Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9,914, for Ebenezer Mann, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Mann, Ebenezer Mary
N. 9,914
CONTENTS

1708
Massachusetts
Ebenezer Spauld 1 st of Hubbardston the State of Mass who was a Sgt in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded by Col Doolittle in the Spauld line for 8 Mos Private } 35-21 Regt }
Inscribed on the Roll of Spauld at the rate of 32 Dollars 29 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th day of Nov 1832 and due to Nelson Houlston now present Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 $ 48.73 Pension allowance ending 4 th Mar 33 16.24 $64.97
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. G. Blair Clerk Book D. Vol. 2 nd Page 67.

Massachusetts
Mary Mann,
widow of Ebenezer Mann,
who was a private Sergeant,
in the Massachusetts line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 32 Dollars 32
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1844. Sett.
July, 1844.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13. day of March, 1846 and sent to Giles H. Whitney,
Westminster,
Massachusetts.
[Act of JUNE 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book D.
Vol. 1 - Page 63.

DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this Twenty First day of August in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty Three personally appeared in open Court, before Nathaniel Paine Judge of Probate in the County of Worcester now sitting Ebenezer Hemen a resident of Heubardston in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged Eighty One 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 7th 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That in the Winter of eighteen hundred and twenty five, he belonged to a Company of Minutemen under Capt William H. Hemen of said Heubardston. That on the nineteenth of April then next following he came to said Heubardston at the battle of Concord and Lexington, and on that day, he with the Company to which he belonged collected at said Heubardston and marched thro' Heubardston, Holiston, Sherborn, and Cambridge where said Company arrived on the twenty first day of said April and in Capt Hemen's Company, Lieut Adm. Hemen and Enrs. William Hemen, all of Heubardston. After having arrived at Cambridge in about four nights he enlisted under Lieut Adm. Hemen aforesaid, who was made a Captain, for the term of eight months. Lieut Hemen and Enrs. Maynard then were officers of the Company, and Maynard afterwards left the Company and Enrs. Bent of Heubardston filled his place, and under their officership he to the end of his service was dismissed by Capt Hemen that his Company belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col. D. Little of Newton, Lieut Col. Holden of Newton, and Major Hemen of Newton. After the battle of Bunker Hill he with his Company and Regiment were stationed at Winter Hill, his Regiment being in the Brigade commanded by Brig Gen. Sullivan. Col. Rev. Col. Hemen and Col. Little commanded the Regiments at that time.
That in the Month of July 1777 he enlisted under the service of the United States as a Corporal and marched from said Heubardston with fifteen other Heubardston men to Cambridge, and from Cambridge to Boston, and from Boston to New Bedford, and from New Bedford to Barnstable, and from Barnstable to Sandwich, and from Sandwich to Plymouth, and from Plymouth to Kingston, and from Kingston to Scituate, and from Scituate to Cohasset, and from Cohasset to Hingham, and from Hingham to Hull, and from Hull to Duxbury, and from Duxbury to Marshfield, and from Marshfield to Scituate, and from Scituate to Cohasset, and from Cohasset to Kingston, and from Kingston to Sandwich, and from Sandwich to Barnstable, and from Barnstable to New Bedford, and from New Bedford to Boston, and from Boston to Cambridge, and from Cambridge to Heubardston. He returned home after having been dismissed the latter part of August 1777. That he was in the service at that time five weeks, or more as near as he can remember. The Reg't to which he belonged was commanded by Col. John Cushing of Shrewsbury. Lieut Col. Hemen of Heubardston believed that the Reg't of which he was a Corporal was the same as the one commanded by Col. Cushing at that time.
That he was born at Heubardston in the County of Franklin on the 14th day of Oct. 1750. That he has no record of his age and that the date of his birth which he supposes is the date of his birth in said Heubardston when called into service, both times aforesaid. Also since the Revolutionary War, he has lived, and now lives, there.
That the Volunteers into the service aforesaid, both times. That at Cambridge he knew Gen. Washington, Gen. Lee, Gen. Putnam, Gen. Greene, and others in addition to the officers aforesaid.
That he has no evidence of having received any discharge from his services aforesaid.
That he did not receive a warrant or Commission of a Captain or Sargent in said Company, but he acted as such.
That Rev. Samuel Gay, Rev. Paine, and John Church Esq. of Heubardston are all acquainted with him, and can testify to his character for veracity, and their belief as to his service as a Soldier and to a commission officer of the Revolution.
hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Me Nathaniel Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
Ebenezer Hemen

We Nathl Upham a Clergyman residing in the Town of Hubbardston and hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Mann who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Eighty one years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Nathl Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
Nathl Upham
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 mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Samuel Gay who signed the preceding certificate  the affidavit annexed , is a clergyman, resident in the Town of Hubbardston and that Nathl Paine who has also signed the same is a resident in the Town of Hubbardston and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathl Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
Theophilus Wheeler Register , Clerk of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Mann for a pension. That Samuel Gay before whom the annexed affidavit was made is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that the same was taken before him this 21 st day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Theophilus Wheeler Register of Probate Court for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts
Ebenezer Mann's Declaration for a Pension
111111

