Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2524, Ebe Durkee, Conn.

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Conn. | Durkee, Ebe | S.2524
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Contents

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8492

Vermont

Ebe Durkee
of Rutland Co in the State of Vermont
who was a Matr &/or chf in the company commanded
by Captain Durkee of the regt commanded by Col. Wells in the Ct. ma for 12 mos mat
2 mos pri inf

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 106 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Reduced to $55.00 & new cer. issued March 24 1835 cir. sent to Cyrus [illegible] Ravena Ohio

Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of Apl 1833 and sent to R. Temple Rutland

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $213.32
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept 1833 53.33
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$266.65

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by W. L. Williams, Clerk
Book G. Vol. 3 Page 60
& Book E Vol 8 Page 409

Transferred to Oh Pittsbg
notifications issued 8 Augt 1834
from 4 Mar 38
Payment decreased let agent & w. Cyrus Beutis June 1835
"" "" July 1835

Letter to Pen Ag 16 Sep 1839
let to Hon. D. R. [illegible]  H. R. Mar 24 1846

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No 1560
Vermont

Suspended Nov 23 1832
Obj 14 & 16

Admd

18 Dec '32
Susp obj. 16

Rejected
on account of his age: too you to have served as stated. Send to 2d [illegible] '37

R. Temple
Present
[crossed out "Rutland VT"]
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Brief in the case of Ebbe Durkee of Rutland County in the State of Vermont (Act 7 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?

64 Years

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

Period - July In 1779
Duration of Service - 9 Months
Rank - As A - Substitue
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served - Capt. Jos. Durkee, Col. Levi Wells

Period - July In 1781
Duration of Service - 2 Months
Rank - As A - Waiter
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served - Capt. Robbins, ..., Gillet

Period - July In 198?
Duration of Service - 12 Months
Rank - As A - Enlisted Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served - Capt. Benj. Durkee, D Hodgkins, ...

Connecticut ...

5. In what battles was he engaged?

None

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?

... Connecticut

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

Living Witnesses

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

They are not

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

Rob Grabec
Examining Clerk.

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State of Vermont
Rutland  county

 On this 14th day of July A.D. 1812 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Probate Court of Rutland and State  Vermont Ebbe Durkee a resident  of the County of Rutland and State of Vermont   aged 64 years almost who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of 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 state:  In 1779 in July or August his brother John Durkee enlisted for nine months into the company commanded by his father, Capt. Joseph Durkee, in Col Levi Well's Rgt of Connecticut troops and the said Ebbe Durkee took his brothers' place as a substitute of served the full period of nine months & was waiter to his father Capt. Durkee. He served at New London & Stratford, Connecticut to defend the coast - his father commission accompanies this! In the winter of 1781 he served as a substitute for his uncle David Fisk who was drafted for two months, & the deponent took his place & served as waiter to Ensign Gillett two months from Nov 1780 to Jany 1781, & was sustained at Fort Griswold in Capt Robins company, Col McClellans Regt. In the 6 Sep 1782 he enlisted for one year & served as waiter to Dr. Thomas Hodgkins by whom he was enlisted, & served at Fort Trumbull & Fort Griswold in Connecticut, & was discharged at Fort Trumbull at the end of his term but never received any written discharge. He served in Capt Benj. Durkees company, Col M. [illegible] regt of Connecticut Troops. In 1779 [illegible] were 2 militia regts from Connecticut & one from Massachusetts in service at New Haven his Genl Dory can he thinks commanded a part of the time but there were no continental troops served with him. He has no documentary evidence except his father's commission, & the affidavits of Lt. Hodgkins & John Durkee which accompany this. 
He is known to Deacon Luther Fairbank, Deacon Green, & most of the inhabitants of Pittsfield. The clergyman has been there but a short time. He was born in Windham Connecticut, the 26 July 1768 where his age is recorded. In the winter of 1784 he removed with his father to Stockbridge Vermont, where he lived until he was 23 years old when he moved to Pittsfield where he has ever since lived.

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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
Ebe Durkee
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
R. Royce Reg.

We John Suddard a Clergyman residing in Pittsfield and Nathan Green residing in the same place, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Ebe Durkee who has subscribed and sworn tot he above declaration; that we believe him to be 64 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.
John Suddard
Nathan Green
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
R. Royce Regr

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 above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that John Suddard who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in Pittsfield, and that Deacon Nathan Green who has also signed the same, is a resident in Pittsfield and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Rodney C. Royce Regr 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 Ebe Durkee for a Pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 30 day of July AD 1832.
R. Royce Regr

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Rev War

2524
INVALID.

File No. 2524
Ebe Durkee
Mat Rev War

Act: June 7 1832
Index: - Vol. A, Page 103.
(Arrangement of 1870.)

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Apr 30/34 Papers to War Dept
memo within

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Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire,
Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over the State of Connecticut, in America.

