Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7620, Ebenezer Hanks, Mass.

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Mass
Hanks, Ebenezer
Abigail
NUMBER
W. 7620
B.L. Wt. 948-16055

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Let Hon Geo T. Davis
is, 14 /5-2
Hon. E. Dickinson 12 July 1854.
75
Hampshire Stamp
10.245
Massachusetts
Ebenezer Hanks
of  Belchertown in the State of Mass
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain ~~~~~
of the regt commanded
Col Hathaway in the pass (?)
line for 6 (illegible)
An
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass
at the rate of 20 Dollars 22 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of March 1833 and Sent 
Mark Doolittle Belchertown Mass
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $  40.44
Semi-anl. allowance ending           10.11
4 Sep "                                          $50.55 {Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H  McBlair, Clerk
Book E.     Vol. 2      Page 34.

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No. 4847
Massachusetts
Abigail Hanks
widow of Ebenezer Hanks
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Boston agency.
Rate
96 Dollars and 00
cents per annum.
Commencing
July 27, 1868
(illegible) payments made (illegible)
Certificate dated June 28, 1869
and sent to Gardner Tufts as State agent 
for Mass
Pres

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act Feb-
3, 1853, Page 12     Vol. H
1874. February 25 Transferred from BOSTON
FITCHBURG, Mass by general transfer from
the 4th day of Sept 1872.

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12. 956 - Act March 3/58
---
-
March 22/ 55-
Abigail Hanks widow of 
Ebenezer Hanks - pensioner
Capts. Shaw, Mills
Revolutionary War
Admit 160 acres from 14"/55
Boynton
948 iss June 14/55
Chas. C. Tucker
agt. Present
Vol. H. - 1.

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5886.
Ebenezer Hanks
5886.

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DECLARATION
IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF THE 7TH OF JUNE, 1832
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS,} ss
COUNTY OF HAMPSHIRE.}
On this fifteenth day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court, before Samuel Hinckley, the Judge of the court of Probate
now sitting, Ebenezer Hanks
a resident of Belchertown in the County of Hampshire, and State of Massachusetts, aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. 
In the fore part of the year seventeen
Hundred & seventy eight he served as a soldier
in the Revolutionary war for the term of three
months in the company of Capt Matthew Randall at Warwick in Rhode Island, and also he served as a soldier and in another campaign at places called Gildertown & Warren in Rhode Island  for the term of six weeks in the latter part of the year seventeen Hundred & seventy nine in the Company of Capt Hodges for Hisser 
in the regiment of Col Hathaway for the term of six months also the said applicant served as soldier at Cambridge in Massachusetts six weeks in the Company of Capt Shaw in latter part of the year Seventeen Hundred seventy eight at the time I the Hanks performed the above mentioned services I lived at Easton in the County of Bristol & State of Massachusetts. I also went out in the service of the Revolutionary War I believe in the year
of Seventeen hundred & seventy (?) to Waymouth about thirty miles from Easton when I then resided.  I was
called to drive off the British who had came and (illegible) & be plundering the inhabitants. I was out about ten Days

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the
State of Massachusetts
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Ebenezer Hanks
Before me Samuel Hinckley Judge of Probate for said County
We, William Stone residing in the town of 
Enfield and residing in Belchertown hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Hanks, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be twenty three years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Before me Samuel Hinckley, Judge of Probate
Wm Stone, Mark Doolittle
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and
served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Dr. William Stone  who has signed the preceding certificate, is resident in Enfield & that Hon. William Doolittle who has also signed the same, is a resident in Belchertown
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Samuel Hinckley Judge of Probate
I, Sam F Lyman Register of the Court of Probate
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Hanks for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this fifteenth
day of August thirty two in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Sam Lyman Register

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Hampshire ss
On this tenth of October in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four personally appeared before the Probate Court of the State of Massachusetts Abigail Hanks a resident of Enfield in said County of Hampshire and State aforesaid aged seventy seven years who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the third of February 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons
who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Ebenezer Hanks late of Belchertown in said County of Hampshire who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and received a pension of twenty dollars and twenty two cents a year up to the time of his death under the law of June 7th 1832
She further declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Hanks on the twenty fourth day of June in the year of of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen
and that her said Husband died on the thirty first day of July eighteen hundred and fifty- That she was not married to him prior to the second of January eighteen hundred but at the
time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow
Attest Epaphras Clark
Abigail Hanks - Her Mark

