Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,938, Ebenezer Folker, Conn.

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SERVICE 
Conn.
Folker, Ebenezer
NUMBER 
S. 37,939
CONTENTS

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2604
Connecticut Roll
Ebenezer Folker
Cpt Wy Elys  private
Connecticut Line
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of light Dollars per month, to commence on
the 21 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd of September 1818
and forwarded to Agustus
Pettibone Esq. of Norfolk Litchfield
County, Connecticut.

Arrears to 4t of September 1818 $35.73
Semi-anL all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819 $48.00
arrs 4 Mar 1820 $83.73

Revolutionary claim
Act 18th March, 1818.
War - 6 years
Kent, Litchfield County

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Notification sent September 21st 1820 to
Frederick Wolcott, Litchfield, Connecticut

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Connecticut
Ebenezer Folker pr:
21 Apl 1818

Augustus Pettibone Eq.
Norfolk, Litchfield Cr

Admitted

[handwritten upside down] For
Honle John C Calhourn
July 30 Secretary of War
Washington

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For[Illegible]
Honle John C Calhourn
July 30 Secretary of War
Washington

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District of Connecticut [illegible] and County of Litchfield
on the twenty first day of April 1818 before
me Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge of the County
Court for the County of Litchfield personally appears
Ebenezer Folker of the town of Kent
in said County aged sixty five years who [illegible]
by me first duly sworn according to law
[illegible] on his oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the [illegible]
of the act of Congress entitled an [illegible]
[illegible] for certain persons engaged in the
land and naval service of the United States
in the Revolutionary War.

That he the said Ebenezer Folker at
Greenwich in the County of Fairfield & state of 
Connecticut on the 25th day of February in
1777 enlisted as a private for and during the war of the
Revolution on the Continental establishment [illegible]
he enlisted in the company commanded by
Captain [illegible] in Second Connecticut Regiment
commanded by Colonel Herman Swift
which was formerly the 7th Connecticut Regiment
that he served the United States in said regiment
against the common enemy till the end of
the said war and was regularly discharged
at West Point in the state of New York and
[illegible] a discharge under the hand of Gen G
Washington & Col Swift. Which discharge
was burnt and destroyed with his other papers
and effects in his dwelling house in said
Kent about thirteen years ago. He does not

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recollect the date of his discharge but it was in the fall
or autumn of 1783.
that he is in reduced circumstances and stand in need
of the assistance of his country for support
that he has no other evidence of his said [illegible]
except of the testimony of Ebenezer Tanner Esq.
of Warren in said county a witness now present
Ebenezer [illegible]

Subscribed sworn to and declared before me
the day and year first above written

Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge
of Litchfield Court of Common [illegible]

Personally appeased Ebenezer Tanner Esq. of
said Warren {to me personally known as a credible witness} and being duly sworn in testifies and
says that he is personally acquainted with the
above named Ebenezer Folker of said
Kent. That he well knows that the said
Folker was a private soldier in the regiment
of Colonel Herman Swift. That he served in
said regiment two or three years or more
and that he the said Tanner served with
him in said regiment but not in the same
company. and that he the said Tanner left
the army in the year 1782 and according
to his best knowledge & belief the said Falker
continued in said regiment after the said Tanner
left it. The said Folker is a poor man . and stands
in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Eben.r Tanner
Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge

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I Augusts Pettibone Chief Judge of the 
County Court for the County of Litchfield [illegible] also
do certify that it appears to my satisfaction
that the aforesaid Ebenezer Folker of
Kent did serve in the revolutionary war more
than nine months and agreeable to his proceeding
declaration against the common enemy
and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony
to them and had before me the secretary for
the department of war pursuant to the directions
of the aforementioned act of Congress.

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
caused to be affixed the seal
of [illegible] Court in which I
preside this twenty first
day of April 1818

Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge

If a pension is allowed to Eben. Folker
Please send the certificate to Asa Bacon in
Litchfield, Con.

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Augusts Pettibone, judge
Litchfield County,
Connecticut.

Ebenezer Folker,

Not found on the Conn.t
rolls. by the
name of Ebenezer Folker.
Returned for further evidence.-

A person of the name of
Eben. Forker, appears on
the roll of the 7th Connecticut
Com.d by Col. Samuel Webb-
It Must be satisfactorily proved
that the applicant is the same
person recorded on the rolls.

