Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19625, Ebenezer Whitney, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Whitney Ebenezer Martha
W 19625-
CONTENTS

Massachusetts Roll.
(1,556)
Ebenezer Whitney, 19
Private 4
Massachusetts line May 77, 15 Sept 80 in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of: 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818, and sent to the Hon. Isaac Parker, Worcester, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818.
Semi-annual
4 months 26/30 $ 38.93
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Worcester, Worcester Co.
see letters 27 May 1829 & 18 Dec. 1827 to Hon. S.C. Allen H.R. also Dec. 16 & 15 th 1830 to Hon. G. Grennell H.R.
Massachusetts sent to Abigail Bagley Worcester Mass 21 July 1820

Ebenezer Whitney
Worthington April 9
Correct copy -
4

County of Worcester
State of Massachusetts
I Ebenezer Whitney a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Worcester in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, at sometime in the months of May or June of the year of our Lord seven hundred & eighty seven
I entered and was engaged in the Infantry service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the fifth day of September in the year of our Lord seven hundred & eighty
as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to a Company commanded by Capt Pierce & in the Regiment commanded by Col Brimley, Brigelow in the Massachusetts line
and that I left the service on the said fifth day of September by being honorably discharged; and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of fifty five years & being exceedingly infirm; having for many years been subject to Rheumatic attacks & arthritic complaints
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Ebenezer Whitney
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 9 th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, Isaac Parker Ch Justice of the Supreme Court of said State
the abovenamed Ebenezer Whitney and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Given under my hand & the seal of said Court the day & year aforesaid
Isaac Parker C.J.S.C.

Ebenezer Whitney Esq.
1556
June 1878.
Sep 1878
Worcester
William H. Jones Clerk of the Court for
1878
the said Court on this day personally appeared
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of
dollars and cents.
is Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Common Pleas, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify that
I ABIAH RICHARDSON, Clerk of the Circuit Court of
the said Court
to and delivered on the
day of

Schedule of the Estate of Ebenezer Whitney, Applicant for of Worcester in the county of Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, Applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress of May 1. 1820.
   1 pine chest $1.34   1 covered trunk .75   1 tin case .50   1 small desk top 1.50   1 tin water pot .10   1 old scythe & snathe & 1 broad hoe 1.50   1 old axe, 1 old scythe & 1 old hoe - or old iron .17   1 pair Rake - 1 hay fork .25   3 Wood axes 2.50   1 pr. Small Bellows, (very old) .25   2 pr. Fire tongs .75   1 pr. poot and irons .50   1 large iron pot & 1 small one 3.00   1 Tin Kettle - Iron Pason 1.34   1 Butte 1 Iron wedge and 1 Drawing knife 0.75   5 pair old chains 1.00   1 old draught chain 1.00   1 pair old horse traces and pieces of chains 1.50   5 pair old Barrels 0.88   1 Meat Barrel .25   1 Iron Skillet .25   1 Nail hammer 1 flat iron 1 pair stub yards 1.50   1 Wooden Bowls, 12 Junk Bowls 1.30   1 Glass quart mug & 1 tin lantern 0.60   1 small loom 20.00   6 pewter plates 1.50   $45.03  
I am a Home Carrier : my health is poor; I have a wife and two daughters, one aged 30 & the other 34 years, with whom I live, but who are unable to assist me.
Ebenezer Whitney

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this twenty third day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Worcester, established as such by the laws of said Commonwealth, Ebenezer Whitney aged fifty six years, resident in Worcester in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: I first enlisted in the 12 th Sept. 1777, under capt W m Gates, in col o Sim o Bigelow's Reg t , and afterwards served under capt Houdang, in col o Putnam's Reg t : three years in all. I first applied for a pension in April, 1818, and my certificate is no 1556—
and I do solemnly swear, that I was a Resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any man- ner, 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 18th day of March, 1818; 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.
Ebenezer Whitney
Sworn to and declared, on the twenty third day of June , 1820 before the said Court.
Attest, Abijah Bigelow, Clerk
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the 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 forty five dollars and twenty three cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty third day of June 1820.
Abijah Bigelow Clerk of the Court for the County of Worcester.

