Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,720, Ebenezer Hanford, Conn.

SERVICE
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Conn
Hanford Ebenezer or Handford.
S. 31.720.
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17.957-Connecticut
Hampden Ebenezer Handford
of Canaan in the State of Conn who was a Pr. Col in the Conn comm by Captain Benedict of the Regt comm by Col Brodly in the Conn M line for the sum 90.22-62 8 1/2 Gerse 8 mrs
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn at the rate of 9.5 Dollars 41- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of October 93- and Oct- 93- Isaac Norwalt let
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 33.4238.52 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4. Mar 33 477 0 $286.24
{ Revolutionary Claims } { Act June 7, 1832 }
Recorded by E. D. Merrill Clerk, Book E Vol. 3 Page 20

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } On the 12 th day of September 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate now sitting Holly Symonds Commissioner over the Person and Estate of Ebenezer Hunsford of New Canaan in the County of Fairfield otherwise being duly represented by the Hon ble County Court for the County of Fairfield holding at Danbury on the 8 th Tuesday of November 1831 at that time he was Ebenezer Hunsford & as per Certificate of Thomas B. Babson Clerk of said Court - who being first sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in behalf of said Ebenezer Hunsford in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832
That said Ebenezer Hunsford is seventy six years of age that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as hereinafter stated
That in the Month of December 1775 said Hunsford enlisted in Capt. Daniel Dement's Company in said New Canaan as a private soldier under Lt. David Waterbury was marched to the City of New York and was in constant service at New York three Months
That in the Spring of the year 1776 said Ebenezer Hunsford enlisted in said New York as a private soldier in Capt. Samuel Keene's Company Lt. Phillips B. Bradley and was marched to New York and served there and on the lines nine Months
That on the first of May 1777 said Ebenezer Hunsford enlisted in said New Canaan as a private soldier in Capt. Reuben Sackett's Company Lt. Roger Enos and was in constant and active service for the United States until the first of January making eight Months
That in the Month of April 1781 said Ebenezer Hunsford enlisted in said New York in Capt. Nathaniel Hauran's Company Lt. Stephen D'John Gen: Elisha & Silliman as a Sergeant and had a Sergeant Warrant which he has lost and was in camp at said New York and was in constant & active service for the United States over eight Months
That said Ebenezer Hunsford was born in said New Canaan on the first day of October 1757 where he is always found and Recorded on his ledger produced in Court that he has no documentary evidence of his services

And the said Ebenezer Mansfield by his Commissioner Holly Seymour hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll or the agency of any State except the State of Connecticut where he was placed on the pension of the Law of 1818 and had a certificate which is lost and was struck from the Roll on the passing of the Law of 1820 on account of property and by reason of age and other information has now almost entirely lost his senses and his mind gone beyond all remedy. Holly Seymour Commissioner the day and year aforesaid. To Said Ebenezer Mansfield We William Bonney a Bluegrass residing in the town of New Canaan and Enoch St John residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Mansfield who has by his Commissioner Holly Seymour sworn to the above declaration that we believe said Ebenezer Mansfield to be 76 years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion sworn and subscribed. William Bonney the day and year aforesaid. Enoch St John
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after one after putting the interrogations framed by the War Department that the above named Ebenezer Mansfield was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that William Bonney who has signed the preceding certificate is a Bluegrass residing in the town of New Canaan and that Enoch St John who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of New Canaan and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. David Rootes Judge

I Charles Isaac Clerk of the said Probate Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Hensford for a Pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Probate Court this 12 day of September 1833
Chas Isaac Clerk
Ebenezer Hensford
12 July 1833

