Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [ILLEGIBLE], Ebenezer Harwood, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass. | Harwood, Ebenezer | [the right column is cut off]
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CONTENTS
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9905
Vermont. R
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Ebenezer Hardwood, of Windham Co in the state of Vermont, who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Larned, of the Massachtts. Line, for the term of One Year. 1776.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11. of April, 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 27. of April '19, and sent to Phinehas White, Judge Putney, Windham Co. Vermont.
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819. | 86.36
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 | 48
| $134.36
10 mos. 20/30 and 4/31.
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March 1818.}

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Ebenezer Harwood,
Private,
Windham Co: Vermont.
One year -- Colo. 
Larned's regt. Masstts.
line.
11. April, 1818
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Phinehas White, judge,
Putney, 
Windham County, Vt.
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Adm.
one year

Putney, Vt.

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Old lease

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Certificate to the [illegible] to P. White, Putney Vt.

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8 months on his second Enlistment.
Not found on the Rolls for his first Enlistment
Further evidence of the [illegible]
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To Phinehas White Esq. Chief Judge of the County Court within and for the County of Windham and State Vermont---
I Ebenezer Harwood of Brookline in the County and noted [illegible], claiming the benefit of an act of Congress heard on the 10th day of March in the present year of our Lord  1818-- Intitled. "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval serving of the United States, in the Revolutionary War" Do in pursuance to the provisions of the said act, here, whom oath make the following Declaration, trust That I the said Harwood served as a private soldier in the War of the Revolution, on the continental Establishment as follows -- I inlisted in January 1778 for the term of one year in the Regiment under the command of Col. Larned, in the Massachusetts Line in the Company of Capt. Alex Danford (or Danforth) and of which fully served out the said war, at the expiration of which time I staid six weeks longer, at the Special request of Gen. Washington, before discharged when I was honorably discharged -- but received no written discharge for myself --- and in the month of May, 1777 I again inlisted for the term of nine months in the Regiment commanded by Col. Weston of the Massachusetts Line in Capt. John Blanchard's Company and [illegible] faithfully served out said term of nine months and was honorably dischargrd -- but received none in writing. ---
An I further, upon oath, declare that I am old and poor and by reason of my reduced circumstances am in need of the assistance of my Country for support.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand this 11th day of April Anno Domini 1818.
Ebenezer Harwood
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State of Vermont
Windham County
Be it Remembered that on this 11th day of April AD. 1818 Ebenezer Harwood the aforementioned applicant personally appearing made solemn oath to the truth of the preceding Declaration by him subscribed in due form of law before me
Phinehas White Chief Judge of Windham County Court.

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And I do hereby certify, that is appears to my satisfaction that the said Ebenezer Harwood did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceeding Declaration against the common Enemy for more than nine months, on the Continental Establishment.
And I do now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my official signature and have cause the seal of Windham County Court to be affixed.
Phinehas White Chief Judge of Windham County Court

Windham County ss .Jany. 14th 1819
I hereby certify that [illegible] Eben. Harwood to be a very poor man, and satisfied that he is in Indigent circumstances.
Attst. P. White Chf Judge of Windham Co. Crt

To the Hon the Secretary of the Department of War
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I Benjamin Hobbs of Sturbridge in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age testify & say that I was a soldier in the revolutionary War in year seventeen hundred & seventy six and was well acquainted with Ebenezer Harwood, now of Brookline in the County of Windham & State of Vermont, who was then a soldier in the regiment, under Col. Ebenezer Larnard, in the Company under Capt. Asa Danford, of the Massachusetts Line, & was knowing that the said Harwood, served one year on the continental establishment, & that he was honorably discharged at Chathom in the State of New Jersey at the close of said service. And further this deponent saith not 
Benjamin Hobbs

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts holden within and for said County of Worcester, certify, that Jared Lamb Esquire before whom the annexed Affidavit has been made, is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that his name subscribed thereto is his own proper signature.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, this ninth day of January A. D. 1819.
Abijah Bigelow, Crk.
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Application of Ebenezer Harwood
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[This document is the same as document 7 without the attachment]

