Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,954, for Ebenezer Perkins, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Continental
Perkins, Ebenezer
N. 21,954
Mass.
Sarah
Navy.
CONTENTS

Maine 31.171
Ebenezer Perkins of Oxford Co. on the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company command by Captain Turner of the Reg't. comm by Col. Bradford in the Mass. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars ————— Cents per annu to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3. day of August 1837 and sent to Thos. Clark Paris, Maine
Arrears to the 4th of March '37 480.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4. Spt. " 40.00 $ 520.00
{ Revolutionary Claim; } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 — Page 43

1487 Name Sarah Perkins widow of Ebenezer Perkins Maf who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of August 1848 and sent to Joshua Parsons West Minot Me
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 30 Vol. 1,
Reported Lt Dickson Hoomb Mar 20/51.

Ebenezer Perkins
Mary Perkins
Thomas Clarke Paris, Me. agent.

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Oxford - ss.
ON this 20th day of October A. D. 1836, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate - now sitting, Ebenezer Perkins a resident of Heldon - in the county of Oxford - and State of Maine, 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, viz. he enlisted into the service of
the United States, at the several times herein after named, according to the best of his recollection: in the fall of 1776 for the term of one year , at Plympton in the County of Plymouth, Massachusetts, marched to Cambridge. Company commanded by Capt Thomas Mayhew, regiment commanded by Col. Bond; in Gen. Pattersons Brigade: marched to New York and thence to Canada & was there in Arnolds Brigade. In the battle when Gen. Montgomery was killed; returned to Morris town N. J. & there discharged at the expiration of the term & at the solicitation of the officer, enlisted & served for the further term of six weeks : in 1777 enlisted at said Plympton under the same Officers for the term of six months & was honorably discharged at the expiration of said term: in 1778 enlisted for the same term of six months under Capt. Thomas Turner, in Col. Baileys regiment and was in the battle of Monmouth June 20th of that year: & was honorably discharged at the expiration of that term: in 1779 enlisted for the term of six months as a marine, on board ship Warren, Com. Saltonstall. Capt Welch of the marines (Capt Welch was killed) Sailed from Boston to Penobscot in the Bagaduce expedition and was there wounded, and am now an Invalid Pensioner of the United States: the Certificate of which is hereunto annexed. 1780 he enlisted for the term of six months in the company of Capt Thomas Turner or Capt Luther Bailey and was honorably discharged at the expiration of said term - but, if he had written discharges, they have been lost many years - he was born at said Plympton, Massachusetts, on the 14th day of May 1757 where a record of his birth may be found in the records of said town he was an Invalid Pensioner under the act of June 7. 1805. which was increased by act of April 24. 1816. he resided in said Plympton until the year 1810 when he removed to Heldon his present residence.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Elemer Perkins
Before me Stephen Emery - Judge of Probate

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 applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. Said applicant having adduced as evidence in his case, the pension certificate, which is hereto annexed - The Court being personally acquainted with said applicant, & placing confidence in his statement as a man of truth & veracity.
Stephen Emery, Judge
I Joseph G. Cole Register Clerk of the Court of Probate for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Perkins, of Hinton in said County for a pension.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty eighth day of November, A. D. 1836.
CLERK.
Joseph G. Cole Register of Probate

State of Maine County of Cumberland } ss,
Be it Known, that on this sixth day of May A. D. 1853 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Elias Perkins in
resident of Hebron in said County, and made oath according to law that he is the son of  Ebenezer Perkins who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of 1832
That he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
For Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint C. W. BENNETT , of Bradford of Portland & S. J. Coombs of Washington City D. C.  Washington City , my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of Ebenezer Perkins for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Elias Perkins
Sworn to, Subscribed, and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Elias Perkins to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged.
Joshua Parsons, Justice Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Plymouth.
Clerks Office September 29 th , 1843.
I John B. Thomas, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the said County of Plymouth, hereby certify that it appears of record in this Office, that on the seventh day of February, in the year seventeen hundred & sixty, Esmerer Perkins of Sheppardfield and Sarah Weston of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth, were married in Middleborough, in the County aforesaid by the Rev d Joseph Barker.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for the said County of Plymouth on the day and year aforesaid.
John B Thomas

