Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,652, Ebenezer Bearce, Continental Mass.

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Continental Mass.
Bearce, Ebenezer Lydia
N. 21,652
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Maine. 17.891 Ebenezer Bearnce, R Lincoln County, Maine.
Lieutenant in Col. Bailey's regiment, Massachusetts line, January, 1776 - 10 months.
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Enrolled on the Roll of Maine , at a rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 th of April , 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17. of Oct. 1820. and paid to R. C. Dose , agent, Augusta, Maine.
  Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1820. . .  $: 576.66    Semi-annual all'ce ending 4. March ,  120 "    28 mo. \frac{25}{30} } 1821. }  $: 696.66  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Continued.
Application of Christopher Colby. for Pension June 8th 1821 for R. C. Dose

Messrs Dickins & Co. 19/57
Maine - 2683
Sybil Beare, widow of Stephen Beare, who died on the 2 nd day 1827 of Lincoln in the State of Maine who was a Sgt & L t in the Company commanded by Captain  of the Reg t commanded by Bailey in the  line for 18 m th
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 173 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of June 27, and sent to claimant Bristol, Lincoln Co., Me.
Arrears to the 4 th of March - $519.99 Semi-annual allowance ending 86.66 $606.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the }
Recorded by R. Burdin Clerk, Book A Vol. 2 Page 2.

State of Maine.
Lincoln
Kennebec COUNTY, ss.
ON this twenty third day of May , 1820, personally appeared before Nathan Weston  James  Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Ebenezer Beare aged seventy three years, resident in Bristol in the County of Lincoln within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain Turner and Regiment commanded by Colonel Barlow
En Co. see P.O.B.p.9
State of Maine.
Reuben Coffin Clerk, for the County of Lincoln of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open 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, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is ten dollars and cents ; and deducting therefrom  the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is  dollars and  Cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth sixth day of April 1820.
Nathl. Coffin Clerk of said Court for the County of Lincoln
age and in furniture, 2 years - I am now wholly unable to labor years since - I am now wholly unable to labor. my family residing with me consists of my self, my wife Lydia, aged seventy one, wholly unable to labor and from lameness occasioned by the rheumatism, obliged to walk with crutches; my daughter Lydia aged forty one years, she does not now, nor ever has enjoyed health, and has been most of her time under the hand of a physician and but me to great expense; my daughter Jane, aged thirty three years; and my grandson aged nineteen by the name of Robert Henley
Signed Ebenezer Beare

State of Maine.
Lincoln
Kennebec COUNTY, ss.
ON this twenty third day of May , 1820, personally appeared before Nathan Weston  Justice Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Ebenezer Beane aged seventy three years, resident in Bristol in the County of Lincoln within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain Turner and Regiment commanded by Colonel Bray of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of ten months , as a Lieutenant .
(Bristol is in Lincoln Co. See P.O.B.p.9)
that his original declaration was made before Judge Thatcher on the tenth day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered  . And I, the said Ebenezer Beane do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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.
Signed Ebenezer Beane
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz:
A few articles of old furniture of the value of ten dollars, besides my necessary bedding.
Except the above and my necessary clothing and bedding I have no estate or income whatever.
My occupation is that of a Seaman, but from age and infirmity, I gave up that employment many years since. I am now wholly unable to labor. My family residing with me consists of my self, my wife Lydia, aged seventy one, wholly unable to labor and from lameness occasioned by the rheumatism, obliged to walk with crutches; my daughter Lydia aged forty one years, she does not now, nor ever has enjoyed health, and has been most of her time under the hand of a physician and cost me to great expense; my daughter Jane, aged thirty three years; and my grandson aged nineteen by the name of Robert Henry.
Signed Ebenezer Beane

Subscribed, sworn to and declared, both the oath and schedule, on the twenty third day of May 1820-
Before me Nathan Weston Esq. C.J. etc. Pleas
Lincoln G. Circuit Court of Common Pleas.
April Term 1821, at Wiscapah
Exhibited, Received and filed in open court
Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk
Copy Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk
August me
R.C. Steele
1821
1821
Henry Pearce

