Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4679, Ebenezer Gee, Mass.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE              NUMBER
Mass.                   W. 4679                
Gee, Ebenezer     
Olive Branch
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15963
Massachusetts
Ebenezer Gee
of Hampshire in the State of Massa'tts. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Pomeroy of the Regt commanded by Col. Fellows in the Mass line for 15 months & 12 days

Inscribed in the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 51 dollars 67 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued th 10th day of May 1833 and sent to Asahel Birge, Southampton, Mas. Arrears to the 4th of March, 1835 $103.34. Semi-anl  allowance ending 14 Oct " 25.83
                         $129.17
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7 1832
Recorded by D.D. Addison, Clerk, Book E Vol 2 Page 29
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6921
Pittsburgh Agency
Ohio
Olive B Gee            2 Certs:
                             Act of1838
                              & Act of 8th March 18444
                             Reply
widow of Ebenezer Gee
Mass
who was a Private
in the Mass Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 51 Dollars 64 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of May 184 and sent to 
Lewis Elliot Esq 
Hampden 
Geauga Co
Ohio

Act of March 3, 1843 crossed out and replaced June 19 1844
Recorded in book A
Vol 2 Page 204
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N. 12845
Ebenezer Gee
Private 15 Mo & 15 days
P 402
5.14 - 16 o
May 17 1833


Asahel Birge
Southampton
Mass
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BRIEF in the case of Ebenezer Gee
of Hampshire County in the State of Massachusetts
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? A Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 79. years.
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.          Duration of Service
                 Years,    Months,     Days    ____________________________________
1775.        about 8-1/2   months
do.
1776.      6 or 7 months

Rank.         Names of General and Field Officers
                           under whom he served
____________________________________________         
private      Capt Lee Pomeroy Col Fellows
do.           Capt Scott, Col. Arnold
do.          " Jos Lyman, Col R. Woodbridge     


5. In what battles was he engaged?

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Southampton Massachusetts

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Traditionary evidence & living witnesses -
First Tour proven by Lem'l Bates & Sam'l Edwards.
Second proven by Elijah Bartlett

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No.

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
B.F. Pleasants   Examining Clerk
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THE NEW
TESTAMENT
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OF OUR
LORD AND SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST.
TRANSLATED OUT OF THE
ORIGINAL GREEK:
AND WITH THE
FORMER TRANSLATIONS
DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED,
By His MAJESTY'S Special Command.
Appointed to be Read in CHURCHES.

EDINBURGH:
Printed by MARK and CHARLES KERR, His MAJESTY'S Printers.
MDCCXCV.
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Ebenezer Gee Born January 25th  1753

