Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8721, Ebenezer Horn, Continental. N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental No. 16
Horn, Ebenezer
S. 8721
CONTENTS
carded
alive in 1832

11.730 New Hampshire
J.T. Neely Sep 17 1853
Ebenezer Horn
of Manchester in the State of New Hampshire who was a M st Sgt t in the Company commanded by Captain Newcomb of the Reg t commanded by Col l Poor in the N H Hamp t line for 14 months 15 days. Rate 6 " 24 " Sergeant 3
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 82 - Dollars 33 - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of April 1833 and sent to Gordon Burroughs Maine
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $144.66 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept t , 41.17 $205.83
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by John Addams Clerk, Book 8 Vol. 151 - Page 90

I Daniel Randel of Somersworth in the County of Stafford & State of New Hampshire of the age of three years of age do hereby certify that I went in company with Ebenezer Harn then of said Somersworth now of Moulton- borough in the month of Sept 1775 from said Somersworth to Winter Hill in Mass. and that said Harn there took the place of his brother Caleb Harn in the U.S. Army under Genl John Sullivan Col Enock Poor, Colt. Jonathan Wentworth, & he continued there in service four months - & further the deponent saith not - attest. E. G. Jordan. E. WILLIAMS
sworn to Sept. 17. 1832. Then the above named whose character for truth & veracity is good Daniel Randel gave oath to the above af- fidavit by him subscribed as true
Before me Ichabod G. Jordan Just of Peace D. . . . .

State of Maine.
York ss. I William C Allen Register of the court of probate for said county of York do hereby certify that Deborah G Jordan whose name is subscribed to the within certificate is a justice of the peace for said county of York. And that the signature is genuine. In witness whereof I have caused the official to be hereunto annexed this 20th day of September A.D. 1832
Wm. C Allen, Register of Probate.

State of New Hampshire, County of Belknap } ss:
We it known, that on this sixteenth day of July, A. D. 1853, before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Ebenezer Hove, resident of Montpelier in the County of Caledonia in said State, and made oath according to law that he is the son of Ebenezer Hove, the identical Ebenezer Hove, whose name, under the Act of
has been placed on the Revolutionary Pension Roll at the rate of Eighty two \frac{33}{100} dollars per annum.
That he is credibly informed that the said Pension may and ought to be increased from its commencement and during its continuance; that he is directly interested as a claimant in said increase, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim. —
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint Jeremiah Elkins of Meredith in said County of Belknap, my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of the the said Ebenezer Hove, for any amount of revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension, that may be due.
And I hereby authorize and empower my said Attorney to do whatever he may deem necessary & proper in the examination of the papers, and in the collecting, and filing of proof in relation to said claim, and to receive for my benefit the Certificate of increase, which may be issued in satisfaction of said claim, which Certificate I wish made payable at the Pension

Office at Concord in this State; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed.
Truly ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may lawfully do in the premises.
Ebenezer Hearn
Sworn to, subscribed and acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Ebenezer Hearn, to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein, alleged, in whose claim I am in no wise interested.
Before me Joseph P. Atkinson Justice of the Peace

Power of Attorney Eleanor Horn To J. E. Kling

12558
+
Ebenezer Hearn
New Hampshire
  14 mo. 15 d  Private  48.30    6 " 24 "  Leigant  33.94     $ 82.24    Not Correct 82.33
Correct $ 82.33
J. G. Lordan Esq Berwick Maine

12.558
1775 23 1782 48 39 87
BRIEF in the case of  Ebenezer Horn County of Strafford  in the State of  New Hampshire (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? no  3. How old is he? 77.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Sub. In 1775 Sept. " 4 " Private Gen. Sullivan Capt. Wentworth, Col. Poor,   Enlisted 1776. 1 st Jan. " 7 1/2 " Private Same Officers 2 nd regmt.   do. 1776 — " 3 " Private N. H. Capt. Samuel — Col. Pomery   do. 1778 summer. " 6 24 Sergeant Capt. Drown, Col. Peabody  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Rhode Island —  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Somersworth, New Hampshire.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional & witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
X  on Roll of service  J. Waugh Examining Clerk. March 13. 1833