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The foregoing declaration was subscribed
and sworn to this 10th day of October A.D. 1854
Before me Ithamar Conkey Judge of Probate
I Samuel F. Lyman Register
of the Court of Probate within and
for said County of Hampshire do hereby
certify that the foregoing contains the
original proceedings before said Court
in the matter of the application
of said Abigail Hanks for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this tenth day of October A.D. 1854

Sam F. Lyman (illegible) of Probate

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12.956
Bounty Land Claim
Act of Mar 3, 1855.
Abigail Hanks
widow of Ebenezer
Chas. C. Tucker
Atty Present.

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State of Massachusetts}
Hampshire County ss}
On this fifteenth day of March 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Abigail Hanks aged seventy seven years resident of Enfield in the County aforesaid who being duly sworn declares that she is the widow of Ebenezer Hanks late of Belchertown
in said County of Hampshire deceased who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary war. The name of the company & Regiment to which the said Ebenezer belonged
is unknown to the said Abigail as is also the time of his enlistment and discharge. She further says that the said Ebenezer for many years and to the time of his death drew a pension of twenty dollars and twenty two cents
now draws annually-- And that she the said Abigail now draws the same pension as his widow under the act of Feb 3rd 1853. She further states that she was married to the said Ebenezer at said Enfield in the State of
Massachusetts on the twenty fourth day
of June AD 1817 by one Joshua Crosby a Clergyman and that her name before
her said Marriage was Abigail Samson
That her said husband died at Belchertown aforesaid on the thirty first day of July 1850 and that she is now his widow.  She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the
bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act passed March 3rd 1855 never having received bounty land or knowing that she is entitled except for the above service
and she believes that no bounty land was ever received

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by her said husband- And she hereby constitutes and appoints Charles C. Tucker her true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the above mentioned claim and to receive for her the bounty land Warrant to which she may be entitled
Attest Daniel Butler      Abigail Hanks
                                       X her Mark
Sworn to subscribed and acknowledged before me the day and year above written and on the same day personally came before me Daniel Butler and Freeman Pope both residents in Enfield in said County to me known as credible witnesses who being duly sworn declare that they are personally acquainted with Abigail Hanks widow of Ebenezer Hanks who has made and subscribe the foregoing declaration that they were personally acquainted with
Ebenezer Hanks, and his wife during his lifetime. That they were both of them present at the marriage of the said Ebenezer with
the said Abigail and saw said Marriage performed at said Enfield by the Rev Joshua Crosby on or about the twenty fourth day of
June AD 1817. That they lived together as husband and wife at Belchertown in said County to the time his death in 1850 - And that her said husband Ebenezer Hanks is the identical person who performed the military services mentioned in the above declaration that the above named Ebenezer Hanks is now dead and that she is now his widow and
the said Daniel further declares that he said the said Abigail execute the foregoing declaration by making her mark thereto and they both further declare that they are not interested
Freeman Pope
Daniel Butler
Sworn to and subscribed before me and I certify that I am not interested in said claim or (illegible)
Epaphras Clark Justice of the Peace

State of Massachusetts}
County of Hampshire ss}

On this fifteenth day of March AD 1855 Before me Epaphras Clark a Justice of the Peace within & for the County and state aforesaid
personally appeared Joseph S. Jones of Enfield in said County to me known as a credible witness who being duly sworn declares 
and says that he is town Clerk of the town of Enfield in said County of Hampshire and has in his care and custody all the public records of said town and particularly the record of Marriages. That he has carefully examined

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said record of Marriages and can find no record of the Marriage of Ebenezer Hanks to Abigail Samson. But that he finds upon said Record a certificate of the publication of Barons of which the following is a true Copy
June 7th 1817 Marriage intended between Mr. Ebenezer Hanks of Belchertown and Widow Abigail Samson of Enfield
Joseph S Jones
Town Clerk of Enfield
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Epaphras Clark Justice of the Peace

