Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,569, Ebenezer French, Mass.

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(3-1776) 

Service 
Mass

French, Ebenezer

Number 
S. 43,569.

Contents

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[left page, handwritten] Notifn sent Dec 13 1821 to J. Forman 
Syracuse N.York

[right page]

(2,661)

New York

Ebenezer French, 
Capt Allen private 4
Massachusetts line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of New York, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month to commence on the 11th of April, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th of Sep 1818 and sent to Joshua Forman, Esq Marcellus, N. Y.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 4 mo. 24/30 38.40
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819. 48.00

$86.40
Ward [?]
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818} 
One Year
Continued
Marcellus Onodago

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[faded] Massachusetts

Massachusetts
Ebenezer French

[section crossed out] not on Rolls
DN[?]
Sec [illegible- lien?]
in the case of Paul Hay 
War Dept
Pen. offer [end cross out]

22 May 1918

Admitted
X

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State of New York 
Onondaga County } On the thirteenth day of August in the year 1818 came before me --- Joshua Forman First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Onondaga Nehemiah Cleaveland of the Town of Marcellus in the County of Onondaga and Roswell Cleaveland of the Town of Cazenovia in the County of Madison, two credible witnesses produced by & in behalf of Ebenezer French of the Town of Ohio in the County of Onondaga who being duly sworn do depose & say that they are personally knowing to & do well recollect the fact that the said Ebenezer French was a soldier & did serve in Captain Allens Company in Colonel Wards Regiment in the Massachusetts line in the continental service from on or about the first day of March in the year 1776 until the first of January 1777 when he he was discharged from service at [illegible] in the State of New York.
Both these deponents were soldiers in said company all that time the time that the said French was a soldier [illegible] Company at the time these deponents joined the same which was about the said first of March & they were discharged from service at the same time with him & further say not - 
Sworn before me on the day & year aforesaid Joshua Forman 
(signed)
Nehemiah Cleaveland
Roswell Cleaveland

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State of New-York, Onondaga County.} 
I, Joshua Forman, First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Onondaga, in the State of New-York, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that Ebenezer French --- of the town of Otisco in said county, did serve in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, as stated by him in his declaration on oath hereunto annexed, made before me 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 Revolutionary War:" 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 the aforesaid act of Congress. 
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the said Court to be affixed, this Eleventh day of April in the year 1818. [signature] Joshua Forman
To J.C. Calhoun, Esq. Secretary for the Department of War of the United States}

I Joshua Forman First Judge & as aforesaid do further certify that Roswell Cleaveland & Nehemiah Cleaveland whose deposition is hearto annexed are Credible Witnesses and that it does appear to my satisfaction that the said Ebenezer French is in reduced circumstances in life & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support - and I now transmit at the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the

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State of New York
Onondaga County 
Ebenezer French being duly sworn saith that in the month of December in the year seventeen hundred & seventy five he enlisted for the term of one year from the first day of January thereafter as a private soldier in Captain Jonathan Allens Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Jonathan Ward in the Massachusetts line in the Continental service & joined the army at Dorchester near Boston on the first day January Seventeen hundred & seventy six & served in the same company & regiment for the Term of one year and was with the army on Long Island, York Island & in Westchester County & was discharged at [illegible]  hill on the first day of January in the year seventeen hundred & seventy seven. Mat he never received any written discharge as he
recollects. Mat. he is aged sixty one years in this month of April & lives in the town of Otisco in the County of Onondaga & from his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his country for support - &   further saith not [signature] Ebenezer French

Sworn to and declared this Eleventh day of April in the year 1818 before me
Joshua Forman
first Judge of Onon.a
Com. Pleas

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Ebenezer French
Otisco
Onondaga Co.
2661

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State of New York,
Onondaga County } ss;
     On the first day of September 1820, personally appeared in open court in the court of common pleas in and for the county of Onondaga, a court of record proceeding according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of their proceedings, Ebenezer French aged Sixty three years, resident in Otiseo in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: In Jonathan 
Allen's Company in Col Wards Regiment in the Massachusetts troops for the term of one year untill he was regularly discharged, that he holds a pension certificate No2661, that he made his original declaration for a pension on the 11th of April 1818 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United states on the 18th day of March, 1818; 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 soto 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 income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. Ebenezer French 
[Left column]
A Schedule of Ebenezer Frenchs property
Stand table                     $2.00
Candle Stand                    0.75
5 chairs                             0.63
1 chest draws                    2.00
1 Looking glass                 0.50
Shovel & tongs                 1.50
1 pair fire dogs                  0.75
1 small crane & hooks       0.88
3 dish kettles                     3.50
1 Tea kettle broken            0.75
1 pot                                  1.00
1 Bake kettle                      1.00
1 Skillet                              0.37   
1 Spider                             0.25
1 Broken do [ditto?]          0.[Illegible] 6
1 old wash tub                  0.12
1 water & swill pail            0.38
1 wood bowl                     0.12
2 Tin pails poor                 0.25
4    "   pails do [ditto]        0.50
1 old lantern                     0.18
2 Tin basons [basins]        0.12
4 old Knives & forks         0.50 
3 Table spoons                  0.18
6 Teaspoons                      0.18
6 plates                             0.38
[Last line cut off]

