Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11753, Ezra Wheeler, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Wheeler, Ezra
S. 11753
CONTENTS
carded

14637
New York
Ezra Wheeler
Ch. 14, 165
of Rensselaer in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Husted of the regt. commanded by DeLeavitt in the N.Y. mi- line for 24 mo.
Dispenditure
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 44 Dollars 16 Cents per annum, commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of May 1833 and sent to A. C. Wadsworth Brainerd Pidgeon
arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $133.32 m. allowance ending 4 Sept. " 33.33
$166.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk Book E Vol. 4 Page 36

Letter to J. Fleming Esq. Sept. 2 1834
Purvis " " "
" J. Root P.M. Nov. 12 1834
" to Purvis Feb. 2 nd 1835
" Hon D. Russell " 16 1836
do to Do June 22 1836
do Do " 25. ~
Hon D Russell 3 Feb " 2
January 1837
F. A. Dickens Nov 7 1853
Rec
Gen
No

Dr. Hall's declaration for a pension.
14 p. 37
See American Archives } 2 m 1776 vol. 11 1776 p. 672 } 1 m 1776

State of New York County of Rensselaer ss:
On the third day of October 1832 person- ally appeared before the Judges of the Mayors Court of the City of Troy in said County of Rensselaer in open Court now sitting Ezra Wheeler a resident of Napsan in said County who first being 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 stated
On the first of May 1776 he entered as a volunteer under Captain Husted in Colonel Baileys regiment was marched to Fort Constitution a little above West Point and worked at the building of said fort except when on guard & other duty for the full term of his enlistment which was six months & was dismissed in November and returned home
In February 1777 entered under Captain Isaac Knapp to go to Canada. Marched to Albany and re: County road he was put to driving a continental team his team was purchased was employed transporting troops for a while and then put to drawing wood from Troy to Albany for the use of the troops there and served one month & was dismissed in March and returned home
In October 1777 he thinks about the first entered as a volunteer under Captain Roger Southland & Colonel David South- island March to Red Hook. The British Squadron under Com- mand of General Vaughan lay opposite in the river about this time they burned Esopus some of the British troops landed had some skirmishes and they returned to their ships & dropped down the river and he was dismissed sometime Early in November serving one month
In August 1778 he entered as a volunteer under Captain Willard & Colonel Dwell marched by Esopus crossing the river there & thence by Harnakating Hollow to Minisink between the Delaware lands & the Delaware and some guns

at Colonel Deyvett's house there was another company also from Dutchess County the other commanded by Captain Waters both of which came under Colonel Deyvett on arriving at this house as aforesaid and became subject to his orders there were two other companies stationed further south one company of Continental was with them a short time which he says then took two men in Indian habit & colour sent them to Poughkeepsie where they proved to be white men they were taken near Cochecton was principally employed in scouting and preventing Tories and Indians from annoying the inhabitants served four months and was dismissed in December following & returned home
In May 1780 Entered as a volunteer under Captain Smith Southland Lieutenant Stephen Hoyt & Colonel Kormer Hop- kins marched to Pukkill to guard the lines and prevent spies from passing up and down the North river with orders to suffer none to pass the point unless going to fort in at Pukkill landing and was dismissed in November following serving six months and was dismissed and returned home
In August 1781 he entered as a volunteer under Lieutenant John Hopkins (no other officer as he recruits at all events he commanded) for three months but marched to Fishkill and was put to Coating Wood from Fishkill to Westpoint and served two months only & was dismissed in October following and returned home
He resided at Stanford in Dutchess County N.Y. and about eight miles from his residence and in the neighborhood of Philip Heart & Esq. Tralick were a set of Tories who gave quarters and comfort to some of Delancey's Cavalry commonly called cowboys among whom was Isaac Hudd ston Heag and Israel who were there very often annoying the inhabitants and he Whelan was frequently called out to pursue them and was out from two to six days generally till at length Huddleston was taken & hung at Poughkeepsie and frequently was called out on alarms on other occasions In all of which he firmly believes he was in actual service during the revolution as much time as would make at least three months of continued service not before detailed