State of Maine New Hampshire.
COUNTY OF Strafford  York , SS.
At a Court of Probate held at Dover in said County of Strafford
ON this Seventeenth day of September A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Judge of the Probate Court of said County now sitting at Dover in said County, Ebenezer Horn a resident of Moultonborough in the county of Strafford and State of New Hampshire aged Seventy Seven 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 Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
Sometime in the month of September A.D. 1775, he left the town of Somersworth in said County of Strafford, then his place of residence, and went to Charlestown in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to the place then called Winter Hill, and took the place of his brother Caleb Horn in the U.S. Army John Sullivan being Brigadier General, Enoch Poor Colonel, and Jonathan Wentworth Captain of the company in which he served. He continued in service as substitute for his brother aforesaid at said Winter Hill four months. On the first of January A.D. 1776, He enlisted in said U.S. Army, under the command of same Officers as above mentioned, in the 2 d Regiment from N. Hampshire. He marched through Providence, New London to N. York sometime in the Spring or the first of the summer of 1776, from N. York he went up the Hudson and down the Lakes into Canada. From Canada, when Gen. Sullivan found it necessary to retreat, he went to Ticonderoga, and from there to Fort-George under the command of Gen. Gates, at which place he was discharged about the 16 th of August 1776 in consequence of his having lost of his eyes by the small-pox. Being in said service seven months and a half. He had a discharge but has lost it. He was not recollected by whom he was discharged as he was sick at the time. In the month of December, A.D. 1776, he enlisted for three months in a Militia company commanded by Capt. Samuel Wallingford in a Regiment commanded by Col. Pomeroy. He was a resident of Somersworth in said County of Strafford when he enlisted. He marched from Dover in said County to Peak's Hill in the State of New York. He continued in service under the command of said Officers until his time of enlistment expired, it being three months.
Sometime in the summer of the year 1778 he enlisted for six months in a Militia company commanded by Capt. Peter Drown in a Regiment commanded by Col. Stephen Peabody. He was a resident of said Somersworth when he enlisted. He marched from said Somersworth to Providence Rhode Island, there the regiment in which he served joined the army under the command of Gen. John Sullivan. This was in the month of August 1778. He was in the battle on Rhode Island. He continued in service under the command of Col. Peabody until his time of enlistment had expired, it being six months, during which time he served as Sergeant in the company of said Capt. Drown.
His whole service being twenty months and one half.
He was at each time, with the exception of the one above mentioned, discharged without any written discharge. He was born in said Somersworth in the year 1755. He has no record of his age.

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 of the agency of any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of
SWORN TO, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
in open court
Ebenezer HORN
WE, Ebenezer G. Jordan , clergymen  Esquire , residing in the town of Bethlehem & So. of Maine and Edmund Canney , residing in the town of Farmington hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with the said Ebenezer HORN , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Ebenezer G. Jordan
SWORN TO, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
in open court
Edmund Canney
AND the said Court do hereby declare their  its opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that
Ebenezer G. Jordan , who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergymen , resident in the town of Bethlehem , and that Edmund Canney , who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Farmington and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, James Bartlett Reg , clerk of the Court of Probate
do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer HORN for a pension.
TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this Seventeenth September A.D. 1832
James Bartlett Reg

July 22 97 by li La shurterant E Boston, Mass
Rev. War
8421 INVALID.
His
File No. 8721
Ebenezer Wearn
Sergt Rev. War
Act: June 9 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 102 , Page 177
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Aug. 2, 1855.
Appl. of Ebenezer Horne, son of Ebenezer Horne, deceased.
N. H.
John T. Reely, Present.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, PENSION OFFICE, OFFICIAL BUSINESS

I Benjamin Harn of Farmington in the county of Stratford and state of New Hampshire aged seventy six years Testify and say that I enlisted in the town of Dover some time in Decr in the year 1776 in a Militia company commanded by Capt. Samuel Wallingford Colonel Forney's Regiment for the term of three months that I marched from the town of Dover in the state of New Hampshire to the state of New York and continued to serve under the commands of the said Col. Forney until my time of enlistment expired I further testify that Ebenezer Horner then of Summersworth now a resident of Moultonborough served in the said company with me the said term of three months as a soldier under the said Capt. Forney Wallingford
Benjamin Harn
State of New Hampshire
Stratford S.S. August 27 th 1832 Then Benjamin Harn personally appeared and made oath that the above deposition by him signed to the best of his recollection and belief is true
before me Wentworth Hayes Jus. Peace