I Stephen Atwood of Minot, County of Cumberland and State of Maine, aged sixty-five years, on oath testify and say that I was born in the town of Middleborough, Mass. and lived there until the year 1801, when I moved to where I now reside, and within one mile of where Ebenezer Perkins lived until he died - and I further say that I well recollect the time (it being before I was twenty-one years of age) on which the said Perkins was married to Sarah Weston of said Middleborough, he the said Perkins, then lived in Shepardfield now Hebron - and the Widow Perkins, who has applied for a pension, is the identical person who was married as above stated, I having been familiarly acquainted with her since the year 1805.
Stephen Atwood
Cumberland ss. December 14 th 1843 Personally appeared the above named Stephen Atwood whom I have been acquainted with for twenty-five years past and know him to be a man of the strictest truth - made solemn oath to the above affidavit by him subscribed to be the truth.
Before me, Joshua Parsons - justice of the Peace
over

That Joshua Parsons is a Justice of the Peace, see Clerk's certificate on Mrs. Perkins' application in the Dist. of March 3. 1843. —

State of Maine } ss. Oxford County
Probate Court March 2 d 1841.
Be it known, that on this Second day of March 1841, it has been satisfactorily proved in open Court, being a Court of Record that Ebenezer Perkins late of Hebron was a Pensioner of the United States, and that he died at said Hebron on the Seventeenth day of Dec 1840, and that Sarah Perkins is the widow of said Ebenezer Perkins, deceased.
[Signed]
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and subscribed my name this twelfth day of May in the year 1841. John Goodenow, Register of Probate
Treasury Department Third Auditor's Office December 26, 1842
The foregoing is a true copy of an original paper on file in this office J. Thompson Acting Aud.

State of Maine } ss. County of Oxford }
At a Probate Court begun and holden at Paris within and for said county of Oxford, on the third Tuesday of October, one thousand eight hundred and forty three - present the Hon Lyman Rawson. On the first day of the term, being the seventeenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared in open court before the said Lyman Rawson, Judge thereof presiding, Sarah Perkins, a resident of Hebron, in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged seventy-seven years, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7: 1830, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" also an act approved the twenty-third day of August, 1842 amendatory thereof.
That she is the widow of Ebenezer Perkins who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, that according to her best belief he served over half the war; that he served in Captain Welch's company of Marines in the Ship Warren, commanded by Dudley Saltonstall, and was at Bastine and volunteered to go ashore at that place in a battle and was wounded, and to that extent

that he received a pension - first forty eight Dollars per annum, then it was increased to sixty Dollars, and after the pension act of 1818 he received ninety-six Dollars or eight Dollars per month; that he also received under the act approved June 7, 1832 eighty Dollars per annum for his Revolutionary services; that he resided in the town of Plympton, Mass. when he entered the service.
She further declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Perkins, on the seventh day of February, in the year, seventeen hundred & ninety, and were married in Middleborough, Mass. by the Rev d . Joseph Barker; that her husband the aforesaid Ebenezer Perkins died on the seventeenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty, as will appear by proof made for obtaining the arrears of her husband's pension, now on file at the pension office; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz: at the time above stated.
Signed in presence of
Patrick Tierney
Sarah her X Perkins mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before General Receiver Judge

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., _____, 190__
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Ebenezer Perkins a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Ent. Plympton, Mass. Fall 76 1 yr 6 mos { Thomas Mayhew Boyd Mass.   " 77 6 mos. " expd. to Canada - "   " 78 6 mos. Thomas Turner Bailey "   * 79 6 mos. Marine { Welch   { Dudley Saltonstall's ship "Warren" Navy   80 6 mos. Thos. Turner Col. Luther Bailey Mass.  
* He was allowed invalid pen. fr. March 17 1786 on acct. of gunshot wd.
Battles engaged in, Pen. & Md. expedition - sustained gsw. of breast - ball broke his clavicle bone & severed thro' left arm
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Plympton, Mass.
Date of application for pension, Oct. 28, 1836. - allowed -
Residence at date of application, Hobson, Oxford Co. Me.
Age at date of application, Born Mar. 14, 1757 at Plympton, Mass.
Remarks: Admitted at Middleborough Mass. July 7, 1790 Sarah Weston. Had at Hobson, Me. Dec. 17, 1840 his appt. Oct. 17, 1843 at 77 yrs old. Hobson, Me.
Very respectfully,
1853 son Elias Perkins was res. of Hobson. No further family data.
Commissioner.

