Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14472, Ephraim Churchill, Mass

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Churchill Ephraim Silence
N 14 472
CONTENTS

2959 Rep.
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Massachusetts
Silence Churchill.
widow of Ephraim Churchill, deceased who was a pensioner under the Act of _____ and who died on the 13 December, 1817 - of Plymouth in the State of Mass who was a private in the Compys: commanded by Captain Wood of the Regt - commanded by Col Bailey in the Mass: _____ time for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 80 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of May 1839 - and sent to _____ South, Plymouth, Mass Arrears to the 4th of March '39 $ 240.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept 40.00 $280.00
{ Act July 7, 1838. }
Recorded by M. M. Merrill Clerk Book A Vol. 1 - Page 80

3580
Silence Churchill Wid of Ephraim Mass.
Ad July 7. 1838
Married 1783
deed 1817
Allow 2 d per $80
per ann Map. line
Coop Wood for Barley
Vol. 1 p 125.
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J H Lord
Plymouth Mass

State of Massachusetts Plymouth County } fs.
On this ninth day of November eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, personally appeared before the Honorable Wilkes Wood Esquire, Judge of the court of Probate in and for the county of Plymouth aforesaid, Silence Churchill, a resident of North Bridgewater in the county of Plymouth aforesaid, aged eighty three years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7. 1838. entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows!" That she is the widow of Ephraim Churchill, late of said North Bridgewater, deceased, who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution for the space of two years and two months , according to the affidavits hereto annexed: That said Ephraim Churchill first enlisted into said Army in the year 1775, in a company commanded by Josiah Hayden in Colonel Bailey's Regiment, and marched from Bridgewater, his place of residence, to Roxbury, near Boston in Massachusetts, where he served eight months , as set forth in the affidavits of James Churchill and Zachariah Gurney, hereto annexed.
That said Ephraim Churchill next enlisted at the close of the aforesaid service in 1775 or 1776 into a company commanded by Joshua Jacobs or Zachariah Watkins, in Colonel John Bailey's Regiment, and marched to New York, where he served as a private one whole year as set forth in the affidavits of James Packard & Thaddeus Pratt, hereto annexed.

Plymouth Y. I Jacob H Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Hon. Willus Wood is Judge of Probate for said County & that the signature on the following page purporting to be signed by him is his true & proper signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this fifth day of December 1838. Jacob H. Lord

That said Ephraim Churchill after his return from New York, enlisted again in the year 1777, into a company commanded by Joseph Cole; Eleazer Snow being Lieutenant, in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Robinson or Colonel Jacobs or by both, and marched from Bridgewater, his place of residence, to Rhode Island, where he served six months as a Sargeant in said company, as set forth in the affidavits of John Willis & James Churchill, annexed.
Said Ephraim Churchill who was sometimes distinguished as junior, (his aged Father of the same name being alive at the time of the American Revolution, tho' not in the army) resided, when not in the army, in that part of Bridgewater which is now North Bridgewater.
She further declares that she was married to the said Ephraim Churchill on the twenty-fifth day of December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-three: that her husband the aforesaid Ephraim Churchill died on the thirteenth day of December in the year Eighteen hundred seventeen , that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred ninety four, viz. at the time above stated.
I hereby Churchill's mark Seem to all subscribed the day and year first above written before me. And I certify that the Declarant by reason and infirmity of body is unable to travel to any Court to make her declaration. —
Walter Wood Judge of the Court of Probate

I James Churchill of North Bridgewater in the county of Plymouth and state of Massachusetts, being seventy-five years of age do testify and say, that my Brother Ephraim Churchill who was older than myself, enlisted into the Army of the Revolution in the year seventeen hundred seventy-five, into a company of Militia commanded by Josiah Hlayden of Bridgewater. Said company marched to Roxbury in this state, and my Brother Ephraim aforesaid, was stationed at Roxbury with said company eight months , as a private soldier. I frequently visited the said Ephraim while he was in the Army at Roxbury. My Father used to cart charcoal to Roxbury to sell to the Army and to the citizens of that Town, while the soldiers were there, and I frequently accompanied him and often tarried over night with my Brother Ephraim. He was cook for his mess most of the time he was in the aforesaid service. I was not a soldier myself, but being thirteen years old when my Brother Ephraim was at Roxbury in the Army, and having visited him there so often, I have the most perfect recollection of the fact. There were several soldiers of my acquaintance in Capt n Hlayden's company at Roxbury besides my Brother; but I know of no one now living who was in his company the whole eight months.
Before my Brother Ephraim came home from Roxbury he enlisted to go to New York for one year in Col o Bailey's regiment, in a company commanded I believe by one Jacobs or by Zachary Wadkins. My Brother Ephraim was gone in the New York service one year ; and after his return home, frequently told about being in battle at White Plains in New York: and often spoke of that Battle during the rest of his life. The gun which my Brother brought from New York

has been kept in our family to the present time.
After my Brother Ephraim returned from New York, he enlisted again into the Revolutionary Army; into a company commanded by Joseph Cole - Eleazer Snow being Lieutenant; both of said Officers were my near neighbors. My Brother Ephraim marched under said Cole and Snow to Rhode Island, where he was gone six months according to the best of my remembrance.
After the war was over my Brother Ephraim married Silence French, with whom he lived till about twenty years ago, when he died leaving said Silence a widow, and she still remains a widow.
I know she has not been married since the said Ephraim's decease.
JAMES CHURCHILL
State of Massachusetts, Plymouth County } ss. Sept. 15. 1838. Then personally appeared the above named James Churchill, who is a man of truth & veracity, and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit,
Before me, Jesse Perkins, Justice of Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth, Js.
Clerks. Office October 25 th , 1838.
I John B. Thomas, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of Plymouth aforesaid hereby certify, that it appears of record in this Office, that on the twenty fifth day of December in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, Ephraim Churchill and Silence French both of Bridgewater in in the County of Plymouth were married in Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth by the Rev d John Porter.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for the said County of Plymouth on the day and year aforesaid.
John B. Thomas

