Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,541, for Ebenezer Streeter, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mark P. S.
Streeter, Ebenzer
NUMBER _____
S. 22,541
CONTENTS

27320 New Hampshire
Ebenezer Streeter
of Lisbon, in the State of N.H. who was a private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Campbell of the Reg t commanded by Colo. Learned in the N.H. line for
10 Months, mi
Inscribed on the Roll of N.H. at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of May 1834 and sent to, Hamlin Rand Esq r Lisbon N.H.
Arrears to the 14th of Mar: 1834. $ 99.99 Semest. allowance ending 4 th Sep " 16.66 $ 116.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Not June 7, 1832. }
Recorded By George Taylor Clerk, Book C Vol. 1 Page 49
Date of death not on Q.B.

State of New Hampshire } County of Grafton fs }
On the fifteenth day of January in the Year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Court of Probate of Wills be now sitting Ebenezer Streater a resident of Lisbon in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire aged seventy four 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 act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated, I enlisted under Captain Campbell (whose Christian name I believe was William) in the Town of Oxford in the State of Massachusetts as a private in the State Troops of said State in the month (as I believe) of December 1774 I do not recollect the day of the month; very soon after I enlisted our company was marched to Roxbury about fifty miles from Oxford where our company was stationed until August 1775 a part of our company with the Officers was quartered in the dwelling house of a Mr Moody our company belonging to Col. - Leavens Regiment whose Christian name (I believe) was Jeremiah he was afterwards a General I do not remember the names of the other Officers of the Regiment the Officers of our company besides Captain Campbell were Lieutenants Lamb and Day - (I believe) our orderly Sergeant's name was Antony Sigourney. I believe the whole of our Regiment were employed in cutting fascines and building fortifications on Boston Neck I was at Roxbury at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill which was in sight, as near as I can recollect two companies from our regiment were sent to assist in the defence of Bunker Hill I enlisted for eight months which time I served out within a few days when Abijah Harris a Lieutenant of Militia in Oxford with whom I lived before I enlisted came to Roxbury and being desirous to view the fortification on the Neck requested leave to take my place which was granted and I returned home this circumstance was the reason why I did not receive a discharge, whether Lieutenant Harris received a discharge for me or not I do not now recollect While at Roxbury our regiment had an engagement with a detachment of the British Troops there were about eight hundred of the enemy which appeared to be principally artillery the firing commenced early in the day and lasted for four or five hours (as near as I can recollect) when the British retreated I do not recollect how many men was killed in the regiment in person a private was killed within a few feet of me by a cannon shot which passed through the foot hole his head was shot quite off While at Roxbury I was permitted to visit Cambridge several times where I saw General Washington and General Putnam after the battle of Bunker Hill they were the only General Officers

whose names I now recollect In the Year 1778 in April and May I served as a substitute for George Brown of Gloucester in Rhode Island I then lived in the Town of Douglas Massachusetts which Town joins Gloucester said Brown was drafted for two months from the Militia and hired me to take his place Lieutenant Aaron Arnold commanded the company the other Officers names I do not recollect our Company was stationed at Fox Point in guarding near Providence we marched from Gloucester through Southfield and Cumberland we were employed while at Fox Point in guarding stores and in scouting parties watching the movements of the enemy who were in Rhode Island. Lieutenant Arnold commanded at Fox Point I served two months and was dismissed I have no written evidence of my services I was born in the Town of Osford State of Massachusetts in the Year 1758 I have a record of my age at my house I lived in the Town of Osford when I enlisted in the service of the State of Massachusetts I removed from Gloucester Rhode Island to this Town then called Gunthwaite in the Year 1780 where I resided to 1791 I then removed to Littleton and resided there until 1799 a Town adjoining this Town when I returned to this Town and have resided here ever since Timothy Taylor Esq Elder Joshua Dinsmore Levi Barker & Elder David Bowen are persons who are well acquainted with me and will testify to my character for veracity and their belief of my services as a Soldier of the revolution I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declare that my name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any State
Ebenezer Dinsmore
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before me Edward Webber Judge of Probate
We Joshua Dinsmore a clergyman residing in the Town of Littleton aforesaid and Timothy Taylor residing in said Littleton hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Dinsmore who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Joshua Dinsmore Timothy Taylor
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before me Edward Webber Judge of Probate

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant, was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that John Quimby who has signed the foregoing certificate is a clergyman, resident in the Town of Lisbon and that Timothy Payton Esq. who has also signed the same is a resident in the said Town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Edward Webber Judge of Probate
I Moses Dow clerk of the court of Probate, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Streater for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this twelfth day of January in the year of Our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
Moses Dow
I Moses Dow clerk of the court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Streater for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this twelfth day of January in the year of Our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and thirty three. Moses Dow
Be