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } ss. Probate Court District of Norwalk August 27. 1832 Personally appeared Nathaniel Harrison aged Eighty Seven Years and being duly sworn in open Court depose and say that he is well acquainted with Ebenezer Hanchard of New Canaan in said County and that in the Month of April. 1781 I enlisted said Hanchard into a Company of State troops under my command and served in guarding and protecting the sea coast in said Norwalk over Eight Months and I then discharged him in said Norwalk. said Hanchard enlisted and served in said Company as a Sergeant - Nathaniel Harrison
At the same Court. Personally appeared Isaac Keeble aged Seventy Six. and being duly sworn in open Court according to Law depose and say that he is well acquainted with Ebenezer Hanchard of New Canaan in said County and knows that said Hanchard enlisted on the first of May 1777 into Capt. Reuben Linsley's Company under Col. Roger Ennis. and served until the first of January following. I was in the same Company of State troops at the same time -
Isaac Keeble.
At the same Court Personally appeared Theodorus Hunted aged Seventy three Years and being duly sworn according to Law depose and say in open Court that he is well acquainted with Ebenezer Hanchard of New Canaan in said County and knows that in the year 1775 said Hanchard served in Capt. Daniel Bondet under Col. David Waterbury in the City of New York and served three Months. he entered the service in the beginning of the Month of June December

and we was discharged in the Month of March following
and in the Spring of the year 1876 said Hunsford Inducted into a Company commanded by Capt Samuel Keen and said Hunsford served in said Company Nine Months under Col. Phillips B. Bradley - I served with said Hunsford in both of the above said Companies in the same Company and Regt. Thaddeus his Heurted marks
Probate Court District of Norfolk August 27 1882 This may Certify that on said day Personally appeared before said Court the Hon. Nathaniel Henson Isaac Keen and Thaddeus Heurted all well known to me to be credible and respectable Persons and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by them subscribed Bryant Isaac Judge

a County Court holden at Danbury within and for the County of Fairfield; on the 3 d Tuesday of November A D 1831.
This may certify, that Molly Seymour of New Canaan in said County, was by this Court appointed Conservator over the person and estate of Ebenezer Mansfield 2 d of said New Canaan and said Conservator is to render his account of his said Conservatorship to this Court from time to time agreeably to the Statute in such case provided.
Certified by
Thomas Borborne Clerk

J. N. J. O. W. and N. Division.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., July _____, 1893.
Sir,
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Ebenezer Hanford (J. N. J. both ways), a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE. CAPTAIN. COLONEL. Dec 1775 3 mo Pri Daniel Benedict David Waterbury Conn March 1776 9 " " Samuel Keeler Philip Burr Bradley " May 1777 8 " " Reuben Scofield Roger Enos " Apr 1781 8 " Sergt Nathaniel Sherman St John, Mead, & Silliman "
Battles engaged in, none stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, New Canaan Conn
Date of application for pension, November 1818
Residence at date of application, New Canaan Conn
Age at date of application, Born October 1756 New Canaan Conn
Remarks: Conservator, H. H. Seymour, appointed Nov 1831 His pension was for service & not for disability - Part of regiments were detached from Fort Lee to Fort Washington & some captured, others escaped - Very respectfully,
Wm Samuel Carter
Commissioner.
478 Washington Ave - Brooklyn N.Y.

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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Washington

Newark Sept. 24. 1833
Hon: J. S. Edmonds
Dear Sir enclosed is the application of Ebenezer Mansfield formerly on the prison Roll under the act of 1818 he has almost become an Idiot and has by some means lost his certificate he obtained under that act. he now applies by his Commissioner whose declaration in his behalf. I hope you will find correct Also the application of Nathan Warner hoping his explanation lately taken by me you will find satisfactory
I also beg leave to call your attention to Alvin Flyett. Isaac Flyett. and Daniel Doyt whose several declarations were examined while I was at Washington and passed, and if their Certificates have been sent they have not been Rec d .
I have the work part paid off the Old Veterans and it would have done you good to see the thankfulness they were under to the kind attention paid to their application while I was at Washington. Please give my best respect to Doct. Cummings.
Your respectfully Benj. Issay
3 w d private 9 w d do 6. 8 days Corporal 8 w d serg

1893 AUG 22 1893 FILES.

Consolidated Gas Company of New York,
4 IRVING PLACE.
New York Aug 18 th 1893
Hon Wm Lochren Commissioner of Pensions. Sir:
Your favor of July 31 st was duly rec d giving a statement of the Military History of Ebenezer Hanford of New Canaan Conn a soldier of the Rev- olutionary War.
Please accept my thanks for your courtesy, & pardon my delay in acknowledging the same Respectfully Yours
Samuel Carter 478 Washington Ave Brooklyn

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CLP JAB AND 411, 21 JUN 23 1893 FILE
PENSION JUN 21 1893 OFFICE

