Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15652, for Ebenezer Sperry, Connecticut
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Conn
Sperry, Ebenezer
NUMBER
S 15652
carded
CONTENTS
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Duplicate certificate issued May 1842 and sent to Hon E. Burke House of Reps
Dead Let to H Newton Jan 9 [line struck thru]
1842 do to same April 24 1843

6369
New Hampshire
Ebenezer Sperry of Sullivan in the State of NH who was a pri & Sergt in the Company commanded b Captain Wilmot of the Regt commanded by Col Ward on the Connecticut Militia for 24 mos from 177[illegible]

Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 93 Dollars 16 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Feby 1833 and sent Hon H Hubbard HR

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 | 139.74
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833 | 46.58
[total] | $186.32

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Henry H Sylvester Clerk
Book D Vol 1 Page 185
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Ebenezer Sperry
Claremont
N.H.

5 & 14 obj

Dec 8 1832

Sergt 8 Months 15 days
Private 15 Months 15 days
24

adm

Hon H Hubbard
H of Reps
P 141
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Brief in the case of Ebenezer Sperry of Claremont in the State of New Hamp
(Act 7 June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he?
76 years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[following are in table format in original document]
Period: May 1st in 1775
Duration of Service
Years: "
Months: 11
Days: "
Rank: Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: Capt Wilmot, Col Ward, Capt Moat or Matt

Period: Apl 76
Duration of Service
Years: "
Months: 3
Days: 25
Rank: Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: Capt Allen

Period: Aug 76
Duration of Service
Years: 
Months: about 2
Days: "
Rank: Sergeant
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: Capt Gudger Col Thompson

Period: Dec 76
Duration of Service
Years: 
Months: about 3
Days: "
Rank: Sergeant
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: Capt Trumbull Col Reats

Period: Apl 77
Duration of Service
Years: "
Months: about 4
Days: "
Rank: Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: Capt Kemburbee

Period: [blank]
Duration of Service
Years: "
Months: about 1
Days: 15
Rank: Sergeat [sic]
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: Capt Cooper

5. In what battles was he engaged: 
Long Island Hill Miter 

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
New Haven Connecticut

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Living witness

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
[illegible] witness not stated as credible

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

DD Addison
Examining Clerk
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Ebenezer Sperry

send to 
H Hubbard
H of R

[illegible] [illegible] Claremont
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

State of New Hampshire
County of Sullivan ss.
On this first day of August personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting Ebenezer Sperry a resident of Claremont in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire aged 76 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

That I enlisted in the army of the United States at new Haven in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut on the first of May 1775 for eight months I think; under Capt Wilmot Lieut Shephard & Ensign Parmelee. we marched to New York City and then joined the Troops under Genl Worcester and Col Ward we remained there untill [sic] September, we then had orders to march for Canada we annexed at St Johns in Canada the last days of September and joined the New York Troops under Genl Montgomery, we lay there in siege of the Fort untill it was surrendered by the British. I was there selected out of the guard under Capt Moat to take charge of the Prisioners, [sic] we returned to Albany while there we had orders to deliver the Prisioners at Reading and Lancaster in Pennsylvania and Little York in Maryland, we decended [sic] North [illegible] in a sloop to [illegible] where we landed, the guard there refused to go any farther orders was then given by Capt Matt for volunteers to continue on with the Prisioners. myself and twelve others volunteered and went with the Prisioners to Lancaster where I remained with them untill the first of March 1776 I went from Lancaster to Philadelphia there I was discharged and returned home at New Haven. The first of April 1776 being absent a few days short of eleven months
That in the month of April 1776 at New Haven I enlisted under Capt Allen to go and fortify Long Island where I remained untill the first of August. I was then discharged and returned home being then absent nearly four months.
That in the month of August 1776 at New Haven the Militia of the whole state was called for I was a Sergeant in Capt Stephen Gudges Company & Col Thompsons Regt we marched to the City of New York. The British landed on Long Island and
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a detachment of troops was called for to reinforce Genl Stearling we there had a hard battle in which I was engaged. we then retreated to the City of New York where we lay untill [sic] the British landed at Turtle Bay. I was there in three engagements, on our retreat out of about 160 only 30 with my self made their escape. we formed again at Harlemhead. the British there attacked our Picket we there had an ingagement [sic] and they retreated I remained there untill the last of October I was then discharged and returned home at New Haven. In October having been absent on duty almost two months

