Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33428, for Ephraim Parmenter, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
or Parmenter, Ephraim Parimunter
S. 33428
CONTENTS

3420.
Massachusetts Roll
Ephraim Parminter, 4
Capt Wilder
private
massachusetts line - 1779. 9 months in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 17 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th of October 1818 and sent to Edw d D. Bangs Esq r Worcester Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Sept. - 1818 36.80 Semi-annual acct ending 4 th Mar. 1819 48.00
Arrears 4 Mo. 18/80 $84.80
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Not entitled Winchendon, Worcester Co
Massachusetts Roll of Pensions Ephraim Parminter, private Capt Wilder

I Daniel Bartlett of Westminster in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Physician do hereby certify and say that Ephraim Parmachute of Glen Haven in the County of Westminster was a private soldier in the bands serving in the Revolutionary war of the United States in the Continental establishment in the year 1779. in the tenth Massachusetts Regiment in which Regiment I was Surgeon - That I well knew Mr. Parmachute, at the he having been, in said year, a waiter to me - I have ever since since known him acquainted with said Parmachute that he sustains a good character for truth -
Daniel Bartlett
Worcester, April 20. 1848. Personally appeared the above named Daniel Bartlett & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me, Geo. H. Austin, Justice of the Peace

Spht m Barmintar
17 April
Not on Rolls JH
Admitted

Ephraim Parmeter a soldier in the 3 d Company 10 th Massachusetts Regiment having served out his time of service for Nine Months and hereby discharged the service of the United States and hath leave to return home to said State given at Westpoint this 30 th day of April 1780
Nathanial Wingland Major
When I was a young man I was stationed in the town of Westpoint where I was then stationed. but by loss of time my discharge was lost or mislaid & cannot be found 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 six years —
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts holden within and for said County of Worcester, certify, that Alexander D. Dinsmore before whom the annexed affidavits have been made, and Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that their names subscribed thereto are their own proper signature.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, this twenty sixth day of September,
A. D. 1818.
Application of Ephraim Parmeter of Winchendon.
made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction with the seal of said Court Edward Brags

State of Massachusetts — Ephraim Doolittle
a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Worthington in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on in the fore part of May A. 1775
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 December A. 1775 - and again I entered and was engaged in the same service from the fore part of the month of August A. 1779 to some time in the month of May A. 1780 as a private soldier — against the common enemy, without any interrup- except the time between the two periods tion or absence: that I belonged to the Massachusetts line in with the above campaigns - in the first I belonged to Col. Ephraim Doolittle's Regt. Capt. Abel Wheeler's Company (The Brig. unknown) in to which line or corps I was attached and belonged for the term of eight months when I was honorably discharged - when I entered in A. 1779 I belonged to the Massachusetts line Gen. Bates's Brig. Col. M. Shaff's Regt. & Capt. William Haws's Company to which last line of corps I was attached and belonged for the full term of - and that I left the service on nine months - when I was again honorably discharged by the command of Gen. Gates at which time I was then stationed - but by lapse of time my discharge was lost or mis- laid & cannot be found — 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 six years —
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.
Ephraim Doolittle
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 18 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,
Edward Bangs
Ephraim Doolittle —
Judge of the Common Pleas Western Circuit the abovenamed Ephraim Doolittle
and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination du- made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
At the seal of said Court
Edward Bangs

Lowestoft ss. Sept. 17. 1818 — Personally appeared the within named Ephraim Parmentine and made solemn oath, that at the time of making his Declara- tion on the 17 th day of April last he had mislaid his discharge and supposed it lost, but has since discovered it among some old papers; and that the paper now annexed hereto is signed by Major Nathaniel Winslow was rec d by the said Parmentine as an honourable discharge on the day on which it purports to be dated.
Before me Edw. D. Bangs, Justice of Peace

Ephraim Burmester
3420 Oct 1818
March 1819
Nicholson
Not entitled
the said Court on this day personally appeared the said Ephraim Burmester, being known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged that he executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed. Given under my hand and the seal of the said Court this 10th day of March, 1819.  ELIZABETH BRETLOW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.
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Schedule of the Estate of Ephraim Farnsworth, of Winchendon in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Appli- cant for a Pension under the Act of Congress of May 1. 1820. Real Estate, about forty acres valued at $300.
   1 Yoke Oxen 60.-   1 Cow Half 19.-   3 Sheep 0.-   1 Old plough 1.50   1 draft chain 1.-   1 Old Cart 5.-   1 Cedar Barrel .25   1 Small pine table .50   1/2 doz old chairs 1.-   1 Small looking Glass 0.50   part of old tea set .75   2 pails .30   3 milk pans .25   1 Yoke 1.-   $397.05  
The number and situation of my family who reside with me and are dependant on me for support is as follows; - my wife aged 64 years, very infirm and for many years past not able generally to do more than to take care of herself; - one son named Peter aged 42 years, who has been from a child, totally unable to do any thing towards his support, by reason of fits, seizures and derangement; he has been at all times, and is now, very expensive, and needs great care and constant attention by day and night. one daughter named Lucy aged 24 years, with her child 3 years old, both of whom are wholly dependant on me for their support and maintenance, except the trifling work which Lucy does in the family. - The amount of debts which I now owe and which ought now to be paid is in the whole about seventy  sixty five or eighty dollars.
Ephraim Farmer

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this twenty second day of June 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, Ephraim Parminter aged sixty eight years, resident in Winchendon 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 entered by enlistment into the said service, on or about the last of July 1779, or the fore part of August  July the same year, for the term of 9 months; that I continued constant in said service for the said term of 9 months, when I was regularly and honorably discharged on the 30 th April 1780. and my said discharge was, when I made a former application for a pension, under the law of the 18 th March 1818, forwarded to the War Department, when I suppose it to be now that I entered the 10 th Reg t Mass. line commanded by Col. Marshall and 3 d Company commanded by Capt. W m Warner. My original declaration was dated April 2 nd 1818 and that the number of my Pension certificate is 3420.
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.
Ephraim Parminter.
Sworn to and declared, on the twenty second day of June , 1820, before the said Court.
Attest, Hijah 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 three hundred ninety seven dollars and five cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty second day of June , 1820
Abijah Bigelow Clerk of the Court for the County of Worcester.

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