To, Joseph Durkee [faint word] Greeting.
You being by the General Assembly of this State appointed to be Captain of a company in a Regiment of [word] ordered to be raised for Defence of the Sea Coasts and Frontiers of this and the adjoining States, and to prevent the Incursions and Depredations of the Enemy, reposing special Trust and Confidence in your Fidelity, Courage, and good Conduct, I DO by Virtue of the Laws of this State, me thereunto enabling, appoint and impower you to take the said company into your Care and Charge as their Caption carefully and diligently to discharge that Office and Trust, exercising your inferior Officers and Soldiers in the use of the Arms, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, ordained and established by the Laws of this State, keeping them in good Order and Government, and commanding them to obey you as their Caption for the Service aforesaid; and you are to observe all such Orders and Directions as from Time you shall receive, either from Me, or from other your superior Officer, pursuant to the Trust hereby reposed in you.
Given under my Hand, and the public Seal of this State at Hartford, the 21st Day of June Anno Domini 1779.
Jon. Trumbull
By His Excellency's Command,
George Wyllys, Sec'ry.

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To what time was Ebe Durkee [illegible] & matross 106.66/100 paid at the Vermont agency first & at the Ohio Pittsburgh agency by transfer?
Geo. C.
March 24 '36

Paid in [Ohio crossed out] Vermont to March 1834& in Pittsburgh to 4th March 1835.

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$106.66
Overpaid $200 up to the 4 March 1835 
Amount due from 4 March 1835
to 4 Sept 1839 $56.66- is $254.97
deduct overpayt 200.00
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54.97

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I David Smith of Brainbee in the County of Orange and State of Vermont depose that in the year 1779 I served nine months in Capt. Joseph Durkees Company of Connecticut State troop in Col. Levi Wells regiment. I enlisted into said company about the first of July and marched to New London where we staid until about the last of January 1780. We then moved to Stafford and staid there till our nine months expired. And I am knowing that Ebbe Durkee now of Pittsfield in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont served in the same company with me. I was well acquainted with him and known that he served in said company the term of nine months.
David Smith

Sworn and subscribed to the 16th day of July 1832.
Before me
Wm. R. Blossom Justice Peace

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7. 
a. List of names indorsed "List of Prisners taken in the Calley Gibleyalter" and "List of Prisners taken in the Galey Hunter."
b. Return of cannon, small arms, and warlike stores at Fort Trumbull, Dec. 12, 1782.

Taken from the claim of Ebe Durkee, No. 2,524.

War Dept Apr 20 '04

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Return this.

It will be found by inspection that the county clerks [illegible] is inpressed through all the papers. This M. Edwards has decided supercedes the necessity of putting them together with tape.
R. Temple

first term of service disallowed on account of age.

admd
12 mo Matross 100
2 mo pri infy 6.66
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$56.66

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Ebbe Durkee which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?

V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?

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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
Has the official character and signature been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
No, see June 16

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?

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EXPLANATORY NOTES,

QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For ____ year ______ months and _____ days, I served as a ______. For ______ months and _____ days, I served as a ______; and for such service I claim a pension."

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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

For his last service he will only be allowed till the 11th of April 1783

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Ebe Durkee

Payments to be made at Burlington by Pres U. S. Br. Bank
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Vermont

May 3, 1833 of Pittsfield 43 years, previous of Stockbridge Capt Durkee, [illegible], Col McClellen

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book C Vol. 3 Page 60 by W. L. Williams, Clerk

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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, Ebe Durkee of the state of Vermont who was a Matross and Private of Infantry in the war of the Revolution is entitled to receive one hundred & six dollars and sixty six 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 15 day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
Lew Cass
Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned.}
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

[written across the document]
Pension reduced [illegible] and new certificate issued March 24 183[?]

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Free

Ravenna O
June 22

Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C.

June 29

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30 June 1835 sent him blank form of declaration for act 16th May, 1828.}

Ravenna June 22d 1835

D Sir, -
I perceive by a notice of yours dated June 2d, that you will direct the place and manner of the payments of those Pensioners who have heretofore been paid by the Secretary of Treasury.
Ebenezer Bostwick is one of that number requests me to ascertain where he can get his money. He has not received any since 4th Sept 1834.
Will you be so good as to inform me what the necessary steps will have to be he will wish to receive it at Pittsburgh.
I received this morning your favor relating to Ebe Durkee pension. Will the statements required have to be made in open court if so he will have to wait until October. I have addressed him or him this morning.
I remain your 
obedient humble
servant
Cyrus Prentiss

Hon J. L. Edwards

8492

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[illegible]
Pittsburgh Sept 20 1839