I Job Hall, of Bowdoinham, Lincoln County, Maine, a pensioner under the law of Congress of March 18. 1818. do upon oath testify and declare, that being myself a Continental Soldier in Col. Brannan's  of Skinner's Massachusetts Regt. at the same time I well knew Ebenezer Dearer, named in the annexed declaration, to my knowledge he served as a Lieutenant in Col. Bailey's Massachusetts Regiment as he has therein declared during the year 1776: and knowing myself in the same detachment I well knew of the said Ebenezer Dearer, serving as a Lieutenant, on board the fleet upon Lake Champlain under General Arnold, - I enlisted in December 1776 for the period of during the War, and served until the close of the War, and don't recollect that I have seen the said Lieut. Dearer, since the revolutionary War, until I met with him at Augusta a few days since, when we related over the circumstances of the Campaign of 1776, and I fully testified that the said Lieut. Dearer, did serve out the whole of the year 1776 as a Lieutenant in Col. Bailey's Regiment as he in his declaration hath declared -  Job his Hall mark  State of Maine
Kennebec County ss
October third Eighteen hundred & Twenty Personally appeared Job Hall above named, and he made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed - and I certify that the said Job Hall is to me well known as a credible & disinterested witness
Before me Robert T. Dole Jus. Peace

State of Maine
Wenatchee Co:
I the subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial courts, holden within and for the County of Wenatchee, do hereby certify, that Robert C. Vose Esquire, before whom, the within proceedings were had, was a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Wenatchee, in Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, the third day of September October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred, and twenty.
John Davis

Further declaration
I Ebenezer Beane, within named do further depose and say that my commission was from the Continental Congress and was signed I think by John Hancock, president. I had served from January to August 1776 before I received my commission it was dated I think the 14 th day of said August 1776. but then my advanced age and the great length of time since I served that I cannot be particular as to dates. I am now seventy three years of age -
Ebenezer Beane
Subscribed and sworn to Dec r 8. 1819.
Before me, Nathan Weston Junr C. Clerk. additional declaration C.C.C. Phas.
I Ebenezer Beane do further depose that my engagement in January 1776. was for one year. for the year from in '76. and as I set forth in my within declaration I first joined Col. Turner's company and Col. John Bailey's Massachusetts regiment. and my commission signed by the President of Congress and dated as above, expressed by me as a lieutenant in the said Col. John Bailey's regiment of the Massachusetts troops; there being no lines of the Army until the year 1777 - I did duty as a lieutenant in said Regiment, until I arrived at Lake Champlain in August 1776. when and where I was detached on board the U.S. Gally Trumbull and served under Gen. Arnold's order, as lieutenant under Col. Warner. until he left the command of the Gally to me as will appear by my within declaration - the reason of my being detached into the naval service, was my having a good sailor which was done by the consent of my Col. Bailey to whose Regiment I continued to be attached during the whole of the year 1776. - sixteen men were detached from said Regt and on board the Gally there with under me on Lake Champlain. my Captain Turner has since deceased and I believe he gave me his certificate.
Ebenezer Beane
Subscribed and sworn to July 14. 1820 Before me, Nathan Weston Junr Clerk of the P.C.

I Job Hall, of Bowdoinham, Lincoln County, Maine, a pensioner under the law of Congress of March 18. 1818. do upon oath testify and declare, that being myself a Continental Soldier in Col. Lincoln's Massachusetts Regt. at the same time I well knew Ebenezer
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. —
I Ebenezer Dearie, aged seventy three years, a citizen of the United States, born in Halifax, Plymouth county and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, now resident in Bristol in the county of Lincoln, and District of Maine, do upon oath testify and declare, that I enlisted in April 1775, in the war of the revolution and upon the continental establishment. I first joined Capt. Chamberlain's company and Col. John Bailey's Massachusetts Regiment, and was appointed a Sergeant and did the duty of such until the last of January 1776. I was afterwards appointed and commissioned a Lieutenant, and served first in Capt. John Turner's Company; in August 1776, marched to Lake Champlain, and served under General Arnold's orders, having been detached to serve on board the United States Galley, the Trumbull, Capt. Warner. I served on board the Galley under the command of the said Capt. Warner, until November 27. 1776; at which time he left the Galley and gave me a Certificate of my service for the time I was under his command; I remained as first officer on board the Galley, until the last of December 1776, at which time I was honorably discharged, having served more than ten months in continuation as a first officer not preserved; I annex the only evidence of my service now in my possession, viz: Instructions from Brig. General Arnold; a Certificate of Capt. Seth Warner, and also of Capt. Turner. I served as a non-commissioned officer more than nine months and as a Lieutenant more than ten months in continuation, as I have above stated. I was always attached to Col. Bailey's Regt. tho' I was detached for other service - and

