Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46,369, Ephraim Blood, N. H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.K.
Blood, Ephraim Gallagher, Emeline
S. 46,369 B.L.Wt. 966-100
Former widow
B.L.Wt. 248-60-55
CONTENTS

Act March 3 / May 11/55 128186. Cynthia, Amos & John Blood. minor children of Cynthia & Amos Amos } Ephraim Blood. John }
Set J. Smith Feb 17/56 " " " May 17/56
Pinale Capt. Minnow
vt N 3 M. Hamp. Mid. Peninsular } 1777-89 } 1783.
27 Revolutionary War.
69 In 128187. Ad: 60 ac pty. 10/56 Blyth
Israel Smith Orrell Vermont

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution approved on the 15 th of May 1828 I Ephraim Blood of Orwell in the county of Rutland and state of Vermont do hereby declare that I enlisted in the spring of the year 1779 in the continental line of the army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued in its service until its determination at which period I was a private soldier in Captain Benjamin Ellis' company in the first Regiment of the New Hampshire line formerly commanded by Col o Seamonel and at the close of the war at the time of my discharge by Col o Henry Dearborn I was discharged at New Windsor in the state of New York by General Washington the forepart of June 1783 I further declare that I have now no recollection of ever at any time receiving a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under an act of Congress passed the 15 th of May 1778 and I further declare that I was not on the 15 th day of March 1828 or any other time on the pension list of the United States
Ephraim Blood
Before me Ira Smith Esq o Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Rutland and state of Vermont personally appeared this day Ezra Smith and Israel Smith of the said county who did severally make oath that Ephraim Blood by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reported and believed to have been a soldier in the army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated Witness my hand this 2 d day of September in the year 1828
Ira Smith Esq o Justice Peace

State of Vermont Rutland county ss I Pliny Smith of Orwell in said county of Rutland Newhful age do hereby say that I have been acquainted with Ephraim Blood of said Orwell for more than twenty years have always understood Believed that he was a soldier during the war of the revolution that he enlisted for during the war and served to the end thereof that he is the same Ephraim Blood who about the Last of February 1821 applied to the Secretary of war for his pension for said services the same was granted and awarded to him by the Hon ble Charles Fitch then a member of Congress from the State of Vermont that the said Ephraim Blood went to Newhamshe- to procure evidence of his services that on his return he stated and as I believe procured the testimony of his orderly sergeant Caleb Aldridge as to his services and identity which was taken in Westmoreland in said Newhamshe as and is supposed to be now in the office of the Secretary of war at Washington and is requested by the said Ephraim that Reference may be had to the same
Pliny Smith
State of Vermont Rutland county ss Orwell Sept r 2 d . 1828 Personally appeared then personally appeared the above named Pliny Smith and made solemn oath to the truth of the facts contained in the above testimony by him subscribed sworn to before me
Samuel D. Justice Deem

State of Vermont Rutland County ss I Israel Smith of Orwell in the County of Rutland of the lawful age Depose and say that I live in the same neighborhood with Ephraim Blood who is now about petitioning for a pension for his services as a soldier for us during the war of the Revolution that I have been well acquainted with the said Ephraim for many years have always understood and fully believe he was a soldier for us during the war of the Revolution that he served to the end thereof & as I understood was honorably discharged by Genl. Washington that about the last of February or first of March 1821 the said Ephraim Blood obtained his said warrant for said services which I believe was forwarded to him by the Hon ble Charles Rich then a Member of Congress from the State of Vermont that in the winter of the year 1822 I purchased said said Warrant of the said Ephraim and I have no doubt but he is the same Ephraim Blood who enlisted for us during the war above said and was justly entitled to said Warrant and to his pension under the present law of the United States and further say not
Israel Smith
Sworn to in due form before me Jno. Smith Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Rutland and State of Vermont this 2 d . Day of September A 1829
Jno. Smith Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont } Rutland County }
I Robert Peipoint Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland aforesaid do certify that Ira Smith Esq. is and for more than one year last past has been a Justice of the peace for said County duly commissioned and that the signatures to the within Articles are his proper hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court at Rutland this 9 th day of September A.D. 1828
R. Peipoint

