Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19412, for Eleazer Streeter, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Continental
Streeter, Eleazer Cynthia
W. 1941/2
Mass.
P.S.
CONTENTS

6623
Albany New York
Cynthia Streeter widow of Eleazer Streeter Mass who was a Private in the Mass a Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of Jany y 1845 and sent to B. Cornell, Providence Rhode Island
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 85
h Certs; 1 under act '38 1 " " 1/13 Lep.

State of New York
County of Wayne
On this 29 day of November A.D. 1845 personally appeared before me Samuel Moore a judge of the Court of Wayne County in said County Cynthia Streeter now resident in Marion in said County aged eighty two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows viz. that she is the widow of Eleazer Streeter who was a private during the war of the Revolution that during said war he resided in Cumberland in the County of Providence & State of Rhode Island & there enlisted. She believes he enlisted & served in 1775 eight months at Roxbury near Boston & afterwards in Col. Jacksons regiment of Massachusetts Troops she believes that in the eight months service he was in the Rhode Island Troops but she must refer to the evidence for his officers names & the amount of his service — And she further declares that she was married to the said Eleazer Streeter on the 9 day of February A.D. 1791 in the Town of Salisbury County of Herkimer in the State of New York & she further declares that her husband the said Eleazer Streeter departed this life on the 9 day of February A.D. 1801 and since that period she has remained unmarried and a widow she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794 to wit at the time above mentioned and she further saith that she had by the said Eleazer Streeter five children viz Cordelia

Mary Eleazer Nathan & Johnson Streeter Nathan and Johnson are now dead. and further saith the marriage took place at the house of Benaja Randall By Samuel Dow Esqr.
Subscribed and sworn the 29 day of Nov r (843) Cynthia + Streeter before me Sam l Moore mark a Judge of Wayne county courts
State of New York County of Wayne Personally appeared before me the above named Cynthia Streeter & made oath to the truth of the above declaration by her signose and further certify that from old age & infirmity she is unable to attend court I also certify her statement is entitled to full credit I further certify that the above named Cynthia Streeter signed the above declaration in my presents by making her mark. She could not write her name
Sam l Moore
a Judge of Wayne courts
State of New York
Wayne County Clerk's office
I hereby certify that Samuel Moore Esqr. whose signature appears at the head of the above affidavit, and to the above certificate, was at the time of taking said affidavit & signing said certifi- cate Judge of the circuit of said County duly authorized to take affidavits, and that said signatures are genuine. Witness my hand & seal of office Dec r 27. 1843.
Daniel Chapman
Clerk of said County.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
No 64
Secretary's Office, March 21 18 1847
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Elazer Dyer is found upon the books of Col. Henry Sheldon's Regiment from Oct 1 1777 to Oct 1 1778. Served as a Private in the company of Capt. Hastings.

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone: and that said application and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances which tend to satisfy me of the identity of the party described in the application with the individual who rendered the service.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

Know all men by these presents that I Cynthia Sturtevant  Sturtevant of Patagonia  Patagonia in the County of Wayne in the State of New York have constituted & appointed John A. Babb of Boston Massachusetts, My true & lawful Attorney to examine & cause to be examined the records of Military services during the war of the Rebellion to ascertain the survives of my late husband Elazer Sturtevant who was a soldier during said war & served in Massachusetts troops and I believe in Cobb Jackson's regiment.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 24 day of Nov. 1845.
Syntha + Sturtevant mark
State of New York
Wayne County ss
Syntha Sturtevant
Personally appeared before me whom I know to be the true person who executed the above power of atty by making her mark and acknowledged that she had so executed the same and for the purposes therein specified.
Danl Moore a Judge of Wayne County

