Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16129, Ebenezer Goss, Continental (Penn.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Penn.)
Goss, Ebenezer
S 16129
CONTENTS
buried

No. 2290
Ohio Wilmington Cheney  Yrs S er decd
of Kentucky in the State of Ohio who was a Artificer in the Regt commanded by Captain Flowers of the Regt commanded by Col Flowers in the Pennington line for Ohio
Inscribed on the Roll of Wilmington at the rate of 240 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Entry 15 th August 1832
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th day of Decr 1830 and entitled Am Rd. Rose
Irrears to the 4th of House of Reps
Semi-annual allowance ending reducing former payments at 18.96 per ann; under act 1818.
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by A. H. Hightman Clerk, Book C. 2 Vol. 5 Page 145

State of Ohio Portage County
On this eleventh day of July in the year 1814 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the court of common pleas for said county personally appeared Ebenezer Goss aged fifty eight years resident in Franklin Randolph in said county who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration 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 That he the said Ebenezer Goss enlisted for the term of three years on the day of March in the year 1778 in Morning in the state of Pennsylvania in the company commanded by Captain Thomas Wily Colonel Flower Regiment Artillery Artificers in the line of the state of of Pennsylvania on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States until the Month of December the year 1780 at which time he received an unlimited furlough and was never again called to join the army that he had three months wages due him at the time he left the army and has never recd any part of the same

and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence in his favor of his said services
Ebenezer Goss
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Alon Day Assistant Judge
I Alon Day Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Ebenezer Goss did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months at one time 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 direction of the aforesaid act of Congress I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support and I also certify the first declaration was made on the eleventh day of July in the year 1818
Alon Day A.J.

The State of Ohio Portage County ss
I Serk. Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid do certify that Alva Day Esquire before whom the within declarations were made and subscribed as it appears to my satisfaction, at that time was and now is an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County duly commissioned and sworn and to all whom Official acts full faith and credit is and ought to be given.
In Faith of which I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official seal at Ravenna this twentieth day of August Anno Domini One Thousand eight hundred and nineteen
Day Clerk.

Ebenezer Goss.
Dec 21
(Copy.)

The State of Ohio On this 15 th day of May 1823 personally appeared in open Court in the Portage County ss. Court of Common Pleas for the County of Portage 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 & having the power of fine and imprisonment - Ebenezer Goss aged sixty two years who being first duly sworn according to law each 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 & the first of March 1823. That he the s d Ebenezer Goss enlisted for the term of three years on the 15 th day of March seventeen hundred and eighty eight in the State of Pennsylvania in the company commanded by Captain Thomas Wiley in the regiment commanded by Colonel Flowers in the line of the State of Pennsylvania on the continental establishments; that he continued to serve in the corps as an artificer until as he believes about the 27 th day of June 1780. when he obtained a unlimited furlough at Carlisle in the state of Pennsylvania, and had no order to return until his term of enlistment had expired. And this declarant further states that he made application for a pension under the provisions of an act of Congress of March 18 th 1818 & had his name inscribed on the pension list roll of the Ohio Agency as will appear by his pension certificate N o 15.677 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 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 & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18 th 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 any income except and allowance for support from my son David Goss and what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed. - This declarant has never exhibited any schedule of property and has never been indebted except a debt of the nature of a loan due to him from the estate of his son David Goss. This declarant further states that his wife has been dead several years and his children are all married - That he was by occupation a black-smith but being afflicted with rheumatism & the infirmities of age he is unable to do sufficient labor for support and would be compelled to rely upon public or private charity if it were not for the allowance made him by his son David.
Ebenezer Goss.
Sworn to & Subscribed in open court this 15 th of May 1823. Seth Day Clk.
The State of Ohio
Portage County ss. I Seth Day Clerk of the court of Common Pleas of said County do certify that the foregoing Oath and schedule have been exhibited to the records of said court and that the same are truly copied therefrom: and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the court that the foregoing declaration is a true statement of facts as therein set forth. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Ravenna this twenty fourth day of June Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty three. Seth Day Clk.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Ebenezer Goss a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     March 15 1748 June 27 1780 Artillery Thomas Wiley Flowers Arty Cont'l                                     
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted in Hummel, Penn
Date of application for pension, July 11 1818. His el. was el.
Residence at date of application, Randolph, Portage Co. Ohio
Age at date of application, 58 yrs. Died Aug. 13-1839
Remarks: In 1823 Soldier stated that his wife had been dead several yrs. (her name is not stated) and that his children were all married. Sons David, Aaron and Reuben are the only names given. Reuben was the only child that survived Soldier. No other family data.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
February 1, 1926
Mrs. E. F. Goss 127 Lynn Ave. Ames, Iowa
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 16129, it appears that EBENEZER GOSS enlisted in Wyoming, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1778, and served until June 27, 1780, as an artificer in Captain Thomas Wiley's Company, Colonel Flowers' Regiment of Continental Artillery Artificers.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 11, 1818, at which time he was fifty-eight years of age and a resident of Randolph, Portage County, Ohio.
He died August 15, 1832.
In 1823 the soldier stated that his wife, her name not given, had been dead several years and that his children were all married. David, Carver and Beder were the only children whose names were given, and in 1850, Beder of Randolph Township, Portage County, Ohio, was the only one then living. There is no further data on file relative to Soldier's family.
Respectfully,
FIELD SCOTT WINFIELD Commissioner