Rev Map WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14472
Violence Churchill
Widow of
Ephraim Churchill
Pr. Rev War
Act: July 1 st 38
Index:—Vol. a , Page 130
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Silence Churchill m. 1780
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I, Zachariah Gurney of North Bridgewater in the county of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts, being seventy-six years of age and a Pensioner of the United States under the Law of June 1832, do testify and say that I knew Ephraim Churchill of Bridgewater in 1775 when said Churchill was in the eight months service at Roxbury in this State. My Father, Zachariah Gurney was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army, and served eight months at Roxbury aforesaid in 1775. Josiah Hayden was the Captain and the Regiment was commanded by Col. Bailey.
Ephraim Churchill aforesaid was in the company under my Father & Capt. Hayden, and served the whole eight months , I believe. I was in that service three weeks with said Churchill, at one time: I was also at Roxbury several other times during the eight months, & saw said Churchill in the Army. I have no doubt he served the whole eight months. After the eight months service at Roxbury, said Ephraim Churchill enlisted and went with the Army to New York, where he was gone one year I believe, though I was not then with him. He had the reputation of having served one year in New York. Said Churchill & I were born & brought up within a mile of each other, and continued to live in the same neighborhood till Churchill died, about twenty years ago. After the said Ephraim Churchill returned from the Army he married Silence French, who is still living near me, and she has not been married since said Churchill died.
Zachariah Gurney

I John Willis of North Bridgewater in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, being seventy-seven years of age, and a Pensioner of the United States, under the Law of June 1832, do testify and say: that in the year seventeen hundred seventy-seven, I enlisted into the Army of the Revolution, as a private in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Cole and Lieutenant Eleazer Snow: Colonels Robinson and Jacobs commanded the Regiment. Ephraim Churchill of Bridgewater was one of our Sergeants. I served in said Company at Rhode Island six months ; and the aforesaid Ephraim Churchill was in said company the whole six months with me, and acted as Sergeant.
The said Ephraim Churchill , (who was sometimes called junior, as his aged Father of the same name was then living) went from the same Town and neighborhood with me; and settled near me after the war.
Said Churchill married Silence French about the year 1783 and lived near me till about twenty years ago, when he died, leaving said Silence a widow, who still lives near me, and I know she has not been married since said Churchill's decease.
John Willis
State of Massachusetts
Plymouth County } ss. October 11 th 1838 ~ Then personally appeared the above named John Willis, who is a man of truth and veracity, & subscribed & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, Before me,
Jesse Perkins Justice of Peace.

Plymouth Yp. I Jacob H Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Ioseph Perkins Esq is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that the signatures to the annexed affidavits purporting to be signed by him are his true & genuine signa- tures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this first day of December 1838.
Jacob H. Lord

I James Packard of Norway in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged eighty years, depose and say that I was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and served in the American Army for three several campaigns for which I now receive a pension from the United States. One term of my said service was at New York for one year. It was the year seventeen hundred seventy-six, and I well remember that Ephraim Churchill, late of Bridgewater in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, deceased, was in that same service with me for the term of one year . We enlisted under Capt n Joshua Jacobs or Lieut t Zachariah Watkins, I cannot now remember which. We were ordered to New York, and served there the year aforesaid, at the close of which term I was discharged and left said Churchill at New York, sick. He was unable to return to Bridgewater with me. We served at New York under Colonel John Bailey. James Packard
State of Maine,
Oxford county } ss. October 17 th 1838. Then personally appeared the abovenamed James Packard, who is a man of truth and veracity, and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, before me,
Ebenezer Druke Justice of the peace

State of Maine.
Oxford County ss.
I Thomas Clark, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, within and for the said county of Oxford, hereby certify, that Ebenezer Drake, Esq., whose genuine signature is annexed to the within deposition of James Packard, is a justice of the peace within and for the said county of Oxford, duly commissioned and qualified.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, this 17th. day of October A.D. 1830.
Thomas Clark, Clerk of the Courts Oxford County. State of Maine—

I Thaddeus Pratt of Hebron in the County of Oxford & State of Maine aged 83 years depart and say that I was a Soldier in the Revolution- ary War and served in the American Army for three several campaigns for which Service I now receive a pension from the United States one term of my said Service was at New- York for one year I think it was the year Seventy Six and I will remember that Ephraim Churchill late of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth & State of Mass deceased was in this same Service with me and that he served there with me six months then I was ordered in to the Carpenters department being a Carpenter and said Ephraim Churchill was ordered to the duty that I left which was weighter for Lieut Wadsworth Zachariah Wadkins and whether he served the remainder of his time I am not a like to testify as I was ordered to the Carpenters Service before stated we enlisted at Roxbury under Capt Joshua Jacobs and was under his command until I was returned to the a fore said Service our Col was John Baley Thaddeus Pratt

State of Maine
County of Oxford ss September 29 1838 Shure the within named Shaddens Pratt to the well known as a person of truth and respectability made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me Ebenezer Drake Justice of the peace
State of Maine
Oxford County ss.
I Thomas Clark, a Notary Public, in and for the said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that Ebenezer Drake, Esq., whose genuine signature is written to the foregoing deposition of Shaddens Pratt, is a Justice of the Peace for said County, duly commissioned and qualified.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto annexed my Notarial Seal, and affixed my sig- nature, this 29th day of September A.D. 1838.
Thomas Clark, Notary Public in & for said County of Oxford State of Maine -