Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15075, for Ezekiel Metcalf, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass-
Metcalf, Ezekiel Annie
W 15075
CONTENTS

Agent notified
Apr. 23/88. Statement sent to
Edward Stearns, Coast Bridge N. H.
See copy inside.
6556
Massachusetts
Eunice Metcalf
widow of Ezekiel Metcalf
That
who was the pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 30. May 1831 of Worcester Co. in the State of Mass. who was a Pr. V. Sergt. in the company commanded by Captain Edgele of the regt. commanded by Col. Jacobs in the Mass. Mil. line for 2 months Pr. 6.66 12 " Sergt. 6.66  13.32
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of Feb. 1842 and sent to Hon. Charles Hudson. Name of Representative
Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $333.30
Pemi-annual allowance ending
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book A. Vol. 1. Page 107

no 7569 Eunice Metcalf Mass.
Act 7 July '38
m 82 d 31.
Nov 19-13 1/18 - Capt Edgell Col. Jacobs Sergt 6 mo 12 d
19-20 Oct 78 - Sergt 1 mo. 21 Dec - 1/78 from 22 - 1/78 60 12 mo Sergt Due for 6.66 11.66
Hon. L. Lincoln H R
Witness my hand and seal this 7th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.  Eunice Metcalf

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of bankruptcy of the 7th July 1838. Entitled "an act granting half pay pensions to certain widows"
State of Massachusetts Worcester ss
On this twenty sixth day of August in the year eighteen hundred thirty nine personally appeared before me the Hon. Solomon Strong a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Massachusetts being a Court of record. Eunice Metcalf a resident of Middleburyham in the County of Franklin
Asheburnham January 15th 1782
To Mr Capt Benjamin Ezra Giddings Esq. Sir please to pay to the bearer the sum of fifty pounds for the same that I did in your Company in the year 1778 and this Receipt shall be your discharge for the same Ezekiel Metcalf
and eighty years according to law, etc. my declaration is the provisions made July 7th 1838. entitled "pensions to certain widows of Ezekiel
Metcalf - late of said Ashburnham deceased. She was an orderly sergeant in private in the army of the Revolution - that she became acquainted with the said Ezekiel in the spring of the year before the battle of Bunker Hill - that a short time before the battle she was on the field with her Father who was dying while there, her Father having come into the field said he was

121 ... 18th December 1858.
Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of bankruptcy of the 7th July 1858. Entitled "an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows -"
State of Massachusetts Worcester County
On this twenty sixth day of August in the year eighteen hundred thirty nine personally appeared before the Hon. Solomon Strong a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said opinion being a Court of record. Eunice Nuttall a resident of Auburn known to the County of Worcester aforesaid, aged eighty years who being first duly sworn, according to law, do hereby make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of bankruptcy passed July 7th 1858. Entitled "an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows". That she is the widow of Ezekiel S. Nuttall - late of said Auburn deceased. She was an orderly sergeant & a private in the army of the Revolution. That she became acquainted with the said Ezekiel in the spring of the year before the battle of Bennington. That a short time before the battle she was on the field with her father who was dying & while there, her future husband came into the field & said he was

then going to the north part of said Cumberland to warn some soldiers to go to Barnington She thinks her said husband enlisted as vol- untary - That very soon after seeing said Ezekiel on his way to some place in Maine he started for Barnington as she supposes as that she did not see him again till some of the next year being a period of six months - After her said husband return she often heard him speak of having been in said battle at Barnington and that his tent & clothing were there burnt - The applicant thinks his captain's name was Edgell - The applicant fur- ther states that she has often heard her said husband say that he served in the Army of the Revolution - Thir- teen or fourteen months in the whole that one term was in the State of Rhode Island & some at Newburyport but she does not recollect how long he served in each place - The service during some of the last months terms was under Capt. Gales - & the other she thinks was under a Capt. Jackson of Gardner When he went under Capt. Gales a certain number of men were called for out of his company & that her said husband, as he said, with a sufficient number volunteered

1 10 11 As no draft was made - She does not know whether he was drafted or volunteered for the other team - When the said Ezekiel performed the service in Rhode Island & at Roxbury which was previous to his going to Birmingham the Applicant was not an inhabitant of this town, but of Grafton Mass. The said Ezekiel resided in Ashburnham from his early childhood - to his death - She does not know any per- son now living who was in the Army with the said Ezekiel except Sarah Samson of said Ashburnham who is now in some kind of guardianship - She does not know which team was performed with said Samson - She has no documentary evidence of said service except a paper she thinks annoyed which purports to be an order for pay & which paper was found among her husband's old writings. Her said husband was an actual right of the residence of his town or private.
She further declares that she was married to the said Ezekiel S. Metcalf on the tenth day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and that her husband the aforesaid Ezekiel S. Metcalf died at said Ashburnham on the thirty first day of May in the year eighteen hun- dred thirty one. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of Jan- uary one thousand eight hundred and thirty four - at the time above stated. Emmeline Metcalf I hereby subscribe on the day of year above written - E. Metcalf

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester County ss. On this twenty sixth day of August in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before me Solomon Strong one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the same being a Court of Record. Lucia Metcalf the subscriber of the within declaration subscribed the same in my presence, and made solemn oath to the truth of the within declaration before me.
The within named Lucia Metcalf, by reason of age and bodily infirmity, is unable to attend court; and I took her examination at said Ashburnham.
Solomon Strong Judge. C.C. Pleas.

