Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25929, Ebenezer Wells, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. H.
Wells, Ebenezer Sarah
N 25-929
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21. 5 69  New Hampshire  Ebenezer Wells
was a stranger in the State of New Hampshire who was a Private in the Comp commanded by Captain Hatchings of the Regt commanded by Col. Reed — in the New Hampshire line for 8 Mo.
M 75 d 31 Oct. '37
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire, as the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Sep. 1832 — and put to E. W. Phelps  new claim
  Arrears to the 4th of Sep '33  $ 6.66    Semi-ant. allowance ending 4th '34  13.33     $79.99  
{ Revolutionary Claim, { dated June 7, 1832.  J. C. Hiles Clerk
Recorded by Book 6 , Vol. 1 , Page 128 .

Reported
Date of death not shown on A. B.
1038
New Hampshire Concord
Sarah Wells
M H widow of Ebenezer Wells who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26 Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of July 1843 and sent to N. M. Taylor New Hampton, N. H.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 1. Page 22.

Ebenezer Wells N Hampshire
Private & Mark
1606 Oct 25 1833 P. 354
20719
Y. N. Phelps New Chester N H

BRIEF in the case of  Ebenezer Wells  Co of Strafford  in the State of N.H.  (Act 7th June, 1839.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open Court,  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 79  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. As a Gen.     In 17 1/2 volunteers 8 - - Private Capt Hutchins Col Durd  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Battle of Dunbar's Hill  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Chester in Rockingham N.H.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional one living witness  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The papers are not attested agreeably to the registration, — the witness is not certified as credible — nor is the official character of the witness stated — careful  I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Payson
Examining Clerk.

3177V Marriage of Sarah Wells to Michael O'Leary Act 7 July 1838 N. 76. Mar 1778. Died 1837 Oct. 31. Allow 8 mo pri $24:66 per ann.
Geo M. Phelps Hill NH

Declaration. In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th July 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"
State of New Hampshire?
Grafton County ss. On this ninth day of November Anno Domini 1838. personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas for said County Sarah Wells a resident of New Hampton in the county of Shafford in said State, aged twentyeight years, who being first sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows". That she is the widow of Ebenezer Wells late of said New Hampton deceased, who was a private in the Revolutionary Army. She further declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Wells on the Twentieth day of April Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight and that her husband the aforesaid Ebenezer Wells died on the thirty first day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven. That she has not the means of ascertaining whether her said husband served in the Revolutionary Army subsequent to her intermarriage with him or not but verily believes he did not, and that the marriage took place previous to the first of January seven hundred and ninety four, to wit at the times above stated.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. Before me Attest Geo. M. Phelps Sarah X Wells mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written in Open Court Before me Nathan B. Felton Clerk
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the said ninth day of November A.D. 1838 Nathan B. Felton Clerk.

Sec. Pioneer Wells
20719
Elmwood Ave

I, Isaac Knight, a clergyman residing in the town of Newberville in the County of Grafton in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Rev. Wells signer of the annexed declaration that I believe him to be about twenty nine years of age, that I reside within three miles of him, & that I believe there is no clergyman settled in the Town of Newbarnston within the limits of which the said Wells resides. I further state that he is respected and beloved in the neigh- borhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, & that I con- cur in that opinion - Isaac Knight
Grafton p. 23. May 1833. Then Isaac Knight signer of the above certificate made solemn that the above certificate by him signed is true Geo M. Phelps Jus. Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Isaac Knight is a clergyman regularly settled in said Newberville - & further that his testimony is entitled to full credit. I also certify that Samuel Morse signer of the annexed affi- davit is a credible witness & entitled to full credit - Geo M. Phelps Jus. Peace

Samuel Morse of Plymouth in the County of Grafton in the State of New Hampshire do hereby and say that I am acquainted with Ebenezer Wells of New Hampshire in the County of Strafford in said State that he served in the same company with me under the command of Capt. Hutchinson of Hanstead in the County of Rockingham in said State & Lieutenant Emerson of Chester in said County during the term of Eight months that he was on the battle of Bunker Hill with me I further say that I belonged to the same Company some part of said eight months was well acquainted with him and now know that he served said term - Samuel Morse
State of New Hampshire
Grafton - Plymouth 31. July 1832
Then personally appeared the above named Samuel Morse and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him signed is true before me
Geo. N. Phelps, Jr. Clerk

