Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4,607, Ebenezer Trowbridge, Conn

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn
Trowbridge, Ebenezer Trowbridge or
Mr 4.607
Panel.
CONTENTS

Ohio 12535 [Signature]
Alvinson Ironbridge
of Private in the state of who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Brady of the Infantry line, for the term of 3 Years
enrolled on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of July 1819 and sent to Alvinson Parma, Portage Co.
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 $ 78.96 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1818 1 27/35 $ 126.96
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Ohio [Signature] Continued
let G. Green 20 out in let to same 30 Sept 1842.
sent to Sth. Day 1842 6 Nov 1842 Parma Ohio

Ebenezer Trowbridge private Connecticut Line
13 years
REMARKS The Regt must be stated in the declaration.
The certificate of the Surgeon as to required circumstances of Applicant, is wanting.
the para
Price

State of Ohio } Portage County } ss on this ninth Day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County
Personally appeared Eleazar Groves, aged eighty years resident in Palmyra in the said County who being by me first duly sworn according to law, I do hereby make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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. That he the said Eleazar Groves enlisted in the month of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Eli Kirtland of the Connecticut line that he continued to serve in the said company in the service of the United States until the month of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty when he was discharged from service in the town of Mansfield in the state of New Jersey that he was in the battles of Germantown and Monmouth and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has now no other evidence in his power of his said services.
Eleazar Groves
Sworn to and subscribed before me this day and year aforesaid Alva Day, Associate Judge
May 9. 1818

I Alva Day Jdg. of the court aforesaid To certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Ebenezer Grosby did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the bureau for the Department of War pursuant to the direction of the above mentioned act of congress
Alva Day
This may certify that from the oath of Noah Smith to me well known for truth and veracity I am well satisfied that Ebenezer Grosby is in straitened circumstances and stands in need of of assistance for a comfortable support
Alva Day Jdg

The State of Ohio Portage County ss
I Seth Day Clerk of the Court of common Pleas within and for said County do hereby certify and make known that Alva Day Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and by whom the foregoing certificate was sub- scribed was at the time of taking and sub- scribing the same and now is an associ- ate Judge of the Court of common Pleas of said County duly commissioned and sworn and to all whose official acts full faith and credit is and ought to be given and that the foregoing signatures are genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Ravenna this twenty first day of July Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Seth Day Clerk.

Ebenezer Snowbridge,
12,535.
Certificate dated 21 st  Nov. 1819 March 1819
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The State of Ohio } Be it remembered that at a term of the Court of Common Pleas Portage County ss. } of the County of Portage specially held at the Court House in the Town of Ravenna within and for the County of Portage and state of Ohio before Elias Harmon, Alva Gay and Augustus Baldwin Esquires Special Justices of said County holding said Court, being a Court of Record for said County expressly constituted by law, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a Record of their Proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment; — On this eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open Court Ebenezer Doolittle aged sixty three years resident in Canburgh in said County who being first duly sworn according to law with an oath motion that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: — That he the said Ebenezer Doolittle enlisted for the term of three years on or about the first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven at New Milford in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Eli Cattlin in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Philip B. Bradley of the fifth, Connecticut line on the Continental establishment, — That he was discharged the said service at Morristown in the state of New Jersey in January 1780. — That he was in the battle of Germantown in the month of October 1777, under Captain Cattlin, — That he was at the battle of Monmouth on the 28 th day of June 1778 under Lieutenant Wallsworth. — That this declarant has heretofore to wit on the ninth day of May Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighteen under the provisions of the act of Congress of the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen made the declaration of his right to a pension from the United States of the said Court and in pursuance thereof has been inscribed on the pension list of the United States as by his pension certificate number 12,535 dated the 21 day of July 1819, in his pension will appear. —
And I do solemnly swear that I do solemnly was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby 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 18 th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts, credits due to me nor have I any interest other than what is contained in the

And I do solemnly swear that I do solemnly was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner 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 Revolution War" passed on the 18 th 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.
This declarant exhibits here in court the following inventory of his estate     viz, One Yoke Oxen 40.00 1 Dish kettle $60 75   1 Cow 12.00 1 Broken Sugarhant. 1.00   4 Swine 5.00 3 Knives & forks .50   1 Table .50 4 Saucers & saucers .25   3 Chairs 1.00 2 Milk Pans .25   1 Chest .75 2 Corthan Sets .50 64.00   1 Stew kettle 1.00 3 dozens wheat in sheaf say 14 bushels 7.00   1 Tea kettle .50 Due on book, about 10.00   $60.75 $81.00  
This declarant has a contract for ten acres of land in Palmyra mostly under improvement value at $400 on which he has paid $50 dollars ($50 dollars remaining unpaid) $50.00  $131.00

There is Justly due and owing from this department as follows,
  due To Jonathan Miner $24.00   Majah Brach 9.00 amt bal. owe $131.00   Majah Tyrel 10.00 43.00   $173.00 
This declaration further states that her entrance as a volunteer in Captain Starns Company Colonel Wards Regiment in the month of January 1776 was marched from New Milford in Connecticut to New York and remained on duty for the term of two months; that in the month of May of the same year he enlisted at New Milford in Captain Elenzers Company Colonel Herman Swifts Regiment for six months, was discharged at the expiration of that time at Mount Independence.
This declarant is by occupation a farmer his age sixty three, enjoys tolerable bodily health for a man of his age: is somewhat disabled in his feet by severely freezing on Staten Island in the month of January 1780, under Lord Sterling has had his left arm broken twice. His family consists of himself and wife Rachel aged sixty years of a tolerable constitution is able to do some labour.
Sworn to and Subscribed in Open Court This 8 th of August A.D. 1829. Day O'Ke
Ebenezer Drobidge
The State of Ohio Portage County ss
I Seth Dey Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of said Court.