{ 60 per annum Pens fr. { Mch. 17. 1786. Marine Rev. Army under act June 7. 1785 Incr. to B 96 under act. 24. 1816-
Soldier received an invalid and pension from Mch. 17. 1786

Ebenezer Perkins 11-21-954 Navy

THIS certifies that Ebenezer Perkins, a Mexican , an inhabitant of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , who belonged to the Ship Warren commanded by Dudley Saltonstall, Esq. in the service of the United States of America , aged Twenty nine , as appears by Certificates lodged in the Pension-Office, having been examined by me, is found to be disabled in said service by a Musket ball enter. 7 his neck broke his collar bone & went out near the elbow of the left arm . And I do hereby certify that he is entitled to receive Twenty four  shillings per Month, commencing March 1786 agreeably to the Resolution of Congress, of the 7th of June, 1785, and to an Act of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , of the 17th March, 1786.
GIVEN under my hand, at BOSTON , this Ninth day of August in the year of our Lord, 1786, and in the Eleventh year of the Independence of the United States of America .
John Lucas Commissary of Pensions

Ebenezer Perkins
Me. Oct. 1832.
— admitted
J. H. Gould

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court,
PORTLAND,
May 10,
A. D. 1853
I, Charles C. Harmon,
CLERK OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Joshua Parsons Esq. is an
Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for
the County of
Cumberland
as appears by
the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that his COM-
MISSION is dated
Nov. 19 th
A. D. 1850 and will expire
Nov. 19 th
A. D. 1857
and that the following SIGNATURE, purporting to be his
is
GENUINE.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
C. C. Harmon,
Clerk.

5018 March 30/43 Dec 26. 1843
9888
Mayne.
Act July 7 1838
March 3. 1843
Sarah Perkins
Issue 2 certificates
Act 1838
" 1843 Ebenezer
$800 per share
Sent cut. to Har
Elk Harris Present
Conner
General

Chas Perkins Maine
Bus see the Thomas Black Sept 27 1877 Adm J. P. M. Capt. Cat. line, Capt. Furner & Col. Bradford D. J. $ 80 per ann
Ad 7 June 1872

Sarah Perkins application under the act of 1838.

State of Maine } County of Oxford } ss.
I, George F. Emery, Register of Probate in the county of Oxford, do hereby certify, that the within proceedings were had in open court, and that the Hon. Lyman Rawson presided in said court, and is the judge thereof; the same being a court of record. And I do further certify that the signature at the bottom of the proceeding page is the genuine signature of said judge,
In testimony of all which I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the public seal of said court
Geo. F. Emery Register

I Moses Dunham of Hartford in the County of Oxford & State of Maine, of eighty years of age, testify and say that I served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war for five years, at different periods that I am knowing to the service of Ebenezer Perkins of Hebron in said County of Oxford, and that the said Ebenezer Perkins enlisted for and served one year, that was to say the year 1776 in company commanded by Capt Thomas Mayhew, Col. Bonds Regiment, and I further say that I served in the same company with the said Ebenezer Perkins during that year, viz, 1776 and that he the said Perkins lived in the town of Plympton in the State of Massachusetts at the time of his enlistment into the service of the United States Moses Dunham
State of Maine.
Oxford County ss.
I Thomas Clark, a Notary Public, in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Simeon Barrett Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission is dated on the 8th day of February 1833, and will expire on the 8th day of February 1840, and that his signatures written to the annexed deposition of Moses Dunham and Meshach Keen are genuine.
Given under my hand and Notarial Seal this 29th day of June 1839
Thomas Clark, Notary Public, Oxford County & State of Maine.

