Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45063, for Ebenezer Perkins, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Perkins, Ebenezer
S 45063
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17511 R New Hampshire
Ebenezer Perkins
of Dunstable in the state of New Hampshire who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Prescott of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 of June 1820 and sent to J. K. Smith Esq. Judge of Amherst N.H.
Arrears to 4th of March 1820. 22 mos 30 3/4, 183.43 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1820. 48 —
$ 231.40
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Application sent to J. K. Smith Amherst N.H. July 19. 1820 Died July 20. 1820 See A. B.

Ebene Perkins -
J. K. Smith
Judge
Amherst P.H.
Admitted
#17,023 -

Eleut. Perkins of Sworn to Ap. 7 th 1010 Mr Lint year

I Ebenezer Perkins a resident citizen of the United States in the Town of Dunbarton in the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire Laborer now in the sixty first year of my age Do solemn- ly swear that In 1775 soon after Lexington Battle I enlisted for the term of eight months in Capt. Moores Company in the Regt. commanded by Col. Prescott in the Mass- achussetts Line which time I faithfully - served out & immediately enlisted without returning home for the term of one year to begin the forepart of Jan y 1776 into Col. Moores Company in Col. Prescotts Regiment in the Massachusetts Line which term of one year I faithfully served out and was honorably discharged by my Officers but without quitting the service being then in a place called the Highlands in New York I enlisted for the term of three years or during the war into Capt. Ba- keis Company in Col. Baileys Regt. in the Massachusetts Line where I served untill a little before Burgoyne - surrendered & was in the first battle at Saratoga in New York I was ordered out in a Corporals guard & was taken by sur- prise by a Company of Tories & was pricked in the breast by one of them & should have
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been killed had not one of them struck of the bayonet there were six of us in the Guard we were carried prisoners to Moreall & from thence to Quebec in Canada & was then removed to St Johns & the Isle of Rose where they put me to work & I soon after made my escape from them & when I came to Crown Point I was told that peace had taken place & returned home & never after joined the army as I under- stood my Reg t had broken up. I never received any discharge or pay having been a prisoner better than two years I further declare that I have never been placed on the Pension list of Invalids & that I am in reduced Circumstances & stand in need of assistance from my Coun- try for support not being the owner of any property & live by my labour and the assistance of the Town of Danstable aforesaid where I have been helped for the last three years
Test. to the signature of Eben: Perkins mark
I Ebenezer his + Perkins mark
Israel Harot Abel Gardner
Sworn to this seventh day of April A.D. 1810
Before me J. H. Smith } Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, for 1 st County of Hillsboro

We Thomas Lindinn and Moody Dustin Lovewell do depose and say that we are two of the select men of the Town of (Constable State of New Hampshire and County of Hillsborough) and overseers of the Poor of said town we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Perkins who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution and who is an inhabitant of said town and a Pauper maintained at the expence of said Town.
Thomas Lindinn Moody Lovewell
State of New Hampshire Hillsborough ss Feb y 29 th 1820 Then the above named Thomas Lindinn and Moody Lovewell personally appeared and made Oaths that the above affidavit by them subscribed is true before me.
Israel Hunt Justice of Peace.
This certifies that Tho s Lindinn & Moody Lovewell are both creditable witnesses in courts of Law & that Israel Hunt who made the above certificate is an Acting Justice of the Peace for said County of Hillsborough & whose official acts as such are intitled to credit by the Laws of the State of New Hampshire.
J. H. Smith } Associate Judge of the Court of Pleas for said Co. Hillsborough

Affidavit Tho. S. Linder and Maudie D. Linder Eben Perkins' app ts .

J. H. Smith Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Hillsborough do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Ebenezer Per- kins did serve in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy on the continental Establish- ment nine months or longer as he has stated in his declaration before me and I further certify that the said Ebenezer Perkins by reason of his redu- ced circumstances in life stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support and now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to Act of Congress of March 3 d 1810  J. H. Smith } Associate Judge of the Com. Pleas for Co. of Hillsboro
This Certifies that the signature of J. H. Smith on this paper is in his own hand writing & that he is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hillsborough aforesaid In testimony whereof I have here affixed the seal of said Court.
Moses Eastman Clerk

