Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 1185, for Ebenezer Hunt, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Hunt, Ebenezer Clarissa
N 1185 B.L.Wt. 15408-160-55-
CONTENTS

126449 detmars
1609 {17
Clarissa Hunt via Ebenezer Dyer Price
Private Feb 11/1860
Massif
Expedition
Rev' war
Rev' pension
Mar 1860 - 1861
Vol. H 2-128.

1537 Massachusetts Clarissa Hunt widow of Ebenezer Hunt who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private Mass Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 44 Dollars 65
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1818.
3 rd February 1833 Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th day of Aug st 55 and sent to
M rs P. Webster Lowell Massa
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 1818 Page 40 Vol. A
3/53
1833

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 16 th April 1838 from 4 Sept 1838 to 4 March 1839 age Modified 7 th March 1840
10.002.
Massachusetts
Ebenezer Hunt
of Ipswich in the State of Mass who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain _____ of the 2 nd reg t commanded by Col Brown in the Mass line for 10 Days 12 Days
Inscribed on the Roll of _____ at the rate of 24 Dollars 65 Cents per annum. to commence on the 14 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of _____ 1833 and sent to _____ Dress of _____
Arrears to the 14 th of _____ 1833 $89.30 Semest. allowance ending _____ 22.32 $117.62
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832 }
Recorded by J H B Blair Clerk, Book _____ Vol. 2 nd Page 31.

Elmer Hunt
Phila.
13 Mo & 14 days
Atk.
Sept. 1865
James Dana Esq. Winn Mass

BRIEF in the case of
Ebenezer Hunt of Newbury in the State of Mass (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 71 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.   Years, Months, Days.     In 17 78 " 3 " Private Gen. Lord Howe Col. Brann   78 " 1 12 " " Brady Varnum McIntosh   79 " 4 " " " Warren  McGregor  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Newbury, Mass.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living witness for two first terms and Revolutionary Service  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Witnesses dated as court is 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. H. Warren Examining Clerk.

Declaration Ebenezer Hunt
Share to direct to Sam d Danahy Gordon Is

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Middlesex ss.
On this Seventeenth day of August Probate Concord personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting at within and for the County of Middlesex in the Commonwealth
aforesaid
Ebenezer Clent of Brookline in said County aged seventy one years
Who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain in 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 is to say
1 That in ad 1777 he engaged for three months to Guard Burgoyne's troops then stationed at Horton hill and enlisted in the Company of Capt Adams Ladder Field of Lexington Lt 1 in a Reg t of Mass s forces commanded by Col 1  Jonathan Brown of Strasberry he joined his Company at Horton hill and then did duty as required till he served his three months when he was regularly dismissed. 2 In ad 1778 he engaged to go to Rhode Island for six weeks and enlisted in the Company of Capt. John  Bradley  Varnum Lt 1  Kendell & Stetson in Col 1  W. Pitcock Reg t of Mass s forces D. A. B. Burt he proceeded to Rhode Island where then encamped and did duty with his Company until he completed his engagement of six weeks But for this action he can give no proof completed his 3 In ad 1779 he enlisted to go into the Continental service for nine months and reported to Camp and was ordered into the Company of Capt. Michael Hadden in Col 1  Beglow's Reg t of the Mass s Line in this Company he continued and did duty until he served the term of his enlistment for nine months and received a regular discharge from the commanding Officer of the Reg t . His discharge he delivered afterwards to one John Young man, a Soldier whom whom he saw afterwards next and never able to recollect, he was discharged sometime in the year 1780.

He relinquishes every claim, whatever, to a pension, or emolument, or other benefit, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll, of the agency of any State. Sworn to and subscribed this day and year above said
L. P. P. Fay W. B. Root S. B. Hunt
Commonwealth of Massachusetts We Jacob Coggin a Clergyman residing in the town of Tewksbury the county of Middlesex and Peter Hunt of the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Hunt who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be seventy years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood, where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in the opinion.
Sworn and subscribed before me Sam. Dana Justice of the Peace for all the counties in said Commonwealth Jacob Coggin Peter Hunt
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and 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 it appears to them, that the Rev. Jacob Coggin who has signed the preceding Certificates is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Tewksbury and that Peter Hunt is a credible person, and that their signatures to the foregoing are true to the best of their knowledge.
L. P. P. Fay W. B. Root of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings, of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Hunt for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this sixteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two and of the Independence of the United States the fifth
And I further certify that Samuel Dana who is a Justice of the Peace for all the Counties in said Commonwealth and that his signature to the above Certificate of Jacob Coggin and Peter Hunt is his genuine and true signature. And that William Rogers Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and that his signature to the Caption on the Deposition of Jonathan Hunt is his genuine and true signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my seal of office.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. Decr 12: 1832
I the subscriber, depose and say that in the year A. D. 1778 Elkanah Hunt, of said Middlesex has served as a Chaplain in the Continental Arm- y in the state of Rhode Island six weeks under Colonel Macintush's Regiment, Joseph Blainin Captain. Also three months at Cambridge guar- ding Burgoyne's troops at Winter Hill, under Captain Jonathan Hunt Cadwallader Ford.
Middlesex ss December 12: 1832
Personally appeared the above named Jonath- an Hunt and made oath that the foregoing deposition as before signed was true.
Before me William Rogers, Justice of Peace (over)

