Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W; 14,913, Ebenezer Blodget, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N 76
Blodget, Ebenezer Bickok, Sarah
W 14,913
Former widow
CONTENTS

Revolutionary War 1670 Concord N. Hampshire
Dead. Order to pay Mar. 9. 1838.
Sarah Hickok formerly widow of Ebenezer Blodget dec?
who died in the September 1776 of Grafton Co. in the State of N.H. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain  of the Regt. commanded by Colonel  in the N.H. line for 
N.H.
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents, per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Dec. 1837 and Sept. 1838. W. H. Hubbard Senate U.S.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1837 $130 00 Pemi-annual allowance ending Mar. 38 - 10 00
$140 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Pension the 3rd Act of March 3, 1837 }
Recorded by Adams Clerk. Book A Vol. 2 Page 26

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the 3 rd section of the act of Congress of the 4 th of July A.D. 1836 and of the 1 st section of the act of Congress of the 3 rd of March A.D. 1837
State of New Hampshire County of Grafton ss.
On this thirtieth day of August A.D. 1837 Personally appeared before Edwene Webber the subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate in & for the said county of Grafton Sarah Hickok a resident of Rumney in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire aged eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to law cloth on her oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision of made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 th A.D. 1836 and the Act explanatory of said Act passed March 3 rd A.D. 1837: That she was Married to Ebenzer Bloodget who was a sol- -dier in the company of Capt. Edwene Everett, at Wymouth in the county of Grafton aforesaid: that he the said Ebenzer Bloodget enlisted into the company of the said Everett early in the month of March 1876 for the period of one year, to march to Canada. Amos Webster was Ensign in said company and his company was attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Beel. He started on the expedition against Canada in March 1876 she thinks the first part of the month and Marched to Quebec in Canada as she understood

were driven from Inubuck by the British and marched by Galt, Brown point & Tiendouyer to Mount Independence making short halts at the aforesaid post but were driven from them by the British. At Mount Independence they were stationed through the remaining part of the summer and a part of the fall fol- -lowing, while at Mount Independence the said Ebenzer Bloodget sickened & died of what was called the camp ail as she believes according to the best of her recollection in the month of September 1776 - That she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim, but refers to the testimony herunto annexed especially to the affidavits of Stephen Hays and Ezekiel Hays -
She further declares that she was married to the said Ebenzer Bloodget on the nineteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five at Plymouth aforesaid by the Rev. Nathan Ward who was the settled Minister of said Town - That her husband the aforesaid Ebenzer Bloodget died in the service of the United States as stated aforesaid in the month of September, as she believes A.D. 1776 at Mount Independence the day of the month on which he died she has no means of ascertaining as it has escaped her recollection
That she was after wards married to Andrew Hickok who died on the eighteenth day of July A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty - as will more fully appear by a reference to the proof herunto

Annexed. She further states that she has never been married since the decease of the said Andrew Hickok but still remains his widow
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
Witnesses to signature Edward Webber
Sarah her X Hickok mark
Ebenezer Hickok
Before Edward Webber Judge of Probate
And the subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate for said county of Grafton hereby declares his opinion that the said Ebenezer Blocher deceased was a revolutionary soldier and served as stated in the foregoing declaration
and I hereby certify that the aforesaid appli- -cant cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day of August A.D. 1837 Edward Webber Judge of Probate

"Ebenezer Blodget and Sarah Blodget Married May nineteenth one Thousand seven hundred & seventy five" I Arthur Ward Clerk of the town of Plymouth in the county of Grafton & State of New Hampshire certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record of the Marriage of Eben r & Sarah Blodget with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "May 19 th 1775"
I Arthur Ward above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the county Town & State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town of Plymouth with the exception above named as certified by me
Arthur Ward Clerk of the town of Plymouth aforesaid Plymouth Nov r 7 th 1837
Sworn before me
Edward Webber Just. Peace