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Ephraim Blood— private New Hampshire line
Warrant ipb Feby: 22 nd 1821
Hon: Charles Rich

Ephraim Blood Mt. Apr 10 96

State of New Hampshire p o 21.051- County of Cheshire ss.
I Ephraim Blood aged fifty eight years a citizen of the United States do upon oath testify and declare that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine, I enlisted in the army of the Revolution, against the common enemy of my Country, for the term of during the war & served in the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Ellis & in the Regiment No 1 under com- mand of Henry Dearborn of the New Hamp- shire line, and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war in seventeen hundred & eighty three when I was regularly discharged from the second Regiment commanded by Colonel George Read. My discharger is now lost or mislaid so that I cannot produce it to corroborate the above statement I further declare that I have never re- ceived a warrant for the bounty land prom- ised me on the part of the United States nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim to that gratuity in any manner whatsoever. Therefore I now all men by these presents, that I Ephraim Blood aforesaid, do hereby constitute & appoint the Hon. Charles Rich Esq. of Manchester in the County of Addison & State of Vermont, to be my true & lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand & receive
from

from the Secretary of War of the United States or of such other person as is duly authorized to issue & deliver the same a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid & to sign a receipt or acquittance therefor; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized, and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
Witness my hand Caleb Aldrich
Ephraim Blood
I Caleb Aldrich aged sixty three a citizen of the United States do upon oath declare that that I have been long acquainted with Ephraim Blood, who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, & well know that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and further I know that he did perform the military service therein stated while in the New Hampshire line, & further that I was a noncommissioned officer in the above named Capt. Ellis' Company until I was discharged in 1783.
Caleb Aldrich
State of New Hampshire Cheshire S.S.
February 10. A.D. 1821
Before me, Nathan G. Babbitt Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County of Cheshire personally appeared the above named Ephraim Blood subscriber to the foregoing declaration & in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney subjoined thereto to be his free act and deed, and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed this tenth day of Feb. 1821.
Nathan G. Babbitt Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire Cheshire ss
Personally appeared the above named Caleb Aldrich who hath sub- scribed the foregoing certificate of identity to me well known to be a man of re- spectability and truth and made solemn oath to the truth of the deposition by him subscribed; this tenth day of February A.D. 1821. - Before me
Nathaniel G. Babbitt Justice of Peace
Cheshire Jn. Feby 10, 1821
where I Salma Hale clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for sd County certify that Na- thaniel G. Babbitt is a Justice of the Peace in for sd County and that the foregoing is his deposition.
In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the seal of said Court
S. Hale

State of Vermont Addison County ss }
On this 24 th day of April A.D. 1855 personally appeared before me Israel Smith a justice of the Peace, within and for the town of Orwell in said County John Gallagher aged Forty — years a resident of Orwell who being duly sworn according to Law declared that he is the Step Father and legally constituted guardian of Cynthia Blood aged nineteen years and Amos Blood aged fifteen years and John Blood aged eight years minor children and heirs of Ephraim Blood of said Orwell deceased their Mother Emeline Gallagher who was the guardian widow of the deceased Ephraim Blood the said Emeline now living with the said John Gallagher as her second husband. The said John Gallagher in capacity as guardian and in behalf of said minor children declares that the said Ephraim Blood served as a private in a Company of Infantry commanded by Captain Munroe of the New Hampshire Continental line of the Army in the Revolutionary war — that he was honorably discharged from said service at the close of the war, the period of service thought to have been some five years commencing 1777 or 78 and ending 1783 — the Company in which he served during some part of the term of service in a Regiment commanded by Col. Henry Dearborn — and that on account of said service the deceased claimed a Pension under act of Congress of 15 th May 1828 — which was granted and which he continued to receive from the Pension Office up to the period of his decease which happened in said Orwell on the 28 th day of May A.D. 1847 that upon his discharge from the Army or afterward he received on account of said service Scrip or Title to one hundred acres of land not known to whom sold

