Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43015, for Ebenezer Mors, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Moss, Ebenezer or Morse
S. 43015-
CONTENTS

13,112 21
New York
Ebenezer Morse
of Sullivan County in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Van Schaick of the New York Line, for the term of Six years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd of July 1819 and sent to William A Thompson Esq. Monticello New York
  Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819.  86.45    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep. 1819.  48.00    10 Mo. 25 4     30 31      $134.45  
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
1820. Monticello New York Ebenezer Morse sent to Mrs. H. Thompson Esq.

State of New York } ss. I, John P. Jones Clerk of the County of Sullivan and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County - Do hereby certify that Thompson within named and before whom the annexed taken was at the time of taking and certifying still is duly commissioned and sworn as First Judge of said County and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said William D. Thompson and verily believe the Certificate of the annexed affidavits to be his own proper hand writing and signature, and further that I saw him subscribe his name to the within Certificate. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court the twentyth day of June Feb 1818.
John P. Jones Clerk

Ebenezer Morse application for Pension
The applicant in his Witness, 8 in personally came known to me Wm H Thompson
Ebenezer Morse, private Colonel Van Schaick's Regt New York line, 1775 or 76 to 1782
The Judge must Certify that the witnesses are Credible and disinterested
[Signature]

State of New York. ss. Sullivan County on the sixth day of April 1818 before me the Subscriber Wm A Thompson first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Sullivan County, personally appears Ebenezer Morse aged 73 Years Resident in the Town of Mamakating in the County of Sullivan, who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Services of the United States in the Revolutionary War, That he the said Ebenezer Morse about the Month of May or June 1775- or 1776, at Albany enlisted in Capt. John Gaps's Company in Col. Goss's in the New York Line of Troops Von Scayck's Regiment, and continued to serve as a Soldier in said Corp: in the Service of the United States, until he was discharged out of the Hospital at Danbury about a Year or 18 Months before the peace, That he was Wounded at the Battle of Monmouth. That he was overheated so that he has never Recovered the Use of his limbs - which , was taken a prisoner near Seconda rafa. & carried to Montreal in 1777. - continued a prisoner 4 Months and 5 Days. That he is infirm and unable to labor, That he is poor. & is not possessed of any Estate That he is in reduced Circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and has no other means now in his power of his Service except the Pensions he is entitled to - and further says that he has lost his Discharge and has not now

got at his power to produce his Discharge That he was Discharged on account of the probability of his being of no more service as soldier Sworn to and Declared before the day and Year first above Written E lease 30 a month Wm A Thompson pres Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Sullivan County
I Wm A Thompson pres Judge of the Court of in Sullivan County Common Pleas. Do certify that it appears to my Satisfaction that the said Ebenezer Morse did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding Declaration against the Common Enemy - and I further certify that the said Ebenezer Morse is infirm Leane poor Indigent and is in Reduced Circumstances of Life and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and I now trans- mit the proceedings and Testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the War Department pursuant to the direction of the aforesaid Act of Congress Dated the 12 th day of October 1818
Wm A Thompson

State of New York to Sullivan County -
Joseph Morse of the Town of Mamakating in sd County Aged 72 Years who being duly sworn according to law upon his oath saith That he is personally well acquainted with Ebenezer Morse and knew that he was a Soldier for a Number of Years in the Revolutionary War in Col. Isaac Van Scayck's Regiment in the New York line, That he Remember that Capt. Capps or Salisbury was the Reputed Capt of the Company - That sd Ebenezer Morse was Sick in the Hospital at Danbury and was Discharged by the Head Surgeon for sd Hospi- tal - That this Deponent has seen and read the Discharge of sd Ebenezer but he has understood it has since been lost, That sd Ebenezer is poor infirm and unable to labour for a living - That the sd Ebenezer has continued lame since the War by means of being overheated, (as the Deponent has understood from sd Ebenr) at the Battle of Monmouth That the sd Ebenezer has no estate to support himself or Family
Joseph Morse
Sworn to and Declared the 12 th day of October 1818 before me
Wm A Thompson just clerk of the Court of Com. Pl. & C. Sullivan County -

