Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19338, Ebenezer Trusdell, Continental (Mass.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Mass.) Trusdell, Ebenezer or Trusdel
W. 19338
Setchell, Mary
CONTENTS
(Former widow)
This woman's third husband Jeremiah B. Setchell also served in the Revolutionary war.

No 5250
Mary Sitchell formerly widow of Ebenezer Treaddale
act 4 July 36-
N.Y.
on Roll Capt. Satterlee - Colt Hays
admt 2 yrs pri 80A
No deduction
Hon A.B. Hand.
A.R.

For Peruvian Office
Mrs Mary Satchel widow of Ebenezer Fowdell, declaration re
at July 4. 1836.
addp J. D. Woodward
Report to Chittenden
Hon. A. C. Hand H.R.
Resps submitted to the Com ee
Adrian

At July 4. 1836
State of New York
County of Essex ss
On this 26 day of December 1840 personally appeared before Oliver Keese a judge of the County Courts of said County may Petchee who being duly sworn makes the following amendment to her declaration herunto annexed made before said judge on the first day of December instant for the purpose of obtaining a pension that after the death of Ebenezer Tinsdell her first husband in said declaration mentioned, she took out a letter of administration on his estate at Stockbridge Berkshire Co. Mass on or about the 8 th day of October 1785 before the Hon Timothy Edwards judge of the Court of Probate as the widow of said Ebenezer Tinsdell. That such letter of admin n is not now in her possession and she believes it was lost or destroyed many years since. About the time she procured said letter and she believes during the same year, she was married to Solomon Felt at Williamstown Mass by Rev Gutteridge or Goodrich Justice of the peace. She resided in Adams Mass at the time and went to Williamstown Mass to be married and was accompanied by John Allen and his wife then residents of Adams aforesaid and both since dead as she believes. She (applicant) moved to Pawlet Vermont after the marriage where she lived with her said husband Solomon Felt for eighteen months or thereabouts, when he died of Consumption at that place. The foregoing statement of her second marriage was omitted in her declaration aforesaid to which this is an amendment by mistake. The word "second" in said declaration before the word "husband" should be erased & the word "third" inserted so as to square with the facts. Ebenezer Tinsdell was her first husband Solomon Felt her second, and Jeremiah B Petchee her third and last husband. She has no record of her said marriages nor of the service of her said husbands except what accompanies this application. It was Jeremiah B Petchee her third and last husband who served in the Vermont Troops as stated in her said declaration. She verily believes that her first husband was the identical Ebenezer Tinsdell described in the certificate accompanying declaration. - The name "Mary Petchee" interlined -
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 26 day
of December 1840, I certify that Defendant is a credible person & cannot by reason of old age & infirmity write her name or attend court; which sits more than fifteen miles from the place where this amendment to her declaration was taken, & that her statement is entitled to full credit -
of December 1840, I certify that Defendant is a credible person & cannot
by reason of old age & infirmity write her name or attend court; which
sits more than fifteen miles from the place where this amendment to her declaration was taken, & that her statement is entitled to full credit -
Oliver Keese
Judge of Essex County Court

State of New York County of Essex  Franklin ss I the Subscriber Clerk of Essex County aforesaid do certify that Oliver Keese before whom the foregoing or within declaration of Mrs Mary Batchelder was taken and sworn on the 26th day of December 1840 was at said time a judge of the County Courts of said County and his signature to the jurat of said declaration is genuine
Witness my hands Official Seal at Elizabeth Town this 29th day of December 1840.
Amund J. Williams Clerk
Mary Batchelder. Affidavit to her declaration.

