Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34046, Eli Bliss, Conn. Continental

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Bliss Eli
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continental
CONTENTS

Massachusetts.
Li Bliss, 17.779 R of Suffolk Co. in the state of Mass. s who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Stark, of the New-Hamp. s line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31. of March, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7. of Sept. 1820, and sent to S. Hooper, agent, Boston, Massachusetts.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1820. $ 233.32. Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. March, 48 "
29 mo. \frac{1}{31} } 1821. $ 281.32. & 4 } 30 ... }
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
and 1 st May, 1820.

3 The applicant cannot produce evidence to support his first declaration as to service in 1780 & 1781, and does not pretend that the testimony agrees with that declaration - but contends that it does agree with his second declaration . and this appears to be the case. The matter is as follows: - The applicant was in Fort Gratiot again in March 1781 in re-examination. Decis. D. G. May 12 ] 1819
No 55
Eli Bliss
Inadmissible -
Found on roll
Enlist July 80
Dischg. 12 Dec 80
5 months 12 days
new evidence on this roll. Apr 9, 1819
The declaration does not agree with the testimony of the witnesses. Proof of service from an officer. New evidence A. B. C. D is required. No other can be admitted.

17,172.
Eli Bliss, Suffolk county, M c . 31 st March, 1818.
Col d . Butler's reg t . Connect t . line, May 1780. to Feb y . 1781.
found on the roll of Col d . Butler's Reg t . from 1 st July, 1780, to 12 th Dec r . 1780. 5 mo s 12 days Inadmissible.
John W. Davis, ag t Boston, Massach tts . Rec d 26 th July, 1820.

To the Hon ble John Davis Esq r Judge of the District Court of the United States for the Massachusetts District.
Humbly shews. Eli Bliss of Boston in the said District, trader; that he enlisted in the continental service of the United States, in the land service, as a common sold- ier on the first day of May one thousand seven hun- dred and eighty in the company of foot commanded by Col. Butler, who commanded a regiment belonging to the Brigade commanded by Brigadier General Huntington, in the Connecticut line; that he served in said company and regiment until the eighteenth day of February one thousand seven hundre- d and eighty one, at which time he was honorably discharged from the service, and he further states, that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he stands, in need of assistance from his country for support, and the said Bliss therefore prays your Hon- or to administer to him an oath touching the truth of the before stated facts facts and to certify and transmit the same to the Secretary of the department of War that he may be placed on the Pension list of the United States, according to the provisions of an act of the United States made the eighteenth of March one thousand eight hundred eighteen
Eli Bliss
Massachusetts District S.S. Boston 31. March 1818
Learn to before me
W m Davis
Dist t Judge
Mass Dist

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston June 5
A. D. 1818
Eli Bliss
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Eli Bliss subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration; I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
J. W. Foster
Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

I Eli Bliss of Boston in the District of Massachusetts, an applicant, for a pension under the Act of Congress of March 18 th A.D. 1818, Do on oath now lying declare, that I know of no officer who was attached to Colonel Stark's Regiment in which I served in the Revolutionary war, excepting Major Caleb Stark who now lives in the State of New Hampshire. That some time last summer I wrote to said Caleb requesting his evidence in support of my claim for a pension. & at the same time gave him an exact account of my services & of the movements of the regiment during my time of service. He wrote me in answer that he did not recollect my person or name, but said that my statement of the movements of the army. was correct.
Eli Bliss
United States of America. Massachusetts District, S. Dist. Boston on the nineteenth day of February A.D. 1820 before me John Watson Davis, a Justice of the Peace & Clerk of the District Court of the United States for said District personally appeared the above named Eli Bliss & made solemn oath to the truth of the facts set forth in the foregoing

Affidavit by me reduced to writing & by him sub- scribed in my presence.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed the seal of said District Court at Boston this nineteenth day of February aforesaid.
W. D. Davis
John D. Sleeper
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Eli Bliss, Suffolk County, M ts . Original declaration 31 st March, 1818.
Col o . Stark's reg t . N.H. line, March 1776. to January, 1777 — also, in Col o . Butler's reg t . Connect. line, May, 1780 to Feb y . 1781.
Service in Col o . Stark's reg t . proved by the testimony of credible witnesses!
Admitted.
Worth $ \frac{32}{100}
S. Hooper, agent, Boston, Mass ts . 14. Aug t . 1820.