Massachusetts 911.
Martha Whitney widow of Ebenezer Whitney who was a Private in the Mass line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of July, 1843. and sent to
Wm Jennison Worcester Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 1. Page 57.
As July 14.
+

11/93 Martha Whitney.
admitted Pa 2m $80,

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester do certify, that Ira Barton is the Judge of said Court, duly commissioned and qualified - and that he is also Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified - and that his signatures to the papers hereto annexed are true and genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court this tenth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
Chas. G. Prentiss, Register

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Norfolk ss. on this twelfth day of Sep- tember in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty eight. Personally appeared before me Nathan Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Norfolk, Martha Whit- ney a widow of her estate in said County aged seventy eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, did on her oath say the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension allowed by the Act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay since previous to certain battles.
That she is the widow of Ebenezer Whitney, formerly Ebenezer Whitney the second late of said County deceased, who was a private soldier in the Army of the United States and a pensioner of the United States He belonged to said town of Norfolk when he went into the service, and she belonged to the same town. She always understood and nearly believes that he belonged to the Regi- ment of Col. Timothy Boylston, since the company of Capt. William Gage in the Massachusetts three years service, But for the provisions once contained in his service she would refer to the rolls in the War Department as to the place of service in the case of her said husband who received his pension under the Act of 1818.
She further declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Whitney at said time

Martha Whitney
in the month of March in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two by William Henry Co- quine a Justice of the Peace. That she was married at her father the late John Galt's but there is no one living who was present at the time of their marriage. She has three brothers and sisters who have to have families but they are none at present & none. She is advised that the name of her marriage is not to be found. But she respectfully refers as evidence of it to the record of her birth certificate, and of the letters of her father, and to the testimony of respectable neighbors who have always known her as the wife and widow of the said Simon Galt. She further declares that her husband the said Simon Galt at some time or other on the twenty fourth day of June in the year eighteen hundred and thirty six, and she therefore, as his widow, claims the balance of funds due him, and that she has never been married since his death. That she was not married to her present husband having the same at the time of his death. That the said day of June eighteen hundred and thirty six, to wit at the time al- ready mentioned.  Martha Whitney
I have known John Galt the day of your death and the day of my own
the Ballarat branch of the Coast of Australia for some years of her life

“Bans of Matrimony entered for publishing,” “Ebenezer Whitney & Martha Gates both of Worcester, entered March second, Seventeen hundred eighty two.” I certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair, legible figures, as follows: March 2 d 1782.
C. A. Hamilton, Town Clerk.
I, Charles A. Hamilton, abovenamed, depose and say, that I hold the office of Clerk of the Town of Worcester, in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and that the above is a true extract from the fourth volume of the records of said Town, with the exception abovenamed, as certified by me. Worcester Sept. 4. 1838. C. A. Hamilton, Town Clerk.
Worcester ss. Sept. 4. 1838. Sworn to before me, J. W. BRITTON Justice of the Peace
The following is a true copy of a record, in the second volume of the records of Births in the town of Worcester, aforesaid. Polly Whitney . . . born April 10 th 1782. Betsey Whitney . . . born June 6 th 1784. Ebenezer Whitney . . . born May 23 d 1788. Martha Whitney . . . born March 5 th 1793. Prudence Whitney - born January 15 th 1795. The children of Ebenezer Whitney & Martha, his wife. C. A. Hamilton, Town Clerk.
Worcester ss. Sept. 1838. Sworn to before me, J. W. BRITTON Justice of the Peace.

✓ Theophilus Wheeler of Barnstable in the County of Barnstable agree saying these years do hereby certify that I have long acquaintance with Almon Wheeler as he was formerly called Almon Wheeler's son, who has reputation to be a soldier of the Revolution and was a prisoner of the British States. He married, as I always understood, a daughter of my mother's brother, to Martha Gales of said Barnstable sometime about the close of the Revolutionary war. He died two or three years since, and the said Martha never his widow, has never been married since his death. She is a woman of great truth and respectability.
Theophilus Wheeler
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Barnstable ss. Sept. 10. 1838. I have before me and I certify that said Wheeler was formerly the nephew of my last, and is a man of great truth and respectability.
Mr. Nathan Kelley Barnstable County

