Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,090, Ebenezer Bostwick, Conn.

SERVICE
Conn.
Dasturick, Obenger
NUMBER _____
S. 42,090 B.L. Mt 32-100
CONTENTS

Know ye, that I, Ebenezer Bostwick, late serjeant from Connecticut in the service of the United States of America, for and in consideration of the sum of five Pounds Lawful Money to me in Hand paid, at and before the Enrolling and Delivery of these Presents, by Jared Baldwin of Bridgeport in Fairfield County & State of Connecticut, have sold, remised, released, quit-claimed, transferred, and assigned, and by these Presents do sell, remise, release, quit-claim, transfer, and assign to the said Jared Baldwin and his Heirs and Assigns forever all the Right, Title, Interest, Claim, and Demand, which I now have, and all Right, Title, Interest, Claim, and Demand, which I, my Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, at any time hereafter may have, to all the Land, which I am entitled to, and to all the Lend which I or either of them may at any time hereafter be entitled to, from the Congress of the United States of America.
for my services as a soldier or serjeant in the Army of the United States of America, for and during the with Great Britain, and to every part and parcel thereof; and I the said Ebenezer Bostwick do hereby certify that I, my Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns here in Connecticut and elsewhere, to all with the said Jared Baldwin his Heirs, and Assigns, that I the said Ebenezer Bostwick for my self, my Heirs, Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, shall and will at all times hereafter, at the request, cost and charges of the said Jared Baldwin his Heirs, and Assigns, be made, seal, and executed all such and every such necessary Acts, Deeds, Things and things, conveyances, releases, ratifications, confirmations, acknowledgements, and all other things necessary to be done, whereby the said Jared Baldwin his Heirs, and Assigns, may have and enjoy all and every the right, title, interest, claim, and demand, which I the said Ebenezer Bostwick now have, or which the said Ebenezer Bostwick, my Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, may at any time hereafter have, of, in, and to the land above said, and of, in, and to every part and parcel thereof, unto the said Jared Baldwin his Heirs, and Assigns, to their own proper use and behoof the said Jared Baldwin his Heirs, and Assigns, forever as by this or their counsel, learned in the Law, shall be reasonably advised or desired or required; And I the said Ebenezer Bostwick do hereby appoint the said Jared Baldwin my true and lawfull Attorney, irrevocably, to all intents, purposes, and occasions, and to obtain in my name, or otherwise, for the sole use and behoof of the said Jared Baldwin his Heirs, and Assigns forever, from the United States, a Patent or Grants, or Patents, for the land aforesaid, here ratifying and confirming, all and whatsoever my said Attorney may do and execute the same, and I the said Ebenezer Bostwick do hereby promise and grant to, and with the said Jared Baldwin his Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, that I will not revoke or annul any of the Powers of Attorney herein contained, or do any act, which shall impede the said Jared Baldwin in soliciting or obtaining a Patent or Grants, Patent or Patents, for the land aforesaid, and that I never have sold any part thereof nor other wise convey the same.
Given under my hand and seal this third Day of March in the year of our Lord 1792 - Sealed and delivered in presence of us
Ebenezer Bostwick Samuel Bostwick

Chittenden County ss. March 3 rd March 1792
Personally appeared Ebenezer Bostwick Esquire and sealer of the will in written instrument and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed.
Ebenezer Bostwick Justiciary
Ms. 32
State of Vermont Chittenden County Clerk's Office this 26 th day of April 1802 Whereby certify Lemuel Bostwick Esquire was one of the Justices of the peace within and for said County of Chittenden in the year 1792 and that full faith & credit is and ought to be given to his attestations as such - And I further certify that there is no seal to the County Court
Abel Solomon Miller Clerk of Chittenden County Court
BOSTWICK, EBENEZER

4,384
Ohio
Ebenezer Bostwick Colo Swift 177 War Private 4 Connecticut Line In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 4th of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th of Nov r 1818 and sent to Hooa Day Esq r Assotian Judge Ravenna Portage
Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1818 1818 - 3\frac{28}{30} \times \frac{4}{30} = 32.28 Semi-ann. all'ee ending 4. Mar 1819 = 48.00
$80.28
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 19th March, 1818. }
Ravenna Portage by
Discord July 31, 1821 Spent J. Day Ravenna Ohio
Copy of regulations under the act 1 st March 1823 sent to Hon ble John Hovey, Wooten Ohio. 18 th April 1823.