That in December following 1776 I volunteered as a Sergeant under Capt Benjamin Trumbull- Lieut Joel Bradley - in Col Jesse Reats Regt we went to Weschester [sic] and elsewhere a guarding the line in the State of New York untill March 1777 - I was there discharged and returned home at New Haven

That in the month of April 1777 at New Haven a company of Militia was called for under the command of Capt Kimburlee we marched to West Haven where we remained untill August I was then discharged and returned home at New Haven

That in September 1777 at New Haven in enlisted under Capt Allen Casper as a Sergeant we marched to Fishkills and joined the New York Troops under Genl Clinton. we then went to Albany from there to Stillwater we joined the main army under Genl Gates. there I continued in the ingagement untill Burgoin surrendered which was near the Middle of October. I then returned to Fishkills was there discharged and returned home at New Haven in December having served one year and eight and a half months as a private & five months as a sergeant. as near as I can recollect

I have no documentary evidence of any part of the above and I know of no person whos testimony I can procure who can testify to my service except Benjamin Warner who served with me. whos deposition I herewith [illegible]

I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency of any State.

I am acquainted with David Chaffin and William Petter who can testify to my character as to truth and veracity and their belief as to my services as a soldier in the army of the Revolutionary war with good [illegible]
Eber Sperry

sworn to & subscribed the day & year afsd 
Frederick A Sumner J Peace
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I was born in New Haven in the County of New Haven in Connecticut. I have no record of my age. I was a living in New Haven when called in to serve as above stated. In the year 1780 I removed from New Haven to Claremont in NH where I now live.

I enlisted the first time for eight months. The second time I enlisted for three months. The third time I was called out with the Militia. The fourth time I volunteered. The fifth time I was called and in the Militia. The Sixth time I enlisted. as stated in the declaration
[illegible]

I have stated the names of the officers in each time of service as much as I can recollect.
I never received a discharge

We David Chaffin & William Petters residing in Claremont aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Sperry who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be seventy six years of age. that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood to have been a soldier in the war of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
David Chaffin
William Petter
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Frederick Sumner Judge of Probate

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court certifies that it appears to them that David Chaffin and William Petter who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the town of Claremont aforesaid and credible persons and their statement are entitled to credit
Frederick A Sumner Judge of Probate

I Aaron Nettleton Jr Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Sperry for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this first day of August AD 1832
Aaron Nettleton Jr Register of Probate
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Charles Sperry
Answd Jany 23/57
Ebenezer Sperry Rev

N.H 32-6369

Revolution

See Inst Pension
# 15652

Rec'd Jany 14/57
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Lowell January ninth 1857
To the Comr of Pensions
Will you please inform me whether Ebenezer Sperry of New Haven in Conn. who was a Revolutionary Pensioner has had any bounty land assigned him, or his legal representatives, that has not been been [sic] taken possession of by him or his heirs.

He obtained his Pension in 1833 or 4 and his name is on the Pension List and belonged to a Regiment raised in Connecticut
Charles Sperry
Lowell
Mass
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October 2, 1939
BA-J/CC
Ebenezer Sperry
S.15652

Mrs. Albert N. Draper,
631 West Willow Street,
Stockton, California.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Ebenezer Sperry, of New Haven, Connecticut.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S.15652, based upon service of Ebenezer Sperry in the Revolutionary War.