6073
Ohio. Pittsburgh
Martha Snowbridge, widow of Ebenezer Snowbridge who was a Br Corporal in the Conn Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 83 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Sept 1844 and sent to Elliot H. Halthaway Hambleen Ohio
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A June 17 1844 Vol. 1 Page 103
103

5647 See 5647 Parnel Crowbridge
Ohio
act 4 July 35
E. P. Worcester Atty.

10846
Samuel Trowbridge Theo
act 7. July 38 amt. 9 mo forpl 15. pri
$83.
Geo Green

In the Application of Mrs. Pamel Trowbridge Widow of Ebenezer Trowbridge deceased.
State of Ohio } Portage County } ss.
I William Cookman Jr.
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Portage & State of Ohio aforesaid. Do hereby certify that Joseph Lewis whose name appears to the execution of the annexed Declaration and Affidavit, and before whom the same purport to have been sworn was, on the day of the dates thereof and still is a Judge (to wit an associate Judge) of the said Court of Common Pleas, duly commissioned and qualified to act as such. & further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge, and that his signature to the said annexed papers is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the Seal of the said Court of Common Pleas at Ravenna this second day of December A. D. 1842.
William Cookman Jr. Clerk

Declaration of Widow Pamel Trowbridge to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836. for Pension, State of Ohio ss.
On this twenty eighth (28 th ) day of November A.D. 1842 personally appeared before me the Honorable Joseph Lewis, one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Portage and State of Ohio, it being a Court of Record possessing and exercising common law powers and jurisdiction in the State aforesaid, Pamel Trowbridge a resident of the Town of Edinburgh in the said County of Portage, aged eighty two years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the follow- ing declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the pro- vision of the Act of Congress passed July fourth (4 th ) 1836 granting Pensions to widows of Persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the Widow of Ebenezer Trowbridge who was a private in the in the Service in the American Army of the Revolutionary War, and entered the Service from the State of Connecticut, and served three tours or terms as a Soldier, in one of which terms he entered the Service or served under Capt. Catlin of Litchfield County and State of Connecticut, and Lieutenants Wadsworth and Higgins, & Ensign David Beach, who was formerly a Sergeant, and in Colonel Bradleys Regiment or under Col. Bradley, and he served for more than three years in the whole, & was, (as she has often heard her said husband say, & believes true) in the Battles of Monmouth and Germantown, as will more fully appear from the papers upon which he drew his pension for several years before his death, and now supposed to be at the Pension Office at Washington to which she begs leave to refer, as also to the papers on which she drew the arrears of his pension after his death in the year 1836, —
She also Declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Trowbridge on the tenth (10 th ) day of March (1779) in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy nine, that her said Husband, the aforesaid Ebenezer Trowbridge, died on the second (2 nd ) day of June 1836, aged 80 years, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, & is still a widow

as will more fully appear by a reference to the last hereto annexed.
She further declares that she was born, to the best of her knowledge and belief, on the 11 th day of July 1766 and that her maiden name was Pamela Wheeler, that she was married to the said Ebenezer Trowbridge in the nineteenth year of her age, at New Milford in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, by Col. Bushnell Bostwick then a justice of the Peace of the said County of Litchfield, at the residence of the said Bushnell Bostwick Esquire, who was then an aged Gentleman (and did before she left removed from the State of Connecticut to the State of Ohio. She further says that she does not now know of any person living who was present at her said marriage with the said Ebenezer Trowbridge unless it may be Polly Bostwick, a granddaughter of the said Bushnell Bostwick Esqr. but her place of residence (if living) is wholly unknown to this deponent;
She further declares that she and her said husband (Ebenezer Trowbridge) continued to live & reside together as husband and wife in the State of Connecticut from the time her said husband returned home from the war, until the year 1815, when she and her said husband removed to the County of Portage in the State of Ohio, where they continued to reside together as husband and wife until the time of his death, which was in the year 1830 and where she still continues to reside.
She further declares that the names of her children by the said Ebenezer Trowbridge since her said marriage to him, are, Stephen Trowbridge, now in the sixty third year of his age, Naomi Trowbridge, now the wife of Abijah Finkel, in the fifty ninth year of her age, Daniel Trowbridge now in the fifty seventh year of his age, and Wheeler Trowbridge now in the fiftieth year of his age.
She further declares that her said husband herself were brought up from their youth in the same neighbourhood in the said County of Litchfield & were well acquainted before their said marriage together,

