Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9925, for Ezra Lanfear, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Lanfear, Ezra
89925
Carded
CONTENTS

E. May 12 th June 1854. (Brierly) h. h. July 14 1855.
New York 28.749
Ebenezer  Sanfear Oswego Co in the State of New York who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Cleveland of the Reg t . by Col Jackson in the Continental line for 13 months 18 days
★ Mass. Line Jan 9 1865 Records corrected.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 44 Dollars 76 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of June 1834 and sent to Hiram Hubbell Richland N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of March '34 $144.28 Semi-annual allowances ending Sept. 4 '34 22.38 $166.56
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. } Sam l H. Page Clerk,
Recorded by Book C Vol. 4 Page 105

10.873 Ezra David Lensear on roll of Col M Jackson - 9 months
Suspd
9 months Col M Jackson ent 15 June 1798
28. May 1833 13 March 1779
Obj: 4.5.14.16
P. ACS
Ref. to Dr Crump Admitted Private 13mo & 18 days
H. Hubbell Richland
N. Burten Report E.

10.873
BRIEF in the case of  Ezra Lanfear  of  Rupert  in the State of  Vermont  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 76 years  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. Majors   Years, Months, Days.     Sep r In 1776 2 Pirate Gen. Howe Brigade drafted   July 1777 1 do Col. Simon's Reg t Volun teer   not stated about 14 do Capt. Low - Co. 4 Volun teer   Sep r same year 20 do not stated guard's Priv te   Fall - Ditto about 14 do do Volun teer   thinks Oct r do Lt. Sam l Eddy do   June 1780 9 do Col. Mich l Jackson, Reg t Subst te   Gen l Schuyler, Brig d tute r   for his Father  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Windsor - Mass s  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? by the traditional evidence of witnesses - one a Clergyman - Certified to be credible persons  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
E. Stephens
Examining Clerk.

Ezra Lander
Ezra Lander
Case
application for pension
under Act of 4 th June 1832
10893

State of Vermont County of Windham Manchester Probate District. } A -
On this 29th day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Manchester sponsors now sitting Ezra Loomis a resident of Rupert County of Windham and State of Vermont, aged 70 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. I resided in Windsor Massachusetts in the year 1776 and some time in September of that year I entered the service of the United States as a soldier I was drafted for two months, I joined the Army at Old Fairfield I belonged & served in Capt. Munn's Company of Lanesborough Col. Simonds Regiment Genl. Howe's Brigade Massachusetts Troops - we marched to the White Plains. The Battle at White Plains was fought 3 or 4 days after my Company arrived there, I was not in the battle my Regiment was held as a reserve, but was not called into the engagement - after the battle our Regt. marched off the ground and pitched our tents about one & half miles from the battle ground. I was here taken sick was unfit for duty lay sick about two weeks when I recd. a pass to go home, who signed this I do not recollect. I was sick some time on the road when I got home my time was out. - in July 1777 I entered the Service again as a volunteer for one month under one Capt. Loomis, of New Providence now Caledonia Mass. Joseph Pierce of Windsor was my Lieut. - we commenced our march for Skeneateles, we got as far as Cambridge New York. There Received the news of the evacuation of Ticonderoga by our troops, this alarmed our officers, and we retreated to Ft. Eddy. Stayed there about one week. Then marched to Manchester Vermont. found some troops there, remained there until my time was out, went home. After this I was out in the Service at Manchester at the time of Manchester water about two weeks. I was not in the battle was one of the guard that guarded the prisoners from Man- chester to Pittsfield - I then went home. In Sept. of the same year I again entered the Service as a volunteer for twenty days, marched from Windsor to Skeneateles, from there we went down the Lake as far as the narrows. Then met Col. Warner who had taken about 100 of our men who had been made prisoners, and some British prisoners, we then returned to Skeneateles, lay here 3 or 4 days. Then went to

