Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15302, Mark Batchelder, N. H
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
N. H.

Batchelder, Mark

NUMBER
S. 15302

CONTENTS

carded
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6080

New Hampshire
Mark Batchelder
of Merrimas in the State of  [illegible]
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain ---- of the regt commanded by C Scammel in the [illegible]
line for 9 May.

Inscribed on the Roll of [illegible]
at the rate of 30 Dollars -*- Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of Febry 1833 and Sent to [illegible]

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832

Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33

$45 --
$15--
$60--

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}

Jean 

Recorded by [illegible] Blain {or Blair} Clerk
Book  [illegible]
Vol. 1 [illegible]
Page 144
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Mark Batchelder

Private
9 Months
[illegible]

$30-

[J. or I.] M. [Harper or Hacker or Harker]
H R
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Samuel Dinsmoor
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS.
GREETING.

KNOW YE, That, Moses Eastman
is Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas for our County of Merrimack
Shael W. Kelley is a Justice of the
Peace for our County of Merrimack
and William Porter is also a
Justice of the Peace for said County of Merrimack
all duly constituted and sworn, and their signatures as [illegible]

in the said STATE, duly Constituted and Sworn, and that to their ACTS and ATTESTATIONS, as such, full FAITH and CREDIT are and ought to be given, in and out of COURT, within and out of the STATE.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have caused the Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed.

GIVEN UNDER MY HAND, at Concord, this sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three and in the fifty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.

Samuel Dinsmoor
BY THE GOVERNOR.
Ralph Metcalf Secretary of State.
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I Moses Fillows of Salisbury in the
County of Merrimack and State of New
Hampshire, seventy seven years of age, depose and say, that I am well acquainted with
Mark Batchelder of Andover, County and
State aforesaid, and believe him be seventy
three years of age; that he was a private
soldier in the company of Capt Gray, in
Col. Scammels Regiment for six months,
in the year 1777 in the Army of the
the Revolution. I belonged to the same company & Regiment and was with him in
actual service at Ticonderoga, Skenesborough and Stillwater and have no doubt that
he served faithfully as a private the full term
of six months. When he come into the service
he was a resident of [illegible] in the County of
Rockingham N.H.-
Moses Fellows

State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss. January 7th 1833

Personally appeared the above named Moses
Fellows, who is of good character for truth, and his statements entitled to full belief, and subscribed & made solemn oath to the truth of the fore-going affidavit-
Before me Levail W. Rally Justice Peace
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We the subscribers Inhabitants of Andover - County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire depose that we are well acquainted with Mark Batchelder of Andover aforesaid - that we know his reputation for truth to be good and also that it has been generally reported in the town and neighborhood
where he resides that he was a soldier of the
revolution and we have no doubt of the truth
of this report -

Nehemiah P Steeper [illegible]
Elijah Watson
Ministers of the Gospel

Jesse Graves
[illegible]
Selectmen of Andover

Pond Weave
Joshua [illegible] L Weaverly 
Colonels

Enoch Merrill
James Tucker
Captains

Josiah Babcock
Tho R. White
Sam E Brown [illegible] 
Justices of the Peace
 
Silas Merrill, Physicians
I hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with the above named Mark Batchelder more than thirty years and fully agree with the above named Gentlemen in the above Declaration
Wm Proctor Justice of the Peace & Quorum
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State of New Hampshire
Merrimack July 31st 1832

Personally appeared the within named Nehemiah D. Sleeper, Elijah Watson, Jesse Graves, Mesheck
Weare, Jon Weare, Joshua L Weare, Enoch Merrill, James Tucker, Josiah Babcock, Thos. White, Saml Brown, and Silas Merrill, and made Solemn Oath that the within affidavit by them subscribed is just and true
Before me Wm Proctor Justice of the Peace
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I Edward Trew of Fayette, in the County of
Kennebec and State of Maine, being of lawful Age -
do testefy and say, that in the year Eighteen hund and Eighty one. I was out as a solger three months in the servis of the United States, under Capt Person of Ky. Lieut. Hanes of Grinlan,  Lieut. Cornil Kunnils, Magor, Master, of Dearfield, all of New-Hampshire, and that I was well aquanted with one Mark Barcheller, who served as a solger in the same Company with me three months for the town of Hamp-
ton fals, we started from Seabrook, and went to Spring-field, from there to Charlston [meant Charlestown?], from there to Casselton -
from there to Sceensburow, from there to Fort an [meant Fort Ann, NY?]. from there back to Charlston, and there we ware discharged.
Edward True
Kennebec, August 23th 1832 then the above named
Edward Trew personally appear and made Oath to the above. before me
Joseph French, Js of the Peace
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I hereby certify that I am well acquainted
within name Edward [illegible] and that he is a man of truth and respectability - I am also well acquainted with the within named Joseph French, that he is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Kimber Mann,
and I believe the within signature of said French to be given [illegible]

Jame Baks
House of Reps
20 Feb. 1833

Mine. [illegible] Congress
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DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
Sate of New-Hampshire
County of Merrimack
ss.
On this Sixth day of February 1833, personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting, Mark Batchelder a resident of Andover in the County of Merrimack and State of N. H. aged 73 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as here stated--

That he first enlisted into the Army of the States as a private in the year 1777, for the term of six months, and served in the Regiment commanded by Col. Samuel N.H. Troops, under Capt. Gray was with the regt at Ticonderoga, Skensborough and Stillwater
that he entered the service this time, in the month of May or June (as near as his memory serves him} served six months and discharged.

That he again enlisted as a private in the army
of the U.S. in the year 1701, for the term of three months and in the Regiment commanded by Leuit. Col. [illegible] Pur
nels, Marston Major under Capt Parson and
Lieut N.H. Troops. Marched from Hampton
Falls N.H. to Springfield, to Charleston N.H. to Fort Ann back to Charleston N.H. Served three months and discharged. That he never had any written discharge, has no dockumentary evidence of his service. That he was born
at Hawke N.H. in 1750 has a record of his age in his family Bible made by his own divotion.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.

Sworn to and subscribed, the 6th day of February A.D. 1833 in open court [illegible] Eastman Clerk-
[illegible] Bohler

We, Jacob B. Moon residing in Concord N.H. and Thomas Brown Physician residing in said Concord hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Mark Batchelder, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
73 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the 6th day of Feb. 1833 in open court

Jacob B. Morse of Merrimack
Thomas Broan

[illegible] M Eastman C
Thomas Brown

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court certifies, that it appears to them that law Jacob B. Moore who has signed the preceding certificate, is Sheriff resident in the County of Meork and and that Thomas Brown, who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Concord N.H. and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, Moses Eastman Clerk of the Court of  Common [illegible] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application Mark Batchelder for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this Sixth day of February 1833
Moses Eastman
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15302
INVALID.

Mle No.15.302
Mark Batchelder
Pri Rev War

Act: [illegible] 7" 32
Index: -- Vol. 1, Page 24
[Arrangement of 1870.}