Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46,499, Benjamin Ellis, Mass N.H.

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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Mass
N H
CONTENTS
Ellis Benjamin
NUMBER
S.46.499
B.L.K. 644,300-Capt.
Issued June 2, 1796 to
Joseph Thomas assignee
No papers

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New Hampshire,
4.655
Benjn Ellis,
Colo Scammel
Capt
New Hampshire Lin
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3rd of April 1818-
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th Novr 1818.
sent to the A. Pearson Esq
Judge, Lancaster N.H.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818
Semi-anl,ending 4 Mar. 1819th
0 years
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{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
101.33
120
221.33
.
Northumberland N. H
Continued

See letter to sec of War
28 July 1828
29 Nov
Salma Hale
Hon H. Hibbard Jny 10 1854
Notification sent July 17th 1820 to
Keene H

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Benjamin Ellis
Application
Correct

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I Benjamin Ellis formerly of Keene in the
County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire now resident in Northumberland in the County of Coos & State of N. Hampshire, on oath do testify 
& declare that I served as a private soldier &
also as an officer in the war of the Revolution, more than
nine months on the Continental establishment
that is to say in the manner following viz. In the year 1775 the day after the battle at Lexington M.S
in [illegible] I marched for Cambridge and immediately organized with others into a company commanded
by Capt Juemiah Stiles, in Col Starks Regt for nine
months service, soon after the battle at Bunker hill
& I think in June. I with the aforesaid Company was transfered. I think into Col. Sargeants Regt of the Massachusetts Line where I finished the term of
service as a private soldier. The next year I engaged for five months in Capt Humphreys Company in the N. Hampshire line which term I also served as a private soldier & Sargeant at Ticonderoga on Mount
independance.
In the latter part of the year 1776 I was
appointed by the Governor & Council of New Hampshire 2nd Lieutenant in Cap Wm Elis Company in
3d N. Hampshire Regt commanded by Col Scammell
and received a Commission from Congress for during the war in the latter part of 1776 on the first of 1777
and served in that line as Lieut. until I received
the appointment of Captain and took rank at
such on the 5th day of July 1780 in the same line
in which capacity I served until the close of the

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I was Honorably discharged with the office of the American Army soon after the close of the war
I further testify and declare that I am now 65.
years old; that by reason of my reduced circumstances
in life, I am in need of assistance from my country
for support, as I am not possessed of any real & very
little personal property. I therefore think my duty
to make this application that my name may 
be placed on the pension List of the United States agreeable to the Law of Congress passed March 18th AD 1818, entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & naval services of the
United States in the Revolutionary War"
Dated at Lamaster in the County of Coos &
State of N. Hampshire the 3 day of April 1818
Witness Joseph Berry
Benj Ellis

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absolutely
that he is reduced in his circumstances and needs the affistance 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 above said.
Wm Lovejoy


I, WILLIAM LOVEJOY, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the Second District in the State aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Benjamin Ellis of [illegible]
did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, [illegible] as he has stated in his declaration aforesaid and that he is reduced in his circumstances, and [illegible] needs the assistance of his country for his support. And I
do 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 before mentioned act of Congress.

I also further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Benjamin Ellis the applicant and
know he is in reduced circumstances and absolutely stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and also that the Court of which I am a Justice is a Court of Record
Wm Lovejoy

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State of New Hampshire
Coos ss
I John Willson, Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas for the County aforesaid
do hereby certify that William Lovejoy
before whom the annexed declaration
of Benjamin Ellis was made was
the date thereof a Justice of the 
Court of Common Pleas aforesaid
that the above Signature is in his own proper
hand writing, and that to his acts and attensions as Justice as aforesaid, full faith and Credit is and ought to be given. In
testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
and affixed the Seal of said Court at
Lancaster this 4th day of September 1818
John Willson

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Benjamin Ellis
Hinsdale
4635
[illegible]
March
1879