Manchester Vermont. Here my time was out, and I went home. In the fall of the same year I think in Oct. I volunteered again and served about two weeks under Lieut. Samuel Eddy went with him to Long Topa, as a Scout to watch the motion of the Enemy. returned home and remained at home until some time in June 1780. a draft was called for, from the town in which I lived, my father was drafted for nine months, and I entered the Service as a Substitute for my father. Joined the Army at West Point White Plains. two men went from Windsor with me. Asa Hall, and Charles Hutchinson. I was in Capt. Ephraim Chambers Company. Col. Michael Jackson's Regiment, Genl. Lumnord's Brigade. we lay at White Plains a short time. went to Danbury Hill. Staid there a while. then went to Old Hartford Connecticut. lay here a while then went to Red Bank while we lay here Majr. Andre was taken as a Spy, and the discovery of Arnold was discovered, and he made his escape, we were ordered to West Point. we went to West Point remained there one night. then marched back to Red Bank. from there we went to Poughkeepsie. lay there about one month. then went back to Red Bank went from here to the Highlands staid here until my time was out. and I left the Army. I resided in Windsor Vt. when I served in the Army. I have in Shaftsbury Vt. and in Rupert and Sturtevant Revolution. and I was raised in Rupert Vermont. - I was born in Old Norwell Connecticut in 1756 the 6th of April I do not know that there is any record of my age. I have no recollection of ever receiving a discharge. I have no documentary evidence to substantiate my claim to a pension. as I do not know of any person I hereby, Relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, I declare that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State. I am acquainted with the following persons in my neighborhood who can testify as to my Character for veracity (to their belief of my services as a Soldier of the Revolution vizt) Rev. David Wilson, Vt. Hon. Josiah Rising -  Sworn Subscribed in Court - Ebenezer Linsley Attest. Henry Robinson Register
Judge of Probate Ct.

We David Wilson a Clergyman residing in the Town of Rupert and Josiah Rising residing in the same Town of Rupert — hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ezra Lamfear, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 76 years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, & that we concur in that opinion — Sworn & Subscribed in Court — Rev. David Wilson —
Attest. Henry Robinson Register.
Josiah Rising
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, & served as he states — And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Rev. David Wilson who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Rupert aforesaid, & that Hon. Josiah Rising who has also signed the same is also a Resident in said Town, & is a credible person, & that their statement is entitled to credit —
Myron Clark Judge of Probate Court.
I Henry Robinson Register of the Court of Probate, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ezra Lamfear for a Pension —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said Court, this 29 th day of August. A.D. 1832 — of the Independence of the United States the Fifty Seventh —
Henry Robinson Register

Cabin Creek
Ezra Lanphear
rent Act 1832
N. Y. roll.
J. Evans dr.

Know all men by these presents, That I Carin Carey of the County of Co. of Oswego and State of N.Y. have constituted and appointed, and by these presents do constitute and appoint, THOMAS EWING, Jr., of Washington City, my true and lawful attorney, irrevocably for me and in my name to receive from the United States all such sum or sums of money as may be due me on any account whatsoever,
to examine the evidence on file in the Pension Office in which Ezra Lamborn drew pension under the Act of 1832, and to prosecute the claim of his heirs for arrears & interest of pension and to receive such pension certificates as may be issued
and in my name to execute such receipts and acquittances for the same as may be necessary, and generally to do all lawful acts and things touching the premises; and an attorney or attorneys under him for the purposes aforesaid, to make and at his pleasure to revoke; hereby confirming all and whatsoever my said attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises, by virtue of these presents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirtieth day of September 185 1 .
Ezra Lamborn
***** * SEAL. * *****
State of Wisconsin } to wit: County of Douge }
On this thirtieth day of September 185 1 ,
personally appeared before me a _____ in and for the County aforesaid, and acknowledged the above power of attorney to be his act and deed for the purposes therein expressed. He has further made oath that he is one of the heirs of Ezra Lamborn -
Orion Giddings
J. P. ***** * SEAL. * *****
State of Wisconsin } to wit: County of Douge }
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That Orion Giddings Esq., before whom the above acknowledgment was made, and who has hereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the istrict Court, for the County aforesaid, this thirtieth day of September
185 1 .
Wm H. Landon Clerk.

