Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26742, for Ebenezer Keyes, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
mass
Kerres, Ebenezer Jemima
W. 26742
CONTENTS

Let to James Starraple
let to James Starraple 29 1840
" Same per aw 29. June 1843
Lead. N.Y. Jan. 22 1844
1515 Maine Jemima Hays widow of Ebenezer Hays deceased who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 31 st May 1835 of Frankfort in the State of Me. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Wheeler of the Regt. commanded by Col. Vose in the War. time for 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836 31 st May 1835
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Dec r 1835 and due Mar 1836 Paris Me of Reps
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept 1835 21.50 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th Mar 39 40.00
61.50
Act July 7 1838.
Recorded by M. M. Addison Book 7 Vol. 106 Page

Maine 3439
Ebenezer Kerges of Jay in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Wheeler of the Regt commanded by Col. Nickson in the M'pachit line for 3 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Decem 1832, and sent to Pensioner Jay — Oxford County — Me
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1832 $ 12 0 Semi-ant. allowance ending Mar 1833 — 4 0
$160
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. D. Bullock — Clerk, Book D Vol. 1 st Page 65

pay me Jan 15th
Free
Jan 18 1844
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions. War Department City Washington D. C.
Jemima Lupton Oct 15 1838

Sayle Jan. 10 th 1844.
J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir,
On the 29 th of July last I received the arrear of pension due the children of Jemima Keyes from the 4 th March 1836, to 31 May 1838, as per your letter to me of 29 th of June 1843. - The Voucher has been returned by the 2 d Comptroller to the Pension agents disallowed, because the certificate for the arrear of pension was not returned. The Agent has called on me for the same - As I never have received a certificate for the arrear, and applied, and received the amount of pension due on this ground of your letter to me of June 29. I will thank you, either to forward me a certificate, or cause the voucher to be allowed at the 2 d Comptrollers Office -
I am Sir, very respectfully your most Obt Serv t .
James Parr.

Jeremia Reyes
Wid of Rev. Ad
me
Ad 7 July 1838
Mar 1 1787 ad 1838
Allan $80 per am for May 31 st 1838
211 33
Jeremia Reyes Postmaster Jay Maine Agency
Ad V D Sam AR

State of Maine.
Franklin County ss
On this second day of October A.D. 1830 Personally appeared before the the Court of Probate in and for said County. Jennima Keyes of Jay in said County of Franklin aged seventy three years, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth in her oath make the following declar- ation, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the seventh day of July 1830 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" that she is the widow of Ebenezer Keyes late of Jay, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution in the Massachusetts Continental Troops; that her said husband was a pensioner under the act of June 7 1832, that his certificate of pension was dated December 2 nd , one thousand eight hundred and thirty two and numbered 3439. and she refers to the evidence furnished by him on his original application for a pension for the proof of his services.
She further declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Keyes on the twelfth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven. That her said husband, the aforesaid Ebenezer Keyes died on thirty first day of May A.D. 1830; 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.
Jennima Keyes
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
Before Thomas Parker Judge of the Court of Probate Franklin County
Franklin ss. I the subscriber Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County, hereby certify that Thomas Parker before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is Judge of the Court of Probate aforesaid. I also certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Judge in the application of Jennima Keyes for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
Holmes A. Boardman. Register of said Court

Extract from the Records of the Town of Templeton
"In the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty seven June twelfth - were married Ebenezer Keyes & Jemima Jackson both of Gardner
by me Ebenezer Sparkhawk Minister of the Gospel"
I Rufus Lyman do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date which is expressed as the record in fair legible figures and words "1787 - June 12."
Rufus Lyman Town Clerk of Templeton }
I Rufus Lyman above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the Town of Templeton in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts - and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Templeton with the exception above named as certified by me
Rufus Lyman Clerk of said Town of } Templeton - }
Worcester SS Sept 10 - 1838
Sworn before me
Samuel Lee
Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss. I, Joseph G. Kendall, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Worcester, do certify, that Samuel Lee, Esquire, is a Justice of the peace in and for said County - and that his signature to the within certificate, is in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I hereto set my hand, and affix the seal of said Court, at Worcester, this eleventh day of September, 1838.
Jos. G. Kendall Clerk