copy
100
Elmer Perkins
17,501
13 June 1890

And the said Ebenezer Perkins doth here in Court further declare on oath, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows, viz. That in the year 1776 he enlisted as a private soldier in Capt Joseph Moore's company in Col. William Prescott's Regt. in the Massachusetts line for one year that he faithfully served said term out and was regularly discharged at the Highlands so called in the State of New York.
That the date of his original declaration in order to obtain a pension is April 7. 1818 And the number of his pension certificate is 17507 That his occupation is a laborer That the number and names of his family residing with him, and their ages and capacities to contribute to their support, are as follows, viz. wife aged about fifty years who is able to do some work - one daughter who is maintained by the Town she not being able to support herself
his Ebenezer Perkins mark
Wherefore he prays the opinion of the said Court as to the value of the property contained in the said Schedule and that the same together with a copy of the premises be duly certified, to the Secretary of War.
Sworn and declared before the Hon. J. Burling J. K. Smith Justices of said Court the 5 th day of July 1820
Abner Strong Clerk
Hillsborough ss.] Court of Common Pleas. July 5.
The aforesaid Schedule and oath, and the above declaration, duly subscribed and sworn by the said Perkins having been by him exhibited in person and presented to the Court, and the same being seen and considered:
It is the opinion of said Court, that the value of the property, contained in said Schedule is none
Wherefore the Court order that a copy of the premises with the proceedings thereon, be duly certified, to the Secretary of War.
Attest,
Abner Strong Clerk.
Hillsborough ss.] I  Abner Strong Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the said County of Hillsborough being a Court of record, do certify, That the foregoing Schedule and oath and the declaration annexed, with the proceedings and opinion of the Court thereon, are truly copied from the records and files of said Court.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the 5 th day of July 1820
Abner Strong Clerk.

TO the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting at Amherst within and for the County of Hillsborough and State of New-Hampshire.
Ebenezer Perkins  1820  July 5 th aged Sixty two resident in Dunstable in said County, comes into Court, and, in pursuance of an Act of Congress, passed on the 1st day of May, 1820, brings with him, and in his proper person, exhibits to said Court a Schedule by him subscribed, containing his whole estate, and income, (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted) as follows:
None
Ebenezer  his  X Perkins mark
And the said Ebenezer Perkins in pursuance as aforesaid, produceth to said Court the following oath, by him duly taken and subscribed, viz:
I Ebenezer Perkins do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

April 21, 1939
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BA-J/MCS
Ebenezer Perkins, S. 45063
Mr. Ralph C. Perkins 23 Pleasant Street South Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Dear Sir:
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S.45063, based on the military service of Ebenezer Perkins.
The date and place of birth of this soldier and the names of his parents are not shown.
He enlisted in 1775, soon after the battle of Lexington, place not shown, and served eight months in Captain Moore's company on Colonel Prescott's Massachusetts regiment. At the expiration of this service, he immediately enlisted and served one year beginning the forepart of January, 1776, in Captain Joseph Moore's company in Colonel William Prescott's Massachusetts regiment. At the expiration of this service he enlisted in Captain Baker's company in Colonel Bailey's Massachusetts regiment, was in the first battle of Saratoga and just before the surrender of Burgoyne he was ordered out in a corporal's guard and was taken prisoner by a company of Tories, received a bayonet wound in the chest, was carried to Montreal, then to Quebec, from there to St. Johns and finally to "Isle of Noxe" (possibly meant for Ile-aux-Noix) where he was put to work but he made his escape and when he reached Crown Point he was "told that peace had taken place."
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1818, at which time he was sixty years of age and was living in Dunstable, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
He stated in 1820 that his wife was about fifty years of age and referred to a daughter but gave no names. There are no further family data.
Ebenezer Perkins died July 26, 1824.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Affidavit Sam t Laurence Esq. Eben Perkins ap

I Samuel Laurence of Groton in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Do depose and say that among services which I performed during the War of the Revolution, was the year service (so called) which commenced, the first of January AD 1776, in which I was an Ensign, in the Company of Capt. Joseph Moors, in the Regt. of Col. William Prescott, of the Massachusetts line, and I well remember one Ebenezer Perkins (who is now said, to live at Dunstable - in the State of New Hampshire) and as present, when I make this Deposition, and know that he belonged to said Company, that he came into it, or was previously, in it, in the eight months service, about the first of January AD 1776 at Cambridge, that he proceeded with the Regiment, to New York, and continued, in said Company until the expiration, of said year, and was discharged, and dismissed with the Company, at the Highlands, in New York, the first of January AD 1777.
Capt. Joseph Moors who lives in said Groton by reason of his great age and infirmity, having lost his mental powers is incapable of making an Affidavit. —
Sam d Laurence
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On the twenty fifth day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand, Eight Hundred and twenty, before me the Subscriber Chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit, and a justice of the Peace, throughout the same Commonwealth, personally appeared the above named Samuel Laurence Esq d and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is just and true in all particulars. — And I certify that the said Samuel Laurence is well known to me as a respectable magistrate for the County of Middlesex, well entitled to full faith and entire credit before all tribunals and in all places, and is believed to be wholly disinterested in the application of Ebenezer Perkins to be placed on the pension list. —
Sam d Dana

