Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15129, Ezra Gates, Continental N.H. Vt.

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Continental   Gates  Ezra  S 15129
N.H.                                   Warrant No. 13128-100
                                           Issued March 8, 1796
Vt.                                       Carded

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32.388.
Vermont
Ezra Gates, deceased,
of Orange Co. in the state of VT:
who was a private in the ____ commanded
by Captain________ of the Regt: ______commanded
by Col: Hagen in the Revolutionary
line for 2 years.  New Hampshire and Continental
Inscribed on the Roll on Montpelier
at the rate of 80 Dollars - cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 & ending
on the 31 January 1844, day of his death.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of
October, 1845 and sent to Stephen
Thomas, West Fairlie, VT
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending
$1032.61
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by [illegible] Clerk
Book E-2, Vol 3 - Page 70

2nd page
Oct: 17th 1845, Recd to agts
by letter
Debted to How. P. Dillingham
Dec. 31s 1845

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State of New-Hampshire,
Grafton SS.)
On this ninth day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges to the Court of Common Pleas for Said County personally appears Ezra Gates aged about 67 years, resident in Bath in the said State, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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:"  That he the said Ezra Gates enlisted in May 1778 or 1779 in the State of New Hampshire in the company commanded by Captain Herrin afterwards by Prye of the Regiment called the Congreys Regiment commanded by Colo Moses Harzen; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the close of the war in 1783, when he was discharged from service [strikethrough - in the State of] put on the pension list; that he was in the battles of [no entry] and that he is in reduced circumstances , and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.

Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.

Ezra Bartlett

I, Ezra Bartlett, Judge of the Court of Common Please as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that said Ezra Gates did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of aforementioned act of Congress.

April 9th, 1818.
Ezra Bartlett

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I Ezra Gates of Bath in Grafton County New Hampshire depose hereby that in March 1776 I enlisted in Capt Avery's company in Col Timothy Bedels Regiment New Hampshire line for one year services.  In May I was taken prisoner in Canada. I after was exchanged. I was sent home being sick - Feb 1777. I entered in Capt Nemehiah Lovels company for six months, Major Wait commanded this regiment or party.  I served the six month in May 1778 or 1779 which I cannot recollect.  I enlisted into Capt [illegible] Company afterwards commanded by Capt Prye in Col Moses Hazens regiment called the Congress Regiment.  I enlisted for four years on during the war.  I served four years and two months until the war closed when I was honorably discharged which I conclude is in the war office as I sent it there on applying for a pension.  I am so reduced in circumstances as to stand in need of assistance from my country for support.  I am poor and have not property to support me comfortably nor indeed at all without assistance. 
Ezra Gates
April 9th, 1818

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And I Ezra Gates within named hereby release[?] discharge and acquit all claims which I have to any pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States provided a pension on the Late Laws of Congress approved March 18, 1818 for my services in said war as the within affidavit sets forth.  Witness my hand [illegible] 9th day of April 1818 in presence of
Ezra Bartlett               Ezra Gates
Ira Goodall

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Copy
Ezra Gates

an invalid pensioner on the list of NH Company before this

[in pencil]
Continue
3223

1 Octo 1818

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District of New Hampshire

County of Grafton
At the Superior Court of Judicature of the State of New Hampshire holden at Haverhill within and for said County of Grafton being a court of record by the laws of said State on this 27th day of May in the [strikethrough - Court Ezra Gates aged] year of our lord 1820 personally appeared in open court Ezra Gates aged sixty one years resident in Bath in said county who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows viz a private soldier in Captain Hay's company and Colonel Moses Hazens regiment United States line that his original declaration was made and dated the ninth day of April AD 1818 that he has received a pension the certificate of which is numbered 3223 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March AD 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property in any pare 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 18th 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 other income or property than what is included in the schedule hereto annexed as follows viz one ax +knife only my clothing not worth more than two dollars value in all forty dollars [strikethrough - cash] each year allowed my wife to wards her support she being surely by her son

