Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 15479, for Ephraim Jewel, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Jewel, Ephraim
S 15479
CONTENTS
carded

Dept. Tra. Cir. August 15 th 1835 See let to Mr. Burton 15 Aug. 1835.
To Ohio Pittsburgh from 4 th Sept 1834 - Sept 15 th 1835
due to Pension Ag 17. Apr 38 " " at the Treasury under do " to 1838 fr. 4 th Sept 1836 to Sept 1837 - Agent notified May 1838.
No 18270 Vermont.
Ephraim Jewell
of Franklin Co. in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Morse of the Troops comman- by Genl. Gates in the Mass. Troops time for 6 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annum commences on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of Nov. 1833 and sent to Mr. Bridges St. Albans Vt.
  Arrears to the 4 th of Sept. 1833  50.00    Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th March 1834  10.00     $60.00  
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk Book E Vol. 3 Page 71

Ephraim Scoll
Vol. to Q. D. FREE
Brooklyn, O. SEPT 3
Sept 10.
Mr. D. D. D.
Mr. J. L. Edwards — Commissioner of Pension Washington D. C. —

State of Ohio Cuyahoga County ss } On this 29 th day of August 1835 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Cuyahoga personally appeared Ephraim Jewell who on Oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Mose & Cronan In the Regiment commanded by Colonel Captain Howe in the Service of the United States, that his Name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Vermont from which he has lately removed, that he now resides in the State of Ohio where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in future, The following are his reasons for removing from Vermont to Ohio - To be with his Children who reside in Ohio - Sworn and subscribed Ephraim Jewell to before me 29 th August 1835. Wm Brewton Justice Peace
I Wm Supt - I solemnly swear that Ephraim Jewell who has subscribed and made Oath to the above affidavit is the same person described therein Sworn & subscribed to Wm, Supt before me 29 th August 1835 - Wm Brewton Justice Peace
I Certify that Wm Supt - is a person of truth & veracity Wm Brewton Justice Peace State of Ohio Cuyahoga County ss } I Certify that Wm Brewton who administered the above Oath is a duly qualified Justice of the Peace and the signatures purporting to be his are genuine

The Seal of this ... ... Clerk of the Court of Com. That in and for said County, do hereby certify that William ... is a duly qualified ... in and for said County, and the signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court the ... day of ... A.D. 18...
Clerk
[Handwritten initials or mark]

Dear Sir You will receive the within Application for Transfer which I believe is according to the Constitution Rev. Yours
Respectfully Wm Brewster
Brooklyn Ohio Sept 2 1835

Admiral Mo Pinta $20.00
Admiral , P. Albus N. M.

Ephraim Jewell's 27.9.66 Declaration
Admit
8/10 Pr $20. or
Profess Wm. Briggs Esqr. St. Albans
Mr

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 27th, 1832.
STATE OF VERMONT, } ON this 31 st day of May 1833, personally appeared in open FRANKLIN COUNTY, ss. } Court, before the Court of Probate, now sitting, Ephraim Jewell a resident of St Albans in the county of Franklin, and State of Vermont, age 73 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 at Marlborough State of Massachusetts in the month of August 1777, he volunteered, and marched from Marlboro' with the whole company to which he belonged under the command of Captain William Mose Lieut Barber & Hopgood, to Bennington Vt; arrived there the 2 d or 3 rd day after the engagement at that place; from thence to the neighborhood of Saratoga where they joined Gen Gates's Army and remained there till after the surrender of Gen Burgoyne.
After the capitulation, a part of the British & Hessian troops cross the Hudson (he thinks) at Still-Kill and were conducted, under the charge of the troops from Massachusetts to Old Springfield Mass where they joined the remainder of Burgoyne's Army, which had taken a different route.
From Springfield to Prospect Hill in the town of Charlestown near Boston Mass. where the prisoners were quartered. Soon after the troops arrived at Charlestown also the applicant and his fellow soldiers were dismissed the last of November 1777, having served from the 9 th or 10 th of August to the very last of November as being full three months.