478 Washington Ave Brooklyn June 20th 1893
To the Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C. Sir:
Ebenezer Hanford of Norwalk Fairfield Co Conn was enrolled June 17th 1776 in Capt Samuel Leek's Co, Bradley's Battalion of Wadsworth's Brigade, Conn State Troops. The Battalion was stationed during the greater part of the summer & early fall at Bergen Heights, and Paulus Hook (now Jersey City.) In October it removed up the river to the vicinity of Fort Lee, then under Gen. Greene's Command. In November the greater part of the Regt. was sent across the river to assist in defending Fort Washington, & on the fall of the Fort Nov 16th was captured with the garrison. 281 officers and men of the Regt. became prisoners. Hanford's name is not among those who were taken prisoners. He received his discharge Dec 29th 1776.
[ Record of the service of Conn. Men in the War of the Revolution. Adj. Gen. Report p 416 ]

The name of Eben ear Hanford appears in the list of Connecticut Pensioners of 1818 as published in Pub. Docs., 1st Session 16 th Congress also in a similar list in Sen. Docs., 1st Sess., 23 rd Cong., [Ibid pp. 635.650] His name does not appear in the list of 1840 he having died in 1834.
The question is what was the disability for which Hanford rec d his pension? Was he disabled in some way while his Reg t was at Paulus Hook and Fort Lee? And was he possibly with the reserves at Fort Lee detained by the very disability for which he received was pensioned? Or was he at the fall of Fort Washington & hurt while getting away, or was he hurt in some service between Nov 16 th & Dec 29 th ? When, where, and how, did he receive his disability?
Hanford's next older brother Timothy H. served through the war in the "Conn. Line". His oldest brother Theophilus was in the

same Regt and Co as himself and was taken prisoner at the fall of Fort Washington. and I have found no farther trace of him of any kind. Nor have I found any continuous service of Ebenezer the subject of this communication,
My interest in the matter arises out of the fact that I am preparing a series of papers for the New Canaan Conn Histor- cal Society on the numerous Stamford families formerly residing in Canaan Parish & New Canaan as it afterwards became, descendants of the Rev Thomas Stamford the first minister of the Congre- gational Church in Norwalk Conn 1652, of whom I am also a descendant in a collateral line.
I will be greatly obliged for any information it may be in your power to give or put me in the way of procuring.
Respectfully Yours
Samuel F. Austin

Will in Oct. June 4. 31720
OWT n Div
Re
John H. Lockhart Commission of Pensions Washington D.C.
CONSOLIDATED GAS CO., No. 4 IRVING PLACE, NEW YORK.

31720 INVALID.
File No. 31720
Ebenezer Mansford Dis Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 173
[Arrangement of 1870.]

12,715 4 Connecticut
Ebenezer Hanford his legat son Hanford of New Canaan in the state of Connecticut who was a Private in the regiment commanded Colonel Bradley of the Connecticut line, for the term of Nine Months
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 13 th of Nov r 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th of July 1819 and sent to S r H Minor Esq r Stamford Connecticut
  Arrears to 4th of  Mar 1819.  29. 8    Semi-ann. all ce ending  Sep 1819.  48. 0    3 Mo \frac{18}{30}  \frac{4}{31}  $ 77. 83  
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }

District of Connecticut ss Stamford the 13 th day of Nov r . 1818 I James Stevens Esq r . Judge of the Court of Probate for Stamford District do certify - That the Testimony & proceedings had before me on the applica- tion of Eben r Handford J r . of New Canaan in said District for a Pension, under an act of Congress approved the 18 th day of March A d 1818 appear at large on this & the following Pages of this Sheet
James Stevens
State of Connecticut / Stamford Fairfield County
On this 13 th day of Nov r . A d 1818 Eben r Handford of New Canaan in said County, under oath doth declare before James Stevens Esq r . Judge of the Court of Probate for Stamford District, in said State, That in the month of Dec r . A d 1775 he enlisted as a private Soldier into the Continental Service a Company commanded by Capt. Benedict in a Reg t . commanded by Col o Waterbury, for the term of three months, in the Conne- ticut line on the Continental establishment - That he served in said Company, engaged against the com- mon enemy untill the month of March following when he immediately re-enlisted into a Company commanded by Capt. Fletcher in a Reg t . commanded by Col o Bradley, as a private Soldier for the term of nine months, in the Connecticut line on the Conti- nental establishment That he served out the last men- -tioned term of his enlistment faithfully engaged ag- -ainst the common enemy, when he was Honorably Discharged by parole from his officer, he had no written Discharge & that from his reduced circumstan-