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
CHESHIRE COUNTY SS.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
On this fourth day of July
1820 personally appeared in
open Court
being a court of record for said county, proceeding according to the course
of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a
record of its proceedings, Benjamin Ellis
aged sixty seven years resident in Hindsdale
in said county,
who being first duly sworn, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war
as follows: received a Lieutenants commission in the latter
part of 1776 or first of 1777 in Capt William Ellis Company in
the third New Hampshire regiment commanded by Col Brammel
& served as a lieutenant until the fifth day of July 1780 at
which time I received a captains commission and served as such
in different regiments in the New Hampshire Line until the army was disbanded at the close of the war-- The date
of my pension certificate is April 28, 1818
The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the third
day of April 1818
The number of my pension certificate is 4635
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States of 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 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 income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and
by me subscribed.
I am a farmer.-- By age and ill health
I am unable to labor. My family consists of a wife who is sixty five years of age in a bad state of health unable
to labor & one daughter Mary R. Ellis aged twenty seven
years my daughter has been for six years unable to
maintain herself by labor on account of sickness
Benja Ellis


Sworn to and declared at Keene
in said County, on the
fourth day of July 1820 before
R Nose Judge of said Court
I, SALMA HALE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the
County of Cheshire, 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 in the aforesaid schedule, is
sixty two
dollars and twenty nine cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the
seal of the said Court on this eighth
day of July A. D. 1820
S. Hale

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SCHEDULE,
Of the whole estate(necessary clothing and bedding excepted) and in some of Benjamin Ellis of [unintelligible] in the County of Chesire and State of New Hampshire, Applicant for a Pension under the act of Congress of May 1st, 1820.
[Below information read in columns]
1 cow - 14.50
1 [unintelligible] - 2.00
10 chairs - 4.00
1 [unintelligible] - 1.50
1 [unintelligible] - .40
9 [unintelligible] pots - .50
1 tea kettle - 1.00
1 Frying pan - .30
13 pail kettle - 3.00
1 par five [unintelligible] - .75
1 [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] - .75
1 [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] - 1.50
2 Tables - 4.00
1 [unintelligible] [unintelligible] - 1.25
43 pairs crockery [unintelligible] - 5.00
20 knives & forks - 1.25
1 Wheelbarrow - 2.50 
3 pails - .60
[total] - 43.00
[2nd column:]
1 shovel - 1 axe}
1 hoe - 1 rake} - 2.34
2 [unintelligible] - .40
1 Salt mortar - .40
6 plates spoons - .50
1 silver [unintelligible] - 1.50
3 iron [unintelligible] - .20
2 unintelligible - 2.00
1 looking glass - .20
2 [unintelligible] barrels - 1 churn}
2 [unintelligible] 2 meat [unintelligible]} - 3.25
50lb port & Butter - 5.00
1 [unintelligible] & hooks - 2.00

17.79
45.00
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total: 62.79

Benja. Ellis

We the Subscribers testify and say, that we have viewed the property contained in the above Schedule, shewn to us by _________ above named, as his property; and are of opinion that the sums set against the respective items are their true value.

Cheshire ss.          182    Personally appeared,
above named, and made oath to the truth of the above statement, by them subscribed. Before me, ___________
Justice of the Peace.
I certify, that _____________ above named, are disinterested and credible witnesses
Justice of the Peace

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THE UNITED STATES ORFAMERICA IN CONGRETS ASSEMBLED
to Benjamin Ellis ESQ
GREETING, 
[IILEGIBLE DOCUMENT]
ncil west and conference in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fiddity by these presents ┃
and appoint you to be a captain in the
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in the King of the United States, to take rank as such
from the ┃
Fifth day of July 1780 for are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a
1
1
lying and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And we do
fully charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command to be obedient to your orders, as
And you observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to
shall from there Congress of the United States or Committee of Congref firtha
City
appointed a Committee of the Nation commander in chief for the time being of the army of the
, or any other your superior for according to the rules and disipline of War, in pursuance
reposed in you. This Commission in continue in force until revoked by this, or a future Congress
of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of the State
Witness His Excellency Elias Boudinet
President of
the Congress of the United States of America at Sheldelphia
the
18
Birthday of March A.D. and in the Seventh
fear of our Independence
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A .