State of New York Sullivan County ss. On this 14 th day of June 1820 personally appeared in Open Court viz, in the court of common pleas held within and for the county of Sullivan and State of New York being a court of Record Eben Ezra Morse aged 76 Years residing in the Town of Mamakating in the County of Sullivan who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath Declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows that he listed in May 1776 in Capt Capps Company in Col Goos Van Schaiks Regiment in the New York line and continued to serve as a soldier in said Regiment until he was discharged in the year 1781 and that he made his original Declaration on the 6 th day of April 1818 before me W m A Thompson first Judge of Sullivan County and that he has received a pension since that time, 14 dollars per month and that his certificate for his pension is numbered No. (13112) & dated the 3 rd of July 1819 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th 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 provision of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18 th 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 herunto annexed and by me subscribed A schedule of the property of Eben Morse
Real Estate none — Personally property one cow 2 sheep 6 old chairs 1 old Table one old chest 3 knives & forks 6 Spoons 1 Tea pot. 3 cups & saucers. Tongs 1 pot. 1 Kettle 1 Tramel 1 Plow —

Debts owing from me Amos wheat 20 Dolls Benj Comfort 8 Dolls! Jos Morse 6 Dolls - Debts due to me Eben Morse 2 4 Dolls Samuel Gleason 2 Dolls and the Declarant says that he is a labourer & his family consist of himself & wife and two children my wife is named Lewis aged 65 Years and is a feeble complaining woman my son named Cornelius aged 24 Years and not capable of taking care of himself my daughter named Lydia aged 19 Years enjoys ordinary health and as this declarant is very much troubled with the Rheumatism & Piles and is unable to do but very small portion of labour & further not known in open court
Ebenezer Morse
this 14th day of June 1820 Wm A Thompson first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for D r County
State of New York Sullivan County
ss I John P. Lewis Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County. Do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records 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 property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty one Dollars & twenty seven Cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this eleventh day of August A.D. 1820
Wm A Thompson of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Sullivan

State of New York. Sullivan County ss my say you
4 Richard Baker of the Town of Mamakating in S d County aged 79 years who being duly sworn according to law on his Bath doth declare and say that he has been personally well acquainted with Ebenezer Morse of the Town of Mamakating for more than 60 years last and that he is personally knowing that said Morse listed as a Soldier for three years in Captain
Goff's Company and Col. Van Scayck's Regiment in the New York line of Troops in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, the Deponent not remember the years but thinks it was about three years before the close of the war and the Deponent further says that he knows that the s d Morse served out his full term of three years or longer and Continental Army and got a Regular Discharge from the Hospital in Danbury, the Deponent knows that s d Morse got over heated at the Battle of Monmouth and has never been a well man since, and now remains very lame and infirm, and is incapable to go out of the house for a considerable part of the time and is not able to earn or do any thing to get a livelihood. That the s d Ebenezer Morse is a very poor man and has no property to live upon and subsists by the Charity of his neighbors. Richard Baker
Sworn this 12 th day of October 1818
before me
Wm C Thompson proth Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas in Sullivan County

State of New York } Sullivan County } Ephraim Smith of the Town of Mamakating in the County of Sullivan being Duly sworn upon Oath according to law says that he this Deponent is 68 years of age and has resided for the last Twenty four years in the Town of Mamakating in the neighbourhood of Richard Baker and Joseph Morris, and the Deponent says that the s d Richard Baker and Joseph Morris are credible Witnesses and entitled to full Credit when on Oath in any Court of Justice or wherever their Oaths may be Required Sworn this 25 th day of June 1819 Ephraim Smith Wm A Thompson first Judge of the Court of Sessions, Pl: for Sullivan County I Do Certify that Ephraim Smith is a Credible & Disinterested Witness - June 25 - 1819 Wm A Thompson

