Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39957, Ebenezer Bartlett, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Bartlett, Ebenezer
NUMBER
S. 39957
CONTENTS

Notification sent December 29, 1820 to A. Beaumont - Wilkesbarre, Luzerne Co. Pa. Restored Mch. 6, 1827 coming July 24, 1827 see additional jacket.
Informed 20 A. that his name is restored.
Pennsylvania. R 15,856
Ebenezer Bartlett,
Luzerne co. in the state of Penns. who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam, of the Massach. line, for the term of three years.
Inscribed on the roll of Pennsylvania, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 1st of May, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26. of Nov. 1819 and sent to Jesse Fell, Esq. Wilkesbarre, Pennsylv.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1819. $: 129.06 anl. all'ce ending 4. March 1820. 48 " 16 mo \frac{4}{30} 1820. $: 177.06
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Not entitled

Ebenezer Bartlett
Ebenezer Bartlett Jr. Putnam's Mass. Regt. 1778 to 1781 1 st May 1818
See his discharged now enclosed draft of his Indigent Circum- stances
Hele
Hele Esq. Milkesbarre, Pa.
Admitted

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA,
LUZERNE COUNTY, ss.
On this first _____ day of May A.D. 1818 before me the subscriber, President Judge of the Eleventh Judicial district in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, personally appears Ebenezer Bartlett _____ aged Sixty two _____ years, resident in Tunkannock in the said County of Luzerne in the State aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled, "An act to provide for cer- tain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War." That he the said Ebenezer Bartlett _____ enlisted at White Plains in the state of New York in June 1778 _____ in the company commanded by Captain Daniel Hagg — in the Reg't of Colf of the Reruf Putnam of the Massachusetts line — that he continued to serve in the said corps _____ and in the service of the United States, until the Month of August 1781 _____ when he was discharged from service at Philips Mansion near _____ Tarrytown = state of New-York that he was in the battles of Stony Point — and in several skirmishes and was wounded in the leg in a skirmish near East Chester in the State of New-York that he received a discharge which is now as he verily believes in the State of Ohio —
And that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the Assistance of his Country for support—and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Except the papers here with transmitted
Sworn to, subscribed and declared, Before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Ph. Bartram
Ebenezer Bartlett

I, Thomas Burnside President Judge of the eleventh Judicial district in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Ebenezer Bartlett did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the Common Enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the secretary for the Department of war, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Thos Burnside
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, } LUZERNE COUNTY, SS. }
I, Andrew Beaumont Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Luzerne aforesaid, do certify and make known that Thomas Burnside Esq is, and was at the time of signing and taking the foregoing depositions and certifying the same, President Judge of the 11th Judicial district of the State of Pennsylvania, that the signature is his proper hand writing, and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such. In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and Seal of Office, at Wilkesbarre, in the County of Luzerne aforesaid, the 2 d day of May 1818
A Beaumont Pro

I Jesse Sell one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Luzerne in the Eleventh Judicial District in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Do Certify to the Secretary at War that I am well acquainted with the signers of the within certificate of the Indigent Circumstances of the Applicant Ebenezer Bartlett and that full faith & credit may be placed on their Certificate Given under my hand at Wilkesbarre November 9 th 1819
Jesse Sell

We the Subscribers have for many years been acquainted with Ebenezer Bartlet the Applicant in the annexed Application named & resided in the same Neighbourhood with him do certify that they believe him to be in Indigent Circumstances and that he is an aged and Infirm Man unable to gain a support by labour and that he stands in need of the Assistance of Country — Tunkhannock Township Nov: 3 d 1819 —
Cyrus Avery Abel Hovey Isaac Lee Nathan Bacon Caleb Roberts

Prof. Dahlgren

I Robert Oakley of the Township of Tunkhannock county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania do testify that I am acquainted with Ebenezer Bartlett of the township and county aforesaid and was acquainted with the situation of his family in the years of Seventeen Eighteen hundred and Seventeen 18 and 19 and during that time his wife was sick and the most part of the time was confined and at a considerable expense and when she died he was out of the country and I have been informed that he had to dispose of his property to defray the expenses of his wife and other debts in which he was involved in and also soon after he gave to Zebulon Mary of his land and further that his wife was sick and died at the house of Zebulon Mary who has the deed of his land and for the south not
Robert Oakley
Luzerne County ss
Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace personally came Robert Oakley the signer of the above instrument of writing and after being duly sworn says he believes it to be true according to best of his knowledge without any Tunkhannock June 2 hand and seal at Tunkhannock June 2 nd 1826 Luman Fogg Justice Peace

District of Pennsylvania and State Supreme Court No 2
On this eleventh day of August A.D. 1870 personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid the same being a Court of Record Ebenezer Bartlett who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows to wit in the Land service in the Regiment commanded by Colo. Rufus Putnam in the Company commanded by Captain Daniel Shay of the Massachusetts line as in his original declaration dated the first day of May A.D. 1878 is set forth And that his Pension Certificate is numbered 15,836 and I the said Ebenezer Bartlett do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March A.D. 1878 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 to so diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the Act of Congress passed the 18 day of March 1878 entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war And that I have not nor has any person for me in trust or securities or 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
Sworn and subscribed in Open Court 11 August 1870 A. Deane Court Pro.
Schedule
Real estate in the State of Ohio 116 acres with a small Cabin thereon and a part of the land cleared worth    1 Mare in foal for $300.00   1 Harrow & one broad axe 75.00   1 Drawing knife 5.00   2 Augers 75.   2 Cranes 1.87   1 pair of Tongs 3.00   2 Chains 1.00   1 Set of old horse gears 6.00   Debts due from me 2.80   Debts due me $487.00   60.00 
My occupation is that of a Carpenter and I am aged sixty three years But from the three wounds I received where in the service together from my age I am unable to do much I have no family but live with my son in Law.
Sworn and subscribed in Open Court 11 August 1870 A. Deane Court Pro.

District
State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County ss. I Andrew Beaumont Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County being a Court of Record do certify that the within truly copied from the Record of the Docket and Schedule filed among the Records of said Court and that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total value of the property contained in said Schedule is four hundred and fifty four dollars forty two cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office at Wilkes Barre this 26th day of August Anno Domini 1820
A. Beaumont Prothonotary
11 th Augt 1820
Ebenezer Bartlett 15856
mar 22
District of and State of Pennsylvania On this 8th day of November A.D. 1820 personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Luzerne and State aforesaid the same Court being one of Record the foregoing Deed of Ebenezer Bartlett who being duly sworn deponeth and saith that at the date of his foregoing Declaration he was a Citizen of and residing in the County of Luzerne aforesaid and that he is now a Citizen and a Resident of the same County Ebenezer Bartlett.
Sworn and subscribed in Open Court 8 Nov. 1820 A Beaumont Pro.
NOV entitled
Luzerne County ss. I Andrew Beaumont Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County do certify that the above is a true copy of the affidavit sworn and subscribed in Open Court. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of Luzerne County at Wilkes Barre this Eighth day of November A.D. 1820.
A. Beaumont Prothonotary