State of New York
County of Essex On this fourth day of December 1840, personally appeared before Oliver Keene a judge of the County Court of said County, Mary Pitchel a resident of Chester-field in said County aged eighty six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836 and the act explanatory of said act passed March 3, 1837. That she was married to Ebenezer Tisdell at Adams Massachusetts on the tenth day of June 1776 (seventeen hundred seventy six) by the Rev. Samuel Todd a Presbyterian clergyman. Her maiden name was Mary Train. That her husband the aforesaid Ebenezer Tisdell enlisted at Adams aforesaid in the same year of the marriage into Capt. Satterlee's Company Regiment Col. Woyens Regiment of Massachusetts Troops for three years, and served his term and enlisted again therein, into the same Company and Regiment and served therein until near the close of the war. was at the battle of the Brandywine and did at Yorktown about the time the Troops were discharged. She thinks in 1781. Her said husband entered the service soon after the marriage and she remained in Adams aforesaid while he was in the Army. Her children by said marriage were Samuel Tisdell born in Adams Mass Octo. 5. 1777 and Sarah Tisdell born in Adams aforesaid March 5. 1779. both now dead. She further declares that she was afterwards married to Jeremiah B Pitchel in the town of Wells Vermont at the house of Ebenezer Summers on the third day of December 1788 by the Rev Mr Lathrop Presbyterian clergyman of that town. That her said second husband sailed from Boston in November 1800 or near that time and died at sea during the great shipwreck of that year. He went out to sea in a vessel belonging to Green & Jonathan Pitchel who informed her that the vessel's men were lost. Her second husband was as she believes a revolutionary soldier and served in Col. Warner's Vermont Regiment. That she has ever since remained a widow and was a widow on the fourth of July 1836 and still remains a widow as will more fully appear by the proof annexed. —
Sworn & Subscribed to before me this fourth day
per Mary X Pitchel mark

of December 1840. and I certify that Deponent is a credible person & cannot write her name owing to old age and a feeble hand, & is unable to attend court which sits more than fifteen miles from where this declaration is taken
Charles D. Judge of Essex County courts.
The foregoing declaration was again sworn to before me on the 4 th day of January 1841. and is a duplicate of one sent by me to the Clerk of Essex County to be authenticated which has been lost or mislaid by Mr. Edbridge G. Fisk to whom it was delivered in a letter addressed to me. The deponent upon being red sworn declared the above declaration true in every respect, except so far as is explained by her in her amendment to said declaration sworn to before me on the 26 th December 1840 — — The word "sworn" interlined —
Charles D. Judge of Essex County courts.

Erie County ss. Elbridge G. Fisk of Reserine in said county being duly sworn says that on or about the fourth day of December 1840 he received from Col William Clerk of Erie County at Eliz- abethtown by a letter, addressed to Hon Oliver Keese of Reserine containing as Deponent has been informed and believes a declaration made by Mrs Mary Setchell to obtain a pension of which the annexed is a duplicate - that Deponent has lost or mislaid said Papers and cannot find them having made diligent search for that purpose.
Sworn and Subscribed to before me this fifth day of January 1841 and I certify that Deponent is a credible person
E. G. Fisk
Attorneys of Plaintiff Erie County Courts
State of New York County of Erie ss. I Edmund F. Williams Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that Oliver Keese Esq. whose name is subscribed to the three foregoing papers was on the day of the date of the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly appointed and qualified according to the said Court and duly authorized to act as such and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Oliver Keese Esq. and verify that the Official signature of the said "Oliver Keese Esq. Judge of said Court" is to his proper hand writing.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at the Clerk's Office in the town of Elizabethtown this 7th day of January A.D. 1841.
Edmund F. Williams Clerk

Presumptive.
Proof of marriage, #
Elmer T. Miller.

Know all men by these Presents - That we Mary Trusdel-widow and Thomas Train-German of Adams and Stephen Davis. Gentlemen of Williamstown in the County of Berkshire within the Commonwealth of Mas- sachusetts are holden and stand firmly bound & obliged unto Timothy Edwards Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills and granting administrations within the County of Berkshire in the full sum of one hundred pounds in lawful money of the said Commonwealth to be paid unto the said Timothy Edwards or his succes- sors in said office or assigns. To the true payment whereof we bind ourselves and each of us, our and each of our heirs, executors and administrators jointly and severally for the whole and in the whole firmly by these Presents - Sealed with our seals - Dated this Eighth day of October in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and eighty three.
The condition of this present obligation is such - that if the above bound Mary Trusdel to whom power of administration on the estate of Ebenezer Trusdel, late of said Adams deceased, inter- late as this day given do make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all & singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits of the said deceased which have or shall come to the hands, possession or knowledge of her the said Mary Trusdel or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons for her and the same so made do exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the Registry of the Court of Probate for the said County of Berkshire at or before the Eighth day of January next ensuing, & the same goods, chattels, rights & credits, and all other the goods, chattels, rights and credits of the deceased at the time of his death, which at any time after shall come to the hands and possession of the said Mary Trusdel or into the hands & possession of any other person or persons for her do well & truly ad- minister according to law; and further do make