Witnesses here of residence in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts about sixty two — — years since the Register of deeds for said County do affirm and say that I long knew Oliver Sturtevant late of said County who was reported to be a soldier of the Revolution, since his death about two years ago. His widow Mar- tha Sturtevant, I long knew as his wife, and I have no more doubt of their marriage than I have of my own. She has never been remarried since her husband's death, is a near neighbor to me, and she and her family are people of entire respectability.
Asa B. Ward
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bristol County ss Sept. 10, 1858 I swear to you Mr. Ward that said house is as true as truth.
Mr. Battell's story of Puddles for said County

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
MDH
June 12, 1925.
Almon G. Hovey 165 Furman Street, Schenectady, New York.
Sir:
I have to advise you, that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W-19625, it appears that Ebenezer Whitney while residing in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts enlisted September 12, 1777 and served as a private in Captains John Pierce and William Gates' Companies, Colonel Timothy Bigelow's Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment from which he was discharged September 5, 1780.
He also served in Captain Houdin's Company, Colonel Putnam's Massachusetts Regiment, dates of service not stated.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 9, 1818 while residing in Worcester, Massachusetts, aged 55 years and he died there June 17, 1836.
He married in Worcester, Massachusetts in March 1782, Martha, daughter of John Gates and she was allowed pension on her application executed September 10 1838 while living there aged 78 years.
Their children were Polly, Betsey, Ebeneser, Martha and Prudence.
Respectfully,
WILDER S METCALF.
Commissioner.

1866
Ebenezer Whitney (Mass) Oct. 19 1825

Ebenezer Whitney is not here on Capt. Gales's roll made up for Quarterly in April 1779 so it can not be paid without a War- rant from the Govt.
T HIS certifieth, That Ebenezer Whitney of the has served Three Years, in the Massachusetts Regiment, being the full Term of his Inlistment; has conducted himself as a good and faithful Soldier, and is hereby discharged the Service.
Given under my Hand, at Freehold N. Jersey this 15th Day of September 1780. Silvanus Smith Capt. Comd. 1st Mass. Regt.
1780

1.331
Massachusetts
Martha Whitney widow of Ebenezer Whitney decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 17th June 1836 of Worcester Co. in the State of MS who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Dales of the Vegt commanded by Lt. Ingelav in the MS line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. at the rate of 50 Dollars ~ Cents per annum. to commence on the 1st day of March, 1836.  17th June 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of Augt. 1838 and sent C. G. Wentip Worcester MS.
Arrears to the 1st of Sept 1838 $ 207.00 Semi-annual allowance ending March , 40.00
$247.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by W.H. Madison Clerk, Book A Vol. 1st Page 143

Massachusetts
Martha Whitney
widow of Ebenezer Whitney
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818. and who died on the 17 th June 1836 at Worcester Co in the State of Mass. who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Bates and of the Reg t commanded by Col Bigelow in the Mass s line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts, at the rate of 80. — Dollars  per per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836. & ending 17 th June 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th day of March 1843. and sent to Elizab th Clarke, Brighton, Mass.
Arrears to the 4 th of Semi-annual allowances ending
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by H. S. Evans Clerk, Book A. Vol. 1 Page 143.
Reported
A new Certificate was issued in this case under the opinion of the Attorney General of the 2 nd Sep r 1842, which was given in consequence of the Resolution of Congress of the 16 th Aug 1842.

Worcester, Town of Worcester Commonwealth of Massachusetts, April 9 th 1818.
We the subscribers, Selectmen of the Town of Worcester, hereby certify, that we well know Mr. Ebenezer Whitney of this Town who it is said was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, we have no doubt he stands in need of the assistance from his Country for support.
Abraham Lincoln Nathaniel Stowell John Glegg Peter Slater

Hon. J. S. Edwards
Hon. J. S. Edwards

Westchester Sept. 10. 1838.
Sir,
I send the application of Matthew Whitney. Please to send the certificate to
Yours, Chas. G. Priest.
Hon. J. S. Schenck.
2 Schenck

Massachusetts
Ebenezer Whitney 2 nd Act 18 March 1878, to what time paid? Pen. Office.
See 5. 1838
Died 17 th June 1836 paid to that period
OH

1914. Apr. 27. Letter to Mrs. La Belle W. Wallace. M.B.H. 1925- June 12. Test b. Alvin S. Story m. 29
Rev. WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19625-
Martha Whitney wid. of Ebenezer Whitney Priv. Rev. War
Act: March 3 rd  1/43
Index:—Vol. M Page 333
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Shelton Nebr. Apr 19-1914
Pension Office. Washington. D.C.
Have you the name "Ebenezer Whitney" on the Pension List? He enlisted as a Private in the Continental Army at Worcester Mass. In the company commanded

by Capt. Joshua Pierce in Col Biglow's regiment. I would like his age when he enlisted?
How long he served? And what yr. he rec'd his pension from the government?
Please send me what information & dates you can regarding him that you can.
And oblige
Yours Respectfully
Mrs La Belle Whitney Wallace, Shelton,
Box B 104 543 envelope
Buffalo Co.,
Nebraska.