January 10, 1939.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Swan 27 West California Avenue Columbus, Ohio
BA-J/ady Ebenezer Bartlett S.39957
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Jacob Bartlett and Ebenezer Bartlett, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited trained clerical force available for furnishing such information it is impossible to comply in full with each request pertaining to soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
The record of the only Ebenezer Bartlett of Pennsylvania, that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office is furnished you herein as found in the papers on file in pension claim, S.39957, based upon his military service in that war.
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Ebenezer Bartlett are not shown.
Ebenezer Bartlett enlisted in White Plains, New York, June 9, 1778, served as private in Captain Daniel Shay's Company, Colonel Rufus Putnam's Fifth Massachusetts Regiment, and in Captain Joshua Benson's Company in the Light Infantry, under Colonels Joseph Vose and Rufus Putnam; was in the battle of Stony Point and in several skirmishes; was wounded in the leg in a skirmish near East Chester, New York; he received two other wounds, nature not stated, and was discharged July 14, 1781.
He lived in Sunbury, Delaware County, Ohio, prior to 1818.
He was allowed pension on his application

executed May 1, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Tunkhannock, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and aged about sixty-two years.
Soldier's wife died in May 1819 at the home of one Zebulon Marcy, Jr., her name, age are not stated and there are no further information in regard to her.
In 1820 soldier lived in said Luzerne County, with his son-in-law, his name and the name of his wife are not given. There are no further family data.
The soldier, Ebenzer Bartlett died April 24, 1830, place not stated.
On AB
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Shutter
Dis Charge
From the series
[Large stylized signature or initials, possibly "H. J."]
Ebenezer Bartlett, S. 39,957 Mass.

This May Certify that Ebenezer Bartlett Soldier in the 5 th Massachusetts Regiment having served the full term of his enlistment has conducted himself as a good and faithfull Soldier and is hereby Discharged the Service of the United States
Given Under My hand at Quarters, Phillips Run this fourteenth day of July 1868.
Rufus Putnam, Col d .

Upper Falls R.R. Ord. 3 Day, Provisional — F. Anderson
Dec 2 1886
Delivered at Warwick June 11. 86 Three days Deliberations
Dear Lordship
General Bartlett, L. 39. 957 Mass.

Permit the bearer Ebenezer Bartlett, a soldier in Captain Joshua Benson Company, Colonel Putnam's Regiment, now in the Light Infantry under my command to pass to West Point, in the State of New York, to join his Regiment.
Greene County State of Virginia June 9 th 1781.
Joseph Vose Col.

also find the name of Jacob Hartnett who was a member of the Commando in the Mexican Revolution, on the border of 1915. His mother lived in Arizona. I found his lived life in Arizona and New Mexico. I found his name Hartnett listed. I found his connected with them etc. I also found a separate handwritten list of names and dates about 1915. mentioned, soldiers.
read one
Ms. Elizabeth Swan 2240 California Ave, Los Angeles, Calif.

Mr. Will R. Swan
1560 E. Broad St.
Apt. 301
Columbus, Ohio

Also find the name of Jacob Hartnett who was a member of the Pennsylvania Key Stone Battery during the War. He was discharged on the Pension Roll 1925. His widow lived in Penn- sylvania.
I would like to know something in Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia. I know of many names connected with the War etc.
I would greatly appreciate your help in giving me information concerning the above mentioned soldiers.
Send one
Ms. Elizabeth Swan 2020 California Ave, Columbus, Ohio.

att Prot co - N.Y. Co Rec - Binghamton N.Y.
39957 INVALID.
Pay
File No. 39957
Ebenezer Bartlett Dr Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: — Vol. 8 , Page 28
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1889 Nov 1 History by M M Ba
Oct. 18-19 Mrs. H. C. Surra
Sept 6. 1905. Hist. to Mrs. Hamilton Wood, Belmont, N.Y.
1914 Jan. 26. Hist. to Miss Lillian J. Swayze. f. 1914 Feb. 12. Mrs. Alden Swayze ref. to bud. for last payment etc. f.
1939 Jan. 10. Hist. to Mrs. Elizabeth Swayze

NAVY AUG 29 1905
THE SPACE ABOVE IS RESERVED FOR POSTMARK. POSTAL CARD. THE SPACE BELOW IS FOR THE ADDRESS ONLY.
Perkins
Perkins office System Department Arlington

Sir - I wish to learn if a Rev. Gilders by name of Bartlett Pleneyer - or similar Bartlett from Mass is on your Parish rolls - Please advise me
Yours truly Mrs. Hamilton Wood Barnesville Allegany Co. N.Y. Re: Rev. Catherine Schuyler chh. Dan. Aug 25: 05-

Copy of Mortgage from Ebenezer Bartlett to Jonathan Hancock, dated 4 th April 1821, amo of Mortgage $506. Filed within - and affidavit of Saml Whitmore stating that he wrote a deed of con- veyance of 115 acres & 115 perches L. Lands, from Ebenezer Bartlett to Zebulon Marcy Jr. dated 3 rd Nov 1821, and that said Marcy was to pay off the Mortgage of $506, and nothing more, that the consideration in the deed was set down at $1000 it being mentioned at the time that it was of no consequence what sum was in- serted. Affidavit of Zebulon Marcy Jr. exhibits corroborating the above state- ment. Mortgage, deed & affidavits properly authenticated, filed within.

Ebenezer Darr
Pennsylvania
Application to be restored
Brief within
21/11 L... Ag t Samuel Moffet Esq r Wilks Lane Penn.
See letters Jan. 4. 1826 to Hon. S. M c Lean H.R. and 13 April 1826. To Sills 16. Dec. 1826.
Restored. 6 th March 1827. Com y 24. February 1827. Notice sent to Hon. S. M c Lean. Burlington Penn a .
Evidence 22 nd March 1824. March 1820.

Pennsylvania. 15,856
Ebenezer Bartlett, private served 3 years - 1778 - '81 Aged 65 years - "a carpenter" from 3 wounds he states to have recd in service & age, he said, he was unable to do much. "No family, but lives with his Son in Law."
1 st Sched: dated 11 th Aug t 1820. contains
  116 acres Land & a small   cabbin thereon in Ohio $300.   1 Mare 75.   1 Harrow & broad axe 5.   Tools, furniture & horse gears 14.42   Debts due to him 60.   Debts due from him $481.   copy by court to amt to $454.42 
Sticker of 29 th December, 1820.
2 nd Sched: dated 1821 containing
  Tools, furniture & horse gears $15.   Balance of property not explained. 
3 rd Sched: made 1 st April, 1822, contains same articles as 2 nd Sched: amounting to $15. In this he states before the court that the 116 acres of land &c. in Ohio mentioned in 1 st Sched: "was under mortgage for the
payment of $506; which land" he has "since sold for the payment of" said sum. - Jonathan Hancock held the mortgage, makes affidavit in open court, that he had released the party, as Solomon Marcy, Jr. who pur- chased from the claimant, had become responsible to him for the payment of said sum of $506. -
Informal 20 May, 1822 that his name could not be restored. see letter Oct. Oct. 18, 1823, to Samuel Maffet, Esq r . Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylv. Agent.
Regulations sent, April 15 th 1823.
4 th Sched: ($10.25.) made 10 th April 1823. States that the land was mortgaged for the whole amt. of purchase money, & that mortgagee had released applicant, he having sold his rights to a third person. - No copy of deed. But mortgagee swears to the fact. as above stated.

