I have read thousands pension records over the years but never seen the word ( eases ) on them, then maybe I had but paid no mind to it, but I think I have a pretty good idea what it means, read the following.

The word ease on a pension just meant that the pensioner didn’t have two witness or no witness that he had been wounded, it took two witness for a pension so he get a unfavorable report, so to take all the eases ( burden ) of proof off him and make it easier on him he placed all the eases ( documents ) and proof before the secretary and he would deiced if he got the pension. As for your case he got bounty land be cause he was recorded as being in the service, but not being wounded. Read the below statement from Congress of the 1830’s.

Resoled, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of repealing that law which requires two witnesses to establish a pension for wounds received during the revolutionary war, placing all such eases upon proof satisfactory to the Secretary of War, as in other cases.

In another case a man was asked by the government to build a fort which he did, but died before he could pay the other men he own money too. So the government took the eases ( burden ) off his family and paid all the money own too, and give all that was left over to the family and heirs. In this way it took all the eases ( burden ) off the family’s and those that money was own too.

Dennis Segelquist
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