Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46347, Ephraim Weed, Continental R.I. Residence In 1828

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Weed, Ephraim.
S. 46347
N.Y. residence in 1828
CONTENTS

June 18. 1835
John Maynard
Respg - arrears of pension due the children of the late Ephraim Weed -

War Dept: Pension Off: June 18. 1835
Si
Herewith instructions as to Horace Weed & Betty Reno, will have to address a letter to this Office - requesting that the amount due their late Father Ephraim Weed dec? may be remitted to them, or one of them, (as they may determine & request) at any post office, in any post office, in a draft on any one of the Banks named on the enclosed list. - As we have no knowledge of their signatures, they will have to be identified before a Justice (or Justices) of the Peace, - who will certify that they signed their names in his (or their) presence. The clerk of the Court (or Courts) must then certify under his (or their) seal of Office - the official character of said Justice. Such a document (or documents) is the above required, with the one already rec d , will be sufficient to authorize the payment of the amount due Ephraim Weed at the time of his death.
The Maynard Ep Ivrid, Seneca County New - York

No. 5 Original Compt 861 allowed, act 1828
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
29 January 1829.
Ephraim Weed of Ovid in the County of Seneca in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain Hulbert  Edgar 's company, in Col Sheldon's regiment of the Dragoons line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing .
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary, J. H. Dickins
No record LDS
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
2 nd February 1829
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Ephraim Weed in the Sheldon's Dragoons .
It further appears that Ephraim Weed  not is now on the pension list of the any  not agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of 5 dollars per month.
Richd Hagner Secy
15249

State of New York } ss. Seneca County }
owg # 46347

State of New York } ss. County of Seneca }
I Ephraim Weed of the town of the town of Ovid in the county of Seneca in the state of New York for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act of Congress entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved the 15 th May 1828. Do hereby declare that in the month of September or October in the year 1780 I, enlisted for "during the war" in Captain Hulbert's Company in Col. Sheldon's Regiment of Dragoons called the second regiment in the Connecticut Line in the Army of the Revolution — That I served as a private in said company & regiment until the close of the war of the revolution & was honorably discharged at Danbury in the state of Connecticut on the eleventh day of June in the year 1783, the said company then for sometime previously being under the command of Captain Edgar — That I received a government note or certificate for a bounty of Eighty dollars — I do further declare that five or six years after the said War I delivered my said discharge to White & Burr & have never been able to obtain it since that time & do not know where the same now is
Ephraim Weed

State of New York Seneca County } ss.
Isaac Blue, of the town of Ovid in the county of Seneca & State of New York and John Leonard of the same place being duly sworn depose say each of them for himself doth depose & say that he has been acquainted with Ephraim Weed, in the within declaration named & who signed the same for more than fifteen years and that the said Ephraim Weed hath during that time hath been & is now reputed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution & that these Deponents do verily believe him to have been such soldier as is in the said declaration set forth
Isaac Blue.
State of New York Seneca County } ss.
John Leonard
On the second day of September - 1828 before me William Le Conte one of the Justices of the Peace of said county personally appeared the above named Isaac Blue & John Leonard & severally made oath to the truth of the above affidavit -
William Le Conte.
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State of New York
Seneca County Clerk's Office ss I certify that Peter
Le Conte Esqr whose name is subscribed to the within acknowledgement was at the time of taking the same a Justice of Peace of the said County of Seneca In witness
testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said County this Twenty fourth day of November AD 1828
Nathan Marvin clerk

Cert No. 861
Reissues.
Rev.
16347
Name: Ephraim Weed. Rank: Pri Comp'y: Edgar Reg't: Co. Sheldon Dragoons
} Agency.
RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT.
1st Issue. } Comm'g 2d Issue. } Comm'g 3d Issue. } Comm'g
DATE OF CERTIFICATE, AND TO WHOM SENT.
1st Issue. } Sent to 2d Issue. } Sent to 3d Issue. } Sent to
Allowed. Act 1828.
Act 14th July, 1862. Bk. G, Vol., Page Registering Clerk:
Disability. }

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Weed, Ezra GRADE Sergeant LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 8019 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 9, 1790 to Nicholas Fish, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.