I Moses Dunham of Hartford in the County of Oxford & State of Maine, of eighty years of age, testify and say that I served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war for five years, at different periods that I am knowing to the service of Ebenezer Perkins of Hebron in said County of Oxford, and that the said Ebenezer Perkins enlisted for and served one year, that is to say the year 1776 in company commanded by Capt Thomas Mayhew, Col. Bonds Regiment, and I further say that I served in the same company with the said Ebenezer Perkins during that year, viz, 1776 and that he the said Perkins lived in the town of Plympton in the State of Massachusetts at the time of his enlistment into the service of the United States Moses Dunham
State of Maine
Oxford ss June 26, 1837 Then the above named Moses Dunham to me well known as a man of truth and in sound mind, personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit before me
Simson Barrett Justice of the Peace

I Meshach Keen of Sweden in the County of Oxford and State of Maine, of seventy eight years of age, testify and say that I served as a Soldier in the Revolutionary War for fifty two months, at different periods, that I am knowing to the service of Ebenezer Perkins of Hebron in the County of Oxford and State of Maine in the same War as a Soldier. I know that the said Ebenezer Perkins served nine months in the Company commanded by Capt Thomas Turner and Col. Bradford's Regiment in the year 1777 and I further say that the said Ebenezer Perkins was with me during the time specified as above in the State of New York mostly, and in the vicinity of the City of New York, and that when the said Ebenezer Perkins enlisted into service of the United States, he resided in the Town of Plympton in the County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts. And I further say that I do not know of any other service of the said Ebenezer Perkins during the Revolutionary war.
his Meshach + Keen mark
State of Maine
Oxford ss June 27, 1837 Then the above named Meshach Keen to me well known as a man of truth & in sound mind, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit before me
Simson Barritt Justice of the Peace

Rep d ,
Maine 8023
Sarah Perkins
widow of Ebenezer Perkins
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 17 th Dec r . 1840 of Oxford Co. in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Turner of the regt. commanded by Col. Bradford in the Mass. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of Jan. 1844 and sent to M. A. K. Paris, Present
Total amount, $ 400
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. Brown, Clerk, Book D. Vol. 1. Page 13.

Maine 4428
Rep.
Sarah Perkins
Col. to State Leade Mar 26:45
widow of Ebenezer Perkins who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of Jan. 1844 and sent to Hon. A. K. Parris Present
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 1, Page 8.

Washington 17 March 1887.
Sir,
In the case of Sarah Perkins widow of Ebenezer Perkins I beg leave to say that I consider the widow entitled to both the Invalid and Revolutionary pension and on her behalf claim the same. —
Yours very respectfully Francis A. Perkins.
James E Heath Esq Com d of Pensions.

Dec. 26. 1843 -
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir
Herewith I transmits two applications made by Sarah Perkins, widow of Ebenezer Perkins deceased for pensions under the Acts of 1838 and 1843
Will you direct that these applications have an early examination -
Truly
Abner H. Parsons

5018
Sarah Perkins application under the Act of March 3. 1843. —

State of Maine.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
I Charles Cobb Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, certify that, Joshua Parsons is a Magistrate _____
as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is _____ duly qualified to act as such; that his Commission bears date March 16 th A.D. 1843 and will expire March 16 th A.D. 1850 _____
and that the _____ following _____ signature purporting to be his is _____ genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the
Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, this Sixth day of December Anno Domini 1843.
Charles Cobb CLERK.

Issue a new Certificate.
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington

The Turner Roll Israel Perkins Jr. Physician The Turner 1807/78 Israel Perkins - Physician The Turner 1811/76 Israel Perkins The Turner 1817/77 Israel Perkins Aug 79 1818/78 Dec 80 1819/79 Dec 81 1820/80 29 Vol 1 p 254
Maine
Ebenezer Perkins, Marine Navy U. States.
Inscribed on the roll of Mar 1 st 1805 increased to $8 per mo by law of 24 April 1816, transferred to the roll of Maine on 9 th Oct r from 11 th Sep r 1818.
Certificate issued 27 th of May 1820 & sent to John Murphy Esq. Portland, Maine.
It is relating to this pen- sion, (perhaps) written by Rev. S. K. Parsons, Ap. 7-11-31.