District of Massachusetts, ss.
ON this ninth day of June 1820 personally appeared, in open Court, being a Court of Record, viz. a special District Court of the United States for the said District, Eliz Bliss aged sixty five years, resident in Boston in the County of Suffolk, in said District, that case Massachusetts who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: that he enlisted in Capt. Walker's Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Stark New Hampshire line of the Army US on the 17th March 1778 and was discharged at Albany on 1st January 1779. Re-enlisted again in July 1780 in Genl. Huntington's Brigade Col. Butler's Regiment and in the Col. Company in the Connecticut line of the Army. Was discharged the December following while in Contonment at the Highlands State of New York
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.
signed Eliz Bliss
Sworn to and declared, on the ninth day of June A. D. 1820 before
John Davis
{ Judge of the Massachusetts District Court.
I, JOHN WATSON DAVIS, Clerk of the Massachusetts District Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule hereto 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 Twenty five dollars and thirty two cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this ninth day of June 1820
John Davis
{ Clerk of the U. S. District Court, for the Massachusetts District.

Schedule of Property belonging to the Subscriber while a Private in the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Real Estate None
Personal Estate agreeable to the statement at foot $ 26 32
Occupation, I weave Silk, & make Hat cases my earnings from this employment does not amount to more than one half of the sum requisite for my Maintenance - I am an Invited Labourer under information
Family I have none excepting my Wife who labours under a Rheu- matic Affection & has not been able to walk for the last Eight years
Signed E. H. Bliss
   One Bureau $ 2. -   2 Pine Tables 1. -   1 Writing Desk 1. -   5 Chairs 1. 50   1 Tin Roaster 2. 00   1 Frying Pan 75   1 Grid Iron 1. -   1 Chafing Dish 1. -   1 Toaster 50/100 pair of and Irons $1 1. 50   1 Pair of Tongs 50/100 & Coffee Pot 50/100 1. 00   1 Tin Pot - Cup 50/100 1. 00   1 Coffee Pot 50   1 Coffee Mill 1. 00   Knives & forks 1. -   2 Decanters 19   amount carried forward $ 16 87  

Brought forward
$ 10 87
1 Small Bible
50
Walker's Dictionary
75
A Mass containing maps different parts of the Globe
$ 2
Gazetteer
20
Sundry small books & pamphlets
2 0
Razors & Razr
1
Candle sticks
1
Looking Glass
2
$26 32
signed Eli Bliss

34 046 Ray INVALID.
File No. 34,046
Eli Bliss
Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 43
[Arrangement of 1870.]

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
9. April
1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Eli Bliss by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
M c Devitt
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

The Testimony of Daniel Sweetland of Springfield in the County of Hampden and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Do Testify that Eli Bliss formerly of Longmeadow enlisted into the Continental Service and into Colonel Stokes's Regiment and Capt Walker's Company first Lieut Colbourn 2 d Lieut and in the New Hampshire Line he enlisted about the Seventeenth Day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred seventy five the above said was in the same Company with myself he enlisted the same Day that the British Left Bunker hill we marched from Cambridge to New London then took Shipping and went by water to New York and there were drafted on to Canada after lying in New York about one month then went by water to Albany where he stayed one week then marched to Fort George then back to Fort and Crossed the Lake to Canada and lay there till General Sullivan made his retreat to Sackett's Bay then till about the last of November then we marched to Albany then Eli Bliss was left to take care of the sick which he did till they all got well except Dabney Crosby who died there and said Bliss was discharged on the first Day of January 1777
Springfield Oct. 11 th 1819 Daniel Sweetland then personally appearing The above named Daniel Sweetland made oath to the above stated facts as the same relates
Before me Joseph H. Cady Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden ss. I John Ingersoll Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within & for the County of Hampden do certify that Joseph H. Cady Esq. is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County duly commissioned & qualified agreeable to the Laws of this Commonwealth and that full faith & credit is & ought to be given to all acts done by him in said capacity & that the above signature is his proper hand writing - In testimony whereof I have hereat my hand and affixed the seal of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said County this sixth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & nineteen John Ingersoll Clerk

To whom it may concern This May certify that Daniel Swatland who signed the within testimonies is a man of truth and credibility and is not interested in any way in the within testimony Joseph W. Crosby Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hampden
Longmeadow May the 2 d 1820

Hon John C Calhoun - Secretary of War

Aspley Calhoun,
Boston. Aug 9 th 1820
Sir,
I take the liberty of forwarding the papers of M c Bride's life respectfully requesting that they may be reexamined. Altho' M c Bride actually served much longer than his name appears on Cloud Brothers rolls in 1780 - having been enlisted some time before joining that regiment, yet it is on the service of 1776, that he now rests his claim. as to that it will be perceived, that his second declaration states, that he enlisted on the 17 th March & served until the 1 st Jan y . I the depositions of M c Cloud, Cotton & Bliss, all prove the same service. 1776 the way in which some of them describe it, all the movements of the regiment are own until his discharge in Albany. The route which they describe is the one that the regiment took. I hope these three witnesses will be considered satisfactory -
very respectfully
I have the Honor to be
Yours & S r H. Hopper
P.S. I would also observe that Ebenezer Bliss has already rec d a pension for the same service , & that only.