and further that she was also well acquainted with Antanas Ruggles of the County of Litchfield aforesaid prior to her aforesaid marriage. to the said Elanora who was also brought up in the same neighborhood with herself, she further says that she has never drawn or received any pension from Government except the said arrears of pension, after the death of her said husband, and she therefore prays that she may be allowed a pension payable at the City of Washington if lawfully entitled to the same.
She further declares that by reason of Blindness and other bodily infirmities, she is wholly unable to attend Court, or to go from the house, and that she has not been out of the house when she now is, since some time in the month of April last, and not for some time prior thereto except by the help and assistance of others. — Done in presence of. &
Joseph Lewis Daniel Woodbridge
Panel Frowbridge mark
Sworn to and subscribed by the above named & described Pamela Frowbridge by making her mark thereto, in my presence (and who is to me personally known) on this 28 th day of November 1842 before me, —
and further I certify that the above named Pamela Frowbridge by reason of her blindness, advanced age, and bodily infirmity is unable to attend Court in person. I have therefore attended at her residence & place of abode in the Township of Edinburgh, Portage County, Ohio and administered to her the usual oath for the purposes in her declaration above mentioned
Joseph Lewis Associate Judge of Common Pleas Portage County and State of Ohio.

State of Ohio ss.
Daniel Knowlton of the township of Edenburgh, County of Portage & State aforesaid being duly sworn doth depose and say, that he is the third child and son of Ebenezer Knowlton & Pamel Knowlton his wife, that the said deponent was born in the town of New Milford in Litchfield County and State of Connecticut, and is now in the fifty seventh year of his age, that he moved into Portage County State of Ohio in the year 1812, that in three or four years afterwards he went on a visit to Connecticut and on his return again to Ohio, brought out with him his said Father and mother viz. the said Ebenezer and Pamel Knowlton, and that they the said Ebenezer and Pamel continued to reside from that time, up to the period of the death of the said Ebenezer, in the same neighborhood with this deponent, and so lived and resided together as husband and wife, and were always so accepted and reputed and esteemed by their friends and neighbors and children & grandchildren as husband and wife, which deponent fully believes was the fact.
Deponent further says that his said Father, the said Ebenezer Knowlton died on the second day of June 1836 at Edenburgh in Portage County and that deponent saw him after his death & was also present at his funeral and said him buried and knows the fact to be, that the said Ebenezer Knowlton died on the second day of June aforesaid.
and he further says that the said Pamel Knowlton the mother of this deponent and widow of the said Ebenezer Knowlton deceased is still living and is still a widow, and that she is the same person who signed the annexed declaration by making her mark thereto, in the presence of this deponent, whom he believes his name stands as a witness.
He further says that the said Ebenezer drew a pension from the United States for several years prior to his death, and deponent often drew or received his said pension for him, and he also knows the fact to be that this deponent's said mother also drew or received the arrears of the pension of her said husband after his death, and this deponent also knows, and so states the

part to be, that the mother of this deponent, the aforesaid Daniel Howbridge is the widow of the said Ebenezer Howbridge, and is the same person who now or received the arrears of his said pension, and is the same identical person who signed the aforesaid declaration in the presence of the Hon. Judge Joseph Lewis and this deponent, Deponent further says that the said Daniel is blind, aged and infirm and resides in a room in the same house with this deponent and has for some time past, and that she is unable to go out of doors, and has not been out of the house when she now resides since some time last winter to the best of this deponent's knowledge, information and belief.
Subscribed & sworn to this 28 th day of December 1842, before me, by the said Daniel Howbridge, who is to me personally known and I also hereby certify to his credibility as a witness.
Daniel Howbridge
N.B. These interlineations before execution!
Joseph Lewis Associate Judge of Common pleas Portage Co and State of Ohio

State of Ohio, Portage County ss. I, Artemas Ruggles of the Township of Palmyra in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn doth depose and say, that he resided when he was a boy and was brought up in the town of New Milford in Litchfield County and State of Connecticut. That he was well acquainted with Daniel Wheeler when she was a girl and upon her marriage to Ebenezer Frowbridge, and was also acquainted with the said Ebenezer Frowbridge before his marriage to the said Daniel Wheeler. That they were all neighbors and were all raised & brought up in the same neighborhood in Litchfield County aforesaid. Deponent further says that although he was not present at the marriage, yet he well remembers the circumstances of the said Ebenezer Frowbridge courtship and marriage to the said Daniel Wheeler when she was a girl of about 19, or 20.
That they were married at a time when he came home from the Army & when the troops were laying only a few miles from old Mr. Wheeler's in Connecticut, and that the said Ebenezer then went back into the Army again; and he well remembers of its being stated as a fact of public notoriety in the neighborhood that the said Ebenezer and the said Daniel were married by old Col. Bushnell Bostwick, who this deponent was also well acquainted with, and who was also a justice of the Peace in the said County of Litchfield, and deponent knows the fact to be that after the said marriage & after the said Ebenezer came home from the Army, he continued to live with the said Daniel, his wife as husband & wife, and were so credited & accepted, and publicly regarded to be husband & wife up to the time they moved from the State of Connecticut into the State of Ohio, and that time after their removal into the State of Ohio they so continued to live, and brought up or raised a large respectable family of children as such husband & wife up to

