Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14225, Ebenezer Wild, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Wild, Ebenezer Baxter, Abigail Former widow
N 14225
{ B.L.W. 2311-200-Subit. Issued Aug 23, 1791 to Eben t Wilds No papers.
CONTENTS

Massachusetts Abigail Batten, formerly widow of Ebenezer Wild who was a Lieutenant in the Massachusetts line for 2. years.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 320. Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of May 1843. and sent to L. M. Stone Esq. Boston Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1. Page 36.

Boston, 8 th September 1842.
I Francis Parkman Pastor of the New North Church in the City of Boston hereby certify that the following entry was made during the Ministry of Rev. Dr. John Eliot on the "Record of Marriages" viz. "Seventeen Hundred Eighty Six. Nov. First, Ebenezer Wild, Nabby Howard." - That the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in fair, legible figures and follows: 1786 } Ebenezer Wild NOV: 1. Nabby Howard.
I Francis Parkman, above named depose and say, that I held the Office of Pastor of the New North Church in the City of Boston at above date and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Church with the exception above named, as certified by me.
Francis Parkman.
Sworn before me
T. Bulfinch, Justice of Peace for Suff. Co.

Comm'te of Massachusett
Sec'y's Offic. Sept. 19. 1842
a hasty note that the within S. Bulfinch is a portion of the Penn for the Co. of Sappoche
within the Line of the State
John P. Childs
Sec'y of the Comm'te

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County
On this sixth day of September, A.D. 1842. personally appeared before the Hon. Gunt. P. P. Ray Judge of Probate for the County aforesaid, Abigail Baxter, now a resident of Cambridge, in the County of Middlesex, aged seventy nine 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 7, 1836. entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," and also of the Act passed in August 1842. amending said Act; - That she is now the widow of Eben t Baxter, & previous thereto was the widow of Eben t Wild who was a soldier & an officer in the War of the Revolution and according to the best of her belief & recollection served as follows, viz On or about the 7 th day of August 1776. he enlisted at Boston as a private soldier to serve during the War and continued in that capacity until the end of the year. - In January 1777. he was promoted to a Sergeant in Capt. Hancock's Company, Col o Bosc's Regiment and continued in that rank until the end of 1779. being a period of three years. - About the beginning of 1780. he was again promoted to an Ensign and served as such for the space of about 12. months. On the 17 th of May 1782. he received the appointment of Lieutenant to take rank as such from the 20 th of December 1780. as will appear by his original commission filed herewith, which office he held at the disbanding of the Army in 1783. & that he performed his military duty during his seven years services in the Army to the acceptance & approbation of his superior officers as she verily believes. She further declares that she was married
The foregoing was not in the presence of the undersigned not Sept. 29. 1842. A.D.

to the said Ellen Wild on the first day of November in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six; that her husband, the aforesaid Chenese Wild died on the fourth day of December seventeen hundred ninety four; 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. And she further declared that she continued the widow of said Chenese Wild until the third day of March 1812 when she married Eben Baxter of Boston who died on the first day of Dec r eighteen hundred & twenty two and that since that period she has not intermarried but continued the widow of said Baxter & Wild.
Abigail Baxter
Sworn to, and subscribed, on the day & year above written, before me, at her residence in Cambridge, she being too infirm to attend Court. J. P. P. Tracy Esq. Judge of Probate for said County.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County. ss.
I Isaac Fiske Register of the Court of Probate in & for said County of Middlesex hereby certify that Sam d P. P. Tracy Esq. is the Judge of said Court, & that his signature above written is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court of Probate this tenth day of September in the year Eighteen hundred & forty two Isaac Fiske Reg.