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
L. W. B. I. 16129.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
March 4, 1898.
Sir:-
Replying to your recent communication you are advised that Ebenezer Goss made an application for pension on July 11, 1818, at which time he was 57 years of age and residing in Portage County, Ohio, and his pension was allowed for two years' actual service as an artificer in the Penna. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Wiley and Col. Flowers. Place of his enlistment not stated.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. Daniel W. Goss,
Ravenna, Ohio.

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
L. W. B. I. 16129.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
April 19th, 1899.
Sir:-
In response to your recent communication you are advised that Ebenezer Goss made an application for pension on July 11, 1818, at which time he was 57 years of age and residing in Portage County, Ohio, and his pension was allowed for two years' actual service as an artificer in the Penna. troops, Revolutionary war. Place of his enlistment not stated. He served under Capt. Wiley and Col. Flowers.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. Dwight Goss,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

127 Lynn Ave., Ames, Iowa, Dec. 26, 1925.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me the pension record of the following who fought in the Revolutionary War:
(1) Abram Jones Jr. Mendon, Mass., fought at Lexington 1775 in Cam. Mil., 1776 in N. Y., 1781
(2) Daniel Hazeltine, Mass. (Upton and Mendon)
(3) Ebenezer Goss, fought in Pennsylvania Cont. Line 1780.
(4) Thomas Spilman, of Culpepper Co., Va. who was with Washington at surrender of Cornwallis.
(5) Did Thomas Walcutt of New York, near Jamestown, receive a pension?
Thanking you, I am
Yours truly,
(Mrs. E. F.) Amy M. Goss.

NH
Rockville, Indiana. January 23, 1915.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, W. C.,
Dear Sir: I wish to obtain a record of the service of Ebenezer Goss as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and also a record of the place of his birth and death.
Ebenezer Goss was born in Conn.(?) Sept. 8, 1760, was married to Beda Blakeslee July 1781, emigrated to Portage Co., Ohio in 1804 and

died in Portage Co. Ohio (?) August 15, 1832. He had six toes on one foot which was the means of his getting a pension as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, as by that only could he prove his identity.
Hoping to hear from you soon and thanking you in advance, I am,
Respectfully,
Lois Goss.

MILITARY SECRETARY'S OFFICE
1010488 MAY 10 1905
Lincoln Neb May 3, 1905
Ebenezer Goss Maj. Co. of Artillery, Conn. Rev. war
Nebraska Society S.A.R. By Irving S. Cutler, Registrar Requests record of above named and asks in- formation as to whether he was ever granted a pension or applied for one
Address: "The Military Secretary, War Department, Washington, D. C."
WAR DEPARTMENT, THE MILITARY SECRETARY'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, May 8, 1905.
Respectfully returned to The Registrar, Nebraska Society, S.A.R., 134 North 11th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska,
with the information that applica- tions of this character should be ad- dressed to the Commissioner of Pen- sions, Washington, D.C., who is the custodian of the pension records of all wars.
[Signature]
The Military Secretary.

PRESIDENT JOHN W. BATTIN N. Y. LIFE BLDG. OMAHA SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT AMOS FIELD OMAHA JUNIOR VICE-PRESIDENT ROLLIN S. RISING AINSWORTH SECRETARY VICTOR D. REYNOLDS 1318 DODGE ST. OMAHA TREASURER THOMAS R. MCNAIR J. L. BRANDEIS & SONS, BANKERS OMAHA REGISTRAR IRVING S. CUTTER 134 N. 11TH ST. LINCOLN HISTORIAN ARTHUR K. DAME FREMONT
NEBRASKA SOCIETY
BOARD OF MANAGERS
THE OFFICERS AND JAMES H. ADAMS E. T. FARNSWORTH C. S. HAYWARD C. S. HUNTINGTON ROSCOE POUND P. EMERSON TAYLOR
OMAHA, NEB.
Lincoln, Nebr., 5-3-'05.
Secy. of War, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
May I ask if the records of the pension office show that a pension was granted or applied for by one Ebenezer Goss of Conn., "an artificer belonging to a company of artificers and serving as a private"? The service was in the war of the American Revolution.
Any data that the records may show relative to Ebenezer Goss, I shall be very glad to have.
Thanking you for your favor in this matter
I am,
Truly yours,
 Registrar, Nebraska Socy. S.A.R.