the time of his death, which was about six years ago or more
He further says that the said marriage took place between the said Ebenezer Howbridge and the said Rachel Wheeler, during the revolutionary war, and all of two years or upwards before the surrender of Cornwallis, and he has not any doubt but that their said marriage took place in the year 1779, in the winter season of that year.
He further says that he was also well acquainted with the said Ebenezer Howbridge & Rachel his wife from the time they moved into the State of Ohio up to the time of his death, which he believes must have been all of twenty years or more, up to the time he died and he has also been acquainted with his children ever since, he also is acquainted with their children who are all men & women grown, and have, or have had families. —
He further says that the said Widow Howbridge who now resides with her son Daniel Howbridge Esq. in the township of Edenburgh & County of Portage, and the next township adjoining west of Palmyra, is the same identical person whose maiden name was Rachel Wheeler, and whom he knows the fact to be that she is the same person who has always been publicly & privately considered and by public statute passed as the lawful wife of the said Ebenezer from the time of their aforesaid marriage, during the revolutionary war
Sworn to & subscribed by the above named Artemas Ruggles, who is to me personally and well known, and who is a credible witness, and is so publicly esteemed & respected, before me this 28 th day of November A.D. 1842. — N.B. one erratum, & one interlineation upon execution.
Artemas Ruggles

I.S.C.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Widow's File # 4607
Bureau of Pensions,
Rev. War.
Washington, D. C., June 3, 1907.
Sir:-
In reply to your request of May 21, 1907 , received May 23, 1907 for a statement of the military history of Ebenezer Trowbridge a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his and (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Jan'y. 1776 2 mos. / Starr Ward Conn.   May 1776 6 mos. / Ebenezer Couch Hermon Swift   * Feby. 1, 1777 3 years Corpl. Eli Cathin Philip B. Bradley            
Battles engaged in, Germantown and Monmouth
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated * Enlisted at New Milford, Conn.
Date of application for pension, May 9, 1818. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Palmyra, N.Y. - 1820 Edinburgh, Portage Co., Oh.
Age at date of application, 60 years. died June 2, 1836.
Remarks: Soldier married at New Milford, Conn., Mch. 10, 1779 Parnel Wheeler born July 11, 1760, and she was pensioned (as his widow) on an application executed Mch. 8, 1842 while a resident of Edinburgh, Oh. Children: Stephen b. Oct. 26, 1780   , Naomi 59 th  1842 yr., wife of Abijah Tyrell, Daniel 55 th July 1841   , and Wheeler 50 th yr. in 1842. Horace Holister son-in-law witness widow's signature
Very respectfully,
Mr. H. F. Thompson,
Lyon County National Bank, Rock Rapids, Ia.
Commissioner.

5647
Panel Township Ohio
let to E. B. Myerson June 21. 43
act 4 July 1836
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Col Sarah Ironbridge July 18. 1844 to same Aug 26 1844.
8340 Ohio.
Pittsburgh Agency In.
Marcel Ironbridge
widow of Ebenezer Ironbridge who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 2 nd June 1836 at Portage in the State of Ohio who was a S t Corp l in the Comp y commanded by Captain _____ of the reg t commanded by Col Bradbury in the Conn y line for 9 mo. coop d 15 th Pa t
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 83 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of Ap r 1844 and sent to Geo Green present.
Total amount, $415.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by F. S. Swann Clerk. Book P Vol. 1 Page 397 397

Honor d Mr. J. L. Edwards. for after my respects to you & good Wish Desiring to be Delicate and not injudicious feeling it my Duty being Requested by the widow Parnel Trowbridge who said to me Near where my relations Lives in Portage County when I was there said she for (Gods) sake take my Case in hand & Do some thing for Me for it seems she Had not where with to buy a little Coffee or tea as she talk d to me about it. Therefore as your Head & mine is blossom- -ing for the Grave & soon will Have to give an account for our Stewardship in friendship I wish you to follow me a little & if I am right well & if not cast it behind you- Be so kind your precious self to Reexamine the widow Parnel Trowbridges Case and I think you will see your way Clear if I Have Taken up things aright. in the first place Ebenezer Trowbridge presented to you Sufficient testimony of his Services in the Revolution War that you gave Him a pension of Ninety six Dollars per year you continued His pension by finding a certificate to him Dated Nov r 8 th 1820. and Had Him put on the pension Role 28 th of March 1819. and gave Him his pay for a Number of years $96. a year untill He Dyed which was June the 2 d 1836. and after his Death James M c Reyns Jent r . and Steven or Stephen Trowbridge was qualified in Savannah Portage County before the Court of His Death & a Squire went to the widow & took Her qualification that She was Ebenezers Trowbridges Lawfull wife & that She was the identical widow and you accepted these testimonies and Stopt His pension and gave Her the arears of her Husbands Ebenezer Trowbridge Now therefore you Have Elizur Bostwickes testimony with the County seal of Brees Blerkship to it that Bostwick & Her lived together from Children lived in the two Neighbourhoods about sixty years and better Himself Married B. B. B. B. Bostwickes Daughter two months & eleven Days before his father in law who was a Squire Married Ebenezer Trowbridge and Parnel Wheeler you have witnesses Buggles qualification with the County seal that him & them lived together & Raisd their Children together about fifty years & Deem d them Lawfull man & wife you Have three of Her Childrens signature & two of the tyrells signatures all blows to the widows Lawfull Marriage - and now the Verry Law you put in my Hands in the 3 d section where the Law says any Have Dyed Leaving a widow whose Marriage took place before the Expiration of the Last period of His service such widow shall be entitled to receive During the time She may remain unmarried