but finally located it is believed on the U. S. Military tract in the State of Ohio the account of ownership, sale and location as related by deceased when living as also the said service in the army and allowance of Pension - It is believed that proof of service forwarded to the Pension Office with the application of deceased for Pension at the event to establish the claim may now be referred to as being on file in said office. The said Emeline who was the widow of said deceased and whose maiden name before her marriage was Emeline Woodward born in said Orwell
26 November 1812 and married to the said Blood in said Orwell 15 th Feb y . 1831 by Rev. J. G. Goodys  Judge King Smith of said Orwell, since deceased that the minor children named in the foregoing of whom the said Emeline is the legitimate Mother are legal heirs and the only minor children of the said deceased Ephraim Blood and that the marriage of said Emeline to her present husband the said John Gallagher was by Roswell Bottom Esq 20 th April 1848
He the said John Gallagher in capacity of guardian as aforesaid makes this declaration in behalf of said minor children or heirs for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which they may be entitled under act of Congress approved March 1855. He also declares that he has not in the said capacity or otherwise nor have the said children through any agency received a warrant for Bounty Lands under this or any act of Congress or made application therefor. John Gallagher Mark

We S. D. Wells and Oson Smith residents of Orwell upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by said John Gallagher in our presence we are personally acquainted with him and know him  the the identical person he represents himself to be and know the and minor children to be the legal heirs of the said Ephraim Bloom deceased Oson Smith Sidney D. Wells
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year as written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons and being personally acquainted with the applicant know him to be the person he represents himself to be and that I have no interest in this claim. I was the administrator of the estate of said Ephraim Bloom deceased as such received the balance of Pension Sixteen dollars and some cents due the said estate upon the decease of said Pensioner know that the minor children named in the foregoing were acknowledged as rightful heirs and legal heirs, in the division of said estate and that the said John is their legally constituted guardian as set forth in the declaration by him signed and acknowledged before me - Israel Smith — Justice of the peace.

State of Vermont } Be it remembered that at Orwell in said County Addison County ss. } on the 20 th day of April A.D. 1848. John Gallagher and Mrs. Emeline Blood both of said County were duly joined in Marriage by me Rev. John Russell Bottom Justice of the Peace
A true Copy of my record Attest Russell Bottom Justice of the Peace Rev. John April 21 st 1848. Attest Russell Bottom Town Clerk Rev. John Russell Bottom Town Clerk of the town of Orwell aforesaid The foregoing is a true Copy of an Original record, as entered on Book 12 th Page 475 of said Orwell public records. I further certify that I have examined the records of Marriages in said town and do not find any record therein of the Marriage of Ephraim Blood, and Emeline Woodward.
Russell Bottom Town Clerk
Sworn before me in in Orwell in said County April 24. 1855 Israel Smith Just Peace
128186

William Bloodgood Minor Stein of 1893 E. Blood
Addl. evidence
Claim 128,186
Wason Insuf
Commiss. 186
Johnson
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Asst. Boyetton
Jun 28/56
Morse

State of Vermont } On this 14 th day of May Addison County ss } A.D. 1856 Personally - Appearance before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County. Emeline Gallagher aged forty three years a resident of Orwell in said County who being duly sworn according to law, states. She is the wife of John Gallagher the Guardian of her Minor Children Cynthia, Amos, & John Blood who now have thro' their said Guardian in the Office of Comm r of Pensions a claim to Bounty land on the acct. of their late Father Ephraim Blood, s service in the Army War of the Revolution
Now as the wife of the said Guardian and as the mother of said Minor Children - she waives her claim in fact all her right & title to Bounty land and hereby requests that the issue of said Warrants be made to her said Minor children in Right of the said service of the said deceased Ephraim Blood her former Husband Emeline Gallagher
Mr George Willard & Alsea T. Willard residents of said Orwell upon our oaths declare that the fore- -going waiver was signed & acknowledged in our Presence we have long & well known the signers Personally & know she is the identical Person she represents herself to be George Willard Alsea T. Willard
The foregoing Waiver & Affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me at the date therein named. I know the Affiants to be credible & respectable Persons. Know the said Emeline Gallagher to be the Person she represents herself to be & have no interest in said claim to Bounty land Israel Smith Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont } D. Dugald Stewart Clerk of Addison County } the County Court for the County of Addison, hereby certify that Israel Smith whose signature appears to the within print & certificate was at the date thereof a justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified, and author- ized by law to administer oaths for general purposes. I further certify, that I am acquainted with his handwriting and believe his said signature to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Middlebury in said County this 17 th day of May A.D. 1856 Dugald Stewart Clerk