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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HAMPSHIRE SS.
I Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire, do certify, that Epaphras
Clark Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the
certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given, to his acts and attestations, done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Epaphras Clark and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine:  also that the instrument hereto annexed, purports to be
duly executed and acknowledged, according to the laws of this Commonwealth, for the purposes therein expressed.
Clerk
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said Commonwealth, this twenty second day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five
Samuell Wells
Clerk

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5886
Ebenezer Hanks
Private
6 Mos 2 days
(illegible)

Mark Dolittle
Belchertown
Mass

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BRIEF in the case of Ebenezer Hanks
of Belchertown in the State of Mass
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he?   73 years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.           Duration of Service       
                             Years    Months    Days
Winter in 1775                                   10
Rank As a - Private  
Name of General and Field Office under whom he served:                    
Gen. not stated
Winter In 1778                         3             
Rank: Private
Under Capt. Randall
Fall 1779                                   1            12                   
Rank:  Private 
Capt. Hodges, Col. Hathaway
Fall 1778                                   1             12
Rank:  Private
Capt. Shaw

5.  In what battles was he engaged?  None stated

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Easton, Mass

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Documentary proof / Living witnesses

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with evidence in the case above mentioned.

D. D. Addison
Examining Clerk

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4847
Massachusetts
Abigail Hanks
widow of
Ebenezer Hanks
who served in the Revolutionary war
as a private
____________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
20 dollars 22 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued
11thday of Jan'y 1855.
sent to
Hon. Edward Dickenson M.C
Amherst, Magistrate
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act

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Revy WIDOW, &c.
_______________________________
File No. 7620
Abigail Hanks
Wid
Ebenezer Hanks
Pvt Rev War
Act: Feb'y 3 1853
July 27       1868
Index:--Vol. A,    Page 304
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Matthew Randell
Recept
A (illegible) from
Matthew Randell 
Ebenezer Hanks (Marks)
1W.7620

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this may sastify  all parted whom it
May Concern  Ebenezer Hanks hath
the following expedition to his
three months with Capt Randall at
Warwick in (illegible) in 1778. January six 
weeks of Cambridge with Capt. Shaw & (illegible) in 1778  Six weeks at (illegible) with Capt. Hogges of 1779 

Easton October the 21stn 1779
Matthew Randell

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5,246
Abigail Hanks
Wid of
Ebenezer
Sell: to Edwd Dickinson, Nov. 14"/54
with
Act /53

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Wid:      :53    Mass:
R. Boynton

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948


160 ann

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12.956
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received May 24, 1855
Abigail Hanks
Widow of Ebenezer Hanks
Revolutionary War
Warrant No. 948160-55┃
Chas C. Tucker 
Present

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died 31" July.  50 Cent of A. & 2 wit
Copy of rec: of intent to be ma ; in Town Enfield Mass
Copy of Bible rec: & 1 wit; Pres : 2 wit: to
wid: (illegible)
"Boynton"

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Abigail
Hanks,
Wid:  of
Ebenezer
Hampshire Co.
Mass
Act / 53
$20. 22. per An:
Comm: Feby 3 1853
Revy
Department of the Interior
Pension Office, Official Business
Edward Dickinson
Amherst
Commissioner

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(Illegible) Office
Jan'y, 8" 1855.
Sir:
Please certify the
time
to which the within
named pensioner was paid,
or the date of his death
Very Respectfully
(illegible)
L P Waldo
Commissioner,
R. J. Atkinson Esq
(illegible) Treasury,}

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Ebenezer Hanks died 31 July 1850 paid in full
Robert J Atkinson
Auditor

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Amherst , Mass (Postmark)
Edw. Dickinson
of
Hon. Loren P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Recd Nov 12th 1884

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Abigail Hanks
Amherst, Mass (postmark)
Boynton (written sideways on document)
M.C.
Edw. Dickinson
FREE
Hon. L . P. Waldo M.C. 
Com of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Rec'd January 6th 18(?)