Returned for correction.

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I Augusts Pettibone Chief Judge of the 
County Court for the County of Litchfield [illegible] also
do certify that it appears to my satisfaction
that the aforesaid Ebenezer Folker of
Kent did serve in the revolutionary war more
than nine months and agreeable to his proceeding
declaration against the common enemy
and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony
to them and had before me the secretary for
the department of war pursuant to the directions
of the aforementioned act of Congress.

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
caused to be affixed the seal
of [illegible] Court in which I
preside this twenty first
day of April 1818

Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge

If a pension is allowed to Eben. Folker
Please send the certificate to Asa Bacon in
Litchfield, Con.

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District of Connecticut [illegible] town & country of Litchfield
Supplemental affidavit

Personally appears Ebenezer Folker of the town of Kent in
said county and being duly sword testifies and says
that on the 21st day of April 1818 before Augustus Pettibone
Judge of the County Court for sd County he made his declaration
or affidavit for the purpose of obtaining a 
pension under the late law of Congress. That his papers
were then sent to the war office and have been returned.
On examination he see that in sd declaration is is
stated that "he enlisted on the 25th of February 1777 in 
the second Conn.t Regt. commanded by Col. Herman
Swift which was formerly the 7th Conn.t Regt."
He now testifies and says that on said 25th of February
1777 he {first} enlisted in the company commanded by
Capt. Paul Graves Willis in the 7th Conn.t Regiment
commanded by Col. Samuel Webb. That when the
regiment were reduced {or after he had served several years in the 7th regiment} he entered or joined the
company commanded by Cpt. [illegible] in the second
Conn.t Regiment commanded by Col. Hermand Swift
in which he served till the close of the Revolutionary
War when he was regularly discharged at West Poin
as stated in his declaration aforesaid.
That his name is uniformly pronounced Forker and
is often so written.
My said declaration was drawn by Mr. Bacon of
Litchfield and I then informed him that I just
enlisted in said P. G. Willis's company in the 7th
Conn.t regt. commanded by Col. Samuel Webb
and afterward served at the close of the war in said
second regiment - and I supposed my declaration
was so drawn until it was returned from the
war office - I served in both regiments and
am confident there was no man in either regiment
of the name of Forker or Folker except myself.
I am poor & need the assistance of my country for support.
Ebenezer Folker

Subscribed and sworn before me this 22nd
day of July 1818 and {to be} annexed to the original
declaration of said Folker.

Frederick Wolcott Judge of Probation

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Augusts Pettibone Esq.

Sir, I drew Eben. Folker
Declaration for a Pension. I well remember he then
told me, he first enlisted in Capt Willis's company
in Col. Samuel B. Webb's regiment - that at the close of the
war he was in service in Col. Swift's regiment. I therefore
mentioned both regiments in his declaration but did
not state his enlistment and service in each with
sufficient accuracy. I have therefore drawn for him
the preceding declaration to which he has made oath
before Judge Wolcott and I now send the same to you.
Your Obedt Sert
Asa Bacon [illegible]

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State of Connecticut & Town of Kent County of
Litchfield on this 25 day of July A1818
personally appears Amos Bornum of the town
of Kent to me personally known as a credible
witness and being duly sworn testifies and says
that for many years past he has been personally
acquainted with Ebenezer Folker of said Kent who
has applied for a pension under the late act
of Congress. that he will knows that the said
Folker enlisted during the war of the revolutiuon
and at the [illegible] of the war he served in the
Second Connecticut Regiment commanded by
Col. Herman Swift that the said Bornum
was a Sergiant and served in the same Regiment
with said Folker for more than two years
that his name then and ever since has been
pronounced Forker, tho he spells his name
Folker. The said Bornum futher testifies that
he was well aquainted with the soldiers in said
regiment & that he does not recollect that there
was any one of the name of Folker or Forker
except the above named Ebenezer Folker that he
[illegible] mention that the said Ebenezer Folker first
enlisted & served in the 7th Connecticut Regiment
commanded by Col. Webb but the said Bornum
did not serve with him in that regiment.
that the said Folker is a poor man & needs the
assistance of his country for support
Sworn before me the day & date above

