Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15235, for Ebenezer Leach Sweetland, Connecticut

SERVICE
learn.
Sweetland, Cobenezer Leach or Sweetland.
NUMBER
D. 15235
CONTENTS

9648
Vermont
Ebenezer L. Nuttance
of Tolland in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Putnam of the First Regiment by Col. Hovey in the Vermont Militia for one year & 6 months
Date of death not in AR
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 60 Dollars ————— Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of June 1832 and Int. of Hindu Hebron Conn
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $ 120.00 Sem-ant. allowance ending 4/15/33 30.00 $150.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. B. Whiting Clerk Book E Vol. 3 Page 40

State of Connecticut, TOLLAND COUNTY, ss. HEBRON PROBATE DISTRICT,
On this 19 th day of December A. D. 188 2 , personally appeared in open court before Abner Hendee, Esq. Judge of the Court of Probate, for the District of Hebron, now sitting, Ebenezer L. Sweetland a resident of Coventry, in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut, aged 79 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.
In May 1775 he entered into a company of State Troops commanded by Israel Putnam of Pomfret in a Regt commanded by Gen Israel Putnam for seven months & was marched from Pomfret to Cambridge near Boston & joined the Army under Gen Washington & was employed in various duties until the month of December following when we were discharged having served a few days over seven months our Company then at the request of Gen Washington Volunteered for one month longer & served until about the 20 th of Jan y 1776 when we were discharged making in all eight months service as a Private
In August 1776 I was drafted to do a tour of duty in a company of Militia commanded by Capt Ebenezer Hutchinson in the 12 th Regt of Connecticut Militia under the command of Col Obadiah Hosford we marched from Hebron (Gilead Society) through New Haven to New Rochelle in New York & were employed in that vicinity until the defeat of December when we were discharged In this service my name is returned to the Paytable office as Ebenezer Sweetland without the L being inserted I served this tour three months as a Private

In August 1777 he enlisted into a company of State Troops for three months commanded by Capt John Skinner & about the last of August marched from Hartford through Albany & joined our Regt at Saratoga under the command of Col Stark  Stark the whole Army was under the command of Gen Gates & was employed in various duties on the 19th day of Sept was stationed on Bemis Heights & fought the enemy for two hours saw many killed & wounded was present on the 16th day of October 1777 when General Burgoyne's Army marched out & surrendered their arms He says he was discharged in November having served three months as a private.
In July 1778 he enlisted for two months in a company commanded by Capt Jonathan Rudd of Windham & marched through Canterbury & Providence to Newport & joined our Regt commanded by Col Chapman was employed in various duties in General Sullivan's Army & in the Battle of the 29th August was employed on board of Boats removing stores from the Island to Liverton & bringing on ammunition & when the Army retreated from the Island we marched to Providence where we were discharged when our two months had expired was discharged in the month of September he served two months as a private.
In 1779 in the month of May he was drafted for a term of two months in a company commanded by Capt. Edgerton & was marched through Norwich to New London & joined our Regt under the command of Col Abbott & was employed in repairing

the Fort and fortifying the heights around New Haven & watching the British shipping in Long Island Sound until our two months were out when we were discharged he served two months as a private.
He has served in all his several terms Eighteen Months as a private soldier
He further states he has no documentary evidence except the statement of Eliza Phelps for his father in the 12th Regt under the command of Col. John  Henry  W  of  any  any evidence then the depositions which accompany this his declaration nor does he know of any other testimony he can procure
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declare that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
He answers to the interrogatories propounded by order of the War Department, as follows:
1. Where, and in what year were you born?
He was born in Coventry in Tolland County in the year 1753
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
He has no record of his age
3. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
He lived in said Coventry when called into service & has lived there ever since the Revolutionary war & lives there now
4. How were you called into service? Were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? and if a substitute, for whom?
In May 1775 he enlisted. In August 1776 he was drafted In August 1777 he enlisted In 1778 he enlisted In 1779 he was drafted —
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops where you served such Continental and Militia Regiment as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?
In 1775 he served under Genl Washington & Putnam In 1776 he served under Gen Gates & the rest of his services he stated the officers & terms of circumstances as near as he can recollect in his declaration

