Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33217, Ezekiel Wardwell, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
Continental Mass.
★ Wardwell, Ezekiel
NUMBER
S. 33217
CONTENTS

Publication since October 12, 1826 Schabod Tucker, Esq. M.P.
4,383
Massachusetts Roll.
Ezekiel Wardwell Capt Am, 1 st Shored Regt Mass & Private Hampshire Regt In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th of Novem r 1818 and sent to Stephen Minot H. Esq. Haverhill Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818. 4 m. \frac{27}{30} - 39:20
Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th March 1819 - 48: -
87:20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
( nine months )
Andover, Feb 17

To the Secretary of the department of War, Sir, please to transmit the Certificate of allow- ance of my pension under the late Law, to Stephen Minot Esqr. of Haverhill Mr. who will forward the same to me. Ezekiel Wordwell Andover April 8. 1818 -

33 217 Say INVALID.
File No. 88,917
Ezekiel Wardwell Pis Rev War
Act: 16 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 438
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Ezekiel Wardwell
61
April 8-1818 —
Susp. for H. Pills
This claim for a pension cannot be admitted. — Poor's regt. was not on the Continental establishment.
Admitted.
13 Stephen Poor's Regt. was militia — Enoch Poor's was continental.

I, Ezekiel Wardwell, of the age of 66 years declare and say that in the latter part of April 1775, I enlisted as a private soldier into the Army of the Revolutionary war for the term of 8 months; & entered accordingly in the company of Capt. Benj o Ames in the Reg t of Massachusetts troops under Col. James Tynge, & served accordingly therein till the end of the said 8 months; - I then enlisted again for one year from the 1 st of January 1776 & accordingly then entered the service, in the Company under Capt. Richard Shortridge, in the Reg t of Col. Enoch Poor of the New Hampshire line, & served therein accordingly under Capt. Shortridge & afterwards under Capt. Kimball, until sometime in the month of October 1776, when I had a hard fit of sickness & on that account I obtained my discharge signed by Gen l Horatio Gates, & so left the service. - I further say that I have lost said discharge. Also I say that I am a resident Citizen of the United States; that I now reside in & belong to the Town of Andover, in the County of Essex, in the Middle Circuit in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; that I am, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, in need of assistance from my country for support; and that I never had any Pension allowed me by the laws of the United States.
Ezekiel Wardwell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Essex ss. April 8. 1818 Then the above named Ezekiel Wardwell made solemn oath that the above declaration by him subscribed is true, before me.
Stephen Merrill, } Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit.
I, James Chandler, depose and say that I was in the service in the Revolutionary war, in the same companies at the said times above mentioned by said Ezekiel Wardwell, & know that he did serve as a soldier therein for both said times until he was discharged from on account of his sickness. - I also say that I think he is in need of assistance for support.
James Chandler
Essex ss. April 8. 1818 Then the above named James Chandler made solemn oath that the said deposition by him subscribed is true, before me,
Stephen Merrill } Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas ss

Whereupon, it appearing to my satisfaction that the said Ezekiel Wardwell did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in his declaration aforesaid against the common enemy, I now certify & transmit the testimony in the case & the proceedings had therein, to the Secretary of the Department of war, who certifies that the said Ezekiel is, in my opinion in indigent & needy circumstances & in need of assistance for support.
Stephen Minot } Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit.
I, Caleb Abbot of Andover depose & say I know the said Ezekiel Wardwell did serve as a soldier in said Shortridge's company from the first of January 1776 until the sometime in October, I think the latter part of the month. I was a sergeant in the same company. I also say he is in indigent & needy circumstances in life.
Caleb Abbot
Length.
I George Mott, depose & say I was a soldier in Capt. Shortridge's company in 1776 & know that the said Ezekiel Wardwell did serve therein till his said discharge on account of being sick in October, as he has stated.
George Mott
On this day personally appeared Caleb Abbot & George Mott, known to me to be the persons described in and who executed the foregoing depositions, and acknowledged that the same are true before me.
Stephen Minot, Judge etc.

4383
Ezekiel Wardwell
Nov 1818.
Oct 25. 1820
Am

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Ezekiel Wardwell resident in Andover in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 4383 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Ezekiel Wardwell late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen . ***** "Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirteenth day * L. S. * "of November one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ***** J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit, no real estate
One old desk 3.50 6 wooden chairs 2.00 5 flag bottom do 1.50 two old tables 1.00 Shovel & tongs 50¢ one pr. bellows 17¢ 5 old books 75¢ one share in the Parish Library 1.25 an old pewter platter 62¢ 4 tin plates 25¢ 5 cups & saucers 25¢ 3 earthen plates 10¢ 2 decanters 40¢ teapot 17¢ one spinning wheel & clock reel 1.50 1 meal chest 75¢ one mustard pot, 1 pepper caster & bowl 10¢ iron ware 1.74 5 old knives & forks 27¢ 1 meat bbl 50¢ 2 pails 25¢ 4 tin pans 30¢ 2 old candlesticks & 1 chopping knife 30¢ 2 pigs 3.50 3 hoes 1.00 2 axes 1.00 one lot of joiners tools 7.00 1 Leith st. with screws & gaggions 5.00 one dung fork 1.00 1 hay do 10¢ beetle & wedges 50¢ And this includes every thing he has. The total amount of his property is - $ 37.37
He is sixty eight years of age, a cabinet maker by trade but has not been able to carry on the business except now and then to make a few common chairs for fifteen years

part on account of his extreme poverty, and he owes more than seventy dollars, but has not ten dollars due to him from any quarter - he is blind with one eye, and the other is little better -
His family are his wife aged 67 years who is very infirm laboring with the asthma - his taxes have been abated for fifteen years past -
He served from the nineteenth of April 1775 to the thirty first day of December following in Capt Ames Company, Col. Fry's Regt. in the Massachusetts line and was at the battle of Bunker hill - In Jan. 1st. 1776 he enlisted for one year in Capt Shortridge's Company, Col. Poor's Regiment New Hampshire line and was discharged the last of October following on account of sickness by Gen. Gates - Ezekiel Wardwell
Essex Js. July 13. 1820 Then the above named Ezekiel Wardwell made oath that the said schedule and statement by him subscribed are true before me
Stephen Minot, Judge of said Court

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Ezekiel Wardwell do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.
Ezekiel Wardwell
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Ezekiel Wardwell took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me
Stephen Minot Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is
Thirty seven dollars Thirty seven cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Wardwell, Jacob GRADE Private LINE Connecticut
WARRANT NUMBER 6681 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Jan. 18, 1797 to David Maltbee, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.