I certify that the within named Samuel Morse is a credible witness & his statement within is therewith entitled to full credit
Geo M Phelps Jr. Paine
Sam l Morse Affiant
State of New Hampshire
Grafton I George Woodworth Assistant Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said county do certify that George M. Phelps Esq is a justice of the peace within the said county duly qualified to take affidavits & that I believe his name on this & two other annexed pieces of paper are his genuine signatures Witness my hand & the seal of said Court this 29. day of May 1833 George Woodworth Clerk

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
State of New-Hampshire, } ss. At a Court of Probate County of Shafford } held at Sandbornton in said County
On this sixth day of December 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Probate , now sitting, Ebenezer Wells a resident of New Hampton in the County of Shafford and State of N. H. aged 70 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 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated to wit in the year 1775 Resided at Chichester in the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire that on or about the first of June of that year he entered the service of the USA by voluntary enlistment into a company of Militia or Volunteers under the command of Capt Benjamin Hutchinson & Hamstead in said County of Rockingham , and Lieut Amos Emerson of said Chichester , marched to Charlestown Massachusetts, said company was attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Reed some part of the time while he continued in the service that he was in the battle of Bunker Hill that he served during the term of eight months which was the term for which he enlisted, and at the end of said term he was dismissed and returned home, and he has no recollection that he ever had any written discharge if he had it has long since been lost. He further says he was born in the Town of Chichester in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire that he has resided in New Hampton where he now lives for the last fifty years. That he does not know that there is a record of his service at any place - that he has no documentary evidence of his service as above mentioned & that he knows of no person whom testimony he can procure who can testify to his service except Samuel Morse now residing in Philo , Co. of Grafton & State of N.H. whose Affidavit is hereto annexed, who served with him during said term of eight months.

DECLARATION.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that he is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State,
Sworn to and subscribed, the 6 th day of Dec 1832 Ebenezer Wells
in open court
We, Levi Carter residing in New Hampshire and Geo. M. Phelps residing in New Hampshire in the County of Grafton, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Edward Wells, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 79 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 the 6 th day of Dec 1832
in open court
Levi Carter Geo. M. Phelps
And the said Court do hereby declare its 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 in the state. And the Court further declares that the said applicant is a resident in the said New Hampshire and that who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident in the said New Hampshire and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Daniel Atkinson Judge of Probate I, James Barstow Regt 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 Wells for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 6 th day of Dec 1832
James Barstow Regt.

I Thomas Faxon of Hills in the County of Grafton in the state of New Hampshire, do now and say that I have resided in the town of Hills aforesaid (formerly New Hampshire) for the last fifty two years. That I have been acquainted with Mrs. Sarah Wells of New Hampshire in the county of Strafford now widow of Ebenezer Wells late of said New Hamp- shire deceased from my infancy, there being but a few days difference in her age & mine both of us being between seventy nine and eighty years of age. That her father & mine were brothers. I further say that some short time before her intermarriage with her late husband Ebenezer Wells, said Wells & I both labored for cutting Faxon her father in New Hampshire. After that I returned to my home at Newton N.H. and had occasion to pass hither & thither occasionally to & from New Hampshire & Newton with teams and otherwise for several years until I moved to New Hampshire in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty six during which time said Wells had been married to my cousin Sarah Faxon and according to my best recollection resided after they were married in her father's family for two or three years until said Wells had made some improvements on a lot of land on the opposite side of the Pining-

want since in Shapsburg County given him by my Uncle of said and removed on to the same. Their oldest child Sally was born at my Uncle's while they lived there & whether their oldest son John was born before they went over the river I am not now able to say, but they were residing at New Hampshire when I moved from New- town to New Chester. They resided at New- Hampshire for a number of years and had several other children & then returned to New Chester & if I mistake not had one child a son (Gasper) born at New Chester - After living several years at New Chester they again returned to New Hampshire where they remained until said Uncle died & where his widow now resides with her son Gasper. I further say that I think I was not at New- -Chester at the time said Eld. & Sarah were married but I believe they were married either in the Spring of 1777 or 1778 and that their oldest daughter was born in the Spring of 1779 or 1780.
Thomas Haver
State of New Hampshire Grafton 25 th March 1839 sworn to & subscribed before me Geo. H. Phelps Jus Peace