and, now by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I need the assistance of my Country for support. I hereby relinquish all claim to any pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any, but am not to my knowledge borne on any pension list whatever. I request to be placed upon the pension Roll for the District of Maine. — Ebenezer Pearce
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Lincoln .
On the tenth day of April A D 1818,
Ebenezer Pearce above named made his declaration under oath before me, and on the twenty fourth day of September A D 1819, he made oath to the above new declaration, by him subscribed.
Before me, Ebenezer Thatcher Judge of the Court as aforesaid.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I, James Shaw, a commissioned officer in Col. Bradfords Massachusetts Regiment, and now on the Pension Roll for the District of Maine, do hereby upon oath testify and declare, that I well knew Ebenezer Pearce, in the war of the Revolution; the said Pearce served to my knowledge as he has within stated, I belonged to the Army at the same time, and well knew of the said Pearce's service, as a Lieutenant and as a non-commissioned officer, the periods by him stated. James Shaw Such

I Job Hall, of Bowdoinham, Lincoln County, Maine, a pensioner under the law of Congress of March 10. 1818. do upon oath testify and declare, that being myself a Continental Soldier in Col. of Maine Massachusetts Regt. at the same time I well knew Ebenezer Bearer.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Kennebec
On the twenty second day of September AD 1819, James Shaw before named, after being carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed; And I certify that the said deponent is a credible and disinterested witness.
Before me, Robert C. Vose Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Lincoln ss. Sept 27. 1819.
I hereby certify that Robert C. Vose Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was taken is a Magistrate of the County of Kennebec duly qualified to act in that capacity. That the above is his proper signature.
Ebenezer Bearer Judge of a Court of Record in the state of Massachusetts

State of Maine
November 16:
further declaration
I Ebenezer Beare, within named do further depose and say that my commission was from the Continental Congress and was signed I think by John Hancock, president. I had served from January to August 1776 before I received my commission it was dated I think the 14 th day of said August 1776. but from my advanced age and the great length of time since I served the I cannot be particular as to dates. I am now seventy three years of age -
Ebenezer Beare
Subscribed and sworn to Dec r 8. 1819.
Before me, Nathan Weston C. Clerk. additional declaration C.C.C. Phas.
I Ebenezer Beare do further depose that my engagement in January 1776. was for one year. for the year from in '76. and as I let forth in my within declaration I first joined Col. Turner's company and Col. John Bailey's Massachusetts regiment. and my commission signed by the President of Congress and dated as above, expressed by me as a Lieutenant in the said Col. John Bailey's regiment of the Massachusetts troops; there being no lines of the Army until the year 1777 - I did duty as a Lieutenant in said Regiment, until I arrived at Lake Champlain in August 1776. when and where I was detached on board the U.S. Gally Trumbull and served under Gen. Arnold's order, as Lieutenant under Col. Warner, until he left the command of the Gally to me as will appear by my within declaration - the reason of my being detached into the naval service, was my having been bred a sailor - which was by the consent of my Col. Bailey to whom Regiment I continued to be attached during the whole of the year 1776. - sixteen men were detached from said Regt. went on board the Gally and with others on Lake Champlain. my Captain Turner has declared since he gave me his certificate
Ebenezer Beare
Subscribed and sworn to July 14. 1820 Before me, Nathan Weston C. Clerk. Master of the P.P.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of an Act of Congress of the 7 th July 1838. entitled an act granting half pay pensions to certain widows "and of the act of July 4 th 1836 -
State of Maine } Lincoln } On this twenty day of October A. D. 1838. Personally appeared Mrs. Nathaniel Groat a judge of Probate in and for the County of Lincoln Lydia Pearce of Bristol in said County of said Lincoln age ninety - years, who being first 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 th 1838. entitled an act granting half pay pensions to certain widows".
That she is the widow of Ebenezer Pearce late of said Bristol who was a soldier of the Revolution and a pensioner, under the act of Congress of March 18 1818 - and a Lieutenant, in the same army, and served in the army of the United States and furnished such evidence as was satisfactory to entitle him to a pension as an officer, at the rate of twenty Dollars a month as will appear by his pension certificate hereto annexed and which she makes part of her case for a pension - she further declares that her maiden name was Lydia Jennings, that she was born in Pembroke State of Massachusetts, and was there married to her said husband Ebenezer Pearce the eighth day of November 1769 - she therefore prays for the relief granted to widows of officers of the Revolution who were married before their time of service expired - she further prays for more particular relief.

