Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,213, Ebenezer Wiley, Mass.

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Wiley, Ebenezer
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S. 30.213
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SERVICE
Mass
Wiley, Ebenezer
NUMBER
S. 30.213
CONTENTS
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27.222 Massachusetts
Ebenezer Wiley of Wellesley in the State of Mass a who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Higgins of the Reg t commanded by in the Mass a line for 12 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of March 1834 and out Alner Lewis Barnstable Mass a
Arrears to the 4th of March 1834 $120.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Mo 20.00 $140.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W.H. Atkinson Clerk, Book C Vol. D Page 94
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6. April 1838 from 4 Sept 1838 to the 13 July 1839 the day of his death Agt notified 210. Dec 1839.
74 Barnstable

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, October 30 th 1833.
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 Wily , as a private, is borne on an Abstract of the Company under the command of Capt. Isaiah Higgings, in Colonel Thomas Marshall's Regt. where he is allowed, from August 15 th to November 1 st 1776, two months and sixteen days.
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Ebenezer Wiley's name is found on a Roll of Capt. Isaiah Higgin's Company, in Col. Thomas Marshall's Regt., - where he is allowed, from the 1 st of Novem r 1776, E. 2. 16. One month. — — — — —
1 = 0
Ebenezer Wiley claims for services under Capt. Reubens Higgings in 1777, the rolls of which are not found in this Office. —
3 = 16
Edward D Bangs Secy

Ebenezer Dike
Welfleet
29.900
Small 12 months Alma
Abner Davis Esq. Barnstable Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Barnstable ss.
On this second
day of November
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Stephen  of the Barnstable County of the County of Dukes now sitting at Welfleet in and for said County, Ebenezer Wiley a resident of Welfleet in said County, 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 act of Congress passed June 7th, A. D. 1832.
THAT he was born at Welfleet
on the eighteenth
day of July
A. D. 1759, and that there
is no record of his birth that he knows of; that he was in the United States service from the first day of March A. D. 1776, to the first day of September A. D. 1776 as a Private in the Massachusetts Militia
: that he was residing at Welfleet
when he entered the service; that he was a volunteer and enlisted for six months and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Capt. Isaac Huggins of Barnstable John Gross of Truro first a share Lieut.
: that he marched from Welfleet to Situate where no  English  volunteers from them  Marched to Dorchester where he was stationed for two or three months from them he passed over to Long Island where he was stationed the remainder that he served with none that he recollects
of the regular troops; and
were known to him: that he was in no battle
no regular officers
and at the end of his service received a discharge he thinks in writing which is lost : that he left the service on or about the first of September A. D. 1776 and that since the Revolutionary war he has resided at Welfleet
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the first day of May A. D. 1778, to the about the first day of November A. D. 1778 as a Private in the Massachusetts Militia
that he was residing at Welfleet
when he entered the service; that he enlisted for six months service
and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Capt. Reuben Huggins of Truro and John Gross first Lieut.
: that he marched from Welfleet to Truro where he was stationed to guard the coast against the enemy
: that he served with none
of the regular troops; and
no regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle
that at the end of his service he received a discharge but not in writing and left the service on or about the first day of November A. D. 1778
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the day of  A. D. 17  , to the  day of  A. D. 17 
as a  in the 
that he was residing at 
when he entered the service; that he
and served for the period aforesaid under the command of 
: that he marched from 
: that he served with 
of the regular troops; and
regular officers were known to him; that he was in  battle
that at the end of his service he received a discharge and left the service on 
and left

That he assisted while at Dorchester in finishing the fort on Dorchester heights and assisted in digging two miles while there and while stationed at Long Island he assisted in building the fort on Long Island where it was commenced and finished during the time that he was stationed there and assisted in placing the cannon in the fort. He assisted in digging one mile on Long Island and each of the other companies then stationed along miles for their use. One British ship and one British man taken after they passed the fort on Long Island and the British was afterwards fitted out as an American Privateer.
While stationed at Tiverton an English ship drove an American Brig on shore at Tiverton on the east side of the Cape. He then assisted in dragging two field pieces from the west shore in Tiverton to the east shore in Tiverton where he found the enemy's camp which was then trying to obtain possession of the Brig. The British abandoned the camp and the English ship then sailed into Cape harbor and at high water the Brig was got off and sailed on her course.
Herzekiah Newcomb and Benjamin R. Withersall are my neighbors and were testify as to my reputation of services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Ebenezer Wiley
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.
Abner Davis Esq.
We Herzekiah Newcomb
residing in the town of Wellfleet
and Benjamin R. Withersall
who has
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Wiley subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy 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 as aforesaid.
Herzekiah Newcomb Benj R. Withersall
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 certify that it appears to them that Herzekiah Newcomb who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in the town of Wellfleet; and that Benjamin R. Withersall who has also signed the same is a resident in said Wellfleet and both credible persons; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nymphas Marston - Judge
I Abner Davis 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 Wiley for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
Abner Davis Esq.

I Joseph Rich of Pnuro in the county of Barnstable and state of Massachusetts being seventy one years of age do testify and say that Ebenezer Waley was a soldier in the war of the Revolution from about the first day of May AD 1770 to about the first day of November AD 1770 in the company commanded by Richard Higgins of Pnuro and was stationed at Pnuro to guard the sea coast against the enemy I was in the same com- pany with him during said time Joseph Rich
S.
12.0 The undersigned aged seventy seven years and Jeremiah Newcomb aged seventy two years both of Westport in the county of Barnstable and state of Massachusetts do testify and say that Ebenezer Waley of Westport was a soldier in the war of the revolution from about the first day of March AD 1776 to about the first day of September AD 1776 as a private in the Massachusetts Militia in a company commanded by Isaac Higgins of Eastport and dur- ing some time he was stationed at Danboston and Long Island we were during said time stationed near where said Waley was and very often saw him and the company to which he belonged Samuel Newcomb
S. Jeremiah Newcomb Probate Court at Belfleet in said County November 2a AD 1832
S. Barnstable
Personally appeared in open Court the above named Joseph Rich Samuel Newcomb & Jeremiah Newcomb and made oath to the truth of the above depositions by them respectively subscribed in Court. And the said Joseph, Samuel & Jeremiah are, in the opinion of the court, credible witnesses. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the court this day & year aforesaid
Henry Davis, Register

Probate Office Barnstable, County of Barnstable
Dr Sir
Enclosed are forwarded to you the Declarations & testimony of
John Michael Nathan Harding Samuel Newcomb Ebenezer Wiley
Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant,
Abner Davis Register
by Adol p Davis. Ass d Reg
To James L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Dec. 6 th , 1839,
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The children of Ebenezer Wiley, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Forty — Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1838, to the 13 th January, 1839, the day of his death.
Respectfully, yours,
W. L. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

30213 Pay INVALID.
File No. 30213
Ebenezer Wiley P. P. Rev. Mr.
Act: June 7 th 39 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 455
[Arrangement of 1870.]