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Charles Chamberlain & nothing more in this world and I further declare that I am by occupation a farmer infirm and unable to pursue any business having been wounded in the Revolutionary War in my right arm.  My wife is aged sixty nine years and very much out of health and unable to work.  I have no children or any means of support whatever except forty dollars a year furnished by my sons' wife towards her support yearly she being a constant burden and I have no home of my own and live partly on charity with her Children.  Ezra Gates
Sworn to and declared before the justice of the Superior Court of Judicature for the state of New Hampshire in Open Court this 27th day of May AD 1820 
/s/S.P. Webster

[court seal affixed]
I Stephen P Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Grafton do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & schedule therein contained are truly copied from the [That it is the opinion of said court] record of Said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Oath & statement is not more than two dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereinto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 27th day of May AD 1820
/s/S.P. Webster Clerk

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Ezra Gates [died?] abt 1832
by Abiel Demming Executor

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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832
State of Vermont
Bradford District ss} On the 23d day of April A.D. 1845, at a Probate Court holden at Bradford within + for said district of Bradford, personally appeared Abiel Demming a resident of Haverhill in the County of Graft + State of New Hampshire Executor upon the estate of Ezra Gates late of Newbury in Said District deceased testate, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the arears of Pension due the Said Ezra Gates at the time his decease under the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832 or May 15th 1828 or any other act applicable to his case - 
That the Said Ezra Gates was an Invalid Pensioner of the United States upon the Vermont Rolls under the act of Congress passed September 20, 1789 + April 24, 1816. That he considers him to have been entitled toa Pension under the act of June 7th 1832 having been informed that he enlisted in Col. Hazen's Regiment in the year 1779 of the New Hampshire continental line for during the war and that he served to the close thereof as will appear by the prof annexed that the said Ezra Gates residence at the time of his enlistment was at Haverhill in the State of New Hampshire , that the said Ezra Gates died at Newbury in the County of Orange in the State of Vermont on the 31st day of January in the year Eighteen hundred forty four that he did not have any widow and that Ezra Gates, Annan Welton, Rachel Nelson & Hannah Doran were & are the only surviving children who survived the said Ezra Gates 
/s/Abiel C Deming Grantor
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year first above written

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Before me
J.W.D. Parker Judge - 

State of Vermont
Braadford District ss} I J.W.D Parker Judge of the Probate Court within + for the District of Bradford aforesaid do hereby certify that Satisfactory evidence has this day been exhibited to said Court that Ezra Gates late of Newbury in Said District because (who was an Invalid Pensioner of the United States) died at Newbury in Said District on the 31st day of January A.D. 1844, that he did not leave any widow, that Vera Gates, Anna Welton, Rachel Nelson, & Hannah Doran were the only children who survived him; and that Abiel Demming has been duly appointed Executor of the last will and testament of the Said Ezra Gates deceased = has filed in the Probate office of Said District his bond for the faithfull discharge of his duties as Such Executor according to law
Given under my hand + the seal of Said Court at Bradford in Said District this 23d day of April AD 1845 - 
/s/J.W.D. Parker, Judge

State of Vermont
Bradford District ss} I Stephen Thomas Register of the Probate Court within + for the District of Bradford, do hereby certify that J.W.D. Parker is Judge of Probate within + for Said District aforesaid duly commissioned & qualified that his commissioned was on the first day of December 1844 and will expire on 30th day of November 1845. and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto Stet my hand and affix the

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Seal of said court at Bradford
this 23d day of April 1825
Stephen Thomas Register

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December 22, 1939
Ezra Gates
S. 15129
BA-J/MLB

Mrs. B.E. Anderson
3004 Laurel Street
San Diego, California

Dear Madam:

The data which follows in regard to Ezra Gates were obtained from the papers in the claims for pension and bounty land on file under S. 15129, based upon service and upon disability incurred in service in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of birth of Ezra Gates and names of his parents were not stated.