Grafton p-
State of New Hampshire
I the Subscribed Register of Probate for said County do certify that Edward Robbins Esq r is a Justice of the Peace within said County duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith & credit may & ought to be given to his acts as such and that his signature to the within certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office the seventh day of November Anno Domini 1837.
Moss Dow

(1 st ) I Asahel Bloodgett of Dorchester in the county of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire being aged eighty-two years upon and say that during the Revolutionary War and in the spring or latter part of the Winter of 1776 my late Brother Ebenezer Bloodgett enlisted into the U.S. service at Plymouth in said county. I accompanied him when he marched from said Plymouth for Canada eight or ten miles - there was considerable snow on the ground - Early in the fall of the same year 1776 my Father Jeremiah Bloodgett received a letter from Mount Independence informing us that my said Brother Ebenezer was sick - My Father repaired to said Mount Independence to see to my Brother aforesaid and when he returned brought the mournful intelligence that my said Brother was sick and buried and that he died the last of September 1776 - I think it was on or about the twenty fifth. The circumstances of his death had a deep impression on my mind at the time, which has never been effaced and I well recollect the season and have no doubt but his death occurred on or about the day aforesaid - My Father took the fever while absent and returned to our family sick number others of our family took the fever and two more of our family died at home - All the above circumstances served to fix in my mind the time of my Brother's death and I believe I cannot be mistaken as to the period I further state the Widow Sarah Bloodgett who I have just learnt, is an applicant for a Pension, was the wife of my said Brother Ebenezer Bloodgett at the period of his death Dorchester September 28 th 1837
Asahel Bloodgett
State of New-Hampshire
County of Grafton ss September 28 th A.D. 1837
Then personally appearing before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace for said county, Asahel Bloodgett, known to me to be a credible witness, made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed in my presence Before me - Edward Webber Justice of the Peace

(2 nd )
I Louis Blodgett of Dorchester in the county of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire. Wife of Asahel Blodgett whose affidavit is on the opposite side of this sheet, do hereby say that I was knowing to the circumstances of the death of Ebenezer Blodgett herein in the foregoing affidavit who died in the U. S. Service in 1876. My Father Ebenezer Pollard of Nottingham West was a soldier in the same campaign and was, I believe, attached to the Company of Captain Emerson who went from Hollis. I was present to my husbands Father going to see his son Ebenezer Blodgett when sick in the Army at Mount Independence and saw my father there, and my father the said Pollard said on his return that he was there during the sickness and at the time of the death of the said Ebenezer Blodgett. I also recollect the circumstances of my husbands fathers return sick & of the sickness and death that followed in his family. I well recollect that it was in the fall of 1876 and from what I heard my father said & what I learned from my husbands father, I know that the period of the death of the said Ebenezer Blodgett was about the time set forth in my husbands affidavit and I have no doubt occurred on or about the twenty fifth of September 1876. The event of his death in the Army & of the two who soon after died at home made a deep impression on my mind at the time - I well remember the season of the year - believe I cannot be mistaken as to its having been the last of September when the said Ebenezer was reported to have died in the Army and have no doubt but it was on or about the day above specified.
Dorchester September 28. 1887
Witness to Signature
Edward Webber
Abner Blodgett
Louis X Blodgett mark
State of New-Hampshire
Grafton County ss. 3 September 28. 1887
Then personally appearing Louis Blodgett who is known to me to be a credible witness, made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed in my presence.
Before Me Edward Webber Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Grafton.