He has no documentary evidence and knows of no person whom testimony he can procure who can testify to his service
He was born at Tolland in Connecticut June 3 rd 1758 He has no record of his age except in his family bible, but thinks his age is recorded in Tolland town Clerk's office He resided in Stamford in Dutchess County New York during all his said enlistments from thence he removed to New Lebanon and from thence to Napanee where he now resides and has for the last thirty years.
He always entered the service voluntarily He does not remember ever receiving a written discharge He never received a Commission
Names of persons residing in his neighborhood who ever know him and who can testify as to their belief of his services as a soldier in the revolution and as to his character for veracity Simon Finch, Harry Strong Abner Bull Eliza Eggleston Benjamin Murphy Eliza Bruns Abel Cummings Silas Amble Rufus D. Cummings John H. Drewbury
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to an annuity or pension except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state Sworn to and subscribed this 3 rd day of June 1841 Ezra Wheeler
Archibald Bull Clerk We Ebenezer Wadsworth and Abner Bull residing in Napanee aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ezra Wheeler who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be seventy four years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolution, and that we con- cur in that opinion Eb Wadsworth Sworn to and subscribed this 3 rd day of June 1841 Abner Bull
Archibald Bull Clerk

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 his story. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Ebenezer Woodworth and Abner Dule who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the said town of Vespasian and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Archibald Dule Clerk of the Mayors court of the City of Troy in said County of Rensselaer, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ezra Wheeler for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Third day of October 1832.
Archibald Dule Clerk

Nov. 2, 1853. Appel. of Ezra Wheeler, decd. Amsterdam co., N. Y.
acc- 732 8 1/2 53.
F. A. Dickinson Atty. Present.

State of New York Rensselaer County } On this fourth day of October A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty three. Personally appeared before the Justices Court of the City of Troy Isaac Wheeler the only surviving child of Ezra Wheeler deceased, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the back pension that may be due the heirs of said Ezra Wheeler on account of service ren- dered the United States in the war of the Revolution, according to the act June 7 of 1832 or any act applicable to his case That the time of service the officers under whom he served will be found set forth in a declaration of said Ezra Wheeler, made through his agent Ebenezer Wadsworth, he thinks in the year 1833 and that said Ezra Wheeler was placed on the pension roll at the rate of six ty six dollars and sixty six cents per an- num, and that he was dropped from said roll on or about 1834 That he died on the 28 January 1840 That he left a widow by second marriage, that she is now dead, and that said marriage was subse- quent to 1820 and that he is the only surviving child of said Ezra Wheeler. He further states that he believes said Ezra Wheeler to have

ben draft from the Pension roll through the influence of Samuel Whuler and Ebenezer Wadsworth. The only reason they had for so doing as he believes, was that he would not give them one half of the money obtained from by his Pension Isaac Wheeler
Subscribed and sworn before me Charles E. Brintnall One of the Justices of the Justices Court of the City of Troy — — —
State of New York Rensselaer County Troy Justices Court B.D. I, Francis L. Jones Clerk of the Justices Court of the City of Troy (the same being a court of record having a clerk and seal) do hereby certify that Charles E. Brintnall Esq. before whom the foregoing declaration was made and the affixed affidavit taken was at the time of taking such declaration and affidavit one of the Justices of said court duly authorized to take the same and that his signature thereto subscribed is his genuine and proper hand writing. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official Seal of said court this Eighth day of October 1833. F. L. Jones Clerk of said Court

State of New York } ss Rensselaer County } ss On this fourteenth day of October A D eighteen hundred and fifty three personally appeared before The Justices Court of The City of Troy. Meshach Strait. who being duly sworn. makes the following declaration. That he was acquainted with Ezra Wheeler during his lifetime and that said Ezra Wheeler drew a pension from The United States of Sixty Six dollars and Sixty Six cents. That he has frequently seen his Certificate of Pension to that effect. That he believes said Wheeler to have been drafted from Pension roll about the year 1834 through the influence of his son in law Samuel Wheeler. and his agent Ebenezer Wadsworth. The reason why he thinks. is that they or one of them said if he should be stopped if he did not give them one half of what he so obtained. That said Ezra Wheeler died on the twenty eighth day of July eighteen hundred and forty and that Isaac Wheeler he believes to be his only surviving child. That he has been acquainted with the family for over thirty years. That he knows no other nor never has heard of any other that is now liv- ing
Meshach Strait
Subscribed and sworn before me Charles E. Prinsmall one of the Justices of the Court of the City of Troy

Is Wadsworth 164 N 72637 Byron Wheeler Rapel Co N. York
admitted. 20 mo. Private.
Is Wadsworth Brainard's bridge N.Y.