[Right column]

Real estate 18 acres 217 [illegible]
land at $10 per acre $181.31
_______________________________________________
 Ages
     Ebenezer French  63
            his wife          52
their son Vincent           9
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1 cow                                            $10.00
1 hog                                                2.50
about 20 hens & chickens                1.50
                                                       _________
                                                      14.00

Brought up                                     26.37
                                                      ________
                                                       40.37
______________________________________
Land brought down                      181.31 
                                                      _________
                                                       $ 221.68
Debts to Sundry persons
Total from the opposite page
                                                          247.38
                                                          221.68
                                                         ________
          Debtor                                         $25.67

     Ebenezer French
Debts due from Ebenezer French to the following persons Viz.-
Luther French                      $192.50  
Lee Merrimam                           6.69 
Wm  King                                  4.10   
[Last line cut off]

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1   Spider                                  0.25
1  Broken  do                           0. 06
1  Old Wash Tub                      0. 12
1  Water & swill pail                 0.38
1  Wood bowl                          0.12
2  Tin Pails poor                       0.25
4 Tin Pails d_                            0.50
1 old Lantern                           0.18
2 Tin basons                0.12
4 old knives & forks                 0.50
3  Table Spoons                       0.18
6 Teaspoons                            0.18
6 plates                                    0.38
5 Tea Cups & Saucer               0.20
1 Milk cup                               0.10
3  Bowls                                   0.25
1 pt. mug 1 qt do                    0.15
3 bottles                                  0.19
2 tin cups                                0.15
1 old ______                             0.75 
1 red ear then po___               0.15
1 craked  Stone  do  0.10
12 lb pork                               0.75
8 small cheeses                      3.00
 1 old tin canister                   0.06
 6 old pewter plates               0.70
1 old " bason     0.10
1 tin grater & comb case 0.12
2 old tin pepper boxes            0.10
1 old flat iron                          0.25
                                __________________
                                              26.37
Land bought & own        181.31
                                _________________
                                         $221.68
                                 
Debts to sundry persons
Total from the opposite page
                                          247.35
                                          221.68
                              _________________
   Debtor--                        $    25.67

Ebenezer French
Debts due from Ebenezer French to the following persons Viz____
Suther French -             $192.50
Lee & Merriman                 6.69
Wm. King                           4.10
Lebbeus Pomroy                2.71
Wm. J. Willcox                    5.00
Josiah Daniels                    3.43
James Andrews                  9.92
Wm. C. Watson                23.00
                               _______________
                                    $247.35
That this deponent is afflicted with bodily infirmity and hath a wife and one child dependent on him for their support. And he has no calling but that of a farmer. 
Ebenezer French
Sworn in open court this 1 September 1820
J.O. Wattles Judge of Court Common Pleas

I, Truman Adams, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Onondaga, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Two Hundred Twenty One dollars and sixty eight cents.   & owes Two hundred forty seven dollars & thirty five cents.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twenty first day of September 1820.
Truman Adams
Clerk of the court for the County of Onondaga

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[circular stamp] PENSION A
U S
MAR 1 1894 
OFFICE.
[square stamp with date in center- outer writing illegible]  Mar 3 1894

Meadville, Penna. 
Feb. 26th, 1894

Dear Sir.-
Please give me official record of one Ebenezer French, a soldier of the Revolution. He entered the Continental army early in the war, in 1776 I think, from West Hampton, Mass. at the age of nineteen. Served over one year and afterward as a minute man was in service several times for short periods. He drew a pension from 1818 till his death in 1844. He died in Tully, Onondaga Co.

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N.Y. and lived either there or at Otisco, N.Y. when pension was granted. 

Thanking you in advance for the trouble you will take
I remain 
Mrs. E. A. Hempstead
654 North Main St.

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43569
INVALID
Revy
File No. 43569
Ebenezer French 
Pri Rev War
Act:  18th March 18
Index: - vol.  3, page  179
[in brackets] Arrangement of 1870.


Mch. 15/94 [illegible]
Mrs. E.A. Hempstead 
654 N. Main. St.
Meadville, Pa.    C