Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8053, for Eleazar Peck, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Peck, Eleazar
Y.P. 8053
CONTENTS

Eleazer Peck
NY.
Rejected
let to B. R. Folsom Esq. July 22, 1841
ad 7. June '32

State of New York Wyoming County ss Ebenezer Peck of Bennington in said County being duly sworn deponeth and says that he was born in the town of Danbury, Fairfield County, (Connecticut) on the 24 th day of August A.D. 1754. that he resided there with his parents until he was sixteen Years old. that in the Year 1770 he moved with his parents into the town of New Marlborough, Berkshire Co. (Mass.) and that he resided in New Marlborough Forty Years and then moved into Genesee County State of New York in the Year 1810. and resided in the town of Alma in said County Twenty Eight Years and in the Year 1839 he moved into the town of Benning- -ton in said County (now Wyoming County) and has resided in Bennington three Years that he will be Eighty Seven Years old if he should live until next August & that he was married in New Marlborough Mass on the 16 th day of November 1775 (65 Years ago) to his present wife (Who is now living) That on the 15 th day of January 1776 this deponent enlisted under Captain John Dowd of Tyringham Mass. the first & second Lieutenants Names were Richard Bryant and Alex. L. Paton. and that he marched with the said Captain & Company on the first day of February following to Quebec in Canada that they arrived at Quebec about the 11 th day of March following and remained there til the 6 th day of May under Command of Benedict Arnold (as Commander) that in this deponent enlisted for three Months but was retained in service until nearly the last of May about four and a half Months. that he did not receive any discharge but was permitted to return to his family after the Company had returned as far as Scituate. That this deponent transported (for the Continental Army) a load of lumber in November 1776 from Berkshire Mass to Claverick landing in New York to build barracks at West Point

That in the Year 1777 or 1778 this deponent transported two hogheads of Rum for the Continental army from New Paltzborough Neap to Fishkill New York and delivered the same to Comfort and Nathaniel Sands. (Said to be Commissarys.)
That in the Year 1776 this deponent was one of three Men that equally hired a Man whose name this deponent does not now recollect to serve in the Continental Service for three Years and that this deponent & the other men paid said Man as (his) Wages Ninety Dollars. That this deponent was one of three Men who hired a Man (Elijah Peak) to serve in the Continental Army for six Months he thinks in 1777 or 1778. That after the surrender of Burgoyne in the Winter of 1778 this deponent hired David Brooks to go and assist in guarding the stores taken from Burgoyne. That this deponent paid the said Man for the services and further that this deponent never received any pay for his services except the bounty money at the time of enlisting and this deponent further saith that he has never applied for a pension and should not now were it not for his poverty and infirmity being now no longer able to support himself and his aged wife by labor.
Elijah Peak
Sworn to and Subscribed before me This 19th Day of June 1841
Benjamin R. Folsom Justice of the peace

805-3
P. O. Co
Deezer Peak
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
REJECTED
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

K No 35228
Elazar Peck N.Y.
act J. June '32
8053

Pension Office. Chas. Peck 14 July 1841 Hon John Bell Secretary of War Washington D.C. Barnington N.Y. July 7 th

Dear Sir I have taken the affidavit of Mr Eleazar Peck herunto annexed and have volunteered to address you on the subject of obtaining a pension for him as an act of charity. I am well acquainted with the applicant and can furnish the most unques- tionable evidence of the facts therein set forth and also of the endearity and good character of Mr Peck. He is now 87 years old and the most intelligent person that I ever saw of that age his faculties are unimpaired but he is unable to labour from Rheumatism & lameness which he has afflicted some months since to an extent to assist in obtaining a pension but it has been neglected and his earnest requests now is that you should take the trouble to answer this commu- nication & say what the prospect is favourable not. Will you have the goodness to answer this line at as early a day as practicable & much oblige You humble servant.
To the Honourable John Bell B. R. Folsom Bennington Wyoming County July 1 st 1841