Ebenezer Dyer Application
Old case
admit private 3 years 80 sent Paris

To the Hon. Lewis Cass, Secretary of War of the United States.
Ebenezer Keyes, now residing in the town of Jay, County of Oxford State of Maine, on oath says that he was a soldier of the revolution - that pursuant to the provisions of Act of Congress, of March 18. 1818, he made application for the benefits of the same and was duly placed on the pension list Roll of the District of Maine Agency, as appears by the Certificate of the Secretary of war, dated January 29. 1819. mentioned 6129 and which is herewith annexed; in which application, the said Keyes proved seven three years service in the army of the United States - that by the provisions of the subsequent acts of Congress, his said pension was stopped, & his name struck from the Roll & that now he is not in the receipt of any pension whatever from the Government of the United States. That his said service was in the company commanded by Captain Adam Wheeler of Col. Thomas Dickson's Regiment of General John Dickson's Brigade and mostly in the State of New York - that he resided in said Jay when he made his first application, the place of his present residence. The said Keyes conceiving that he is now justly entitled to the benefits of the late act of Congress, passed June 7. 1832, entitled an act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the Revolution, respectfully presents his claim thereto and referring to this declaration and the documentary evidence now on file in the War Office, prays that his name may be restored to the Pension List and that he hereby relinquishes every claim for any other pension from the Government of the United States.
Ebenezer Keyes

State of Maine County of Oxford ss. August the 17. 1832 Then the within named Ebenezer Keyes, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the declaration, written on the first page of this sheet, and subscribed by him, before me,
Samuel F. Brown Justice of STATE OF MAINE. the Peace,
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that Samuel F. Brown
whose genuine signature is annexed to the foregoing Deposition of Ebenezer Keyes is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this twentieth day of August in the year A. D. 1832.
RK Goodenow { Clerk of Oxford County Courts.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Ebenezer Keyes — late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pen- sion List, Roll of the District of Maine Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the 22 nd day of April — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 29 th day of January one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.
E. P. [unclear]

Ebenezer Keyes,
Payable semi-annually---the first pay- ment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of March — next,
at the Cumberland Bank
Portland
Maine
Recorded
60 4 20 / d

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Ebenezer Hays , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Say Oxford county but applying in the said County of Somerset , in the District of Maine, on the twentyscond day of April , A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier , in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twentyscond day of May in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Nathan Weston  Secy C. Just C. C. C. Pleas 2 d E. Circuit.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset ; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand : Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
John Davis

Ebenezer Dyer
at the

To The Hon ble Nathan Weston Esq r Judge of Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit in the District of Maine —
We the subscribers Selectmen of the Town of Jay District of Maine, do hereby certify, that we are personally acquainted with Mr. Ebenear Kyes an inhabitant of said Town, and from what we know of his situa- tion, it is our opinion that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support — — — — —
Jay April 20. 1818.
William Choate } Selectmen Abiathar Austin } of the Ansel Whittcomb } Town of Jay

Reay
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26742
Jemima Kezes wid of Ebenezer Kezes Pri Mass Line
Act July 7 th 88
Index: Vol. A , Page 394
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Genl. Keyes March 1st - 7 mile. In p 80 p am. when last paid
A. H. B.
p 31 May 1838
JH

June 19, 43
No. 1000
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
City Washington
D.C.

Jay Maine June 14 1843.
J. L. Edwards Esq r .
Sir.
I duly received your communication of 29. April last, relative to the balance of pension of Jennima Keyes, deceased, and here enclose the Court's certificate of her death, and of her children who are now living, also her certificate of pension, the new certificate that you issue for the balance, you will enclose to me
I am most respectfully
Your Ob t . Servant
James Harr,
[Handwritten flourish]

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,
July 5
1818
BY THIS I CERTIFY, That it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department, that Ebenezer  Keys served as a Soldier in Capt. Barnes Company, and Col. Nixon's Regiment, (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the Continental Establishment,) in the American Army, in the War of the Revolution, from Febry 17- 1777 to July 17- 1780, being Three years and months.
Alden Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