to the facts proved by her late husband and now on file at the War or pension office at Washington for the particulars of his service. that she had lived with her said husband previous to his entering the service - that she resided with her said husband at Bristol in the State of Maine in the year 1788 - she further declares that her said husband died at said Bristol on the fifteenth day of May A.D. 1827 - and that she is now his widow and never been married to any other person since his death.
Witness to the mark of Lydia Pierce.
Lydia + Pierce mark
George Pirkleham
Henry Chamberlain
State of Maine
County of Lincoln ss. October 12. 1838 I, B. it known that Lydia Pierce above named personally appeared before me Nathaniel Grotey Esq. of the Probate of wills, estates of persons deceased. the same being a Court of record - and dictated the foregoing declaration & the same being read & understood by her she subscribed her name thereto by making her marks and made solemn oath that the same is every part thereof was true. witness my hand I have hereunto set the seal of said Court & signed my name the said Lydia Pierce being unable to attend court on account of age & infirmity Nathaniel Grotey Esq. of Probate for said County

November 16 th Sixteen hundred and sixty nine Ebenezer Bearn and Lydia Jennings, both of Pembroke were married by the Rev. Mr. Thos. Smith.
I hereby certify that the above is a true Copy of the record, with the exception of the date which is expressed in this record in fair, legible figures, as follows; "November 16 th 1789."
Seth Whitman Clerk of the Town of Pembroke
I Seth Whitman, above named, depose and say, that I hold the Office of Clerk of the Town of Pembroke in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town, with the exception above named, as certified by me.
Seth Whitman Clerk of the Town of Pembroke
Plymouth ss. Sworn to this sixth day of September A.D. 1838. The deponent being a credible witness.
Before me, Anthony Collamore, Justice Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Anthony Collamore Esq. is a Justice of the Peace duly Commissioned & qualified & that the above is his true and genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this tenth day of September 1838.
Jacob H. Lord

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office. Nov. 23. 1838.
I hereby certify that the within Anthony Collamore was a Justice of the Peace, and Jacob H. Dorr was Register of Probate, for the County of Plymouth, at the dates of their within attestation. Witness the Seal of the State.
John P. Bigelow Secy of the Commonwealth

Lydia Beane
June 11. 1857
App d of Lydia Beane ad.
widow of Samuel Beane.
2683-36 Mr
Pat. To Plott
Filed by Dickins & Coombs.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston :
8th August 1850.
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 Brace is borne on rolls of 8 mos. service in 1775, in Col. Thomas' Regt. as Qr. Master Sergt. of Pembroke. — last return dated Oct. 6. 1775. —
On a pay roll of Capt. John Turner's Co. Col. Cottin's Regt. as a Lt. of Pembroke — service in R. I. from Sept. 28, 1777. 1 mo. 3 d. —
There appears to be no evidence of any other service by any person of the name. —

State of Maine.
To the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Mass. The undersigned one of the children of Ebenezer Bears late of Bristol in the County of Lincoln deceased respectfully requests that the Secretary of State furnish from the rolls and Documents in his possession all the evidence relating to Revolutionary service of the said Ebenezer Bears And this declarant States that his father Ebenezer Bears was born in Halifax County of Plymouth Massachusetts June 10th 1747 as will appear from the Records of said town.
That he resided in Plymouth in the time of the Revolution and entered the Continental army as he believes from that town that he enlisted at the commencement of the war and served until the close thereof. He was at the taking of Burgoyne. This applicant is unable to state in what capacity he entered the service but he has ever been informed by his father that he re- ceived while he was in the service a commis- sion and that he served as Secret. He further States his father was placed on the pension roll of the Maine Agency under the act of 1818. and that he drew a pension under said act at the rate of $240. per annum from April 10th 1818. as near as he can rec- ollect to the time of his death to wit May 2 d 1827. He further states that his mother Lydia Bears was