I George M. Phelps a justice of the peace within and for the county of Grafton in the state of New Hampshire hereby certify that I have been to the house of widow Sarah Wells in New Hampton & assisted her in making search for family records and can find nothing of their description in the house, she says some twenty or thirty years since they had an a "leaf of the Bible" such a record which was many years since worn out or destroyed. She also says that her oldest daughter Sally was born on five weeks old on the "Dark Day" she was out to a neighbors that day being the first time out after her child was born & the first time ever out with a child - the "Dark Day" since coming here I learn to have been 19 th May 1780 -
I further certify that I can find but one individual viz Thomas Faxon whose Affidavit is annexed, who was acquainted with the family more than fifty years ago.
There is an old man Jos. Faxon lives more than 90 years of age whose mental faculties are too much impaired to give any information on the subject. I have
Also used the records of New Hampton & Hill formerly New Chester to be examined & there is no record of the births of any of the family to be found on either of them I further say that Thomas Faxon

sign of the annexed affidavit is entitled to full credit as a witness
Geo M. Phelps Jus Pacem
Affidavit of Nathan Felton
State of New Hampshire } sec. Grafton County }
I Nathan B. Felton clerk of the court of common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that George M. Phelps is an acting justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commis- sioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the fifth day of July 1834, and will expire on the fifth day of July 1839, and that his signature above and written as genuine.
Given under my hand under the seal of said County, this fifteenth day of June 1839 N B Felton Clerk

Earl's Avenue Afton 22 Jan 1839

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that George M. Phelps is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Grafton duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the fifth day of July 18 34 and will expire on the fifth day of July 18 39 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this twentyfourth day of
June 18 39
Josiah Stevens Secretary of State.

I Jacob Yawce of Pembury in the county of Grafton in the State of New- Hampshire, suppose and say that I am brother to Sarah Wells the widow of Ebenezer Wells late of New Hampshire in the county of Strafford in said State. That my age is ninety three years the 21 st day of May last past. That the evidence of my age I have learned from the records in the Town of New- town in the State of New Hampshire where I was born & from which place my father removed to New Britain (now Hill) when I was quite young. I well remember the time that my sister Sarah Yawce now the widow Sarah Wells above- named was married to said Ebe- nezer Wells now deceased and think I was about twelve years old at the time of her marriage - but have no means of ascertaining the exact time - I am certain she was married before the spring of 1780 from the circumstance that said Wells then lived on the oppo- site side of the Pennycuick river from my father & had commenced house- keeping with my sister Sarah prior to that time & I am confident that their oldest child Sarah now Mrs Merrill was born about that time. The reason I am able to fix upon that date is that on the memorable "Dark day" which was May 19 th 1780 I crossed the river to carry dinner to my father and

others who were clearing a piece of land for said wells and am certain that said wells had been manured sometime before that time for the reason that they lived at my fathers in Newbedford some time before they removed across the river to Newbedford where they lived in the Spring of 1780 as above named. The oldest son of said Ebenezer & Sarah (John) now resides in (Hill) formerly Newbedford and is the second child of said Ebenezer & Sarah and I believe is about fifty seven or fifty eight years of age. He has always resided in said Newbedford and I know his age to be about as above stated. I further say that three of the children of said Ebenezer & Sarah were born prior to the year 1794 and I think the fourth but am not confident of that — Jacob Farnsworth
State of Newbedford Grafton ss. 22 June 1839 When personally appeared the above named Jacob Farnsworth and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true before me Geo. H. Phelps J.P.
I George H. Phelps hereby certify that the above named Jacob Farnsworth the above affidavit in my presence that his statement is entitled to full credit.
Geo. H. Phelps J.P.