20 th May 186
Sir The act of Emeline Gallagher waiving her claim to Bounty land under service of Eph m Bland dec d her former Husband in favor of her children Minors There to be taken of said Bland I forward herewith duly authenticated Claim N o 128,186
Rec d to day Bounty land Warrant for Philip Wann 80 ac s Claim N o 228,722
Respectfully Israel Smith
Comm r of Pensions Wash n City D.C.
Orwell Vermont

State of Vermont Rutland County ss. } Be it remembered that at Orwell in said County, on the 13 th day of February A.D. 1831. Ephraim Blood and Emeline Woodward both of said Orwell duly joined in Marriage
By me Edmund Goodenough Minister of the Gospel
I Rowell Bottenus Town Clerk of the town of Orwell, Vermont, certify that the foregoing is a true extract from an Original Record, as recorded in said Orwell Book of Marriage records, - page 257. - Examined by me Rowell Bottenus -
State of Vermont } Be it remembered that at Orwell in said County Addison County ss. } on the 20 th day of April A.D. 1848. John Gallagher and Emeline Blood both of said Orwell were duly joined in Marriage by me
Rowell Bottenus Jr. Justice of the Peace
A true Copy of My Record. Attest Rowell Bottenus Jr. Justice of the Peace Rec d . to record April 20 th 1848. Attest Rowell Bottenus Jr. Town Clerk
I Rowell Bottenus Town Clerk of the town of Orwell Vermont, certify, that the foregoing record of the Marriage of Mr. John Gallagher and Mrs Emeline Blood is a true and correct transcript from an Original Record, as recorded in said Orwell Book of Marriage records, - page 475. Examined by me -
And I further certify, that I was personally acquainted with the above named Emeline Woodward. Apparous to her first

Marriage with the above named Ephraim Blood - that she lived many years with the said Ephraim Blood as Husband & Wife - and they raised a family of children, and after the death of the said Ephraim, My acquaintance with her continued, as his Widow, and still continues, as she is now the Wife of the said John Gallagher - that she is the identical person who was formerly the Wife of said Ephraim Blood, and is now the Wife of said John Gallagher -
Novell Volume -
State of Vermont, Dwell 21 Feb. 1856 Addison County ss 3 Then Personally appeared Roswell Bottum & made oath to in due form of law to the truth of the foregoing statement by him made & subscribed (Since the death of his late Father he has written his name Roswell Bottum. had previously written it Roswell Bottum Esq.) "Laws of Vermont," Chap. 11. Sec. 16. From & after the 1 st day of Decr. 1847 the town of Dwell in the County of Rutland shall be & hereby is annexed for every purpose to the County of Addison."
Before me Israel Smith  his  Peace

Stat. of Vermont } I. Dugald Stewart, Clerk of Addison County } the County Court for the County
of Addison, in, a Court of Record, and having a seal as heretofore attached, hereby certify that Israel Smith whose signature appears to the within certificate and jurat was at the date thereof and now is a justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and authorized by law to administer oaths for general purposes, and I further certify that I am acquainted with his handwriting, & believe his said signature to be genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at Middlebury in said County this 23. day of February A.D. 1854.
Dugald Stewart Clerk

