Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,505, for Ebenezer Pray, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Pray, Ebenezer
S. 33,505
CONTENTS

735
Massachusetts Roll
Ebenezer Ray 4
Capt Redding Private Massachusetts Line - 1778. 9 months In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 15 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th of May 1818 and sent to Hon. Edward Bangs, Worcester, Mass.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept r 1818 4 months 20/30 $ 37.33
{Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March, 1818,}
Continued Offord, Worcester Co
Specification of Pension - No. 3 - 1820 to Elijah Bigelow Worcester, Mass

Deposition for Elen. Pray

We the Subscribers do hereby certify that we well knew Ebenezer Pray of Oxford as a soldier in actual Service in Capt. Jebbidee Redding's Comp y in Col. Gannalib's Bradford Regt. in the Mass s . line in the late Revolutionary War that he entered S. Service in the month of June 1778 for the term of Nine months and that he actually served the term of S. Nine months and by the request of Genl. Patterson he continued eighteen days longer in S. Regt. and was regularly discharged
Leonard Evans William Evans
Free town April 25 th 1818 then personally appeared Leonard Evans & William Evans and made solemn oath to the aforesaid Declaration made & signed by them Before me Benjamin Weaver Justice of the Peace

Silv. Learned, Disposition ~~~~~

18 Sylvanus Learned of lawfull age testifies and says that he has been well acquainted with Eben P. Pray ever since the year 1780 that he has heard him the P. Pray repeatedly say that he served nine months in the Continental Army in Capt. Sedgwick's Reading Company in Col. John Baley's Regt. in the Mass'ts line Prior to the 10th of S. year 1780 and that he was regularly discharged and has no doubt of his Discharge. The P. Learned further saith that he has heard the P. Pray often say he had served fifteen months in a Regt. of Artillery Commanded by Col. Elliot in the State of Rhode Island Prior to P. nine months. Further Saith not
Sylvanus Learned
Worcester ss Ap. 11 th 1818
Sylvanus Learned Personally appeared and made solemn Oath to the above declaration by him subscribed
Before me
Samuel Hartwell Justice Peace

State of Massachusetts
I Ebenezer Pray a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Leominster in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the month of June , seven- teen hundred and seventy eight  eight
I entered and was engaged in the Land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the end of March then next following; I had previously served 15 months in a Corps of Artillery raised by the State of Rhode Island as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Capt. Lebedee Readings Company of Infantry, in Col. Dawleys Regiment in the Massachusetts Line, and that I was honourably discharged, and served afterwards 18 days, certainly without remuneration
and that I left the service on April 1779 ; and that my discharge is casually lost
and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty years, and without property, - and that there is no person within sixty miles  years , now living, such as I believe, who knows of my service, and very probably there may be no one living even at that distance
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Ebenezer Pray
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 14 th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, Edw Bangs , one of the judges of the C. C. of Com. Pleas for the Western Circuit of the State comprising the County of Worcester
the abovenamed Ebenezer Pray and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true: & have caused to be affixed the seal of said Court
Edw Bangs

I Silvanus Learned of Oxford in the county of Wor- cester, do declare on oath, that I In addition to what I have already testified in the affidavit herunto annexed, that I am well acquainted with Ebenezer Pray, and know him to be a man of veracity and worthy of credit. Samuel Hoswell
Worcester ss. April 14. 1818—
Silvanus Learned personally appeared, and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed Before me Edw. D. Dange, Justice of the Peace
Ebenezer Pray
15 April
Correct JH

Ebenezer Pray
Oxford.
735
May 18
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Schedule of the Estate of Ebenezer Pray of Oxford, in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Applicant for a Pension under the Act of Congress of May 1. 1820.
  1 Chest - - - - - .40 1 Pair Pincers - - - - - .12   1 Powder Shaller - - - - - .40 6 Awls - - - - - .10   1 " Bason - - - - - .15 6 Lasts - - - - - .14   6 Glass Bottles - - - - - 1.00 1 Tea Spoon - - - - - .20   1 Nar w Axe - - - - - .40 1 Tunnul - - - - - .08   2 old scythes - - - - - .50 Candlestick - - - - - .14   1 Iron - - - - - .33 Cannister - - - - - .06   1 Shoe hammer - - - - - .10   $4.77 
Your declarant further saith that his occupation is a Cordwainer; that he is unable to support himself by his call d by reason of bodily infirmities, and the natural decays of age which essentially disqualifies him for any kind of labour.
Your declarant also saith that he is now dependant on a legacy for a place of residence & support. That he has no wife nor child residing with him, under his care care or controul.
Ebenezer Pray

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this eleventh day of July 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Worcester, established as such by the laws of said Commonwealth, Ebenezer Pray aged sixty two years, resident in Oxford in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: I enlisted into a company of Infantry in the month of June 1778, commanded by Capt. Zebedea Wording in Col. Bradfords Regt. in the Mass. Line under the Continental Establishment, and served 9 months, 28 days, and recd. an honorable discharge from the Col. of said Regiment. My original declaration was then date the 15th day of April 1818, and the certificate I recd. No 735.
and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day 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.
Sworn to and declared, on the eleventh day of July 1820 before the said Court. Ebenezer Pray
Attest, Abijah Bigelow, cler.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is four dollars and seventy seven cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eleventh day of July 1820.
Abijah Bigelow Clerk of the Court for the County of Worcester.

33 505
Rev INVALID.
File No. 33 505
Ebenezer Dyer Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 328
[Arrangement of 1870.]