2 I Mary Gundy of Lawful age depose and say that my Sister Sarah Wells, widow of Ebenezer Wells late of New Hampshire in the county of Shafford in the State of New. - Hampshire was married to said Ebenezer Wells on the twentieth day of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight at Salisbury in the county of Hannibal in said State of N.H. by the Rev. Mr.
thus a Minister or clergyman at said Salisbury. I attended the wedding. My Brother John Gundy went with me to the wedding. I was then four- teen years old. My brother in law Ebe- zer Wells afterwards always lived with my Sister Sarah his wife until about a year since a short distance from me until his death which was about one year ago - and my Sister Sarah Wells has remained a widow ever since I believe there is no person living who was at said marriage except my Sister Sarah Wells & myself.
Mary I Drew Gps M. Phelps
Mary X Gundy mark
Grafton Is. 26 Oct 1838 Mary Gundy subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit before me and I hereby certify that the foregoing the said affidavit is entitled to full credit
Gps M. Phelps Jus. Peace

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss I Nathan B. Felton clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Grafton hereby certify that George M. Phelps whose name is subscribed to one certificate within written is an acting justice was on the twenty sixth day of October last past an acting justice of the Peace for said County and that his name so subscribed is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the 10 th day of November A.D. 1838
N. B. Felton Clerk
State of New Hampshire
Grafton County ss.
I, Nathan B. Felton, Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that George M. Phelps is an acting justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the fifth day of July 1834, and will expire on the fifth day of July 1839; and that his signature within written is genuine
Given under my hand and the seal of said County this 15 th day of June A.D. 1839
N. B. Felton Clerk

I John Wells of Hill in the County of Grafton in the State of New Hampshire do hereby declare and say that I am the son of Eld. Sarah Wells and was fifty seven years old the first day of January last past as I always have been told by my parents, I further state that I was always told that my sister Sally now widow Mrs. Merrill is two years older than myself. I further say that many years since my father had a record of our ages on a leaf of the Bible which record I have seen, but for many years past it has been lost and I presume there is no record thereof now in existence.
John Wells
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss.
26 March 1839
Sworn to & subscribed before me
Goen Phelps Jr. Penn
I hereby certify that John Wells the above sign is entitled to full credit as a witness
Goen Phelps Jr. Penn

State of New Hampshire Grafton County Set.
I, Nathan B. Folsom clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that George M. Phelps is an acting justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified. That his commission was dated on the fifth day of July 1834, and will expire on the fifth day of July 1839, and that his two signatures within written are genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County, this fifteenth day of July June 1839
N. B. Folsom Clerk

May 8, 1935.
Mrs. Lena W. Leighton Strafford, New Lake New Hampshire.
BA-J/ILL David Waldron R. 11020 Ebenezer Wells W. 28020
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of David Waldron and Ebenezer Wells, pensioners of New Hampshire, in 1833.
The records of these two soldiers are given herein as found in pension claims based upon their service in that war.
DAVID WALDRON-R. 11020
David Waldron was born in the month of July 1756, in Barrington, Strafford County, New Hampshire; the names of his parents were not given.
While a resident of Barrington, New Hampshire, he enlisted and served as private in the New Hampshire troops on tours shown as follows: from sometime in December 1775, two months in Captain John Drew's company, engaged in the vicinity of Cambridge; from sometime in December 1775, three months in Captain Samuel Wallingford's company, a part of the time at Fort Montgomery; and from the last of August 1777, four months in Captain Page's company, engaged in the defense of Rhode Island. Sometime in June 1778, he entered on board the privateer ship "Sullivan", commanded by Captain Thomas Darling, sailed for the Grand Banks, captured a British brig and a topsail schooner, and some small fishing craft, and returned in September to Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
David Waldron was allowed pension on his application executed September 17, 1833, at which time he resided in Barrington, New Hampshire; he had always resided in Barrington or in an adjoining town.

