Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40665, Ebenezer Welch, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Welch, Ebenezer
S. 40665
CONTENTS

8209 L
Ohio Roll
Ebenezer Welch - of Delaware County in the state of Ohio - who was a Infantry - in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wyllys - of the Connecticut line, for the term of Three Years -
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 th of May 1818 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th of March 1819 and sent the Honble. Sophia Wetmore - Judge Delaware Co Ohio -
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 . 91 \times \frac{27}{31} - 78:96
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept. 1819 - 48: -
126:96
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Constance
Examined with Orig. Rolls Sept. 1883. No. 6.
Ebenezer Welch Infantry Ohio 8209

Chas Welsh Museum
Willis Loan. Regiments
1777 to 1780. 8 May 1818
To the Secretary of the Depart- ment of War. Washington City
[Faint, mirrored bleed-through text from the reverse side of the page]

Personally appeared before me Josiah M c Kimme one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Delaware in the State of Ohio. Ebenezer Welch, applicant under the Act To provide for certain Persons engaged in the Land and Naval Services of the U. S. in the Revo- lutionary War. Who being duly sworn, under oath doth say that he enlisted in Henry Chambers Company as fifer in Samuel Willis Regiment and Gen. Parsons Brigade of Connecticut Line. That he enlisted about the 10 th  of  of May 1777. That he was in Col. Willis Regiment about three years and until the first transfer. That he then served in Col. Dorsey's Regiment about two years, in Capt. Tona. Hart Company. That he then served under Col. Zequillon in Capt. Samuel Clift Company until the close of the War. That he was honorably dis- charged at West Point. That he served as from the first eighteen months of his service. That he has never had any Pensions whatever allowed him. That by reason of his reduced cir- cumstances in life he stands in need of assis- tance from his family for support. And further the said Ebenezer Welch saith not.
Ebenezer Welch
sworn to and subscribed before me this 8 th of May A.D. 1818
Josiah M c Kimme Esq. Associate Judge
I, Josiah M c Kimme Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the above applicant served in the revolution- ary war, as aforesaid against the common enemy and that he is entitled to a pension agreeably to the act. The above is all the evidence in the case and the proceedings had thereon. Given under my hand and seal this 8 th May 1818
Josiah M c Kimme Esq. Associate Judge

If I understand your note on the back of Eben Welch's application for a Pension, His circumstance is wanting to my certificate, I have been well acquainted with Eben Welch for upwards of thirteen years and do know his circumstance well, he is sixty years of age last June, has a wife and four children, he has a lease of fifty acres of land his lifetime but is not able to improve it he has had his house and all his household furniture burnt some years ago, and had to depend upon the charitable feelings of his neighbours to replace them to him again, I am a Shoemaker by trade, but is so afflicted by the Rheumatic pains that he is not able to labour the half of his time, and is at this time not able to do any kind of business, and has not half clothing to defend him against the cold nor has he any thing to get clothing with — This I do certify to be his true circumstance at this time and for your use given under my hand and seal this eighteenth day of February 1819
Josiah M cC. Kimme Associate judge
N.B. I do believe M c Welch to be a real honest man in his dealings
J. M cC. Kimme

The State of Ohio Delaware county ss I certify that Joseph McNamee who took & certified the within Deposition is now there and is an appointed judge for said county as now recorded & sworn etc.
Witness my hand & official seal this 9 th day of May 1858
J. P. Hughes clerk Court house Pleas B. L.
The within applicant lives in Delaware county Ohio His address will be to Delaware in said county

In pursuance of the act of Congress passed May the first 1820 relative to Spalding's place upon the pension list and to be placed on same list under the act of March 18th 1818 entitled an act making provision for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service during the Revolutionary war I Elenor Witsk a resident of the County of Delaware and State of Ohio and who was placed on the Pension roll on the twenty sixth day of March 1819 as appears by a Certificate of the J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War in my pension and which is No 8209 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 any of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to being 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 during the Revolutionary War - passed on the 18th day of March 1818
that I have not now nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities
Contingents or debts due to me Nor have I any income other than what is contained in a Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed - I further say that in consequence of
Rheumatic pains and a broken arm I am incapable of labor of any description a great part of the time and have been so incapable for the last four years I have one child named Isaac N. Welch aged 18 years one orphan named Child named Sarah Smith aged ten years and one named Sally Smith aged 5 years all living with me and dependent upon me for support and am by a Captain a farmer
Clint No