E. Odronke, Clerk Pension Office.
Copy of Mortgage Bartlett to Hancock.

This Indenture made the fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, between Ebenezer Bartlett late of the State of Ohio, but now of the County of Luzerne, Yeoman, of the one part; and Jonathan Hancock of the Borough of Wilkesbarre, County aforesaid, and State of Pennsylvania, Innkeeper, of the other part - Whereas the said Ebenezer Bartlett stands indebted to the said Jonathan Hancock, for the sum of five hundred and six dollars lawful money of the United States, which will become payable and due on the first day of July next ensuing the date hereof, with the lawful interest thereon from this date, without any fraud or further delay. Now this Indenture witnesseth, that the said Ebenezer Bartlett, as well for and in consideration of the aforesaid debt, or sum of five hundred and six dollars with the interest thereof, and for the better securing the payment thereof unto the said Jonathan Hancock, his Executors Administrators and assigns, in discharge of the said obligation above recited, as for and in consideration of the further sum of one Dollar specie to him in hand paid and truly paid by the said Jonathan Hancock at and before the sealing and delivery hereof, the receipt of which one Dollar he doth hereby acknowledge, hath granted, bargained, sold released and confirmed, and by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, release, and confirm unto the said Jonathan Hancock, his heirs and assigns, all that certain piece or parcel of land described as follows, to wit: - The west end or half of the Lot Number three in the west tier of lots, in the first Quarter of the fourth Township, in the seventeenth range of the United States Military Tract of land in the State of Ohio; bounded on the North by land now or late of Discovery Olney, being Lot No. Two; East by land now or late of Millin Robinson, being the East half of said Lot No. Three; South By

by land now or late of Michael Gale, being Lot No four, in said west tier and west by said quarter township of Lots, in said greater Township lines or land now or late of David and Joseph Prince; containing by estimation one hundred and fifteen Acres, one hundred and fifteen perches, be the same more or less, as by reference to a Survey of said Quarter Township made by Joseph Eaton Anno Domini, 1806, will fully appear (being the same piece or parcel of Land which Augustus Ford and Elizabeth his wife of the Township of Tunbury, County of Delaware and State of Ohio, by their deed of conveyance, dated the 22 d day of March, 1815, duly executed and recorded in the proper office in Delaware County aforesaid in Book No 3, Page 314 granted and conveyed to the said Ebene- zer Bartlett, in fee-simple). So together also with all and Sin- gular the buildings, improvements, ways, waters, water courses lights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining, and the revenues and remainders thereof; To have and to hold the said piece or parcel of Land hereditaments and Premises above granted, or intended so to be, with the appurtenances, and every part there- of unto the said Jonathan Hancock, his heirs and assigns to the only proper use and behoof of the said Jonathan Hancock his heirs and assigns forever.
Provided always nevertheless, that if the said Ebenezer Bartlett, his heirs, Executors, Administrators, or assigns, or any of them, DO and shall well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said Jonathan Hancock, his Executors Ad- ministrators, or assigns, or any of them, DO and shall well and truly pay, or cause to be paid unto the said Jonathan Hancock his Executors Administrators or assigns, the above said Debt or sum of five hundred and six Dollars money of the United States.

States, with the lawful interest thereon from the date hereof, on the day and time herein before mentioned and appointed for payment thereof, together with lawful interest for the same in like money, in way and manner herein above specified therefor, without any fraud or further delay, and without any deduction, defalcation or abatement to make for or in respect of any taxes, charges or assessments whatsoever; that then and from thenceforth this present Indenture, and the Estate hereby granted, shall cease, determine, and become void; anything herein before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
In Witness Whereof the said Parties to these Presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of us
Ebenezer Bartlett.
Note — The necessary obliterations were before signing —
Geo. H. Williams James Hancock
(As endorsed) State of Pennsylvania Luzerne County ss.
Before me one of the associate Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Ebenezer Bartlett, the Grantor named in the within mortgage Deed and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed, desiring the same

might be recorded as such.
Given under my hand and seal at Wilkes- barre, the 21 st day of April A.D. 1821.
Jeffer Fell.
Received April 21 st 1822, the amount of the within sum mentioned in this Mortgage by the hand of Jonathan Marcy. Witness my hand Jonathan Hancock.
I do hereby certify that the above is a true an original copy of a draft of the endorsements thereon, which was taken from a file in this Office, and sent to the Hon: J. M c Kean, of the House of Representatives, on the 29 th of December 1828.
E. Brooke, Clerk Pension Office.

To the Honorable J. C. Cathcart Secretary of War The subscribers citizens of Luzerne County Pennsylvania respectfully represent that they are personally acquainted with Ebenezer Dibble of Hawk Run Creek Township in Luzerne County Pennsylvania who was inscribed on the Pension List of the Pennsylvania Agency and received a Pension under and by virtue of an Act of Congress of the 4 th March 1818 for services rendered his country in the Revolutionary War and has since been deprived of that support on account of his returning and his Schedule to the War Department about One Hundred and Sixteen Acres of Land in the State of Ohio which he then was in possession of which land was at the same time subject to a Mortgage and has since been sold to satisfy that Mortgage which has deprived him of means of supporting himself the being old and infirm and for about seven months past wholly unable to labor or procure any earnings which would render to him a comfortable support. He is now in a very poor state of health being grievously afflicted with an extreme bad and dangerous sore on his left thigh which he says has proceeded from a Wound he received in the Revolutionary War with which he has been confined constantly since about the first of May last during which time he has been entirely unable to labor and from his present state of health doubts whether he will ever be able to labor again. He is now in very indigent circumstances not having any home or property of any considerable value he is unable to live except by the charity of the people. He has no children living on whom to lean for support. He is not able to pay a physician and is thereby deprived of resorting to means necessary to the restoration of his health. The subscribers therefore believe and know that he

the said Ebenezer Bartlett has a just claim on his country for support agreeably to the Acts of Congress. The undersigned pray you to take his case and condition into consideration and that his Pension may be granted him from the time he last drew a Pension is our sincere wish which we fully believe he is intitled to
Leicester County December 1823
Charles Olin
Oliver Wood
Samuel Whitmore
Robert F. Hight
Aaron Adams
Philip Lill
Wm Buckingham
Giles H. Sturtevant
John Harrington
Sumner Perry
Cyrus Avery
Jonathan H. Williams
Nicholson Mary
W. R. O'Keefe
Edward Fisher
Alpha Durhame
Milan Barney
Asa S. Dana
John Phelps
James Kelly

