named Oliver Cook and made solemn oath, that the above affidavid by him subscribed is true in all it's parts.
In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and offered my Notarized seal the day and year last aforesaid.
Caleb Butler 
Notary Public
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Know all men by these presents, that I Ebenezer Wyeth of Westford in the County of Middlesex and commonwealth of Massachusetts, yeoman in consideration of three hundred dollars paid by Oliver Cook of Boston in the county of Suffolk and commonwealth aforesaid carpenter. The Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell and convey unto the said Oliver Cook a certain tract or parcel of land situated in the Westerly part of Ashby in the county and commonwealth aforesaid bounded as follows (viz) beginning at a Stake and Stone at the Southwest corner of the premises from thence the line runs northerly about sixty four rods, on the east side of Abbots road as called thence easterly about thirty Rods to a stake and Stones thence northerly to land of Daniel Brown  to a stake and Stones thence easterly on said Browns land about eighty five rods to a Stake and Stones and land of Artemus Lawrence thence Southerly on said Lawrences land about forty rods to Stake and Stones thence easterly on said Lawrence's land about sixteen rods to a stake and Stones to land of Silas Whitney thence southerly on said Whitney's land about fifty rods to a state and Stones thence westerly by the Road to a Stake and Stones east of the house standing on the premises thence southerly eight rods to a Stake and Stones thence westerly twelve Rods to a Stake and Stones thence northerly eight rods to a Stake and Stones thence westerly to the bounds first mentioned containing fifty acres bo the same nine or less together with the buildings thereon and all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging. To have and to hold the aforegranted premises to the said Oliver Cook his heirs and assigns, to their use and behalf forever, And I do covenant with the said Oliver Cook his heirs and assigns, that I am lawfully seized in fee of the afore-granted premises; that they are free of all incumbrances; that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Oliver Cook. And that I will warrant and defend the Same premises to the same Oliver Cook his heirs and assigns, forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons --
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Provided never the less, that if the said Ebenezer Wyeth his Heirs, Executors, or Administration, pay to the said Oliver Cook his Heirs, Executors Adminstrations or assigns the sume of of three hundred dollars and the interest in three years from this date, than this deed as also a certain note of hand, bearing even date with [illegible] presetne, given by the said Ebenezer Wyeth to the said Oliver Cook to pay the same sum a thte time aforesaid shall then be [illegible], otherwise shall reamin in full force. In witness whereof I the said Evenezer Wyeth have here unto set my and and seal this first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen Ebenezer Wyeth and seal, signed sealed and delivered in [illegible] of us Lacah Parrott James Kidder _ Middlesex ss. March first AD 1815 then the above named Ebenezer Wyeth acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act and deed, before me _
Jer Hildreth Just of Pease
Middlesex ss Cambridge 16  August 1817 Received and Entered by Samuel Bartlehill Reg
Commonweatlh of Massachusetts
Middlesex sp. Cambridge, December 10th 1823
The forgoing in a true copy from the records of my office Book 221 page 311
Attn Wm F Stone Rec of Deeds for said Co of Middlesex
Commonweath of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss I Abraham Biglow clerk of the judicial courts within the county of Middlesex, do certify that William F Stone is Register of Deeds for the County of Middlesex & his name set to the above certificate is his own proper signature
In testimoney whereof I have hereunto set my and and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas this first day of January 1824. Abraham Biglow
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Deed
Wyeth to Cook
Copy of Record
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Know all men by these presents, that I  Ebenezer Wyeth of Ashby in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, [illegible], in consideration of six hundred dollars paid by Oliver Cook of Boston in the county of Suffolk in said Commonwealth merchant the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell and convey unto the said Oliver Cook his heirs and assigns a certain tract or parcel of land situated in the westerly part of said Ashby and bounded as follows viz beginning at a stake and stones at the southeast corner of the premises, from thence running northerly about sixty four rods on the east side of Abbot road, so called, thence easterly about thirty rods to a stake and stones, thence northerly to land of Daniel Brown to a stake and stones, thence easterly on said Brown's land about eighty five rods to a stake and stones and land of Artemus Lawrence, thence southerly on said Lawrence's land about forty rods to a stake and stones, thence easterly on said Lawrence's land about sixteen rods to a stake and stones to land of Silas Whitney, thence southerly on said Whitneys land about fifty rods to a stake and stones, thence westerly by the road to a stake and stones east of the house standing on the premises, thence southerly eight rods to a stake and stones, thence westerly twelve rods to a stake and stones, thence northerly eight rods to a stake and stones, thence westerly to the house first mentioned, containing fifty acres be the same more or less, together with the buildings thereon standing, and all the privileges and appurtenances there unto belonging. To Have and to Hold the afore granted premises
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to the said Oliver Cook his heirs and assigns, to his and their
use and behoof forever. And I do Covenant with the said
Oliver Cook his heirs and assigns, that I am lawfully seized
in fee of the afore-granted premises; that they are free of all
incumbrances; excepting a certain Mortgage made by the said
Wyeth to said Cook dated March 1. 1815, that I have good
right to sell and convey the same to the said Oliver Cook
and that I will warrant and defend the same premises to the
said Oliver Cook his heirs and assigns forever, against the law-
-ful claims and demands of all persons -- In witness whereof,
I the said Ebenezer Wyeth and Naomi wife of the said
Ebenezer in token of her relinquishment of her right of dower
in the aforesaid premises, have hereunto set our hands and
seals this fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty two --Ebenezer Wyeth & seal
Naomi Wyeth & seal -- Signed, sealed and delivered in presence,
of us, John G. Locke, John Lake -- Middlesex ss. September 5th --
1822. Then the above named Ebenezer Wyeth acknowledged
the above instrument to be his free act and deed --
before me, John Locke Just of Peace -
Middlesex ss. September 10. 1823 Recd. & Recorded by
Wm. F. Stone Regr
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex p'p'.