The annuity or pension which might have been allowed to her husband by virtue of the act aforesaid if living at the time it was passed - Now Honor & Sir Mr Edward you will find on the calculation he was Married 10 th of March 1779. and as you refered me to her account in her petition that her husband served 3 years & 7 months and without controversy there was no enlistment until after the 4 th of July 1776 the Date of the independence adding them together you will find it makes 1779 years & 7 months & the Date of His Marriage leaves 4 months & 20 Days in His or her favour which covers that Law or acts you gave me and if he listed or served any Date after 1776. it will still be in her favour of which records which I doubtless you have in your possession to which she has refered you to through me her Lawfull and Honest agent Honest Did I say I would take any one as a friend if they show me my error I would alter it immediately - I would say therefore she never Married again & if she had married several times & now is a widow the Law that was enacted in the upper House in my presence on Saturday and printed on Monday Evening following at 8 o'clock in favour of the widows would still strengthen her case therefore I hope you have power vested in you not to put any more further trouble to repeat her qualification and get further testimony but give her the $6. Dollars for 5 years as her husband got I leave this & her present papers and refer you to the records that's with you & please Mr Edwards try & get as much time this week to give me an answer & shape things any way you please. I would suggest if you can or please to do any thing for her she will wait on Warren Bank in the country until funds comes in there. I remain your sincere wellwisher & obedient servant. in George Green - Sept r 22. 1842 -
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And in respect to any state which shall not expressly assent, or expressly dissent, at the first session of its legislature held after the passing of this act, its assent shall be presumed.

NO. 7089. CAPITAL $ 75,000.00.
LYON COUNTY NATIONAL BANK
ORGANIZED 1877.
O. P. MILLER, PRES. M. A. COX, CASHIER. F. B. PARKER, ASST. CASH.
NATIONALIZED 1904.
ROCK RAPIDS, IOWA, May 21 "1907.
To the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir, Will you kindly give me the following information. Did Paruell Trowbridge make application for, and receive pension for the services of her husband in the Revolutionary War? Husband's name, Ebenezer Trowbridge. He served as a private in Conn. troops part of time under Capt. Starr and Col. Bradley. Enlisted at New Milford Conn.
If such are the facts, will you kindly state over your signature that the widow did receive a pension & for whose services and what, she

NO. 7089 CAPITAL $ 75,000.00.
LYON COUNTY NATIONAL BANK
ORGANIZED 1877. O. P. MILLER, PRES. M. A. COX, CASHIER. F. B. PARKER, ASST. CASH. NATIONALIZED 1904.
Rock Rapids, Iowa.
received such pension? Any information you give me will be greatly appreciated & I thank you in advance for the favor.
Yours respectfully, H. H. Thompson.

O. P. MILLER. J. K. P. THOMPSON.
M. A. COX. Cashr F. B. PARKER. Asst Cashr
Lyon County Bank
CAPITAL $100,000 00
MILLER & THOMPSON
Rock Rapids, Iowa, 1-25-97
DICTATED BY T
The Hon. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir.-- My wife's ancestor, Ebenezer Junott Trowbridge was a Revolutionary soldier, enlisted from Milford, Conn. in 1775, is said to have served seven years. He drew a pension when he died. Would you kindly furnish me with a brief of the facts in the matter so we may be able to establish the fact.
By so doing you will greatly oblige,
Your humble servant,

File No. 4607
Pamela Trowbridge
Wid.
Ebenezer Trowbridge
Coop. Conn. line
Act: March 24th 1873, June 17th 1874
Index:—Vol. III, Page 280
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Feby 11- Mr. J. K.
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1897- History to P. Thompson. Rock Rapids, Iowa.
1906 Oct. 24 History to Z. E. Booth letter in Mid. File 26418 Benjamin Ruggles. e
1907 June 3. Hist. to H. T. Thompson. e

Washington April 20. 1844
Geo. W. Crump Esq
Sir
Mr. Green has handed me your note of the date in which you request me to certify, if able, to the credibility of the witnesses to Mrs. Parnell Bowbridge's application for a pension. I am acquainted with Daniel Bowbridge, Stephen Bowbridge and Eliza Bostwick, and can certify that all of them are men of the first respectability. Mr Bostwick is a very aged man but is still vigorous in both body and mind.
Whatever statements may be made by either of the above individuals, would be entitled to the fullest confidence.
Of the other witnesses I know nothing. I may know Mr. Ruggles, but I have not sufficient knowledge of his character, to testify concerning
it
Very Truly
Your obedt Servt
D. W. R. Gilden
Mem Com

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Honord M c J. L. Edwards. Sir. after my good wish & Respects - I just inform you yesterday a week I got into the City of Washington about 25 minutes after I got into the City near your Dwelling I Got a Drink of Water & was warm & in about 10 minutes I began to take sick the Day before yesterday I got about a little you know when you Reflect & think back my Embarrassments I would be Glad & thank you that you would Dispatch my Business that Comes under your Care as soon as Decency & Reason would admit of as I wrote to you when I was at Home or in my Country my trouble or so much sickness please Dont keep me in the City Long — in the first place I think I Have Every thing passable for that Blind woman who said to me father Green for the (Lords) sake try & Do something for me for I am not able to buy a pound of Coffee or a quarter of tea — I Have been Blind for 12 years — May the (Lord) Bless you & yours Dont forget me in the same Spirit, believe I am above affecting I remain your friend & wellwisher ~~~ 11 ~~~ George Green ~~~
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Hampden O Augst 16 }
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Hon James L. Edwards Comm of Pensions Washington City D.C.
Pamela Snowbridge Pitt Ohio roll 38.