While residing in Haverhill, New Hampshire, Ezra Gates enlisted in March, 1776, and served as private in Captain Avery's company, Colonel Timothy Bedel's New Hampshire regiment; he was taken prisoner in May in Canada but afterwards exchanged.  He enlisted in 1777, and served six months as private in Captain Nehemiah Lovewell's company under Major Wait.  He enlisted in May, 1778 or 1779, served as private in Captains Heron's and Pry's company, Colonel Moses Hazen's Congress Regiment and continued in service to the close of the war.  During his service in 1779, he was wounded by the Tories, receiving a shot in his arm or shoulder, further details of his injury not given.

After the Revolution, the soldier moved to Newbury, Orange County, Vermont, which town adjoined Haverhill, New Hampshire, where he formerly lived.

On account of disability resulting from injuries received during his service, Ezra Gates, while a resident of Newbury, Vermont, was pensioned from March 4, 1789, and his name was placed on the Vermont pension roll.

On account of his service in the Revolutionary War, the soldier was allowed one hundred acres of bounty land on Warrant 13128, which was issued March 8, 1796.

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Ezra Gates was allowed pension for service, also, on his application executed April 9, 1818, under the Act of March 18, 1818, at which time he was aged about eighty-seven years and living in Bath, Grafton County, New Hampshire.  His pension was continued under the Act of June 7, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Newbury, Orange County, Vermont.  He died at Newbury January 31, 1844.

The soldier's wife was named Ann who, he stated, was aged sixty-nine years in 1820.  The date and place of her birth and of her marriage to Ezra Gates, her maiden name, or given name of her former husband by whom she had a son, Charles Chamberlain, and other children, names not designated, were not stated.

Ann Gates did not survive her husband, Ezra, but the following children of the soldier survived him; their ages and the name of their mother were not given:

Ezra Gates
Anna Welton     given name of her husband not shown
Rachel Nelson    "          "       "    "        "           "      "
Hannah Doran    "          "      "     "        "           "      "

If you desire information relative to the location of the bounty land granted Ezra Gates for his service, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

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NAME Gates, Ezra   GRADE Private  LINE  Hagen's Regiment
WARRANT NUMBER  13128   ACREAGE  100  ISSUED  March 8, 1796
to - not shown -

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Warrt. No. 13128 for 100 acres agreed [illegible] March 1796 to Ezra Gates
who was a private of Hagens Regiment
N.Y.

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Hon: J. L. Edwards
Court of Pensions
Washington
 D C

[written vertically very faintly]
This [illegible] Submitted
to D [illegible] and ['and' crossed out] i? [illegible]

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West Fairlee Vt Sept. 15. 1845

My Dear Sir
I herewith forward some affidavits in the case of Ezra Gates which is pending under the act of may 15th 1828 + 1832 which I trust will be satisfactory to establish the claim. the File was made by Abiel Demming Ex'r of Said Gates - 
You will Please to communicate with me at "West Fairlee Vt"
I am Respectfully your Obt. Servt
/s/Stephen Thomas

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Ezra Gates - pri. N.H. Bounty Land?
G.W.C.
Please send me the certificate of pension 
To H. Crump HHL.
Rcd Land as a private of Hazens Regiment March 8th 1798 - 

Ezra Gates - Invalid rpt/ when last paid?
G.W.C. 23. July 45.
Pd to 4th March 1818
JH

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December 22, 1939

BA-J/MLB

Mrs. B.E. Anderson
3004 Laurel Street
San Diego, California

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Ezra Gates who, you state, served from Connecticut and settled in Newbury, Vermont, also of Ben Covert of Monmouth, New Jersey, and Isaac Covert of Pennsylvania.

There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolution of an Isaac Covert of Pennsylvania, nor of any Ben Covert.