married to his father before he entered the service to wit Nov 16 1769 and that she survived him and drew a pension at the rate of $170.00 from the 4th March 1831 to the time of her death which took place on the 5th July 1839.
He therefore requests the Secretary to give all the evidence of the service of the said Ebenezer Beane in whatever capacity he served and the amount of Pay received by him while in the service.
Witness, Nancy Blaney                      Samuel Beane.
Arnold Blaney
Baricold Gt. July 30 th 1850 signed before me.
Arnold Blaney
Jurist of the Peace

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth the date above written.
M c Guire Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth.

State of Maine
County of Lincoln ss. On this 31 st day of May in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared before me the subscriber Judge of Probate for the County of Lincoln and State aforesaid, Samuel Bearce one of the children of Ebenezer and Sydia Bearce both deceased, and makes the following declaration in order to obtain an increase of pension due to his mother Sydia Bearce under the act of July 4 1836.
And this declarant states that he is one of the children of the said Sydia Bearce late of Bristol in the County of Lincoln aforesaid deceased, that his late father Ebenezer Bearce was a pensioner of the United States under the act of 1818 at the rate of $240 per annum and that he died on the 1 st day of May 1827. He further states that his mother the said Sydia Bearce survived him and made application for a pension under the act of 4 July 1836 and received a pension under said act at the rate of $173. 33 / 100 dollars per annum from the 4 March 1831 to the time of her death which took place on the 5 th January 1839. He refers the Commissioner of Pensions to the original declarations made by his father &

Mother for the evidence then adduced in support of their respective claims for a pension and also to the additional testimony hereto annexed, relative to service and in his own behalf and in behalf of the other children who are set forth in the certificate of the judge of Probate claiming an increased rate of Pension as due to his mother from March 4. 1831 to July 5th. 1839.
Witness
Samuel Beare
Nancy Blaney
Signed & sworn before me on the day and year first above written.
Arnold Blaney judge of Probate.

State of Maine County of Lincoln ss.
Probate Office June 2 d 1857
I Edwin S. Hovey, Register of Probate, hereby certify, that Hon: Arnold Planey, before whom the foregoing declaration was made in the matter of increase of pension of the late Lydia Pearce, is Judge of Probate in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, agreeably to the Constitution and Laws of the State, that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine, and that full faith and credit should be given to his official attestations.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal Official of said Court the day and year first above written.
Edwin S. Hovey

Ebenezer Brace N. File 21,652 Cont. + Mass.

Albany November 27th 1776
This is to certify that Lieut Ebenezer Barr has served on Board of the Trumbull Gally on the Lake Champlain belong to the thirteen United States of North America from the twenty third of September to the twenty fifth of November as first Lieutenant on Board of said Gally And this is his sufficient Certificate from Me At Witness my Hand this twenty fifth of November 1776
John Warner Cap t

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21652
Lydia Beane wid of Ebenezer Beane Unit Rev.
Act: July 4 th
Index:—Vol. 4 , Page 54
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1916 July 18. Photocopy of the City of New York Beane purchased Mrs Beane m. from Columbia Gen. Dist. St. see receipt for pay ment in Samuel Allen, Court House 818556. dis.

17400. Ebenezer Pearce Lincoln, Maine. Lieut. Col. Bailey's Mts Reg. January 1776. 10 months
debt. April 10. 1818
Proof James Shaw, Lieut. on the Pension Roll, Maine; and Job Hall, also a pensioner, on the same Roll - additional Evidence furnished & their case again transmitted by R. C. Vose. Nov 3. 1820.
Interest proved by two credible witnesses. Adm. Adm d
reduced amount Certified.
R. C. Vose, agent, Augusta, Maine 10. Nov. 1820.