State of New York
Jefferson County ss. On this 27 th day of February 1844 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Reuben Sturtevant a resident of the town of Ropes in the County of St. Lawrence in the State of New York aged seventy one years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say that he was well acquainted with Elazar Sturtevant deceased and Cynthia Sturtevant his widow; that he knew them both before they were married the said Elazar lived in Chesterfield New Hamp- shire and the said Cynthia, whose maiden name was Cynthia Tower, lived in the same place with the father of this deponent. At the time of Sturtevant brother of this deponent removed from Chesterfield to Salisbury in the State of New York and Cynthia Tower went with him & as a member of his family. In the year seventeen hundred and ninety two this deponent moved into Salisbury and boarded with the said Elazar Sturtevant and Cynthia his wife. The said Elazar and the said Cynthia Tower, as this de- ponent understood & believes had been married about one year. It was in the month of March 1792 this deponent went to live with them. They were then keeping house living together as man & wife and were until his death did they live together husband & wife & raised a family of

several children - This deponent further says, that he is certain as to the time he moved into Salisbury from two facts; that he was then not of age, and that the old Locks at Little Falls were commenced that year - After a residence of several years in Salisbury the said Ebenezer Street & his wife & family moved to Westmoreland N. Hampshire, when the said Ebenezer died in 1801; that he was not present at the death or burial of the said Ebenezer but was informed of his death at the time & soon afterwards moved his widow the said Cynthia from Westmoreland to Salisbury the then place of residence of this deponent This deponent has known the said Cynthia ever since & knows that she has not intermarried but has remained and still is the widow of the said Ebenezer Street - This deponent further says that there is no record of the marriage of the said Ebenezer & Cynthia in existence then being no record kept of marriages in the town of Salisbury -
Sworn & Subscribed
This 27 th day of February 1844
Ebenezer Street
Before me Ebenezer Sabin Justice

I certify that Reuben Stratton above named is a credible person, sustaining an irreproachable character, having been a Judge of the the Laurens County
Elmer Sabin Justice
State of New York, } ss. Jefferson County Clerk's Office. }
I, Charles B. Hoard, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that Elmer Sabin Esq. before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn,
was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same; and further, that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the same to be his proper hand-writing and signature.
WITNESS my hand, and seal of said County, this 27 day of July — in the year 1847
Chas B Hoard Clerk.

State of New York Inside County ss. }
Be it Remembered that before Jacob Courn have a justice of the peace in and for the said County personally appeared before me Caleb Street of the town of Boonville in said County and made oath in due form of law that he is seventy three years of age and was born in the town of Greenwich in the County of Kent and state of Rhode Island, and resided there until the year 1790, when he removed to the town of Salisbury Herkimer County and state of New York, and resided there about six years and deponent was married in said town in the month of October or November in the year 1791 to Ellen Low, daughter of Samuel Low Esq. and deponent lived in the same house with said Low. And about the 9 th or 10 th of February 1791 deponent heard said Low say that he had married a couple by the name of Elazar Street and Cynthia Low, and deponent says that he was acquainted with said Street before his marriage and that said Street was from the town of Cumberland in the state of Rhode Island and that said Street was married at the house of Benjamin Randall in the said town of Salisbury Herkimer County aforesaid.
And deponent says that he heard said Randall and his wife say that said Street &

Cynthia Town were married by said Samuel Low Esq. at said Randall's house.
And further this deponent says that Elizer Street & his wife came to live on the farm of said Low where this deponent lived about the first of April 1791 and lived there about one year & that while said Street & his wife resi- ded there they had a child which was born about the 15 th of February 1792 as near as this deponent can recollect, said child was a girl and named Delia. And this deponent says that said Street after he left Salisbury kept a boarding house at Little Falls about six months & then he was taken sick and removed back to Salisbury & moved into the same house with Ebenezer Coots, and said Street remained in said town about 3 years after he left Little Falls, and this deponent says that he was well acquainted with said Street during the whole time as before stated.
And this deponent further says that said Street left Salisbury and removed (as this deponent has been informed) to the state of New Hampshire and there he died in the year 1801 - And this depo- nent says that it was not customary to keep a Record of Marriages in the state of New York at the time that said Street was married, to depo- nents knowledge.

