Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10681, Ebenezer Trask, Mass.

SERVICE
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Mass.
Trask, Ebenezer Hannah
R.10681
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18076 Fc Maine Ebenezer Frask of Kennebec in the State of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Parker of the Inf y commanded by Col t Carpenter on the def e nce and line for Winooski .
Paid at the Treasury under the act of 6 th April 1838 from Sept er 4 th 1840 to March 4 th 1841. Ag t notified April 22 d 1842
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 34 Dollars 65 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of July 1833 and sent to R. C. Nor Present
Arrears to the 4 th of March 1833 $ 69.30 Semest l allowance ending Sept er " 17.32 $86.62
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 58

State of Maine.
We Asa Wilbur a Clergyman, residing in the town of Adney in the County of Penobscot and David Reynolds residing in the same town, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Trask who has sub- scribed and sworn to the annexed declaration; that we believe him to be seventy 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.
Asa Wilbur David Reynolds
State of Maine.
Penobscot ss.—Sworn and subscribed this fourteenth day of August A. D. 183 2 ,
Before me,
Wm. Wooton Jr Justice of the Peace.
William Wooton Jr is a Justice of the Peace. And the Rev. Asa Wilbur, is a Clergyman residing in Adney. And David Reynolds of the same town is a credible person, & their statement is entitled to be believed. —
14 Aug
Nathan Wooton Jr

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
ON this twenty sixth day of July A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Ebenezer Trask a resident of Sidney in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged Seventy 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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1777 with Captain Abraham Washburn and served in Col. Cotton's regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: viz. Washburn Capt.
1 st That he enlisted in that company & regiment as a private for one month in June 1777, that he served out the full term of his enlistment at Howland's Ferry R.I. & was there discharged. 1. 12 th That in July 1778 he again enlisted as a private for six weeks in Capt. Nathan Parker's company & Col. Carpenter's regiment of the same troops. that he served at Rhode Island was there at the defeat of Genl. Sullivan & after serving out the full term of his enlistment was discharged at Warwick neck. 3 rd That in November 1778 he again enlisted for three months as a private in Capt. Abraham Washburn's company & Col. Sprout's regiment of the same troops that he marched from Scituate Mass. to Providence R.I. afterwards to North Kingston where after serving out the full term of his enlistment he was discharged in February 1779. That in May 1779 he again enlisted as a private in Capt. Timothy Hale's company & Col. McRobb's regiment of the same troops, that he was in the expedition to Bugaduce & was the battle there in August of the same year, that he retreated on board the U.S. Frigate Hamilton or Hamilton, Capt. Satter, which ship was captured by the enemy & he was put on board a British frigate kept in irons about three weeks, then put on board a prison ship in Bugaduce harbor & detained as a prisoner until November when said prison ship was fitted as a cartel & sailed for Portsmouth Boston, put being short of provisions put into Portsmouth N.H. where he was exchanged.
And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the Department, he answers:
That he was born at Bridgewater, Mass. in 1761, where his age is recorded & where his home was during part of his revolutionary services, that he then removed to Hallowell, Maine. & from thence to said Sidney where he has lived for the last forty years. That he enlisted into the service was not drafted or received as a substitute & never had a written discharge from the service. That his Col. in Col. Carpenter's regiment one Hawes was his Lt. Col. & was wounded in his arm at the battle on Rhode Island. Brig. Genl. Lovell was at the head of his Brigade during the battle. That he has named all of his Officers which he now recollects. That any of his neighbors will testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his revolutionary services & he names the Rev. Asa Wilbur & Daniel Wilbur,

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
Colenzer J 2028
26 July
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, Before
Nathan Weston Jr not S. J. C.
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
State of Maine April 4, 1833.
It has been made to appear to my satisfaction that the above named applicant by reason of age & infirmity cannot without prejudice to his health appear in open court to renew his declaration & again to make oath to the same.
Nathan Weston Jr
Nathan Weston not S. J. C.