(3 rd )
I Ebenezer Hickok of Rumney in the county of Grafton & State of New Hampshire and I Deborah Hickok wife of the said Ebenezer Hickok of the same Rumney and both over forty eight years of age do depose & say that the late Andrew Hickok and Sarah Hickok his Widow (who is now an applicant for a Pension) lived in our family a number of years prior to the death of the said Andrew. We have frequently heard them converse on the death of the said Sarah's first husband in the Army. Ebenezer Bloodget deceased and we have often heard them state the period of his the said Bloodget's death, and they always stated it to have occurred on the twenty sixth day of September A.D. 1776 and we have no doubt but his death did occur on said day. The said Sarah had letters which gave her the date of her husband's death one of which was from a Mr. Evans who was in the service with him & another from her husband's father but neither are now to be found & are either mislaid or lost. The said Sarah now lives in our family and though she has become superannuated & broken down with age & infirmities & her memory somewhat impaired yet she says she thinks & believes it to have been on the aforesaid day that her first husband the said Bloodget died and says she has no doubt of the fact - but when she made her declaration the day was not stated as she was not positive tho' she had no doubt and she chose to have nothing inserted but what she knew
Rumney Sept. 30. 1837
Ebenezer Hickok
Edmund M. Webber Edward Webber
witnesses to Deborah Hickok signing
Deborah Hickok mark
State of New Hampshire County of Grafton ss - September 30. 1837
Then personally appearing, Ebenezer Hickok and Deborah Hickok who are known by me to be credible witnesses and severally made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by them made & severally subscribed in my presence.
Before me Edward Webber Justice of the Peace in & county -

Grafton ss-
State of New Hampshire
I Moses Dow, Register of Probate for said County do certify that the Hon'ble Edward Webber, is a Justice of the Peace for said County, duly commissioned & sworn, and that full faith & credit may be ought to be given to his acts as such; that his signatures to the within and foregoing certificates are genuine -
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this third day of October Anno Domine 1837.
Moses Dow

N. H.
Re: WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14913
Abah Chickah Widow of Ebenezer B. Ladget Pris. New War
Stowell
Act: July 4th 86
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 335
[Arrangement of 1870.]

V Sarah Wickok formerly widow of Ebenezer Blogett Suspended
New Hamp e
See let to Hon.
W. Hubbard
Sept. 16. 1837
do do Oct. 13 1837
acts 36 437

Simon Agency, Concord, N.H. March 2, 1898.
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Dear Sir: I herewith send the papers in the case of Sarah Hickok, deceased, which I wish you to submit for the ratification of the Second Grand Jury. The case being met. I am anxious to get out night in regard to allowances to deceased widows.
Judge Parry's endorsement will speedily answer my purpose; and any suggestion from him or yourself will be my future guide.
I am, respectfully, sir,
Your obedient servant,
Sam Hill

2588 N.H.
Nov 13.
Adolph
✓ Snake Hook
Rev Schuyler Pioneer Office Washington D.C.

Sir
Ramsey N.H. Nov-7, 1837
I have the Honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of October 13 last just addressed to the Hon. H. Hubbardston relative to the application of the Widow Sarah Harkness for a Pension and enclose the additional evidence required by that communication you may enclose her certificate and send the same to me
I have the honor to be very respectfully your Obedt. Servt.
Edward Webster
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions &c.
P.S. By the aforesaid communication I learn that Mrs. Harkness is to be placed on the Pension list for six months services - I had supposed if her case was made out she would be allowed for a longer period. If I recollect correctly Blodgett enlisted in Feb. about the 24. & died Sept. 26 th following - Please Sir to examine this point -
Yours &c.
E. Webster

Dear Henry Roberts Sir The enclosed certificate is a record of the marriage of Ebenezer Blodgett to Sarah Blodgett - So Blodgett raised a soldier of the Revolution - Enlisted for one year - and before the year was up and while in the army his widow who is my Mother since his death married Andrew Heickok - since deceased, and she is now the widow Sarah Heickok She now resides in Brimley in N.H. I believe Ebenezer Blodgett enlisted in the year 1776 - he served in Col o Beardsley's Regt o in Captain Davenport's Co o - of which company the late Col o Lathrop of Grafton County was orderly sergeant - Will you sir please to inform me what cause of shall pursue should she be entitled to a pension and also will you be so kind as to examine the records at the Department and ascertain