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A
vis
ois Cass
at War
ington Atty

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Belchertown Mass August 15 1832

Belchertown Mass August 15 1832
His Excellency Lewis Cass Sec'y at War
Washington Sir Herewith are enclosed
five applications for Pensions
under the law of June 7th 1832, & the evidence
accompanying the applications in each
case. I beg you to let me know
the result of the applications as soon
as the course of business in the War office will
render it convenient so to do
The applicants are Samuel Lemmon
Ebenezer Hanks, James Walker
Abner Hunt & Lemuel Field
I am yours & Mark Doolittle

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Hon L. P. Waldo
Comm of Pensions
Washington

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Amherst Mass Nov 10 "54. 
H. L. P .Waldo
Com of Pensions
Sir,
I find you herewith Abigail Hanks Application
pension - and should be obliged
you will give it (illegible) examination as is consistent.
(illegible)
Edward Dickinson

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Increase
Brief in the case of Abigail Hanks Widow of Ebenezer Hanks                                 Boston
Private Rev. War            Enfield
Hampshire County and State of Massachusetts

Massachusetts
Act 2d Sec Feb. 3. 1853.
CLAIM FOR NEW PENSION CERTIFICATE.
PROOF EXHIBITED,
Pensioner amt $20.22 pr ann. Certificate named
Claims increase under 13th Sec Act July 27, 1868
Identity and widowhood (illegible)
Admitted June 22. 1869 to pension at $96 per ann to commence July 27, 1868 deducting pay since
W. E. Trask
Examining Clerk.
Name and residence of Agent.
Gardner Tufts
State Ag. for Mass
Present.

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Document is illegible except for the following 
Postmark
Department of the Interior
June 15, 1869
Pension Office

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Massachusetts Military State Agency
Corner Seventh and D Streets
WASHINGION, D. C. June 14th 1867(9)
Hon Henry Van Aerman
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C
Sir
I have the honor to present herewith
application for Increase of Pension of
Abigail Hanks, widow of Ebenezer Hanks, late
private, Revolutionary war - with
her pension certificate Nov. 4, 1847
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
Elwin C Cutter
for Massachusetts State agent

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Brief in the case of Abigail Bank, Widow of Ebenezer
Hampshire County and State of Mass
act 3 February. 1853
Claim, ("original" or for increase")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was pensioner under the Act of June
1832, at the rate of $20.22 per Ann.
Marriage proven by Certified Copy of record of publishment of the intentions of Marriage, Copy of Record of Marriage in family Bible & the affidavit of One witness present at the same. Pensioner rec'd 31st July 1850, as per the affidavits of two witnesses, a certificate of Court & report of the Hired Auditor. 
(illegible)
identity is established by the affidavit of the credible affiants.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Hon: Edward Dickinson
M.C.
Name and residence of Agent
Amherst Mass:
Examining Clerk              J C Boynton

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Payment to be made a Boston
by
Isaac O Barnes Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners in the
Agency of
Massachusetts
Payable on the 4th September and 4th
March
Recorded in the Pension on the
Roll of Pensioners under Act of February 3d, 1853
3d, 1853, Page 2      Vol. A 
G T Getty  Clerk

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L. B. 11 for 7 (illegible)
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I certify that in conformity with the 2d section of the act of February 3, 1853, 
Abigail Hanks. 
widow of          Ebenezer Hanks.
who was a private, in the revolutionary war,
is inscribed on the Pension List, at the rate of twenty, dollars and twenty two - cents per annum, commencing on the 3d of February, 1853, and continuing for life, unless she should
again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior,
this Eleventh day of January
one thousand eight hundred and fifty five
R M Clellan
Secretary of the Interior
Examined and countersigned.
L P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions.