I, Eben. Trask by whom the annexed declarations were made do further upon oath declare that David Reynolds has testified to my services in Col. Botten's Regt. Bunkerhill's reg't. to which my services in Col. McRobb's reg't. is annexed. By the latter Thomas Sewall. That I do not know of any person living who served with me in Capt. Washburn's company in Col. Sprout's reg't. whose evidence I can procure. And cannot furnish any further or better evidence in support of the within declaration. I further on oath declare that I enlisted into Capt. McRobb's company last within stated for the period of six months & served at least seven months including the time I was a prisoner as within stated.
Ebenezer Trask State of Maine Kennebec ss. Supt. Jud. Court. June Term 1833. Subscribed & sworn to in open Court this 7th day of June 1833.
Wathan Weston Not. S.P.C.
Ebenezer Trask 21/075
Private. Maj'ty's troops.
Washburn's Co: Botten's reg't. 1 month
Parker's Co: Carpenter's reg't. 6 weeks
Washburn's Co: Sprout's reg't. 10 months.
Whele's Co: McRobb's reg't. 10 mo. 12 days - 5 months.
10 months 12 days as a private.
Prof. Thos. Sewall Esq. deponed & David Reynolds credible witness.
See additional declaration in open Court June 7th 1833.
Applicant informed. Certified by Judge in open Court April 4, 1833.
W. H. Rose Augusta.
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State of Maine
I Thomas Sewall, a soldier of the revolution, aged Eighty one years, upon oath testify and declare, that being myself a soldier at the time, I know that Ebenezer Trask then of Hallowell now of Sidney Maine, served as a private from May to some time in November 1779 in Capt. Finchy Hall's company - being the latter part of the time a prisoner.
Thomas Sewall
Subscribed and sworn to July 30 1832, the deponent being a credible witness.
Before me Nathan Weston Esq. Not. S.P.C.
I David Reynolds of Sidney aged seventy three years, do upon oath testify & declare that I have seen & conversed with the within named Ebenezer Trask some weeks known to me from circumstances he has related to me have no doubt that he served as he has within stated in Col. Botten's reg't for one month & in Col. Carpenter's reg't for six weeks - I myself served in both regiments for the same periods at the same times.
David Reynolds
Subscribed & sworn to August 13th 1832, the deponent being a credible witness
Before me, Nathan Weston Esq. Not. S.P.C.

State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, ss.—I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Trask for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 14 th day of August ,
A. D. 1832,
J. A. Chandler

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," and an Act to amend the same approved August 23. 1842
STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec County, ss.
On this thirteenth day of March A. D., 1843 personally appeared before the Probate Court for the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, in Open Court, being a court of record, Hannah Frask
a resident of Belgrade in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged Seventy eight years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of And an Act to amend the same approved the 23 d day of August 1842, That she is the widow of Ebenezer Frask who was a pensioner under the Act of June 7. 1832, that he was pensioned at the rate of thirty four dollars and 50 cents per annum, which was payable at the Agency in Portland in the State of Maine when it was paid to him up to the 4th day of March 1842, that from the 4th day of March 1842 to the 19th day of November 1842 the pension was paid to her as his widow, that she refers to a declaration made by him of his service in the War of the Revolution, on which his pension was allowed which is supposed to be in possession of the War department in support of her claim.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Ebenezer Frask on the nineteenth day of June in the year seventeen hundred and eighty five; that her husband, the aforesaid Ebenezer Frask died on the nineteenth day of November 1842 in Belgrade, Kennebec County, Maine; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz. at the time above stated, that her maiden name was Hannah Pierce and that she was married in Augusta, in the then District now State of Maine.
Hannah Frask
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me
Williams Ensworth Judge of the Court of Probate in & for the County of Kennebec.

STATE OF MAINE.
Penobscot ss. I the subscriber Francis Davis hereby CERTIFY, That the Hon. Williams Emmons before whom the proceedings were had, is the Judge of Probate for Court for said County I also CERTIFY, That the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge in the matter of the application of Nannah Trask for a pension.
An Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this Thirteenth day of March A. D., 1843
Francis Davis  Register of said Court.