I Charles Hastings of Coburnham Mass, aged Seventy nine years - do depose & say that in the month of June 1777 I entered into the Continental Army for a term of six months - for which I had received a pen- sion from the United States - I served in Capt. Benl Knapp's company in Col. Madi- son's Regt. With us at R. I. This Service was per- formed in the State of R. Island. During the said Six months I became acquainted with Ezekiel S. Metcalf of said Coburnham who was a soldier in the same regt. with me but not in the same company - I then lived in Princeton which is about 15 miles from Coburnham where Metcalf then lived - The year after the war I purchased a farm in Coburnham about one mile from where the said Metcalf then & till his death, lived - Our acquaintance was re- newed on my removal to Coburnham & I often conversed with said Metcalf about our service in R. I. And he states to me that he was an orderly Sergt during his term then I have also heard him speak of his service in the neighbourhood of Boston & I have heard him say that he was present at the taking of Bunker Hill - but I do not remem- ber who were his officers or how long he was in the Army - Charles Hastings

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester ss. March 10, 1840 - I certify that the within named Charles Hastings personally appear- ed & made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me Esq. G. Parker Jr. Pro.
I further certify that I am well acquainted with said Charles Hastings & that he is a gentleman of undoubted veracity
Esq. G. Parker Jr. Pro

1 L Maryant Townsend, of Cobbleham in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Mass. aged Seventy Seven years - do depose & say - That Esdrick I. Metcalf, late of said Cobbleham deceased & husband of Eunice Metcalf - now of said Cobbleham - was my brother - That my father moved to Cobbleham from the town of Grafton, Mass. in 1770 - My said Mother Esdrick & myself resided in our Father's fam- ily - except occasionally for a few weeks - till we were of age - I distinctly remember that soon after the commencement of the Revolution my war - I think the year after - My said Mother entered the Army for a term of six weeks - he was then but sixteen years of age - He served this time at Roxbury Mass. There were but four soldiers from said Cobbleham, besides my brother, & my father was one of them - I remember very factly well of assisting in preparing their clothes &c before they left home. - They left home in the month of Nov. or Dec. My father was a Supt in the Company here but not after he arrived at Roxbury - I do not remember the names of any of their officers - After this term of service - but I do not remember the year - My brother Esdrick entered the Army again, as a volunteer I think - for the term of six months & served that term in the State of Rhode

Island - He left home in the Spring or early in the summer - While at R.S. his trunk & other part part of his clothing were accidentally burned - He wrote home for a new supply which we prepared & sent to him in the month of September - My mother Samuel had deceased - My brother Ezekiel was an orderly Serjeant during this term of service at R.S. I do not know for the number of his officers in the Regt of soldiers that went from this town with him
I well remember that my said mother went to Bennington at the time of the battle there - I have often heard him speak of it - but I have not so distinct a recollection of this term of service as of the others - I was then, as I suppose, often from home, at work in the neighborhood than I had been before -
I remember that the particular acquaintance of my said mother & his wife then Eunice Brooks commenced on "election day" previous to the battle of Bennington - The said Eunice came to this town some time that Spring - My said mother Patrick dined at her Abolition home in the month of May 1861 as nearly as I can recollect
Wm Lloyd Garrison

Subscribed to the foregoing
Commonwealth of Mass- November 10, 1839- Personally appeared Margaret Townsend & made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by her sub- scribed is true - I further certify that I am well acquainted Mrs Townsend and that she is a lady of unblemished character whose testimony entitled to entire credit -
Rev. E. Parker

I Reuben Towns end of Ashburnham in the County of Worcester - keep - of lawful age do hereby say - That I was well acquainted with Mr. Ezekiel S. Metcalf, late of said Ash- burnham, deceased. He was my Mother's brother I was often at my Father's house - I have heard him speak many times of his revolutionary Ser- vices & particularly of his having been at the Battle of Bunker Hill - I have heard him say that in the above engagement, one of his Comrades whose name was Joslyn - was shot by his side & knowing that Joslyn had an excellent gun & his own being especially bad he went to G. for the purpose of taking his & that in his attempt to take it from under him he found that G. was still alive & he thereupon abandoned the design of taking the gun -
I further say that Eunice Metcalf - said Ashburnham is the widow of said Ezekiel S. Metcalf & that she has not - to my know- ledge - been married since the death of the said Ezekiel - I further say that the signature to the paper hereto annexed, pur- porting to be signed by "Ezekiel Metcalf" is in my opinion the genuine signature of the said Ezekiel S. Metcalf
Reuben Towns