The record has been found of an Ezra Gates who after the war settled in Newbury, Vermont.  His record is furnished you herewith.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

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3004 Laurel Street
San Diego, California
December 2, 1939

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

Would you please send me any information you have on a pension claim for Ezra Gates, a soldier in the Revolution from Connecticut who settled in Newbury, Vermont.

I would also appreciate anything you have relative to Ben Covert of Monmouth, New Jersey and Isaac Covert from Pennsylvania, both soldiers in the Revolution.

Thanking you for your courtesy,
I am
Very sincerely yours, 
Francis Anderson
(Mrs. B. E. Anderson)

[document is stamped received Dec 7 1939

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15129
INVALID.
File No. 15129
Ezra Gates
Priv. Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 138
[Arrangement of 1870.]

2nd page
19 Dec. 22 - Hist to Mrs BE
Anderson - MLB

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Consolidated with File 15,129
45546
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 45546
Ezra Gates
Pvt. Rev. War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index-Vol. 3, Page 187
(Arrangement of 1870.)

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No 37060
Ezra Gates, dec'd
Vermont
Let to L. Henry July 24 '45
doc to H. H. Sylvester Sept. 5. 1819
Act 7th Jan 1832

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No. 37060
Ezra Gates died
VT
Act of June 1832
[illegible] 2 years priv in
Hagens regiment
$80 per annum
from 4 March 1831 to 31st
January 1844.  the day of
his death payable to
Ezra Gates, Anna Welton
Rachel Nelson and Hannah
Doran, only surviving children
of Ezra Gates, there being no
widow.
Stephen Thomas
West Fairlee
VT

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[notations]
66.70
27
22
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54
54
____
.94

80
12.10.27.
960.
66.67'
5.94
____
1032.61

10.
2.6
3.
1.27

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[verso]
See letter to Hon. J. M. Harper HR Apl. 21. 1834

Notification sent the 24th June 1820 to the Postmaster at Bath, N.H. 

[recto]
3223.
New Hampshire
Ezra Gates, private
Col. Hazen [notation: LL]
New Hampshire a continental line in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
______ 
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of -8- Dollars per month, to commence on the 9th ofApril, 1818
______
Certificate of Pension issued the Ist of Oct'r 1818 and sent to Ezra Bartlett, Esq. Grafton Co. N. H. - 
______
Arrears to 4th of Sep't 1818. 4 mo 26/30 38.93
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Mar. 1819.     48.00
                                                              _________
4 years                                                    $:86.93
[notation: 10 ar]
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March 1818.}

Continue - 
Bath Grafton Co.

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I David Stevens of Corinth in the County of Orange and State of Vermont aged 80 years last July depose + say that I moved with my father into the town of Haverhill in the County of Grafton in the State of New Hampshire two years before the commencement of the Revolutionary war, that I there became personally acquainted with Ezra Gates of said Haverhill, that the said Gates enlisted the first of the war (I Should think in Col Bedels Reg't) That during the war I served a sufficient length of time to entitle me to a Pension which I receive + that during the time I was in the Service I saw him repeatedly, but he did not belong to the same Co with me, that at the time the Indians + tories came to Newbury Vermont, (which joins said Haverhill) ['the sai' crossed out] to take Gen'l Jacob Bailey, Gates was Shor or wounded in the arm, that I was not with him at the time he was wounded but saw him the next day at the house of Gen Bailey, that he remained there for considerable time + that was there removed (as I was informed) by the orders of Some of the Officers to some other place to be doctored that the said Gates after the close of Revolutionary war moved to Newbury aforesaid + was placed upon the Roll of Invalid Pensioners upon the V.t. Roll, that I have been personally acquainted with the said ['said' crossed out] Gates ever since I moved into Haverhill aforesaid, untill the time of His decease, which took place at Newbury, Orange County, Vermont about one year + a half ago as I was informed. I am confident that said Gates Served three years + I think he enlisted after his  first Service was over for During the ear but whether he served after he was wounded I do not recollect. It was near the close of the war (I think) that he was wounded
/s/X his mark Daniel Stevens