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(Illegible) Dec. 26 1851
Hon. James E. Heath. of Pension
Commissioner of Pension:
Dear Sir,
I enclose a letter from E. Clark, Esq of 
Enfield, in relation to the claim of the widow of Ebenezer Hanks.
May I ask that you will (illegible) it to he
ascertained whether she has any before claim.
and the reply to he returned to me with
Mr.  Clark letter. I am very respetfully
Geo T. Davis

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Amherst. Mass. Jan 3, 1855
Hon L. P. Waldo
Comm of f Pension
Sir
I enclose your additional enclosure
of (illegible) in the matter of the application
Abigail Hanks, a widow for a pension.
Please examine it & make return 
for me when convenient 
Respectfully
Edw. Dickinson

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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
HAMPSHIRE SS.
I, Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire, do certify, that Epaphras Clark
Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the
certificates on the papers hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given, to his acts and attestations, done in that capacity; and
that I am acquainted with the hand=writing of the said Epaphras Clark
and believe his signature to said certificates
is genuine: also that the instruments hereto annexed, purports to be duly executed and acknowledged, according to the laws of this Commonwealth, for the purposes therein expressed.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said Commonwealth, this twenty Seventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four
Samuel Will
Clerk.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampshire ss
Be it known that on this twelfth day of
October eighteen hundred and fifty four, before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for the said County of Hampshire and Commonwealth aforesaid
personally appeared Freman Pope resident in Enfield in said County and made oath to the truth of the following affidavit. (To wit) I Freeman Pope of Enfield in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts on oath depose and say
That I am well acquainted with Abigail Hanks
widow of Ebenezer Hanks last of Belchertown in said County a Revolutionary pensioner. That I knew her prior to her marriage with the said Ebenezer. and I further depose and say. That I was personally present at her marriage with the said Ebenezer and saw her joined in marriage with him by the Rev Joshua Crosby who performed the Marriage Ceremony. That said marriage took place in Enfield
in said County in the year eighteen hundred
seventeen and in the month of June in that year. 
I fully believe from the following facts and circumstances I am eighty four years old. I have resided in said Enfield for fifty five years last past For many years I was the town Clerk and kept the records of said town. I was town Clerk in 1817

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and I find on the town Record in my own hand
writing this record and the following is a True Copy of said Record {June 7th 1817 Marriage intended between}
included in the brackets in the words thereof {Mr Ebenezer Hanks of Belchertown and Widow Abigail Samson of Enfield}
{Freeman Pope Town Clerk}
I further testify that I can not find on the town books or on any public records any record of said marriage but I have no doubt that said marriage took place soon after the aforesaid publication of Banns and some time in the said month of June. I further depose that
prior to said Marriage with said Hanks she was the widow of one Daniel Samson. That she then resided in said Enfield-- That immediately upon her marriage with said Hanks she removed to Belchertown and lived
there with the said Hanks to the time of his
decease. And that soon after his decease she
returned to Enfield that she now resides in this
town that she has never since married
but still remains his widow
Freeman Pope
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year above written before me
Epaphras Clark Justice of the Peace

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss  Be it remembered that on this ninth day of October eighteen hundred and fifty four before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth aforesaid
personally appeared Coran Hanks resident in Palmer in the County of Hampden and Commonwealth aforesaid and made oath to the following affidavit namely

I Caron Hanks of Palmer in the County
of Hampden & State of Massachusetts on oath
testify and say that I am the son of Ebenezer
Hanks late of Belchertown in the County
of Hampshire and Commonwealth aforesaid
who was a revolutionary Pensioner and for
many years drew a pension under the laws
of the United States. That he died July thirty
first 1850 and left a widow who now resides
in Enfield in said County of Hampshire and
still remains his widow. That he married
for his last & surviving wife Abigail Samson
I remember the year of his marriage which was in eighteen hundred seventeen in the summer of that year. But I was away from home at
the time and was not at the Marriage But
I have in my possession my fathers family
Bible in which he kept in his own hand writing
a record of his marriages. And the births and
death of his wife and children said Abigail was his third wife. And the following is a true Copy of the record in said Bible in his own hand writing

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{I Ebenezer Hanks was married to his third
wife Abigail Samson June 24th 1817.}  Such is the record in words I further certify that said Abigail immediately after said marriage came home to my fathers and from that time to the time
of his death they lived together as husband
and wife she is still his widow.  Coran Hanks
Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year above
written     Epaphras Clark Justice of the Peace