In fact in adversary  things - It is now in my power to obtain two living witnesses of Deborah  Blodgett having seen and known two of the men who assisted in kidnapping him & who were soldiers at the same time are now living in Plymouth Grafton County Please write & advise me of the course I should take in order to obtain her presence if she is entitled to any
Yours Respectfully
Abner H. Hickok
West Bridgewater
Sept 1 st 1837
P.S. Sir I have forgotten to state that I would compensate you for all travel, only send your bill to Heinrich  Paul  Yours  etc.  That said E. Blodgett  indicted for the kidnaping of Plymouth in the county of Grafton N.H.

V25886 Declaration 46 of Sarah Huhok for a Pension V25.88
Mum 1775 died 1776
Ad h me privale $20 per ann comf 4 March 1831
Hon. N. Hubbard Senate U.S.

I Stephen Keyes of Plymouth in the county of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire agree seventy seven years since in the name of the United States depose and say - That I enlisted into the United States service at said Plymouth in March D. 1776 in the company of Capt. Concord Evert in Col. Peabody's Regiment. I marched with others soon after my enlistment under the command of Ensign Amos Webster of the to Quebec in Canada where we were put under the command of Capt. Carleton in the absence of Capt. Evert. We were driven from Quebec by the British & fortified ourselves at Sault - from thence we were again driven & again halted at Crown Point again we were routed by the British and we marched to Mount Independence where we remained most of the summer - While at Mount Independence and in the summer of 1776 I should think in July one Ebenezer Blodgett from said Plymouth joined us at Mount Independence and joined our company & did service in our company until his death which happened I should think in September 1776 I helped bury him and know it was the same Ebenezer Blodgett who enlisted from Plymouth aforesaid
Plymouth August 29 th 1837
Stephen Keyes
Grafton ss State of New-Hampshire August 29 th A.D. 1837 Then the aforesaid

Stephen Keyes who made & subscribed the foregoing affidavit personally appearing made oath that the same is true - Before me
Edward Webben Justice of the Peace And I hereby certify that the aforesaid affiant is a credible witness
Edward Webben Just. Peace I Arthur Ward of Plymouth in the county of Grafton & State of New Hampshire of lawful age depose and say that I am Clerk of the said town of Plymouth for the year A.D. 1837 and have the charge of the records of said town of Plymouth - That on examining the book which contains a list of Marriages belonging to said town I find the following record 'Benjamin Blodgett and Sarah Blodgett married May 19 th 1775' which record appears to have been made at or near the time shrugged which appears evident from the manner the records were kept Plymouth Sept 29 th 1837 Arthur Ward Clerk of said town of Plymouth
State of New Hampshire Grafton ss. August 29 th A.D. 1837 - Then the aforesaid Arthur Ward who made & subscribed the above affidavit personally appearing made oath that the same is true - and I hereby certify that the said affiant is a creda- ble Witness
Before me Edward Webben Just. Peace

I Ezekiel Keyes of Plymouth in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire aged seventy eight years and a Pensioner of the United States, do here and say that I enlisted into the service of the United States in the month of March A.D. 1776 early in the month at said Plymouth for one year service in the company commanded by Capt. Edward Evert. Chamberlin was Lieutenant and Amos Webster was ensign in the same company - we were mustered early in the said month of March and were marched to Canada. I recollect we started the week of annual town meeting or the week of the second Tuesday in March - I well recollect that Ebenezer Blodgett of the same Plymouth was a soldier in the same company and marched with me & others when we were marched to Canada - Capt. Everts Company were marched in different parcels under different officers belonging to the same company all of whom were not together until we arrived at Mount Independence in the Summer of 1776 - our detachment were marched first to Quebec after we were driven from there by the British we were marched to Three rivers from thence to Sault - from thence to Crown Point - from thence to Ticonderoga and from thence we marched to Mount Independence where we spent the Summer and a part of the fall. The said Ebenezer Blodgett was with my detachment and did duty