Ebenezer Dearse Lieutenant Col. Baileys Massachusetts Regt. January 1776 to Nov. 1776. — 10 months  April 10 th 1816
Not found on rolls. The applicant will state, whether commissioned by Congress - and if so, the date of his commission.
Dec. 7. 1819. Commission by Continental Congress - dated Aug. 2 nd 1776. as will be seen by the further declaration to the Clamant.  Further Evidence. Proof Lieut. Col. Shaw now on the Pension Roll Mass. R.C. Vose Col. Turner Augusta Mass
May 19. 1820. It appears he was appointed an officer 14 Aug. 70 - after the service to Jan'y 70 what period did he enlist for & serve to before he received his Commission. And what was the line of reg't or Col. o as an officer at the time preceding - Capt. Turner has no record how long he was in the Comp'y (minute Comp'y) under him in 70 & in what years the campaigns were performed, or how long each was.
July 4. 1820 See additional evidence of Juvie, taken before Judge Weston - applicant being old and unable to walk to travel 45. miles the distance from this place, to where Judge Thacher lives - R.C. Vose See schedule

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States:—
I the subscriber, being one of the Justices of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Ebenezer Pearce , a citizen of the United States, now residing in Bristol, in the said County of Lincoln, in the District of Maine, on the tenth day of April, A.D. 1818 , made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, "an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A.D. 1818, which declaration, as amended, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant is herunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the

said applicant did serve as a Commissioned officer, in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support. —
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the Court aforesaid, to be hereunto annexed, this twenty seventh day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. —
Elmer Thatcher —
Evidence of the above subscriber's authority as a Judge of a Court of Record in the State of Massachusetts is on file in the Office of the War Department authenticated by the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts —
and

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable Nathan Weston  Ebenezer Thatcher , Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is one of the Chief Justices of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the County of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand. Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this fourth day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen .
Ebenezer Thatcher
[Faint handwritten notes, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page]

Pembroke in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Dated the third day of September 1819)
This may Certify that Ebenezer Breece Served with me three campaigns in the Continental Army as a Lieutenant and was a good faithfull officer when under my Command
N o 23 This may Certify John Turner the said Breece was in a unit Company in the 1776 under my Command
John Turner

Lieut. Bays
Sir
You will proceed with the Barge & 10 men to Crown Point & get all the information you can of the Enemy. keep the small Boat with three men ahead of you not being surprised when you reach Crown Point send back a man directly by land if the Enemy have left Crown Point send three men to Willoughby & if they have part that, let one return. Two others on to Cumberland Head. & After making all the Discovery they can return immediately - Search Mr. Luke George's Cellar for a large quantity back of Machine which I left there. If you find it bring it away
I am
Sir
yours &c
B Arnold Brant

State of Maine Lincoln county ss
At a court of Probate held at Wiscasset within & for said county on the 2 o day of June AD 1857.
Be it known that it has been satisfac- torily proved before me in open court being a court of record that Ebenezer Bearce late of Bristol in the county of Lincoln was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and that he died at said Bristol on the first day of May 1827. That Lydia Bearce widow of said Ebenezer was a pensioner of the United States and that she died on the 5 th day of January 1839. and that Samuel Bearce William Bearce Holmes Bearce John Bearce Ebenezer Bearce Lydia Bearce & Jane Bearce are the children and the only surviving children of the said Lydia Bearce deceased.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal official of said court the day and year first above written.
Arnold Blaney } Judge of Probate Lincoln Co

I Roger Hanley of Bristol in the County of Lincoln State of Maine aged fifty six years on oath declare that I am a native of said town and for many years before his death was acquainted with Ebenezer Beane who lived in Bristol and who died in the same town as I now believe in the year 1827. I further depose that I am acquainted with Lydia Beane widow of said Ebenezer Beane who is now living in Bristol at a very advanced age. I further know that said Ebenezer Beane was a prisoner of the Revolution.
Roger Hanley
State of Maine County of Lincoln ss - October 13 th 1838
Personally appeared before me - Roger Hanley above named and subscribed the foregoing affidavit and made oath that the same was true
Nath. Groot Judge of Probate for Lin. Co.

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$173.33.
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Bristol Lincoln co Me

Lydia Pearce says in her Declaration that her husband's Certificate accompany's it. She supposed George W Morton Esq of Augusta State of Maine & who was Mr Pearce's Agent, had the certificate; but the certificate was surrendered at his death.
Oliver Pearce was a Lieutenant in Capt. Farnes Company of Bailey's Regiment & was in service ten months his Pension Certificate was No 17.891 under Act of Congress 1818.
Henry Chase Chairman