And this deponent further says that he was not at the wedding of said Street but from what information he has received from others at the time that were present he has no reason to doubt that said Street and Cynthia Town were legally and lawfully married by the said Samuel Low Esquire, and further this de- ponent saith not
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 7 th day of May 1844
Ned Coomham Justice of the peace of said County
Caleb his Street mark
I hereby Certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Caleb Street and know him to be a person of good moral character and of undoubted truth and veracity
Ned Coomham Justice

State of New York Clerks Office Oneida County } ss.
I Peter Denoy Clerk of the said county do certify that Jacob Romhous whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit and cer- tificate and thereon written was at the time of the making such affidavit and certificate a justice of the Peace for said county dwelling in said county and sworn and duly authorized to act as such. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said justice and truly believe the signatures to said affidavit and certificate are genuine
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 20 th day of May 1844
Peter Denoy att
Caleb Sturtevant Deposition

State of New York } Herkimer County }
But Remember that before me Billie Avery a justice of the peace in and for the said County personally appeared Silas Thompson of the town of Salisbury in said County and made oath in due form of law that he is seventy one years of age was born in Chesterfield County of Cheshire in the State of New Hampshire and resided in that town till he was thirty years of age (1793) when he removed to the aforesaid County of Herkimer that he the deponent was well acquainted and has resided in said County of Herkimer from that time to the present that this deponent was well acquainted with Eleazer Streater and Cynthia Towner while this deponent lived in New Hampshire the said Eleazer Streater and Cynthia Towner lived in same town with this deponent and when this deponent moved to the said County of Herkimer he found the said Eleazer Streater and Cynthia Towner living in said County of Herkimer at Little Falls were keeping a boarding house at Little Falls this deponent boarded with them the said Eleazer Streater and Cynthia Towner were reported to be man and wife lived together as such while they lived in this County (Herkimer) which this deponent believes to be five years or more they had three children while living in said County of Herkimer they removed from this County to New Hampshire as this deponent believes & understands — this deponent further says that he has never read it questioned but what they were legally married and from the acquaintance this deponent has had with them before and while they lived together he had no doubt but what they were legally married Subscribed and Sworn before me the 18th Silas Thompson

day of May 1844 and I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Silas Thompson and know him to be a person of good moral character and of undoubted truth and veracity
William Avery & Justice of the Peace
I Certify that William Avery said was a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Warren in duly elected & qualified on the day of the date of the above draft & certificate and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting & hereby believe that his name above subscribed is his genuine signature.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & affixed the seal of the said County of Warren May 20. 1844.
Erwin A. Munnson Clerk of Warren County N.Y.

Deposition of N. Butterworth Relative to the service of Gleazer Streater —

Isaac Butterworth of Wrentham in the county & state of Massachusetts of Norfolk now about eighty two years of age do testify and say, I knew Eleazer Strater from a child, he was born in Cumberland in the state of Rhode Island, and lived there till he enlisted, In June I think, (it might have been in May) 1775 Strater enlisted in Capt David Dexter's Company of Cum- berland for eight months, he was Col Jackson's waiter, and enlisted for during the war as I understood. I saw him at the battle in Rhode Island Col Jackson's regiment was there. Eleazer Strater belonged to Col Jackson's regiment. Strater was quite a barber, Strater told me he dressed Andrew's hair and shaved him the night before he was executed, and Andrew gave him a guinea for it. I know when he left I remember it well, he had a big cockade on. He was a small man, but a smart one; he had a good faculty with a horse and was Col Jackson's ostler & waiter, Strater always lived near me while he lived in Cumberland. When the war was ended Eleazer came back to Cumberland and he and others who had been with him, since that Eleazer had served through the war, and I believe he did serve.
Isaac Butterworth
Norfolk ss. Wrentham September twenty seventh. 1843 Then personally appeared the above named Isaac Butterworth and made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed - and I certify that I am acquainted with said Butterworth and that he is worthy of belief.
Samuel Warner J.P. Justice of the peace.