Sir
I beg leave to inform you that Ebe Durkee, Pens under the Act of June 1832 and at the rate of $56.66/100 has been overpaid at the Vermont and Pittsburgh Agency up to the 4 March 1835. [illegible] and in your favor of the 2nd March 1836 you stated that 4 March 1834, the last semiannual payment was made to Ebe Durkee at the rate of $106.66/100.
According to my books, Ebe Durkee is at present entitled to [illegible]the aggregate amount of pension & his annual claim is 56 66/100 Dlls. As time and rate of pension differ please to inform me whether the suspension can be admitted for what other favor as to period of time will be required?
Very Respectfully
your obt sevt
[illegible] Kabe
for the Pens Agent

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

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I John Durkee of Stockbridge in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont depose and say that I was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. That I was with Ebbe Durkee now residing in Pittsfield in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont. That I served with him at Fort Griswold in Con. two months from the 6th of November 1781 to the 6th of January 1782. That we were under the command of Col. McClarren in Capt Robbins's Company, that I was well acquainted with the said Ebbe Durkee and that he was well and hearty and performed all the duties that was required of a soldier. That he never failed a day to perform his duty when called upon. And further the deponent says not.
John Durkee

Rutland County Ss March 20th 1833
Then the above named John Durkee personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed in due form before me.
Wm. R. Blossom Justice of Peace

I hereby certify that the above named John Durkee is reputed to be a man of truth and veracity.
Wm. R. Blossom Justice of Peace

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State of Vermont
Rutland Ss.
On the 16th day of March 1833, personally came before the undersigned authority, Thomas Hotchkins of Rochester, who being duly sworn doth depose & say, in addition to the affidavit he heretofore gave in behalf of Ebbe Durkee, that he lived but about 2 miles from said Ebbe Durkee during the Revolutionary War, & was well acquainted with him and with his family, & with his father Capt. Joseph Durkee. That he the deponent was a Lieutenant in Capt Benj. Jenkins company of Connecticut, and he enlisted said Ebbe Durkee for one year at Windham the last of August 1782. The said Ebbe Durkee was then about 14 years old, & was a most active boy, & served out his year as a private in the Fort Trumbull & Griswold, & performed his duty ably & faithfully. And the deponent further says that he has been well acquainted with said Durkee ever since the Revolutionary War, they having come to Vermont about the same time, & have ever since lived in adjoining towns. And the deponent further says that

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he has preserved a copy of the Muster roll
of Capt. Benj. Deckers company of Mahoss,
made at Fort [illegible] by Jey Faughers during said term and
he knows that Ebe Decker, whose name is
born on said roll, is the same person to
has applied for a pension under the late
act of Congress as apeard.& that he lives about
five miles from him the deponent said copy
of the Muster roll accompanies this
the deponent has also preserved a return of an
and a list of prisoners kept in the Fort at
the time, which also accompanies this. the
deponent also knows that said Ebe Durkee was in  
service as stated in the deponents former affidavit, to which he [illegible] and he further says that
said Ebe Durkee performed guard duty & all other
duties, the same as the other soldiers, & as faithfully.

Thomas Hodgkins age 76
Subscribed & sworn the day & year aforesaid and o
I certify that Tho
Hodgkins this deponent
is a credible witness
R. [illegible] Jus. Peace

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State of Vermont
Rutland Ss.}
I Robert Pierpoint, Clerk of Rutland County Court do certify that William R. Blossom & Robert Temples, before whom the annexed affidavits were taken, are Justices of Peace for said county duly commissioned and that their names thereto subscribed are in their own hand writing.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said court this 24 March 1833
R. Pierpoint

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Ebe Durkee case for re-examination
additional proof

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Free

Ravenna O
July 16

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City D. C.

for transfer

[upside down]
Vermont
Ebbe Durkee
8492

transfer

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Application for a transfer

The State of Ohio
Portage County}Ss.
On this third day of July AD 1834
Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Portage personally appeared Ebe Durkee who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Benjamin and Joseph Durkee in the Regiment commanded by Col William McClannon in the service of the United States. That his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Vermont from whence he has lately removed. That he now resides in the state of Ohio, where he intends to remain. And wishes his pension to be paid at Pittsburgh state of Pennsylvania. The following are his reason for removing from Pittsfield in Rutland County State of Vermont are to live in a warmer and more fertile country.
Ebe Durkee X his mark

Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid.
Walter Holly Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Ebe Durkee and believe him to be a person of truth and veracity. Sworn and subscribed the day & year above mentioned.
Algarnon Preston
Walter Holly Justice of Peace

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Ravinna O July 10th 1834
J. L. Edwards Esq

D Sir
Herewith I send you the application for a transfer of Ebe Durkee. He wishes the next September payment payable at Pittsburgh as it would be very inconvenient for him to get it at any other office. Please address me at Ravena Portage County Ohio.
And believe me to 
remain your
Cyrus Prentiss