Olive Branch King  Born June 19th 1764 
Ebenezer Gee Married Olive Branch King May  30 1782
Chester Hewes Gee born November 29 1783 and died September 1st 1785
Chester Hewes Gee Born August 22 1785
William Gee Born July 29 1787
Olive Gee Born October 18 1789
Thankful Gee Born March 26 1801
Clarinda Gee Born February 11 1803
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State of Massachusetts
Hampshire County ss
On this twenty fifth day of September A.D. 1838- personally appeared before this Judge Ithawan Cowen, Judge of the Court of Probate of Wills in & for County.
Olive B. Gee, a resident of Westhampton in the County of Hampshire aforesaid aged seventy four years, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit
of the provision made by act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay & pensions for certain widows:" That she is the widow of Ebenezer Gee who was a private in the Army of the Revolution & 
who was a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress passed in 1832 as will appear by the certificate No. 15.963 returned to the Pension office on the 4th of Sept 1838 to enable her to receive the pension due to her husband Ebenr Gee who died on
the 28th day of July last past, of Westhampton aforesaid
She further declares that she was married by
the Rev. Jona'thn Judd to said Ebenezer Gee on the thirtieth day of May (1782) Seventeen hundred -- eighty two, that her husband the aforesaid Ebenezer Gee 
Gee died on the twenty eighth day of July last past, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took
place previous to the first of January
seventeen hundred ninety four viz at the time above stated; that she remains unmarried the widow of Ebenezer Gee who is alleged to have been a pensioner of the United States as above stated and she has no documentary evidence of the service of said Ebenezer
her husband except the certificate above mentioned as returned to the Pension Office.
Sworn & Subscribed the day & year first above
written before me.  Olive B. Gee
Sherman Conkey, Judge of Probate
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I, Samuel F. Lyman Register
of the Court of Probate do hereby
certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of said
Court in the matter of the application
of Olive B. Gee for a pension- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office this twenty fifth day of September A.D. 1838
Sam'l F. Lyman Register
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DECLARATION,
IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF THE 7TH OF JUNE, 1832
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS,]
COUNTY OF HAMPSHIRE.]  ss.
On this Eighth day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court  before the Hon. Samuel Hinckley, Judge of the Court of Probate Mass. Sections
Ebenezer Gee
A resident of Westhampton in the County of Hampshire, and State of Massachusetts, aged seventy nine 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he  entered the service of the United States in the under the following named officers: and 
as herein stated. In the month voluntarily joined a company, called minute men under the command of Lemuel Pomery as captain, at Southampton, at which place the the said declarant then lived, and after spending
much time in the practice of Military exercises, upon receiving news of the battle of Lexington immediately marched with said company believes it was on the twenty second day of
May 1775 to Cambridge soon after the company arrived at Cambridge the said Lemuel Pomeroy returned home and
Abner Pomeroy of said Southampton, took command of said company as Captain-- the Lieutenant were Jonathan Wales
of Westhampton and Daniel Kirkland of Norwich-The field officers were Colonel Fellows of the County of Berkshire and
Lieut. Col. Edger of Worthington and Major Tupper of Chesterfield.
After a short stay at Cambridge the regiment then marched  to Roxbury where it was encamped for some weeks. From
that place I witnessed the battle of Bunker Hill and the burning of Charlestown on  the 17th of June - The Regiment afterwards
removed to Dorchester- and the company to which the declarant belonged was detached as a guard to a place called Preston's Point, in Dorchester-- about the first of September. He engaged, as a volunteer, to go with Colonel Arnold in the expedition against Quebec, and was attached to a company commanded by one Captain Scott of Londonderry, New Hampshire about the twelfth of September the detachment marched from Cambridge to Newburyport- thence by water to Kennebunk River and up said River to Fort Western-- From thence in Batteaux up said River-- and into Dead River a branch of the Kennebeck where the party arrived the latter part of October - from dead River the said declarant with Colonel Enos, to whose division he belonged, and after many privations and much suffering got back and joined his old company at Prestons Point, on or about the latter part of December and remained with  said company untill it was regularly discharged about the tenth of January 1776 having served, according to his recollection, from the time the company marched from
(long illegible)  months-
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recollection from the time the company marched [illegible] Southampton, the term of Eight and a half months  --
Said declarant again entered the service in the month of May 1776 as a volunteer and
private soldier in a company of Militia of which
Joseph Lyman of Northampton was Captain, Elisha Bascom of Southampton and Benjamin Read of Chesterfield Lieutenants in said Bascom died at Ticoderoga dining the term of service - Ruggles Woodbridge of South Hadley was Colonel of the Regiment
The other field officers are not remembered-- hence marched to Skeensborough, thence by water to Ticonderoga where the Regiment
remained until discharged in December
having served six or seven months - he enlisted for six months but thinks he remained in service one month after said term had expired
The said declarent was born at Little Cambridge, now Brighton, near Boston in the year 1753  Knows of no record of his age unless it be in the records of the town where he was born, which he has never seen- lived in
Southampton when called into service-
In the year 1778 removed to Westhampton when he has since lived-
Never received a written discharge from the service. He would state the name of Rev'd Enoch Hale of Westhampton and Asahel Birge Esq. of Southampton to testify as he was executor for accuracy and their belief of his serving as a soldier in the Revolution

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State,
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Ebenezer Gee
Before me Samuel Hinckley, Judge of Probate 
We,  Enoch Hale residing in the town of Westhampton and Asahel Birge  residing in Southampton hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Gee who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
    Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Before me Samuel Hinckley, Judge of Probate
Enoch Hale & Asahel Birge
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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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Enoch Hale, who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in Westhampton and that Asahel Birge who has also signed the same, is a resident in Southampton and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Samuel Hinckley Judge of Probate