Cambridge Oct 10. 1823. --
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true
copy of record -- Book 250 page 94 --
Wm. F. Stone Regr. of Deeds
for said County of Middlesex --
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss.  I Abraham Biglow Clerk of the judicial
County within the County of
Middlesex do certify that William F.
Stone is Register of Deeds for the County of
Middlesex & his name set to the shore
certificate is his own proper Signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand & affixed the seal of the Court of Common
Pleas this first day of January 1824.
Abraham Biglow
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Massachusetts 70,70
Ebenezer Wyeth
Private, 1776, 1 year
1st Schedule, June 1820
50 acres of poor Land appraised at $475
2 Cows $32. 1 Cow $8. 2 Heifers $16.
2 pigs $6. old Saddle and Bridle $6.
He [illegible] and that he owes O. Cook,
$350, & the intent on the same from
Feby 1815. for the payment of which
the above Real Estate is mortgaged -
I also owe the said Cook $50 on note,
& entered on same from Feby 1815.
He owes to 9 persons (names & renden of
all given, & only one of the name of Wyeth, to
whom he is indebted $13) $56.50 ss
2. Schedule, Decr 10. 1823,
no Real Estate - two Cows - one
home few farming tools & a little
furniture - amount of Schedule
$63.75.
Within is a certified Copy of the
Mortgage Deed mentioned in first
schedule, dated March 1st 1815.
acknowledged same day. Rcd & recorded
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August 26. 1817. All his
Real Estate was sold to
Oliver Cook Sept 5. 1822,
for $600 - He has produced
a certified Copy of the Deed &
the oath of Cook duly authorizing
that on the 5th of September 1822, "the
said Wyeth not having paid either of the
aforesaid notes mentioned in first
schedule, or interest thereon, or
any part thereof, agreed to give me a Deed,
& did give it, of the said Land, mortgaged as
aforesaid, he having no other property
within my knowledge to secure to me
the payment of said Debt, and I
allowed him $600 for said Real
Estate, being a little less than
the sum he then owed me on said
notes, & an amount about $100, due
for groceries suitable to be consumed in
his family, the amount contracted
prior to Sept 5. 1822 And I do
further depose & say that I consider
said sum of $600, a high price for said
real Estate & more than I should
willingly give for it, but to secure a
"precarious Debt". - His age 70 -
infirm - cannot labor - a toll gate
tender, at $4.25, per month - wife 70.
2 Daughters 19 & 18 - former infirm - a
Son, aged 14.
Hon. J. Locke, Ho Reps
Recd Apl. 14. 1824 & sent as above
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Middlesex ss.
On this tenth day of December
1823, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court
of record for the County of Middlesex, Ebenezer Wyeth
resident in Ashby in said County aged seventy years,
who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his
oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain
the provision made by the acts of Congress, of the 18th March
1818, and the 1st May 1820 that he, the said Ebenezer
Wyeth enlisted for the term of one year in the month
of November in the year AD. 1775, in the State of Massa-
chusetts in the Company commanded by Captain Eliphalet
Newell in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry
Knox in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the
Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in
the said Corps until January in the AD. 1777, when he
was discharged from the said service, in Bedford in the
State of New York; that his name has been placed on the
Pension list, and dropt therefrom on account of his
property; that he is a husbandman by occupation,
but on account of a breach and the infirmities of age,
wholly unable to labour; that he has no family, except his
wife Naomi, aged 58 years. Ebenezer Wyeth.
Schedule of the property of Ebenezer Wyeth,
necessary bedding & clothing excepted, viz. --
two cows of the value of thirty dollars -- 30..00
One swine ---- 3.00 ---- 3..00
One old axe & Sundry small articles of farming tools ---- 2.00
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one or two small sums due to me not exceeding 1.00
6 Chairs ---- 4.50
2 Tables ---- 2.00
1 desk ---- 4.00
1 looking glass ---- 1.75
1 old Clock ---- 7.--
1 brass Kettle ---- 3.-
Crockery ware ---- 2.50
iron Kettle ---- 1.--
all other articles not exceeding ---- 2.
$63.75
Ebenezer Wyeth
And, in pursuance of the act of the 1st May
1820, I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident
citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March
1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale,
or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any
part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as
to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Con-
gress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the land and naval service of the United
States, in the Revolutionary War", passed on the 18th day
of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person
in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts
or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than
what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and
by me subscribed. That, since the exhibition of my
first Schedule, the following changes have been made
in my property: -- All my real estate has been
sold to Oliver Cook of Boston, for the sum of six
hundred dollars to pay him what I justly owed him
as-
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as will appear by reference to his affidavit herewith
transmitted ----- Ebenezer Wyeth
Sworn to and declared, on the tenth day of December
AD. 1823, before the Court of Common Pleas for the County
of Middlesex     all Abrm Biglow Clk
I Abraham Biglow, Clerk of the Court aforesaid,
do hereby certify, that it appears to the satisfaction of the said
Court, that the said Ebenezer Wyeth, did serve in the Revo-
lutionary War, as stated in the proceeding declaration, against
the common enemy for the term of nine months, under one
engagement of the Continental establishment. I also
certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto
annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said
Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion
of the said Court, that the total amount in value,
of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is
sixty-three dollars & seventy five cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand, and affixed the seal
of the said Court, on this first day
of January 1824.
Abrm Biglow