That again at Marlborough afo d on or about the 15 th day of August in the year 1778, (according to his best recollection) he enlisted for three months under Capt Cranston of Marlboro gh Sp d Lieut. Walker, bee of Stow Mss, (does not recollect the 2 d Lieut. name) marched from Marlboro to Worcester, from thence he was ordered to Clovertown N.Y. but before the troops arrived at Clovertown they rec d counter orders, and was ordered to the Sprouts of the Mohawk River, and stationed at a place call d New City untill the last of November, having serv d the time for which he enlisted, and was then dismissed.
Interrogatories
The applicant states that he was born in the town of Stow State of Mss in the year 1760. Has no record of his age, but believes he was recorded in said town of Stow. That at the commencement of the war he resided in Marlborough Mss and continued to reside there till the year 1802, when he removed from thence to St. Albans, Franklin County Vermont where he now resides. That he was called into service as above stated, first as a volunteer and 2 d by enlisting for three months as above stated. Does not recollect the names of any of the officers

who were with the troops with which he served except those named in his declaration, in connection with the general circumstances of his two campaigns.
Did not receive any discharge at the close of either of his terms of service above stated. He is personally acquainted with the following named gentlemen, to whom he is known residing in St. Albans viz Hon Benjamin Swift M.C. John Smith Esqr. S. W. Kingman Hon. Asa Plois, Hon. Bates Turner Horace James, late Post Master, Julius Mayt Esqr. Hon Stephen J. Brown, Josiah Newton, Ralph Levell Esqr., John Gates Jr Samuel H. Barlow Post Master Luther B. Hunt Esqr & Dea Paul Brigham.
He knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his services, and has no documentary evidence.
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.
Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Ephraim Sewel
We Paul Brigham and William H. Williams residing in St. Albans hereby certify that we

are well acquainted with Ephraim Sewel, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy three years of age; that he is reported & 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 } Paul Brigham the day and year aforesaid } William H. Wilkins
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 that court further certifies that it appears to the court that Mr. H. Wilkins who has signed the preceding certificate is a Justice of the Peace, and that Paul Brigham who has signed the same, is a Deacon of the Congregational Church, both of the above named are residents of St. Albans and respectable citizens and that their statement is entitled to credit.
William Brown Judge

I Saron S. Beeman Clerk of the court of Probate, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matters of the application of Ephraim Sewell for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 29 day of June A D 1833.
Saron S. Beeman Clerk

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
April 29, 1926
Miss A. L. Jewell 1506 N. Harding Ave. Chicago, Ill.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 15479, it appears that EPHRAIM JEWEL was born in 1760 in Stow, Massachusetts.
While a resident of Marlborough, Mass. he enlisted August 9 or 10, 1777, as private in Captain William Morse's Massachusetts Company and served until late in November, 1777. He enlisted August 15, 1779, and served three months as private in Captain Cranston's Massachusetts Company.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 31, 1833, at which time he was living at St. Albans, Franklin County, Vermont.
He was living in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1835, and stated that he had moved there to be with his children but did not give their names.
There is no further data on file relative to his family.
The Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Silas Jewell and a John Jewell who was born in 1726.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner

Brooklyn Ct Aug 6
Mr. J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
Chic Aug 15 Transfer