Rev. branch
9925 INVALID.
File No. 9925
Ezra Lunsford
Rev. Rev. was
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index: —Vol. 1 , Page 216
[Arrangement of 1870.]

James Eddy. Affidavit. Eyre Lauffer. Case.
The within Deposition of James Eddy was taken and sealed up by me Samuel M. Edgerton Justice of Peace

I James Eddy of Wallingford of lawful age being Duly sworn do upon testify and say that I James Eddy lived in the town of Windsor Berkshire County in the state of Massachusetts in the time of the Revolutionary war and was present I think at the time Ezra Lanfear enlisted for nine months but do not exactly recollect and he Ezra Lanfear then lived in the town of Windsor Berkshire County and state of Massachusetts and served here the time of his enlistment as was said at that time and I James Eddy state that my Brother Andrew Eddy served in a Militia company with Ezra Lanfear two months at the time of the battle at White Plains and further I say not
James Eddy
State of Vermont } 29 th day of June 1832 Then Rutland County } James Eddy of Wallingford in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont personally appearing and after being carefully examined and Duly cautioned made solemn oath that the foregoing Disposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Before Samuel M Edgerton Justice
I hereby certify that James Eddy above mentioned is a man of truth and veracity. Samuel M Edgerton Justice Peace

State of Vermont Rutland County ss
I Robert Pierpont Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland do certify that Samuel M. Edgerton is a Justice of the Peace for said County duly Commissioned
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Rutland this 1 st day of September 1839 R. Pierpont
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Richland N.H. April 25
Free
Hon. J. L. Edwards Com. of Pensions Washington City
5 m. 15 Oct 35
Ezra Gannett for Dunfee

Richland N.Y. April 24. 1834
Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir,
In Dec. last I addressed a line to you in relation to the application of Ezra Lanfear for a pension, but have recd. no reply. I am aware Sir, that you receive great trouble and hindrance in your Official duties from similar applications, but as Mr. Lanfear is very needy and infirm and I believe justly entitled to something under the act of June 1832. I should be much obliged if you would inform me whether he would receive a pension under the application or Declaration now in your Office, made by him while in Vermont, provided he could procure from the Sec. y Office in Mass. a certificate stating that his name is upon the Rolls in that Office as mentioned in his declaration.
John Lanfear was drafted in 1778 in Windsor Mass. and Ezra  immediately took his place and served the tour
There may have been some error in stating this service in his declaration, he says it was the Spring after Burgoyne surrendered.
Respectfully Your Obdt. Servt.
Hiram Hubbell

Hon. J. L. Edwards Com. of Pensions

Richland M.W. Aug. 13. 1853.
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir, At the request of Mr. Lanfear I forward to you the accompanying papers including his Aff. in relation to his services. When you have decided upon his claim please inform me.
The old man is very infirm and needy, and I have no doubt from all his statements but that he has intended to state the whole truth as near as it is possible for him to recollect at his advanced age.
Respectfully Your Obed. Servt
Hiram Hildreth

Richland, N.Y. May 23
FREE
add. residence
for
Ezra Lanyear
Newark
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Washington City

Richland, N.W. May 22 d . 1834
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir,
In your communication of the 3 d . of May in relation to the Claim of Ezra Lanfear "should under Oath state the name of his father and the time of his entering Jackson's Regt." He has therefore made the enclosed Affidavit, before me, stating to the best of his knowledge about the time he entered that Regt. he swears positively as to his service the whole of the nine Months
As the Claimant is very infirm and poor and the Clerk's Office of this County being 24 miles distant from this place, I send this Aff. without the Clk's certificate of the Justices official character. Such a certificate was sent to you with Mr. Lanfear's Aff. (I think) in August last, in which Aff. I believe all the material facts in this were stated unless the error in the year, which at some time has been stated 1780- instead of the true time 1778.
Should you be satisfied of this nine Months service, and of no other stated by the applicant, cannot he have a pension for this.
Very respectfully
Your Obedt. Servt.
Hiram Hubbell

