Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35134, Ezra Wildes, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Wildes, Ezra Wilds or
S 35/34
CONTENTS

1820
Massachusetts roll
Ezra Wilds Capt Sergeant 10 Massachusetts line '81 to '83
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 15 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 of July 1818 and sent to Hon. Saml Putnam Salem Mass -
Arrears to 4th of Sept m Semi-annual ce- ending -
4.20/30
$ 37 " 33
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Robt. Callender clerk Dept. of War Schubert Tucker Clerk
and 6 per cent

Ezra Wildes
1820
July 1818
Top of field
1820
age 61
labor?
worth $10.
Sept 16/16.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Ezra Wildes resident in Topsfield late of Boxford in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 1820 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Ezra Wildes - - - - - late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight - - - - - dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of April - - - - - one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this sixteenth day of July - - - - - one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War.
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit, (no real estate)
Table with 2 columns: Item description, Value. Rows include: Six chairs $3 - two tables $2 - two chests 0.50 - $5.50; Small trunk - three iron kettles - teakettle - - 1.00; Shovel, tongs, and irons, looking glass - - - 1.00; Plates, knives, forks & spoons for use of family - - - 1.50; Bible, psalm & other school books - - - - 1.00; looms, scythes - hoe - tools to split rocks 10.00.
He is sixty one years old, formerly a cordwainer, now a day-labourer, and is infirm.
His family are his wife aged 50, son Charles 5 - and his son Ira aged 3 years.

He served from March 1781 to end of the war in Capt. Sargent's Company in Col. Crane's Reg- iment of Artillery in the Massachusetts Line.
Ezra Wildes.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. W m Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Ezra Wildes do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.
Ezra Wildes
Essex. ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Ezra Wildes took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me
W m Wetmore Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is
ten dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July A. D. 1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

Ezra Wildes
Sept 186
not on Rolls
D.H.
Adm
21/10/186

I Phineas Foster of Boxford Essex County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. do testify and say that I was a soldier in Colonel Enoch Putnam Reg t in the service of the United States and was discharged the third Day of December 1781. and in the autumn of that year I frequently saw Ezra Wildes and conversed with him he was a soldier and belonged to Col. Joseph Crane Reg t of Artillery and wore the uniform of that Reg t at west point and was in the service between two and three years before he returned to Boxford I have stated the term of time that the said Ezra Wildes was a soldier according to the best of my recollection
Phineas Foster
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss. April 14th 1810. Town of Boxford in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen then Phineas Foster was sworn to this deposition by him subscribed that it contained the truth and nothing but the truth (concerning the matter of a pension) to Ezra Wildes before me, Stephen Peabody Just. of Peace

Hon. Samuel Putnam Esquire one of one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
Separation of Phoebe Foster

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Essex -
To Stephen Peabody Esq d . one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Essex -
You are hereby authorized by Samuel Putnam Esquire, one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said Commonwealth -
To take the Deposition of Phineas Foster, of Boxford in said County or any other person or persons - to be used in an applica- -tion to the said Judge, made by Ezra Wilds of said Boxford, for a Pension, under the late law of Congress -
And all Depositions so taken by you, you will return, with this order directed to the said Judge -
GIVEN under my hand and the seal of said Court, this 13 th day of April AD 1818. -
S. Putnam Just
S. J. Court of Mass s

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Be it remembered, That Ezra Wilds of Bosford in the County of Essex in the Commonwealth aforesaid, doth make upon oath the following DECLARATION, to wit,
That In the month of March, seventeen hundred and eighty one, he enlisted as a private Soldier for three years - that he passed muster before Oliver Barons Esq. of Chelmsford, went to Boston & from thence, with about ninety soldiers, sev- eral pieces of Cannon & two Mortars, they marched to Clarencreek - there they went down the North River in a Schooner to New Windsor, and from thence marched to West Point - there he was placed in Capt Sargents Company, in Colonel John Conains Regiment, of Massachusetts Militia. That they were stationed on West Point un- til November 1783, then marched to New- York, where they remained about twenty days and returned to West Point - that he received a discharge, at West Point, dated the 28 th of December 1803, signed by Genl. Knox & and Samuel Cooper, Adjutant - that the above service was performed, on the Continental Estab- lishment, in the War of the Revolution - Before the above service - he was at the Tading Lake George Landing & at the surrender of Burgoyen - guarded the prisoners eight months - & was out one campaign at White Plains -
That the Declarant is infirm; that from his reduced circumstances in life he is now in need of assistance from his country for support; and that he hereby relinquishes his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States. He further declares, that by moving from place to place, the discharge he received from Genl Knox, unfortunately, is lost -
Ezra Wilds

AFFIDAVIT.
I Palfrey Downing of Andover in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, yeoman, do on oath depose and testify,
That I served the last years of the Revolutionary War, and know I often saw Ezra Wildes, now of Boxford, serving in the Continental Artillery under Gen. Knox. I cannot testify to particulars, as we were in different Regiments.
Palfrey Downing
Essex ss: June, 18. 1818. Then the above-named Palfrey Downing subscribed and made oath to the above written affidavit before me Brj. Merrill Just. Pac.
Essex ss: June, 26. 1818 I further certify that Benjamin Merrill is a Justice of the Peace qualified to administer oaths: that it appears to my satisfaction that Phineas Foster, Palfrey Downing, Christopher Smith, and Jacob Hoxen are credible and disinterested witnesses: and that the said Ezra Wildes is poor and indigent.
S. Putnam Just S. J. Court of Mass t .