6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
He has no written discharges if he ever had any he does not recollect what has become of them.
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?
He is known to the Rev Chauncy Booth of Coventry and to Marvin Curtis of Coventry who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid—
Ebenezer L Sweetland
We, Chauncy Booth a clergyman residing in the town of Coventry in the County of Tolland, and Marvin Curtis residing in Coventry hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer L Sweetland who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 79 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 day and year aforesaid.
Chauncy Booth Marvin Curtis
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 the Rev. Chauncy Booth who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the town of Coventry and that Marvin Curtis who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Coventry and is a creditable person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Cyrus Mann, clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Hebron, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Ebenezer L. Sweetland for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, this 19 th day of December A. D. 1832.
Cyrus Mann
Clerk.
Ebenezer L. Sweetland 3505 Subscribed (a former residence) side letter (copy 33)
3505

State of Connecticut Tolland County ss Hebron Probate District
On this 20th Day of August 1882 personally appeared in open court before Abner Hemen Ely Judge of the Court of Probate for said District now sitting Ebenezer Leach Southland a resident of Coventry in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut aged about 79 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 th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
In May in the Year 1775 he enlisted into a Company of State Troops commanded by Capt Israel Lutman of Litchfield for seven Months as a private soldier the Company Marched from Litchfield directly to Cambridge in Massachusetts & joined a Regt commanded by Col Ebenezer Stowe one Johnson was our Major, we were employed in watching the enemy then in Boston & was discharged at Cambridge in December as we volunteered at the request of Gen Washington about a month after our first term was out on the lines would have been defeated making eight months service.
In August 1776 I was drafted with the Militia for a three Months Tour of duty at New York and served in Capt Ebenezer Huntington's Company of which Paul Brigham was Lieut we were in Col Obadiah Howfords Regt

Your company marched from Gilead a society in Hebron through Wethersfield New Haven, Fairfield to New Rochelle where we performed our tour of duty of three months & were honorably but verbally discharged
In 1777 he volunteered for a tour of duty for three months under Capt John Skinner we marched from Hebron through Hartford and Albany to Saratoga where we were placed in a Regt commanded by Col. Ethan Allen Major Abbott our Major & General Gates our commander in Chief. He served in various duties, was present at the Battle on Bemis Heights on the 19th Sept 1777, & was present at the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne at the expiration of three months was honorably discharged
In 1778 he volunteered and served two months in a company commanded by Capt Jonathan Rudd of Windham & was marched through Canterbury & Providence to Rhode Island and joined a Regt commanded by Col. Chapman & was serving on board the Boats to carry of provisions to Boston there & fought on ammunition during the Battle of Gen. Sullivan & left the Island when the troops evacuated it
In 1779 was drafted and did a tour of duty in a company two months at New London Capt

Capt Edyerton was our Capt of Col Abbot commd the Regiment & was employed in building & repairing the fort fortifying the heights of watching the enemy of which war two months were not even developed
That he was born in Coventry in Lolland County (where he has always resided) in the year 1753, & lived there when he entered the service of the  has lived there ever since have no written directories or other documents to prove the service he has performed That he is known to the Rev Thomas Booth of Coventry & Mariner Bartels of said Coventry who can testify to his character for veracity
That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Eleazar Lord S q Esq
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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them Chauncy Booth who has signed the following certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Coventry and that Marvin Curtis who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Coventry and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
Abner Hovey Judge
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by
We Chauncy Booth a clergyman residing in the town of Coventry and Marvin Curtis of the town of Coventry hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer L. Sweetland who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 79 years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Ebenezer L. Sweetland No. 3505
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Chauncy Booth Marvin Curtis
I Cyrus Mann Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Holston do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer L. Sweetland for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 20 th day of August 1832 Cyrus Mann Clerk