"Mr Ebenezer Trask and Mrs. Hannah Pierce, both of this Town, intend marriage. April first, one thousand, seven hundred and eighty five."
I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record, excepting the date, which is entered in the record in fair legible figures, as follows, viz: "April 1. 1785."
Daniel Pike, Town Clerk
I, Daniel Pike, do upon oath state, that I held the office of Town Clerk of Augusta, County of Kennebec and State of Maine; and that the above is a true copy from the Records of said Town with the exception of the date, as certified by me: I further certify that the marriage of the before named Ebenezer Trask and Hannah Pierce does not appear to have been entered in the Town Records, and that I have reason to believe that marriages at that period, were not in all cases returned to the Town Clerk.
Daniel Pike.
State of Maine, Kennebec County S.S. Sworn to and subscribed the eighteenth day of March 1843, before me
Geo. W. Morton Justice of the Peace

I widow Sally Ballard, of Augusta, in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine aged Seventy four years, do depone and say, that I was present at the marriage of Ebenezer Foss and my sister Hannah. The marriage was solemnized in the months of May or June Seventeen hundred & eighty five, they lived together as husband and wife ever after their marriage till his death which was in the month of November 1842. They having lived together as husband and wife upwards of fifty seven years and brought up a family of eight children, since his decease she has remained unmarried, residing in the town of Bangor in the County of Penobscot. Her late husband was a pensioner of the United States. Sally Ballard
State of Maine,
Kennebec County, ss. On the ninth day of May 1843 personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Kennebec, Sally Ballard, well known to me to be a respectable person, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by her subscription
Geo. W. Morton Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
Kennebec County p
I the undersigned Clerk of the Judicial courts for said County of Kennebec do certify that George W. Morton is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Kennebec - and that the signatures affixed to the annexed certificates purporting to be his are genuine.
Witness my hand & the seal of the Sup. Jud. Court - this tenth day of May Anno Domini 1843 -
A. R. Nichols

I William Frank of Belgrade in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged fifty three years, do depose and say that my late father Ebenezer Frank was a pensioner of the United States, and died in said town of Belgrade on the nineteenth day of November 1842, that his widow Hannah Frank is now living in the said town of Belgrade remaining unmarried since his death, they lived together as husband and wife from my earliest recollection till his death, and had a family of eight children, that there was one child older than myself. At the time he made an application to be pensioned he was a resident of the town of Sattin in said County of Kennebec, that about two years previous to his death he moved to said Belgrade, where he died at the time above stated.
Wm Frank
State of Maine,
Kennebec County S.S. On the 13th day of March 1843. personally appeared William Frank, a person well known to me to be entitled to belief, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed
Before me
Geo. W. Meriton Justice of the Peace

Children of Hannah Trask. for Pension.
Three large, stylized, cursive capital letters, possibly 'E E E' or 'B B B', written in ink. There is a small ink blot to the right of the third letter.
Geo. W. Morton Augusta Maine.

Declaration, In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838, entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.
State of Maine,
Kennebec County. On this 25th day of Oct o 1852 personally appeared before the Open Court of Probate for said County of Kennebec, Ebenezer Prask of Belgrade in said County aged fifty nine years, who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in behalf of himself and the other surviving children of Hannah Prask dec d , That the said late Hannah Prask was the widow of Ebenezer Prask who died on the 19th day of Nov. 1842, and who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the rate of $34.65 per annum and to whom she was married in the month of June 1785 as he has always understood, that she died in the town of Belgrade, in the State of Maine on the 19th day of June 1846. and that Alvin Prask, William Prask, Asa Prask, John N. Prask, Hannah Prask, Mary Anne Robinson and myself Ebenezer Prask are the only surviving children of the said Hannah Prask dec d .
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Pension to which all the surviving children of the said late Hannah Prask may be entitled under any act of Congress.
Ebenezer Prask
Probate Court Rec d Octo 25. 1852 Sworn to before me David Williams Judge of Probate