Ebenezer Sperry was born in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. The date of his birth and names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of New Haven, Connecticut Ebenezer Sperry, enlisted May 1, 1775, served at various times until sometime in December 1777, amounting in all to about two years, two months and twenty-five days, under Captains Samuel Wilmot, Mott, Allen, Stephen "Gudger", Benjamin Trumbull, Kimberly, and Allen Cooper, Colonels Ward, Thompson and Jesse Root, in the Connecticut troops. He served as private one year six months and ten days and as sergeant, eight and one half months. He was in an expedition to Canada and was at the battle of St. John, and was appointed by Captain Mott as one of the guards to take charge of the prisoners, was in the battle of Long Island and the retreat from New York, was stationed on Turtle Bay and Harlem Head during which time he was in three engagements, was in the battle of Stillwater and at the Surrender of Burgoyne.

In 1780, Ebenezer Sperry, moved to Claremont, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, where he was living when he was allowed pension on his application executed August 1, 1832, at which time he was aged seventy-six years.
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He died January 4, 1843.

The date and place of marriage of Ebenezer Sperry and name of his wife are not shown.

In 1843, reference was made to children, but their names were not stated.

In 1857, one Charles Sperry was living in Lowell, Massachusetts, no relationship stated.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, and the name and address of person paid, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:

Ebenezer Sperry
Certificate #6369
Issued February 38, 1833
Rate $93.16 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
New Hampshire Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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15652
INVALID
File No. 15652
Ebenezer Sperry
Sergt Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index:- Vol 1, Page 354
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Sept 34:96
Socd purds to Mrs S.I. Hubbard, San Francisco Cal.
L.W.

1910 Mch 22 to Mrs A.H. Hirsig &c form catalogue

1939 Oct 2 Hist to Mrs Albert N Draper (Nellie Sperry Draper) cc
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[letterhead]
Valentine Holt Society
Children of the American Revolution
San Francisco, Cal

S

#1912 Pierce Street
San Francisco, Sept. 11, '96

Hon. D. B. Murphy
Commissioner of Pensions.

Dear Sir:
Kindly fur [sic] for the use of this Society the Revolutionary War record of Ebenezer Sperry probably a Connecticut
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soldier.

He drew a pension and resided in Sullivan Co. New Hampshire in 1840.

Respectfully
(Mrs) S. Isabelle Hubbard
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[stamped]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
F
SEPT 18 1896

[stamped]
OLD WAR & NAVY FILED
SEP 21 1896
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HSH

U.S. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir-
I am trying to get certain required data necessary for proper application to become a member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and hope to get some from your office.

It has been impossible tog et the original Pension Certificate of my great great grandfather, Ebenezar Sperry, of Claremont New Hampshire,
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who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and who drew a pension until his death, and wish to verify my claim, if possible,, by getting proper papers from your office.

Will you kindly give this matter attention, and oblige.
Yours truly,
(Mrs.) Helen Sperry Hirsig

Address
Mrs. A.H. Hirsig
Sheridan, Wyoming
P.O. Box 205
March 2nd 1910

[stamped]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
A
MAR 7 1919

[stamped]
MAR 8 - 1910
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631 West Willow Street,
Stockton, Calif.
August 28, 1939.

Veterans Administration
Washington,
D.C.

Dear Sir: Will you kindly send me the Revolutionary War Pension Record of Ebenezer Sperry, if he has any record. He served in the Northern Department in the Company raised at New Haven, Connecticut, in the first call for troops. Commanded by Captain Samuel Wilmot, 1775. I believe he was a Sergeant.