Portland May 18 th 1820
Sir
Enclosed I transmit the application for a new Pension Certificate of Ebenezer Perkins. His original certificate was forwarded to the War Department by me on the 11 th Sept 1818 in order that he might be transferred from the Massachusetts to the Maine Agency: he was accordingly so transferred but his certificate was not returned to me & according to his declaration was not received by him. If the enclosed should be satisfactory would request his new certificate might be transmitted me
Yours obed t sent John Mussey Jun r
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington

I James Goff of Minot. in the County of - Cumberland. & State of Maine. on oath do testify and say. that: I served in the company of Captain Thomas Mayhew in the Regiment commanded by - Col. Bond. one year. It being the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six. in the Canadian Expedition. and I further state that. Owen Perkins now of Hesper. served with me. in said Company. during said term of one year. as a private. James Goff
State of Maine - County of Cumberland } ss. On this fifteenth day of June. A.D. 1837. personally appeared - James Goff of Minot in said County of Cumberland. and made oath that the above. deposition by him subscribed is true Edward T. Little Justice of the Peace.

This may certify that I have long known James Goff the deponent. and that I believe him to be a man of truth & veracity.
Danville May 15 th A.D. 1837 - Edward S. Little
Justice of the Peace
State of Maine } Oxford County ss } I Thomas Clark, a Notary Public in & for the county of Oxford & State of Maine, do hereby certify, that Edward S. Little Esq. is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said county of Cumberland, duly commissioned & qualified: that his commission is dated on the 10 th day of February 1832 & will expire on the 10 th day of February 1839 & is recorded in the records of the Secretary of State of the State of Maine Vol 8 th Page 196, and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand & Notarial Seal this 27 th day of June 1837
Thomas Clark, Notary Public. Oxford County State of Maine.

Paris Me ap 17
Free
James L. Edwards Esq.
Mr. S. B.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington
3026 Glen Terhune Maine

Paris, Me. April 15th. 1837.
Dear Sir:
In your letter of the 7th inst. to the Hon. A. S. Parris on the subject of my enquiry relative to certain claims, you state that "the object of referring to the case of Ebenezer Perkins should be stated", and that "there is an Invalid Pensioner of that name on the Maine agency, and if he has applied under any other law, it should be stated, with the date of such application". On the 20th day of October last, the identical Ebenezer Perkins made his declaration before the Probate Court, to entitle him to the benefit of the act of June 7th. 1832. and therein "relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present" and, as evidence of, & to support his claim, his Certificate, as an Invalid Pensioner, was annexed to his said declaration. I made application at the office of the Secretary of State, of Massachusetts, for the evidence to support the claim, and in answer, was informed that the Rolls of that department had been loaned to the Government of the United States. I forwarded said declaration to your department about the 20th of Nov. last - and have had no reply - And in consequence of the annulation of the said Invalid Certificate, the said Perkins is deprived of receiving his semi-annual payment - of March 11th. 1837. I had supposed from all the precedents, that his being an Invalid Pensioner could be no bar to his claim under the act of June 7th. 1832.
In the case of Mary Stevens widow of Jonas Stevens, the affidavit of David Jordan, a very respectable witness , was annexed, stating explicitly that he was present at the marriage of Jonas Stevens to Mary Crandall, now Mary Stevens. It would seem that such evidence is as strong as any record evidence that can be produced - With much respect, I am
Your Ob. Servt.
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions.
Thomas Clarke

Paris, Me. June 29. 1837.
Sir,
I here with transmit the affidavits of Moses Dunham, Meshach Keen and James Goff as further evidence in the case of Ebenezer Perkins which is all the proof he is enabled to procure to support his claim. Which, with that of eight months, already established, makes two years and five months service - and which I hope & trust will prove satisfactory to the War Department -
Your Obedient Servant
Thomas Clark
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions -

L. P.
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4478
admitted
Joshua Parsons West Minot Me

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
CLERK'S OFFICE, JUDICIAL COURTS,
Portland,
July 31st
A. D. 1848.
I,
Charles C. Harmon
CLERK of all the
JUDICIAL COURTS in and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND,
certify that
Nashua Parsons
acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of
Cumberland
as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that
he is
Duly qualified to act as such; that the Commission of the said
Parsons is
dated March 10th
is dated A. D. 1848,
and will expire
March 16th
A. D. 1850.
and that the
his are following Genuine.
SIGNATURE purporting to be
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, the day and year first above written.
Charles C. Harmon , CLERK.

Sarah Perkins widow of Ebenzer Perkins.
Filed by Drokins 2 Coombs.

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Probate Office, PORTLAND, Feby, 13. A. D. 1857
I, Freeman Bradford Register of Probate,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Joshua Parsons, is an
Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed, that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the COMMISSION of the said Parsons is dated Nov. 19th. A. D. 1850 and will expire Nov. 19th A. D. 1857
and that the following SIGNATURE, purporting to be his is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal official of said Court, the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford Register.

Malden, Mass.
March 7, 1907.
War Department, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
Will you kindly give me what information you have relative to Dr. Ebenezer Perkins, who was a pensioner of the Revolutionary War, and lived in Hebron, Maine, at one time. He may

have enlisted in Middleborough, Mass.
Thanking you in advance for the courtesy, I am,
Yours truly (Mrs.) Estella E. S. Evans.
314 Washington St., Walden, Mass.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
1907 mch. 21. History to Mrs. Estelle E. S. Evans c
File No. 21954
Sarah Perkins Wid of Ebenezer Perkins Pris. Rev. War
Act Feb 2 d 1848.
Index : Vol 16 , Page 124
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of Maine
Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 2 d , February 1848, entitled "an act making further provisions for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."
County of Cumberland, ss.
On this twenty sixth day of July A.D. 1848 Personally appeared Sarah Perkins, a resident of Hebron, in the county of Oxford and State aforesaid, aged eighty two years who first being duly sworn according to law, on her oath, makes the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit or provision of the act Feb. 2 d . That she is the widow of Ebenezer Perkins, who was an Invalid and Revolutionary Soldier, and resided, when he enlisted, in Plympton, County of Plymouth, Mass. and believes he was in Capt. Mayhew's Co. and also in Capt. Welch's Company who was killed at the battle, when he was wounded in the arm. She further states she was formally a Pensioner of the U. S. under the acts of 1838, 1843, and 1844, and drew eighty Dollars per annum. For further particulars, reference to be had to papers on file in the Pension Office.
She further states that she remains unmarried. Witness Elizabeth Parsons M. A. Parsons
Sarah her Perkins Mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written. Before me, Joshua Parsons { Justice of the Peace
I certify that Sarah Perkins is personally known to me, to be the identical person she describes herself to be in the foregoing declaration.
Joshua Parsons, J. P.

State of Maine
County of Cumberland ss
On this eleventh day of May A.D. 1820; before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Cumberland, personally appeared Ebenezer Perkins, who on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged as a Marine to the Ship Warren commanded by Dudley Saltonstall Esquire in the service of the United States: that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Massachusetts, that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature of John Lucas Commissioner of Pensions: which certificate, on or about the eleventh day of September in the year 1818 at Portland was enclosed in a letter to the Secretary of War, together with his written request to have his said pension transferred from the Massachusetts to the Maine Agency: that said enclosure was made by John Mussey Junr of said Portland by his said Perkins' request: that agreeably to his request he was transferred and received notice of the same but that his original pension certificate was not enclosed in said notice, nor has he at any time since received said certificate although he has made frequent enquiries at the Cumberland Bank therefor neither has said Mussey received the same as will fully appear by his certificate on the Vouch hereof: And he now wishes, agreeably to late regulation, to obtain a formal certificate from under the hand and seal of the Secretary of War —
Ebenezer Perkins
Sworn and subscribed to } before me, the day and } year aforesaid —
John Mussey Junr Justice of the Peace " " " "
United States of America
Maine District ss
I hereby certify that John Mussey Junr who subscribed the preceding certificate is a Justice of the Peace duly appointed & qualified for Cumberland County within said District — In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & Official seal this 12 th May 1820 —
Alcion H. Parris U. S. Dist. Judge