Gammamswath of a leafpacker - as Warrants - Sept 9 th 1839 - Personally appeared Reuben Townsend within named and declared under oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true. & I further certify that I am well acquainted with said Townsend and that his Statement as entitled is the fullest credit - Geo. G. Packard for Dean

Clerk's Office Ashburnham County of Worcester, Massachusetts Octr. 15 1838
Transcript of the Records of marriages.
"Ezekiel Shattuck Metcalf and Eunice Brooks both of Ashburnham were married January the tenth seventeen hundred and eighty two, by Rev. John Cushing" — that it is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in faint illegible figures as follows — "Jan'y. 10 — 1852."
Attest Chas. Stearns Town Clerk.
I Chas. Stearns above named do hereby certify that I held the office of Clerk in the Town, County and State aforesaid & that the above is a true extract from the records of said marriages with the exception herein named, as certified by me.
Chas. Stearns Clerk of the Town of Ashburnham
Worn to Reform
Rev. S. Parker Jun. Pastor

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss. I, Joseph G. Kendall, clerk of the Judicial Courts for said County of Worcester, do certify, that the Honorable Solomon Strong is one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth and County, and was such Justice on the twenty sixth day of August, 1839; and that George G. Parker, Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and was such Justice on the ninth day of September, 1839, and ever since has been such Justice - and that the signatures of said Strong and Parker to the certificates on the papers hereto annexed, are in their proper hand writing. In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and affix the seal of said Court of Common Pleas, at Worcester, this seventh day of January, in the year 1840.
Jos. G. Kendall, Clerk

My
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15875-
Emmice Metcalf Widow of Ezekiel Metcalf Sergt New War
Act: July 14th 38
Index:—Vol. iii , Page 43
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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7569.
Mass.
let to Hon. Levi Lincoln.
Feb. 22. 1841.
to same for Sept. 1841
to Hon. C. Hudson. Sept. 1841
acc 7. July 38

7 th Sept r 1841.
S
Hon:
Charles Hudson H. Rep

Pension Office.
February 22. 1841.
Sir,
I have the honor to inform you that the claim of Mrs. Eunice Metcalf has been examined, and her papers filed under the act of 7 July 1838.
The evidence of the date of the marriage, and of 12 mos. service as a Sergeant under Capt. Edgell, for the year 1778 is satisfactory, but the other terms of service are so imperfectly set forth, that no examination can be made of the rolls. Unless the name of the Commanding officer of the Company in which each term was rendered be furnished, it is impracticable to trace it on rolls indexed by the names of the Officers.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully Your Oat: Servt.
J. L. Edwards
Hon: Levi Lincoln.
House of Representatives.

I, Abraham Sampson of Westminster in the County of Worcester Esquire do hereby certify that I have lately at the family of Stephen Hill, in the County of Worcester Esquire, deposed that I was well acquainted with Michael S. Metcalf of Worcester Esquire deceased husband of Eunice Metcalf I further say that said Michael S. Metcalf entered the Revolutionary Army in the year 1775 in the month of Dec. I think in the Company com- menced by Capt. Hill of Scar- borough Shop. My father Jonathan Sam- son now of said Worcester entered the same Company at the same time, & was stationed at Fort Clinton N.Y. I think they enlisted for the term of two months - I do not know the name of their Col.
Abraham Sampson
Worcester, Aug 18 - 1841 - Then the above named Abm Sampson made oath that the above deposition by him sub- scribed is true - Before me, Geo. G. Packer Esq.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester, ss. I certify, that George L. Parker, Esquire, is a justice of the peace within and for said County of Worcester, duly commissioned and qualified and was such justice on, and before, the 18th of August, 1841 — and that his signature to the certificate on the other side of this paper is in his own proper hand writing. — In testimony whereof, I hereto set my name, and affix the Seal of said County, at Worcester, this first day of February, in the year 1842. — The interlineation of the fifth line above being made before execution hereof.
William Garrison, Atty. Clerk of the Judicial Courts for Worcester County.
I certify that Alvan Sanborn within named is, according to the best of my knowledge and belief a man of good character and disinterested creditable witness.
Geo. L. Parker of said County.

Washington Feb 12, 1842
Dear Sir
I enclose you the deposition of Mr Abraham Levenson, properly authenti- cated. I am well acquainted with Mr L. and know to be a man of unimpeachable char- acter.

Eunice Metcalf Wid of Ezekiel Mass.
Act July 1838
Married 1782
died 1831
Allow 12 nd Supts L 2 nd pr: Mass militia Capt Edgell Col Jacob $ 116.66 per ann
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Hor. Col Hudson
HR

House of Reps July 17 1841
James L. Edwards Esq Comm. of Pensions
Sir
I enclose for your attention the application of Mrs. Eunice Beekley, transmitted to me by Geo. G. Parker, at present a member of the Mass. Legislature, and a most careful and excellent man. Will you allow me to hope for an early examination of the subject