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The State of Ohio
Portage County ss}
Before me L. W. Burce, one of the Justices of the Peace for said county, appeared Ebe Durkee, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the identical Ebe Durkee named in an original certificate in his possession and herewith returned, and also moved now in transfer from the Vermont to the Ohio Pittsburgh Agency.
That he enlisted into the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
I enlisted into the service of the United States at Windham, in the state of Connecticut, in the month of July 1779, under Joseph Durkee, Captain, Lew Wells, Colonel & served nine months.
I also enlisted in Nov 1782, and served two months, under Captain Robbins - Colonel McClennon.
I next enlisted in July, or August, I cannot state which, and served one year under Captain Benjamin Durkee and Colonel McClennon - making in all one year and seven months that I served.
The other particulars of my service are, I suppose, in the Pension Office at Washington, this statement being made only as to the time I served, by request of the Pension Agent.
Ebe Durkee

The State of Ohio
Portage County Ss}
January 26, 1836
Then personally appeared tot he above named Ebe Durkee who being duly sworn says the above affidavit by him subscribed is true tot he best of his knowledge, and belief - had from his procuring his pension papers I believe him to be the identical man named in them.
L. W. Burce, J. Peace

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The State of Ohio
Portage County SS

I Franklin H. Cannon Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Portage County do hereby certify that L.W. Bruce Esquire is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this twenty sixth day of January A.D. 1836.
     Franklin H. Cannon Dep. Clerk

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I John Durkee of Stockbridge in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont depose and say, that in the year 1781 I was in the Revolutionary Service from the first of Nov. to the 6th day of January 1782 and Ebbe Durkee now of Pittsfield in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont enlisted at the same time that I did, and was discharged at the same time and that while we were in the service we served in Capt Robbins's Company, stationed at Fort Griswold in the town of Groton in the State of Connecticut under Col. McClarren Comadant [sic].  I was well acquainted with the said Ebbe Durkee during the above mentioned time; he serving as waiter for Ensign Gillet and I for Lieut Joseph Burnham and further the affiant says not.
     John Durkee

Sworn and subscribed to this 29th day of June 1832 before me
     Wm. R. Blossom Justice Peace

We the undersigned inhabitants of the town of Pittsfield in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont depose and say, that we are well acquainted with the above named Ebbe Durkee and have been for more than thirty years past and that it has always been reputed and believed in the neighborhood where we have resided that the said Ebbe Durkee was a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
     David Daly
     Luther Fairbank

State of Vermont
Rutland County
at Pittsfield on the 13th day of July 1832
David Daly and Luther Fairbank signers of the above deposition personally affirmed and swore oath to the truth of the same before me
     Wm. R. Blossom Justice Peace

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I Thomas Hodgkins of Rochester in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont ... and say that I served in the Revolutionary War under a commission state draft(?) of 1782 signed by Jonathan Trumbull Gov. of Connecticut appointing me a Leiut. in a company ordered for the Defense of the Town and fort at New London said company was commanded by Capt. Benjamin Durkee and Maj Ebbe Durkee now of Pittsfield in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont served in the same Company with me for the term of one year from the first of Sept. 1782 to the first of Sept. 1783 being stationed a part of the term at fort Trumbull and a part at fort Griswold. Thomas Hodgkins Leiut. of the above and company I further say that previous to the above mentioned service was knowing to the said Ebbe Durkee enlisting into Capt. Joseph Durham's Company under Col Levi Wells and that he went from here about the last of July 1779 and returned home the last of March following and that while he was gone I saw him at New London serving there as a soldier in the uniform of that place.

and from then the ... days not 

Thomas Hodgkins age 76

Sworn and ... to this 29th day of June 1832
Before me .... R Justice....

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State of Vermont

I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of Rutland County Court do certify that Wm. R. Blossom, before whom the annexed affidavits were taken, is a Justice of the Peace for said County duly commissioned & that his name subscribed hereto is in his own hand writing.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand & affix the seal of said Court this 30 July 1832.
        R Pierpoint

I certify that I am well acquainted with Thomas Hodgkins, John Durkee and David Daly & Luther Fairbanks, and that they are credible witnesses.
      R. Pierpoint, Judge of the Probate Court and            County Clerk [illegible] Clerk

Ebe Durkee

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[stamped] RAVENNA MAR 15           FREE

[illegible] 21
Ohio

Ebe Durkee 
has [illegible] for transfer

Hon. J. L. Edward
Commission of Pensions
Washington
D.C

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Ravenna March 13th 1836

Hon J S Edward,

Dear Sir

Enclosed I send you E B Durkee's application for a reinstatement on the Provision Race at such ... as you may think he is entitled to

I did not infer from your letter that a statement in ... cant ... to ... if it should you ... inform me and it shall be forth coming as soon as court ... date. 

... very respectfully yours

Cyrus Prentiss