I, Sam F Lyman 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 Gee for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this eighth
day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two-

Sam'l F. Lyman
Register
Sam
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section

December 3, 1924

Mrs. John Wright
Saint Peter, Minn.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 4679 it appears that Ebenezer Gee was born January 25, 1753 in Little Cambridge (later called Brighton ), Massachusetts.
While living in Southampton, Massachusetts in
January 1775 he joined Captain Lemuel Pomeroy's Company of minute men, and on May 22, 1775 marched to Cambridge where Captain Abner Pomeroy took command of the
the company in Colonel John Fellows' Massachusetts Regiment; he served to September 1, 1775 when he volunteered
in Captain Scott's Company, Colonel Arnold's
Expedition to Canada, but returned from Dead River in Colonel Enos' detachment, and was discharged in January 1776 from Captain Abner Pomeroy's Company.
He enlisted in May 1776 and served seven months as a private in Captain Joseph Lyman's Company, Colonel Ruggles Woodbridge's Massachusetts Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
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August 8, 1832 while a resident of Westhampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts where he died July 28, 1838.
     Soldier married May 30, 1782 in Southampton, Massachusetts, Olive Branch King born June 19, 1764. She was allowed pension on her application executed
September 25, 1838 while living in Westhampton, Massachusetts. . In 1845 she was residing in Thompson Township, Geauga County, Ohio with her son Chester H. Gee.
     Their children were:
Chester Hewes born November  29, 1783, died
                                            September 1, 1785
Chester Hewes   "     August         22, 1785
William               "     July              29,  1787
Olive                   "     October       18,  1789
Thankful             "     March           25,  1801
Clarinda              "     February       11,   1803        

You were furnished on February 28, 1921 the history of John Gee, S. 43589, of Tioga County, New York and owing to the lack of a clerical force available for such a purpose, a history of the same soldier is furnished
only once to each person.
Respectfully,

Commissioner.
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 4679
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Olive B. Gee
Wid.
Ebenezer Gee
Pvt. Mass. Line
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Act: Mch. 3rd '43,  June 17th '44
Index: --Vol. A, Page 268 ┃
Arrangement of 1870.}

1914 June 2: history to Charles 
E. Banks
1934-Dec. 3- Hist. to Mrs. John Wright
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9334
No. 281 under J. Rev-
23 Jan. 1845
Ohio
Olive B. Gee
widow of Ebenezer Gee
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 28 July 1838
of Geauga in the State of Ohio who was a Pri in the Com commanded by Captain
Pomeroy of the Reg't commanded by Fellows
in the Mass'tts line for 15 mos 15 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh
at the rate of 51 Dollars 67 Cents per annum, to commence of the 4th March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd day of
May 1845 and sent to Lewis Elliot, Hampden, Geauga Co. Ohio
Total amount
        [ Act of July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by F. L. Swann Clerk,
Book  (illegible) Vol. 1  Page 389
No 281 under Rev
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Olive B. Gee
widow of Ebenezer
Mass
Nov
Act 1838____rejected
Let to L L Hinkley
18 Apr 1839___
let 1 Nov '42 to claimant
Set to J. Hathaway Sep 5 '43
Set to Lewis Elliot___March 13 '43

Act 7 July 1838
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.

I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that the Asahel  Birge Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the date
thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly
appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be
genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this
fourth day of June A. D. 1833
Sam'l F Lyman  Register of Probate
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss
I, SAMUEL F LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that Asahel Birge
Esquire, before whom the annexed depositions (2) were taken, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this
fourth day of June A.D. 1833

Sam'l  F. Lyman Register of Probate
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Hampshire SS.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that Samuel L. Hinckley Esquire, before whom the annexed depositions (2)  were taken, was, at the date
thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly
appointed, and that the signatures thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be
genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court, this twenty fifth day of September
A. D. 1838
Sam'l F Lyman Register of Probate
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1985
Olive B. Gee
Act  July 7th 38
Mass'tts

add
15 m. 15 ds
Priv
$51.67 per an.

also
Act Mar. 3rd '43

Lewis Elliot
Hampden
Geauga Co
Ohio
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10.520.
Olive B. Gee
Widow of
Ebenezer Gee
Ohio__ Pittsburgh Agency
Adm 15 Months 15
days private $57.67
Acts 38___'43__V '44
No. 7829 __ 593



