Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13442, Ephraim Hodges, Mass. R.I.
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Mass.  Hodges, Ephraim  S. 13442  
R.I.

  Carded
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		8338
3.385 New York

Ephraim Hodges
of Broom in the State of N. York
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Hitchcock of the Regt. Commanded
by Col. Daggett in the R. Island 
line for 16 months.
		R.I. and Mass. 
		Records completed May 12/06. Ss.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 53 Dollars 33 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of April
1833 and [illegible] A.G. Ransom
			               Green [?]

Arrears to the 4th of Ma ’37		        $106.66
Semi-anl. Allowance ending 4 Sp ’33	    26.66
					                          133.32
			{Revolutionary Claim,}
			{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Geo C Stiles Clerk,
Book 6. Vol. 4. Page 21.
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Pension Application
	of
Ephraim Hodges

	PO
	No. 3385

Admitted
Private 16 months $53.33
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Mr. Henry Ford a clergyman of Lisle in Broom County
and State of New York and James Stoddard Junior
of the same place hereby certify that we are well
acquainted with Ephraim Hodges who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration
that we believe him to be seventy four years of age
that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood
when he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution
and that we concur in that opinion

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Robt. Monell			        Henry Ford
[illegible] Chanceller		James Stoddard Jr
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State of New York
Broom County

On this sixth day of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Hon. Robert Newell, Vice Chancellor of the Sixth Circuit of the State of New York at a Court of Chancery held at the house of Paul Orcutt in the Town of Lisle in the County of Broom and State of New York, now sitting Ephraim Hodges, a resident of the town of Lisle aforesaid, aged seventy four 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 he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. 

In the spring of the year 1775, at Providence, in Rhode Island, I enlisted in Captain Simeon Thayer's company of Infantry for the term of eight months- John Spurr was Lieutenant & William Potter was ensign, in Colonel Hitchcock's Regiments Lieutenant Col. Cornell.  Soon after my enlistment our company marched to Roxbury & Cambridge in Massachusetts and were stationed there during the full term of our enlistment when I was discharged. 

In the fall of the year 1776, there was an alarm that the British were about taking possession of the Island of Rhode Island. I was then dispatched with others in the Company of Captain Isaac Hodges of the Militia to Tivertown on the coast, where I remained in the service one month at the expiration of which time I enlisted for three months at Tivertown aforesaid in Capt. Clapp's Company of Militia in Col. Dagget's Regiment  and served out the three months at the place last above mentioned and was discharged.

In July 1777, at Hardwich Wooster County Massachusetts I volunteered in Capt. Edmund Hodges Company of Militia, in Col. Rice's Regiment under the command of Gent. Jonathan Warner. We marched to Bennington
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from thence to Halfmoon.  We were there then ordered back to Bennington and arrived there soon after the termination of the battle at that place - we remained there on guard for one month when a company of Militia came up from Hardwich to relieve us in which company I enlisted for three months and continued to serve at Be nnington driving a continental [Illegible] till the expiration of said three months when I was discharged. The name of the Captain of the last mentioned company I do not now recollect- The Lieutenant was Dexter [illegible]

He hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

[Signature]  Robt. Monell, Vice Chancellor		[Signature] Ephraim Hodges	


Question 1.  Where and in what year were you born?  
Ans.  I was born in the Town of Norton Bristol County State of Massachusetts, October 18 1758

Question 2.  Have you any record of your age & if so, where is it?  Ans.  I have no record now had one in my Bible which I gave to my son.  the part containing  my record is destroyed. 

Question 3.  Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live?  
Ans.  In Providence State of Rhode Island. I have lived since Somerset in the State of Vermont about twenty years ([inserted] and now live in Lisle)  and in Lisle Broome County State of New York about twenty five years.

Question 4.  How were you called into service:  were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?  And if a substitute, for whom?
Ans:  I always enlisted as a volunteer
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Question 5h  State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served.  Such continental & militia requirements as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.

Ans.    I knew Genl Greene, Col Warner, Capt Allen.  I knew Col Rice, Regiment of Militia to which I belonged, Col Warner Regiment of Regulars.  the general circumstances of my service are the same as set forth in my above declaration

Question 6h  Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service and if so by whom was it given & what has become of it?

Ans.   I never received but one discharge in writing which is partially destroyed but is herewith transmitted, at all other times discharged verbally.

Question 7h  States the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your service as a soldier of the revolution.