I hereby certify that at the request of the within named Ebenezer Perkins I enclosed in a letter to the Honorable the Secretary of War on or about the eleventh day of September A.D. 1818, said Perkins' original pension certificate with other papers relating thereto, requesting that he might be transferred from the Massachusetts to the Maine Agency: I also certify that in said letter I requested that said pension certificate might be returned to me and that said Perkins was according to his request transferred but that said pension certificate has never been received by me and presume that if it was re-enclosed to me, it must have been lost upon its passage as it has never reached me—
Portland May 11 th 1820
John Mussey Jun d

Oct. 31, 1845.
Proof of service of Elizer Perkins.
Philo Leach Esq Bridgewater Mass

Supplementary. Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston; Aug. 14 1845.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Ebenezer Perkins is borne as a private upon a pay roll of Capt. Nathan Packard's Comp y in Col. Thomas Carpenter's reg t . for service at R.I. from July 25 to Sept. 9, 1778, 1 month, 14 days. No towns are named upon the roll, but it is was sworn to in Plymouth County, and Capt. Packard belonged to Bridgewater.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John D. Sleeper. Secretary of the Commonwealth.

State of Maine } ss. Cumberland County }
On this fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, personally appeared before the undersigned, a justice of the Peace, within and for said county, Sarah Perkins, a resident of Hebron, county of Oxford and state aforesaid, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3 d March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Ebenezer Perkins who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution, that he served over half the War; She has not received a Pension under the act of July 7; 1838 but she is entitled to receive under said act, and an act approved the twenty-third day of Augt., eighteen hundred and forty-two amendatory thereof, and has made application for the same. She further declares that she is still a widow
Signed in presence of B. J. Parsons.
Sarah her Perkins mark
The above named Sarah Perkins, I am personally acquainted with, and know her to be the widow as above declared - Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, Before me, Joshua Parsons justice of the Peace

State of Maine
Cumberland County, ss.
On this tenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one; personally appeared before the Subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Sarah Perkins, who resides in Halloway, and maketh oath before me that she is the widow of Ebenezer Perkins late of Halloway, deceased; that her said husband was a pensioner of the United States under the act of the 24 th April 1816 at the rate of 895 dollars per annum as will appear by documents on file in the War office of the United States. She states that her said husband was a mariner on board the ship Warren, commanded by Dudley Saltonstall Esq., in the service of the United States of America and was disabled in said service by a muskett ball entering his chest, breaking his collar bone, and going out near the elbow of his left arm, and received a pension of twenty four shillings per month, agreeably to a Resolution of Congress of the 7 th of June 1785, and increased by an act of the  Congress  Legislature of Mass.  of the 11 th of March 1790 and  the  of 24 th April 1816 to ninety six  that the pension was increased under said acts to  100 dollars per annum; and she believes that his pension under the act of 1832 should have been computed at a

a higher rate than eighty Dollars per annum; She claims in this her application an increase of Pension under the joint resolution of July 1, 1848 a pension at the rate of $96 per annum that being the amount that her said husband received as an invalid pension. She further claims an increase of Pension that was due her husband from the 4 th March 1831 to the 17 th day of December 1840 the day of his death, and also an increase of Pension that is due her under the acts of 1838, 1843, 1844, & 1848, to be computed agreeably to grade and capacity of her said husband in the army & navy of the Revolution. And she states that she is still a widow, and for evidence in her case, refers to her own declaration and those of her late husband, for the benefits of the acts aforesaid.
Witness. John W. Parsons Sarah her X Perkins mark John Perkins
Then personally appeared, on the day and year first above written, Sarah Perkins, whom I have been acquainted with for over thirty years past, and know to be the identical person she represents herself to be, and made oath that the same is true.
Before me,
Joshua Parsons { Justice of the Peace