State of New Hampshire.
Grafton ss.
I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Indictment within & for the County of Grafton do hereby certify that Warinhin Rand & Jonathan Kimball Esquires are justices of the peace within & for said County and have acted as such for a long time, and that their signatures to the Declaration of Ebenezer Streater & the affidavit of Reuben Sherman to which this paper is attached by a wafer under my official seal, are genuine. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Haverhill in said County this nineteenth day of April Anno Domini 1834.
S. P. Webster Clerk
attest Rev. S. White Rev. Ebenezer

State of New Hampshire Grafton County ss March 27 1934 Personally appeared before us the undersigned - George of the same - in which for said county Ebenezer Streater who being duly sworn deposes and saith that by reason of that age and consequent loss of memory he cannot answer precisely as to the precise length of his services but according to the best of his recollection the period not less than the various repetitions below and in the following order - I served as a private in the Massachusetts State troops under Captain Campbell eight months with the exception of about a fortnight - and was marched to Quincy at the commencement of the revolutionary war - among the first to say they were ordered there I spent also two months in Rhode Island as a substitute for George Brown as a private under Lieutenant Strong and for such services I claim a pension.
Asa Whipple
Isaac Streater
Sworn and subscribed - the day and year aforesaid
Before us Jonathin Ball J. Dyer
State of New Hampshire Grafton County ss March 27 1934 Personally appeared before us the undersigned - George of the same - in which for said county Ebenezer Streater who being duly sworn deposes and saith that by reason of that age and consequent loss of memory he cannot answer precisely as to the precise length of his services but according to the best of his recollection the period not less than the various repetitions below and in the following order - I served as a private in the Massachusetts State troops under Captain Campbell eight months with the exception of about a fortnight - and was marched to Quincy at the commencement of the revolutionary war - among the first to say they were ordered there I spent also two months in Rhode Island as a substitute for George Brown as a private under Lieutenant Strong and for such services I claim a pension.
Richard H. Streater
State of New Hampshire March 27 1934
Sworn and subscribed - the day and year last above mentioned - Before us Jonathin Ball J. Dyer
State of New Hampshire Grafton County ss March 27 1934
Personally appeared before us the undersigned - George of the
same - in which for said county Ebenezer Streater who being duly sworn deposes and saith that by reason of that age and consequent loss of memory he cannot answer precisely as to the precise length of his services but according to the best of his recollection the period not less than the various repetitions below and in the following order - I served as a private in the Massachusetts State troops under Captain Campbell eight months with the exception of about a fortnight - and was marched to Quincy at the commencement of the revolutionary war - among the first to say they were ordered there I spent also two months in Rhode Island as a substitute for George Brown as a private under Lieutenant Strong and for such services I claim a pension.
Richard H. Streater Jonathin Ball J. Dyer

22128
Lisbon May V. H.
Benozzo Gozzoli
[Faint, illegible handwriting]
Hamlin Bangs Esq.
Lisbon May V. H.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
To Pension Office, 11 March 1834
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Ebenzer Streeter, of Hampshire
   Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service. Rank of the claimant. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. Proof by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     entered the service some time in Dec r 1772   Sub. 8 Months Capt Campbell   Capt Leonard   1778. 2 Months Capt Braddock   Substituted  
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
The declaration sets out in December 1772 — The Act of June 7, 1832, embraces no service prior to the 15 th of April 1775. Therefore it will be necessary for claimant to show 6 months service after said 15 th of April to entitle him to a pension.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of }  On this                      day of                      personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of                      in the county of                      and State, Territory or District of                      aged (c)                      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 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)                      , with                      and served in the                      (e) regiment of the                      line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) 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, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I                      of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of                      for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of                      &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the                      and C. D. residing in (the same)                      , who has hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with                      , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 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.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the                      and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the                      and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,                      Clerk of the Court of                      do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this                      day of                      &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his

alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services. 
6. { To a Soldier. } Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? { To an Officer. } Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
 7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons—one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:—For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____; For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months , is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[k] The notes from (a) to (i) are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note (j) applies to continental troops only.
[l] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[m] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[n] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

May 28, 1935
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Mrs. Blair Preston Care of King Printing Company Bristol, Tennessee
EBENEZER STREETER S. 22541 BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Ebenezer Streater, of Chesterfield, New Hampshire, who served from New Hampshire, and whose wife, Jenima, died in 1776.
A careful search of the Revolutionary War records of this office has been made and no claim for pension or bounty land was found based upon service in the Revolution of an Ebenezer Streater, under any spelling of the surname, who served from New Hampshire, but the record was found of a soldier of that name who received pension while residing in New Hampshire. It is the record of the only soldier of that name found in the Revolutionary War records of this office, and is furnished herein as obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 22541, based upon service in the Revolution of Ebenezer Streater.
Ebenezer Streater was born in 1758 in Oxford, Massachusetts; the names of his parents are not given.
While residing in Oxford, Massachusetts, with one Abijah Harris (no relationship stated), he enlisted at the commencement of the Revolutionary War, served as private in Captain William Campbell's company, Colonel Learned's Massachusetts regiment, a part of the time stationed at Roxbury, was in an engagement with a detachment of British which lasted four or five hours, length of this service about eight months. As early as February or March, 1776, the soldier and his father were living in Douglas, Massachusetts, and there Ebenezer Streater enlisted in 1778, and served two months, April and May, as private under Lieutenant Aaron Arnold in the Rhode Island troops, on an expedition to Rhode Island, was stationed at Fox Point near Providence engaged in guarding stores and on scouting parties watching the movements of the enemy in Rhode Island.
Per office of this payroll unit the claim of Paterson Cook, N. 121537, in regard to his own service.