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45739
Revy INVALID
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File No.  45739
Benjamin Ellis
Capt. Rev War
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Act: 18 March 1818
Index: -- Vol.
3
, Page 153
{Arrangement of 1870.]

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( 3-230). Cert
No. 198
Revy
Name Benjamin Ellis
Rank: Captain
Compy:
Regt: New Hampshire line
New Hampshire Agency
RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT.
NO.
2d
19.
1st
Issue.
2
Issue.
Issue.
Comm's
Comm's
Comm's
DATE OF CERTIFICATE, AND TO WHOM SENT.
Act 14th July, 1862.
Registering Clerk:
Disability
Sent to
Sent to
Sent to
Act 182
Prost
B. Vol. Page

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Sir
Pension Office
Jny 4 1854
Benjamin Ellis, New Hampshire Rolls
Act 781897820
at $96. per annum, Please
State to what time paid
Very Respectfully
S Cole
for Com of Pensions
F Burks
Third Auditor

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Benjamin Ellis, Act 18 Mar 1818 & 15 May 1828.
$20 and $40 per month, died 29 Nov. 1831, paid
F. Burt
Auditor

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Washington Jan 3. 1854
Dear Sir
Will you allow me to
call your letter to the accompany
letter from Benjamin Ellis of Keene
the one of my constituents - and to
ask that you will cause on to be
informs in relation to the subject of
his inquires -
[illegible]
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Harry Hibbard
Hon L. P. Waldo
Com Pensions

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[illegible ] entions
by Now Wils
Keene NH

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Benjamin Ellis, To be addressed at Keene
Care of Elijah Parker Esqr
Has claims in right of his father, an officer
in the Rev. War his name Benj Ellis
His father went to Bunker Hill from Keene was
then apptd Lieut
was discharged, at close of war as Captain
He was put on the pension roll in 1818, 19
then living in Coos County, as capt
Gen Deval says his heirs may her
of something to their advantage -
Probably he never got his land
posibly not his pay, or commutation
for half pay
was put
Proof of service &c is on file when
he got his pension

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Mr Cole
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Ben Ellis
N.H  18 [illegible]
The Cole
Jany 27 1857
Ex by Mr Ewing Jr
Feb 57

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Evansville Jefferson Cory
My Dear Sir
Jany 21 1851
I have the commission, pension certificate
& some other papers belonging to
Benjamin Ellis late a captain in the army
of the Revolution is inscribed on the pension List Roll of the New Hampshire agency at the rate of 20 per month to commence on the 3d day of April 1818
Apl 28, 1818
Signed J C Calhoun [illegible] War
11
MM Evans or
Mary Ellis his daughter + wife of Charles Evans near this place is the only heir and is desirous to obtain any Bounty Land Back Bay &c that may be due her father
He died Nov 1831 and
he drew his pension from the Semiannual
payment in Sep 1831 untill the time of his death consignent by her name heir ship &c one all established I suppose that he is entitled to 300 acres Bounty Land. Will you please send me a form on 4 or 5 of them that are suitable for the application she should make also the Brunks if you have them for males an I have 2 or 3 other Cases, of Revolutionary Claims Excuse Hart
To Thomas Ewing Jany very truly I am probably &c
Washington D.C.
James H Rowens

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213.
Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled ""An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and
Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution,” approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
24 July 1828
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Benjamin Ellis under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether a commission, and, if so, what commission, was received at the War Department, from the claimant, on an
application stated to have been heretofore made by him for a pension.
Richard Ruth
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
See letter of the Secretary of War of 28 July 1828

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No of orig Pay 194
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
194
July 19. 1828.
Benjamin Ellis,
of Hinsdale in the County of
Cheshire,
in the State of New Hampshire, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled ""An Act for the relief of certain surviving
officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution,” approved on the 15th of May, 1828.
He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to and
of the war
at which period he was a Captain in the regiment of the New Hampshire
line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve
of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March,
1826, four hundred and eighty dollars, paid to him by the agent
in the State of
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated
by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary
A. Dickins,
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
21th July 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for
the commutation of five years full pay to Benjamin Ellis, Captain in
the New Hampshire line amounting to Twenty four Hundred dollars
It further appears that Benjamin Ellis is now on the pension
list of the New Hampshire agency, and has been since the 3d March
1826 at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month
Peter Hagner [illegible]
Correct
No 21,879