David Waldren died April 26, 1840 in Barrington, New Hampshire.
The soldier married December 14, 1785 in York, York County, Maine District, Maria Webber; the ceremony was performed by the pastor of the 1 st Congregational Church of said York. The names of her parents and the date and place of her birth were not stated.
Maria Waldren, the soldier's widow, died February 14, 1844 in Barrington, New Hampshire.
David Waldren and his wife, Maria, had only two children: a son, Solomon, who resided in Barrington, in 1852; a daughter Mary, who married Charles Stuart, both of whom died during the lifetime of Maria Waldren, the soldier's widow. Maria Stuart, their daughter, and a granddaughter of the soldier, was a resident of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1852; she was then of age. There are no further data regarding the heirs of David Waldren.
At the time David Waldren made application for pension, he referred to one Isaac Walren. However, no relationship between them was stated.
EBENEZER WELLS- W. 25929
Ebenezer Wells was born in Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; the names of his parents were not stated.
While a resident of Chester, New Hampshire, he enlisted about June 1, 1775 and served eight months as private in Captain Menekiah Hutchins' company, Colonel Reed's New Hampshire regiment, during which period of service he was in the battle of Bunker Hill.
He was allowed pension on his application executed December 6, 1832, at which time he resided in New Hampton, Strafford County, New Hampshire. On May 23, 1833, he stated that he was a few weeks more than eighty years of age. He had resided there more than fifty years.

Ebenezer Wells, the soldier, died October 31, 1837 in New Hampton, New Hampshire.
Ebenezer Wells married April 20, 1778 in Salisbury, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, Sarah Favour, the daughter of Cutting Favour; the name of her mother was not given. After their marriage, they resided several years with her father, then moved to a home on the opposite side of the Penigwasset River, the land for which was given them by her father.
Sarah Wells, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed November 9, 1838, at which time she resided in New Hampton, New Hampshire, with her son, Tappan Wells; she was then aged seventy-eight years. In 1843, the widow and her son, Tappan, were both residing in New Hampton, Belknap County, New Hampshire.
Ebenezer Wells, the soldier, and his wife, Sarah, had a number of children; the names of those given in this pension claim are as follows:
Sally, their first child, was a few weeks old May 19, 1780; in 1839, she was Mrs. Merrill, name of her husband not given. John, their second child, was born January 2, 1780; he resided in 1839 in New Hampton, then called Hill, New Hampshire.
Tappan, the son referred to above, was born in New Chester, New Hampshire, after his parents had moved there from New Hampton, where their first home was built.
In 1838, Mary Gurdy, a sister of Sarah Wells, soldier's widow, stated that she was about fourteen years of age at the time she and her brother, John, witnessed the marriage of Sarah to Ebenezer Wells; also, that they had been neighbors during the lifetime of the soldier. She did not state the name of her husband, nor give the date of her own marriage. In 1839, Jacob Favour, a brother of Sarah Wells, was a resident of Danbury, Grafton County, New Hampshire; he stated then that he was born May 21, 1806 in Newtown, New Hampshire, and that his father

moved from there to New Chester, later called Hill, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
In 1839, Thomas Faver, or Faver, a cousin of Sarah Wells, the soldier's widow, was a resident of Hill, New Hampshire; he was within a few days of the same age of said Sarah. He stated that he lived with his father in Newtown, New Hampshire, at the time the land was cleared for the home of Ebenezer Wells and said Sarah, and that his father was engaged there May 19, 1780, "the memorable Dark Day"; he did not state the names of his parents.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of Sarah Wells, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following:
Sarah Wells, widow of Ebenezer Wells, Certificate #1038 Issued July 21, 1843 Rate $26.68 per annum Commenced March 4, 1843 Act of March 4, 1843. New Hampshire Agency.
Very truly yours,
A. B. KILLEN, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

New Hampshire 3443.
Sarah Wells widow of Ebenezer Wells, decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 - and who died on the 31 Oct 1837 - of Franklin in the State of N.H. who was a private in the Co. commanded by Captain Hutchins of the reg t commanded by Col Reed in the N.H. line for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 31st day of Oct. 1837
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of July 1839 and sent to Geo. M. Phelps , Hill, N.H.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1838 $35.87 Semi-annual allowance ending 4/2/38 13.33
$49.20
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D.M. Curdy , Clerk, Book A. Vol. 1. Page 59.