Wilkes Barre Feb 24 th 1827
Dear Sir
I have prepared the papers of poor old Ebenezer Bartlett and here enclose them. I have, as far as I have had anything to do with them, endeavoured to conform to the directions of Mr. Edwards. The old man is poor and infirm with a stiff knee. He has suffered much of late years from sickness. I have no doubt that he has been a brave and faithful Soldier in the time "that tried mens souls," but he is now a miserable cripple. I sincerely hope that no difficulties will occur to prevent his obtaining his pension. If any man from his age infirmity and destitute condition is entitled to the aid of his country I think Bartlett is.
Your friend
A. Beaumont
The Hon Samuel McKean

Deposition of Iona Hancock

I Jonathan Hancock of the Borough of Wilkes Barre County Luzerne & State of Penns yl va do certify that I have long been acquainted with Ebenezer Bartlett, I know him to be poor in the extreme, I am confident that nothing but that relief which he is justly entitled to from his Country can save him from suffering, he is an old infirm Crip pl ed Soldier of the Revolution — This except the War Department is sufficiently satisfied
The Honable Secy  Secy  at Wishes an explanation of the Origin of the Mortgage given to me, this I will do as near as I can recollect, Ebenezer Bartlett to the best of my recollection has not been out of my Debt for twenty years or more, I have lent him money at different times, I have paid money for being his Bail, I have large bills against him, he had no property as he said, but this Land in the State of Ohio, I took the Mortgage on the Land, doubting at the same time his title, believing the Land not paid for I became uneasy, Zebulon Mary at length proposed paying me my Demand if I would give up the Mortgage to him which never I think been Recorded, I did so, I think it likely that Mary had a demand also — The length of time has obliterated some considerable parts of our dealings, I well recollect his getting one Hundred Dollars in a Treasury note from

me at one one time, I also also remember being under necessity of paying nearly thirty Dollars for being his Bail, and lending him ten & five dollars at different times, I well recollect that all those transactions and many more not recollected at this time took place before Bartlett gave me the Mortgage. No one that knows him can doubt his legal claim on his country for protection.
Jonathan Hancock
Gene County Co
On the 17 th day of January 1827 before the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for Said County Came Jonathan Hancock and being duly sworn saith that the above Sworn Statement is true to the best of his Recollection & further saith not Sworn & Subscribed Jonathan Hancock The 17 th day January 1827
Sworn & Subscribed      Jonathan Hancock the 17 th day January 1827
Roger Davis Hoag

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Luzerne County
Charles D Shoemaker 3 Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne
County do certify that Roger Cross before whom and by whom the annexed deposition was taken, and the oath administered, is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Luzerne County and that full faith and credit are due to all his acts as such
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this Seventeenth day of January A.D. 1840 Thousand eight hundred and twenty seven
Charles D Shoemaker
George C. Drake Deputy

Samuel Whetmore Depositor

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Luzerne County ss
I Charles D. Shormaker Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Luzerne County do certify that Cyrus Avery and Samuel T. Evans whose names are subscribed to the papers herewith forwarded are acting Justices of the Peace in and for said County and that full faith and credit is due to their acts as such.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County this third day of January A.D. 1871 one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven
C. D. Shormaker Prot

I hereby certify on or about the 11 th day of April A.D. 1818 I was known to Ebenezer Bartlett's credit money I was bail for him for the sum of about Eighty dollars for him which sum I had to pay and at the same time his wife was lying sick and a bill of expense to him and was sick for about two years and continued so until May A.D. 1819 and then died and when she died said Ebenezer Bartlett was out of the country and according to the best of my knowledge and personal acquaintance he was at great expense for her sickness which he had to pay on his return
Adam Wilson
Pugene County ss
I hereby certify that on the 26 th day of May A.D. 1826 personally came Adam Wilson and after being duly sworn says that the above instrument which he has subscribed to is just and true according to the best of his knowledge before me
Witness my hand and seal
Peaseman Ferry Justice Pease

I David Osterhout of the township Tunkhannock County of Luzern State of Pennsylvanian do certify that I am acquainted with Ebenezer Bartlett of the township and county aforesaid and am knowing to his wife being sick some time before she died and also that he was owing money in several instances in the years one thousand Eighteen hundred and Eighteen and nineteen and that he had property sold at Public sale to pay his debts. and I also heard Jonathan Hancock of Wilksbarre say that the the said Bartlett owed him and that he had a mortgage of his land and I have understood since that the land was sold and due -ed to John L. Marey to clear the debts and said Mortgage and I know that he is now in indegent circumstances old and infirm and a cripple and unable to get a comfortable living and I think he is justly entitled to aid from his country for past services and further saith nott
David Osterhout
Luzern County ss
On the 2 d day of June 1826 before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County personally came David Osterhout the signer of the above instrument of writing and after being duly sworn says it is true according to his knowledge and belief Witness my Hand and Seal at Tunkhannock Luz a Co ty
Samuel Ferry Justice Peace

I Samuel Whitmore of the township of Linnshamack County of Luzern and State of Pennsylvania do certify and say that I then I am acquainted with Ebenezer Bartlett of the township and county aforesaid and drew the deed that was given by him to Zebulon Mary Jr of a piece of land in the County of Delaware and State of Ohio the consideration sum in the deed was $1000 which was double the sum that Zebulon Mary was to give for the land and it was talked of and considered considered at the time that it made no difference what the consideration sum was and I also heard Zebulon Mary Jr say and agree to take up the Mortgage that the said Bartlett had given to Jonathan Hancock for the same piece of land and further south not Linnshamack June 3 d 1826
Samuel Whitmore
Luzern County ss
On the 3 d day June 1826 personally came Samuel Whitmore before me one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County and after subscribing and being duly sworn to the above instrument of writing says it is true according to the best of his knowledge Witness my hand and seal at Linnshamack this day and year above mentioned
Lumorn Ferry Justice of the Peace

War Department Pension Office 16 th December 1826
Sir
The claim of Ebenezer Bartlett has been examined. Some of the objections to the admission of the claim have been removed; but a correct decision cannot be made until further testimony be exhibited. The affidavit of Hancock should be obtained, to show the origin of the mortgage to him, and the affidavits forwarded by you require authentication, there being no evidence of the official character and signature of the magistrate before whom they purport to have been taken. On a former examination, exception was taken to a deed offered as evidence, because it did not appear to have been recorded in the State and County where the land lay. To remedy which the claimant exhibits the alleged original deed, which cannot be received as evidence at present, because there is no proof of its authenticity. It is herewith returned. The official character and signature of "Joseph Hughes Recorder of Delaware County Ohio" not being certified. This should be done by the clerk of some court of record of that County under Seal.
I have the honor to be Very respectfully Your Ob t Serv t J. L. Edwards
Hon: S. McKean House of Representatives

H R Dec 13
1826
Sir
Permit me once more earnestly to call your attention to the application of Ebenezer Bartlett. The accompanying papers were sent to me Early last summer but I thought best not to present them untill now. I made it my business to call on Mr. Bartlett and enquire of his neighbors. Concerning his circumstances all say he is in abject poverty. To me he was the picture of distress. a cripple old and meanly dressed - if he had property it has slipped from him in a manner that would be impossible for him to account for. other than he has done - Yrs
Respectfully
Sam M c Lean
J L Edwards Esq.