BRIEF in the case of Ebenezer Wheeler County of Russell in the State of N. York (Act 7th June, 1839.)
 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? 75 Years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     18 May In 1776 Col- 6 — — — Private Gen. Col. Bailey   July — 1777 enlisted 1 — — — Capt. Hunted   Oct — 1777 vol. 1 — — — Capt. Finch   Augt — 1778 enlisted vol 4 — — — Capt. Southland Co South   May 1780 vol 6 — — — Capt. Hilland Co Dewitt   Augt 1781 vol 2 — — — Capt. Smith Southland   5. In what battles was he engaged? Deut. Hoskins no other officer mentioned  
 6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Stamford N. York  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? authenticated 
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
John H. Ashton Examining Clerk.

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
AWT/HMM
October 12, 1929.
Eutler Bertha Wheeler Eutler Tescott Kansas.
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 11753, it appears that Ezra Wheeler was born June 3, 1753 in Tolland, Connecticut.
He stated that while residing in Stanford, Dutchess County, New York, he enlisted and served with the New York Troops as follows:
From May 1, 1776 six months in Captain Husted's Company, Colonel Bailey's Regiment, and was in the battle of White Plains; from in February 1777 in Captain Isaac Finch's Company, where he was detailed to drive a Continental team, and served one month; from October 1777 one month in Captain Roger Sutherland's Company, Colonel David Sutherland's Regiment; from in August 1778 four months in Captain Willard's Company, Colonel De Witt's Regiment, in scouting against the Indians and Tories; from in May 1780 six months in Captain Smith Sutherland's Company, Colonel Roswell Hopkins' Regiment; from in August 1781 two months under Lieutenant Joel Hoskins. He also served about three months, at various times, on alarms.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 3,

1832, at which time he was residing in Nassau, Rensselaer County, New York, having lived there thirty years.
Later, upon a re-examination of the claim, it was found his pension had been inadvertently allowed and it was suspended for further proof of service. Satisfactory proof of six months service, as required by the pension law, was never furnished.
The soldier died January 28, 1840, leaving a widow, who was his second wife. Her name is not given, nor is the name of his first wife stated.
In 1836 his son Isaac was living in Nassau, New York, aged forty-three years; and in 1853 it is stated he was the only surviving child.
Samuel Wheeler is referred to as a son-in-law. There are no further data as to children.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.

Rehran
11753 ✓ INVALID.
File No. 11753
Ezra Wheeler Brn. Rec. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index: —Vol. 2 , Page 404
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1929- Oct. 12 - Hrst to Bertha W. Estlin
my

Tescott Kans. Aug 4-1929
U.S. Pension Bureau - Dept of Rev. War Records - Dear Sir -
Will you please send me the record of Ezra  Ezra Wheeler, Sergt. in the Revolution, in Capt. Jas. Talmadge Co., of Col. Roswell Hopkins Reg't. of Dutchess Co. N.Y. militia, of Charlotte & America pre- cincts - Also in Capt. Colbr Cham- berlains Co. of Col Dubois Reg't. His wife's name & that of his ancestors or relatives that you have are also desired -
Truly Yours, Bertha Wheeler Euteler Tascott Kans.

Col. Niles
Alexander F. Evans Esq Washington D. C.

John D. Dugan H. R.
3 Feby 1837 Pb
Rec d . Vol. 45. pa. 51

War department Pension office Feb. 3 d 1837
Sir
The papers of Ezra Wheeler have again been examined. The affidavit of Robert Rider is mentioned as having been produced on a former occasion in proof of the term of six months in 1776 and that of four months in 1778. But if Mr. Rider's  that affidavit should be produced it would not be sufficient to  establish  that kind of the  Wheeler's claim to these terms - Excepting two instances, there is no evidence in the Department that the Militia were called  detained in service over a  for a longer term than  under force call  more than  one month. In 1776 July 16 the State of New York, pursuant to a requisition of the Commander in Chief, authorized a draft of one fourth of the Militia of the country Counties of West Chester Dutchess & Orange for a term of five months; in 1777 a draft for three months in 1777  in 1777 was authorized to serve at the North - the  Capt Smith Sutherland is credited for a term of 17 days in 1777  only  only  but there no pay roll of the his Company has been found -
Yours D. Russell House Reps US

Nov 7/13

Pension Office Nov 7 1853
Sir
The name of Ezra Wheeler of New York can not be restored to the Pension Roll upon the proof on file. The case was suspended in 1834, because the proof was then deficient, since which time much evidence of service and many Rolls have been brought to light. If he served as he alluded, some evidence of it should be found in the office of the Comptroller of N.Y.
H. A. Dickens Esq
General

To the Com t of Pensions.
Washington.
1 Nov. 1853.
Sir,
Enclosed I present to you the declaration of Isaac Wheeler only child of Ezer Wheeler dec d late a pensioner, to obtain all pension due his late father to the day of his decease. - and also all pension due to his widow under act of 1853 to the day of her death.
Yours respectfully Francis A. Dickinson.