Schedule of my the property owned and possessed by me the above named Ebenezer Welch (tanner) five sheep two cows and four heifers one cow three horses & ponies two buckets one a small quantity of cyphers worth at most five dollars a broken box and spindle one broken broken one meat barrel one old chest one table three chairs two batture and one leather batture one sap barrel one plough one and one of the one old sickle one calf I am indebted to - Williams about twenty dollars George Slann five dollars John lab about five dollars Samuel Thomas five dollars about ten to Solomon Smith about fifty I am Smith five and ten any small debts not particularly mentioned. - Isaac of Welsh is indebted to two and Ralph

Samuel Wilson firm and Sic — Penn thousand and one Half Cents
Elmer W. ...
Sworn to & subscribed before the Hon. Judges of the court of common Pleas in & for said Delaware County in the state of Ohio in open court June 7 th 1820
Joseph H. Hughes clerk
The State of Ohio Delaware County 3/11 I Joseph H. Hughes clerk of the court of common Pleas in for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed is truly copied from the records of said court and it is the opinion of the court that the total amount of his property in value exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is forty three dollars, and fifty six and one fourth cents ($43.56 1/4) In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and affixed seal this 7 th day of June A.D. 1820
Joseph H. Hughes clerk
John A. McCloud president judge of the sixth judicial district Ohio certify that Joseph H. Hughes is Clerk of Delaware county in said district and that his certificate above is in due form according to my hand this 7 th day June 1820 — John A. McCloud
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O. W. and N. Division.
3-525.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., _____, 190___
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Ebenezer Welch a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. 40665
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     June 30, 1777 3 yrs. First Henry Chapman Samuel Hyllys Conn.   ✓ 2 yrs. ✓ Jonathan Hearn Durkee   ✓ 5 mos. 10 days ✓ David Clapp Jeremiah Butts  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Not stated
Date of application for pension, June 2, 1810 - Ch. ch.
Residence at date of application, Dalton, Pa.
Age at date of application, June 1758
Remarks: In 1819 his wife and four children are referred to - one named Isaac N., names of others not stated, and in 1830 two orphan grandchildren James & Sally Smith, as mine and five years respectively.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

ALEXANDER MCMILLAN WELCH
Architect
11 East 42 nd Street, New York
August 24, 1911.
Commissioner of Pensions— Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir,— Ebenezer Welch b. 40, 665 is named in the Connecticut Pension List of 1818 as a resident of Ohio.
Would you kindly send me a complete record of his application for Pension, etc.?
I shall be glad to pay whatever the charges for this service may be—
Yours very respectfully, Alexander M. Welch

40 665
Rey INVALID.
File No. 40, 665
Ebenezer Welch Defer New Year
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 557
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1911, Aug. 29. Hist. to Mr. Alexander M. Welch 1914. Dec 11: Testimony to Judge A. A. Welch Letter in P. 22589 M. 13. H 1914 Dec. 21—Aud. Out. for Service—aw.

OFFICE OF AUDITOR FOR INTERIOR DEPARTMENT IN REPLYING QUOTE INITIALS
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON
December 23, 1914.
The Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir:
In reply to your letter of the 21st inst. (Rev. War Sec.) you are informed that, according to the latest account rendered by the U. S. Pension Agent, at Chillicothe, Ohio, the records of this office show last payment to have been made to Ebenezer Welch, Fifer, War Rev., certificate No. 8209, at $ 8.00 per month to Mar. 4, 1823, to the pensioner, who resided in Delaware Co., Ohio, but the date of his death is not shown.
Letter herewith returned.
Respectfully,
By
[Handwritten signature: T. W. Woolley] Auditor. [Handwritten initials: MME] [Handwritten letter: R]
Deputy Auditor.