Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33284, Ezra Hayden, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Maas
Hayden, Ezra.
S 33284
CONTENTS

9,050 Massachusetts.
Ezra Hayden, // of Scituate, in the state of Mass. U.S. who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam, of the Massach. U.S. line, for the term of two years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts, at the rate of 8 - Dollars per month, to commence on the 27. of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7. of April 19, and sent to Nahum Mitchell, Judge, Bridgewater, Mass. U.S.
arrears to 4th of March, 1819. 82.10 emi-anl. all'ce ending 4. Sept. 2 48 " 10 mo. 4 1819. 30 8 $:130.10. 4 31 { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

33 284 Rey INVALID.
File No. 33 284
Ezra Hayden
Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 175
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Ezra Hayden of Scituate in the County of Plymouth Mass s a resident citizen of the United States aged sixty two years on oath set forth and declare that I was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and that from my reduced circum- stances I need the assistance of my country for support that I enlisted in the spring of 1781 into the last three years ser- vice under Capt. John Trotter and Col. Rufus Putnam's Regiment, being the 5 th in the Mass s Line, and continued service in said Corps or the united States service till the 24 th day of December 1783 when I was discharged at Westpoint in the State of New York under the hand of Genl. Knox, which I now exhibit and have no other evidence to offer. I was in the service before this, and was in the battle of Monmouth, and I was in the nine months service also and several other short campaigns. I was in the skirmish at Kingsbridge near the City of New York.
his Ezra Hayden
mark
Sworn to 27 Apl. 1818.

Oliver Hayden, Scituate, Ms Col o . Putnam's regt. Massachusetts line 2 years. 27. April, 1818.
Correct by Discharge
Adm d

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
On this ss. 27 th day of April A. 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Ezra Hayden of Scituate aged sixty two years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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," viz.
/ See his said declaration enclosed sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid. / ( & also his discharge) —
And I do certify that the said Ezra Hayden is reduced and needs the assistance of his country for support —

And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Ezra Hayden did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; 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.
Nahum Mitchell
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss.
1818.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth—that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record—that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
} Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Ezra Hayden Soldier in the first Massachusetts Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York, the twenty fourth Day of December
1783 —
By the General's Command,
H. Knox
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Ralph H. Baucus Capt. & Adj.