Pension: Eben Colby, 1818 :Salisbury, Merrimack County, New Hampshire

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Submitted by: Rick Giirtman rickman@worldpath.net
Date: October 3, 2000
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Eben Colby
Revolutionary War
Pension Application

This abstract is from a book called "New Hampshire Revolutionary Pension
Papers", abstracted & prepared by Mrs. Amos G. Draper 1917-1922
It is available at the New Hampshire Historical Society.


S.F. 45684 for New Hampshire Service

May 13, 1818, Eben Colby, of Salisbury, New Hampshire, aged 74 years,
deposed:

that he enlisted in May, 1777, for 1 year, and served until March, 1778,
when he hired Thomas Fuller as a substitute to complete his term, in Capt.
Amos Emerson's company, Col. Joseph Cilley, and at the expiration of the 
year he received a regular discharge, dated Ticonderoga, 1778.
                                 Eben Colby

As his name was not found on the roll, his application was at first
rejected.

February 14, 1820, Amos Emerson, of Candia(?), certified that Eben Colby,
formerly of Sandown, New Hampshire, and now of Salisbury, New Hampshire,
enlisted under him in May, 1777, and served faithfully until the following 
March, when he produced a substitute; that Colby was wounded in the battle
of Bemis Heights, October 7, 1777.
                                 Amos Emerson, Capt.

September 12, 1818, John Townsend, Jabez Smith and William (?), Selectmen
of Salisbury, certified to soldiers financial condition.

Claim allowed, and Certificate 17304, New Hampshire Agency, was issued
June 1, 1820, Act of March 16, 1818.

February 13, 1821, Eben Colby, of Salisbury, New Hampshire, aged 76 years,
testified that his occupation is that of a laborer and that he has a wife
aged 70 years, (no name given) living with him.