March 20, 1940
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Mrs. Silas T. Crocker 131 Center Street Fredonia, New York
EBENEZER LEACH SWEETLAND S. 15235 BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Ebenezer Sweetland (Sweatland) who, you state, was born in 1753 and died September 24, 1841, at Coventry, Connecticut. You desire to know whether his father and Cynthia Sweetland (wife of Gideon Searl, Revolutionary War soldier) born 1745, married 1761, and died in 1792, were brother and sister.
You are furnished herein the record of the only Ebenezer Sweetland, under any spelling, found in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The data therein were obtained from the papers in pension claim, S. 15235, based upon his service in the Revolution.
He was born in 1753 in Coventry, Tolland County, Connecticut; the names of his parents are not shown.
While residing in Coventry, Connecticut, Ebenezer Leach Sweetland or Swetland (he signed both ways) enlisted in May, 1775, served as private in Captain Israel Putnam's company, Colonel Experience Storrs' Connecticut regiment, and was discharged in December, having served a tour of seven months. One month after that, he volunteered and served one month, names of officers not stated. He enlisted in August, 1776, and served three months as private in Captain Eleazer Hutchinson's company, Colonel Obediah Horseford's Connecticut regiment. He enlisted in August, 1777, served three months as private in Captain John Skinner's company, Colonel Lattimer's Connecticut regiment, during which tour he was present at the surrender of Burgoyne. He enlisted in July, 1778, served two months as private in Captain Jonathan Rudd's company, Colonel Chapman's Connecticut regiment and was in a battle at Newport August 29. He enlisted in May, 1779, and served two months as private in Captain Edgerton's company, Colonel Abbott's Connecticut regiment, repairing the Fort.

The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed August 20, 1832, at which time he was living in Coventry, Connecticut, where he had always lived.
It is not stated whether Ebenezer Leach Sweetland or Swetland ever married, and no reference was made to his brothers and sisters.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death of the soldier, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: Ebenezer L. Sweetland, certificate 9648, issued June 1 or 3, 1833, rate $60 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Connecticut Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

I John Northum of Herkmon Holland County aged 74 years do testify & say that in August 1777 I was drafted for a term of duty of three months in a company of commanded by John Schriener & about the last of August marched from Hartford through Albany & joined our Regt. at Saratoga under the command of Col. Schuyler & Genl Jones of Herkmon was Lieut. Col. & Genl of Brigadier commander the Army & on the 19 th day of Sept. was stationed on Bunker's Heights & fought the enemy some time & was present on the 16 th day of of October 1777 when Genl Burgoyne's Army marched out & surrendered & that I served the whole term of three months as a Wagoner to Lieut. Col. Genl Jones & was discharged in Nov r & I will remember that Ebenezer L. Sweetland was a private in my Company commanded by Capt. John Schriener & Regt. commanded by Col. Schuyler & that he served the whole of the term of three months & was discharged at the same time with me John Northum

State of Connecticut Tolland County ss Hartford Probate District
Personally appeared in open court before Abner Hendee Esq Judge 11-21-1832 John Northam signer of the within deposition and made solemn oath that the same contains the truth and nothing but the truth and this court certifies that the s d John Northam is a man of truth & that his statement is entitled to credit
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 24 th Day of December 1832
Ezra Mann Clerk

Joseph Kingsbury of Litchfield County of 77 years of age do testify I say that in August 1776 I was drafted to do a tour of duty for three months at New Rochelle in N. York in a company of Militia commanded by Capt Elazar Hutchinson in the 12 th Regt. of Conn t Militia commanded by Col. Obadiah Hosford & we were marched from Hobson Gilead Society where I was chosen corporal of my company) through New Haven to New Rochelle where we remained in that vicinity until the first part of December when we were discharged I well remember that Ebenezer L. Sweetland was a private in the same company & Regt with me during the whole term of three months & that s d Sweetland was all the person that belonged to s d Company that was known by the name of Ebenezer Sweetland & that he was the same person now called Ebenezer L. Sweetland & further saith not Joseph Kingsbury
State of Connecticut Litchfield County ss Hobson Probate District
Personally appeared in open Court before Abner Hemen Esq. Judge of the Court of Probate for s d District now sitting Joseph Kingsbury signer of the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath that the same contains the truth and nothing but the truth and this Court certifies that the s d Joseph Kingsbury is a man of truth and that his statement is entitled to credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 19 th Day of December 1832
Cyrus Mann Clerk