Palmira Portage Co. Ohio August 18 th 1844 Hon James L. Edwards Comm of Pensions
Dear Sir
Your letter of July 18 th 1844 in answer to my letter of June last inquiring after my pension papers has been duly received. You informed me that a Pension Certificate was issued in my name on the 23 rd of April 1844 under the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 at the rate of Eighty three dollars per annum to commence on the 4 th of March 1836 and to terminate on the 4 th of March 1841 payable at Pittsburgh Agency and that said certificate was delivered to George Green my Agent it is now nearly four months since said certificate was issued and I have not heard any thing from said Green nor the certificate since except by your letter since the issuing of said certificate it was probably an oversight in me in ever entrusting my business to said Green as he has not a permanent residence and it is very hard to  to keep up the tract of  to him and I think it very doubtful whether I ever obtain said certificate or not I very much need the pension now and have for a great length of time for my support in my feeble state of health
Now Sir I wish you to do me the favor to inform me what steps I can take to obtain said Pension if I fail to obtain said certificate from the hand of said Green and how long I must be compelled to wait in suspense for said Green to deliver said certificate I have wrote the facts in the case and your early answer will much oblige one that needs your instructions in the above stated case please to write as before to me at Hambleton Grange County and State of Ohio to the care of Messrs Elliot & Hawthorne, my former residence was in Edinburg in said Portage County
I have the honor to be Very Respectfully your obedt Servt per J Parnel & Crowbridge mark Parnel Crowbridge

Hon James L. Edwards Com. of Pensions Dear Sir
I am the widow of Ebenezer Trobbridge a Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner who died in Edinburgh June 2 d 1836 and was married to said Ebenezer Trobbridge March 10 th 1779 in Newmilford Litchfield County & State of Con- necticut my husband served in the war after we was married I made a Declaration for a Pension I think a year ago last fall which was put into the hands of a man by the name of Worster who was a doing some business in the pension line I received a letter from said Worster I think last June stating that the proof was not sufficient to intitle me to a Pension and have not heard any thing from said claim since I am now in my eighty fourth year of age and am intirely blind and my circumstances are such that I very much need a pension and think that I am without doubt intitled by law to a pension if the proof of my marriage was made I have now employed Messrs Lewis Oliver & James Hathaway of Newbeden Geauga County & State of Ohio to obtain for me the necessary proof in the case and wish you to inform them if my Declaration is on file in the office or not and what is yet necessary to be proven in the case to intitle me to a Pension please to make all returns in my case to them at said Newbeden Geauga County & State of Ohio
Witness Horace Holiston Lorin Law of the said Widow Trobbridge Parnel her X Trobbridge mark
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Hannibal Georgia Co Ohio August 15 th 1844 Dear Sir
We herewith transmit the Declaration of Pamel Crowbridge of Palmina family of Edinburg Portage Co Ohio for a Pension to be granted her under the acts of Congress passed March 3 rd 1843 & June 17 th 1844 Please to make all returns to us
Very Respectfully your O.B. Servants Hon. James L. Edwards Elliott & Hathaway Commr of Pensions Washington City D.C.

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Ohio Mar 3 1843 Daniel
James L. Edwards Comma of Pensions Washington City D.C.
Am? 1833
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Elliot & Machenay Hampden Ohio

Hampden Me June 29
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Hon James L. Edwards Comm of Pensions Washington City D. C.

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110 act 1844,

The State of Ohio
Portage County, ss
On this the 13 th day of August A.D. 1844
Personally appeared before me Stephen Frowbridge a justice of the peace in and for said county of Portage and State of Ohio Pamel Frowbridge a resident of Palmira Township in said county of Portage & State of Ohio aged 84 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her said oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the acts of Congress passed March 3 rd 1843 and June 17 th 1844 granting Pensions to widows of Persons who served during the Revolutionary War that she is the widow of Ebenezer Frowbridge who was a Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner and that she thinks that her said husband served as a Sergeant in the Revolutionary War the latter part of his service that she made application for a Pension under the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 which was put into the hands of George Green and that she has been informed by letter from Hon James Le Edwards Commr of Pensions dated July 18 th 1844 that a Pension Certificate has been issued in her name under said act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 at the rate of eighty three dollars per annum to commence on the 4 th of March 1836 and to terminate on the 4 th of March 1841 and that said certificate was put into the hands of George Green her Agent and that she has not received said certificate yet that her residence was previous to last January, in Edinburgh in said county of Portage & State of Ohio She further declares that she is still a widow and prays that a certificate may be granted her to draw a Pension under said acts of Congress passed March 3 rd 1843 and June 17 th 1844 Pamel her Frowbridge mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify from Personal knowledge that the said Pamel Frowbridge is a person of truth and veracity
Stephen Frowbridge a Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio, PORTAGE COUNTY, ss.
} I Horace Y. Beebe Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the county of Portage and State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that Stephen Groverbridge Esquire, before whom the foregoing and an- nexed Deposition — was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said coun- ty, duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts, as such, full faith and credit are due, and that the fore- going signature purporting to be his, is genuine as I believe.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Ravenna, this 13 th day of August — A. D. 18 44
Horace Y. Beebe Dep. CLERK.