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I Ebenezer Bostwick of Portage, in the County of Portage in the State of Ohio, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Service of the Army of the Revolution, for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination at which period I was a part of the time a Private a part of the time a Corporal and the last three years of the time a Sergeant, in Captain Ebenezer Darrow's Company in the Seventh Regiment of the Connecticut Line commanded by Col. Norman Swift the first three years, the last three years in the second Connecticut Regiment of the line. And I also declare, that I afterwards received certificates for the sum of eighty dollars, to which I was entitled under the resolve of Congress passed the 16th of May 1778. And I further declare, that I was not on the fifteenth day of May 1828 on the Pension List of the United States. Witness my hand, this eleventh day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty eight. Ebenezer Bostwick
The State of Ohio Before me David Lyman Master of the Portage County Court in Ohio in Chancery in the County of Portage in the State of Ohio, personally appeared, this day Ebenezer Bostwick and David Bostwick of the said County who are severally, make oath that Ebenezer Bostwick 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 eleventh day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty eight, David Lyman Master of the Court in Chancery for said County.

The State of Ohio Portage County ss }
I Seth Dey, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Portage in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that Deivus Dymean Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a Master Commissioner in Chancery within and for said county and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Ravenna this eleventh day of June Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
Dey Clerk.

The State of Ohio
Portage County ss
Be it Remembered that at a term of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Portage specially held at the Court House in the town of Ravenna within and for the County of Portage and state of Ohio before Elias Harmon, Alva Day & Augustus Baldwin, Esquires Associate Judges of said County holding said Court, being a Court of Record for said County, expressly constituted by law, proceeding according to the course of the common Law, with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a Record of their proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment. On this eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court, Ebenezer Bestwick aged sixty five years a resident in Richfield in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:— That he the said Ebenezer Bestwick enlisted for the term of during the war, on or about the sixteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven at New Milford in the State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Captain Elizer Haines in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Herman Swift of the Connecticut line in the Continental establishment. That he was discharged the said service in New Milford in the State of Connecticut by proclamation by Genl. Washington. That he was in the Battle of Monmouth, Also in several little skirmishes (to wit) at the sign of the Black Horse on Turnpike road in the State of Pennsylvania; at Elizabethtown in the State of New Jersey.
This declaration was made before me this eighth day of Aug. in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, under the provisions of the act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818, made declaration of said services before Alva Day Esquire one of the Associate Judges of said County and in pursuance whereof he has been inscribed on the pension list of the United States as by his pension certificate Number 4,384, now in his possession will appear. 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 the 18 th day of March 1818, and that I have not now had now person in trust for me any property or security

This document was prepared for use, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, under the provisions of the act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818, making declaration of said services before Alva Day Esquire one of the Associate Judges of said County and in pursuance whereof he has been inscribed on the pension list of the United States, as by his pension certificate Number 4,384, now in his possession will appear. 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 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.
This declaration exhibits here in Court the following inventory of his estate (to wit), 172 acres of land 20 under improvement, by article, one $220, for said land worth $2,00 per acre
  1 old log hut 1 old table $ 75 1 set of old knives   1 old log shop 7 old hickory chairs 1 40 and forks $ 0 50   1 old mare & colts $ 25 00 1 iron kettle 1 50 1 set of earthen plates 0 75   1 cow 10 50 1 pot 25 5 old iron spoons 1 12 1/2   1 Sow & 5 Pigs 7 00 1 bake kettle 1 25 $ 50 02 1/2 

  Debts owing from me bro. owe 194.30   Isaac Inyete $ 91.00 Elisha Whittelsey $ 13.00   William Tappan 11.00 Day & Swift 20.20   Henry Belding 59.30 Levus Hunt 9.50   Asahel Belding 11.50 Frederick Wattsworke 22.00   Laura Baxter 29.50 Sephi Russell 20.25   Carsfield & Fitch 24.00 amt $279.25   $194.30 
This declarant further states that his family consists of himself and wife & Catherine a girl 11 years of age taken by this declarant to bring up as his own. This declarant further states that he is infirm afflicted with the rheumatism and gravel not able to labour more than one half of the time. Lemina Bostwick wife of the said Ebenezer fifty three years of age infirm and sickly not able to support herself Catherine is of good health. This declarant further states that he is a Free Potter by trade.
Sworn to and subscribed in open court This 8 th day of August A.D. 1820. Ebenezer Bostwick Day Clerk.
Ebenezer Bostwick
The State of Ohio I Seth Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copies from the Records of said court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the said Ebenezer Bostwick is entitled to the sum of one hundred and five dollars and twenty five cents. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Painesville this tenth day of August Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Day Clerk.
Painesville July 24. 1821. and sent to S. Day. Painesville, Ohio
J. Day Clerk
Date of receipt 13 Nov 1821
March 4. 1824. Ebenezer Bostwick