New Hampshire v 3443.
Sarah Wells
widow of Ebenezer Wells
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 31 October 1837- of Grafton in the State of N. H. who was a private in the commanded by Captain
Regt: commanded by Col Reed of the the N. H. — line for 8 months in
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord at the rate of 26 — Dollars 66 — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. & terminating 31 October 1837-
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th: — day of May 1843 — and sent to Richd M- Taylor, New-Hampton, N. H. — .
Total amount, $34.13
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by W. H. C. and Clerk, Book 4 Vol. 1 — Page 73

Refo May 29
New certificate issued
3- in this case see opinion of Atty Genl. of 22 Sept. 1842

1936-May 8- Hirt. to Mrs. Lena H. Leighton-see letter in Rev. ch. David Waldron - J.L.L.
Reg
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25,929
Sarah Wells
.....widow of Ebenezer Wells Print Rev. was
Act: March 3 rd  1848
Index:—Vol. W , Page 324
[Arrangement of 1870.]

20/19 Ebenezer Wells
G. M. Phelps New Chester N.H.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Ebenezer Wells which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yy II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yy III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yy V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yy VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yy VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yy VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yy IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yy X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yy

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Conferred by two Citizens
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Yes
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? Yes
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? No
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? No. Must in every case authenticate
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? Yes
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? Q 2. 6
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

1410 Declaration South Wheeler
$26:66 per an
N. M. Taylor
N. M. Taylor New Hampshire 1881

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 NEW HAMPSHIRE.
On this Belknap ss.  Seventeenth day of March 184 3 . Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, Sarah Wells , a resident of Kingston in the County of Belknap and State aforesaid, aged eighty four 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 day of March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Ebenezer Wells who was a Private during the Revolution in the New Hampshire line
That she was a pensioner under the act of 7th July, 1838, which she received at the rate of seventy five dollars 66 cents per annum,
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me.
Sarah Wells mark Scholar M Taylor Justice of the Peace through said State
I hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with Sarah Wells the person who has signed and sworn to the foregoing declaration for the fifteen years last past and know that she is still the widow of Ebenezer Wells
March 17th 1843
Scholar M Taylor Justice of the Peace through said State

State of New Hampshire
Belknap. ss.
I Ebenezer S. Lawrence Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, certify, that Nicholas M. Taylor is a Justice of the Peace in and through said state that his Commission is dated December 21 st A.D. 1842 and will expire on the 21 st day of December A.D. 1847, that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine in my belief.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this sixteenth day of May A.D. 1843.
E. S. Lawrence, Clerk.

Have you Edward

Concord 24 June 1839.
Dear Mr. Edmunds
Sir I enclose under the paper of Mrs. Sarah Wells. - I have taken the Affidavit of Jacob Faxon brother of the Applicant. which I hope may prove satisfactory in breaking of the credits if any could remain of the Applicant's marriage.
I am very respectfully yours most obedt servant
Geo M. Phelps
N.B. I write this from Concord but should be a certificate be sent me for Mrs. Wells you will please credit as before to my return. - Will S. H.

I Tappan Wells a resident of New Hampshire in the County of Belknap and State of New Hampshire of lawful age Testify and say that I have been well acquainted with Sarah Wells who has signed and sworn to the accompanying Declaration for thirty years past and know that she received a Pension under the Act of July 7th 1838 and that she still remains the Widow of Ebenezer Wells
Tappan Wells
State of New Hampshire Belknap ss Sworn to and Subscribed this ninth day of March 1843 Before me Nicholas M Tappan Justice Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Tappan Wells who has signed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit is a reputable witness and his testimony is entitled to credit March 9th 1843 Nicholas M Tappan Justice Peace

Ebenezer Wells, Conrad Agnew W.H. Art June 7. 1832. $24.66. Where paid?
W.H.
p to 4 Sep 1837 24

Declaration of Sarah Wells NH
Amean 1838. act 7. July 3 8 26. 66 from Frank 36 6 31 Oct. -37
Nich. M. Taylor New Hampton, N. Hampshire. May 24. 1843.