in life is in need of assistance from of his country for support
Ebenezer Handford
At the day & date above written personally appeared Ebenezer Handford Jwr, above named & having been duly sworn made oath that the foregoing Declaration, by him subscribed, true, before me
James Stevens Judge of the Court of Probate for Stamford District
State of Connecticut } / Stamford Nov. 13 th 1818 Fairfield County } /
Personally appeared Thaddeus Husted & James Quintard of Norwalk in said County, before James Stevens Esqr. Judge of the Court of Probate for Stamford District in said State who being duly sworn depose & say that they are well acquainted with Ebenezer Handford Jwr. signers of the foregoing Declaration & that he now is & for many years most last past has been a resident citizen of the United States in the State of Connecticut. That they were soldiers with him for the same time of time in Dr. Benedict's Company & in said H. -us Company & are knowing of his having performed the services in the Revolutionary War as set forth in his said Declaration & as they ever understood & rightly believing was Honorably discharged.
James Quintard Thaddeus Husted
Certified by
James Stevens

State of Connecticut } for Stamford Fairfield County }
I James Stevens Esq r Judge of the Court of Probate for Stamford District in said State do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Ebene r Handford J r Signer of the foregoing Declaration served in the Revo- lutionary War, against the Common Enemy as stated in his said Declaration — That James Leinhardt & Thaddeus Husted who have subscribed the foregoing Deposition are credible witnesses & that the said Ebene r Handford J r from his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his Country for Support. In Testimony whereof I have subscribed the same & affixed the Seal of said Court this 13 th day of Nov 1818 18 th day of Feb y 1819 James Stevens

State of Connecticut to all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting.
Elmer H. Ebenezer H. Sanford Private
76 - 9 Mo.
Brady Connec. Rep.
Proof of service by an Officer is required in this case.
Admitted
See Thaddeus Husled's papers - per Ingers letter.

State of Conn. s Fairfield County ss Norwalk June 26. 1819
Personally appeared William Seymour of said Norwalk and being duly sworn declares & says that Thos. Huntington and Eben. Huntington jun. served under him in the Revolutionary Army in the Winter of eighteen hundred & seventy five and seventy six, he then being a Lieut. in Capt. Dane's Benedict Company & Col. David Waterbury's Regt. and now the only surviving officer of said company
William Seymour
Sworn to before me
W. M. Bets Judge of Probate

State of Connecticut } / Stamford Probate Office Fairfield County } July 14 th 1819
Personally appeared before me Simon H. Minor Esq r Judge of the Court of Probate for Stamford District Eleazar Handford J d ., Signer of the Declaration hereto annexed who being by me sworn doth on his oath declare That Capt. Wheeler, Lieutenants Mead & Hoyt, & Ensign Bell, the Officers of the Company in which he served, as mentioned in his said Declaration are each of them dead — That he knows of no Officer now living, who belonged to said Reg t except Col. Bradley, who signed the foregoing Certificate — That he is therefore unable to obtain the Testimony of an Officer, to prove his services in Col. Bradley's Regiment
Ebenezer Handford J d
Certified by S. H. Minor Judge of Probate
State of Connecticut } / Stamford Probate Office Fairfield County } /
I Simon H. Minor Esq r Judge of the Court of Probate for Stamford District in said State do certify. That I am satisfied that neither Capt. Wheeler or either of his Subaltern Officers named in the foregoing Declaration (of Eleazar Handford J d .) are now living. I also certify that I am satisfied that the foregoing Certificate was signed by Col. P. B. Bradley. In Testimony of which I have subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of said Court this 14 th day of July 1819
S. H. Minor

This may certify that Capt. Samuel Pike of Norwalk in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut, commanded a company in the Regt. I then commanded which was in the year 1776 & that Capt. Pike is now dead & all the subalterns belonging to said company Ridgefield, Fairfield County & State of Connecticut
June 25 th 1819
Philip B. Bradley then Col. of said Regiment