all the within cases Ex by Mr. Ewing W. Cole Jan - 52

T. Ewing Jr. requests permission to examine the papers on file in the following named revolutionary pension cases. Dec 28. 1857.
✓ Peter Lake , pensioner Act — New York roll. Evidence of attyship shown to Chief Clerk — ✓ Lucinda Hurd , suspended Act 1838, N.Y. roll. Has been acting as Atty in the case — ✓ Joseph Baker and — Baker , his widow — both pensioners — New York roll — Part of Atty filed herewith — ✓ Ezra Lamphere , pensioner Act 1832. New York roll. Part of Atty filed herewith — ✓ Rhoda Hall , widow of Joshua , suspended New York Act 1836 or 1838 — Has been acting as Atty in the case — ✓ Abigail Gane , widow of William Gane . a pensioner Act 2nd Feb 1848 — New York roll part of Atty herewith.
All Ex by Mr Ewing Jr Dec 30-1857

Juneau Wisconsin June th 5 1854
Sir
28749 Ezra Lamphear was a revolutionary soldier in the Continental line in Colonel Packsons regiment his captains name is not known at present if there is any pension for the heirs of Ezra Lamphear please settle it at the Pension Office Lamphear died August the 4 th 1841. in Richland Oneida Co N.Y. his wife died twenty years before he died in the town of Rupert Benning Co State of Vermont
I am Sir yours truly &c
Calvin Cady
L. P. Hado commissioner

Juneau. Dodge Co. Wis. June 22 d . 1855.
Sir -
If you have the Pension Law published in Pamphlet form I will be obliged to you. if you will send me a copy -
Ezra Sanfear, was a revolutionary soldier, in Col. Jackson's Regt. of W. & he drew a pension of $44.75 per annum under the Law of 1832 - He died Augt 26. 1841. leaving two heirs - They have applied to me to know if they are entitled to any thing on account of their father's services - Please inform me. & send me the Law & Regulations, if they are -
Respectfully,
Hon L. P. Waldo, Comr. & C. B. Winstrom

18th Dec 1841 London Col. Lawrence Washington City U.S.A.

Jamaica W.I. June 22/55
See @ Birmingham Prob.
Ebenezer Dyer 1832 M.W. Cole L. P. Waldo, Comfr of Pensions, Washington D.C.

New York now Rev.
for
Suspended act 7 Jan '32
letter 15 Oct 1833
To
R. Hubble
Richland
do to same 8 May '34 N.Y.

State of New York Oswego County } f.
Ezra Lanfear of the town of Richland in said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the identical Ezra Lanfear, who, on the 29 th day of August 1822, in open court in the Court of Probate for the District of Manchester in the state of Vermont, made his declaration for obtaining the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1822, and that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of each of the terms of service mentioned by him, but according to the best of his recollection he served in the Revolutionary war as a private soldier in the whole not less than thirteen and one fourth months, as follows - viz. I was drafted in September 1776, in Windsor Massachusetts, and served in Capt. Barnes Company, Col. Simonds Regiment of Massachusetts troops, was drafted for two months, and before the expiration of which time was taken sick at White Plains, after lying sick about two weeks recd. a furlough to go home, and was more than a week in reaching home being obliged to delay on the way on account of my ill health, at which time my two months of service had expired, as I recollect on my reaching home eight or nine days after receiving my furlough, my fellow soldiers who went from the same neighborhood for two months with me had returned. - In the month of July or last of June 1777 I volunteered for one month and served under Capt. Love of New Providence Mass. (now Cheshire) and marched to Cambridge in New York and from there to a place a few miles distant then called St. Coix, from there we marched to Manchester Vermont where we continued till the expiration of the month for which I volunteered, when I returned to Windsor. In about one week after this news came that the British were coming down towards Saratoga I then turned out with the whole body of the Militia and marched to Bennington Vermont, arrived the same day of the battle and just at its close, was then sent as part of a guard with some prisoners to Pittsfield from whence I