I the subscriber do hereby certify that Ezra Wildes was in the third Massachu- setts Regt. of artillery Commanded by Col John Grane in the Continental Service and Capt Sergants Company for the last three years of the Revolutionary war and that he staid until the close of said War and I further say that I was in the same Company with the above named Wildes
Christopher Smith
Middlesex ss June 19 th 1818 then the above named Christopher Smith personally appeared and made oaths that the above Certificate by him subscribed contains the truth Relative to the Subject Matter therein contained be fore me
John Atkins Justice of the Peace
Essex ss: June 28 th 1818 It appears to my satisfaction that John Atkins Esq. is a Justice of the Peace qualified to administer oaths -

The deposition of Jacob Hazen of Bridgeton in the county of Cumberland and district of main, who testifies and says that he was a soldier in the service of the united States in the last three years service, that he was well acquainted with Ezra Wilds who was at the same time a soldier in the Sergeants Company in Colonel Gages Regiment of Artillery and that he is well knowing to the said Ezra Wilds serving from sometime in the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty there to sometime in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three and that he fully believes the Wilds served till the month of august in the last mentioned year and further saith not Jacob Hazen
Cumberland ss June 21 st 1818
Jacob Hazen above named personally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the above dep- osition by him subscribed
before me Enoch Perley Justice of Peace
Essex ss: I certify that Enoch Perley Esq. is a Magistrate duly qualified to ad- minister oaths.
S. Putnam Just S. J. Court Marshall

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
On this fifteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally appeared before me Samuel Putnam Esquire , one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said Commonwealth,
the aforementioned Ezra Wild , and in my presence severally subscribed and made solemn oath to the aforesaid Declaration and AFFIDAVIT , by him  respectively made as aforesaid:—And it appearing to my satisfaction, that the aforementioned Ezra Wild served more than NINE MONTHS, to wit, from the month day of March A. D. 1781 to the twenty third day of December A. D. 1783 at one period of the Revolutionary War, on the Continental Establishment, against the common enemy, I do hereby certify the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the Department of War.
Given under my hand, and the seal of the Court aforesaid, at Salem , this fifteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
S. Putnam Just S. J Court of Mass
Eper 20. Apr. 1818
I Ichabod Tucker , Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for said Commonwealth in the County of Essex, do certify that the said Samuel Putnam is a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court — that his signature above is his writing — and that the seal affixed is the seal of said Court.
Att: Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

In reply to your request of _____, received for a statement of the military history of Ezra Wildes a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. S.F. 35,134
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Me. 81. 6 Mo. 23, 88. Pvt. Michael Sergeant. John Crane Col. Arty.           
Battles engaged in, Lake George Landing, Sur. of Burgoyne
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
Date of application for pension, Apr. 15, 1818.
Residence at date of application, Bedford, Mass.
Age at date of application, 59
Remarks: 1820. Norfolk wife — at 50 ch. Charles 5 + Ira 3 yrs.
no further data.

35 134 Key INVALID.
File No. 35, 134
Ezra Wilds Pr Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 45-6
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sep. 29 '96 Sadie pensioned to Wm B. Donman Malden, Mass.
1907 Apl. 17. History to Mrs. Gertrude Martin.

Revolutionary Pension
112 Linden St. Everett, Mass. Apl. 5, 1907.
Hon. V. Warner; Com. of Pensions; Sir:-
May I ask, at your early convenience, the favor of a transcript from the Pension Records, of the Officers, Regts., date and length of Service, of Ezra Wildes, a Soldier of the Revolution from Essex Co., Mass.
Probably a resident of Bexford, Mass., when application was made, and possibly, later, of Rowley or Newbury. Born in Topsham, 1758.
Most Resp.
(Mrs.) Gertrude A. Martin.
July 12, 18

Dept. of Revolutionary Pensions.
97 Bryant St., Malden, Mass tte , Sept. 21, 1896.
The Hon. —
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.,
Dr. Sir: —
Will you kindly send me from your Archives, a Copy of the "Service" of Ezra Wilder , a "Revolutionary Pensioner." He was of Essex Co., Mass., but uncertain what town he resided in when his Application was made; whether, Ipswich, Boxford, Middle- ton, Rowley, or Newbury, but it was under the Act of 1818, I think.
I am, Most Respectfully, William Barnes Dorman.
Sons of Revolution, Society of Col. Wars.

O. W. & N. Div. I. 35134 L. W. B.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
September 29, 1896.
Sir:
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of Ezra Wilds, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you are advised that he made application for pension April 10, 1818, at which time he was residing at Boxford, Mass., ( age not stated ), and his pension was allowed for two years and nine months' actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary War; a part of the time he served under Capt. Sergeant and Col. John Crain. He enlisted at Chelmsford, Mass.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
Mr William B. Dorman, 97 Bryant Street, Malden, Mass.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Wildey, Edward GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7993 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED September 24, 1791 to not shown
(A note in pencil: "No. 58439 Van Cortlandt's Regt. Page 104 Vol. 3")
*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.