Cynthia 11/12 Thaxter
N.Y. Oct 7 th July '38
M 91 D.01
Sechs Critique Col Jackson 3 years

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency George Briggs Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth
Geo. N. Briggs
To all whom it may concern:
Know Ye, That Samuel Warner is now a Justice of the Peace, that he was appointed on the eighteenth of February eighteen hundred and forty three, for the term of seven years, for the County of Norfolk.
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commission- ed, and that to his — Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this twenty fourth day of May, A. D. 1844, and in the sixty eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor.

9017
New York
Cynthia Street, widow of Eleazer Street, who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 9 Decem. 1801 of Onondaga Co in the State of N.Y. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain of the regt commanded by Jackson in the N.Y. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of Jany 45 and sent to Genl. Carell Providence R.I.
Total amount, $400.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by J. Mann Clerk, Book Vol. Page
181

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19412
Cynthia Street
wid. of
Eleazar Street
Brn. Rev. Mr.
Act: Mar. 30 1/45
Index:—Vol. M , Page 247
[Arrangement of 1870.]

11,012 Cynthia Steeter N.Y. Suzanne Sub 6 Dan / Cornell Sept 24 1844
Act July 7 12 th 38

11012
Cynthia Sheehan Mom of Eleazar NY
Act July 1838
Adm: 2 years /mate $80 - for Am
Adm: March 1843 $80 for Am N o . 6912
B. Bowde Pinnacle N.S.

Providence May 27 1844
Sir
I herewith enclose the application of Cynthia Hunter widow of Thayer Hunter a soldier of the Revolution in Col Jackson's Regiment, under the act of Congress of July 7 1838, Mr Hunter was a native of this State & his first 8 months, was in Rhode Island Troops, He afterwards served 3 years in Col Jackson's Regiment a certificate of which is herewith enclosed, There is no record of her marriage but ample evidence of the fact by parole testimony is herewith enclosed
I am respectfully, Your obed servt Benj. F. Sleeper
J. L. Edwards Esq

Providence Dec 23 d 1844
Sir
In answer to your letter of Sept 24 th respecting the pension of Cynthia Sturtevant widow of Elazer Sturtevant, I herewith enclose the certificate of the town Clerk of Salubury Herkimer Co. where they lived when they were married. It will be seen that there is no record of their marriage nor is it possible to obtain any documentary evidence whatever. But I trust that the evidence of Ruben Sturtevant Silas Thompson & Caleb Sweet, three credible & respectable witnesses will satisfy the Department that they were married at the time stated in her declaration. It appears to me that the depositions of these witnesses prove the fact beyond all doubt. Believing & expecting the evidence will now be satisfactory, I have to request that a certificate may be granted.
I am respectfully Your Gt. S t Servt Benja Coulee
J. L. Edwards Esq

12 1/2
A. E. G.
Watertown Jeff Co. N.Y.
single

State of New York Herkimer County ss
I George R. Byington of the town of Salisbury County and State aforesaid being duly sworn according to law depose and say that I am the Town Clerk of the aforesaid town of Salisbury and have the custody of the books and records of the said town; and that I have examined the records of said town and that they do not contain the record of the marriage of Eleazar Streeter and Cynthia Town, nor is there any records of marriages between the years 1780 and 1800.
Subscribed & sworn before me this 18th day of November 1844
G. Byington Town Clerk
Billings Avery Jr. Justice of the Peace
State of New York Herkimer County ss
I certify that Billings Avery Jr. Esq. before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, duly elected and qualified. And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that his name above subscribed to be in his own hand writing. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County Dec. 13th 1844.
Erwin A. Munnison Clerk of said County