I returned home having been in the service in this town from the time I left home till I reached Pittsfield not less than twelve days. — In September of the same year I volunteered for twenty days, and marched as stated in my said declaration and served the twenty days. — Some time in the fall of the same year I volunteered under Lieutenant Eddy and marched as a scout to Brattleboro, a distance of sixty miles. I am not certain as to the time I served but am confident it could not have been less than eight days.
In June 1780 a draft was made in Windsor where I lived and my father John was drafted. I took his place as a substitute and marched and served as stated in my declaration before mentioned until the expiration of said nine months for which the draft was made.
And I further declare upon my Oath aforesaid that I do not now know, and have not for the last fifteen years known of any person living, except James Eddy whose Affidavit accompanies this paper, that knows or knew of any of the services mentioned above; and further that the said James Eddy resided in the town of Windsor in the year 1780, and was at that time about twenty three years of age —
And further that I formerly resided in Rupert in the State of Vermont, and until the month of February last, at which time I removed to the town of Richland County of Oswego and State of New York.
Subscribed and sworn this ninth day of August 1833, and I further certify that I have been acquainted with the said Ezra Linsley for about four months past and verily believe him to be a man of truth and veracity.
Ezra Linsley
Hiram Knapp Justice of Peace
State of New York
Oswego County, ss. Office of the
I, Eric Poor Clerk of the said County do hereby Certify that Hiram Knapp Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn & also by whom the foregoing Certificate purports to have been subscribed was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County, and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice & verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit & Certificate to be his proper handwriting & signature. Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 12 day of August 1833. One Peter Clark By S. H. Thompson Clerk

State of New York Oswego County, ss.
Ezra Lanfear, of the town of Richland in said County being duly sworn saith that in 1778 he resided in Windsor in the State of Massachusetts - that a draft was that year made to fill up the Continental Army to serve for nine months, believes that the draft was made about the first of June, that John Lanfear, this deponent's father, was drafted, that this deponent then in his 22 d year of age, took his father's place as such drafted man immediately thereafter, and joined the Company commanded by Capt. Ephraim Cleveland in company with Charles Hutchins & Asa Hall from the same town; the said Charles afterwards being discharged upon Noah Hutchins taking his place, and the said Asa Hall hired a substitute previous to the expiration of said nine months - This deponent serving the whole term of nine months in said Company in Colonel Jackson's Regiment, in the place of John Lanfear who was drafted for that service.
And this deponent further saith upon his Oath aforesaid that he has heretofore frequently said, and believed that the above mentioned term of service was commenced in the summer of 1780, and may have so written & attested it, but that he well recollects and knows that it was in the summer after the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga , and that from examination he is satisfied that surrender must have been in the year 1777 -
And further saith not Ezra Lanfear
Subscribed and sworn this 20 th day of May 1834, before me — Hiram Hubbell Justice of the Peace.
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Ezra Lanfear above named and believe him to be a man of truth & veracity Hiram Hubbell J. P. and Post Master Richland

We the undersigned do certify that Erma L. Laphier who signed & made the foregoing affidavit came to reside in this place some time in the month of February or March last and produced satisfactory evidence to the Baptist Church of this place of having been a member in good standing in the Baptist Church of Pouipet State of Vermont and has since continued in fellowship as a member of this church
T. C. Baker Clerk of the Baptist Church
Jesse Elliot, Pastor of Bap. Church, Pulaski
I hereby certify that Eld. Jesse Elliot, and Thomas C. Baker who have subscribed the above Certificate are the Pastor and Clerk of the Church in this place as there stated.
Village of Pulaski, Town of Richland N.Y. Aug. 13. 1853