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I Luther Chapin of Enfield in the County of
Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts on oath testify and say. That I am at presents Town Clerk of the said town of Enfield. That I keep the records of said town. That said records are now in my possession
and I have in my possession particularly the Record of Marriages in the town aforesaid. That I have carefully examined the book of records in which Marriages are recorded and can find no record of the Marriage of
Ebenezer Hanks with Abigail Samson in that or in any book of records belonging to said town. I further certify that I find in the town book containing a record of Marriages the following record (To wit, June 7th 1817 Marriage intended between Mr Ebenezer Hanks of Belchertown and Widow Abigail Samson of
Enfield)
I further certify that it appears by the records
that Freeman Pope of said Enfield was the town Clerk in the said town in the year eighteen hundred and seventeen. That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Pope and that the record aforesaid appears to be in his hand writing and I have no doubt
that it is-- I further testify that said Pope is still living and resides in this town. But I can find no record of the Marriage aforesaid although I  have examined the records carefully
Luther Chapin
Clerk of  Enfield

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss     Be it known that on this
twenty third day of October eighteen hundred and fifty four before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for the said County of Hampshire and Commonwealth aforesaid personally appeared
Luther Chapin a resident in Enfield in said County and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit and subscribed the same in my presence
Epaphras Clark Justice of the Peace
Abigail Hanks
Pension Declaration

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2 Feb 1. 1883
4.847
Abigail Hanks
N. Mary
DECLARATION FOR INCREASE
OF PENSION.
Under section 13, act July 27, 1868.
==========================
No. OLD CERTIFICATE. ....................................
APPLICANT.
---------------------------------------------
FILED BY
Mass State Agency Seal
June 14 1869
Printed and sold by W. Moore, 484 11th St, 
Washington, D. C.
Department of the Interior
June 15 1869
Pension Office

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N.
DECLARATION FOR INCREASE OF PENSION.
(Under section 13, Act July 27, 1868.)
State of Massachusetts┃ SS.
County of Hampshire┃ SS.
On this 9th day of June A. D. 1869, personally appeared before me, Justice of the Peace
within and for the county and State aforesaid, Mass ...
Abigail Hanks aged 9 years, a resident of Enfield in the State of Massachusetts who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that She is the identical Abigail Hanks widow of Ebenezer to whom was granted Pension
certificate No. 4847, payable at Boston Mass Agency of the rate of 20 22/100 dollars per annum, issued under the act of Feby 3rd
1853 that the makes this declaration in order to secure the increase of army pension to which he is entitled under the thirteenth section of the act of July 27, 1868. That she still remains a widow, and has not again married since the 11th day of January
1855, the date of her said certificate but continues the widow of Ebenezer Hanks private in the revolutionary war depending on her pension for support
My Post Office address is as follows: Enfield Mass ................................................................
And She hereby constitute and appoints Gardiner Tufts Mass State Agent
Washington D.C. her Attorney, to present and prosecute this claim, and authorizes
to receive and receipt for any certificate that may be issued for the same, and to do any other act or thing necessary or that he might do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby countermanding all former authority that may have been given for the above specified purpose.
Signature of Claimant: Abigail X Hanks (Her Mark)

All personally appeared Elbridge G. Cabot
and Benson Aldrich residents of Enfield Mass
persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who, being by me duly sworn, say that they were present and saw Abigail Hanks widow of Ebenezer aforesaid (make her mark)
to the foregoing declaration; and they further swear that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of the applicant and their acquaintance with her that he is the identical person she represents herself to be; and they further state that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim. That she is still a widow, not having remarried since the 11th day of January 1855 * but
to this date continues a widow depending on her pension for support.
Signatures of Witnesses.
{E. E. Cabot
{Benson S Aldrich
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 4th day of June 1869; and I hereby certify that the contents of the foregoing declaration and affidavit were carefully read by me to the applicant and witnesses before subscribing their names thereto, and I know the affiants to be credible persons.  That claimant
is old and infirm and is not able to go to the Court for the execution of this paper,

Signature of Judge or other Officer .... Charles Richards
Date of Certificate.         Justice of the Peace  

* Written sideways in margin of document
(illegible) of letter made before signing
Chas Richards Justice of the Peace