State of Maine.
Penobscot. ss.
I, the subscriber. Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Penobscot, hereby certify, that the Hon. Daniel Williams, is the sole Judge of said Court, and the within contains the original declaration of Ebenezer Trask for pension.
I further certify, that it was satisfactorily proved in said Court, it being a Court of record, that Hannah Trask was the widow of Ebenezer Trask, who was a pensioner of the United States, under the Act of the United States of June 7. 1832, at the rate of $34.50 per annum - that he died in the town of Belgrade, in said County of Penobscot, on the nineteenth day of November, 1842, - that his widow, the said Hannah Trask, survived him, and remained unmarried ever after his death, until her decease - that she died at said Belgrade, on the nineteenth day of June, 1846. - and that Alvin Trask, William Trask, Asa Trask, John W. Trask, Hannah Trask, Mary Ann Robinson and Ebenezer Trask, are the only surviving children of the said Hannah Trask, deceased.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, the twenty fifth day of October, A. D. 1852.
Wm. P. Smith, Reg. of Probate

FREE
Luther Levanee.
M. 6.
Washington City D. 6. —

Washington Feb 25. 1846
I am intimately acquainted with Mr Morton and place implicit confidence in all his statements of fact within his knowledge. I have no doubt Mr Trask was what Mr Morton represents him to be, but I was not person- ally acquainted with Mr Trask my- self
Respectfully
Luther Severance
Hon J L Edwards,
Person Office

904 Harvard Faculty Me
10681
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Cambridge 1843
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Abner Trask is found in the pay roll of Capt Simon Heald in Col McCobb's Regt as a private from June 30. to Sept 25 1779 & 2 days travel Dec 29 days This name does not appear upon any rolls of Capt Washburn & there are no rolls of Capt Parker in Col Carpenter's regiment in this office

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone: and that said application and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances which tend to satisfy me of the identity of the party described in the application with the individual who rendered the service.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John A. Bolles
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Pension Office, July 10. 1843
The proof of the date of the marriage in the case of Hannah Frask is satisfactory; but the alleged service of one month in 1777, under Captain Washburn; one month twelve days in 1778, under Captain Parker and Colonel Carpenter; three months in 1778, under Captain Abraham Washburn, Colonel Spauld; five months under Captain Timothy Hale of Colonel McRobb's regiment, from May to November 1779, should be established by the rolls recently returned to the office of the Secretary of State at Boston.
I am very respectfully, Your ob t Servant, J. L. Edwards
G. W. Morton, Esq., Augusta, Maine.

Mrs Lydia L. Pernette Augusta Me,
1919 Oct. 6. Tombstone date to B.M. Gen. U.S.A.
10,681
P. O. Hannah Grask
Service: _____
Enlisted: REJECTED _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Augusta, Me. June 17 th . 1833.
Sir,
I transmit you herewith the applications of the following named persons to be placed on the Pension list under the act of congress of June 7 th . 1832, viz,
James Adams Mark Andrews Peter Bradford William Farrand Barnabas Hedge John Mower Wm. Morse John Merick John Piper Nathan Prescott James Pickard Nathan Parlin David Reynolds John Smith Isaac Smith Dant. Steward Jon a . True Eben t . Trask Tho s . Wilbur
Silas Wood - {20 cases,}
which I trust will receive an early attention.
I am, Sir, very respectfully,
Your o bt . S vt Robert C. Dose by
Wm. Ward, Jr.
Col. J. L. Edwards. (Comm ee of Pensions.)

Augusta Maine
May 10. 1843
Sir
I enclose the declaration &c of Mrs Hannah Trask, for the purpose of having her claim to a pension under the Act of March 3. 1843, allowed, and would be respectfully request you, if deemed sufficient, to transmit me, for her, such certificate as you issue to widows entitled to the benefit of it
Very respectfully
Your obed Servt
Geo W. Morton
James L. Edwards Esq Committee of Pensions Washington D.C.