Please ans. at your earliest convenience

165 Furman St. Schenectady, N.Y. Apr. 6, 1925.
U. S. Army Pension Office Washington, D.C. Gentlemen:-
I am trying to get information of the service in the American Revolution of sergt. Ebenezer Whitney, also dates of his birth and marriage death, if possible.
This much, we know of him which would help in your identifying him in your records: "sergt. Ebenezer Whitney; born in Worcester, Mass. in 1759, married there Martha Bates, who died Sept. 18, 1847. He was in the Revolutionary War for 6\frac{1}{2} years, first serving in a Worcester company. He died June

17, 1836 residing in Worcester, Mass."
If you can give me confirmation of this data and even add on to it, will you please send me some Certificate which I may present for proof of my ancestor's service.
I realize that I am asking a great deal, and I can do nothing for you except hope that some one will do as much for you under the same circumstances when you have no control over a matter.
I am thanking you in advance for any consideration you may show me and hope to hear from you favorably real soon.
Yours very Truly
Almon B. Hovey.

Mass. Whitney Ebenezer. W19625

Martha Whitney
Mass.
At 7. July 38 80 th from March 36 to 17. June 36
Elijah Clark Brighton Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Worcester, ss.
On this third day of February eighteen hundred and forty three. Personally appeared before me, Sam M. Bullard a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Worcester Martha Whitney a resident of Worcester in said County, eighty two years of age, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declara- tion, in order to obtain the amount of pension which she claims from the fourth of March 1836 to the seventeenth of June A.D. 1836, from which period she has been already paid under the Act of the Seventh of July 1838. and the declarant further alleges that she is still the widow of Ebenezer Whitney, who was a private in the Revolutionary War, that her pension was allowed at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, and was paid to her at the agency at Boston in the state of Massachusetts, and further she saith not, Martha Whitney
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, Before Me, Sam M. Bullard Jus. Peace
Ever Spector certify that the hereunto Whitney is known to me as a person of truth and that she has never been remarried since the death of her said husband who was a pensioner of the United States Sam M. Bullard Jus. Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Secretary's Office
February 4. 1843
I hereby certify that the within named Ira M. Barton on the third day of Feb. many instant was a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Worcester Witness, the Seal of the Com- monwealth
John A. Bolles Secy of the Commonwealth

1328 Martha Whitney.
Worcester County - Massachusetts.
$80 per an
Send cert: to Wm. Jennison, Esq Worcester Mass

Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received pensions under the Act of July 7, 1838.
State of Massachusetts. } fs.
County of Worcester.
On this sixteenth day of May, - 1843, personally appeared before the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace for said County, Martha Whitney, a resident of Worcester, in the County of Worcester aforesaid, aged eighty three years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the Widow of Ebenezer Whitney, who was a private in the War of the Revolution, and, as she believes in Col. Sim d Bigelow's Regiment, Capt. W m Gates' Company, John Pierce, Lieutenant of said Company. - That the annual amount of the pension which she received under the Act of July 7, 1838, was eighty six dollars. -
She further declares that she is still a Widow.
Witness, P. H. Hovey
Martha Whitney
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. Before William Jennison, Justice of the Peace for said County of Worcester.
I certify that I have been well acquainted with said Ebenezer Whitney dec d and with his Widow the above applicant, and know that she is the identical person represented to be, in the foregoing Declaration.
William Jennison, Justice of the Peace for Worcester County.

State of Massachusetts.
Worcester County, ss.
I certify that William Jennison, Esquire, within named, is a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Worcester, duly commissioned and qualified: and that his signature, as within written, is in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my name, and affix the County Seal, at Worcester, this 16 th day of May, in the year 1843.
J. G. Merrill
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County.