Married aged 60 yrs —
Rupture &c. —
1 - wife 53 yrs old. sickly.
Another female in the family — but age, or connection, not stated.
172 acres land, worth $2. per acre.
$354. over for it 220.
Stock: $50. 12 1/2.
General debts $279. 25.
closed from 1777 to the close of the war —
ROSTWICK, EBENEZER
Application under Act Mar 1. 1823.
Dispendiary in letter to Seth Day Esq.
June 30. 1823.

By His Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq., General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof Ebenezer Bostwick Sergeant in the Second Conniet Regiment, having faithful- ly served the United States from April 17th to June 1783 and being enlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the 10th June 83
G. Washington
By His Excellency Command,
Thos. Mifflin
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
G. Curtis Adjutant.
THE above Ebenezer Bostwick has been honored with the BADGE OF MERIT for three Years faithful Service, H. Swift Col o

HEAD-QUARTERS, June 9 th 1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Very Respectful Servt  John Jay  June 24. 1783  France etc.  No 32
Stranger Not in the  13 1783 02-100

Act 1825 Settled at Treasury
Pavonia June 12, 1828
Free
Comp. with Invalid file # $2.090
Hon. Richard Rush
Revolutionary Claims
Secretary of Treasury Washington

Bravestown June 16. 1828
Hon. H. Smith
Sir, Attached to this is a declaration of my services as a soldier in the Revolutionary Army. my discharge and warrant is in the Land office or War office at Washington; if the evidence which I have submitted is sufficient, you will please to forward the sum which seems to receive to me at Bravestown Portage County Ohio
Ebenezer Bostwick

Elmer Bostwick.
March 19.
Help this

The State of Ohio On this 17 th day of May 1823. personally appeared in Open Court in the Portage County ss Court of Common Pleas for Portage County being a court of Record proceeding according to the course of the Common law, with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of their proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment. Ebenezer Bostwick aged sixty eight years, resident in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of the 18 th of March 1818 the first of May 1820 and the first of March 1823. That he the said Ebenezer Bostwick enlisted for the term of during the war on or about the 16 th day of March 1777. in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Eliza Warren in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Solomon Swift in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental establishments; that he continued to serve in the army until June 1783 when he was furloughed in the State of New York and in November afterwards was discharged by proclamation from Genl Washington. This declarant has hitherto made application for a pension under the provisions of the act of Congress of March 18 th 1818. & had his name inscribed on the pension list-roll as will appear by his certificate No. 1.384 now in his possession. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred eighteen & 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 & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the eighteenth day of March 1818 & that I have not nor has any person for me any property or securities, contract or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed.
Since the exhibition of his former schedule the following changes have been made in his property, viz, The article of government for one hundred and seventy two acres of land with the old log hut & old log shop standing thereon has been forfeited because he never has been mistress is he now able to pay for it. One colt valued at $10. was sold in 1821 to Charles St. Bostwick to pay a previous debt. The above mentioned articles include all the articles in his first schedule except those contained in the following schedule which includes all the property he now owns.
  Old mare worth $15.-   1 Cow 10.-   1 Sow & Pigs 8.-   1 Old Sable .75   Old chains 1.-   1 Iron pot 1.25   1 Dake Skuttle 1.25   Shovels & forks .50   Earthen Plates .50   Iron Spoons 12 1/2   $ 33.37 1/2 