6149.
Maine.
Ebenezer Keyes, private.
Massachusetts line 3 years In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of — 8 — Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 d of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th of Jan'y 1819. and del d R. C. Vose, Augusta Maine
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1818. 4 mo. 13/30 - 35.46 Semi-ann. all'ee ending 4 th March 1819 - 48.00
$83.46
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Pay.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Ebenezer Hays, aged fifty seven years, a citizen of the U. States born in that part of Shrewsbury now called Boylston, at this time a resident in Day in the District of Maine, upon oath testify and declare that in February 1777 I enlisted as a private soldier for the term of three years, in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, in Capt Adam Wheeler's company and Col. Thomas Nixon's regiment of the Massachusetts line. This period I fully served out, and took my final and honorable discharge from the army at a place called Soldiers' Fortune near West Point February 1780. My discharge I have since lost, and it is not now to my knowledge in existence. I was at the taking of Burgoyne. From my reduced circumstances I am in need of the assistance of my country for support. And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the U. States, if any; but I am not to my knowledge boone on any pension list whatever. I request that I may be placed upon the pension list for the District of Maine.
Ebenezer Hays
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Somerset ss.
On the twenty second day of April A.D. 1810
Ebenezer Hays above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration, by him subscribed. Before me Nathan Weston Jun. C. Just. C. Court C. Pleas 2 Eastern Circuit.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Benjamin Hinds aged sixty three years, of Norridgewock in the District of Maine, upon oath testify and declare, that I am well acquainted with Ebenezer Hays above named. I know that he served the whole of the time by him above stated, as I served in the continental army, in the same company and regiment with him all that time except his last five days. I was in the same mess with him all the time saving about two months when he waited upon the Lieutenant. He was an active, faithful soldier and I doubt not obtained an honorable discharge. He sustains the character of a man of truth. I was discharged five days before him. Benjamin Hinds

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Somerset Co.
On the twenty second day of April A.D. 1818 Benjamin Hinds within named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the within deposition by him subscribed. Before me Nathan Weston Esq. Justice Court C Pleas Eastern Circuit.
Ebenezer Keyes, Jay, Oxford Co. to be of Nixon's Mass. Reg. 1777 to 1780.
April 22. 1818. -
Admitted

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pay me 1873 April 26 th }
Three
1876 April 29
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions. War Department. # City Washington. D. C.
Name
Jemima H. Garrison

Jay State of Maine April 5. 1845.
J. L. Edwards Esq r Dear Sir.
Having assisted many Revolutionary Soldiers in obtaining Pensions under the acts of 1818 & 1832, and widows under the act of 1830, and having received many communications from you relative thereto; I have taken the liberty to address this to you to obtain information as to the existing Pension laws, which I presume you will give me as far as is consistent with your official duty. The first case I shall state is that of Eleanor Keyes, late of this town, who received a Pension under the act of 1832, who died on the 31 st of May 1838. A Pension Certificate (No 1510) was granted to Jerima Keyes his widow, under the act of July 7 th 1830, which gave a Pension to widows therein named for five years from the fourth of March 1836, her Pension commenced on the 31 st day of May 1838, the day her husband died, and ended on the 4 th of March 1841, which made only two years nine months and four days, that she received a Pension, a little more than half the five years which the Act provides that she should receive it, I wish to be informed if the widow, or her children, as she is dead, are not entitled by the act to receive her Pension for the remaining time of the five years, which she has not received, and if so in what way is it to be obtained, I wish to be informed if there is any act of Congress or resolution passed whereby those who have become widows of Pensioners since the act

July 7 1838, and were married before the first of January 1794. Can now obtain a Pensions. Also, are Widows who claim under the act of July 4 th 1836, who have been married a second time, entitled to receive a Pension — why I make this enquiry in the two last cases, I have seen published in the Public papers, that a Gentleman in Washington would attend to those cases on application being made to him — Altho' I have not seen any thing published by authority that to authorise me to believe that those cases had been provided for by Congress, yet I concluded that was the fact, or that notices would not have been given at the seat of Government, and if so the Public ought to know it — Sir by answering the foregoing enquiries as soon as convenience will permit, you will confer a great favor on many who feel deeply interested to know the result of their cases —
With much respect I am your most Obedient Servt.
James Parr.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Keyes, Eli GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4531 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Mar. 25, 1790 to — not shown —
*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.