War Department Revolutionary Claims,
I Certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7 th June 1832 Ephraim Jewell of the State of Vermont who was a private in the Revolutionary War is Entitled to Receive Twenty dollars per Annum during his Natural life Commencing on the 4 th March 1833 and payable Semiannually on the 4 th of March and 4 th of September in Every year. Given at the War Office of the United States this 19 th day of Nov. 1833 - Lewis Cass.
Examined and Counterigned
Secretary of War
J. L. Edwards.
Commission of Pensions -
Mr J. L. Edwards.
Sir having removed from the State of Vermont and now reside in the State of Ohio I have to transfer me to the Ohio Agency to draw Money on My Certificate of which the above is a Copy. I have drawn at the Vermont Agent up to September 4 th 1834 please Return that I may draw on the 4 th Sept Next & Obey
Your Humble Servt
Brooklyn August 6 th 1835.
Ephraim Jewell
State of Ohio -
Cuyahoga County } Brooklyn August 6 th 1835 Personally appeared before me Wm Burrows A Justice of the Peace Ephraim Jewell who has now in his possession a Certificate of which the above is a Copy. and did subscribe to the above.
I further Certify that I have been -

Personally acquainted with the said Ephraim Jewell for more than twenty years and know him to be the identical person and no other.
Given Under my hand and seal this 6 th day of August 1835 at Brooklyn Township Cuyahoga County State of Ohio. —
Wm Barton Justis Pease L.S.
N.B. Sent to Brooklyn Office Cleveland Ohio. to the care of Mr Barton Esq. —

E. J. English Aug 20 - 1835
Ephraim Jewell
Miss Deborah Weston Boston
Aug 27

Bank of Burlington Aug 20 1836
H. Edwards Esq.
Com te of Pensions
Sir Ephraim Grewell
Private insuring on the life of the Vermont agency at the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum was paid on the 9 th Sept 1834 to the 4 th Sept 1834, which is the last payment as appears by our books
Very Respectfully Yours On Service
J. L. Grewell Pres.

Memphis, Tenn. Feb. 18. 1888. Pittsburgh, April 11 th 1888.
I have the honor to transmit Dunbar in the case of Ephraim Powell at the Rate of 20 Dals. The money who was lost paid up to the 11 th Sept. 1886.
Yours very respectfully, John D. Lockhart John D. Lockhart John D. Lockhart
John D. Lockhart John D. Lockhart John D. Lockhart

Treasury Department,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
May 8 - 1838.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States;" Ephraim Levell a Pensioner on the Roll of the Pittsburgh, Penn Agency, at the rate of twenty Dollars and  Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept r 1836 to the 4 th of September, 1837
Respectfully, yours,
Abner K. Parris Comptroller
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

Name Ephraim Seuel Date July 19 1921 No. 815479 Mask Troops War Res
Photographic copies wanted of 1 pieces, consisting of 1 pages.
Remarks:
W Wilson Exr. [Signature] Chief Record Div.
Serial No. Serial no 7  clerk's stamp  counted by photo operator Clerk.

✓ CW Cash 40¢ from Mrs. Edwin Smith of Fair Acres, Rossville, Ill. for certified copy of one page from Rev. War claim of Ephraim Jewel, Mass. Troops, S. 15-479,
Procter Law
No receipt desired
7/14/21
(payment made by Mrs. Draper to Mrs. Smith)

BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
JUL 14 1921.
19 _
Chief of Pen. War Section Sir:
I have this day received from Mrs. Edwin Smith draft Not cash for $ 40/00 requesting post-office addresses as per letter herewith.
1921 July 23 Law Div not of mailing of copy and
Very respectfully
O. Randall Chief of Division.

MISS A. L. JEWELL 1506 N. HARDING AVENUE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
March 14, 1926.
Pension Dept. Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly let me know whether you have record of pension paid for service in the Revolutionary War of my ancestors Probably of Mass. - moved to Vermont before 1826 John Jewell born 1726 Silas,, died 1802 or 3 Ephriam Jewell born 1760 Kirtland, O. died 1845 Yours truly (Miss A. L.) Abbie L. Jewell.

15479 ✓ INVALID.
July 23, 1921. Photo copy of one page mailed to Mrs. Ephraim Smith 1926 Apr. 29 hist. to Miss P. L. Jewel M.D.
File No. 15.479 Ephraim Jewel Pre Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index: Vol. / , Page 193
[Arrangement of 1870.]