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State of Vermont
Bradford District ss} At Corinth April 24th 1845. before the Probate Court for said District personally appeared the above affiant, + Subscribed + Sworn to the foregoing affidavit
Before me /s/J.W.D. Parker Judge - 
I further certify that the above affiant is personally known to me and that he is a person of truth & credibility
/s/J.W.D. Parker Judge - 

State of Vermont
Bradford District ss} I Stephen Thomas Register of the Probate Court within + for the District of Bradford aforesaid do hereby certify that J.W.D. Parker is Judge of Said Court duly commissioned + qualified that hi Commission was dated on the first day of December 1844 and will expire on the thirtieth day of November 1845. and that his Signature above written is genuine - In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand + affixed the Seal of Said Court at Corinth this 24th day of May 1845
/s/Stephen Thomas Register

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Payment to be made 
at
by
Agent for paying Pension = 
ers in the Agency of
Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book  Vol.
Page by
Clerk.

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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United
States, of the 7th June, 1832, Ezra Gates, decd, who was a private, was 
entitled to $80 per annum, [illegible]: on the 4 March, 1831 and [illegible]
on the 31 January, 1844, the day of his death; which will
[who was - crossed out] be heard upon the production of the proper voucher to Ezra
Gates, Anna Welton, Rachel Nolan and Hannah Doran
only children
[crossed out: is entitled to receive dollars
and cents per annum, during his natural life, com=
mencing on the 4th of March 1831 and payable semi-annually,
on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year]
Given at the War Office of the United
States, this 15th; day of
Oct: one thousand eight
hundred and forty=five.
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned
Commissioner of Pensions.

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Aug 3045
Ezra Gates
VT [illegible]
for Act 1828
H.H. Sylvester
[illegible]
Patent Office

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[handwritten letter]
Augt 29 '45

Sir
I was very much surprised to find any obstacles in the way of the claim of the heirs of Ezra Gates dec'd for the the benefit of the Act of May 15. 1828 - [illegible] what I had before leaving my [illegible] and considered it as a settled one:
Gates lived and died in Vermont, and invalid pensioner, and would not suffer any one to apply for any other pension but he maybe - lose all. He was first in Leverett's Co. in Bedel's Reg in 1776: in 1777 or 8, he enlist Hazen's Reg't for the war: in 1779 he was wounded, and his name is found on Col. Hazens Roll, and he rec'd his bounty land in 1796
There was no other man in his Regt. of the same name but himself. Ample proof from the records of NH has already been failed in this case That support for to justify the allowance of this claim. I wish

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you would take a look of the papers. The declaration is filed under the Act of June 7. 1832 
In the last letter it was requested he show that he rec'd bounty land, and when I was at the Office the other day I stopped at Mr. Gates Room and found he did receive it in 1796. I would like that you would examine it personally
I am Respectfully
/s/H H Sylvester

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John Johnson's affidavit

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I John Johnson of Newbury in Orange County and State of Vermont aged Seventy nine years being sworn do depose testify and say that, I resided at Newbury aforesaid in the time of the war of the revolution that I was there and have been up to the time of his death well acquainted with Ezra Gates, that we used to attend meetings at Haverhill that to the best of my recollection said Gates enlisted in Col. Hazen's regiment about 1778 or 1779 - and I recollect well of seeing said Ezra Gates in said regiment at said Haverhill at a meeting when the soldiers were brought out and paraded to hear devine(?) service - and I saw him from time to time during the war - I know that Gates went several times with scouts - and I well recollect that Gates was the man who first brought "Canada Plumbs" so called into this country - that towards the close of the war they got word at Newbury that the Indians and tories were coming to take Gen. Jacob Bailey prisoner - there having been offered for Baileys Captain 400 guineas - they came in the evening at which time the scouts were taking some rations or liquor, and then guns were all stocked - when they came they fired and wounded Said Ezra Gates in the shoulder or arm. I saw him within ten or fifteen minutes after he was wounded - I well recollect that my mother Mrs Nobby Johnson carried out the powder horn for the scouts to [illegible] with. The scouts above named were from Col. Hazen's regiment - which was stationed at Haverhill and [illegible] to said Newbury and in sight to which plow of the station of the regiment I once