By a reference to Jonathan Hunt's papers, & declaration, it will be seen that he was in the same company, and cam- paigns with Ebenezer Hunt—
Disposition of Jonathan Hunt.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex, to wit,
At the Court of Probate begun and holden at Concord within and for the County of Middlesex on the seventeenth day of August A. D. 1832. On the application of Ebenezer Hunt claiming to be a Soldier of the Revolution, the following interrogatories were propounded to him to wit:
1. Where, and in what year were you born?
Answer, In Tewksbury Mass. March 3 d A.D. 1760.
2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it?
Answer, I have no such record, but my name is recorded on the town book of Tewksbury.
3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? Answer,
In Tewksbury, where I have ever since lived.
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom? Answer,
I was always a volunteer and went into service of my own motion.
5. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental, or Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service? Answer,
I saw Gen. Sullivan at Rhode Island. 6 do you ever receive any written discharges from service? Ans. I never received any from the State Service, but did receive one from the Continental service as stated in my declaration.
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? Answer,
Rev. Theodore Edson of Lowell, Capt. Peter Hunt, Jacob Marshall, William Rogers by Grace Munn and Jonathan Peabody Selectmen of Tewksbury.
Sworn to the Ebenezer Hunt J. P. P. Fay  Widow

State of Massachusetts } County of Middlesex }
Supreme Judicial Court began and holden at Lowell in and for said County of Middlesex on the second Tuesday of April A. D. 1853.
On this Twenty first day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty three being the ninth day of said term of said Court, personally ap- peared the said Clarissa Hunt a resident of said Lowell aged sixty seven years, who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the fol- lowing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 29 th 1848 and the amendment to said act of Con- gress passed in 1853: —
That she is the widow of Ebenezer Hunt late of Newbury in said County who was a private in the war of Revolution —
That she was married to the said Eben- ezer Hunt on the twenty eighth day of December A. D. one thousand eight hundred and nine, that her husband the said Ebenezer Hunt died on the seventeenth day of August A. D. 1839
That said Ebenezer Hunt for several years

prior to his death in 1839 received from Gov- ernment a pension of forty eight dollars per year for his services in the war of the Revolution.
She, said Clarissa, further states that she has not since intermarried, but has remained the widow of the said Ebenezer and is now a widow, and that she has never before made any application for a pension.
Clarissa Hunt
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first aforesaid written in open Court. in witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed } affixed my name & affixed the seal of } the Court
Seth Ames Clerk

State of Massachusetts ) County of Middlesex s.s. )
On this twenty eighth day of May A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me a justice of the peace within and for the State and County aforesaid Jacob Coggin of Tewksbury in said County and State who being duly sworn according to law declares that he is now and has been for the last forty seven years Pastor of the Congregational Church and Society in said Tewksbury; that on the twenty eighth day of December A. D. 1809, he joined in marriage Ebenezer Hunt to Clarissa Hardy both then of said Tewksbury; that they continued to reside in said Tewksbury until the death of said Ebenezer; that said Ebenezer died in said Tewksbury in or about the year 1839; that said Clarissa Hunt now of said Lowell who petitions here for a pension under the act of 1858 is the identical person married by him to said Ebenezer Hunt, and that she is now the widow of said Ebenezer Hunt: That said Ebenezer Hunt for several years before his death received from Government a pension for services as a private in the war of the Revolution:
And the said Jacob Coggin further swears

that the following is a true extract from the Records of said Congregational Church in said Stockbury kept by him and that the said entry was made by him at the time of said date:
"December 28 th 1809. Married Ebenezer Hunt to Clarissa Heard, both of Stockbury"
And said Coggin swears that he is a disinterested Witness
Jacob Coggin
Subscribed and sworn to by said Jacob Coggin before me this twenty eighth day of May A.D. 1853. And I hereby certify that said Jacob Coggin is a credible witness
Benj. F. Snodgrass Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, July 28 th 1853
I hereby Certify, That at the date hereof Benjamin F. Butler is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
T. W. D. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