Luzerne County ss.
I Ebenezer Bartlett of the Township of Sun- hannock in the County of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, (an applicant under the late law of the United States granting Pensions to the Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army,) of my own free will and accord in the presence of al- mighty God, do Solemnly swear that I have not at any time parted or disposed of any kind of Property for the purpose of becoming entitled to a Pension from the United States; - that I am now a cripple and unable by my own ex- ertions to support myself comfortably, being des- titute of any kind of Property, except Bedding, Clothing, and a few Cooper Tools. -
Ebenezer Bartlett
Sworn and subscribed to, before me this 3 rd day of April A.D. 1826. -
C.D. Shoemaker Profs.
The above is a true copy of the Original

State of Pennsylvania - Luzerne County ss.
Charles O'Neumake Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Luzerne, do hereby certify, that the foregoing within draft are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the within statement, is as is therein mentioned. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Wilkes Barre the 1 st day of April A.D. 1826
C O'Neumake Proth

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania } Court of Com. Pleas Luzerne County } April Term 1823.
In this tenth day of April A.D. 1823 personally appeared in open Court (being a Court of Record for the County of Luzerne aforesaid) Ebenezer Bartlett resident in said County aged sixty six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18 th March 1818. and 1 st May 1820. That he the said Ebenezer Bartlett enlisted for the term of three years on the ninth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight in the State of New York in the company commanded by Captain Daniel Shay in the regiment commanded by Colonel Rufus Putnam in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until August 1811. when he was discharged from said service in Philips Manor in the State of New York that his name has been placed on the pension list and dropped therefrom on account of his property —
And in pursuance of the act of the 1 st May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818. and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby 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 18 th day of March 1818. and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule herewith annexed and by me subscribed, that since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property A tract of land situate in the State of Ohio mentioned in my former schedule containing about one hundred and sixteen acres has since been conveyed by deed to.
Ebenezer Marcy Jun. } dated 1 st of November 1823 } said land was by me mortgaged to Jonathan Hancock excluding my previous to my former schedule the grantee Marcy discharged me from my obligation to Hancock which was the whole amount of the purchase money

One Mare included in my former schedule was sold to Jonathan Hancock } November 1821. } I received goods at a store for part & part in Money which has necessarily been appropriated for my subsistence.
Other articles included in my schedule have been sold for my subsistence - others much depreciated in consequence of inevitable use .. to wit one broad ax value $2. one narrow ax $1.50. one drawing knife 75 cents. one pair of tongs $1.00 two chairs $4. - one old set horse gears $1. Amounting to $10. 25. which is all the property the claimant hath in the world - Sworn to and declared on the tenth day of April A. D. 1823. in Open Court
Samuel Maffet. Prob.
Eben T. Bartlett
I, Samuel Maffet Clerk of do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Bartlett did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement in the Continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing Oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is
Dollars -
In Testimony whereof
State of Pennsylvania
Suzanne County ss:
I Samuel Maffet Prothonotary of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for said County of Suzanne do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath and the schedule thereto 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 Ten Dollars and twenty five Cents. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty seventh day of September A. D. 1823.
Samuel Maffet Prob.

District of Pennsylvania Luzerne County ss.
Court of Common Pleas of November Term A. D. 1821.
On this twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the said County of Luzerne in the State aforesaid, proceeding according to the course of the Common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of their proceedings. Ebenezer Bartlett aged sixty four years and upwards, resident in the Township of Sunnyside in said County of Luzerne in the Commonwealth aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, to wit, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Rufus Putnam in the Company commanded by Capt. Daniel Shay in the Massachusetts line as in his original declaration set forth dated the first day of May A. D. 1818. and on file in the Office of the War Department in pursuance of which a pension was granted him under the Act of Congress of 18 th March A. D. 1818. as per certificate numbered 5856. — And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818. And that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the 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 18 th day of March 1818. and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Sworn to and declared in open Court this thirteenth day of November A. D. 1821. Samuel Maffet Pro.
Ebenezer Bartlett.

Schedule of Property
  one broad axe worth two Dollars $ 2. 00   one narrow axe worth two Dollars 2. 00   one drawing knife worth twenty five cents 0. 75   two augers worth twenty five cents 0. 75   one brace worth one dollar fifty cents 1. 50   one pair of tongs worth one dollar 1. 00   two chains worth four Dollars 4. 00   one old set of horse gears worth three dollars 3. 00 
Total amount  $ 15. 00
Eben d Bartlett.
I am by occupation a Carpenter but from the infirmities of age and the effects of wounds received in the Revolutionary War am unable to follow it. — I have no family but reside with my son in Law who is in low circumstances
Eben d Bartlett —
Sworn & Subscribed in Open Court this thirteenth day of November A d Di. 1821.
Samuel Maffet. Proth..
State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County ss: 3 I Samuel Maffet Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Luzerne aforesaid (the same being a Court of Record), Do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Records of the said Court — And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in Value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is fifteen Dollars. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court at Wilkesbarre this fifteenth day of December Anno Domini 1821.
Samuel Maffet Prothonotary

Ebenezer Bartlett.
Schooner
13 th Nov 1821
Sam l Moffet. Esq r . Wilkes barre, Penn.

Colon Edward Ebenezer Bartlett 119
Schedua 2 nd April 1822
Rec d 10 May 1822
Get other papers Cannot be restored.

District of Pennsylvania } Court of Common Pleas Luzerne County ss - 3 } April Term A.D. 1822.
On the first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, personally appeared in open Court - being a Court of Record for the said County of Luzerne in the State aforesaid, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings. Ebenezer Bartlett aged sixty four years and upwards resident in the Township of Sunkenanock in said County of Luzerne in the Commonwealth aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare and say that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows. (to wit) in the Regiment Commanded by Col. Pufus Putnam in the Company Commanded by Capt. Daniel Shay in the Massachusetts line as in his original declaration set forth dated the first day of May A.D. 1818. and on file in the office of the war department in pursuance of which a pension was granted him under the act of Congress of eighteenth March A.D. 1818. as per certificate numbered 3856. - And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish the same as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress intitled "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 18 th day of March 1818." and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
"The land lying in the State of Ohio being one hundred and sixteen acres up part thereof cleared with a small cabin thereon worth three hundred Dollars." Mentioned in my original Schedule was under mortgage for the payment of five hundred and six Dollars which land I have since sold for the payment of the aforesaid sum - that I am now possessed of no Real Estate.
Sworn to and Declared in open Court this second day of April Anno Domini 1822.
Ebenezer Bartlett
Samuel Maffet Pro.