State of New York } Sullivan County } David Dorance of the Town of Mamakating in the County of Sullivan being duly sworn upon Oath according to Law says that he this Deponent is 68 years of age, and has Resided for the last twenty six years in the s d Town of Mamakating in the neighborhood of Richard Baker and Joseph Mose and the Deponent says that the s d Richard Baker and Joseph Mose , are Credible Witnesses, and are entitled to full Credit when on Oath, in any Court of Justice or wherever their Oath, may be Required -
David Dorance
Sworn this 25 th day of June 1819
Before me Wm A Thompson Just Judge of the Court of Sull n County
I Do certify that David Dorance Esq r is a Credible & Disinterested Witness - Wm Thompson

State of New York Sullivan County
Joseph Thorne of the Town of Mamakatha being duly sworn according to Law that he made an affidavit for Ebenezer Morse to be sent before the Secretary of War and that he has no interest in the success of the said Ebenezer's Application for a Pension and that whether the Pension is granted or not he will not be a gainer or loser by either event and the said Ebenezer has made no promise to the Deponent to pay him any thing in case he gets his Pension
Sworn this 24 th day of June 1819
Joseph Thorne
before me John A. Thompson, just Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Sullivan County
I do certify that I believe that Joseph Thorne is a credible & Disinterested Witness, and that I have no doubt of the truth of the first affidavit, as I have re-examined him on the same subject. the above Deponent is reputed an honest man John A. Thompson

Ebenezer Morse Private 76 to 82 Van Schaick New York Regt.
I have attached 4 affidavits to the original Papers - Wm A Thompson Jun 25. 1819.
Admitted

State of New York } Richard Baker of the Town of Mamakatha Sullivan County } being in the county of Sullivan being duly sworn upon Oath according to law saith that he made an affidavit for Ebenezer Morse to be sent before the Secretary at War, and that he has no interest in the success of the Ebenezer's Application for a Pension and that whether the Pension is granted or not he will not be a Gainer or loser by either event and that the said Ebenezer has made no promises to this Deponent to pay him any thing in case he gets less Pension Sworn this 24 th day of June 1816 Richard X Baker his mark before the W m A Thompson first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Sullivan County
Richard Baker I Do Certify that I believe that he is a Credible & Disinterested Witness. That the above was Deliberately read to him & he made his mark to the same & that he cannot Write as he says W m A Thompson

43015
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 43,015
Ebenezer Morse Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 356
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sullivan County Pa
Richard Baker of Munnakating
I County being Daly I was according to Law upon oath that he is near neighbor to Eben Morse of Munnakating and personally knows that Mr. Morse is a cripple in his arm and leg, and is unable to do any kind of labor, and is very poor and little or any kind of property, and that is not able to subsist without the charity of his neighbors or some assistance from the public - That he is unable to walk but a small part of the time, that the Mr. Eben Morse has been in the habit of receiving charity from private individuals, for some years last past -
Sworn this 7 th day of August 1820 Richard Baker mark
Wm A Thompson prost judge of Sullivan County
Richard Baker is 79 years old Wm A Thompson

1819 July 1
Ebenezer Morse Certificate of the affidavit 13112 July 1819
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State of New York Sullivan County }
Henry Newkirk Esq. of the Town of Mannakating in said County being sworn according to law upon his Oath saith that he is well acquainted with Eben Morse of said Mannakating and personally knows that said Morse is very poor and that he is a very feeble and infirm and unable to but little labour of any kind. and the Deponent further say that he believes that the said Morse has subsisted of late years by private Charity and the good offices of his neighbours.
Sworn the 8 th day of August 1820 Henry Newkirk Esq. Wm Thompson pres Judge of said County —

State of New York Sullivan County
Peter Miller of the Town of Mamakating like a capt. in the Army of the United States being duly sworn according to Law upon his Oath saith that he is well acquainted with Eben Morse of the Town of Mamakating and personally knows that the said Morse is a very poor man and unable to do but little any labour of any kind that he is very feeble and infirm man. and the said Peter Miller further says that he believes that the said Eben Morse cannot subsist with without private Charity unless he is relieved by his Country
Peter Miller
Sworn the 8 th day of Aug t 1820
before me D r A. Thompson West Judge of Sull n County