I Simeon Cotton of Longmeadow in the County of Hampden in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do certify that Eli Bliss formerly of Longmeadow enlisted into the Continental Service and into Col. Harker's & Capt. Walker's company first Lieut. Colburn Redoubt 2 d Lieut. Steel and in the New Hampshire Line he enlisted about the 17 th of March in the year 1776 the above said Bliss was in the same company with myself he enlisted the same day that the British left Bunker Hill we marched from Cambridge to New London then took shipping and went by Water to New York and were brought on to Canada after leaving New York about one month then went by Water to Albany where we stayed one week then marched by Land to Fort George then took Boats and crossed the Lakes to Canada and lay there till General Sullivan made his retreat to Ticonderoga lay there till about the 1 st of November then marched to Albany then Eli Bliss left to take care of the sick which he did till they all got well except Joby Bradley who did them and said Bliss was discharged then
Longmeadow March the 23 d 1819 Simeon Cotton
Then the above named Simeon Cotton personally appeared and made oath to the above stated facts and he is a man of credibility before me Joseph W. Cooley Justice of the peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden ss. I John Ingersoll Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within a said County of Hampden do certify that Joseph W. Cooley now is and was at the time of the taking the above Deposition a Justice of the peace within & for said County of Hampden & that the above signature is his proper hand writing For testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the County Seal this twenty fourth day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and nineteen John Ingersoll Clerk

State of New York Oneida County ss
Personally appeared before me Inman Broos one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county of Oneida Ebenezer Bliss this twentieth day of February in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen and being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he knows Eli Bliss of the town of Boston in the state of Massachusetts and was well acquainted with him during the revolutionary war, that said Eli Bliss enlisted into Capt. Walker's company of Continental troops then so called on the seventeenth day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six (that he recollects the day from the circumstance of its being the day on which the British troops evacuated the town of Boston) which said company belonged to Col. Stark's Regiment, and that said Eli Bliss served in said company untill the first of January One thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, when he was regularly discharged from said service, (that this deponent recollects the day on which said Eli Bliss was dis- charged from the circumstance of its

being the day on which this deponent was discharged from the same company. - - -
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In further that this deponent is not any way interested in said Eli Bliss' obtaining a Pension. - - And further this deponent saith not
Ebenezer Bliss
Sworn and subscribed before me this 20 th  March Feb.
A.D. 1849
Inman Enos Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Ebenezer Bliss who has sworn to, and subscribed the foregoing affidavit, and that he is a man of good reputation for Truth and Veracity
Inman Enos Justice of the Peace Oneida County state of New York
Clerks Office
Oneida County
I certify that Inman Enos was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Oneida at the time of making the above affidavit and certi- ficate and that his signature to the same ap- pears to be of his own proper hand writing Witness the Seal of said County this twenty third day of February one thousand eight hundred and 49 J. H. Woodgood Clk

I Daniel Sweatland of Springfield and in the County of Hampshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify that Eli Bliss formerly of Longmeadow enlisted into Col. Stark's Regiment at Capt. Walker's Company first Lieut. Col. Stark and in the New Hampshire line he enlisted on Sunday the 17 th  1776 day of March the above D. Bliss was in the same company with me he enlisted in Cambridge the same day that the British left Bunker Hill. He marched from Cambridge to New London then took Milford and went by water to New York and here he stayed on to Canada after lying in New York about one month then went by water to Albany where he stayed one week then marched by land to Fort George then took boats and crossed the Lakes to Canada and there till General Sullivan made his retreat to Fort Stanwix they then went to Albany then Eli Bliss was left to take care of the Sick which he did till they all got well except Joby Crosby who died there and D. Bliss was discharged there.
Springfield March the 22 d 1779
Daniel Sweatland
Then the above named Daniel Sweatland personally appearing and made oath to the above stated facts and he is a man of credibility before me Joseph W. Cooley Justice of the peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss. I John Ingersoll Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Hampshire do certify that Joseph W. Cooley is a now & was at the time of signing the above deposition a Justice of the Peace within a for the County of Hampshire that the above signature is his proper hand writing — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the County Seal this twenty fourth day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred & Nineteen John Ingersoll Clerk

United States
Massachusetts District
Eli Bliss of Boston in the county of Essex and District of Massachusetts a resident citizen of the United States and applicant for a pension from the United States under 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, maketh oath, that he served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution upwards of nine months in manner following viz. Enlisted in upon the 17 th March 1776 in the company commanded by Captain Walker in the New Hampshire regiment commanded by Colonel Stark and served in said corps in New York and Canada, until the 1 st of January 1777. when he was honorably discharged at Albany in writing, which discharge he has unfortunately lost. and is in such reduced circumstances as to require the aid of his country
Mass. Dist. Ct.
Jan y 23. 1819
Seven to be paid me
M c Peek Dist. Judge
Eli Bliss