I thank you kindly for the same.
Yours Respectfully.
Nellie Sperry Draper
(Mrs. Albert N. Draper)
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H Newton
Mar 9 1843
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177

Pension Office
Mar 9 1843

Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 23d ulto relative to the case of Ebenezer Sperry dec'd I have to inform you that the arrears due [illegible] be paid on the production of such vouchers as the enclosed printed sheets direct. In lieu of the original pension certificate, such evidence on the 7th rule of the regulations of November 1833 points out, must be furnished. A pensioner cannot derive his pension
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Mar 22 43
Com
Ebr Sperry
NH [illegible]

[stamped]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
MAR 17

FREE

James L Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington 
D.C.
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Newport N.H. 16 March 1843

Dear Sir,
Your reply under date of 9th current, to my inquiry of the 23 Ult. was duly received. I am informed by this reply that a Pensioner can not devise his pension. 

Will you be kind enough to inform me when & by whom the opinion of B.F. Butler Atty Gen in answer to Hon. Lewis Cass in relation to the will of Robert George, under date of 12th February 1832 has been overruled? this opinion will be found in your report to the secretary of war under date of 18th January 1838. It is more than possible, that I have put the wrong contribution on Mr. Butler's opinion as then expressed. I wish, however, to call your attention to it for the sake of being set right if I am in an error. It is at page 55 of your printed report.

I further find that in the case of Foot & Knowls in the Supreme Judicial Court Massachusetts, Septr Term 1842 in Berkshire County. It was held that a widow, having disposed of her pension by will, "that the pension was payable to her executor, and not to her children; and that
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the executor was entitled to recover the same from the children, to whom it had been paid by order of the officers of the United States, who have charge of the matter of pensions." Law Reporter No XI Vol. 5. for March 1843.

If in the case of Ebenezer Sperry, the War Department, could feel authorized to order the pension to be paid to the executor of Sperry's will, who is also the legatee, it would save great trouble & probably a severe litigation among the children, one of whom has got possession of the pension certificate, & refuses to give it up; or in any way aid in obtaining payment of the pension due.

I save from the public papers that the senate of the U.S. on the last Friday of the session, passed the bill extending for others five years the pensions of the widows of Revolutionary Soldiers, who were entitled to five years pensions under the act of Congress of the 4th July 1838. If that bill has become a law, you will confer on me a great favor, by transmitting to me a copy of it, and also, any regulations of the Department, in relation to the mode of carrying it to effect.
Yours most respectfully &c &c
Hubbard Newton
James L Edwards Esq
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Original Certificate destroyed by fire. See proof on file with the papers of Nathan Carr, NH. roll, act 1832, No 3084
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See a letter in W 18450 of Daniel Williams Kidder N.H. Troops wid. Elizabeth

the letter is from Hubbard Newton Attorney in both of these claims. it says that Ebenezer Sperry died Jan 4, 1843
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Ebenezer Sperry
Claimant
N.H.

Hon H Hubbard
H of Rep's
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Brief objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Ebenezer Sperry which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
Yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resided, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? 
Yes

V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?
No The time not definitely stated

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
Yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
Yes.

XI. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
Yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
No inscription or device
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. + If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
no
Has the official character or signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
Yes

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
Yes

XVI. ++Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not answered?
Yes

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For [blank] year [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]. For [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]; and for such service I claim a pension."
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[drawing of a hand with finger pointing to following paragraph]
It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.

+QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

++QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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Personally appeared before me Uriel Dean one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire Ebenezer Sperry who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades-
For the first period of time I served not less than eleven months as a private.
For the second period of time, I served not less than three months and twenty days as a private.
For the third period of time, I served not less than two months as a sergeant under Capt Stephen Gudger
For the fourth period of time I served not less than three and a half months as a sergeant under Capt Benjamin Trumbull
For the fifth period of time, I served not less than four months and ten days as a private
For the sixth period of time I served not less than three months as a sergeant under Allen Cooper and for such service I claim a pension.
Ebnr Sperry

State of New Hampshire
Sullivan ss
Claremont Feb 18 1833
Sworn to and subscribed before me Uriel Dean Jus. Peace
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I well know Uriel Dean to be a Justice of the Peace as within stated & that the signature is his own hand writing