I Benjamin Hobbs of Sturbridge in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age testify & say that I was a soldier in the revolutionary War in year seventeen hundred & seventy six and was well acquainted with Ebenezer Harwood, now of Brookline in the County of Windham & State of Vermont, who was then a soldier in the regiment, under Col. Ebenezer Larnard, in the Company under Capt. Asa Danford, of the Massachusetts Line, & was knowing that the said Harwood, served one year on the continental establishment, & that he was honorably discharged at Chathom in the State of New Jersey at the close of said service. And further this deponent saith not 
Benjamin Hobbs

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Worcester ss.
On this eighth day of January AD. eighteen hundred & nineteen, personally appeared the above named Benjamin Hobbs and after being carefully examined & duly cautioned, made solemn oath to the truth of this above deposition by him subscribed.
Before me Jared Lamb Just Peace Worcester ss. I hereby [illegible] that the above named Benjamin Hobbs is a [illegible] & credible witness.
Attest. Jared Lamb.
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Ruben Webber of Stafford in the county of Tollam and State of Connecticut of lawful age deposeth and say that Ebenezer Harwood of Brookline in the county of Windham and State of Vermont was a common solider in the United States army in the Massachusetts line of troops that he belong to Coln. Larnard and Lieut Wm. [illegible] regiment and Capt Asa B Danford Company and of which rigiment I was a common solider that he said Ebenezer Harwood was out and served one year at one at time in said army during the year A. D. 1776
Ruben Webber

South Brimfield Jany 6th 1819

Hampden ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts South Brimfield January 6th 1819 then personally appeared Ruben Webber subscriber to the above deposition and made oath to the true of the same before me James L. Water Justice of the Peace

Hampden ss. I hereby certify that Ruben Webber the above deponent is a [illegible] credible person.
James L. Water Justice of Peace
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The affidavit of Col. Timothy H. Whitney of Athens in the County of Windham and State of Vermont who, testifies and says he has been, for many years, acquainted with Ebenezer Harwood & he has always sustained the Character of a Man of undoubted truth and veracity.
Timothy H. Whitney

Windham County ss.
April 11 1818.
The foregoing affidavit was subscribed and sworn to in due form of Law.
Benjamin Phine. White
Chief Judge of W. C. Ct
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No. 109.
Ebenezer Harwood
Application for Pension.
Windham County, Vert.
1 Copy.

9905
Brookline
Con
[illegible] 19
Sep 19
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STATE OF VERMONT.
COUNTY of WINDHAM ss.
At the County Court, begun and held at New Faue, within and for the County of Windham, on the second Monday of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty .....
PRESENT Hon. PHINEHAS WHITE, Esq. Chief Judge
Hon. JOHN ROBERS, Hon GILBERT DENISON Esqs. Assistant Judges.

ON this twentieth day of June, A. D. 1820, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the said county, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a civil jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having, in certain cases, the power of fine and imprisonment, Eben. Harwood, aged 67 years, resident in Brookline in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on this oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: in Capt Asa Danfords Company Col. Ebenr. Learned Regt in the Massachusetts line for one year and six weeks, mostly in the year 1776 reference made to my original declaration.

That he has received a pension under the act of the Congress of the United States of the 18th March 1818, that the number of his pension certificate is 9905, and the date of his original declaration is the eleventh day of April 1818.

AND  I 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 to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, "An act to provide for detain 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, or 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.

SCHEDULE of real and personal estate, necessary clothing and bedding excepted.

To wit, one [illegible] 1 Chest of Drawers - 1 Wheel - 1 Pot - 1 Kettle - 1 spider - a few spoons, plates, knives, forks. Pails & [illegible] not worth in the whole more than ten dollars
Ebenezer Harwood

AND I do also swear that my occupation is that of a Farmer, and have a wife aged 67 years in my family & can work some, but little.
Ebenezer Harwood

SWORN to and DECLARED in open court on the twentieth day of June, A. D. 1820, Before Phinehas White JUDGE.

I, James Elliot, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windham, in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the files and records of the said Court: And I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Twenty five dollars [crossed-out and -- cents.]
IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, [crossed out - in open Court,] on this twenty first day of July 1820.
James Elliot,
CLERK OF THE COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF WINDHAM
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July 25, 1930.

