Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,475, for Ebenezer Pike, Massachusetts
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Mass.

Pike, Ebenezer

S.33,475
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1,494

Massachusetts Rolls

Ebenezer Pike

Capt Pettingell

Private
Massachusetts Line 

1775 - 1 year
in the army of the Ubnited States during the Revolutionary War

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Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence on the 7th day of April 1818

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Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of June 1818  and sent to Jam Putnam ( _ , Salem Mass
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 - 10 mo & 28/30 - $39.46


Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March 1818

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Continued

Notification sent July 26th 1820 to John Tucker, Salem Massachusetts
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Ebenezer Pike

Not on Rolls

DH
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     Ebenezer Pike of Danvers in the County of  Essex in the commonwealth of Massachusetts Yeoman upon oath makes the following Declaration

That he served eight months in 1775: That in Dec. 1775 he enlisted as a private in 
Capt. Pettengill’s Company in Col. Loammi Baldwin’s Regiment in the Massachusetts Line for the term of one year: that he continued in the service and did duty when not prevented by sickness, till the fourth day of July 1776 when on account of his being an Invalid he was honorably dischargd. as appears by the annexed Certificate which is genuine.

That about the first of May, 1775 he enlisted as a private in Capt. John Woods’ Company in Col. Baldwin’s Regiment and served till Dec. when he enlisted in Capt. Pettengill’s Company for a year and was transferred to that Company.

That he is old and infirm and from his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his
Country for support, and he hereby relinquishes all his claim to any pension heretofore allowed him by the Laws of the United States.

Ebenezer Pike 

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Boston 4 July 1776.

Ebenezer Pike of Capt. Petengill's Comp. Col. Baldwins Regt is discharged from the Army --

J. Ward
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I Abraham Foster of Salem in said County, Gentleman, do on Oath testify that I was in the service in 1775 and 1776, and know that said Pike served eight months in Capt. John Wood's Company in Col. Baldwin’s Regiment until the said Pike enlisted for one year in Capt. Pettengill’s Company in the same Regiment; that when the Army marched from Cambridge to New York, the said Pike was left behind at Cambridge on account of his  being an Invalid. He has ever since been lame and poor. I am well acquainted with him.   

Abraham Foster
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Enclosed is the Deposition of Jos Thompason to be used in the application of Ebenezer Pike for Pension
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I Jonathan Thompson of Woburn in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age do testify & say that I have been personally acquainted with Mr Eben Pike for upwards of fifty years, that I was knowing to his enlisting into the service of the United States as a Soldier in the year 1775; that I was knowing to his Serving from May 1775 to July 1776 without intermission. that he served in Capt Wood Company untill Decr 1775 & after that in Capt Pettengill, Company, both in Col Baldwin's, Regiment.

further I say not Jonathan Thompson

Middlesex
Woburn, July 1 1818 

Personally appeared the above named Jonathan Thompson & made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth relative to the subject matter therein mentioned

Before me Benjamin Wyman Justice of Peace

Essex ss. June 30, 1818 

The above named Benjamin Wyman Esq is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex qualified to administer oaths as I believe

S. Putnam Just
S.S. Court of Mass
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Essex

On this seventh day of April A.D. 1818 personally came before me Samuel Putnam one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth. the said Pike and said Foster and in my presence subscribed and severally made Oath to the aforewritten Declaration and affidavit by them respectively made. And it thereupon appearing to my satisfaction that the said Ebenezer Pike served more than nine months, to wit from June, A.D. 1775 to July, A.D. 1776 against the common enemy. I hereby certify the testimony in the case and the proceedings had thereon to the Secretary of the Department of War. Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this [ ]th day of April A.D. 1818


S. Putnam Just
S. J. Court of Mass

I Ichabod Tucker Clerk of the Court aforesaid do certify that the Hon. Samuel Putnam is a Judge of the said Court, that the above is his Signature and that the seal of the Court is affixed

Att, Ichabod Tucker Cler
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Essex

June 30th 1818 I Samuel Putnam within named further certify that Capt Abraham Foster and Jonathan Thompson are credible and disinterested witnesses.  That I am satisfied said Pike served more than nine months aforesaid of continued service in the Revolutionary army on the continental establishment; and that he is very poor and infirm


S. Putnam Just
S. J. Court of Mass
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Eben Pike

1491

June 1818

age 66

pauper
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.

At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.

In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Ebenezer Pike resident in Danvers in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 1494 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 Pike, 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 Seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen

Given at the War of Office of the United States, this thirtieth day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
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,

He has no real or personal estate except the clothes he wears and no income but his pension.
He is lame with a fever sore and unable to labour, and supported as a pauper by the town of Danvers.
He is sixty six years old, a cordwainer, no wife or family
He served as a years man in 1776 in Capt. Pettingell's Company in Col. Baldwin's Regiment in Massachusetts Line.

Ebenezer Pike (his mark)
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,

I Ebenezer Pike 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, or any part 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 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.

Ebenr Pike's  mark

Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.

Then the abovenamed Ebenezer Pike took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me Wm Wetmore Judge of said Court.

I, ICHABOD TUCKER, 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; 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 nothing

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex,
on this 17th day of July A.D. 1820

Att: Ichabod Tucker, Cler
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33475

INVALID

Revy

File No: 33475
Ebenezer Pike
Pri Rev War

Act: 18thn March 18

Index: Vol 2, Page 489

[Arrangement of 1870]