126449

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Middlesex
On this seventh day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a justice of the peace within and for the County aforesaid and State aforesaid Clarissa Hunt aged sixty nine years a resident of Lowell in the State of Massachusetts, who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Ebenezer Hunt deceased who was a private in the war of the Revolution.
She further states that her said husband died on the seventeenth day of August A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, and that for several years prior thereto he received from the United States a pension for his services rendered in said war.
She states that she has not in her possession any means of informing the government in what company her said husband enlisted, when in service or when discharged as she supposes all the papers relating to the same

were sent to the Department at the time of his application for his pension.
She further states that she was married to the said Ebenezer Hunt on the twenty third day of December A.D. one thousand eight hundred and nine in Leeksbury by one Jacob Coggin of Leeksbury in said County of Middlesex a Minister and Pastor of the Congregational Church in said Leeksbury and that her name before her said marriage was Clarissa Hardy; that her said husband died at Leeksbury aforesaid in the year 1839 and that she is now a widow.
Clarissa Hunt
We William P. Webster and William Standish residents of Lowell in the State of Massachusetts upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Clarissa Hunt in our presence, and that we believe, from her appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
William P. Webster
William Standish

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Samuel Lawrence
Justice of the Peace
The above declaration is made for the purpose of obtaining bounty land.

Pension Office
17 Aug 53
This case is respectfully referred to B d Auditor for certificate of death of Pensioner, and of last payment
Very Respectfully
J. Cole Chief Clerk
H. M. C. (see other side.)

Pension Office
17. Aug 53
This case is respectfully referred to B d Auditor for certificate of death of Pensioner, and of last payment
Very Respectfully
J. Cole Chief Clerk
H. McClellan (See other side.)
Ebenezer Hunt, At 1832,
$44.65 p. an. — Died 17 th
May 1839, Paid to his
death.
F. Buel Auditor.

5
15.408
} Nolans

126449
PAID
LOWELL 7 MAY
To, The Honorable the Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Mrs. Hunt
126448

Gentbury December 28 th 1809 Married
Mr Ebenezer Hunt to the widow Clarissa Hardy.
Jacob Groggin
Pastor of the congregational Chh in Gentbury.

Rev War
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 1185
Clarissa Hunt, Widow. Ebenezer Hunt, Prior. Rev. War.
Act: Feb. 3. 1853.
Index: —Vol. A Page 864
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Ebenezer Dyer which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? Yes, for two first arms
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? No
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? No
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? Yes
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? Yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. 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 the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
February 12 th , 1839.
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," The widow of Ebenezer Hunt, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of forty four Dollars and Sixty five Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of Sept. 1838, to the 1 st March 1839.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

Clarissa Hunt Wife of Ebenezer Hunt $44.65
Died 17 May 1839

Brief in the case of Clarissa Hunt Wid of Ebenezer Hunt of Middlesex County and State of Massachusetts under the act of 3 July 1853
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. Ebenezer Hunt was a Rev Pensioner under the act of 7 June 1832 at the rate of $44.65 per annum, and who died on the 17 May 1849
Clarissa Hunt his Widow on the 21st June 1853, in the Supreme Judicial Court of the County aforesaid made application for a pension under the act of 3 July 1853
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Marriage proven by Public Record Death by Cert of B. Stud, and the evidence of Deacon Cogen a Minister of the Gospel who identified the Widow as Ensign allowed at the rate of $44.65 per annum commencing on the 3rd day of July 1853
August 24th 1853 Name and residence of Agent Wm P Webster Esq Lowell Mass
Amos A. Clark Examining Clerk.

June 1. 1853
No 2014 App d of Clarissa
Hunt widow of Ebenezer
10 001 Mss. P. 40
Act 3 d Feby: 1853
Rev: Acc d 24. Aug 53 at $44.65 per annum From 3 Feby 1853 Roll Book exempt revobster Ex Com
Sowell mss.
{ Star Good Evidence full
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, PENSION OFFICE, WASHTON, OFFICIAL BUSINESS

Middlesex County Massachusetts 21. April 1853
Marriage by certificate Rebecca Read
Heath 17 May 1839 { Health by the Evidence } Jacob Coggin Minister of the Gospel —

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hunt, Edward GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4318 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Jan. 26, 1790 to John May —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.