DWIGHT GOSS, Law Offices.
February 18, 9. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.,.....189
O. W. N. Div.
Revolutionary.
Hon. Com. Pensions,
Washington, D. C
Sir:-
Please send me a certificate of the military record of Ebenezer Goss, who made an application for pension for Revolutionary services, on July 11th, 1818, and which was allowed for service as an artificer. He served in the Pennsylvania Troops
When he made his application he was residing in Portage Co. Ohio, and resided there and drew his pension until his death, several years afterwards.
The place of his enlistment is not known.
Respectfully,
Dwight Goss

PRESIDENT JOHN W. BATTIN N. Y. LIFE BLDG. OMAHA SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT AMOS FIELD OMAHA JUNIOR VICE-PRESIDENT ROLLIN S. RISING AINSWORTH SECRETARY VICTOR D. REYNOLDS 1316 DODGE ST. OMAHA TREASURER THOMAS R. MCNAIR J. L. BRANDEIS & SONS, BANKERS OMAHA REGISTRAR IRVING S. CUTTER 134 N 11TH ST. LINCOLN HISTORIAN ARTHUR K. DAME FREMONT
NEBRASKA SOCIETY
BOARD OF MANAGERS
THE OFFICERS AND JAMES H. ADAMS E. T. FARNSWORTH C. S. HAYWARD C. S. HUNTINGTON ROSCOE POUND P. EMERSON TAYLOR
OMAHA, NEB.
190
Lincoln - Nebr 5/10 - '05
The Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir!
Pursuant to the enclosure which has been returned from the War Dept., may I trouble your office with the request for information as outlined in the enclosure.
Thanking you for the favor, I am, Yours etc
Irving S. Cutter Registrar Nebraska S.A.R.

Ravenna Ohio Feb 10 - 1898
Comr. Pensions } Washington D.C. } Dear Sir
Would be under many obligations for that information you can give, with regard to Ebenezer Goss, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner, that removed from Connecticut to Portage Co Randolph, Ohio in 1804, in which place he died, having received a Pension there. Is described as having 6 toes on one foot. What is wanted is as to from what place he enlisted, date, and the Regiment, also if any records of soldier of French & Indian war. Same information.
Yours Respectfully Daniel W. Goss

I
16129
INVALID.
File No. 16129
Ebenezer Goss
Artificer New York
Act: June 7" 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 147
[Arrangement of 1870.]
mar 4'98 D W Goss Ravenna Ohio
apr 19'99 Dwight Goss Grand Rapids Mich.
May 17-1905. His to Irving S. Cullen, Lincoln 1915 Jan 29 Hist. to City Law. 1976 Feb. 1, Hist. to Widow E. D. Goss, M.C.S.

15. 11 77 R Ohio.
Ebenezer Goss
of Randolph in the state of Ohio who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Stowers of the Penn a line, for the term of two Years Continental
Inscribed on the roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 11 of July 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th of Nov r 1819 and sent to Alva Day Esq r Ravenna Ohio
arrears to 4th of Sept 1819 $ 110.47
semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 March 1820 $ 18.
13 Mo 25 dys un. $ 158.47
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued 12 July 1824. an notification sent to Sett le Day Esq r Ravenna, Ohio.