Ebenezer Streeter moved in 1780 from Gloucester, Rhode Island, an adjoining town to Douglas, Massachusetts, to Gunthwart (later called Lisbon, Grafton County, New Hampshire, where he lived until 1791, thence to Littleton, an adjoining town to Lisbon, where he remained until 1799 then returned to Lisbon, New Hampshire.
Ebenezer Streeter was allowed pension on his application executed January 15, 1833, at which time he was a resident of Lisbon, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
No reference was made in the claim to wife or children.
In 1834, Joel Streeter witnessed the signature of the soldier Ebenezer Streeter, in Grafton County, New Hampshire, no relationship shown between the two.
In order to obtain the date of last payment, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death of this soldier, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following:
Ebenezer Streeter Certificate #27390 Issued May 7, 1834 Rate $33.33 per annum Commenced March 4, 1831 Act June 7, 1832 New Hampshire Agency
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Proclamation
22 541 INVALID.
1935 May 28-3rd to Mr. Blair Preston — mfs
File No. 22,541
Choctaw District
Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1822
Index: — Vol. 8 , Page 329
[Arrangement of 1870.]

May 14th, 1935
U.S.Veterans Bureau, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:
only one in files I have secured a record of Revolutionary service of my ancestor, Ebenezer Streeter of Chesterfield, New Hampshire, from the U.S. War Dep't., which reads:
"The records of this office show that one Ebenezer Streeter served in the Revolutionary War as a private in Captain Simon Marston's Company, Lieutenant Colonel Peabody's regiment, New Hampshire State Troops. He enlisted June 15, 1778 at Swansey, N.H.; was discharged Dec. 30, 1778, at Rhode Island and was paid to include Jan. 5, 1779, being allowed pay for traveling home.
The records also show that one Ebenezer Streeter served in that War as a private in Col. Ashley's Regiment, New Hampshire Militia. His name appears on a XXXXXX pay roll of a part of the 6th Co. of that regiment which marched from Chesterfield on the alarm June 29th to the relief of the garrison at Ticonderoga. which pay roll is dated Chesterfield, Feb. 3, 1778 and show that he was discharged July 5, _."
It was suggested that you might be able to give further information.
The wife of Ebenezer Streeter, Jemima Streeter Streeter, died 1776, so a pension could not have been given her.
I would like to have date and place of his marriage if that would be on record, or if he was ever elevated from his position as private during the War.
Thanking you for any additional information you can give,
Respectfully yours,
Helene I. Preston Helene I. Preston
Mrs. Blair Preston, Care of King Printing Company, Bristol, Tenness ee.

Sisson N. H. 29 th April 1834
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir,
I forward again the papers relative to the application of Ebenezer Streeter for a pension. I am myself satisfied that he was a revolutionary soldier and that he served all the time he states. He was confined to his bed the last time I heard from him and unable to attend any court.
Hon. Henry Hubbard is acquainted with me he is a member of the House of Representatives. I believe he is also acquainted with the other certifying magistrate.
If you will take the trouble to enquire of him I presume he will satisfy you that we should not countenance any attempt to impose upon the pension Department.
Yours Very Respectfully Hamlin Randolph

Solomon Brock of Middlefield in Franklin Co. and State of Massachusetts of the age of Eighty two years to wit and say I believe that I was in the year sixteen hundred and seven before Christ and was with the Indians upon the destruction of the village of Middlefield and was known in that he enlisted for the term of eight months in the United States Service under Capt. Wm. Cummel belonging to the Pioneer Regiment Regt in the U.S. Service in 1864 and quartermaster with him for the principal part of the time in the house of Mr. Moody of Roxbury being a Soldier in the same Regt and that he faithfully served his time for which he enlisted Solomon Brock -
Grafton June August 3 rd 1883 - Sworn to me before me Lymon Bland Justice of Peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with the signer of the above affidavit and he is a person of truth and veracity.
Lymon Bland Justice of Peace

I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature in and for the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire, certify that Lyman Blandin within named is a magis- trate duly empowered to administer oaths and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this twenty fifth day of February 1834 —
S. P. Webster Clerk