Lewis Elliott Esq
Hambden
Geauga County
Ohio
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THE STATE OF OHIO} 
GEAUGA COUNTY, SS}.
I Reuben St John, Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Geauga in the  State of Ohio, do by these presents certify and make known, that
Neri Wright Esquire, before whom
the annexed and foregoing application & depositions was taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper hand writing, subscribed his name, was at the time of taking  the same
and now is an Associate Judge for said State & County in and for said county, duly
commissioned and sworn agreeably to the laws of the State of Ohio, and to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is and ought to be given throughout the United States, and elsewhere
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Chardon, in said county, this 27th day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty four
Reuben St. John, Clerk
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1985
Olive B. Gee
widow of Ebenezer
Mass
Act 7 July 1838
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I Sylvester Judd of Northampton in the
County of Hampshire I lawful age testify
and say that I am the grandson of
Hon Rev'd Jona'n Judd, who was minister of the Congregational Church in Southampton said County from the year 1743 to the year 1803 and that I have in my possession this diary of my grandfather aforesaid in which is recorded the marriage of  'Ebenezer Gee & Olive B. King May (30 1782) thirtieth day A.D. Seventeen Hundred & eighty two". And I further testify that the foregoing extract is a true copy except in form and except that the date in said record is expressed only in figures as follows
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State of Massachusetts
Hampshire County ss
Sept 4 1838
Sylvester Judd known personally appeared Sylvester Judd above named, made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him expressed; and submitted to my examination The diary above referenced to, and which bear the appearance of antiquity & correctness.
Samuel L Hinckley   Justice of the Peace


and made oath to the truth of the forgoing affidavit by
and submitted to my examination the
which bears the appearage of antiquity & correctnes
Sam
L. Hincklin Justice of Peace
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I Elijah Bartlett of Northampton in the
County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of
Massachusetts being seventy four years of age,
do testify and say that in the year of our Lord 1776  Ebenezer Gee of Northampton in said County, then living in Southampton, entered the service of the United States and served with me a private soldier in a company of Militia commanded by Captain Joseph Lyman
Elisha Bascom and Detailed Lieutenant
Ruggles Woodbridge Colonel Leonard of West
Springfield Said Colonel we marched by the way of Bennington to Steensborough thence by water to Ticonderoga - where we remained until the month of December when we were discharged we inlisted in the month of May for six months and at the end of that term, at the current solicitation of General Gates we consented to remain in service another month during said time Lieutenant Barr and fifteen
soldiers of our company died-- and further
saith not
Elijah Bartlet
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Hampshire ss. May 23, 1833. I certify 
that Elijah Bartlett, the within named
deponent is a credible witness
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Asahel Birge,  Justice of the Peace

Elijah Bartlett
deposition for E. Gee

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss. On the eighth day of August
in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and thirty two the within named deponent was examined cautioned and sworn
acceptably wherein to the truth of the within
deposition by him subscribed. Taken at
the request of Ebenezer Gee to be used in
an application for a pension from the Government of the United States under the act of Congress of June 7th, 1832 and that is the cause of taking this deposition
Asahel Birge, Justice of the Peace
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12845
Ebenezer Gee





Asahel Birge
Southampton
Mass
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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 Gee 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 resides, 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

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

IX. 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? yes
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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? Yes

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's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?  yes

If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?    No
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?   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?  no

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

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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 _______year_______months, and____days,
I served as a___________  For _______months, and________days, I served as a____________;
and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each 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. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the
officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the
applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
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 authenticates 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 ends 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.
  >   In every case where the clerk of the court or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;