Declaration
In order to obtain arrears of Pension due from 4th March 1836 under the Act of Congress of 7th July 1838
State of New Hampshire
Belknap ss In this ninth day of March 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber a Magistrate of the County aforesaid Sarah Wells a resident of New Hampton in the County of Belknap aged eighty four years who being duly sworn according to Law doth on her Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the amount of Pension which she claims from the 4th of March 1836 to the 31st day of October 1837 from which period she has already been paid under the Act of July 7th 1838 and the declarant further alledges that she is still the Widow of Ebenezer Wells who was a private during the Revolutionary war that her Pension was allowed at the rate of Twenty six Dollars sixty six cents per annum and was paid to her at the Agency in Concord in the State of New Hampshire
Witness Jofferson Wells
Sarah her X Wells mark
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written Before me
Nicholas M Taylor Justice Peace

State of New Hampshire
Belknap ss I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Sarah Wells who has signed the within Declaration for the last fifteen years and know that she was a Pensioner under the Act of Congress of July 7 th 1838 and is still the Widow of Chas. Wells
Nicholas M Taylor, Justice Peace
State of New Hampshire
Belknap ss I E. S. Lawrence Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Nicholas M Taylor is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was dated on the 21 st day of December 1842 and will expire on the 20 th day of December 1847 and that his signature above written is genuine in my belief
Given under my hand and the seal of said County this sixteenth day of May A.D. 1843.
E. S. Lawrence, Clerk.
I hereby certify that the within County was interlined before executed
E. S. Lawrence Clerk

Elmer Wells. concord Pats N. H. June 7. when paid? a. 1837
# H L
p to 4 Sep 1837
216
 4 4.133 n  1 3.444  3 3.333  4 4.46  35 87 
men 76.

Hon. J. L. Edmunds
Grant Pinnion
Washington City D. C.

Col. Edmund Ely
Sir Sir I enclose you the Affidavits of Thomas Faxon & John Wells in Sarah Wells perjury case & hope it will be satisfactory. Should it not be I will search further. There prob- ably never can be found a record of her Marriage as the Clergyman who officiated I am informed not many years afterwards became deranged and no papers or record of his is to be found - The old lady is as needy as any one in this section & if her case is so made out as to satisfy that she is entitled I hope she may be permitted to come in for her share
Respectfully &c G. M. Phelps
State of New Hampshire Grafton County ss. } Sec.
I Nathan B Faxon Clerk of the Court of Com- mon Pleas of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that George M. Phelps is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the fifteenth day of July 1834, and will expire on the fifth day of July 1839, and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County this 15 th day of June 1839 N. B. Faxon Clerk

Edward Wells
Payments to be made at Portsmouth by James M. D. Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of
New Hampshire
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E. Vol. 1. Page 28 by J. C. Stiles Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Ebenezer Wells of the State of New Hampshire who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive Seventy-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 21 day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three
L. Wood Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. L. Edward
Commissioner of Pensions.

Grafton J. 23
May 1833 -
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace within and for the County of Grafton in the state of New Hampshire Ebenezer Wells who being duly sworn deposes and saith, that he has no record of his age and does not know that any exists. - that at the time he made the annexed declaration he believes he was more than seventy nine & less than eighty years of age & that he now is a few weeks over eighty & further that he does not recollect that he ever received any discharge from service & that if he ever had any it has long since been lost. he is very confident he never had a discharge.
Ebenezer Wells
Grafton Subscribed & sworn to before me J. 23 May 1833 Geo M. Phelps.
Jur.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Wells, Edward GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 10581 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 16, 1789 to M. McConnell, 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.