REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION ABSTRACT OF APPLICATION - EBENEZER P. CAREY

Contributed by: A Mercer County Volunteer


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Name: CAREY, EBENEZER P.
Pension #: S15197
State: VT
Age: 72Ap. Date: 04 Mar 1833
Ebenezer Carey: He was born in Litchfield, Conn on 9 Mar 1761. My father died 
when I was 9 years old my mother being unable to keep her children, I went at 
age 13 to the state of Vermont lived with my Grandfather's brother near 
Burlington when I was 16 years og age in Apr 1777, volunteered for the 
militia..in the spring of 1778 I returned to Vermont lived with an uncle until 
sometime in Jun 1778..again enlisted..at the end of the ARW I returned to Conn. 
lived there 2 years..then went on board a vessel and sailed around to Savannah 
and on to Augusta married in a place called Bedford. I then removed to South 
Carolina in the year 1794 removed to Mercer Co., Ky where I have lived to the 
present day, with only temporary absence. I know of no person who can prove my 
services.