I, Levi Pierce of the Abandton in the County of Worcester, Esquire do testify and say, that I am well acquainted with Ebenezer Mann of said Hubbardston, and that I believe him to be eighty one years of age, that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides in said Hubbardston, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and a noncommissioned officer therein, and that I concur in that opinion. Also that his character for veracity is good.
Levi Pierce
I, Samuel Gay of Hubbardston aforesaid, Esquire do testify and say, that I am well acquainted with Capt Ebenezer Mann of said Hubbardston, that I believe him to be of the age of eighty one years, that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and a noncommissioned officer therein, and that his character for veracity is good, and that I concur in that opinion.
Samuel Gay
I, John Church of Hubbardston in the County of Worcester, Esquire, do testify and say, that I am well acquainted with Ebenezer Mann of said Hubbardston, that I believe him to be of the age of eighty one years, that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that I concur in that opinion.
John Church
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester ss. On the fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, the aforesaid Depositions, ever several examined, captioned, and sworn agreeable to law, to the Deposition lay each of them subscribed; taken at the request of Ebenezer Mann of said Hubbardston, and to be used in an application of said Mann for a Pension under the Act of Congress of the United States passed June 7, 1832, before the Hon. Nathl Paine Esq. Judge of the Court of Probate for said County at a Probate Court to be held at Barre in said County on the third Tuesday of August current, or in any other Court of record within and for said County. The inconvenience and expense of said Depositions attending said Probate Court or any Court of record in said County are the cause of taking the above dispositions.
I, Samuel Green, Justice of the Peace.
I certify that I am acquainted with the Rev Sam Gay Levi Pierce and John Church subscribers to the above Depositions, and that they are entitled to full credit. Nathl Paine Judge of Probate In the County of Worcester
I further certify that the above Depositions are respectable persons and entitled to credit. Samuel Green, Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester. I Abijah Bigelow, Clerk of the Judicial Courts, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that Samuel Swan Esquire, before whom the within Affidavit were made and sworn to is a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Worcester, and that his signature thereto appears to me to be in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the County Seal this sixteenth day of August A.D. 1832.
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk.
Ms. A. 9. 2. 32
Henry Mann Hubbardston.

11937 Henry Henry Morrow of Ebenezer P.O. May 26, 1845.
act of July 1838 Pg 75. C 144 Rejected must. and 30 th July 1844

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Worcester, do certify, that Benjamin F. Thomas is the Judge of said Court, duly commissioned and qualified - and that his signatures on the papers hereto annexed are genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, at Worcester, this twenty first day of May, one thousand, eight hundred and forty-five.
Chas. G. Prentiss, Register.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester County ss:
On this Twenty first day of May in the year Eighteen Hundred Forty four personally appeared before me Benjamin F. Thomas Judge of Probate for said County of Worcester. Mary Mann of Westminster in said County aged eighty eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 and the Act passed March 3 rd 1843; and June 19 th 1844 in addition thereto.
That she is the widow of Benjamin Mann, deceased, who for the last six years of his life resided in said West- minster and before that time in Hubbardston in the same County and who was a private and orderly sergeant in the Army of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 at the rate of thirty two dollars and forty nine cents as by his original certificate returned to the Department will fully appear.

The said Ebenezer Mann went into the service from the Town of Hattiesburg. He went out first as your petitioner. Wherein in 1775 and was in the service eight months, going first to Cambridge & Boston. He went out again in 1777 and was absent for five weeks. For a more particular specification of his services the refer. This declaration the papers accompanying the same now on file in the Pension Office.
She further declares that she was married to said Mann on the twentieth day of November eight hundred and seventy seven, that her husband the aforesaid Ebenezer Mann died on the thirtieth day of July, Eighteen Hundred and forty four, that she has not since been married but still remains his widow, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, that the marriage took place prior to the first day of January Eighteen Hundred and thirty seven, at the time above stated. Mary Mann.
Her mark Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written. Before me J. M. McMyer Judge of Probate.

Worcester May 21 st A.D. 1845
I certify
that the said Mary Manns by reason of bodily infirmity was unable to appear in open Court.
J. H. Thomas Judge of Probate.
Worcester May 21 st 1845
I Levi Allen of Westminster in said county of Worcester of lawful age being first duly sworn on oath depose & say that Ebenezer Mann late a pensioner of the United States during the last six years of his life resided with me in Westminster and died at my house on the 20 th day of July eighteen hundred and forty four, leaving a widow Mary Mann who during the same time resided in my family.
Levi Allen
On this twenty first day of May A.D. 1845 subscribed & sworn to before me. and I certify that the deponent is a man entitled to full credit.
J. H. Thomas Judge of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester County, ss.
I, William Jennison, Assistant Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, do hereby certify, That Samuel Swan, Esquire, — isa — Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature to the certificate, on the deposition of William Bennett Jr. hereunto annexed, is genuine.
GIVEN under my hand, and the Seal of said County, this sixth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty- four.
William Jennison, Assistant Clerk as aforesaid.