Dec. 4th. 1844
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Ebenezer Gee of Southampton, is
borne as a private upon the October return of
Capt Abner Pomeroy, Col. John Fellows, in the
8 months service of 1775, and upon the Coat Roll of the same, dated Dorchester Nov 28. 1775.
No Captain of the name of Lemuel Pomeroy appears among the Rolls of this service.
No further evidence is found
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the
search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts
and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the rolls in his office of my
husband Ebenezer Gees service in the war of the Revolution he went from West Hampton or South Hampton Hampshire County Massachusetts and served in 1775 as a private under Captain Lemuel Pomeroy and Colonel Fellows, Capt Scott and Colonel Arnold and in
1776 under Captain Joseph Lyman and R. Woodbridge.
I am now 80 years old and my memory does not enable me to state my husbands service more fully than above stated. Witness my hand this the 24th day of October A.D. 1844
Thompson Geauga Co Ohio
Olive B Gee

signed by said Olive B. Gee}
in my presence}
James Hathaway}
Justice of the peace}
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Supplementary.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, March 8, 1845
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears
that the name of John Elliot is borne upon the same roll with that of Ebenezer Gee under
Capt Pomeroy in 1775. The only document
relating to service of Capt Joseph Lyman in 1776, among the records of this office, is an abstract of Mileage and traveling rations due to his Company,- but which contains no names except those of four individuals who died on the march. 10 days was allowed for the above, but the term of service is not stated.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Hambden Geauga Co Ohio}
April 1st 1845}
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm of Pensions,
Dear Sir, we have the Honor to herewith transmit to your office, further Proof in the case of Widow Olive B. Gee
Your O.B. Servants
Elliot & Hathaway
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The State of Ohio}
Geauga County ss}
Deposition of Chester H. Gee of lawful age
a resident of Thompson in the County aforesaid.
Taken before me James Hathaway a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Geauga and State of Ohio this the 24th day of
March A.D. 1845. Being first duly sworn according to law doth on his said oath depose and say that he is a son of Ebenezer
and Olive B. Gee - and that the said Ebenezer Gee was a Revolutionary Pensioner and died in West Hampton Hampshire Co.
Massachusetts July 1838, and that his said Mother the said Olive B. Gee, was alive on the 23rd day of January 1845 and now is living and resides with him the said Chester H. Gee in said Thompson
Chester H Gee

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify from my own personal knowledge that the said Chester H. Gee is a person of truth and veracity
James Hathaway Justice of the peace

THE STATE OF OHIO, I Reuben St. John, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Geauga, in the State of Ohio do by these presents certify and make known, that
James Hathaway Esquire, before whom
the annexed and foregoing Deposition
was has taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper hand-writing, subscribed his name was at the time of taking such
Deposition and now is justice of Peace
in and for said county, duly
commissioned and sworn, agreeably to the laws of the State of Ohio, and to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is, and ought to be given throughout the United States, and elsewhere.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Chardon in said county, this 25th day of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty five

Reuben St. John, Clerk.
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James
1 Nov 1842
Mr Allison
Hon. James L. Edwards
Com'r of Pensions
Washington City
District of Columbia 
Hampden Co. }
Oct 22 }
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Hampden Geauga County
Oct 20th 1842
Hon James L.  Edwards
 Sir some three or four years ago I made application for a pension at that time I lived in Westhampton Hampshire Co. Massachusetts But I could not get it because my Husband died a few days after the Law was past granting five years pensions to widows of the
Revolutionary Soldiers. Now I understand a
law was past the last Session of Congress which would perhaps Entitle me to my pension and if you will be so kind as to inform me upon the subject or send me a copy of the act of Congress will be Ever thankful and you will do a poor woman a great kindness
Some people tell me if my husband was a pensioner which he was I can make
application before a Judge of the Court
and prove that I am his widow and that I was married previous to 1794 and that the Judge can certify it and that will be all on my part 
Others say I must go before the Court of the county or Supream court
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Please Sir inform me this subject
very Respectfully yours
Olive Branch Gee

Hon. James L Edwards
 
as my husband name was Ebenezer Gee
died in Massachusetts
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10520
Olive B. Gee
Mass.
Act 1  July 38
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The State of Ohio Geauga County
On this the day of January 1844