State of Ohio County of Portage -
Beder Gop. of Randolph Town- ship in said County being duly sworn doth depose & say that he is a son of Ebenezer Gop deceased - that the said Ebenezer Gop. was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $96. per Ann. that he resided in the said County of Portage - that he died on the fifteenth (15 th ) day of August in the year eighteen hundred & thirty two (1832) - that he left no widow, - now living & that he left one child now, living, only, whose name is Beder Gop. (this deponent -
Sworn & subscribed to this 16 th day of Nov. 1850 -
Beder Gop
Before me - B. F. Wheeler Pres. Judge
State of Ohio County of Portage ss.
I Horace D. Bube the Court of Common Pleas for Clerk of said County do certify that at a Court held in for said County on the twelfth day of November 1850. It was duly proven by the exhibition of testimony satisfactory to said Court that Ebenezer Gop - deceased late of said County a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $96. per Ann died on the fifteenth day of August in the year eighteen hundred & thirty two (1832) - that he left no widow

now living - and that he left one child only who is now alive, and whose name is Beder Goff.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this fourteenth day of November 1857.
Horace Y. Beebe Clerk

Chester Goss. dec d
Ohio
Act 7 June 1832.
Adm n 2 yrs artillery bty pay $240 per annum, de d g former pay at $96 per annum, under Act 18 March 1818. ending 15 Augt 1832, when he died payable to
Beder Goss. only surviving child
Pittsburgh Pa
Moir L. Rose N of R

Cambridge N.Y. Nov 20 th 1850
Sir:
Herewith is presented the application of Ebenezer Dorr - dec d under act of 7 th June 1832 - for an Increase -
He was an Artillery Artificer under Col. Flower & of course is entitled to the benefits of the recent decision -
Very respectfully
Yours obedt Servt
L. M. Dorr
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm r of Pensions Washington D.C.

State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny ss
before Me one of the Justices of the Peace in & for Said County personally appeared Henry Haulin
A citizen of Said County who saith on his solemn Oath he was personally acquainted with Ebenezer Goss in Carlisle when Said Goss was  was an artificer in the company of Captain Thomas Wiley the Regiment Commanded by Col. Flowers and this deponent further states that he was acquainted with the above named Goss for the space of two years upwards at that time in Carlisle in the Revolutionary War and this deponent served Captain himself for the space of Nine Months under the same Col. Flowers and further this deponent saith not sworn & subscribed before me this 27 th day of Sept r
A.D. 1819
Henry L. Haulin
John Cochran
I do certify that the above named Ebenezer bears the name and character of an honest man and I believe him to be a man of truth & veracity
Henry L. Haulin

Allegheny County, } ss. State of Pennsylvania, }
I, Ephraim Pentland Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for the County of Allegheny, in the Com- monwealth of Pennsylvania, DO BY THESE PRESENTS CERTIFY, that
John Cochran,
Esquire, before whom the foregoing deposition was taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper hand writing, sub- scribed his name, was, at the time of taking such deposition and now is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the said County, duly commissioned and sworn, to all whose acts, as such, due faith and credit is, and of right ought to be given, throughout the United States, and elsewhere.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Pittsburgh, in the said County, this 27th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen , and of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America, the 44th
Attest,
E. Pentland. Proth.

Ebenezer Goss - pension appl.
Additional statement
Ohio.
Ebenezer Goss.
Rec d 6 May 1824.
Seth May Ravenna, Ohio

Be it Remembered that on the Eighteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four the Court of common Pleas of the county of Portage. met at the Court house in the Town of Ravenna, in pursuunt to the Statute in such case made and provided. Present Augustus Baldwin, Elias Harmon, and Asaph Day associate Judges of said County. Ebenezer Goss a Revolutionary Soldier appears in Court and being duly sworn makes a statement of fact in order to obtain a pension under the provisions of the acts of Congress for that purpose. and the Court being satisfied with the same; do order. The same to be filed in the Clerks office, and a Copy thereof to be certified to the war department.
The State of Ohio } vs. Ebenezer Goss in answer to a Portage County } letter from the Secretary at war dated 12 th July 1823, deposeth and saith that he has not disposed of any of his property since the 18 th March 1818, neither directly nor indirectly - The reason why he did not exhibit a Schedule of his Property before the first of March 1823, was in consequence of his not having the means of defraying the expense, and believing that few, if any, would be reinstated on the Pension list from the rigid construction generally put upon the Law. Ebenezer Goss.
Sworn to and Subscribed in open Court this 18 th day of Feby 1824.
Day Clk.
The State of Ohio.
Portage County } ss I Seth Day Clerk of the Court of common Pleas of said County of Portage do certify that the foregoing is truly copied from the Record of said Court.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Ravenna this twenty sixth day of April A.D one thousand eight hundred and twenty three. Day Clk.

Sambucetti  aperte Seedge Mark County Ohio In Testimony
In Testimony that Samuel Southwell Esq. is now One of the Associate Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County by lawful Authority Acting as such I then & there my hand & seal the seal of said County at Hartford 16 th July 1819
W. Reynolds Esq.
I do certify that the above General Wm. H. Thurlow bears the character of an honest man and I believe him to be a man of truth and veracity.