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Lot Drake
for
E. Hanks

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I Lot Drake of Worthington in the County
of Hampshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age testify & say that in the year seventeen hundred & seventy eight I was in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war & I knew Ebenezer Hanks now of Belchertown in the County of Hampshire as a soldier in the revolution, said Hanks served with me three months in the
Company of Capt. Matthew Randall in the
Regiment of Col. Hathaway at Warwick
in Rhode Island, the said Hanks then lived in
Easton in the County of Bristol & state of Massachusetts. I also knew the said Hanks to serve six weeks in the service of the  United States at a place called Givertown(?) & Warren in the state of Rhode Island in the year of our Lord seventeen Hundred & seventy nine
in the Company under Capt. Hodges or Hogges in the Regiment of Col Hathaway & further the deponent saith not
August 1st 1832                        Lot Drake
Sworn to Commonwealth of Massachusetts
August 1  Hampshire County on this
first day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty two the aforesaid Deponent was examined & cautioned & sworn to the (illegible) deposition aforesaid by him
subscribed taken at the request of Ebenezer Hanks & to be used at the War office of the United States in case of application for pension of the said Ebenezer Hanks under the Law of the U. S pension of 1832
Mark Doolittle Justice of the Peace

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
HAMPSHIRE SS. I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County, do hereby certify that Mark Doolittle Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was
taken is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that I am well acquainted with
his hand writing, and have no doubt that the Signature annexed to said deposition is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this fifteenth day of August A. D. 1832.
Samuel F Lyman
Register of Probate.

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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, Ebenezer Hanks of the State of Massachusetts who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Twenty dollars and Twenty two cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing 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 Twenty fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Lew Cass
Secretary of War
{Seal}

Examined & Countersigned,
J. L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire, SS:  At a Court of Probate holden at Northampton in and for said County, on the first Tuesday of November, A.D. 1850, before the Hon. Ithamar Conkey, Judge of Probate in and for said County, satisfactory evidence was furnished that Ebenezer Hanks, a Revolutionary Pensioner within named, died on the 31st day of July, 1850. and left a widow whose name is Abigail Hanks and who now resides in Belchertown in said County.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand

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{Seal} the seal of said Court this 5th day
of Nov. 1850
Sam F. Lyman
Register of Probate
10.245

Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
July 18, 1854
I certify that the foregoing is a true copy
of the original on file in this Office.
F Burt
3rd Auditor

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Abigail Hank,
(illegible)

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I Freeman Pope of Enfield in the County
of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts on oath testify and say, That I have recently given my deposition before Epaphras Clark Esq a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hampshire
on the petition of Abigail Hanks of said Enfield
to obtain the benefit of her husbands (Ebenezer Hanks) pension late of Belchertown deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner. I suppose that the deposition I then gave (which was only a few weeks since) is now in the Pension Department at Washington
I now further testify that I have known the said
Abigail Hanks well for many years. And also her late husband Ebenezer Hanks of Belchertown. And that she is the widow of the identical Ebenezer Hanks who was a Revolutionary pensioner of Belchertown in the County
of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, and that I know her to be his widow
Freeman Pope
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Hampshire SS Be it remembered that on the fifteenth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and fifty four Before me Epaphras Clark a Justice of the Peace within and for the said County of Hampshire Personally appeared Freeman Pope and made oath to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit in my presence  And I further certify that the said Freeman is a credible

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witness and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and declarations made under oath or otherwise
and I further certify that Coran Hanks of Palmer whose Affidavit before me was taken in this case and is now in the Pension Department in the City of Washington is a credible witness and that full faith & credit is and ought to be given to his acts and declarations
Epaphras Clerk Justice of the Peace

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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HAMPSHIRE SS.
I, Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampshire, do certify that Epaphras Clark -----
Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the
certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given, to his acts and attestations, done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Epaphras Clark ------------
and believe his signature to said certificate
is genuine: also that the instrument hereto annexed, purports to be duly executed and acknowledged, according to the laws of this Commonwealth, for the purposes therein expressed.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said Commonwealth, this twenty fifth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.
Samuel Wells
Clerk