Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36381, Ezra Weed, New York
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Service: New York
Weed, Ezra
Number: S.36381
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(2, 492)

Connecticut Roll

Ezra Weed
Capt Hicks

private 4
New-York line
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on 
the 1st of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of Sept: 1818 
and forwarded to Simeon H Minor Esq. Stamford Connect.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818              $ 41.06
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar. 1819     48
Arrs 5 mos. 4 ds.                                 $89:06
d. Dec. 30.1828
.76 War
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
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[illegible]
Ezra Weed pr.
1st April 1818

put to Simeon H Minor
Stamford. Ct.

Correct
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Fairfield County

District and State of Connecticut, ss.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That in the County Court, held in and for the County of Fairfield, in the District and State aforesaid, on this 27th day of July 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, under the Authority of said State, personally came and appeared in open Court Ezra Weed aged Sixty Six years, resident of the Town of Stamford in the County of Fairfield, in said State, and being first duly sworn according to Law, doth declare on his oath, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows viz in the fall of the year 1776 he enlisted into Capt Benjamin Hicks company of the 1st New York Regiment Command by Col. Van Schayck for during the war, that he served in the same until 1779 when he was taken Prisoner at Fort Stanwix by the Indians, remained with them in imprisonment until November 1782 when he returned, joined his Regt, served until the close of the war, when he was honourably discharged

that the original Declaration made by him for the purpose of obtaining a Pension, under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, was dated the 1st day of April 1818 that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the List of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. 2 . 4.92 And I do further solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 16th 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 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 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 hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do futher declare that my occupation is that of a Labourer but from ill health have been unable to earn one half the comforts of life for many years, and that I have no family residing with me but a wife aged Sixty four years

All which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid. 

Ezra Weed

Sworn to and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule is twenty one Dollars and 55 cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the records of said Court.

Attest David Burr Clerk
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At a County Court, held in and for the County of Fairfield, in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 27th day of July 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, by virtue of the Laws of said State.

PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, Ezra Weed a resident in the town of Stamford in the County of Fairfield, in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made Oath that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his income and property, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz. one cow - 1 Poridge pot
1 tea 1 kettle - 1 Spider - 1 Table - 4 Chairs - 1 Trammel - Shovel and tongs - 1 pr show dogs - 1 Small Looking Glass - 1 axe - 1 old Shaving Knife
1 old Hand Saw - 1 pr [illegible] Irons - 1 pail - 1 milk Pail - 1 milk Tray 1 milk Bowl 3 cups and Saucers milk cups and Sugar dish - 4 plates - 3 Knives and forks
1 [illegible] - 1 cream pot - 1 Butter pot - 1 Chest -
1 Cupboard & 1 Skillet - 1 Jug

Ezra Weed

I do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath and Schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied fromwithe Records of said Court, and that it is the Opinion of said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is twenty one Dollars and fifty five cents - Witness my hand and the Seal of the Court hereon annexed at Fairfield this 27th day of July 1820 - 
David Burr Clerk of the County Court Hous. Fairfield County

[writing is upside down] State of Connecticut p. Fairfield County July 27 1820 - I do certify that David Burr [illegible] is Clerk of the County Court for said County and that [illegible] as such are entitled to full faith & credit.

Robert Fairchild
Chief Judge of said Court

Ezra Weed 30
1492
Month July
Con
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District of Connecticut Stamford April 1st 1818
I Sam. W. Johnson Esqr. Judge of the [inserted: Court of] Common Pleas for Fairfield County in Said District do certify - that the Testimony & proceedings had before me, on application of Ezra Weld for a Pension, under an act of Congress approved the 18th day of
March AD 1818, appear at large on this & the following pages of this Sheet