Nathaniel P Perry Justice
for Litchfield County

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State of Connecticut & town of Kent
County of Litchfield on this 21st day
of July A1818 personally appeared
Hopson Pratt Esq. Bradley Mills
and Williams Mansfield all of the town
of Kent to me personally known as
credible witnesses and being duly sword
according to law testify and say that
they are and for many years last past
have been personally acquainted with Ebenezer
Folker of said Kent who has applied
for a pension under the late act of
Congress. that his name is uniformly
pronounced Forker. tho he spells his name
Folker. that he is universally reported to be
an old continental soldier who servied
during the war of the revolution that
he is in reduced circumstances & stands
 in need of his country for support
Sworn before me the day & date above
Nathaniel P. Perry Justice of Peace
for Litchfield County

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I Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge of the County Court for 
the County of Litchfield
Do certify that I am personally acquainted with the hand writing of the
Honle Frederick Wolcott Judge of Probate for the District of
Litchfield and that the signature to the proceeding supplemental
affidavit of Eben.r Folker is the proper hand writing of said
Frederick Wolcott
and also that Nathaniel P. Perry before whom the enclosed
affidavits were taken is a Justice of the Peace
for the County of Litchfield to me well known as a
respectable magistrate and I have no doubt but the signature
to the affidavits by him taken in his proper hand writing.
The reason of taking these affidavits before Judge Wolcott
& Mr. Perry is that I live about thirty miles from Kent
and seventeen miles from Litchfield and the poverty
and bodily infirmity of said Folker is such that it is difficult
for him to appear personally before me with his witnesses.

I do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said
Ebenezer Folker is the same person who served in the
revolutionary war against the common enemy by the
name of Eben.r Forker at first in the 7th Connt Regt
commanded by Col. Sam.l F Webb and afterwards in the
regiment commanded by Col Herman Swift,
That he enlisted and served during the war I have no
doubt from his preceding declaration and the affidavits
of respectable and credible witnesses herewith [illegible]
that he is in indigent {& reduced} circumstances and stand in
need of the assistance of his country for support

I now therefore transmit the original and supplemental
evidence [illegible] proceedings taken & had before me to the
secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the
Directions of the forementioned act of Congress

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand
This 29th day of July A1818 at Norfolk
in said County of Litchfield

Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge

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Ebenezer Folker
2604
Con
[illegible]
Sworn to and declared   on the 5th day of July A.D. 1820
before said Court

Frederick Wolcott, Clerk

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Ebenezer Folker
2604
Con
[illegible]
Sworn to and declared on the 5th day of July A.D. 1820
before said Court

Frederick Wolcott, Clerk

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District of Connecticut ss. County of Litchfield, County Court.
On this 5 day of July 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a court of RECORD for
said county in said district, having the power to fine and imprison, Ebenezer Folker
aged 66 years resident in Kent in said county, who being
first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the the Revolutionary War, as follows:
That he enlisted into the American army into a
company commanded by Capt. Paul Graves Wyllis
in a Regiment commanded by Col. Samuel B
Webb of the Connecticut line on the continental
establishment. That his original declaration was
dated the 21st day of April 1818 & that his
pension certificate is numbered 2604

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner
disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the
provision of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provider for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

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Schedule
Life estate in 1/2 an acre of poor land
and half of the house thereone - $30.00
[illegible] & tongs 0.50 iron pot 0.50  - $1.00
2 Chairs - 0.25                                            .25
1 Scythe and hoe                                     1.17
                                                              32.42

Ebenezer Folker

I have no wife or child or any person residing
in my family.

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I, Frederick Wolcott, Clark of the County Court, in the county of Litchfield, and
State of Connecticut, do hereby cerftify that the foregoing Oath and the
schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the court; and I do further
certify that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of property
exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is thirty two
dollars and 42 cents.

In testimony whereof I have thereto set my hand, and afficed the seal of the said
courth, on this 17th day of July 1820

{(Crossed out) Clerk of the County Court for the County of Litchfield}

Frederick Wolcott, Clerk

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37938
Invalid.
[illegible] [illegible]
File No. 37938
Ebenezer Folker
[illegible]

Act: 18 March 18[illegible]

Index: Vol. L, Page 142

[Arrangement of 1870.]