December 14, 1933.
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Mr. Amos A. Blood Ticonderoga New York
BA-J/ady Ephraim Blood S.46369 Amos
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter relative to one Ephraim Blood, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.46369, based upon his military service in that war.
Ephraim Blood enlisted, place not stated, in the spring of 1779 and served as private in Captains Benjamin Ellis' and Munro's Companies, Colonels Scammell's, Henry Dearborn's and George Reid's New Hampshire Regiments and was discharged in June 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 2, 1828 at which time he was aged about sixty-five years and a resident of Orwell, Rutland County, Vermont.
Soldier married February 13, 1831 in Orwell, Vermont, Emeline Woodward or Woodard, who was born November 26, 1812 in Orwell, Vermont. At the time of their marriage they were both residents of Orwell, Vermont.
this was record evidence did not use "15."
He died May 20, 1847 in Orwell, Vermont. The date and place of his birth and names of his parents are not stated.
Soldier's widow, Emeline Blood, married April 20, 1848 in Orwell, Addison County, Vermont, John Gallagher, then aged about thirty-three years. They were then residents of Orwell, Vermont.
Ephraim Blood, the soldier, and his wife, Emeline, reared a family of children, the only names given were, Cynthia Blood, Amos Blood and John Blood, aged respectively seventeen, fifteen and eight years in 1855. There are no further family data.

This is the history of the only Ephraim Blood, that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.

1933 Dec. 14. Hist. to Amos A. Blood, N.Y.
[3-230.] Cert. No. 692
Reissues.
Henry
692/97
Name: Ephraim Blood Rank: Priv. Comp'y: Ellis Reg't: 1st N H Line
} Agency.
RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT.
1st Issue. } Comm'g 2d Issue. } Comm'g 3d Issue. } Comm'g
DATE OF CERTIFICATE, AND TO WHOM SENT.
1st Issue. } Sent to 2d Issue. } Sent to 3d Issue. } Sent to
Act 1828.
Act 14th July 1862. Blk. G., Vol. Page Registering Clerk:
Allowed
Disability. }

Cynthia. Amos & John only minor children then Gallagher the Guardian as Certified by Court Probate Proof of Marriage etc
Ephraim Blood due
128, 1856
128, 1856
[Signature]
Not on Sur files
Apr 25/56
Johnson
At Boston Jan. 28. 56
[Signature]
John Blood Washington City D.C.

Wife 60 yrs, when Mrs. Grandmama I have minor children in Philadelphia recd 100 a. m. N.Y. S. Court line Whitton
QHS
Coare
128186
Compt of Pension Washington D.C.

Ephraim Blood
Estate
Letter of Administration
June 18. 1847
128186

STATE OF VERMONT, District of Fairhaven.
The Hon. Probate Court for the District of Fairhaven
To Israel Smith of Arvill
in said District,
GREETING:
WHEREAS, Ephraim Blood late of Arvill in the District of Fairhaven deceased, having while he lived and at the time of his death, goods, chattels, rights, credits, and estate in said District, lately died intestate; whereby the power of granting ad- ministration and full disposition of all and singular, the goods, chattels, rights, credits and estate of the said deceased; and also, hearing, examining, and allow- ing the accounts of such administration doth appertain unto said Probate Court:
The said Probate Court doth by these presents, commit unto you the said
Israel Smith
FULL POWER to ADMINISTER all and singular, the goods, chattels, rights, credits and estate of the said deceased, which to him at the time of his death, did appertain, and the same well and faithfully to dispose of according to law; and also to demand, collect, recover, and receive, all, and whatsoever credits to the deceased did belong, and to pay all debts which the deceased stood bound, so far as his goods, chat- tels, rights, credits and estate can extend, according to the value thereof, and to make a true and perfect inventory of all and singular, the goods, chattels, rights, credits and estate of the said deceased, and cause them to be appraised, and return the same to the said Probate Court within three months from this date: and also render to the said court, a true and just account of your administration, within one year from this date, and at any other time when required by said Court.
AND you are by these presents, ordained, constituted and appointed Administrator of all and sin- gular, the goods, chattels, rights, credits and estate aforesaid. IN TESTIMONY whereof I have here- unto affixed the seal of said Court, and subscribed my name at Cornwall in said Dis- trict, this 18 th day of June — A. D. 1847
Almon Wheeler Judge

Comm. of Pensions Wash n City D.C.

