Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [BLANK], Eliphalet Downer, Navy Mass. Residence In 1795

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SERVICE      *                              NUMBER

Navy            Downer, Eliphalet     Dis. [hand written]
                                                       No papers [hand written]

Mass., residence in 1795 [hand written
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Oct. 31, 1906
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Downer, Eliphalet
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Massachusetts, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Feby 21, 1795 and printed in the American State Papers, Class 9, page 151.
Rank: Surgeon
Dolphin cutter, Captain Nicholson
Disability: The strength and motions of his left arm impaired in consequence of a wound by a grape shot.
When and where disabled; Sept 1777 on board the brig Lexington, in an action with the Alert cutter, in the English Channel.
Residence: Roxbury
To what pension entitled; One-third
Remarks; Entered on board the Dolphin in April, 1777, but the roll does not show how long he served. He is entered on the Lexington roll as a passenger only.
Evidence complete, excepting that no proof that he was wounded at all, in any other character than that of passenger. No cause is shown why application was not made prior to December 11, 1788. It appears from the deposition of Nathan Dorsey, surgeon of the continental arrived brig Lexington, that E. Downer was a volunteer on board that vessel when he received his wound; hence, it would seem that, whatever pension shall be allowed him, it can apply only to the capacity in which he was then serving, and not to his profession as a surgeon.

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