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I generally saw Gates at the station of the regiment and frequently at Newbury. After the close of the war said Ezra Gates was placed on the invalid pension roll and that he continued to draw a pension till the day of his death about a year + a half ago and further say not - 
/s/John Johnson

Sworn to and subscribed on this 9 day of September AD 1845 before me
/s/J.W.D. Parker Judge of Probate 

And I certify that the above affiant is personally known to me and that he is a credible witness - And I further certify that the facts testified to by said Johnson are by tradition + history well [illegible] in the neighborhood of Newbury
/s/J.W.D. Parker Judge

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Sir
The enclosed papers were sent to me by S. Thomas Esq of West Fairlee Vermont.
It does not appear that the aid of an agent is at all required in this case. Instead therefor of referring it to one,
Than only he request you to communicate directly with Mr Thomas

Yours truly
/s/H. H. Sylvester
June 12 45

A Edwards

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Washington 27. Dec. 1865.

J.L. Edwards Com. Pensions

sir
Mr. Abiel Demming executor of the Estate of Ezra Gates late of Newbury in the County of Orange + State of Vermont, deceased, informs me that on his application, a Pension Certificate was granted to Ezra Gates, Hannah Doran, Rachel Nelson + Anna Welton children + only surviving ones - of the s'd Ezra deceased; and that in consequence of their wide dispersion, it is extremely difficult for their to join in obtaining the money due them. He therefore asks that you will direct the Agent for paying pensions at Montpelier Vermont, to pay the money due to those children, to him the s'd Executor, further use + benefit of said children.
I understand such orders are sometimes given + if so hope it may be done in the present case.
Yours Respectfully
/s/P. Dillingham Jr.

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37060
Ezra Gates decd
Vt
Act 7 June '32

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w'd in arm
✓1782 ✓ % Contra
______
By half pay from 30 J. to June 1783 to 31 July 1785. 2 years 1 mo (?) vote 15 June 1786  25/00
By % to 31 July 1786                                  12/00   
['B % to 31 July 1787   12/00' crossed out]
______
out of the State              ['£49/00' crossed out]

State of New Hampshire.
Secretary of States' Office, Thomas P. Treadwell, Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the original the same having been examined & compared by me. The original may be found in Vol. 4, page 42, of the record returned to this Office from the War Office Jan 7. 1841.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said State this 23d day of May, A. D. 1845.
/s/Thomas P. Treadwell 
Secretary of State
[court seal affixed]

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42
Ezra Gates private Hagens Reg
1785 June 15
To a Certificate                                              25.00
Sept 19 To [illegible] old [illegible] Dow       12.00

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Return of Men late belonging to General Hazen's Regt. and returned in the accounts of s'd Regt as of the Quota of New Hampshire viz - 
✓ Amos Ames of Cap. Satterlees Comp'y Inlis'd Decr 25th 1776 appt'd Corpl on that day & Prom'd to Feby to July 15 1779
✓ Benj Heath Pri. Inlis'd Decr 25th 
✓ Winthrop Kinneston do...Decr. 29.76 died March 15, 1782
✓ Abner Roe - do. , Decr 26  ''76
✓ Abel Davis Senr
✓ Abel Davis Junr} do. volunteers first must'd Octr. 79.
Cap. Heron's Comp'y
✓ Michael Salter Drum'r. Inlis'd May 3d, 1779
✓ Elisha Brown Priv - do - Apl. 28. do.
✓ Edward Clark - do - do - May. do.
✓ Ezra Gates - do - do - do - do - do
✓ Joel Reed - do - do - April 25. do.
Cap Duncan's Compy'
✓ William Gleedon Priv. Inlis'd June 20. 78.
✓ Jona. Pratt fifer  -         "        June 1. 79.
✓ Thomas Hasleton Priv -  "      June 1. 79.
✓ Josiah Pratt - do -           "      June 1. 79

