Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1568, Ebenezer Byers, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Penn.
Byers Ebenezer
No. 1568
CONTENTS

Reconsider Report to Hon. W. Henry H. R.

V Ebenezer Byers Pennsylvania
Rejected.
See letter 3 rd Sept. 1837 to 76 on Thomas Henry. do. 19 Sept 1837 Rev. Wm Smith July 15 th 1842
N 68

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1568
RECEIVED
P. O. Ebenezer Byers
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Feb 8. 1842
DDG 1842
Jemima French Mary Avery Eben Byers
6 yrs and 8 mos born on 10th of 11th mo 1835
H. W. Smith H. R.

Sir,
I would be glad to have the ground upon which Mrs. Finch's claim has been rejected, specifically stated.
Also a statement of the proofs on file if any in your office in relation to the case of Baynes
Also, a similar statement in the case of Mrs. Gray -
With your opinion thereon therefore in all - In haste
Yours respectfully
Wm. H. Dallinger
Dec 7 8. 1862

34.169 V Ebenezer Byers
Application of Penny Ebenezer Byers
for a pension
Thos Henry of Penna
HR
Am 7 Henry
Hon. Th. Henry HR
HR

State of Pennsylvania Mercer County Yes.
On the 26 day of June A.D. 1837 personally appeared in open court, Ebenezer Byers a Resident of Mercer County in the State of Pennsylvania, aged about Seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832 That in the year 1777 he lived in Washington County Pennsylvania the Indians were committing such depredations and annoying that settlement, that the inhabitants were forced to protect themselves in forts. That this deponent was stationed in Waller Fort on the waters of Buffalo in Washington County from the first of May until the first of except there which in hazard December of that year under the command of Captain James Buchanan, during that time was engaged scouting the country. In the year 1781 he served as a volunteer for one month on Robinsons Run Washington County under the command of Captain Robert Miller during this time the company were engaged in protecting the frontiers and in the same year served another month under the command of Capt. Van Swearingen, in the same neighbourhood as above. In the year 1782 he served one month under the command of Ensign David Ruple this was in the month of April and May of that year & the service performed on the water of Wheeling Creek Washington County. In all the above service there were no General or field officers, no officer in that service higher than a Captain. In the same Spring deponent volunteered in a company commanded by Capt. Charles Beiderbach as a mounted volunteer, and went into service under Colonel Crawford, and was in Crawford's defeat on the plains of Sandusky, which took place on the 4 th 5 th & 6 th of June 1782. This tour was for two months. In the services above referred to deponent was discharged by parole and not in writing hence he has no written discharge to exhibit.
He was born in Adams County, then York in the State of Pennsylvania the year he cannot recollect. That he has no record of his age, but believes from the best information that he is the age above stated. That he was living in Washington County Penn a when called into service, and that he has lived ever

Since in Pennsylvania, That in all his Service he was a volunteer, and derived from a sense of duty to protect the County from the ravages of the Indians. That there are no officers, nor is there any one whose testimony he can procure now living who were in Service with him, That he served in no other capacity than a private. There are many whom deponent could name who could testify as to his character for veracity but he will only name Alexander Boyd a clergyman and Wm S Rankin. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll agency of any state, except the state of Pennsylvania for Forty dollars. Sworn to and subscribed the day & year above written in open Court 26 th June 1837. Hugh Bingham Pro C.
E. Byers
We Alexander Boyd a clergyman residing in Township of Lachawannock County of Luzerne State of Pennsylvania, and William S Rankin residing in the Borough and County of Luzerne Pennsylvania hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Byers who has submitted and sworn to the above declaration; That we believe him to be seventy five years of age; That he is respected and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion Sworn and Subscribed this day and year aforesaid. Hugh Bingham Pro C.
Alexander Boyd Wm S Rankin
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.

Spencer County ss. I Hugh Bingham Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Spencer County, do hereby cer- tify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the ap- plication of Ebenezer Byers for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, this twenty ninth day of June, A. D. 1837.
Hugh Bingham Proth.