Ebenezer Gideon Clark Abram Sway Ebenezer L. Sweetland Letter to sister
from A. Hildreth
Suspended
In former declarations see letter 5 Sept in reply

Hebron, Ct., Decemba 21 st 1832
Sir
Herewith I return you the applications of Abraham Decoy John Huxford Ebenezer L. Sweetland of Gideon Clark - I have taken them over as their former statements did not all comply with the documentary evidence procured from the Office of Comptroller of Public Accts for this State - I hand you the Comptroller Certificate containing all the records in his Office relative to their services - I hope they are correct should their application be granted you will forward me the Certificate if not please return me the papers if they can be corrected
I am Your Obed Servt Abner Henslee Hon Lewis Cope (Nursford admitted) Lieut War

Ebenezer Durdland
Feb 1853
Weaver & Goffe, atty's Present
- Special

not suspended
AFFIDAVIT AND POWER OF ATTORNEY,
STATE OF Connecticut COUNTY OF Windham
} ss.
Windham Decmber 18 th 1852
Be it remembered, That, on this 17 th day of Decmber A. D. 1852, I, Levina Palmer do make known and declare that I am the Daughter and heir-at-law to Ebenezer Smithfield who was the  wife of a Revolutionary soldier, who served  years, under the command of  in the forces raised by the State of Connecticut and that he and his said wife were married about the month of April A. D. 1780 that he died about the month of September 24 th A. D. 1841 and that his said wife also died about the month of May 6 th A. D. 1836 and that a pension of Sixty dollars a year was drawn by said Ebenezer Smithfield on account of said services, and so continued until the year A. D. 1841 , since which time nothing has been received by either, or the heirs of either of said parties.
And that claimant is now 70 years of age; and it is understood and believed that there are arrearages of Pension, and other claims due for said services: Now, THEREFORE, the true intent of all this is to qualify and irrevocably appoint and empower ALFRED J. WORKS, of New Haven City and County, State of Connecticut,
as my Attorney, with power of substitution, to investigate, substantiate, demand, and receive the avails of, said claim or claims, and to say and do all things relative thereto, as amply as I might do: hereby ratifying every thing said or done by my said Attorney, or his substitute, in virtue hereof; ALSO, revoking all Powers of Attorney, or other authority previously given for any such purposes.
Attest,
Thomas Campbell Luther Martin
} In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, day and date first above named. Levina Palmer
Subscribed, sworn to, and acknowledged before me, the day and year first above indicated.
Thos Campbell Notary Public Windham

Miss Silas T. Crocker 131 Center St "THE WHITE CUB" NEAR LAKE FREDONIA, N. Y. Feb 20-40 Regis. War Director Chautauqua Historical Society
Pension Bureau
My dear Sirs -
Can you give me data on Ebenezer Sweetland family from his pension as a Rev. Soldier?
Ebenezer b 1753 d Sept 24-1841 at Covington Conn. Age 88.
Am trying to verify that his father & Cynthia Sweetland (wife of Deacon Searl Rev Sol) b 1745 d 1792 mar 1761 are brother & sister.
Thank you. Silas Crocker

1940 Mar 20 - sent to Mrs. Silas J. Crocker - 2/6/19
P
15235 INVALID.
File No. 15235
Ebenezer L Sweetland Prior: Boer War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index: - Vol. 1 , Page 366
[Arrangement of 1870.]