W. Peterson Esq. No. 2. Dec 27 th
Ezra Wheeler a Soldier
Ezra Wheeler NY
Honorable David Russell Member of Congress. Washington —
Hon. D Russell H.R. Feb 6

East Napa
Rapsum County Dec 12 th 1885
Dear Friend Russell
Sir
In class you have a petition from Mr Egan which a Revolutionary Soldier who has heretofore drawn a pension as the papers already with you and at the pension office will explain. The petition will probably explain some previous existing difficulties in his obtaining his rights. Please examine the subject matter and what can be done about it. we favor Mr. and all shall be made right in behalf of this application any trouble you are at will be prompt- ly paid. I am yours Respectfully
W. Peterson

June 23.
Ezra Wheeler My
L. Edmearas D.G.
June 23 Rufus H. N.

Hann of N.Y., Dec. Jan. 23/1836.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Sir,
I have the pleasure of acknowledging the receipt of certified copies of the pension papers of Ezra Wheeler of New York in your envelope, but the envelope after proving the delivery of Mr. Wheeler is not accompanying the papers.
After the pension was bestowed the papers of Mr. Wheeler Aaron Comfield & Robert Rider, were forwarded to the pension office, please also send copies of those papers.
I am Respectfully
D. Russell

June 16.
Ezra Wheeler
has wanted
From to
Mr. Edwards Esq. Pension Office
Hon. S. K. Kirtland H.N.

Hann of Reps D.C. June 15 th 1836.
J. L. Edwards Esq r
Sir Will you have the goodness to send me the pension papers of Ezra Wheeler of New York I wish to submit them to the Committee on Revolutionary pensions to which Mr Wheeler's application has been referred
I am with great Respect Your ob t Serv t ,
M c Call

Ezra Wheeler Certificate $ 66.66
Payments to be made at New York by Fred. U. S. B. Burk Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of New York
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E Vol. 4 Page 36 by W. L. Williams, Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Ezra Wheeler of the State of New York who was a Private in the war of the Revolution is entitled to receive Sixty 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 13 day of
May one thousand eight hundred and thirty- Three
Lew. C.
Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

State of New-York,  COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.
Albany, June 29 1855.
I Hereby Certify, That on searching the Records in this office for the Registry of Certificates issued in pursuance of a law, passed April 27, 1784, entitled "An Act for the settlement of the pay of Levies and Militia for their services in the late war, and for other purposes therein mentioned," I find the following, viz:
   NAMES. NO. OF BOOK. NO. OF CERTIFICATE. DATE. £ S. D. RANK AND NAME OF COMPANY OFFICER. RANK AND NAME OF FIELD OFFICER.     Ezra Wheeler Serjt 3 13276 Nov. 22 1779 5 " 6 Capt. James Salmadge Col. Roswell Hopkins  
I have examined the Rolls for the items above set forth, and find them to be correct.
W. D. G. Russell Clerk.
The Commission referred to admits for £ 100 upon the testimony before the off. No 82. July 23 1855.
W. D. G. Russell Comptroller.

East Nassau NY June 20th Mrs. Jan Lyra Wheeler net 5 141.16 3/4
Three
J Edward Esq. Commissioner of Pensions War Department Washington City D.C.

State of New York Dutchess County ss.
on this 11th day of October 1836 before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Andrew Frasier of Milan in said County aged ninety two years who first being duly sworn according to law doth in his oath say that he was a Soldier in the Revolutionary Army under Capt Amos Ray in Colonel Morris' Brabant's Regiment that in 1776 he was in the Service at Westpoint and some time in the Summer saw one Elyah Wheeler in Captain Husted's Company in Colonel Buel's Regiment at Westpoint but when he entered on how long he served cannot tell said Wheeler belonged in Stamford in said County of Dutchess near to the then residence of said deponent that he knew him before and since the Revolution and knew and recognized him when seeing him in the Service though never served with him at any time and that this deponent further says that in the Summer of 1777 he was still in the Service under the same officers at Poughkeepsie guarding the river and preventing vessels from passing up the river unless they passed in to Poughkeepsie landing and that said Wheeler was there and on this deponent thinks in a Company commanded by Capt Smith Southland and this deponent further states that within about a mile of Philip Harts in Milan lived a family of Tories by the name of Huddleston that Isaac Huddleston was a powerful man and did much injury to the whig inhabitants and that previous attempts had been made to take him but without success till on a certain day he shot a person going to the pasture to catch his horse because he said he knew Huddleston who soon died and then the inhabitants were determined at all hazards to take him if possible and pursued him into a den in a neighboring mountain and took him and he was tried and hung at Poughkeepsie and was carried to the town of Northcutt (now Milan) and was buried and that he then understood that said Elyah Wheeler was one of those who took him
And this deponent further says that the Town of Haverbeke the then residence of said Elyah Wheeler joined Northcutt the Town in which this deponent then & still lives though his present residence is now Milan and the line of said Town was the dividing line of two regiments whose belonging to one or the other deponent to the best of his memory never served in the same Regiment nor does he distinctly remember seeing him in Service at any other time than as a prisoner but he understands and believes that he was out at various other times