Ans.    James Stoddard Junior, Reed Brockway Port Master  Pvt Henry Ford &c Benjamin Hodges -

And the said court does hereby declare his opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the court further certifies that it appears to him that Henry Ford who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Lisle, Broome County & State of New York and that James Stoddard Jr who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town and is a [word crossed out] credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit.
Robt Howell
Vice Chancellor
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I Jonathan L Woods Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the Sixth Circuit of the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contained the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Ephraim Hodges for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of my Office this 6th day of August A. D. 1832.
Jonathan L Woods
Clk
[seal stamped]

Pension Application of Ephraim Hodges

P O
No. 3385

Admitted
Private  16 months $53.33
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To whom it may concern,

I Benjamin Hodges of Providence in the county of Providence in the State of Rhode Island &c on oath do certify and attest

That in the spring of the year 1775, I enlisted in Captain Simeon Thayer's company of Infantry, together with Ephraim Hodges my brother.  John Spurr was the Lieutenant of the company and William Potter ensign.  Colonel Hitchcock was colonel of the regiment and - - Cornell Lieutenant Colonel.  Soon after we enlisted we marched in said company to Roxbury and Cambridge in the State of Massachusetts and remained there during the time of our enlistment, which was Eight months when we were both honorably discharged.  That when we enlisted as above stated, we were both resident in Providence - 

In the year following an alarm being given that the British had taken or were about taking possession of the Island of Rhode Island, said Ephraim and myself were despatched with the militia in our vicinity to the neighborhood of that Island, on the main.  After remaining there about one month said Ephraim and myself both enlisted, in a company sent down to relieve us, for three months; This company was commanded by
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Captain Clapp in Colonel Daggetts regiment I think.  The other officers both of the company and regiment I do not recollect.  Said Ephraim served three months in said company, and was honorably discharged
Benjamin Hodges  his X mark

Providence ss Providence September 5, A D 1831
Subscribed and Sworn to
Before me
W R Staples. Jus. Peace 

Providence ss Providence Dec 8 1832
I William R Staples before whom the foregoing affidavit was made by Benjamin Hodges do hereby certify that said Benjamin is a person of credibility
W R Staples  J Peace
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3385

Ephraim Hodges

rctd
14:16

Admitted

F-6

Aug 10 1832
Oct 30 1832

A. G. Ransom
Green
Chenango Co
NY
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BRIEF in the case of Ephraim Hodges
of                    in the State of
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  before the Vice Chancellor of the Sixth Circuit of the State of N. York

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

3.  How old is he?   Seventy four years

State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.            Duration of Service.   
                     Years,    Months,   Days.
In 1775                           8
    1776                           1
       "                               3
     1777                           1
       "                                3

Rank.    Names of General and field Officers
              under whom he served.
As a                   Gen.
Private       Col. Hitchcock
    "             Capt. Hodges
    "             Col. Daggett
     "             Col. Rice
     "                "    do

5.  In what battles was he engaged?  none named.

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?   Providence R. Island

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?   Traditionary and living testimony

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?  the papers are correct in form and authentication

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

Wm Gordon Examining Clerk.
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Rev War
13.442
INVALID          am

File No. 13. 442
Ephraim Hodges
Priv; Rev War

Act: June 7" 1832
Index:-Vol. ..............., Page ..............

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Hodges, Ephraim
Mass - RI  S 13443
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January the 12th 1776
[text cut off by edge of paper]th Regt. is hereby defending 
Israel Angell Major
of the 14th Regt

47    47

[stamp of the National Archives]
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[handwritten] 
Ephm Hodges
11 Nov. 1777
[/handwritten]
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Washington 11th Novm. 1777 Recd. from Wm Sherman DC [illegible] 19-0-4-235 which I promised to deliver unto Co. Herrick at Follet. having signed two - Rect's of same year & Date. - 
Ephraim Hodges
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back amt of Ephraim Hodges

P  [illegible]
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[The text below has been written on the rear side of another document.]

Ephriam Hodges

Evidence
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY.
Lemuel H Arnold [handwritten]
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.

Be it known that the name Henry Bowen [handwritten]," to the aforewritten attestation subscribed, is the proper hand writing of Henry Bowen [handwritten] Esquire, who, at the time of subscribing the same, was Secretary of the State aforesaid, duly elected and qualified according to law: Wherefore unto his said attestation full faith and credit are to be rendered.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said State to be affixed, at Providence, this fifth [handwritten] day of September [handwritten] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty [crossed out] thirty one [handwritten] and of Independence the fifty sixth [handwritten]
Lemuel H. Arnold

BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND
Henry Bowen
Secry State.
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State of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations

Secretary's office Sep 5th 1831

I certify that at the session of the
General Assembly of said State holdin in 
the first Wednesday of May last,
William R Staples was elected a Justice of 
the Peace for the Town of Providence in the
County of Providence in said State, during
the term of one year; as appears of second
in my office; and that he has been 
commissioned accordingly.
Witness Henry Bowen
Secry State.

I further certify that "W R Staples" to
the forgoing certificate signed in the
proper hand writing of the above mentioned
William R Staples. 
Henry Bowen
Secry State.