or cause to be made a just and true account of her said administration, upon oath, at or before the eighth day of October which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty four. And all the rest and residue of the said goods, chattels, rights & credits which shall be found remaining upon said administration's account (the same being first exam- ined and allowed of by the said Judge or Judges for the time being of Probate of wills and granting administra- tions within the County of Berkshire aforesaid) shall deliver and pay unto such person or persons respectively as the said Judge or Judges by his or their decree or sentence pursuant to law shall limit and appoint. And if it shall appear that any last will and testament was made by the said deceased, and the executor or executors therein named, do exhibit the same into the Court of Probate for the County of Berkshire making request to have it allowed and approved accordingly; if the said Mary Frusdel within bounden being thereunto required do render and deliver the letter of Administration (approbation of such testament being first had & made) into the said Court: Then the before written obligation to be void and of none effect or else to abide and remain in full force & virtue.
Sealed & delivered in presence of Timothy Childs William Walker
Mary Frusdel & Seal mark Thomas Train & Seal Stephen Davis & Seal.
A true copy of Bond
Attest H. W. Bishop Reg.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
At a Court of Probate holden at Stockbridge within & for the county of Berkshire on the 8th day of Oct r A D 1785 before the Hon ble Timothy Edwards Esq r . Judge of s d Court.
Power of Administration on the estate of Ebenezer Trusdel late of Adams dec d intestate is given unto Mary Trusdel widow of said Adams and bond taken of s d Mary for her faithful administration as on file.
A true copy of Record
Attest Henry W. Bishop Reg r
I Henry W Bishop Reg r of the Court of Probate for the county of Berkshire within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do certify that the foregoing are copies of the original bond of Administration filed by Mary Trusdel as Administratrix on the Estate of Ebenezer Trusdel deceased & of the record of the grant of administration.
In witness of which I have set my hand & the seal of said Court this thirtieth day of November A D 1840
Henry W. Bishop Reg r Prob.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19338
Mary Setchell Former Widow of Ebenezer Treadwell Wri New York
Act July 4 th 86
Index: Vol. M , Page 211
[Arrangement of 1870.]

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by A.E.P.
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Jeremiah B. Setchell
Service Continental
Additional Service Rev. war.
No _____ claim, State records _____, 190_____
No claim, combination records _____, 190_____
REMARKS:
No old war inv. wid. or rejected on account of any service of Jeremiah or Jeremiah B. Setchell. O.R. M.R.
APR 3 - 1911

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by M Rice
Claim No. W 19338
Certificate No. _____
Claimant Ebenezer Trusdell
Soldier or Trusdel
Service Continental (Mass.)
Additional Service Rev. War.
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 191__
No claim, combination records _____, 191__
REMARKS:
No Surv. Wid. or Rejd. other than above -
APR 6 1911

3499. New York
Mary Setchell, formerly widow of Ebenezer Trusdell, decd. who died on the year 1785 of Elders in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company, commanded by Captain Lattimer of the Reg't, commanded by Col. Hazen in the Albany line for 2 years Continental
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80. Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th day of Jan'y, 1840 and sent to Hon: Chas. H. Hand. House Reps:
Arrears to the 4th of Sept: 1840 $ 760:00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th Mar: 41 40:00
$ 800:00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 d }
Recorded by Book C.
Vol. 11.
Page 128.
Gov. Lantiner Clerk.

323 J. D. Woodward, Esq.
Plattsburg
(N.Y.)
Dec. 1840
Very Resp.

Sec: Office
Dec. 8. 1840.
Dear Sir,
I send a certificate of the services of Ebenezer Traskell, which I presume will entitle the widow to a full pension, & ten years back pay. I make no charge for services done in behalf of Rev's soldiers or their widows.
Respectfully
yours
John P. Bigelow
Secy of War.
J. L. Woodward, Esq.
N.B. We have no evidence of the services of John Totman.

Judge O'Keefe Dec 31/40
Pittsburgh
J. de Vries
Miss. Eleanor Roosevelt Washington

Keene Nth December 31. 1840
Mr J B Woodward
Dear Sir
I have not been able to find the first affidavit. Col Williams the clerk sent the letter containing the affidavit by Mr E G Fisk. Mr Fisk tells me this morning he has made diligent search and cannot find it. he has not given it to me or left it at the office of this he is concerned himself.
I regret to be obliged to give you the information but do not know how I could have prevented it. Col Williams ought to have sent it by mail.
Yr Obs Servt.
Charles D

Secretary of Massachusetts - settl. Certificate Borne of Mrs Mary Petchel widow of Ebenezer Petchel

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, December 8. th 1840.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the Name of Ebenezer Trusdell is borne in an account in the Army books, as a private from the town of Adams in Captain Satterlee's Company, Col. Hazeus' Regt. and there found credited by his services from January 1 st 1777. to December 31 st 1779. being 36 Months, & 40/ Per Month. It further appears in the Army books, that Ebenezer Trusdell was a private from the town of Adams in Cap ——— Company Col. Hazeus' Regiment. And found credited by his services from 1 st January to 31 December 1780. being 12 Months, & 40/ Per Month. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Forest P. Beaman Secretary of the Commonwealth.