East Cambridge Sept. 21. 1842
Sir
Enclosed are the application of other documents of Abigail Buxton for the benefit of the Act of July 1838 & its supplementary which papers have been handed to me for transmission to you
Respectfully
Edward
Procurator,
To Edward Dyer Counsel of Services

I John Hooton of the city of Boston in the county of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, testify and say, that I am eighty eight  seven years of age; I served in the army of the United States in the war of the Revolution and I am now a pensioner under the act of the 5th of June 1832. I know and have long known the applicant Abigail Baxter. I knew her before her marriage to Ebenezer Wild; her maiden name was Abigail Howard. I also perfectly recollect that she married said Wild, and that he afterwards died, but I cannot recall the precise time of his death. I also know that the applicant was subsequently married to one Ebenezer Baxter, who was a tailor in the city of Boston, and whom I know to have since died, and that since the death of said Baxter said applicant has not again married. -
John Hooton
51 Brimfield
Sworn to, and subscribed before me this 19 th day of September, eighteen hundred & forty two - and I certify that said Hooton is a credible witness & entitled to belief. Suffolk Co. Sep. 19. 1842
Thos Bullfinch, Just. Peace

Con'ts of Nup'ts
Suz's Opin, Sept. 19. 1842
I hereby certify that the within Thomas Dufur is a part of of the Dunes from the center of Safford
Witness the Seal of the State
John P. Bigelow
Suz of the Com'ts

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County } ss.
Be it known that on this twentieth day of March, A. D. 1843, personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for said County, Mrs. Abigail Baxter of Cambridge, aged 80, years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oaths, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed the 3. day of March 1833.
That she is the widow of Ebenezer Baxter and formerly the widow of Eben d Wild who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, and served as she verily believes as stated by her in her original declaration for a pension under the laws of 7 th July 1838. & 23 rd August 1842. To which declaration, and the papers accompanying the same now on file in the War Department, she would refer for a more particular statement of his services and for the proof of her marriage, identity, and the time of her husband's death.
She further declares that she was pensioned under said acts at the rate of $320.00 per annum, which amount she received from the 4 th day of March 1840, to the 4 th day of March 1841, at the Agency in Boston, Mass d . and at the time of receiving her last payment surrendered the Pension Certificate granted to her under said Act to the Pension Agent at said city of Boston aforesaid agreeably to the rules of the Department.
And this declarant further alleges that she has not intermarried since the decease of Ebenezer Baxter her last husband but is now and ever since has been the widow of said Ebenezer Baxter dec d & formerly the widow of Eben d Wild, as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed,

and further she saith not.
Abigail Baxter
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year within written
Before me
John S. Ladd
Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary Office Boston March 27. 1843
I hereby certify that John S Ladd is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex in Commonwealth aforesaid duly constituted and commissioned -
Witness the Seal of the Commonwealth the date above written
Ino at Dole
Seal of the Court

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County ss.
I David M. Stone of lawful age do hereby and say that I am well acquainted with Abigail Baxter the applicant named in the fore- going declaration, that she is the widow of Ebenezer Baxter, that she was pensioned under the Acts of Congress passed on the Seventh July A.D. 1838 and 23 d August 1842 at $320 per annum; that she has not intermarried, but still continues the widow of the said Ebenezer Baxter.
Lowell Me Stone
Middlesex ss. March 23 d 1843. Then personally appeared the above named David M. Stone and made oath that the above declaration by him subscribed is true
Before me
John S. Ladd Justice of the Peace.

6788,
Reported
Massachusetts
Abigail Barker formerly widow of
Ebenezer Wild dec d who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 1 Dec. 1829, of Middlesex in the State of Mass who was a Ser t in the Comp y commanded by Captain Hancock of the Reg t commanded by Col. Vose in the Mass s line for 3 years,
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass s : at the rate of 320 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24, day of Sept. 1842 and sent to Hon W. Parmachuee Cambridge Mass s Arrears to the 4th of March 41
Semi-annual allowance ending Act 23 Aug 1842
$1600
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Hico Silwood Clerk, Book W. Vol. 1. Page 73

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14225
Abigail Baxter Former Widow Ebenezer Wild St. Rev War
Act: Mar. 3 1843
Index:—Vol. A , Page 34
[Arrangement of 1870.]