I also know Ebr Sperry to be a credible man

H Hubbard NH
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State of New York
County of Essex ss
Benjamin Warner of the town of Ticonderoga in the county & State aforesaid being duly sworn say that he is seventy five years of age, that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War & that he knew Ebenezer Sperry in the said War that the said Ebenezer Sperry is now before him & this deponent knows that the said Ebenezer Sperry now before him is the same Ebenezer Sperry that this deponent knew in the said service with whom this deponent served as hereafter stated. that the said Ebenezer Sperry enlisted on or about the 8th of May 1775 his captain was Samuel Wilmot of General Worcesters regiment that he enlisted for the same length of time that this deponent did, 7 months & at the [illegible] place at the town & county of New Haven in the State of Connecticut the place where this deponent & the said Sperry resided that after this deponent & the said Sperry enlisted he the said Sperry joined his regiment & after this time this deponent saw the said Sperry no more till May 1776 each taking different routes at the time they joined the army. but it was a matter of publick [sic] notoriety in the place of the said Sperry went during the term to St Johns in Canada that he was in a battle with some Indians & some prisoners were taken & the said Sperry was sent with the prisoners to Lancaster Pennsylvania
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This deponent further says that the said Ebenezer Sperry was in the service of the United States again in October 1777 at Rhinebeck in the state of New York & were then [illegible] with his company for Saratoga to take Burgoyne & his army . that news came to Rhinebeck at this time & [illegible] that Burgoyne was taken then the said Sperry with his company returned back to Fishkill New York & stayed there till some time in December 1777 the said Sperry & this deponent were non commissioned officers while laying at Fishkill the British were in the River (Hudson) opposite Fishkill it was at this time that the British broke the chain across the river this was done by hoisting full sail & sailing a fleet for under the board of the vessel. During this time [illegible] was burnt. this deponent & the said Sperry saw the smoke. it was burnt by the British. this deponent cannot recollect any officers with the army at this time. the said Sperry at this time of service was a resident of the town & County of New Haven Connecticut
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And this deponent further states that he & the said Ebenezer Sperry were drafted into the service of the United States in the [illegible] was on or about the 6th or 7th day of August 1776 that their officers were General Silliman Colonel Thompson Captain Goodyear Major Leavenworth Ensign Bradley he the said Sperry was at this time a resident of the town & County of New Haven Conn. that the said Sperry was in the battle of Long Island, Gen. Sullivan was sent to be commander but he was taken by the enemy a very few minutes after he arrived was in another battle at the [illegible] of New York City by our army the said Sperry [illegible] from New Haven the place of his residence to New York City & [illegible] over to Long Island & after the battle on the Island above mentioned the said Sperry was in the retreat from the said Island to New York City & from there he went with his regiment to Harlem Heights & there he was dismissed. during this period the said Sperry was [illegible] into the City of New York by the British landing at Turtle Bay & forming one from the Bay to Hudson river. the British commander at this time was Lord How. while retreating to Harlem Heights the men who were with the said Sperry had three skirmishes with the enemy & almost all the party were killed off. the retreat from Long Island was conducted by Gen Washington the No. of men who retreated from the Island were estimated at about 20,000 the said Sperry was out about 4 months at this time. the above this deponent states from his personal knowledge
Benjamin Warner

Affirmed & Subscribed to this 10th day of August 1832 before me
Ambrose Mason a Judge of Essex Common pleas
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I Leonard Stow Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Essex state of New York do hereby certify that foregoing signature purporting to be the signature of Ambrose Mason is his genuine signature & that the said Ambrose mason is a judge of the said Court of Common Please. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this eleventh day of August 1832
Leonard Stow Clerk of the County of Essex & Clerk of the Court of Common Please of said county

I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Benjamin Warner the deponent who has subscribed and sworn to the within affidavit for several years last past and that he was sustained a good moral caracter [sic] and is considered a credible witness
Ambrose Mason Judge

Benjamin Warner
Affidavit