Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23854, for Ebenezer Price, New York
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(8-1776)

SERVICE  New York   Price, Ebenezer Number S.23854

CONTENTS [blank]
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[column 1]  See let to Hon. R. Alen January 4, 1841

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Note  New York  24422
Ebenezer Price
of Sullivan Co in the State of New York
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Merick of the Regt commanded by
Col Dubois in the N.Y. on a line for 14 mo.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 46 Dollars. 66 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Dec
1833 and [illegible]
Hon. C. Bodle HReps

Arrears to the 4th Sept 1833 $116.15
Semi-anl allowance ending [illegible]  34  23.33
$139.98

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by W.P. Williams Clerk,
Book E Vol 4 Page 113
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Ebenezer Price
Pension Papers

22634

Applicant Claims for
1 year 9 months service 
viz

[chart y/m/d]
from 1.Oct 1776. 0.6.0
From 10 Apr 1777 0.6.0
From Feb 1778  0.9.0

1.9.0

Service in Dubois' 
regt not supported by the
rolls nor by [illegible]
my or required by the rule
disallowed - witness
proves last term to have 
been 8 mo only.

Admd
14 mopri
$46.66
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Sullivan County
State of New York  Mary Winters of said county being duly sworn deposeth and sayith that she is seventy three years of age and that she lived from her infancy till she was about forty five years old in the town of Fishkill, County of Dutchess in said State near to Fredericksburgh and about one mile and a quarter from the residence of the father of Ebenezer Price now residing in Mamakating Sullivan County and was during the revolutionary war were well acquainted with said Ebenezer Price. That she recollects that said Ebenezer Price went with her husband  to serve as a soldier at or on the Hudson river at fort Montgomery near West Point that she saw said Ebenezer on his way there and thinks is was in the Spring of the year but what particular year she cannot recollect  but it was before he enlisted as hereinafter stated and she was then informed and believes it to be true that said Ebenezer served at that time as a soldier as a substitute for his father who was an enlisted soldier as she understood, how long he served she does not know nor was she informed.
That afterwards [illegible] said war she was informed by her husband and neighbors that said Ebenezer enlisted to serve in said war for nine months and she believes she was first so informed in the winter but at what month or year she cannot recollect but well recollects that said Ebenezer Price was from that time and as she believes for the share of nine months absent from the neighborhood of his and her
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residence and he was reputed in that neighborhood to be in service as a soldier during that time and never heard it doubted but he did serve as above stated And he verily believes he did to serve - That she well knew Joseph Ogden who was her uncle & lived during the war about half a mile from this deponent in Fishkill that she well knew Col Luddington & Capt Comfort Luddington & Capt James Rosekrants

[signed] Mary her X mark Winters

the word "war" being intentioned in first page and two eras was on this page before taken.

Sullivan County I Samuel Smith one of the judges of the court of Common Please of said County certify that the above named Mary Winters to me well known did on the tenth day of January AD 1833 in my [illegible] with her mark to foregoing affidavit and duly at that time before me as such judge duly  solemnly affirm to the same   She expressing cousciercious scrables against being sworn at all and or any [illegible] And I further certify that the said Mary Winters is a person of good character  & fully entitled to belief 

[signed] Samuel Smith Judge

State of New York
Sullivan County  I Jesse M Foster Clerk of the said County and Clerk of the Court of common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that Samuel Smith Esq before whom the annexed affidavits were sworn and also who subscribed the annexed Certificates was at the respective dates of the same one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Sullivan County and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of
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The said [illegible] and verily believe his signature subscribed to the said affidavits and to the said certificator is his proper handwriting and genuine 
Witness my hand and seal of the Court of common Pleas of Sullivan County this First day of February of 1833
Jesse M. Foster Clerk


And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories of the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier as he states, and the court further certifies that in their opinion no Clergyman having any knowledge of the applicant  can be proven without great expense and inconvenience  to him and to Marshall Stickney and Samuel Smith who subscribed the annexed affidavit are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit

I Jesse M Foster Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in & for the county of Sullivan do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Price for a Pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this First day of February AD 1833

Jesse M Foster, Clerk
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State of New York
Sullivan County   Daniel Martine from Mamakating in said county [illegible] from saith that he knows Ebenezer Price of said town & has known him many years  That while this deponent resided at Cortlands Mannor in Westchester County during the Revolutionary War  He remembers seeing said Price at his fathers house in Philips Mannor in WEstchester county and that said Price was then serving as a soldier for the Americans & understood he belonged at that time to a guard  That several others came into his fathers house at the same time whom this deponent there understood  & now verily believes belonged to a guard [illegible] all served as soldiers but at what particular time this was or in what particular service he was engaged he does not know and if ever informaed he has forgotten.

[signed] Daniel Martine

Sworn this 26th day of Jany 1833 before me Samuel Smith Judge

Sullivan County  I Samuel Smith of said County judge do certify that Daniel Martine above named subscribed & was sworn to the truth of the parts stated in the above affidavit before & by me & that he is a person entitled to full credit & belief - Dated Jany 26th 1833

Samuel Smith Judge
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State Of New York
Sullivan County  On the 19th day of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county now sitting Ebenezer Price a resident of  of Manakating in the County & state aforesaid aged seventy two years. who being fist 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 7, 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served are herein noted vis - 
First on or about the first day of October in the year 1776 at Fishkill in the County of Dutchess & State of New York (his residence being about 18 miles east of Fishkill at Fredericksburgh) eh enlisted into a company commanded by Capt Joshua Merick. The lieutenants names he has forgotten but recollects he was a man from Long Island. Said company being a company of rangers and had no ensign, had for Sergeant one Townsend & for coproral one Isaac Drew said are all the officers he recollects. and was subject to the orders of a Committee to try officers against the Americans & their came at Fishkill to serve therein for the three of six months that he did so serve for the share of six months accordingly. That he was marched during said service into sundry parts of the county sometimes to Goshen & the place called naierPastners in said Vale and brought to said commissioners various offenders & prisoners   and was discharged about the first or second day of April 1777 on town meeting day at Fishkill town, But received no written discharge being discharged by said Captain pursuant to the order the said committee. That he remembers well that his pay was fifty pence 4 shillings  tfoure have a month besides five dollars for billet money (so called) per month for said services  That afterwards about ten days thereafter being about the 10th or 12th day of April AD 1777
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he volunteered to serve in the place of his father or as a substitute for him for six months & a little [illegible]. his father having enlisted or volunteered to serve for three years, and that this applicant accordingly took (his fathers) place at Fort Montgomery on the banks of Hudson river at the time last above mentioned and continued from there to serve as such substitute for a little more than six months in a company of infantry commanded by Capt James Rosekrants. Lieutenant, Henry Dodge & Samuel Dodge (brothers form Poughkeepsie), Ensign Swartwout, Seargeants Jerry Renney & one Johnston. Corporal Willcot (the other officers names not recollected in a regiment commanded by Col Dubois (his Christian name he thinks was Lewis) that he served during this time of six months at Fort Montgomery at the expiration of which time his father took his place and applicant returned home to Fredericksburgh which was a few days before Fort Montgomery was taken. That in a very few days after his arrival home that he as one of a company of Militia under Captain Comfort Luddington & Lieutenant Stephen Luddington was ordered out & marched with the residue of the company to Peekskill under command of Col Henry Luddington a brother of Lieutenant Luddington and kept guard & watched there expecting the British would land at which time they (the British) landed at the opposite side of the river & took Fort Montgomery - Applicant returned home having spent about 10 days in said service.
that afterwards in the month of February AD 1778 (according to the best of his recollection asto time) at the house of Joseph Ogden in the town of Fishkill in Dutchess County aforesaid he enlisted into a company commanded by Capt Richard Sacket Lieutenants Frederick Stevens & Wright Carpenter (Ensign he cannot remember) Seargeant Shulad Dimnich in a regiment commanded by Col Graham of the continental line. To serve for nine months
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And that he continued to serve in said corps the whole of said nine months and he thinks about half a month over. That during this time he was marched to White Plaines Tarry Town & other places in Westchester County & had a skirmish to keep the British from landing at Tarry Town. That he knew General Green whose brigade lay at a place called Turkeyhoe in Westchester County near Dahls Ferry and near the Hudson river - He also knew General Putnam saw him at White Plains & Peekskill whose wife died at Col Robertsons house nearly opposite West Point and saw her corpse removed and applicant further says that during his first service in a company of rangers he was constantly under martial law and served the whole time as such soldier or ranger   That he has no documentary evidence and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service except except the affidavits of Mary Winters & Daniel  Martin hereto annexed & that he never had any written discharge  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any State; and further that he was born in October 1760 in Westchester County. Has no record of his age at present - has lived since the Revolutionary War in Shenen[illegible]]. Ulster County & in Westchester county in the State of New York. & in the town of Mamakating in Sullivan County in said State where he now resides. That he knows of no Clergyman who can testify to his reputation of having served in the revolution. That he is known to Marshall Stickney & Samuel Smith & others residing in his present neighborhood as respectable persons who can testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his service as a soldier of the revolution.
[signed] Ebenezer his X mark Price