Town Clerk's Office Hubbardston, County of Worcester, State of Massachusetts October 30. 1844
"The Reverend Nehemiah Parker Pastor of the Church in Hubbardston has made return to me of the following marriage solemnized by him, viz.,
November twentieth one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, "were Married Ebenezer Mann & Mary Bullard,
Attest Elisha Woodward Town Clerk,"
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures, as follows; to wit: "Nov r 20. 1777."
Attest W m Bennett, Town Clerk
I, W m Bennett, above named depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk, in the Town, County and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town, with the exception above named, as certified by me,
W m Bennett Jr. Clerk of the Town of Hubbardston
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester ss. October 30. 1844. Then the abovenamed William Bennett Jr. personally appeared and made oath, that the above deposition by him subscribed is true, and I further certify that his testimony is entitled to full credit. Samuel Swan, Justice of the Peace.

V No 11937 Mary Mann Map Rejected Sent to Mr. G. Priest July 11 '45.
ackd July 1838

Rev'd
WIDOW, &c.
Aug. 21, 1909. Hist. to Hon. Morris Brown. Letters with S.F. 19,729 Ebenezer Mamm. Rev'd
File No. 9914
Mary Mamm widow of Ebenezer Mamm Sergt. Mass. R.A.
Act: June 13 th 44
Index:—Vol. M , Page 6
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sept 11 45
Westminster Mass 10 Sept 6
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Andon Buculau - Sept 11. 1845
May Mann up

Westminster Mass. Sept. 6th. 45 To the Commissioner of Pensions Dear Sir -
You will find below an Extract from your a letter addressed by you in the month of July last to Charles G. Prentiss Esq. of Worcester.
The Claim of Mary Mann under the Acts of 7th July 1838 and 3 d March 1843 is barred by the Act of 30th April 1844, her Husband, Ebenezer Mann having received a Pension during the time to which both of these acts were limited.
If her Application be urged under the Act of 17th of June 1844, her Hus- band, Ebenezer Mann having received a Pension Service must be established by the Certificate of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts.
The Inquiry, that I would make, is this, whether the Certificate, that shall be obtained from the Clerk's Office must be embodied in a new Declaration or will it suffice to send on the Certificate - without more

By answering this, you will confer a favor on me - Please address Giles H. Whitney, Attorney at Law Westminster. Mass
Yrs. &c Giles H. Whitney Atty at Law

No 11937 Mary Mann widow of Ebenezer Mann
act 7 July 1838
Rejected husband and 20 July 1844
adm o act 17 June 1844
8 mo per $26.66 24 days, due 5.66 $32.32 per
from 20 July 1844
Giles & Whitney Westminster Mass

Westminster Mass. Dec. 27th 1845
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Enclosed you will find the Certificate of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts of the Service of Ebenezer Mann of Hubbardston. Mass, in accordance with the advice contained in your Letter to Charles G. Phillips. Reg. of Probate for Worcester County in relation to the Application of Mary Mann of Westminster Mass. which was, as follows, "The claim of Mary Mann under the Acts of 7th July 1838 and 3 March 1843 is barred the Act of 30th April 1844. her Husband Ebenezer Mann having received a pension during the time to both which, both of these acts were limited.
If her Application be urged under the Act of 17th June 1844. her Husband's Service must be established by the Certificate of the Secy of State of Massachusetts. If you grant a Pension to Mrs. Mann please enclose the Certificate to my Address. Westminster Worcester County Mass.
Yrs. & Giles H. Whitney Atty At Law

Westminster Mus Dec 27
20
Dec 31. 1845
Chloe W. W. Mary W. W.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
Nov. 18. 1843.
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 Ebenezer Mann of Hubbardston, is borne upon a List of men in Capt Adam Wheeler's company, in Col Ephraim Doolittle's regt, where received advance pay, dated Charlestown Camp, July 13, 1775. — Is apriorat upon a Return of said company & regt, dated October 8, 1775. — No other roll of said Capt Wheeler's company for the year 1775 in this office. Upon a Pay Roll of Capt John Boynton's company, in Col Nathan Spachawke's regt, as a sergeant, from July 27 to August 23, 1778, with 6 days allowed to return home, 234 days. — The above is all the evidence of service, which can be identified with the individual described in the annexed application.

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 within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Perry.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES, MADE BY THE Widow OF THE PARTY WHO RENDERED THE SERVICE.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of my Husband Ebenezer Mann in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of Methuen in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts . He enlisted from the Town of Holbrook in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts in the year 1775 as a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Miller in Col. Dyer's Little's Regiment and he served as follows, viz:—
eight months in the year 1775: in the company aforesaid and thirty five days in 1777. As a Sergeant under Captain Boynton
I am now Eighty eight years old, and my memory does not enable me to state my  his services more fully than above stated.
WITNESS my hand, at Methuen this tenth day of October A. D. 184 5 .
Mark Signed by said Mary Mann by making in my presence, Giles H. Whitney JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Mary  her  X  mark  Mann