J
J. Woodward Esq. Nattshugh W.Y.
Nov 30 1840
Rev. Mr. ... Ath. British

To J. D. Woodward Esq. Plattsburgh N.Y.
Dear Sir - I recd. a line from J. Simmons Esq. requesting me to send you a copy of the letter of administration on the estate of Ebenezer Truscott, granted to Mary Truscott his widow and such other papers as are found in the Probate office. The original letter of admin n is with Mrs. Truscott. & no record is made of it. I have copied & enclose the bond & the record of the grant of administration such as was made in the times past. long since - I hope these papers will answer y r purpose - I find no other papers on file. & no other record.
Most respectfully
yours &c
J. W. Bishop
June Nov 30 - 1840
Fees for search & copies $1.00.

E F Williams cln 2 sheet
Elizabethton Tenn Jan'y 8
20
J. C. Woodward Esq Plattsburgh N.Y.
Mail J.W. 3

Essex County Clerk's Office, Elizabethtown, Jan. 7 th 1811.
J. C. Woodruff Esq.
At the request of Hon. O. Sherman 3 d of the 5th Dist. received on this day I send you the inclosed together with my Chs Seal 3 d I request that Mr. Fisk should have lost or mislaid the Original
Respectfully Your obedt Servt J. Williams Clerk

Case of Mary Satchel, widow of Ebenezer Trusdell. affidavits of Belinda Peck & Sarah Malbone.

State of New York
Essex County ss } Be it Remembered that on this the 31 st day of December 1840 Personally became before me Isaac Finch Esq one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Belinda Took a Person to me well known and whose character for truth and veracity stands fair who being duly sworn deposes and saith that more than Fifty Years ago in the Town of Pawlet State of Vermont where she then Resided she was person- ally acquainted with the Widow Setchell (now of the Town of Chesterfield State of New York) that she then Resided in the Town of Pawlet aforesaid with her second Husband by the name of Solomon Folt, that said Folt was Reported to be her second Husband and that her first Husband's name was Solomon Folsom that he died in the service in the Rev- olutionary War and that she had two children a son and a daughter by said Folsom who then lived with said Folt and that during her Residence in said Pawlet that said Folt sick- ened and died and that she the said Deponent saw him after he was Dead and that afterwards she Married to a third hus- band by the name of Jeremiah B. Setchell a sea faring man and who afterwards was Reported to be lost at sea and that she had five children by said Setchell with all of whom she was well acquainted since the loss of Setchell she has Remained a Widow and that from her first acquaint- ance with him she has sustained an unblemished character and further the said Deponent sayeth not
Sworn and Subscribed to this her 31 st day of December 1840 Belinda X Took mark:
Before me Isaac Finch Justice of the Peace

State of New York Essex County ss.
Be it Remembered that on the 31 st day of December 1840 Personally appeared before me Isaac Finch Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County. Sarah Mallon a Person to me well known and a Person whose character for Truth and veracity stands fair who being duly sworn deposes and saith that she has been Personally acquainted with the Widow Sitchel now of Chesterfield in the State of New York for more than Forty Years that when she first knew her she was living with Jeremiah B. Sitchel in the Town of Poultney in the State of Vermont that Sitchel was reported to be a seafaring Man that some thirty nine Years ago he left, saying to go to sea and was Reported to be lost and that she has since that time lived a widow, that it was always said and Reported that Sitchel was her third Husband and that her first Husband died in the service in the Revolutionary War and that since her first acquaintance with the said Widow Sitchel she had uniformly sustained an unblemished character.
and further this Deponent saith not
Sworn and Subscribed to this 31 st day of December 1840
Sarah Mallon
Before me Isaac Finch Justice of the Peace

State of New York County of Essex
I the subscriber Clerk of Essex County do certify that Isaac Finch before whom the within affidavits of Belinda Peck & Sarah Malbone were taken & sworn on the 31 st day of December 1840. was at said time a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that his signature to the jurat of each of said affidavits is genuine - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand to official seal & fastened these papers to- gether by a piece of blue tape or ribbon which papers under said seal this 5 th day of January 1841 - -
J. Williams
Clerk of said County

Case of Mary Setchell widow of Ebenezer Grusdell
Harvey Norton's affd. Mrs. Norton affd.