Hon W Johnson

District of Connecticut ss Stamford
On this 1st day of April AD 1818 Ezra Weed from Stamford in said District, under oath, doth declare before Sam W. Johnson Esqr. Judge of the [inserted: Court of] Common Pleas for Fairfield County [inserted: in] Said District
That in the Month of Novr in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred & Seventy six he enlisted into the Service of the United States , during the war in
Company commanded by Capt. Benjm. Hicks in a Regt. Commanded by Col. [crossed out: George] [inserted: Goose] Vanschayck, in the York line on the Continental establishment –that he continued in said Service untill the month
of July AD 1779 when he with Sundry others, at Fort Stanwix, in the State of New York, were Taken Prisoners by the Indians & carried into Canada where he remained a prisoner untill the year
AD 1782 when he returned & Joined his Regt.
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That he remained in said service employed against the Common Enemy until the Month of May or June in the year AD 1783 when he was honorably discharged – that from time & accident his said discharge is mislaid & lost. That he is in his sixty fourth year, is incapable of [inserted: much] labor & that from his  reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his country for support.

Ezra Weed

District of Connecticut ss in Stamford the 1st day of April AD 1818
Personally came the above named Ezra Weed & having been by me duly sworn made oath that the foregoing Declaration by him Subscribed is true before me
Same W Johnson Judge of the County
Court for Fairfield County

District of Connecticut ss Stamford the 1st day of April AD 1818
Personally appeared Abishai Weed & Stephan Bishop of said Stamford

before me Samuel W. Johnson Esqre Judge of the [inserted: Court of] Common Pleas for Fairfield County in sd District who being duly worn before and say that they are well acquainted with Ezra Weed Signer in the foregoing Declaration & that he now is & for many years now lost part has been a resident Citizen of the United States, in the District of Connecticut & that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country for Support
Stephan Bishop
Abishai Weed
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District of Connecticut ss. Stanford in the County of Fairfield I Sam W Johnson Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield do certify that it
appears to my satisfaction that Ezra Weed the above named applicant served in the revolutionary War against the [inserted: as stated in his foregoing Declaration] against the common enemey. In testimony whereof I have subscribed the same and
affixed the Seal of said Court this 7th day of April 
11 
1818.
Sam W Johnson

State of Connecticut ss Stamford August 11th 1818
I James Stevens Esq Judge of the Court of Probate for Stamford District, do certify that from many years personal acquaintance with Ezra Weed Signer
of the foregoing Declaration he has no property & from his reduced circumstances in life needs the assistance
of his Country for Support In testimony whereof I have Subscribed the same & affixed the seal of said Court this
11th day of Augt 1818
James Stevens
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cv.&1812 Wars Section.
MMHF

June 25, 1929.

George Ezra Weed, Sr.,
R. R. 1,
Lanham, Maryland.

Sir:

I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 36381, it appears that Ezra Weed enlisted in November 1776, place not stated, served as private in Captain Benjamin Hicks' Company, Colonel Goose Van Schaick's New York Regiment, in July 1779, was taken prisoner by the Indians at Fort Stanwix, New York, carried to Canada, where he remained with them in imprisonment until November 1782, when he returned, joined his regiment, remained in service until May or June 1783 and was honorably discharged.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 1, 1818 while a resident of Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.

In 1820 he was aged sixty-six years and stated he had no family residing with him but his wife aged sixty-four years. He did not state her name. He died December 30, 1828. No reference is made to his parents.
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In 1818 one Abishai Weed was a resident of Stamford, Connecticut, but no relationship to soldier stated.
Respectfully,
EARL D. CHURCH,
Commissioner.
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36381
INVALID.
Revy

File No. 36, 381
Ezra Weed
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 18th
Index: –Vol. 2, Page 444

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Mch. 12/96 Soldier Pensioned
Mrs. H. I. Bright
[illegible], [illegible]
1919 Apr. 9 Hist. to Florence V. Monson
1919 Dec 29 Hist. to Joel N. Eno
1929. June 28. Hist. to Geo Ezra Weed, Sr.
PMNT
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3ct stamp enclosed EB

April 2, 1919.
Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen: -

I would like to obtain, if possible, a copy of the pension record of Ezra Weed born 1754; died 1831; enlisted 1776 under Capt. Benjamin Hicks and Col. Goes Van Schaick.