in the company when I did in all our marches until we came to Mount In- -dependence when he died and I assisted in burying him but I do not recollect the date of his death precisely. We were attached to the Regiment of Col. Beal and the Lieutenant Col.'s name I think was Water- The said Ebenezer Bloodgett left a wife when he went into the service her name before she was married was Sarah Bloodgett I was well acquainted with both of them before they were married - I believe they had one child, a daughter, when we left - I know that Capt. Evans company - my were entitled for a years service - I left in October I think of 1776 and hired a substitute to serve out my time - as I was sick and not able to do duty - said Bloodgett died before I left. he died of the camp disorder
Plymouth August 29. 1837
Ezekiel Hayes
State of New-Hampshire Grafton ss August 29 th 1837 - Then the aforesaid Ezekiel Hayes who made & sub- -scribed the above and foregoing affidavit and who is known to me to be a credible wit- -ness personally appearing made solemn Oath that the said affidavit is true Before me Edward Webber Just. of the Peace

I Abiel Blodget of Plymouth in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire agree seventy five years of age and say that I was present at the Marriage of Ebenezer Blodget and Sarah Blodget. Who were both of said Plymouth and were married at Plymouth aforesaid in the Spring of AD 1775 I will remember that it was the same spring that the revolution was commenced - They were married by the Rev. Nathan Ward who was then the settled Minister of the said town of Plymouth, at my Father's house in said town. She the said Sarah was my Sister and older than myself about seven years - I should think it was in the month of May 1775 that they were married the day of the month I cannot recollect. The said Blodget enlisted into the service of the United States as a soldier early in the spring of 1776 in the company of Capt. Evert and left said Plymouth I think the first of March and he died as I understood in the service in the fall of the same year (1776) - I recollect we were gathering corn when the news came of his death - My sister had her first child before the said Ebenezer left home to go into the service it was quite young - Some time after the death of the said Ebenezer Blodget in the service as aforesaid my said Sister Sarah Blodget married a second husband Andrew Hickok with whom she lived until about four or five years since when he died - I was present at the Funeral of the said Hickok it was in the summer season but I cannot tell the precise date
Abiel Blodget
Plymouth August 29, 1837
State of New Hampshire Grafton ss August 29, 1837. Then the above Abiel Blodget a considerable part of whose name is true that the above statement is true before me Edward Wadsworth Just. Peace

I Ebenezer Hickok of Rumney in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire aged fifty four years of age & say that I was well acquainted with Andrew Hickok late of Hebron in said county of Grafton deceased and am well acquainted with Sarah Hickok his widow who has applied for a pension on account of the services of her first husband Ebenezer Bloodget deceased. The said Andrew Hickok deceased at Hebron in said county of Grafton on the eighteenth day of July A.D. 1830 - since which time the said Sarah Hickok his widow has remained a Widow and is now the widow of the said Andrew Hickok - The said Andrew Hickok at the time of his death lived with me and I was present when he died and I know by records that I have that it was on the said day 18 th day of July 1830 that he died -
Rumney August 30 th 1837
Ebenezer Hickok
State of New Hampshire Grafton ss. Aug. 30. 1837 Then the above named affiant, Ebenezer Hickok, who is a credible witness, personally appearing made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true - Before me -
Ebenezer Weldon Justice of the Peace

Grafton N.H.
State of New-Hampshire
I, Moses Dow, Register of Probate for said County do certify, that the Hon. Edward Webber is Judge of Probate for said County duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his acts as such, and that his signatures to the certificates hereon are genuine. I do also further certify that
the said Edward Webber is a justice of the Peace within & for said County, duly commissioned and sworn that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his acts as such and his signatures to the certificates hereon as such are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office. This sixth day of September A.D. 1837.
Moses Dow