State of New York
County of Erie  Essex ss
Harvey Norton of Chesterfield in said County being duly sworn, says he married a Daughter of Jeremiah B. Setchell, and has been acquainted with his family for more than thirty years past and has always understood from her and verily believes the same to be true that she was married to Ebenezer Tinsdell her first husband at Adams Massachusetts in June 1776, and that he afterwards entered the service as a private in Capt. Patterson's Company Col. Hazens Regiment and served therein more than three years, during the Revolution while she remained at home with her relatives during his absence, and supplied him mostly with clothes made by her own hands, and that he died at Yorktown in the year 1781 or about that time, and she took out a letter of administration on his estate in 1783, and during that year or about that time she was married to Solomon Felt at Williamstown Mass, and lived with him about Eighteen months, when he died of Consumption at Paolet Vermont to which place they removed soon after the marriage. That she was afterwards married to the said Jeremiah B. Setchell at Wells, Rutland County Vermont on or about the third day of December 1788, at the house of Ebenezer Sumner by Rev. Mr. Lathrop a Presbyterian Clergyman, and that said Jeremiah B. Setchell her third and last husband died at sea in a vessel owned by Thomas Green and Jonathan Setchell, which sailed from Boston, and was wrecked during the great Shipwreck of 1800 or about that time. The foregoing facts have frequently been the subject of conversation in the family since Deponent has been a member of it, and long before any efforts were made by her with a view to a pension - about two years ago Deponent at the request of said Mary Setchell made enquiries with a view to evidence in support of her claim to a pension, but being unable to obtain the proof required, he relaxed his efforts in her behalf. He was informed by one Attorney to whom he applied, that the fact of Mrs. Setchell's second and third marriage would bar her claim, and Deponent supposed this to be true until last autumn when he learned for the first time that the amendment to the pension laws embraced her case. The foregoing are the reasons why she did not make an earlier application for a pension -
Deponent knows that said Mary Setchell has lived as a widow for more than thirty years past, and she now resides in his family - Deponent has read over the declaration made by Mrs. Setchell before Judge Oliver

Keese on the first of December instant, and also an amendment to the same this day sworn to by her before said judge, and Deponent verily believes her statements therein contained are substantially correct. He has always understood and believes that said Jeremiah B. Pitchel was twenty years older than Mrs. Pitchel. & if he were living at this time (calculating Mrs. Pitchel's age at Eighty six (which Deponent believes to be her age), he (said Pitchel) would be one hundred and six years old - Deponent has no doubt whatever that her said husband died at the time above mentioned. Deponent understood from Mrs. Pitchel many years since, that she took out a letter of administration as the widow of Ebenezer Townsend at Williamstown or Stockbridge in the year 1783, and Deponent believes her to be the identical person described in the bond dated October 8. 1788 as the widow of said Townsend -
I was and subscribed to before me this 26 day of December 1840 and I certify that Deponent is a credible witness & his statements are entitled to full credit. -
Harvey Norton
Almon Keese Jr Judge of Essex County Court
State of New York
County of Essex ss Rachel C Norton wife of Harvey Norton of Chesterfield in said County being duly sworn says she is a Daughter of Mrs. Mary B. Pitchel who is about applying for a pension - and that the statements made by her said mother in her declaration & amendment thereto taken before Judge Oliver Keese, are the same she has always made since Deponent's recollection - and she verily believes her statements therein contained are correct, and true - Deponent also believes the foregoing affidavit of her said husband is correct and true -
I was and subscribed to before me this 26 day of December 1840 and I certify that Deponent is a credible witness & her statements are entitled to full credit.
Rachel C Norton
Almon Keese Jr Judge of Essex County Court
114 104

State of New York County of Essex ss. The Subscriber Clerk of said County Certify that Oliver Krese before shown the foregoing affidavits of Harvey Norton, and Mrs. Rachel C. Norton wife of said Harvey, were taken and sworn on the 26th day of December 1840 was at said time a Judge of Essex County Courts and that his signature to the jurats of said affidavits is genuine. — "Essex" written on an erasure / Witness my hand and official seal at Elizabeth town, this 29th day of December 1840. —
Edward T. Williams Clerk.