Placed on pension rolls 1820 for 6 yrs! actual service as private in N. Y. Line. He was born in Stamford, Conn. and died there.

Also have you any record of Edward Foster, Sr. born 1748, married Rachel Newell; private in Conn.
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2. 

line. Also Edward Foster, Jr. who married Rebecca Strong, and seemed probably from Conn. or N. Y. Edward Foster, Sr. died in Broome N. Y. aged 90. I believe Edward, Jr. also died in N.Y. State.

I would appreciate any information you may be able to give me relative to this. 

Thanking you in advance,
I remain, 
Respectfully,

Florence V. Monson,
401 Palisade Ave,
West Hoboken,
N. J.
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Rev Dec ED

815 Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.,
Dec. 12, 1919.

Commissioner of Pensions: -
Ezra Weed of Stamford, Conn. was a pensioner under the Act of March, 1818, for service in 1st Regt. N.Y. Line, Goose Van Schaick, colonel; sergt. in 4th company, enlisting Oct. 24, 1776, War prisoner, Canada, July 23, 1779; rejoined and mustered to the end of the war, according to Military Register Saratoga county, N. Y. & Assembly Papers. Roberts, N. Y. in the Revolution p. 39, records him also as having served in the 2d Regt. N.Y. Line under Philip Van Cortland, colonel. He is also in Mass. Soldiers & Sailors, Capt. Benj. Hicks' company, Muster Rolls, Jan.-April, 1781, dated West Point, N.Y. Term, during war. With all this record, I wish to identify him, if your records give means to do it, by date of his death, or members of hisfamily, if named in pension application. His wife, Lidia A. Weed, outlived him, and he had a son Kilburn Weed settled in Vt. Franklin County; there was a Hezekiah Weed, representative of Franklin, in Franklin county, Vt. in 1911; a relative of Ezra, whose widow mar. 2d, Geo. Day, said to be a Revolutionary solider, tho' I haven't found Revol. record.

I should be very thankful for information to identify Ezra as father of Kilburn Weed or husband of Lidia. 

With thanks for past favors, 

Joel N  Ezro.
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May 16, 1929.

Hon. Commissioner of Pensions,
Pension Office
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Will you kindly furnish me the date of birth, names of parents, and period of enlistment of EZRA WEED, who served in Captain Benjamin Hick's Company under Colonel Goose Van Schaick in New York State Revolutionary Forces, and who was placed on the pension roll in 1820? If the nationality of Ezra Weed's parents is shown in his application for pension I shall be glad to have that information.

Very truly yours, 

George Ezra Weed, Sr.
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RDS SECTION.
3–525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
S[illegible],381
Washington, D. C., _, 19_

In reply to your request of _, received_ for a statement of the military history of Ezra Weed
soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension file in this Bureau.
[Table]
[Column headers]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT., LENGTH OF SERVICE., RANK., OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED., CAPTAIN., COLONEL., STATE.
[Row 1] Nov. 1776, July 1779 [arrow pointing down to following text written across remaining columns and rows] was taken prisoner at Fort Stanwix  N.Y by the Inds. carried into Canada where he was kept until [inserted: Nov] 1782 when he returned & joined his Regiment & remained in service until May or June 1783, Benjamin Hicks, Goose Van Shaick, N.Y.


Battles engaged in, See above
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated.
Date of application for pension, Apr. 1 1818. His [illegible] was ab
Residence at date of , Stamford, Conn. (Fairfield [illegible])
Age at date of application, in his 64th year. Died Dec 30. 1828 (from A.B.)
Remarks: In 1820 he referred to his wife aged 64 years but her name is not stated, and there is no other data on file as to his family.

Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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