Augusta, Maine, May 1. 1844
Sir,
I would respectfully call your attention to the following Pension cases under the Act of July 7 th 1838. Mrs. Esther Ridgeway, widow of Eben t Ridgeway, about whose claim I wrote Nov. 1. 1843. — Molly Robinson, widow of Tho s Robinson, whose declaration & papers were transmitted Nov 16. 1843. — Molly True, widow of Edward True, the additional papers in her case were transmitted Dec 10. 1843. — Lydia Fuller, widow of En c h Fuller, the certificate of the records of children's births was sent July 5. 1844. Her papers are on file in your office, as appears by your letter of May 24 th last. — Jerusha Loving, widow of Nath l Loving, whose declaration & other papers were sent Feb y 6. 1844. — Ruth Fogg, widow of Sam l Fogg, additional evidence sent Oct 2. 1843. — Sarah Carlton, widow of Nath l Carlton, — certificate of the Scty of Massachusetts, sent Nov 25. 1843. — Lucretia Eaton, widow of Eliab Eaton, declaration & other papers sent Oct 25. 1843. — Mercy Hibbard, widow of Jacob Doyen, declaration and other papers sent Oct 9. 1843. — Lucy Fuller, widow of William Fuller; — declaration and papers sent Dec r 21. 1843. — I now herewith

transmit the Certificate of the Secretary of State of Maryland ts in the following cases, viz. In case of Hannah Trusk the Secretary's Certificate is as full as the Records in his possession will allow. — Susan BULLOCK, widow of John BULLOCK; the certificate is as full as the Records show. — Children of the late Sarah Warren; the Certificate also as full as the Rolls show.
Will you be pleased to have the above mentioned cases examined, and if satisfactory, allow the cases. — The widows of pensioned persons, under the Act of 7 th June 1832, must rely much on the declarations of their late husbands, as to their period of service for which they claim; — They are a class of persons, most of whom are destitute; — all are old and infirm; and it is to be wished that a liberal view, as to the services claimed by their late husbands, will be taken by the Department, and that the pittance granted to them may ensure to their benefits as promptly as circumstances and the business of the Department will allow. —
Very Respectfully
Yours &c.
James L. Edwards Esq. Geo. Morton Comr. of Pensions Washington City D. C.

Augusta, Maine
Nov. 6. 1852,
Sir,
Ebenezer Trask late a pensioner on the Maine Roll under Act of June 7. 1832 at $34.65 per annum died in Belgrade, State of Maine Nov. 19. 1842 leaving a widow named Hannah Trask who survived him until June 19. 1846. She made application March 13. 1843 to be pensioned on account of his revolutionary services under Act of July 7. 1838 & subsequent acts giving pensions to widows married prior to Jan'y 1794. Her marriage was satisfactorily proved to the Department as appears in a letter in her case dated July 11. 1843, but the revolutionary services of her husband on which he was pensioned, (although allowed to him) she was required to prove, which she was unable to do, and her claim was never established. Her surviving children now make application for the pension due from the death of their father Nov 19. 1842 to June 19. 1846 being the day she died. For a more full understanding of the case I would refer you to the papers filed in your Office in May 1843 in her case. Names of the children as will appear by the papers herewith inclosed. viz Alvin Trask, William Trask, Asa Trask, John W. Trask, Hannah Trask, Mary Ann Robinson, and Ebenezer Trask. Should the papers be deemed sufficient to prove their claim I would respectfully request you to send me a Certificate for them
Hon. James E. Heath Comm. Pensions Washington
Very respectfully Yrs Off. Secy.
Geo W. Morton

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Feb'y 15 th 1842.
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Ebenezer Trask , — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Maine Agency, at the rate of Thirty four Dollars and 65 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1840, to the 4 th March 1841.
Respectfully, yours,
William L. Harris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.