And further this affidavit saith not Subscribed and sworn to this day above written before me Andrew J. Fraser Atty Atting Justice clerk
And I do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with said Andrew Fraser know him to be a credible person and of high standing as to character and integrity and for his age remarkably intelligible and apparently very clear and distinct in his recollection and from the cautious manner in which he has made the relation of the matter contained in the above affidavit that full confidence may be placed therein Atty Atting
[Two large, vertical, decorative flourishes or loops, likely from a quill pen, positioned on the left and right sides of the page.]

State of New York Dutchess County ss:
On this 12th day of October 1836 before the undersigned a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Amos Canfield aged seventy seven years who first being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath say that he was a sold- ier in the Revolutionary Army and is a pensioner under the act of 1818 that in the course of his service he was at one time in a Company commanded by Captain James Tallmadge and Lieutenant Joel Hopkins in Col Hopkins Regiment recruited & recruited in said Dutchess County in an engagement for three months which service commenced near the last of October but the year does not positively recollect but thinks it 1780 or 1781 that time that did not serve the whole time was dismissed before the expiration of the three months while there was employed keeping guard and transporting wood and water on rafts to West Point and during which time one Ezra Wheeler was in the same Company with this deponent that he was acquainted with said Wheeler before and after the Revolution and in the same mess with him during said time and said Wheeler then deponent resided in the town that is now called Stamford in said County of Dutchess where in service as aforesaid Subscribed and sworn to this day above written before me and I certify that said Amos Canfield is a credible person
his Amos Canfield mark
Benjamin S. Thorne Commissioner of Deeds
See Comptroller's certificate dated June 29, 1855.

State of New York Butcher County ss:
I Henry J. Traver Clerk of the said County do hereby certify That Benjamin S. Thorne before whom the within Affidavit was made was at the time of the taking of the same a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the said County duly commissioned and qualified - And also that Asa Alling before whom the annexed affidavit was made was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly commissioned and qualified - And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writings of the said Benjamin S. Thorne and Asa Alling respectively and verily believe the signatures annexed to the said Affidavits to be respectively their genuine signatures
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this Thirteenth day of October A.D. 1836
Henry J. Traver Clerk

To. The Honorable Secretary of war
The Petition of Ezra Wheeler of Napan in the County of Ulster & State of New York.
Would humbly be present unto you. Knoweth that your petition has heretofore presented as he supposed all the necessary Papers & Documents, to obtain a Pension, and that your petition from time to time threw or from year since received a Pension Certificate, and drew some pay, and since which time your petition has had his pay stopped and as he is informed and believes, was stopped by reason of a discrepancy in the Statement of the times of Service mentioned in your petition, declaration thereof, and some affidavits, and your petition has no other data or memorandum to fix the particular times, than merely his recollection, and your petition says that in May 1776 - he enlisted under Captain Huest, and Colonel Bailey of Poughkeepsie, and from thence marched to Fort Clinton, above West Poughkeepsie, and that he continued in the Service until cold weather came on, during which time the Battle of White Plains was fought in which Battle your petition took part and was engaged, was discharged some time after, and that your petition was engaged in the Service of the Revolutionary war at different times during the continuance of said war, as stated in your petition, declaration now on the file at the Pension office, and that if any contradictory state- ments exist in the declaration of your petition

and any affidavit made by him it is from want of recollection and not design and I am petition. Therefore Humbly Sollicits a further examination into the subject matter and therefor may be done in the premises and that his further say contained and your petition as in duty will ever pray &c Lyra Wheeler
Rensselaer County State of New York
Egbert Wheeler being duly sworn each depose and say that the facts set forth in the foregoing petition are true to the best of this deponent's information and belief and further saith not
Lyra Wheeler
Sworn before me the 14 th day of December 1835 James Hoag Justice Peace
State of New York Rensselaer County ss: I Henry R Bristol Clerk of the county of Rensselaer do hereby certify that James Hoag Esqr. before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the time of signing said affidavit a justice of the Peace in & for the said County of Rensselaer Also that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and verily believe his signature above written to be genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said county this 23 rd day of December 1835
Henry R Bristol Clerk
Mr. S. Phelps 1835