...possession. Once I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred eighteen & 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 & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the eighteenth day of March 1818 & that I have not nor has any person 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 annexed & by me subscribed.
Since the exhibition of the former schedule the following changes have been made in his property, viz, The article of agreement for one hundred and seventy two acres of land with the old log hut & old log shed standing thereon has been forfeited because he never has been within it nor is he now able to pay for it. One colt valued at $10. was sold in 1821 to Charles St. Borwick to pay a previous debt. The above mentioned articles include all the articles in his first schedule except those contained in the following schedule which includes all the property he now owns.
   Old mare worth $15.-   1 Cow 10.-   1 Sow + Pigs 3.-   1 Old Sable .75   Old chains 1.-   1 Iron pot 1.25   1 Bake Stettle 1.25   Shovels & forks .50   Earthen Plates .50   Iron Spoons under $33.37 1/2.  
This declaration states his inner application was accompanied with a schedule of debts due from him to persons herein named to the amount of $279.25 and that they all still remain due except a debt of 59.30 paid to Henry Belding and an other of $11.50 paid to Asahel Belding. This declarant further states that his family consists of himself & his wife aged fifty six years very infirm & feeble woman. She is by occupation a potter but being sixty eight years of age & much afflicted with a rupture & the gravel so as to be unable to perform sufficient labor support himself & wife besides the assistance of his children.
Sworn to & subscribed in court this 17 th day of May 1823. Clay Clerk
Ebenezer Porteous.

The State of Ohio: I Fish Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Portage County ss: Portage aforesaid do certify that the said schedule and oath have been admitted to the record of the said court and that the same are truly copied therefrom; and I do further certify that the same is a true statement of facts and that the value of the property contained in the said schedule is as therein set forth.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Ravenna this tenth day of June Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty three.
Day Clerk.

No of orig Pay 123 REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
7 July 1828
Ebenezer Bostwick of Boots town in the County of Portage — in the State of Ohio — 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 Sergeant — in captain Warner's — 2 company, in the regiment of the Connecticut — 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. D. Smith.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
8. July 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Ebenezer Bostwick in the Connecticut line
It further appears that Ebenezer Bostwick
list of the  any — 2 — agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of  dollars per month.
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File No. 42,090
Ebenezer Bostwick P. Rev. Rev. Was
Budget file
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 58
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Nov 12 96 Dr Pen & li Mrs D E M Bridges
Feb 1 - 2 - 1900 To same as above admit, inform.
Feb 24 1900 - Mil history to Mrs D E Marsh Her letter of Nov 96 re

Ebenezer Bostwick Jr. Swifts Conn. May 1777 to 1785. 4 May 1818
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at my house and offered my services at Providence the thirty first day of May Anno Domini one thou- sand eight hundred and eighteen
Henry South

State of Ohio Portage County Havre-a-May 4 th 1818
I do hereby certify that in the month of March One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven I enlisted as a Private soldier into the United States service in a Company commanded by Capt. Oliver Warner in the Seventh Connecticut Regiment comman- ded by Colonel Asa Swift, and that I served in said Regiment, and the Second Regiment in the Connecticut Line, until June One Thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty Three when I was furloughed, and I was finally discharged from the United States service in November of the same year. Ebenezer Bostwick.
State of Ohio Portage County
Havre-a-May 4 th 1818
Personally appeared before me the above named Ebenezer Bostwick and made oath that the above certif- icate was just and true, and that from his reduced circum- stances he needs the assistance of his country for support.
Alva Day Associate Judge

The State of Ohio Portage County ss
I Seth Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County of Portage do hereby certify that Alva Day Esquire before whom the within affidavit was taken at that time was an oath and subscribed, is an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County duly commissioned and sworn and to all whom official acts full faith and credit is and ought to be given. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal at Ravenna the twenty first day of May Anno Domini one thou- sand Eight hundred and eighteen
Seth Day Clerk
Chas. Allen Boston Mass Scripps Penn. May 1797 to 1798 4 May 1818
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Bridgeport Jan 6 th 1900
To the Pension Office
Washington D. C.
Will you please send me the War record of Ebenezer Bostwick 2 d who served in the Revolutionary War, He was born 1732 or 35 -
Yours truly
Mrs D. E. Marsh.
632 Rossuth St.
Bridgeport.
Conn.

Bridgport Feb 12 th 1900
Mr Evans
Dear Sir,
I have your letter of Feb 2 nd in answer to my inquiry. for the War record of Ebenezer Bostwick who served in the Rev. War — I would say. I have never before written for a record, and you have never sent me any. You must be in error there. I joined the D.A.R., in Feb '95 — therefore naturally I should have asked for it before then if at all — Will you please see that I have such record sent to me.
Yours truly Mrs D.E. March. 632 Rosseth St. Bridgport Conn.

Bridgeport Nov 5 th '96
To the Pension Bureau.
Will you please send me the record of Ebenezer Boshnick who served in the Revolutionary army. and oblige,
Mrs D. E. Mark,
246 Horseth St.
Bridgeport - Conn,