Morrison's Pensions
Pension Application for Ebenezer Elmer
S.4280
{BL.WA.663-400 Surg. Dated Apr 21, 1790. No papers. Carded}
For the
purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled “An Act for the
relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution” approved
15th May 1828. I Ebenezer Elmer of Bridgetown in the County of Cumberland
in the State of New Jersey do hereby declares that I was an officer of the
Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution and served as such to the
end of the war at which period I was a surgeon in the Second Regiment of
the New Jersey Line.
And I do
also declare that I afterward received Certificates (Commonly called Commutation
Certificates for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay; which
sum was offered by the resolve of Congress on the 22d of March 1788 instead
of the half pay for life, to which I was entitled by the resolve of the 21st
of October 1780.
Witness
my hand this 9th day of June in the year eighteen hundred twenty-eight 1828.
(Signed) Eben. Elmer
Before me
David Lupton, a Justice of the Peace in the County of Cumberland in the State
of New Jersey personally appeared this day, Jeremiah Buck and Josiah Fritrian
of the said county who did severally make the oath that Ebenezer Elmer by
whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed.
I, Hugh
R. Merseilles, Surrogate of the County of Cumberland do hereby certify that
Dr. Ebenezer Elmer formerly an officer in the Army of the Revolution died
in the said county on the eighteenth day of October last and that his last
will and testament hath been duly proved according to law in my office and
administration, thereof committed to Lucius H. Elmer executor therein named
and I do further certify that the said Lucius H. Elmer and Sarah L. Will
wife of Rev’d Dr. William Will (of Philadelphia) are the only children
and heirs of said Ebenezer Elmer and that he left no widow.
In testimony
whereof I have hereto set my hand and my seal of office this twenty-eighth
day of November one thousand and eight hundred and forty three.
(Signed) H. R. Merseilles, Surrogate