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Benjamin
Ellis
Revolutionary Claims
The Hon. Richard Rush
Secof the Treasury
Washington City
[affixed seal]

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Brattleboro (Vermont) June 17. 1828
Sir
Inclosed is the Declaration
of
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Capt. Benj Ellis
of
Hinsdale
(New Hampshire) in order
to received the pay or an
Office in the Revolutionary War
, agreably
to the
late act of Congress
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Capt Ellis's Commission
was sent to the War Department
when he applied
for his pension, where
now remains - This Commission
will shew his
grade &c. morefully
He is an old gentleman
and Cannot with precision recollect all
the circumstances, dates
He enlisted & served this
the War feels confident
that he was Capt in 1780 at the time
of the Resolves, but just when he was
promoted from ensign to Capt, he can
not

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not say-- He feels confident that he
had the certificates (commutation) but
thinks they were lost. The phase was
reduced & he does not exactly understand
the from age may be mistaken in some
of these things, but that he served as
an officer to the time of the Resolves
(1780) and thence to the end of the War
I presume is beyond doubt, and probably
there is but little doubt of his falling
within the provisions of the Law His former
statement and his Commission, in
the war office, will give it light
his case
The rule seems to require that the
Oath of the witnesses, be taken before 
a magistrate in his state (New Hampshire)
In this case the County Clerk of Cheshire
County is for absent on a long attendance
at the Legislature &c. and the place
of Capt Elis residence is in our vicinity
just on the New Hampshire side of the
River. We therefore supposed that the oath
might be here taken of any difficulty
arise from this circumstance, he will comply

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with the letter of the rule, and if any for
the statement or evidence is necessary,
be presume we shall be advised of
Capt Ellis is anxious to hear
as soon as convenient in relation
to this application
I am sir
Yours very respectfully
Saml Elliot
Hon R. Rush
Sery of the Treasury

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Declaration of Capt. Benjamin Ellis
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution, of proved on the 15th of May 1828 I Benjamin Ellis
of Hinsdale in the County of Cheshire and State of  New Hampshire, do herby declare that I was an officer in the 
Continental line of the army of the Revolution & served  as such to the time when the arrangement of the army provided by the resolves of Congress of the
3 and 21st of October 1780, was carried into effect and that I continued to serve to the end of the War, at which period
I was a captain in the 1st or 2d Regiment of the New Hampshire line
and I also declare that I afterwards received
certificates (commonly called commutation certificates)
for a sum equal to the amount of five years
full pay; which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress of the 22d of March 1783 instead of the half pay
for my life, to which I was entitled under the Resolve of the 21st
of October 1780
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and I do further declare, that I have received
of the United States, as a pensioner, since the 3d dayof March 1826 the sum of four hundred + eighty dollars 
paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in the State of New Hampshire
Witness my hand this sixteenth day of June
in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred & twenty
eight
in presence of Saml Elliot
Edwin D. Elliot
Benj
Ellis

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Witness my hand this sixteenth day
of June eight in presence of
Saml Elliot
Edwin D. Elliot

State of Vermont
Windham County SS
Before me Samuel Elliott Esqr a Justice
of the peace in the County of Windham aforesaid in the 
State of Vermont, personally appeared this day Seth Hooker & David Wolley of the said County of Cheshire
the State of New Hampshire
who did severally make oath that Benjam Eliss
by whom the foregoing Declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been Officer in the army
of the Revolution in manner as therein stated - Witness my hand this sixteenth
day of June A.D. 1828
Saml Elliot
Justice of the peace

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State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerk Office
Brattleborough, June 17th A.D. 1828.
I certify that Samuel Elliot, Esquire, before
whom the within affidavits were soon is a
Justice of the Peace within and for the said County of Windham, duly commissioned, and that the within is his signature-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the Seal of said County Court on the day and year above written
James Elliot, Clerk
State of Vermont