Hartford County CT Archives Military Records.....Goodale, Ebenezer August 15, 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Ebenezer Goodale, W4967
Ebenezer Goodale, a resident of Jefferson, Ashtabula Co, OH, aged 78 years... 
	"That at Glastonbury in the county of Hartford and state of Connecticut 
in the month of April AD 1776, he enlisted into the company commanded by Capt. 
___ Hale. That he marched in a few days for Boston. That no other troops 
marched with said company. That he cannot tell the name of the Colonel who 
commanded the regiment to which they were attached after their arrival at 
Boston. That ____ Pomeroy was lieutenant of said company. That said company was 
quartered with other troops on Jamaica Plains. That he continued to serve 
during the period of his enlistment which was two months when he was discharged 
at the last mentioned place. That on the twenty-fifth of July ? of the last 
mentioned year at Glastonbury aforesaid he again enlisted into the service of 
the United States in the company commanded by Capt. ____ Wells and to the best 
of his recollection the regiment was commanded by Colonel ____ Bo____? But is 
unable to recollect distinctly as they were attached to no regiment until they 
arrived at New York. That he enlisted for six months and immediately marched 
for New York by way of New Haven and thence by water to near Brooklin 
(Brooklyn) on Long Island where they took up their quarters in a fort commanded 
most of the time by General Putnam. That during that summer in the month of 
August as near as he can recollect he was engaged in the battle of Flatbush on 
Long Island and was in the retreat from Long Island at the time of its 
evacuation that fall, but is now unable to recollect __________ they then took 
up quarters in New York until its evacuation when they crossed over into the 
state of New Jersey where they remained quartered at different places until the 
twenty-fifth day of December when together with said company were discharged in 
the state of New Jersey, but the name of the town has escaped his recollection. 
That in the year 1777 as near as he recollects ___ in the month of Sept. he was 
drafted in the militia of the state of Connecticut and marched to the state of 
New York and came upon the North River at a place called Fishkill (kill is the 
Dutch name for creek) as near as he can recollect or Catskill, both of which 
places they marched through and arrived opposite Esopus a day or two after it 
was burned. That he continued in said last mentioned service as near as he 
recollects about six weeks and was dismissed at the time the militia from 
Connecticut who were ordered out on said alarm were dismissed. That he has now 
no documentary evidence or living witness within his knowledge of either 
periods of his said service.

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