Sir
31 March 1856
Have just rec d the Warrants for Wid Abt. Noble (claim N o 128187) 120 act. No mention made of claim 128,188. Jas. Wilson, Nothing said of the claims of the Ratchums, not num- ber d , but forwarded with Wid Polly Knowlton. for the latter have rec d the Warrant 120. act claim N o 167,413
The, Additional Proof, for Minor heirs of Ephr m Blood dec d . You have herewith claim N o 128.186 respectfully, Israel Smith Comm r . of Pensions Wash n city D.C. Quincy Vermont

Claim 128.186 Minor children heirs of Ephm Bloss dec. -
additional Proof

State of Vermont Addison County ss
Addison Probate Dist. in said County
Satisfactory proof has been presented to this Court that John Gallagher of Orwell in said District is the legally appointed Guardian of Cynthia Blood, Amos Blood & John Blood, minor children and heirs, being the only minor children, of Ephraim Blood late of said Orwell deceased. The said John Gallagher still holds the office of Guardian & as such the said minor children are under his care, and, as his wards, subject to his control. Given under my hand with the Seal of the Court affixed in Middlebury in said District this 26 th day of March A.D. 1856
By order of the Court
Jed. T. Washburn Register

128186
Minor Children of Ephraim Blood
248-60
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No 128.186
Patent Office, May 10 th 1856.
Sir:
The claim of the minor children of Ephraim Blood, will be favorably considered as soon as their mother the present wife of their Guardian, waives her right to any warrant or, the widow of said Ephraim I request, that county laws issue to such minor children in right of her former husband's services. This waiver & request should be in writing & sent to this Office.
The waiver & request were nam? sign? or the widow mother was forwarded to the Pension Office and not able to name the date of the letter by which the writing was accompanied J.S.
Yours Respectfully, C.A. Rhet.
for Commissioner, Israel Smith, Esq., Orwell, Vt.

Sir Incls d are applications for Bounty Land
1. from Abigail Noble. which has rec d Land Warrant 40 act. on acct. of service of John Noble - War 1812
2. James Wilson, War of 1812.
3. Minor Heir of Ephraim Blood dec d .
4 Lucy Parks. Wid. of Rev. Parks dec d . } Revolutionary
I have likewise forwarded the application of Wid. Deborah Murray the rec d of Wid. Murray's application not acknowledged.
May 6 th 1853
By Israel Smith
Orwell
Vermont
Commr. of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.

Certy No 738
1032
No. of Original Application 602
Allowed Oct 1828
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Sept. 16. 1828.
Ephraim Blood, of Orwitt, in the County of Rutland, in the State of Vermont, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain Ellis  day not recorded 's company, in the First regiment of the New Hampshire line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing >
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary, A. Dikins,
No record E.P.B.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
22 nd September 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Ephraim Blood in the New Hampshire line
It further appears that Ephraim Blood is now on the pension list of the  any - - - - - agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of  dollars per month.
Richd Hagner Secy
21057

Ticonderoga, N.Y. November 24 1933
Messrs of the Bureau of Pensions:
Have you any record of a man by the name of Ebenezer Blood , who was a soldier under Ethan Allen. He was with Ethan Allen when he left Ticonderoga.
When Monkcalm drove Ethan Allen out of the fort he told my father that Allen burned the fort and after they got the artillery across the pond, which they threw out the bridge and burned all the buildings on Mount Independence. They went from there to Bennington, Vermont and E. Blood fought at Bennington and Bemis Heights , New York.
After the war was over he came back to Orwell , Vermont and took up a tract of land

about a mile and a half north East of the village. He died and was buried there.
Why I asked this is; I am his grandson. My fathers name was Ephraim Blood and I have a brother named Ephraim man also a son.
Please let me hear from you if there is any records of his actions during the war.
Where did he come from and was he illegable for a pension?
Yours truly yours,
Ephraim L. Blood Ticonderoga New York