Ezra Whulnis Affidavit

To James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Sir
Through the agency of Ebenezer Wadsworth I obtained a Certificate for a pension under the Act of June 7th 1832 and have drawn the money on it semi-annually till my check was dishonored at the Bank for six months due on the 4th of Sept last I had confided the check to Sand Root Egleston a respectable Merchant and Post Master at East Napanee who answered a letter of inquiry to the Pension office on the subject and rec d for answer that his claim was suspended &c and Ebenezer Wadsworth going to Washington I requested him to make inquiry concerning it who informs me that a letter was written to me from the Pension office on the 2nd of September last requiring the return of my certificate and directed to Napanee which letter has never come to hand. I have been to Napanee Post office and can gain no intelligence of said letter and have called at all the other offices from which I have had any letters in twenty years and can not hear of said letter and cannot in any way account for the affair and desiring of finding it I send the Certificate herewith and request information of what the cause of the suspension of my pension is with instructions of what will be required to sustain my claim
State of New York Rensselaer County
Ezra Wheeler
On the 17 th day of January 1835 personally appeared to the undersigned a Commissioner of the United States in and for said County Ezra Wheeler of Napanee in said County who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath say that the facts contained in the above communication by him submitted are true
E. Wadsworth Commissioner of the United States
It is requested that the answer be made Ezra Wheeler at East Napanee. New York

State of New York
Rensselaer County ss: On the 23 day of November 1836 before the undersigned a commission of deeds in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Isaac Whalen of Napan in said County aged 43 years who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say that he is son of Ezra Whalen of the same place who applied for and obtained a pension under the act of June 7th 1832 through the agency of Ebenezer Wadsworth of Napan aforesaid that he drew his pay thereon for some time but that his pension drawn on the 4th of September 1834 was rejected and his pension suspended for reasons that it was inadvertently allowed &c and would require proof to sustain it after which this deponent at his father's request his deponent went to Dutchess County in search of testimony and found one Amon Canfield who testified that he was with his father at one time. He also found one Robert Rider who testified that he served with him two tours both of which were set forth in the declaration of his father as he is advised by his father and also by said Ebenezer Wadsworth from a memorandum kept by him of said service which tours were as follows one of six months under Captain Husted and Colonel Boucy serving at Fort Constitution and West Point. And one tour of four months under Captain Miller or Willard and Colonel D'Witt served at Minisink employed in guarding against the depredations of Indians and Tories &c and he also found one Ira Whalen a who testified that said Ezra Whalen younger brother of his father was frequently in service in the Revolution but was never out with him was not old enough at that time for a soldier. That these affidavits were furnished to one Mr. Peterson who on this deponent is informed and believes forwarded them to Hon. David Root a member of Congress who presented them at the pension office with an application for a restoration of the claim which was rejected by the Commissioners of pensions after which an appeal was made to Congress and on calling at the Pension Office for the aforesaid testimony to be laid before the

Committee it could not be found and Mr. Ruse adored that said testimony should be retaken for which purpose this deponent employed said Ebenezer Wadsworth to go to Dutchess County who on his return furnished the annexed affidavits of Amos Canfield and Andrew Frazier but informed that said Robert Riden was dead and that said Ira Wheeler had removed far west and could not learn his address and this deponent further says that said Robert Riden tells us that said Ezra Wheeler was out in service at sundry other times during the Revolution
Subscribed and sworn
Isaac Wheeler
this day above written
before me and I certify that
Said Isaac Wheeler is a credible
person E. Wadsworth
Commissioner of Oaths
State of New York
Rensselaer County ss: I Henry R. Bristol Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Ebenezer Wadsworth Esqr. before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Commissioner in & for the said County of Rensselaer duly authorized to take the same And that his signature above written is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County this 14 th day of February 1836
Henry R. Bristol Clerk

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Wheeler, Henry GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 8004 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 30, 1790 to Edward Cumpston, 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.