The widow Parnel Trowbridge was Married to Ebenezer Trowbridge in Newmilford township Litchfield County & State of Connecticut on the tenth Day of March in the year of seventeen Hundred and seventy Nine By Esquire Bournal Bushnell Bostwick and Has Lived His Lawfull Wife for fifty seven years and Had Nine Children to Him and lived in the same Neighbourhood where we Got Married untill we moved from that part & came to Palmera Portage County State of Ohio and Here with Him untill He Dyed which was June the second Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Six and now I am or will will be Eighty two against Next July the Eleventh from this Date & Have been blind so as Not to know any of my old Neighbours By Eye sight & Have not been able to Do any thing of work to support myself ever since my Husband Dyed but Got others to wait on me Now I am Very feeble & Very poor and Needs some support & as I Can solemnly swear & affirm on my Deposition that I am or Was Ebenezer Trowbridges Lawfull wife Therefore I beg petition to the fine Congress & war Department to Give me a Reward Due me for my five years after my Husbands Death the same as He Got yearly which was Ninety six Dollars as I Have understood the Lawfull widows for five years Got the same salary that Their Husbands Did if I am Correct let it be so if Not please to Correct me & Give me what you see proper for I am a poor Widow therefore I allow George Green to be my Lawfull attorney to Manage my Business with you Congress and War Department and as you Have Had an account of my Husbands services Done in the Revolution war or to the united States and Gave Him a pension I think for sixteen or seventeen years & Gave Him Ninety six Dollars a year Now if there is Law Due my Husband as well as a pension please to Give it me as you see proper if you Have Lost a Description of His services I will try as well as I can Remember of Hearing him say Describe it Least some Misfortune Has Happened it be Listed in Newmilford and went to Long Isle and I think he was there two months & after that he left

to go to Crownpoint in Canada for five months & next he Listed for three years & was a sergeant the whole or part of the time I think in all those enlistments he started from Newmilford township & Litchfield County and state of Connecticut I think under captain Jones under Colonel Bradly & under General Huntington these things I can affirm and testify on my Depo- -sition given under my Hand and seal this Eighth Day of March A.D. 1842.
his Parnel Trowbridge mark
Witness for me Henry Hault Sewell Dickinson
I Authorise George Green to try and get a reward for me from Congress or War Department any way They see proper for my husbands deceased Ebenezer Trowbridge services done to the united states in War given My Hand & seal this Eighth Day of March A.D. 1842
his Parnel Trowbridge mark
Henry Hault Sewell Dickinson
State of Ohio } S.S. Edenburgh July 5 th 1843. Before me Stephen Portage County Trowbridge a justice of the peace in & for said County personally came the foregoing named Parnel Trowbridge signed on & sealed on the foregoing Deposition of a petition and power of attorney and made oath that the foregoing was a correct statement given under my Hand & seal the Date above written
his Parnel Trowbridge mark
oath to & subscribed this 5 th Day of July 1843 - Stephen Trowbridge a Justice of the peace

Oct 24 1842
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Elmer Brown & Promises
W. Crump Pension Office Washington City D.C.
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Mr. G. W. Crump
Sir. Your letter of the 24 th Sept r requesting me to write you concerning a record of the marriage of Mr Ebenezer Trowbridge and Miss Sarah Wheeler has been received - and I have examined the Records of Marriages in my Office and am not able to find any Record of the above Marriage - the Records about the year 1779 do not appear to have been kept very regularly or systematically, being kept until the year 1782 or 83 on the back parts of Books of Land Records
Yours Respectfully
Mr G. W. Crump Washington City
C. S. Bennett Aft Clerk
Town Clerks Office New Milford Conn Oct 11. 1842

I Stephen Trowbridge the oldest son of my father & am sixty one years of age Long the 13th thirteen days old this Date therefore I testify & Do Declare that from a child I never Heard anything to the contrary but that my Mother was my fathers Lawfull wife and Verrily believe they were Lawfully Married & after my fathers Death me & James M c Kelvy jun r . Gave testimony of the time my father Dyed in Savannah before the Court in Portage County State of Ohio & a Esquire went to my mother and took Her qualification that she was his wife of Ebenezer Trowbridge therefore you Congress or War Department sent or had sent the Erages that was coming to my father from the time that he Drew his Last full pension untill the time of His Death and I Got & Handled the money for my mother and now I am in the Decline of life & humbly seem to be Dwinding now am Truly these things I can affirm & testify on my Deposition given under my Hand and seal this Ninth Day of March A.D. 1842.
Witness present
Stephen Trowbridge
Jewell Dickinson
Julius Gillett Jr
I Daniel Trowbridge was fifty five years old Last July & can testify & Do Declare that on my qualification I can say that from a child I never Heard anything to the contrary but that my mother was my fathers Ebenezer Trowbridges Lawfull wife and I Verrily believe they were Lawfully Married for I remember of Hearing him say I think time & again that after he had served His three years enlistment he was so true a merican soldier He went another small tour in the month of February him & His Brave fellows went on Stratton Island I think and took a stone house from the British & burnt some of their property & found it was needfull to evacuate the Island & when crossing the Ice He found His feet & ankles was froze in a Good degree the army left Him then to freeze or Do as he could right in the Enemies land & He Got to a Quakers house they pulled his feet & he Hobbled along & Did not Give up and finally Got in to the Camp & Got his Discharge I think and always was affected Every winter when the Cold weather was the skin would frequently peel of his feet he suffered much with his feet untill he Dyed these things I can testify on my Deposition given under my Hand and seal this Ninth Day of March A.D. 1842.
Witness present
James M c Kelvy
Julius Gillett
Daniel Trowbridge
Lorenzo D. Dand

