Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30146, for Ebenezer Tappan, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
★ Tappan, Ebenezer
S. 30146
CONTENTS

73 Essex
14.176 Massachusetts
Abenezer Tappan
Reside in the State of Mass who was a Private  Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Emerson of the regt commanded by Col Tupper in the Mass time for 16 (May 3 Days)
Courts
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 80 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of Apr 1833 and Sara Beryl Merrill Salem Mass
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $161.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 21 Feb 40.25 $201.25
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H McBlain Clerk, Book 2. Vol. 2 Page 83.

30 1846 Rev  INVALID.
File No. 30/46
Ebenezer Lappan Sergt Rev War
Act: June 7 th 39 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 4/3
[Arrangement of 1870.]

3192 Ebenezer Tappan
me
M.C.E
The period of time not otherwise stated
Sept 16 Mo 3 days
$80.00.
Pay Merrill
Aspen Hill Salem Mass

3192  BRIEF in the case of Ebenezer Tappan  Manchester Essex in the State of Mass (Act 7 June, 1839.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a County Probate  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? —  3. How old is he? 71  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In Summer of 1782 to June 1784 2 14 3 Sergeant  Capt Emerson. Col Tappan  Continental Estab - Transf.  to 5 Regt Col Newhall - &  towards close of War, transferred to  Capt Denson, Maj Knepp in the  American Regt.   
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none mentioned  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Laco  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? a Discharge  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  No clergyman's Certificate 
 Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
W. C. Easton Examining Clerk.

Ebenezer Sergeant Tappan N. 3192 3192
Please address reply to Benj. Merrill Salem

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS: COUNTY OF ESSEX, ss.
On this Sixteenth day of August A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the HONORABLE DANIEL APPLETON WHITE, Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, now sitting, Ebenezer Tappan , a resident of Manchester in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, aged 71 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:
That he enlisted and was appointed as a Sergeant early in the summer of 1782 in Capt Emerson's Company in Col Tupper's (10 th ) Regiment in Massachusetts line on the Continental Establishment and was transferred into the 5 th Regiment in same line under Col Newhall, his Captain's name then he has forgotten and toward the close of the Revolutionary War he was transferred into Capt Branson's Company under Maj. Knapp in the American Regiment, so called, who served longest: and was discharged June, 30, 1784: — he served Two Years under said enlistment: ~
He was born in 1761 in Manchester — in 1775 moved to Saco lived there till 1782 & then to Portland & returned to Manchester in 1805: his birth is recorded in the Town books;

Ebenezer Tappan Sergeant in the American Regiment, being enlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York, the Twenty Day of June
178 6 Ebenezer Tappan
By the General's Command,
Ebenezer Tappan
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment.
Charles Selden Assistant
He 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.
Ebenezer Tappan
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
D. H. White
JUDGE OF PROBATE.
We, D. H. White a clergyman, residing in the aforesaid, and Esquire , a magistrate, residing in the aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be the 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.
Subscribed and sworn to before

And the said Court hereby declares its opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman resident in and that the said who has also signed the same is a Magistrate resident at and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
D. H. White
Judge Probate
I, NATHANIEL LORD Junior, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application
Ebenezer Tappan for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourteenth day of August A. D. 1832.
Nathl. Lord Jr.
Signed and sealed on this eighth day of January, A.D. 1833.
Nathl. Lord Jr.

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Essex. Ebenezer Tappan aforesaid 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 two years  eleven months as a Sergeant in 1782-3 & 4. And that at the time as a private that he recollects he was paid for two years service by the Class who hired him to enter the service: he was one of the last recruits that was raised, and he thinks none were raised after June or July 1782: his own length of service may have lacked a few weeks of two years, but he cannot say how the fact was.
Ebenezer Tappan
Essex: Novr 28 th 1832
Subscribed & sworn to before Mr. Merrill Dist. Clerk "one year & eleven months" first interlined by Ebenezer J. Pease
We Rev. Samuel M. Emerson a Clergyman residing in Manchester aforesaid and Col. David Colby, a Magistrate residing in said Manchester do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Tappan who has subscribed & sworn to said Declaration: that we believe him to be 71 years of age and 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.
Sam t M. Emerson
David Colby
Essex: December 6 th 1832
Subscribed & sworn to before
Delucena L. Bingham
Just. Pease
The said Samuel M. Emerson and David Colby are credible persons and their statement is worthy of credit. And said Delucena L. Bingham is a justice of the peace and the above is his genuine signature; and said Benjamin Merrill is also a justice of the peace and his signatures above are genuine.
J. H. White Judge of Probate