Essex County MA Archives Military Records.....Goodale, Ebenezer July 1, 1834
Revwar - Pension 
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American Revolution Pension Application Of Ebenezer Goodale, S29832:
American Revolution Pension Application S29832:
"On the first day of July, 1834, personally appeared in open court, Ebenezer 
Goodale, a resident of Salem, aged 70 years:

"In the month of May, 1775, he enlisted as a private in the company of Capt. 
Asa Prince of Danvers, in the regiment first commanded by Col. Mansfield, and 
afterwards by Col. Hutchinson. That he then served for eight months at Winter 
Hill, and the headquarters of General Washington at Cambridge. In the spring of 
the year, 1777, he enlisted as a private in Capt. Samuel Flint's company in the 
regiment commanded by Col. Francis of Beverly. That he served twenty-one 
months, and during this time, he was engaged in the capture of Burgoyne, and 
several skirmishes. At the capture of Burgoyne, he was wounded in the hip and 
on his right foot, and from these wounds, received a lameness from which he 
still suffers." 

"He also served in several other companies in the Army of the Revolution, but 
he has not been able to obtain any satisfactory testimony in relation to them. 
The whole amount of service of which he has been able to obtain proof is the 
term of eight months in Capt. Asa Prince's company, and the further term of 
twenty-one months in Capt. Samuel Flint's company, making altogether a period 
of twenty-nine months. For proof of these services, he refers to the affidavit 
of Joseph Putnam with whom he served in the several companies before mentioned."

"He further notes that he was born in Danvers in the county of Essex on the 
ninth day of June 1765; that he has no record of his age; that he lived in 
Danvers from his birth, till he entered the army; that since the Revolutionary 
War, he has continued to reside in the said Danvers, til the year 1830, when he 
removed to Salem, and has continued to live in said Salem. I received one 
discharge from Col. Hutchinson, but have lost it." Signed, Ebenezer Goodale." 

This Revolutionary War pensioner who called himself 'Ebenezer' Goodale, was 
named at birth, 'Asa,' but assumed the name 'Ebenezer' to please his 
grandparent. He was born in Danvers, enlisted in Danvers, and filed his pension 
application from Danvers.

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