We the undersigned do testify and affirm that we Have been acquainted with Ebenezer Crobridge & Parnal His wife and have been acquainted with them for forty eight years Lived with them Close by in the Neighbourhood in Connecticut part of the time and now in the state of Ohio part of the time & Raised our Children together & always understood and always believed & never Had no Doubt but that they were Lawfully Married & Raised their Children in Credit & with respectability these things we can testify & affirm on our qualification and Disposition given under our Hands & Seals this 5 th Day of May A.D. 1842 — Witness present Jonathan Wilson Elijah Syrell John Younghorn Abel Syrell
Salmon P. Chase
I the Daughter of Ebenezer Crobridge & Parnal my mother can Declare that I am now about fifty nine years of age & I never Heard nor ever believe any thing Else but that my parents was Lawfully Married given under My Hand & Seal on my testimony & Disposition given under My Hand as before this 5 th Day of May A.D. 1842 —
Witness present Jonathan Wilson
Morris Syrell
Salmon P. Chase

Elizur Bostwick
Deposition in favour of Parnel Crobridge

I Elizer Bostwick Can testify and affirm that I was acquainted with Ebenezer Crobbridge and Parnel his wife from they were Children they Lived in the same Neighbourhood I Did in Newmilford township Litchfield County and State of Connecticut they Lived about one and a Half miles from me I was Married two months & Eleven days before they were in the same House & by the same man Colonel Bushnell Bostwick who acted as a Esquire I was Married to his Daughter & I went from my own father to see my wife who was yet at her own fathers & my wife told me in the evening when I went there that that afternoon that Ebenezer Crobbridge and Parnel Wheeler was Married by her father Bushnell Bostwick Esquire and we Lived in that Neighbourhood together nearly forty years and they Moved from that Country with me & they Lived about four miles from me for twenty years & better confident I am & Sincerely I believe they were Lawfully Married and raised their Children in Credit & Decency these things I can testify & be sworn to on my Deposition given under my Hand & seal this 28 th day of April AD 1842 Elizer Bostwick
Danbury Township Portage County Ohio
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 28 th day of April AD 1842
R B Campbell Justice of the peace " " "

The State of Ohio, PORTAGE COUNTY, ss.
} Horace M. Bube Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the county of Portage and State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that Richard B. Campbell Esquire, before whom the foregoing and an- nexed Deposition was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said coun- ty, duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official (written R B Campbell ) acts, as such, full faith and credit are due, and that the fore- going signature, purporting to be his, is genuine as I believe.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Ravenna, this 29 th day of April — A. D. 1842 Horace M. Bube Dep. CLERK.

Artemus Ruggles Disposition for the widow
Tarnel Trowbridge

Artemas Ruggles can give testimony that I was personally acquainted with Ebenezer Trowbridge in Litchfield County State of Connecticut & all his family and always understood that him and his wife was Lawfully Married in the aforesaid County and had seven children in our neighbourhood where we lived together about thirty years & after this I came to the country where I now live & soon afterwards Ebenezer Trowbridge came to the the same neighbourhood in the County of Portage & State of Ohio and we lived neighbours here about twenty years & they always lived together & raised their children creditable and with respect & I never heard any thing to the contrary & I do verily believe they were Lawfully married these things I can affirm and testify given under my hand & seal this fourteenth Day of March A.D. 1842.
Artemas Ruggles {seal}
The State of Ohio } Portage County }
Edinburg March 14 th A.D. 1842 Before me Daniel G. Robinson as justice of the Peace in and for said County Personally came the foregoing named Artemas Ruggles known and known of the fore- going Deposition and made oath that foregoing was a correct statement - Daniel G. Robinson justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio, PORTAGE COUNTY, ss.
{ Horace M. Beebe Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the county of Portage and State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that Daniel Knowbridge Esquire, before whom the foregoing and an- nexed Deposition — was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said coun- ty, duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts, as such, full faith and credit are due, and that the fore- going signature purporting to be his, is genuine as I believe.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Ravenna, this 15 th day of March A. D. 1842
Horace M. Beebe Dep. CLERK.

5647 at 36 Parnal traobridge
Petition
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for pension
Geo Green print age 19 '44
Sherlock S. Andrews of Ohio by revolution

State of Ohio Portage County
} S. S. of William Coolman Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the said Court of Portage County & State of Ohio Do Hereby Certify that Stephen Trowbridge before whom the foregoing and annexed Deposition was taken is now and was at the taking of the same a Justice of the peace within and for said County & State aforesaid Duly Sworn and Commissioned agreeably to the Laws of the State of Ohio and that I am acquainted with his signature and that the above is
Genuine and to all of whose official acts as such Justice full faith and credit is and ought to be given throughout the United States and Else where in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 4 Day of March A. D. 1844
William Coolman Clerk