Hon. John C. Calhoun
Sec y of War
Washington City
Please this with the original papers in the Calhoun-

Dunstable - N Hamp. Sept. 2 o 1820
Hon. J. C. Calhoun
Sir,
The undersign d , Selectmen & Overseers of the Poor for the Town of Dunstable, beg leave respectfully to state, that they have in their possession the Original Pension Certificate granted to Eben t . Perkins, an Inhabitant of this Town, that the s d . Perkins hath reciev d . assistance & support for himself & family, from s d . Town being unable to maintain himself & them - The undersign d . further represent, that s d . Perkins, in their opinion, is a person incapable of taking care of his property, & as such they have petition d . the Judge of Probate for this County, that a Guardian may be appointed over him - said application is now pending & will be decided at the next term of s d . Court in October next - The undersign d . make this representation, with a request, that no other Certificate may issue in his favor, till the afores d . application for a Guardian is determin d . by the Court & if none shou d . be appointed the Certificate, now in their possession will be deliv d . to him - It having been understood, that an application

for a new Certificate, won't be made to you, it was tho't prop- er to advise your Excellency of the true situation of the business, & the grounds, upon which the Certificate is withheld, it being intended purely for the ultimate benefit & advantage of the s d Perkins.
Stephen Bates } Select-men Cyrus Pollard } of Eleazer G. Ingalls } Dunstable New-Hamp.
P.S. The expence attending the obtaining s d Certificate was borne by the Town - s d Perkins being unable to do any part of it.

April 21, 1939
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Mr. Ralph C. Perkins 23 Pleasant Street South Dartmouth, Massachusetts
BA-J/MMHF/MCS Ebenezer Perkins, S.45063
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letters in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Ebenezer Perkins of Middletown, New Hampshire, Corporal, husbandman, age 25, in Captain Jonathan Wentworth's company, Colonel Enoch Poor's regiment, who, you believed lived near Hampden and Bangor, Maine. You cite his military record as having been found in the Pension Bureau.
The military record to which you refer is now in the War Department, the Pension Office being at one time in that department, therefore, the citation does not indicate that all soldiers named on such lists were pensioners.
The Revolutionary War pension records, now in the custody of the Veterans Administration, have been searched and no claim for pension found based upon service of an Ebenezer Perkins of Maine and only one found for service of an Ebenezer Perkins of New Hampshire. His record is furnished you herewith.
If this is not the Ebenezer Perkins in whom you are interested, and you will furnish all data you have in regard to your own, such as approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of wife or widow, another search of the records will be made in your behalf.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

RALPH C. PERKINS Right Mill Box Box BAIR RIVER, MASS.
23 Pleasant Street, South Dartmouth, Mass.
April 12, 1939
Veterans Administration, Washington, D. C.
Attention: Mr. W. C. Black, Chief Clerk
Dear Sirs:
Thank you for your letter of April 8, 1939 replying to my letters of February 23rd and April 5th.
The reason for this letter is merely to note that at the top of your letter of April 8th you say "refer to: BA-G Perkins, Enoch". I suppose this name Enoch is just an error as my interest refers to an Ebenezer Perkins who was listed in the records of the Pension Bureau on a list dated August 1, 1775 as Corporal, husbandman, age 25, in Capt. Jonathan Wentworth's Company, Col. Enoch Poor's Regiment.
Very truly yours,
ROP:BMK

RALPH C. PERKINS Edgerton, Wis. Box 71 FALL RIVER, MASS.
23 Pleasant Street, South Dartmouth, Mass.
April 5, 1939
The Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:
I recently saw, copied from the records of The Pension Bureau, a list dated August 1, 1775 of Capt. Jonathan Wentworth's Company, Colonel Enoch Poor's Regiment, which included the name of Ebenezer Perkins, Middletown (Middleton) New Hampshire. This Ebenezer Perkins is listed in the Company List as Husbandman, age 25, and Corporal.
As part of a genealogical record, I am interested in the War Record or any other record of this Ebenezer Perkins which you may have.
It is my understanding that this Ebenezer Perkins lived in and around Hampden, Maine, near Bangor, and if he did not die before pensions were established for Revolutionary War soldiers you may have him in your records as a pensioner and also have some record of when he died and of whom his family consisted.
I shall greatly appreciate any interest you may take in passing on to me any information you may have.
Very truly yours,
RCR:BMK

45063
Rev. INVALID.
File No. 45063
Ebenezer Perkins Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 391
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1939, Apr. 21. Invt. to Mr. Ralph C. Perkins. 45063