State of New Hampshire Shropshire I James Backett Reg. of the Court of probate for said County do hereby certify that Harlwell Hays whose name is subscribed to the within certificate is a justice of the peace for said County of Shropshire —
In witness whereof I have caused the Official seal to be hereunto annexed this 17 th day of September A.D. 1832
James Backett Reg.

Beryl Harris Deposition

Washington City D.C. July 30 th 1853
Sir:
Enclosed is the application of Ebenezer Horner son of Ebenezer Horner, a Revol: Soldier and a Pensioner from State of New Hampshire at $12 33 / 100 per annum for arrears of and increase of Pension, due on said Pension to his Father, and not drawn by him during his life time. — Your attention is respectfully called to the claim, and a report thereon made to me
Very Respectfully
Yours &c
M c S. Keely
To The Commissioner } Pension }

12.558. 25- In Revolutionary Claims.
Free
Hon. Lewis Cass, Secretary of War Washington City D. C.
acted on 20. April '35
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Please to direct to Ichabod G. Indian Esq, Benning, York county, Maine.

I James Burnham of Somersworth in the county of Strafford and State of New Hampshire aged seventy eight years do testify and say that I enlisted in the army of the United States in regiment number second in June 1875 under the command of General John Sullivan, Groton Post, Poland and was stationed at Winter Hill in Charlestown Massachusetts, and that Ebenezer Hoon then of said Somersworth took the place of his brother Caleb Hoon in said regiment sometime in September 1875 and continued to occupy his place & perform his service till sometime about the last of December of the same year - at which time said Ebenezer Hoon enlisted for one year in said United States service. Said Hoon was in said service & marched through Providence New London New York, Albany Saratoga Grand Point to the Three Rivers & back to Fort George in the Regiment with me at which place he was discharged in consequence of having lost his right eye, having been in said service about seven months & one half - James Burnham
York, August 28, 1882 Then James Burnham whose character for truth & veracity is good personally appeared and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is to the best of his recollection true
Before me - Deborah G. Jordan Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
York ss.
I William C Allen Regr of the court of Probate for said county of York do hereby certify that Nathaniel G Jordan whose name is subscribed to the within certificate is a justice of the peace for said county of York, and the signature is genuine.
In witness whereof I have caused the Official to be hereunto annexed this 20th day of September A.D. 1832.
Wm. C Allen, Registrar of Probate

I Ebenezer Nutter of Barnstead in the county of Strafford and state of New Hampshire aged seventy five years, testify and say, that I enlisted in the town of Portsmouth sometime in the summer in the year 1778 in a Militia company commanded by Capt Peter Drown Colonel Stephen Peabody's Regiment for the term of six months that I marched from the town of Newington in said state of New Hamp- shire to the state of New Hampshire Rhode Island that I joined the Army commanded by General Sullivan in August 1778 in said state of Rhode Island and that I was in the Battle on Rhode Island in August in said year 1778 and continued to serve under the command of the said Col Peabody until my time of enlistment expired I further testify that Ebenezer Horn then of Somersworth now a resident of Montpelier borough served in the said company with me the said term of six months as a Sergeant under the said Captain Drown and that he the said Ebenezer Horn returned home with me to New Hampshire after our term of enlistment expired Ebenezer Nutter.
State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss August 25 th 1832 Then Ebenezer Nutter personally appeared, and made Oath that the above deposition by him signed, to the best of his recollection, and belief is true Before me James C. Dame Justice of the Peace

State of Northampton Shafford ss I James Bultt Register of the Court of Probate for said County do hereby certify that the  the  last  last  Will  Will  of  of  the  the  late  late  Henry  Henry  Dalton  Dalton whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is a true copy of the same for said County In witness whereof I have hereunto caused the official seal to be affixed this 17 th day of September A.D. 1832