Sworn before me in open court
the 29th day of January 1833
Jefferik Foster
Clerk of Sull. Com Pleas
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Sullivan County  Marshall Stickney and Samuel Smith being duly sworn saith that they are respectfully acquainted with Ebenezer Price within named and have known him many years. That they believe he is of the age he states himself to be in the written deposition And that said Price is reputed & believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary War soldier and they concur in this opinion   that he is of fair character for truth & veracity.

[signed]  Marshall Stickney  Samuel Smith

Sworn before me in open court this 29th day of January 1833  Jesse M Foster Clerk of Sull. Com. Pleas
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22634
Ebenezer Price
Sullivan County New York

93.32
23.33
116.65

Hon C. Bode
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
May 30 1833

To:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace (thus: })  You will when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

[form - 9 columns]
A Statement, showing the service of Ebenezer Price, Sullivan County N.Y.

Period when the service was rendered/Duration of the claimant's service. years, months, days / Rank of the claimant. / Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom they served. / Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. / Battles in which the applicant was engaged. / Country through which he marched. / Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period / Evidence by which the declaration is supported.

Enlisted 1776 / 6 months / Capt Merick (Sayer) / [blank] / Goshen / 72 Dutchess Co NY / Tradition Two witnesses prove service by the application in the revolution
Volunteer was 1777 a substitute for his father / 6 months 10 days / Capt Rosecrants / Col Dubois / [blank] /  Nine Tortun / Fort Montgomoery /
Enlisted (cont) 1778 / 8=9 months / Capt Luddington Capt Sackett / col Graham / [blank] / Peekskill Westchester / 

I am respectfully, your obedient servant,  J.L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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[regulations]
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[regulations]
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January 26, 1938

XXXXXXXXXXXX

BA-J/EEL
Ebenezer Price-S.23854

Margaret Wight
444 High Street
Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request to know the names of the children of Timothy Wood, who served in the 4th Regiment, Ulster County, New York troops: also, names of children of Ebenezer Price, who served in the Dutchess County, New York troops, both soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from papers on file in claims for pension or bounty land which have been made to the United States based upon the military service of soldiers of that war. There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon the military service in that war of a Timothy Wood, who rendered the service cited by you. The record has been found of an Ebenezer Price, who served from Dutchess County, New York. His record is furnished herein, the data for which were obtained from the papers of file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.23854, based upon his military service in that war.
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Ebenezer Price was born in October, 1760, in Westchester County, New York. The names of his parents are not stated.