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Office of Army Accounts
New York Decem. 18. 1787
I do hereby certify that the foregoing named men are returned in the Accounts of the Regiment late commanded by General Hazen as of the Quota of the State of New Hampshire am that they were enlisted on the days specified & affixed to their respective names as appears by the Muster Rolls of s'd Regt.
I further certify that the pay of those Men is included in the accounts of the afores'd Regim't am commences the fist January 1782 - 
/s/Joseph Howell Jun'r Ass Commiss
Aaccts

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Amos Ames - omitted in the musters after May 1782.
Abel Davis Jun'r ditto - ditto
Abel Davis Sen'r ditto - ditto
Benjamin Heath - mustered to 31 Dec 1782 & no longer
Abner Roe - ditto - ditto
William Gleedon - Continued to end of the War
Josiah Prall - ditto - ditto
Jonathan Pratt - ditto - ditto
Thomas Haselton ditto - ditto
Winthrop Kenniston Inlis: 29 Dec'r 76 died March 1782.
Michael Salter Continued to the end of the War
Elisha Brown - ditto - ditto
Edward Clark - ditto - ditto
✓Ezra Gates - ditto - ditto
Joel Reed - ditto - ditto - 
Pay Office. 19 December 1787}
Extract. from the muster of the Reg't lat comm'd by Gen'l Hasen
Ca. Swan

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Return from the War office of New Hamp men serving in Hasen's Regmt 19 Decem'r 1787 Signed by Caleb Swan
[state seal affixed]

State of New Hampshire.
Secretary of States Office,
I, Thomas P. Treadwell, Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the original & the whole of said original the same having be examined and compared by me. The original may be found in Vol. 1, Wide book, page 20, of the records returned to this Office from the War Office Jan. 7, 1841.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said State, this 23d of May, A.D. 1845.
/s/Thomas P. Treadwell

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Return from the War Office
of the New Hampshire men
in General Hagens Regt
May 19th 1782

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[state seal affixed]
State of New Hampshire 
Secretary of State's Office,
I, Thomas P. Treadwell, Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify, the foregoing to be a true copy of the original & the whole of said original, the same having been examined & compared by me. The original may be found in Vol. 1, Wide book, page 18, of the records returned to this Office from the War Office Jan 7. 1841.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said State, this 23d day of May. A.D. 1845.
/s/Thomas P. Treadwell
Secretary of State

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A return of the non Commissioned Officers an Private belonging to Brigadier General Hazen's Regiment who are Inhabitants of the State of New Hampshire - 

[column headings: Names and Rank-|County-| Town-|]
1 Amos Ames - Sergeant|Gloucester|Norwich|
2 Michael Salter - drum|Grafton|Haverhill|
3 Jonathan Pratt - Fife - |do|do|
4 Elisha Brown - Private -|do|do|
5 Edward Clarkd-do-|do|do|
6 Abel Davis Senr -do-|[blank]|[blank]|
7 Abel Davis Junr -do-|[blank]|[blank]|
8 Ezra Gates -do-|Grafton|Haverhil| ✓
9 William Gledon -do-| - | New Marker|
10 Benjamin Heath -do-|Grafton|Conway|
11 Thomas Hazleton -do- | do - | Haverhill|
12 Winthrop Kenniston -do-|Rockingham| Spring - |
13 Zachead Peasler ['vol' crossed out]do-| - |Dover|
14 Josiah Pratt -do|Grafton|Haverhill|
15 Abner Roe -do|Charlotte|Pereport
16 Joel Reid|Chester|Charlestown|
[end columns]
(copy) - command't