Deposition of Chester H. Gee of Thompson Township in the County of Geauga and State of Ohio taken on the 15th day of January 1844
after being duly sworn according to law doth on his said oath depose and say that he is a son of Ebenezer Gee and Olive Branch Gee that he the said Chester Gee is  aged 58 years old that he believes from his own age and from his fathers and Mothers family Bible record which is in his possession and
what he has heard his father say that his Father and Mother were married in May 1782 and that his said Father died in Westhampton
in Hampshire County and State of Massachusetts on the 28 day of July
1838 and that his mother has not been married since the death of his said Father and that she now remains a widow and that her husband his said Father was a Revolutionary pensioner and that the said Widow
Olive Branch Gee now resides in Thompson Township in the County and State aforesaid and has made an application on this sheet to draw a pension and that the bible Record above mentioned was this day cut from
the bible by Judge Wright and attached to this sheet
Chester H Gee

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify that from common report that the said Chester H. Gee is a man of truth and veracity and that the words, aged, Bible, Record, were interlined before signed and also the letter H. in the deponents name was interlined before signed

Before me Neri Wright Ass't Judge
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The State of Ohio}
Geauga County} ss

On this the 15th day of January A.D. 1844
Personally appeared before me Neri Wright an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Geauga County and State of Ohio Olive
Branch Gee a resident of Thompson Township County of Geauga and State of Ohio aged 79 years who being first duly sworn according to
law doth on her said oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress at
July 7th 1838 and also to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed March 3rd 1843 that she is the widow
of Ebenezer Gee of Westhampton Hampshire County State of Massachusetts who was a Revolutionary Pensioner that the said Ebenezer Gee died on the 28th day of July 1838 in said Westhampton that his certificate is not in her possession therefore she cannot refer to it that she made a declaration soon after her said husband died while in said Westhampton which was I believe was forwarded to the pension office by Samuel Hinkley which was rejected that at that time she had a certificate of her marriage to said Ebenezer Gee
but does not know what has become of it that her maiden name was Olive Branch King that she was married to said Ebenezer Gee in
Southhampton May 1782 by Rev Jonathan Judd that she has a record in her family Bible which is hereunto annexed that she also refers to the depositions of her son Chester Gee and Rebecca Elliot that she has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed & she prays
that a certificate may be granted her to draw said pension.

Olive B Gee

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me and I hereby certify from common report that the widow Olive
Branch Gee is a person of truth and verasity and that from bodily infirmity she is unable to attend Court and that the Bible Record
hereunto attached was cut out of said Olive Branch Gees family Bible by me and hereunto attached.
Neri Wright Asst Judge
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Deposition of Rebecca Elliot of Hambden Township in the County of Geauga and State of Ohio Taken on the 15th day of January in the
year 1844 after being duly sworn according to law doth on her said Oath depose and say that she the said Rebecca Elliot formerly resided in
Easthampton Hampshire County State of Massachusetts that in the year 1779 she was acquainted with Olive Branch Gee wife of Ebenezer Gee then of Westhampton in said County of Hampshire and State of Masschus
setts living near the Town line and that she the said Rebecca Elliot also lived near the Town line that they were neighbors living about
one mile apart that She was well acquainted with said Ebenezer Gee and his wife Olive Branch Gee for upwards of twenty years living in said Westhampton as above stated first acquaintance was in 1789 that the said Olive Branch Gee now widow of said Ebenezer Gee
resides in Thompson Township in the County of Geauga and State of Ohio and further states that the said Olive Branch Gee is the person
that has made application on this sheet to draw a pension and that she the said Rebecca Elliot is a pensioner
Rebekah Elliot

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify from personal and common knowledge that the said Rebecca Elliot is a person of truth and veracity

Before me Neri Wright Ass't Judge
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(Date Stamp)

U.S. PENSION OFFICE.
D

MAY 29 1914
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OFFICE OF
MEDICAL OFFICER IN COMMAND

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
UNITED STATES
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE

Milwaukee, Wisconsin
May 27. 1914

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir
I request informative as to a pension,
if any granted to a Revolutionary soldier,
Ebenezer Gee, (or McGee)
of Westhampton Mass, with such statement
of his service as appear in his application;
particularly if reference is made to Arnold's
Expedition to Quebec 1775 and the name of
the Captain under whom he served therein.

Respectfully
Chas E. Banks M.D.
403 Iron Block
Milwaukee, Wis.
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   (Date Stamp)

U S Pension Office
Nov 17 1924
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St. Peter Minnesota

Dear Sir
Will you please send me copies of the pension
records of the following who served in the Rev. War-
Ebenezer Gee who served as private in Col. Lemuel Pomeroy's co. of Minute men 1775 - He was born about 1775 - served for Mass-
also John Gee (1763, 1857) was placed on pension roll of Tioga Co. 1818 for three years
serviced as private New York troops.