While residing in Fredericksburgh, Dutchess Counter (later, Kent, Putnam County) New York, Ebenezer Price enlisted and served as a private with the New York troops, as follows:  from about October 1, 1776, six months in Captain Joshua Merrick's or Myrick's Company of Rangers: from about May 10 or 12, 1777, six months as a substitute for his father, as a private in Captain James Rosekrans' Company, Colonel Lewis Dubois' Regiment, served at Fort Montgomery; from a few days after completion of this tour, ten days as a guard at Peekskill under Captain Comfort Ludington and Colonel Henry Ludington; from February, 1778, ever nine months in Captain Richard Sackett's Company, Colonel Graham's Regiment and was in a skirmish at Tarrytown.

[handwritten note:]  Found sol in "NY in the Rev" in this service identified all officers
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After the war, Ebenezer Price lived in Shawagunk, Ulster County in and in Westchester County, New York.

He was allowed pension on his application executed January 29, 1833, while living in Mamakating, Sullivan County, New York.

There are no data as to soldier's family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Ebenezer Price (S.23854), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:

Ebenezer Price
Certificate No. 24422
Issued December 18, 1833
Rate, $46.66 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
New York Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistance
to the Administrator.
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[stamp]  Received Jan 12 1938 Mail Vets. Adm Reader No. 19

44 High St.
Pertle Amboy N.J.
Jan. 10, 1938.

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

Thank you very much for the help that you have so kindly given me heretofore.
Could yo give me the following information?
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Can you tell m the names of the children of Timothy Wood who was in the 4th Regiment, Ulster County New York. There are also several other soldiers by the name of Timothy Wood listed in "New York in the Revolution." There is also a Timothy Wood listed as a Wagonmaster in "Jerseynew in the Revolutionary War" by Stryker.
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I am looking for the father of [illegible] who came to Madison Township from Staten Island about 1800.
Also, I am looking for the names of the children of Ebenezer Price who was a soldier in the Militia Dutchess Co. New York P.151- 7th Reg.
P147 - 6th Reg. "New York in the Revolution."
Very truly yours,  Markgaret Wight
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Revolution

23854
INVALID.

File No. 23,854

Ebenezer Price
Pri Rev War

Act:  June 7 32'
Index: Vol 2, Page 327

(Arrangement of 1870.)

[side note] 1938 Jan 26 Hist to Margaret Hight  EL
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House Representatives
January 1. 1841

Dear Sir.

Mr. Joseph Ellis wishes me to inquire at the Pension Office "What officers Ebenezer Price served under for which he never draws a pension under the Act of 1832"

Very Respectully Yours,
Rufas Palen

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Com of Pensions
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State of New York
Putnam County   Benjamin Ogden being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is Seventy six years of age that when a boy he was acquainted with Ebenezer Price and lived a neighbour to live int he town of Fredricksburgh Dutchess County, Now Kent Putnam County and at the commencement of the Revolutionary war and this deponent thinks in 1776, Joshua Merrick raised a company of rangers and this deponent understood that the said Ebenezer Price enlisted under the said. Merrick & this deponent saw the said Price in the service a number of times under the said Merrick but how long he served cannot tell but that company was out six or eight months
And some time in the forepart of the year 1778  And this deponent thinks in the month of March or April the said Ebenezer Price enlisted in the United States Service in Colonel Grahams Regiment for eight months and this deponent thinks is Capt Sacketts company & marched off and returned again with said Regiment at the expiration of the 8 months and this deponent allways understood that the said Price served in said Regiment the term of eight months 

[signed] Benjamin Ogden

Sworn and subscribed before me this 29th day of August 1833 and I certify that the above named Benjamin Ogden is a man of Credability and his testimony is to be believed  Bennet Boyd First Judge of Putnam County Courts.

State of New York Putnam County  I Jonathan Morehouse clerk of the county of Putnam aforesaid & clerk of the court of common pleas of said county do hereby certify that Bennet Boyd before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been taken was on the day of the date thereof faithfully in aforesaid county & of said court duly commissioned & sworn & duly authorized to administer oaths, and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said judge and verily believe the signature above Bennet Boyd to be genuine in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county & said court this 30th day of August 1833    J Morehouse