  Schedule of Property   one Broad Axe worth two Dollars $2.00   one Narrow Axe worth two Dollars 2.00   one Drawing Knife worth twenty five cents ".75   two Augers worth twenty five cents ".75   one Iron Grain worth one dollar fifty cents 1.50   one pair of Tongs worth one Dollar 1.00   Two chains worth four Dollars 4.00   one old set of horse gears worth three dollars 3.00   Total Amount $15.00 
I am by Occupation a Carpenter but from the infirmities of age and the effects of wounds received in the Revolutionary war am unable to follow it - I have no family but reside with my son in law who is in low circumstances -  Sworn and Subscribed - Ebenezer Bartlett in Open Court this Second day of April A. D. 1822 Samuel Mafet Prob
Luzerne County ss.
Samuel Whitmore being duly sworn doth depose and say that he understood from Zebulon Macey Junr. that he had become responsible to Jonathan Hancock for the amount of a certain mortgage that the said Hancock held against Ebenezer Bartlett and that he had purchased the said land of Bartlett for which the said mortgage had been given the consideration in said deed asponent was not recollect it was rising five hundred Dollars - this asponent drew the deed but what was the date this asponent does not remember but it is his impression it was near the first of November last - the land was situated in the state of Ohio and about one hundred and fifteen acres -
Sworn & Subscribed Samuel Whitmore in Open Court this Second Day of April A. D. 1822
Samuel Mafet Prob

Luzerne County ss.
Jonathan Hancock being duly sworn doth depose and say that he held a Mortgage against Ebenezer Bartlet for one hundred and fifteen acres of land situate in the State of Ohio for the payment of five hundred and six dollars and in consideration of Zebulon Marcy becoming security to this deponent for the payment of the aforesaid sum for Ebenezer Bartlet this deponent released the said mortgage to the said Ebenezer and this deponent has understood that since that time the said Ebenezer Bartlet has sold the said land to Zebulon Marcy Jun r and through the above arrangement this deponent has understood from all the parties concerned that the said Zebulon Marcy Jun r became responsible to this deponent for the aforesaid sum.
Jonathan Hancock
Sworn & Subscribed in Open Court this second day of April A.D. 1822.
Samuel Maffet Prot y .
Luzerne County ss.
Cyrus Avery Esq. being duly sworn doth declare and say that on the twenty eighth day of March last Ebenezer Bartlet called upon this deponent and requested him to take the acknowledgment of a deed drawn by the said Ebenezer and executed by him to Zebulon Marcy Junior for about one hundred and sixteen acres of land lying in the State of Ohio the consideration for said deed deponent does not recollect it might be something near five hundred dollars but of this deponent cannot say with certainty nor can deponent say when the deed was executed but it was several months before the grantor presented it for acknowledgment and the acknowledgment was taken by this deponent.
Cyrus Avery
Sworn and subscribed in Open Court this second day of April A.D. 1822.
Samuel Maffet Prot y .

State of Pennsylvania Luzerne County ss:
3 I Samuel Maffet Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Luzerne aforesaid, (the same being a Court of Record) do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, and also the Depositions of Samuel Whitmore, Jonathan Hancock and Cyrus Avery, also thereto 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 Fifteen Dollars. ~ In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Wilkesbarre this third day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two.
Samuel Maffet Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County aforesaid.
Eliza

Ebenezer Bartlett
Luzerne. Pennsylvania
Application to be restored
Brief
Sustained 22 d Nov r 1824.

Ebenezer Bartlett.
Luzerne County - Pennsylvania - Enlisted as a private June 1778 in the Reg t of Col d Rufus Putnam - Mass: line - Discharged in August 1781.
1 st Schedule dated 11 th August 1820
116 Acres land in State of Ohio - part cleared, a small cabin thereon worth $ 300.00
1 Mare, unpaired for 75.00 - 1 narrow broad axe 5.00
1 Drawing Knife 0.75 - 2 Augers 0.87
2 Cranes 3.00 - 2 Chain 6.00
1 p t Stags 1.00 - 1 old set horse gear 2.80 104.42
Bill due to him 60.00
Total amt of property $464.42
Debts due from him $481. Creditors names not given
2 d Schedule dated 13 th Nov. 1821.
1 Broad axe 2.00. 1 narrow axe 2.00 - 1 Drawing Knife 75 cts
2 Augers 0.75. 1 Crane 1.50. 1 p t stags 1.00
2 Chain 4.00. Old horse gear 3.00 Total value by count $15.00
3 d The remainder of property not accounted for in any way.
3 d Schedule 2 d April 1822
Contains the same articles as enumerated in the 2 d Sch.
and valued by count at same sum vizt $15.00
His Declaration has this extract.
"The land lying in the State of Ohio. 116 acres, &c. &c. was mortgaged for the payment of $506, which I have since sold for the payment of the aforesaid sum - that I am now possessed of no real estate."
This accompanied by the affidavit of Samuel Whitmore who states That, he drew the deed from Bartlett to Zebulon Marcy: is under the impression it was about 1 st Nov. 1821 - Does not recollect the consideration - But he understood from Zebulon Marcy, that he had become responsible to Hancock for the amount of a certain mortgage which Hancock held ag t Bartlett.
Jonathan Hancock, the mortgagee, acknowledges that he held such a mortgage for the payment of $506. That in conse- quence of Z. Marcy having become security for payment of the same, he released the mortgaged premises to Bartlett. He understands, that since that time, Bartlett had sold said land to said Zebulon Marcy.
Cyrus Avery a Justice of Peace for the County of Luzerne, remembers that in March 1823 a Deed executed by said Bartlett to

to said Marcy for about 116 acres of land in Ohio, was acknowledged before him - thinks it was dated several months before. - Does not recollect the consideration. - Then Affidavits are dated 9 th April 1822.
4 th Schedule 10 th April 1823
1 Broad Axe 2.00 - 1 narrow axe 1.50. 1 Drawing Knife 0.75 18 ft. length 1.00 - 2 chain 4.00. horse gear 1.00 - Val'd by Court at. $ 10.25
A maw included in 1 st Sched: sold to Jonathan Hancock Nov 1821. paid in goods and money; appropriated to his subsistence -
says that the other articles, formerly enumerated, were in part sold for his benefit, and the remainder so impaired as to be of no value.
- No real estate -
The original mortgage from Bartlett to Hancock is produced, for 115 acres, 115 perches, of land in the County of Delaware - Ohio. Consideration - The sum of $506. with interest. The origin of this debt is not stated by either party. This Deed is dated 4 th April 1821. Acknowledged same day, before Jesse Tice, an Associate Judge of Common Pleas, for the County of Luzerne Penn a . on the 28 th March 1822. Endorsed as recorded in Delaware Ohio 9 th Nov 1822 signed John P. Hughes Recorder (No proof that it is his signature, or that he is the Recorder). None appears to have been recorded. On the back thereof is a rec d from Hancock the mortgagee for the amount of the mortgage money, "received by the hands of Zebulon Marcy" &c - Rec d dated 4 th April 1822.
A paper writing purporting to be a copy of the Deed from Bartlett to Zebulon Marcy &c is produced for the above mentioned lands; here stated to be 115. Ac & 150 perches - Consideration $1000.
Deed dated 3 rd Nov 1821. Acknowledged before Cyrus Avery a Justice of the Pleas for the County of Luzerne Penn a on 28 th March 1822. Endorsed as recorded in the County of Delaware Ohio. 9 th Nov 1822, signed John P. Hughes Recorder &c (No proof that it is his signature, or that he is Recorder of said County) Geo. W. Drake a authorized Judge for Luzerne Penn a . Certifies, that the paper as above exhibited is a true copy of the original Deed. From all which it does not appear that the Deed was proven, acknowledged, or recorded in the County where the land lies.
The Declarant says that tho' the consideration expressed in the Deed was $1000, yet it was inserted for form's sake, and that the true and only consideration was $506, which Marcy paid