Thanking you I am
Very truly-
Mrs John Wright
St Peter Minnesota
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Dec. 20. 1844
Articles case
Widow of Ebenezer Gee

Hon James L Edwards, Commissioner Pensions
Washington City DC

Chardon O
Dec. 16
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Hambden December 14th 1844

Sir I herewith transmit the certificate of the
Secretary of the State of Massachusetts it only
contains part of the services set forth by her husband
But I have no doubt but that her husband's declaration contains the truth 
 
Very Respectfully yours
Lewis Elliott 

Hon. James L Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions

Please to make return me at Hampden
Geauga County Ohio
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Feb 8 1844.
O
10520.
Olive B. Gee
7 July 1838 &
3 March 1843

Hon James L Edwards Comm of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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January 27th 1844
Hon James L. Edwards Com of Pensions

Dear Sir we have the Honer to transmit the Application of Olive B. Gee and
her proof - Please to make all returns to us at Hambden Geauga County State of Ohio 
 
Respectfully Your Obt Servant
Lewis Elliot
James Hathaway
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 I Chester H. Gee, of lawful age testify & 
say that I was personally acquainted with
Ebenezer Gee late of Westhampton deceased; that he was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the time of his decease (which occurred on the twenty eighth day of July last
past & under the Act of Congress passed in
1832; that he left a widow named Olive
B. Gee resident at Westhampton in the County
of Hampshire in Massachusetts, who was   married to said Ebenezer Gee & lived with him as his wife peaceably more than forty eight years ago & from that time to his decease to my knowledge
I am fifty three years of age & have known said
Ebenezer Gee & Olive B. Gee all my life past.
from the earliest of my recollection; And I further testify that search has been made for a record of the marriage of said Ebenezer Gee & Olive B. Gee, but none has been found except in the diary of the late Rev. Jonathan Judd in the possession of his living son Sylvester Judd Esq'r which records the marriage on
the thirtieth day of May Seventeen hundred and eighty two & except in the family bible kept by said Olive & Ebenezer
which records the marriage of said Olive & Ebenezer in conformity with the diary aforesaid; and I further testify that Olive B. Gee aforesaid is the only person of that name now resident in  said Westhampton and that she is the widow of said of Ebenezer Gee and is
still unmarried and has been unmarried since the deceased said Ebenezer-
have son  [illegible] and grandson written before inquiry
Chester H Gee

Hampshire County ss
Sworn to before me this thirteenth day
of September A.D. 1838 by Chester H. Gee
whose name was above subscribed in my presence and full credit may be given to the above affidavit.
Sam L. Hinckley
Justice of Peace
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I Lemuel Bates of Southampton in the County
of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts
being in the seventh year of my age do testify and say that about the first of May AD 1775 I entered the service of the United States and marched to Cambridge and joined a company of which Jonathan Allen was captain and - Fellows of Berkshire County Colonel of the Regiment -  That Ebenezer Gee of Southampton, now of Northampton,
with whom I was well acquainted was doing
duty in the same Regiment, as a private soldier
in a company of which Abner Pomeroy of said
Southampton was Captain - That our Regiment
was stationed at Roxbury and Dorchester untill
about the first of September when the said Gee and myself voluntarily engaged to go with
Colonel Arnold to Quebec - The said Gee in
company commanded by one Captain Scott
and myself in one commanded by one Captain
Hubbard - That we marched from Cambridge
according to my recollection, about the twelfth
of said September, and marched to Newburyport thence by water to Kennebec River and up said River to Fort Western-- Thence in Batteaux to Dead River a branch of said Kennebec at which place we arrived about the last of October.
Said Gee went with the detachment to the
last mentioned place from whence he returned
with Colonel Enos, to whose division he belonged and further saith not
Lemuel Bates
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Lemuel Bates
Deposition, for
Ebenezer Gee
---
Hampshire ss  May 23d 1833. I certify that Lemuel Bates, the within sworn deponent is a creditable witness -
Asahel Birge  Justice of the Peace


Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss. On this sixth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and thirty two the within named deponent was examined and cautioned and sworn to the truth of the within
deposition by him subscribed - Taken at the request of Ebenezer Gee and to be used in an application for a pension from the Government of the United States under the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 - and
that is the cause of taking this deposition-
-
Asahel Birge, Justice of the Peace
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I Samuel Edwards of Northampton in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being seventy nine years of age do testify and say that Ebenezer
Gee of Westhampton in said County in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and seventy five served with me as a private soldier as follows viz.
In the month of January we joined a company of Minute men so called at Southampton at which place we then lived of which Samuel Pomeroy was captain-we spent much time in military exercises, having employed an
experienced officer to instruct us-- and upon seeing news of the battle at Lexington we immediately marched to Cambridge _ said Lemuel Pomeroy returning home, the
company was commanded by Abner Pomeroy of said Southampton - We were attached to Colonel Fellow's Regiment - The Regiment soon removed to Roxbury thence to Dorchester from whence our company was
detached to Preston's Point, in said Dorchester when it was stationed as a guard during the remainder of the campaign -  about the first of September, when the company was at Preston's Point, said Ebenezer Gee  engaged, as a volunteer, to go with Colonel Arnold
to Quebec and left the camp with the detachment under that officer - some time previous to our being discharged, said Gee, as I well remember, returned to us at Preston's Point, and again joined the company to which he had belonged, having as I understood, come back with the division under Colonel Enos- and remained with said company untill it was regularly discharged in January following -and since further saith not

Samuel Edwards
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Samuel Edwards
Depositions
for E. Gee

Hampshire ss. May 23d 1833. I certify that Samuel Edwards, the within named deponent, is a credible witness.
Asahel Birge, Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss. On this eighth day of August
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
Hundred and thirty two the within named
deponent was examined and certified
and sworn to the truth of the foregoing within
deposition, by him subscribed, taken at the
request of Ebenezer Gee and to be used in
in application for a pension from the Goverment of the United States under the act of Congress
passed June 7th 1832 - and that is the same
of taking this deposition
Asahel Birge, Justice of the Peace
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Ebenezer Gee
     Amend Declaration
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Hampshire Ss.
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Hampshire, Ebenezer Gee who, being duly sworn, deposeth  and saith, that, by reason of 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 then the period mentioned below, some in the following grade; For one year, three months and fifteen days I served as a private soldier; and for such service I claim a pension
Ebenezer Gee
Sworn to this thirty first day of May AD. 1833
Asahel Birge Justice of the Peace

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire SS.
I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that Asahel Birge
Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this
fourth  day of June A.D. 1833
Saml F. Lyman   Register of Probate
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.,   M,  19.....

In reply to your request of....received.....
for a statement of the military history of Ebinezer Gee.
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. W. F. 4679
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
May 22 1775
Sept 1, 1775
LENGTH OF SERVICE
Sept 1 1777
Jan 1776  (in Expedition to Canada but returned from Dead River in Col. Enos detachment.
May 1776  7 Mos.
RANK
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
CAPTAIN.
Lemuel Pomeroy, Abner Pomeroy, Scott, Joseph Lyman
COLONEL.
John Fellows,  Arnold, Ruggles, Woodbridge
STATE.
Mass.

Battles engaged in,  See above
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Southampton Mass.
Date of application for pension, Aug 8, 1832 His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Westborough, Hampshire Co. Mass.
Age at date of application, born in Little Cambridge (Later called Brighton) Jan 25, 1753
Remarks: Died on July 28. 1838 in Westhampton, Mass. He married May 30,  1782 in Southampton, Mass.  Olive Branch King (born June 19, 1764) and she was allowed pension on an ap. executed Sept 25. 1838 while a resident of Westhampton Mass. Children: Chester Hewes born on Nov 29, 1783 d. Sept. 1, 1785; Chester Hewes ^ b. Aug. 22, 1785; Wm born July 29, 1787; Olive born Oct 18, 1789; Thankful born Mch 25, 1801; Clarinda b. Feb  11, 1803.

Respectfully,

Commissioner.

{Office note: for account of Col Enos' return see Rossing, Vol I p. 192}