Mrs. F. H. Walters
389 W. Huron Street
Pontiac, Michigan

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 39648, that Ebenezer Harwood enlisted in January, 1776, and served one year and six weeks as a private in Captain Asa Danforth's Company in Colonel Ebenezer Learned's Massachusetts Regiment.

He enlisted in May 1777, and served nine months in Captain John Blanchard's Company, Colonel Wesson's Massachusetts Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 18, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Brookline, Windham County, Vermont.

In 1820, he was sixty-seven years and referred to his wife as aged sixty-seven years. Her name is not given and there are no further family data.

This is the history of the only soldier named Ebenezer Harwood found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

Very truly yours,

W. W. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner.
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
EEL

November 23, 1929

Mrs. W. P. Derck
Marysville
Missouri

Dear Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S.39648, it appears that Ebenezer Harwood enlisted in January 1776, and served one year and six weeks as a private in Captain Asa Danforth's Company in Colonel Ebenezer Learned's Massachusetts Regiment.

He enlisted in May, 1777, and served nine months in Captain John Blanchard's Comapany in Colonel Wesson's Massachusetts Regiment.
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He was allowed pension on his application executed March 18, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Brookline, Windham County, Vermont.

In 1820, he was aged sixty-seven years and referred to his wife, as aged sixty-seven years. Her name is not given and there are no further family data.

Very truly yours,

EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.

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Date of death not on AB
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39 648
Revy INVALID.
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File No. 39,648
Ebenezer Harwood
Pri Rev War
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Act : 18th March 18
Index : -- Vol. 3, Page 211
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1929 Nov 23 -- Hist to Mrs. H. P. Derk.L
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Pontiac Michigan
June 12/30.

Pension Bureau
Washington DC.
 
Will you please write me if you have any record of a pensioner by the name of Ebenezer [pencil word illegible] Harwood born in Mass in 1745 -- died 1824 married 1769 to Margaret Wilson of Killingly Con at Uxbridge Mass.

Will you give me his military record.

His father was John Harwood a patriot of Uxbridge born in Concord in 1703. I think Ebenezer must have been born in Uxbridge.

Thanking you kindly
Mrs. F. H. Walters
389 W. Huron St.
Pontiac
Michigan

[Stamp] PENSION B JUN 16 1930 US OFFICE
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IN REPLY REFER TO 
Rev. and 1812
Wars Section AWF

IN REPLY REFER TO 
Rev. and 1812
Wars Section AWF

3-2562
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UNITED STATES
Department of the INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington

November 13, 1929

Mrs. W. P. Derck
Marysville
Michigan

Dear Madam:

I advise you that the data furnished by you are not sufficient to enable this bureau to make intelligent reply to the queries contained in your letter.

Please fill out such of the blank spaces below, as the information in your possession will permit, and return to this bureau.

First name of widow: Margaret Wilson (Died 9/9/07)
Full name of soldier: EBENEZER HARWOOD only
Residence of soldier at enlistment: Michigan
Residence of soldier after service: "
Name of state from which he enlisted: "
Approximate date of birth: Feb 8. 1745
Approximate date of death: 1824

Kindly return attached letter with your reply.

Respectfully, Earl D. Church
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.

PS. Ebenezer Harwood's father was born in Concord but do not know what state, so I may be wrong about Michigan being State of Enlistment of son. I [illegible] same [illegible] the Harwoods came from Eastern states

[Stamp] PENSION [illegible] NOV 20 1929 U. S. OFFICE
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[Stamp] PENSION X SEP 25 1929 U. S. OFFICE

9/22/29

Pension Office
Washington D.C. 
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Will you kindly give me the Transcript of service of Ebenezer Harwood Born Feb 8. 1745. 
A prompt reply will be appreciated.

Stamped envelope enclosed.

Most Sincerely
[illegible] Derck

Mrs. M. P. Derck
Marysville. Michigan
St. Clair Co.

[Stamp] PENSION U NOV 20 1929 U.S. OFFICE