War Office March 19, 1782.
I Certify that the above is a true copy from the records of this Office
/s/Jos: Carleton Secy

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State of Vermont
Orange County ss} I Calvin Blodgett Clerk of the County Court of the County of Orange in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that
Tappan Stevens is the first assistant Judge of the County Court within + for the County of Orange aforesaid, duly commissioned + qualified: that his commission was dated o the first day of December AD 1844 and will expire on the 30th day of November next, and that his signature hereto affixed genuine
[court seal affixed]
Given under my hand + the Seal of said County Court this fifteenth day of September AD 1845
/s/Calvin Blodgett Clerk

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I Isaac Bayley of Newbury in the County of Orange of Orange & State of Vermont Aged seventy eight years depose and say that I was personally acquainted with Ezra Gates during the Revolutionary War that in 1779 Col. Moses Hasen's Regiment was stationed at Haverhill NH. in sight of my Fathers house where I then resided that I then understood that said Ezra Gates belonged to said Hasen's Regiment of which I have no doubt that in 1782 the Tories came to my Father's house for the purpose of taking him there having been a bounty previously offered for him of 500 guineas (as understood) there was a guard from Hazen's regt. left at said house of which s'd Ezra Gates was one and that he was there wounded in his arm for which he even afterwards drew an Invalids pension as I understood until his death, that said Gates was a man of good character for truth and veracity. I saw him at the time he was wounded and have been personally acquainted with him ever since until his decease
/s/Isaac Bayley

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The within deposition subscribed and sworn to this tenth day of September A.D. 1845
Before me
/s/Tappan Stevens}first assistant Judge O.C. Court

I hereby certify that I am fifty years old and that I have known the within named Isaac Bayley ever since I was a boy and that he has always sustained an unblemished Character for respectability and credibility and that his statements can be relied upon I further state that I fully believe the statement set forth in this deposition are correct and true Judgeing from history and tradition
/s/Tappan Stevens first Ast Judge O.C.Court

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I Simeon Stevens of Newbury in the County of Orange and State of Vermont aged seventy eight years depose and say that I knew Ezra Gates when he enlisted into Col Moses Hasen's ['in 1779' crossed out] Regiment in 1779 that said regiment was stationed at Haverhill N.H. about 3 miles from where I have always lived I know that he done service in said regiment and when said regiment left this section said Ezra Gates was left here with a Sergeant of said regiment on recruiting service that said Gates was wounded in his arm by tories who came to take General Jacob Bayley, that I have always known said Ezra Gates untill his death which took place about a year and a half ago I know he was the same gates that belonged to Hasen's regiment and that he drew an Invalids Pension. I knew his Children Ezra Gates, Anna Welton, Rachel Nelson, Hannah Doran and that said Gates always sustained a good Character for truth + veracity and respectability
/s/Simeon Stevens

This deposition subscribed and sworn to ['before' crossed out] the tenth day of September A.D. 1845
Before me Tappan Stevens first assistant Judge of O.C. Court

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I James Bayley of Newbury in the County of Orange and State of Vermont aged 78 years depose and say that I knew Ezra Gates late of Newbury in said  County deceased who was an invalid Pentioner of the United States I knew him when he enlisted in Col. Moses Hasen's Regiment that I lived in sight of where the regiment was quartered in Haverhill N.H. that I was frequently over there and saw him doing duty in said Regt. and that I saw him in two hours after he was wounded in the arm by the tories who came to take Jacob Bayley that I have always known him untill the time of his decease which took place about a year and a half ago /s/James Bayley
This deposition subscribed and sworn to this tenth day of Sept. 1845
Before me Tappan Stevens first assistant Judge of O.C. Court

I here by certify that I know James Bayley and Simeon Stevens whoes depositions are here taken and know them to be men who have always sustained good Character for truth and respectability.
/s/Tappan Stevens first Asst. Judge of O.C. Court