to Hancock on account of the mortgage — In support of which the following testimony is offered —
Titus Marcy the purchaser, states that all he was to give for said land was $506. to be paid to Hancock who held the mortgage "altho' the Consideration mentioned in said Deed was more"
No reason is assigned throughout, or at any time, why Bartlett preferred S d Marcy's having the land to Hancock, as he says he got nothing by the transfer.
Samuel Whitmore makes a second Affidavit 17 th Nov. 1826. Differing from the 1 st in this respect, that he now states that the sum of $506 was all that Marcy was to give for the land, altho' the consideration expressed was more — that it was mentioned at the time "that it made no odds what sum was mentioned in the deed."
In inference — If the deed from Bartlett to Marcy be invalid — the title is still in Bartlett. If to be received as evidence, and considering the Grantor as estopped by it, there will be $494 to be accounted for; being the difference between the Consideration expressed and that, said to have been paid; unless the subsequent explanation be admissible and satisfactory.
Declarant aged 64 in 1829. No family reside with his son in law, whose name is not mentioned, and who is said to be in low circumstances — Bartlett is a Carpenter but from wounds received during the revolution, and the infirmities of age, is unable to follow it. At paper with 20 names of citizens of Luzerne State, his present indigence and inability to labor, and his bad health — that he is unable to live, save by the charity of his neighbors.
I certify that I have examined this case, and am of the opinion that according to the principles which have governed in previous decisions, the claim ought to be admitted.

Luzerne County ss Before me one of the Subscribers one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Samuel Whitmore and after being Duly Sworn Deposes and says that on the third Day of November one Thousand eight hundred and twenty one he wrote a Deed of Conveyance of a tract of Land in the township of Sunbury County of Delaware State of Ohio containing one hundred and fifteen acres and one hundred and fifteen tenths of Ground from Elizabeth Bartlett to Solomon Many Jr and that he the said Whitmore Subscribed his name to said Deed as a Witness and that he understood at the time that said Many was to satisfy Jonathan Hancock of Wilkesbarre Luzerne County Pennsylvania for a Mortgage he held on said Land for five hundred forty Dollars which was all said Many was to pay said Bartlett for said Land although the consideration mentioned in said Deed was more and that it mentioned at the time that it made no add what sum was mentioned in the Deed. Witness my hand and Seal at Poughkeepsie this Seventeenth Day of November one Thousand Eight hundred and twenty four
Cyrus Avery Jr
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE

Know all men by these presents that I Ebenezer Bartlett of Luzerne County Lackawanna Township and State of Pennsylvania in consid- eration of the sum of One Thousand Dollars good and lawful mo- ney of the State of Pennsylvania Paid me by Zebulon Marcy jun r Lackawanna Township and State aforesaid the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge do hereby give grant bargain sell and convey unto the said Zebulon Marcy jun r his heirs and assigns forever all the following described tract of land to wit: the west one or half of lot number three in the west tier of lots in the first quarter of fourth township in the seventeenth range of the United States military tract of land in the State of Ohio County of Delaware Sunbury town- ship and bounded as follows to wit North on lands owned by Dis- covery Oluy being lot Number two East on land owned by Miller Robinson being the east half of said lot number three South on land owned by Michael Ely being lot number four in said west tier of lots in said quarter township and west on said quarter township line or lands owned by Daniel and Joseph Price said west half of lot number three is estimated to contain One hundred and fifteen acres and One hundred and fifty perches of ground be the same more or less a difference being had to a Survey made by Joseph Eaton of said quarter township in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Six to have and to hold the said granted and bargained premises with the prodriges and appurtenances thereof to him the said Zebulon Marcy jun r his heirs and assigns forever to his and their use and behoof for- ever and I the said Ebenezer Bartlett for my self my heirs and executors and administrators do covenant with the said Zebulon Marcy jun r his heirs and assigns that can lawfully sign in fee of the premises that they are free of all encumbrances that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Zebulon Marcy jun r to hold as aforesaid and that I will warrant and defend the same to the said Zebulon Marcy jun r his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this third day of November in the year of our Lord one thou- sand eight hundred and twenty one  Signed sealed and delivered in presence of Samuel Whitmore Andrew L. King  Ebenezer Bartlett

Luzern county ss Seal Before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for the said county personally appeared Chas. B. Bartlett the signor and sealor of the within instrument of writing and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed and desired the same to be recorded as such. It drops my hand and seal at Lukkenhannock this twenty eighth day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty two Cyrus Avery
Recorded office Delaware County this Second and recorded the Deed of the 28th day of March 1822 in Book No 6 pages 188 and 189 Joseph Hough Recorder Delaware County Ohio  Pennsylvania Luzern County George H. Strode being duly sworn doth depose and say that the within is a true and correct copy of the original thereof George H. Strode Nov. 22. 1824 John Hill

Schulze Mary J. W.
Deposition

State of Pennsylvania Luzerne County
I Chauncy D. Shoemaker Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do Certify that Jesse Tull before whom the annexed Mortgage was acknowledged and the annexed deposition of George W. Drake was taken, was at the respective times of taking the same and still is an appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County. And that Chauncy Avery before whom the annexed copy of deed purports to be acknowledged, and before whom the annexed depositions of Zebulon Mary Jr. and Samuel Whitmore were taken, was at the time of taking the same and still is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, and that as such full faith and credit are to be given to their respective official acts and deeds. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at Wilkes-Barre this twenty second day of November 1824.
C. D. Shoemaker Prothonotary

Luzerne County ss before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Solomon Mary Jr and after being duly sworn Deposes and says that on the third Day of November one Thousand Eight hundred and twenty one he Received a Deed of Ebenezer Bartlett of Tunkhannock Township - Luzerne County Pennsylvania for a tract of Land in the state of Ohio in town of Sunbury County of Delaware containing one hundred and fifteen acres and one hundred and fifty perches of ground - for which he was to satisfy Jonathan Dancoh of Wilkesbarre Luzerne County Pennsylvania for a Mortgage he held on said Land for five hundred and six dollars which was all said Bartlett asked and all he agreed to pay altho the consideration mentioned in said Deed was more - Witness my hand and Seal at Tunkhannock this Seventeenth Day of November one Thousand Eight hundred and twenty four
Cyrus Sweeney Jr

