Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4721, Ebenezer Haskell, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Haskell, Ebenezer
R. 4721
CONTENTS

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
I JOHN PRINCE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Essex, do certify that Hon. is Judge of the Court of  within and for said County; that
David Choate Esquire
Justice of the Peace within and for said County; that his commission is dated  A.D., 18 and will continue seven years from that date; and that  his signature hereon genuine.
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court, at Salem, January 5. A.D., 1841.
John Prince Clerk.

4721
George Haskell
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

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Elmer Haskel
Mass.
June 7 1832
Rept to Am. L. Salton

State of Massachusetts Essex ss.
We, Robert Crowell, a clergyman residing in the town of Essex, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, and Enoch Haskell, residing in the same town, hereby certify that you are well acquainted with Ebenezer Haskell, who has subscribed and sworn to the within declaration that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in the opinion —
Robert Crowell.
Enoch Haskell
Sworn to and subscribed this twenty sixth day of December A. D. 1840.
David Rootes Justice of the Peace

State of Massachusetts Essex ss.
On the twenty eighth day of December A.D. 1840, personally appeared Joseph Patch, of Hamilton in the said county of Essex age seventy nine years, before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace, for the said county of Essex, and on his oath made the following declaration - viz - that he was at Winterhill near Boston in the year 1778 as a private in the company of Capt. John Dodge, and in the regiment of Col. Gerrish for the term of five months - the deponent further declares that Ebenezer Haskell of Essex (then a part of Ipswich) in the said county of Essex, was also a member of the same regiment and company, and that he the said Eben- ezer Haskell was in the said service all the time during which the deponent was, to wit, five months, and he believes that he, the deponent, found him the said Haskell there, at Winterhill, when he the deponent arrived there, but how long the said Haskell had been at Winterhill, when the deponent arrived there, he, the deponent, has no means of knowing; but he further declares, that when he the deponent arrived at Winterhill at the time specified, the said Capt. John Dodge's company was full, & he has no recollection of any one joining the company afterwards. Joseph Patch Sworn to and subscribed, the day & year above written, before me, David Rootes, Justice of the Peace.

I certify that the within named cap- ment is a credible witness -
Darrell Shoate Justice of the Peace -
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State of Massachusetts Essex ss.
On this twenty sixth day of December A.D. 1840, person- ally appeared before the Hon. Solomon Strong a Judge of the court of common Pleas for the State of Massachusetts, Ebenezer Nourse a resident of Essex, in the county of Essex, and State of Massachusetts, aged seventy eight 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 provision made by the act of Congress, pas- sed June 7th. 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1778, with and served in his regiment of the Massachusetts Militia, under the following named officers viz. Col. Gerrish - Capt. John Dodge of the said Col. Gerrish being of & belonging to Newburyport & the said Capt. John Dodge being of & belonging to Wenham both in the said county of Essex Lieut. Richard Dodge, and Orderly Sergeant Thomas Holes. - that at the time of his enlistment he resided in Essex (then a part of Ipswich) in the said county of Essex, & State of Massachu- setts - that at the time of his enlistment, namely in June 1778 he was not quite sixteen years of age - - that immediately after his enlistment he went to Win- ter hill, near Boston where he joined Col. Gerrish's regiment, and Capt. John Dodge's company - that the regiment to which he, the deponent belonged were stationed at the said Winter hill to guard the English and Hessian soldiers, that had been taken from Burgoyne's army, and were sent down to be kept in the barracks on the said Winter hill and on Prospect hill about one mile from Winter hill. - that though Col. Gerrish's regiment was stationed on Winter hill to guard the Hessian soldiers, yet a guard of fifteen or twenty men were sent over to Prospect hill every day to guard the English soldiers on that hill. - that in the autumn of the same year 1778, the deponent thinks in November, Col. Gerrish's reg- iment was ordered to march the said English & Hessian soldiers to Springfield in the State of Mas- sachusetts - that they were allowed to march but ten miles in a day & were not far from home days in reaching Springfield - that they passed

one night in Worcester while on the way to Spring- field, but generally slept in barns & other build- ings, such as they could find on their march — That on arriving at Springfield, the said Eng- lish & Hessian soldiers were marched on further by other troops and the regiment to which the deponent belonged marched back to the said Win- ter Hill — and that in a few days after reaching said Winter Hill Col. Gerrish's regiment was dis- charged and the deponent returned home — that at the time the deponent was discharged, which was in December, the ground was covered with snow & the weather was cold and that he, the depo- nent was in the said service six months. —
And the deponent hereby relinquishes every claim whatever, to a pension or annuity, except the present; and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State.
Oliver Haskell
Essex ss: Court of Common Pleas Dec r 7. 1840
The above-named Eben t Haskell made oath that the above declaration by him signed is true, in open court.
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court at Salem this twenty-sixth day of December A.D. 1840
John Prince Clerk.