Transcript Gould Phinney u
Oleneger Bartlett

Gould Phinney } Capias Deum not Exceeding $1000 us promissory note dated April 5-1821 for Chenezer Bartlett } $22:91 Jonathan Hancock signed said note as Surety Defendant brought forward September 17-1821 by Constable
Sep-17-1821
Capias - $-09 Docket - 06 1/2 Judg - 06 1/4 Ex - 12 3/4 Recognizance 06 1/4 return of Exn 04 transcript 18
Const Henry on Capias $-25
Ferry and conferred judgment for the Plaintiff for for twenty three Dollars and Six Cents Debt besides costs $23:06 September 17-1821 Execution issued and given Constable Henry - September 20-1821 Jehu D. Hancock entered him self as Special Bail for Stay of Execution the Execution - Returned Stayed by order of the Justice not Executed - January 8-1822 The Plaintiff says that Jonathan Hancock has paid him the Debt interest and costs in full and the Plaintiff paid the Justice his fees
Luzerne County ss I Do certify that the above is a true Transcript of my Docket Witness my hand and Seal atunkhamack This twenty ninth Day of May one Thousand eight hundred and twenty Six -
Cyrus Stearns

(copy)
War Department
Pension Office
January 4. 1826
Sir,
The case of Ebenezer Bartlett, in whose behalf you addressed a letter to me a few days since, has again been examined. The objection to the admission of his claim is, that he has not satisfactorily accounted for the disposition of his property. A paper purporting to be a copy of a deed from Bartlett to Zebulon May is produced for the lands mentioned in his schedule, in which the consideration is stated at $1000. It does not appear that the deed was proved, acknowledged or recorded in the County where the land lies. The claimants and others say, that the consideration mentioned in the deed, was for Grooms sake, and that the true and only consideration was $506. The explanation given are not satisfactory. If you are acquainted personally with any of the facts connected with the case, perhaps you may be able to throw some light on the subject.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your obedt Servt.
Hon. J. M c Lean
(signed)
J. L. Edwards
House of Representatives

OD Sir
I inclose to you my papers which you will now carefully examine before you send them on the set of will among which is a letter from J L Edwards stating that the deed from me to J Marcy was not acknowledged or recorded in the county in which the land lay which objection I have removed by sending the original which will show for itself the consideration sum in states is an other objection which I think is removed by Samuel Whitmore's Deposition
Who dined the deed
and also previous to giving Hancock a mortgage of my place he had indorsed a note to the bank for me for $200.00 for which the mortgage was given together with some other demand
I had to pay which you will see from Ely, Avery & Docket as promised to Hancock schedule being made which was stated by Judge Wells to make no difference who made the schedule that it would be considered the same as executed your best exertion for an Old Soldier will ever be thankfully acknowledged by me Oliver H. Bartlett
P.S. be so good as to have the deed returned

12 Edward St Binghamton N.Y.
Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C.
Could you give me the Revolutionary War service of Captain Valentine Wheeler and Jacob Springsteen of Dutchess Co this state.
Also of Ebenezer Bartell of Montague, Mass. and Jonathan Abbott of Andover .
Please state Sir. Hoping for a reply at your early convenience as I very much want to use the desired information as soon as possible.
Respectfully
Mrs. H. L. Larrabee

Canton Penna
Jan. 16, 13.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Have you pension records of one Ebenezer Bartlett who served in the Mass. line, Continental Army?
I am informed that he drew a pension either from Brad- ford or Sycamore

County Pennsylvania also I would like the names of his children if given.
and oblige
Yours truly
(Miss) William J. Swayze
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Canton Pa.
Feb. 5. 14.
Commissioner of Pensions. Washington D.C.
Dear Sir.
Thanking you very kindly for the pension record of Ebenezer Bartlett
sent Jan. 26. 1914.
Sur. File 39,957, Can
you give me the number of his certificate also where may I find

out where, when, and to whom his last payment was made?
I would also like the records of Ebenezer King who served in the ninth reg. Albany Co. Militia N.Y. under Col. Peter Van Ness. He had a claim for bounty land and oblige Yours Truly Mrs. Alden Lwayne
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you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or her)
Chadwick Battle S. 39957 s) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   OF MENT OR NTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     June 9. 1778 3 years Daniel Shay & Joshua Benson's Co. (of Putnam's regt.) in the Light Inf. under Col. Joseph Vose from whom he received a "pass" on June 9, 1781 to proceed from Orange Co., Va. to his regt. at West Point; and was discharged July 14, 1781 at Camp, Phillipaburg, N.Y. Rufus Putnam 5 th Mass.  
Battles engaged in, Stony Pt. Wounded in leg at Red Bank, Pa. - sustained two other wounds not specified.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Earl at White Plains, N.Y.
Date of application for pension, May 1, 1818.
Residence at date of application, Farm of Thomas, Fayette Co., Pa.
Age at date of application, sixty-two years.
Remarks: His wife d. May 1819 at the house of Zebulon Moray. 1893 soldier resided with his son-in-law - name not stated.
Very respectfully,

February 11, 1914.
Mrs. Alden Swayze.
Canton, Pa.
Madam:
In response to your letter dated the fifth instant, you are advised that in order to obtain the date of last payment of Ebenezer Bartlett's pension and name of the person to whom it was paid, you should apply to the Auditor for the Interior Department, U. S. Treasury Department, giving him all of the following data:
"Ebenezer Bartlett Certificate No. 15,856, issued November 26, 1819, for $8. per month from May 1, 1818, under the Act of March 18, 1818, at the Pennsylvania Agency."
You are further advised that the only Ebenezer King found in the Revolutionary War pension files of this Bureau, was born at Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, served in the Massachusetts troops, and after the war, removed to the State of New York and resided in Tompkins County, New York in 1832
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

See misc. files for her letter, January 30, 1939.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Swan 27 West California Avenue Columbus, Ohio
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Ebenezer Bartlett, of Pennsylvania, a pensioner in 1818, Jacob Bartlett, of Pennsylvania, on the pension roll in 1825, and a Benjamin Bartlett of Pennsylvania, on the pension roll in 1789, transferred to New Hampshire.
The Revolutionary War records of this office show that the record of Ebenezer Bartlett, (S.39957), the pensioner cited by you, was furnished you January 10, 1939.
There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a Jacob Bartlett. The pensioner cited by you was Jacob Barlett, erroneously listed on pension lists as Jacob Bartlett.
In order to make a proper search of the Revolutionary War records of this office for that of Benjamin Bartlett, please give the name of the county and state in which he was living before his name was transferred to the New Hampshire roll, in 1803, also, if known, the name of the county in which he lived in New Hampshire. Upon receipt of this information another search of the records will be made and a report furnished you.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator