Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1846, Samuel Chance, N.C.
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Service
N.C.

Chance, Samuel

Number
R.1846

Contents
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[crossed out- Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873]
[stamped] REJECTED

1846

P.O.  Samuel Chance

Service: ______

Enlisted:___________, 18
Discharged: ________, 18

Application filed:______, 18

Alleges:_______

Re-enlisted:_____________

Attorney:___________
P.O.__________

__Recognized. _______Contract
____Cert of Dis. Searched for ______, 18.
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29.482
Samuel Chance
Indiana

Rejected served only 5months see letter 10 Feb. 1834 to Hon. James McCarty HR

for veracity and their belief as to your service as a Soldier of the revolution. And, I know of many here who can state as Benj = Morrison and James Lovin, have done in the the foregoing affidavit that these two were deemed sufficient and no one of them being a clergyman - I am unable to get the affidavit of any
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State of Indiana}
Count of Wayne} SS. On this 25th day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared before me Nathan Smith, sole judge of the probate Court of Record, at his room he being confined to the same on account of sickness and disease, Samuel Chance resident of Wayne County & State of Indiana, aged eighty six years who being first duly affirmed according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
I was born in Queen Ann County in the State of Maryland in the year 1748 where I lived til I was about four years old when I moved with my father to North Carolina & settled there between Neuse & Trent Rivers where I lived six or 7 years and then moved again into part of the country since called Wayne County where I continued to reside til 1779 where I was drafted to serve five months in the malitia of North Carolina. I soon repaired to Kingstown on Neuse River and was under the command of Gen'l. Ash [Ashe] Gen'l Briant and an officer by the name of Blunt - my Capt. was John Canada and my Lieut. - Capt. was Jacob Hooks - Wm. Caswell son of Governor Caswell and Stringer McAlwain volunteered their services as at the same time and embodied with the troops at the same place - We remained at Kingstown a few days and then we marched to Elizabethtown on Cape Fear River where we remained a few days - We then marched towards Charlestown in South Carolina but on the way I was taken with a disease called Quinsey [Quinsy] and after seventeen days I was so recovered that I started in company with "Capt. " Spruel and another Captain and their company's to go to the army again which we overtook ta the bluffs on Savannah river, The army in the meantime having been to Charlestown and received arms &c was then marching to Augusta in Georgia at which place we arrived and staid three days as near as I can recollect - The enemy had left augusta a few days before and gone down to Brier [Briar] Creek passed over and burned the bride - We marched down brier Creek and commenced rebuilding the bridge - in the mean time the enemy passed up the Creek and crossed over and
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marched down towards the bridge again - General Ash [Ashe] had been absent a day and night and when he returned to camp he ordered the light horse to go out between the Piquet guard and the army and fire off their guns and put them in order. They went out and a firing commenced supposed by us to be the light horse but enemy soon came upon us - Blunt ordered us to Stand while he would go for orders - he soon returned and cried no orders and a retreat commenced across the Creek - thence down to Savannah River crossed that River and a part of the army collected at a place called the White house - thence we marched to Coosahatchy [Caloosahatchee] where Gen'l. Ash met us again - he was charged by Bryant, Caswell and McAlwain of bringing the disaster at Brier Creek upon the army and I know not what became of him - We marched from Coosahatchy to purysburgh [Purrysburg] where all who had clothes and arms joined Gen'l. Lincoln and the remnant were put under the command of adjutant Taylor to be taken home and discharged heir term of five months service having nearly expired. I do not know whether I received a written discharge or not but if I did I have lost or mislaid it - I cannot tell what Regiment or line I belonged to or any officers except those already named above - I went into the army in the fall of 1779 and was discharged in the Spring of 1780 and believe I served out the time of five months for which I was drafted - I have a record of my age copied from a record made in a book by my father. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on any pension roll of any Agency in any State I know of no person who can testify to my services now living. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me. [Signatures]
Nathan Smith    Samuel Chance

We Benjamin Moorman and James Lovin of Wayne county hereby certify that we were well acquainted with Samuel Chance while he lived in Wayne County North Carolina and and are well acquainted with him here where he now lives, that we believe him to be Eighty six years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided and where he now resides to have been a
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soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me  {Signatures]
Nathan Smith  Benjamin Moorman X his mark
James Lovin

And the said Nathan Smith judge of the aforesaid Court does hereby declare his 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 said Judge further certifies that it appears to him that Benj Moorman and James Lovin who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the County of Wayne & State of Indiana and are credible persons and that their statement is worthy of credit.
[Signature] Nathan Smith

State of Indiana} I Sam'l Hannah Clerk of the 
Wayne County} SS.  Probate Court of County of Wayne do hereby Certify that the above named Nathan Smith Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration has been subscribed and sworn to was at the time the same appeared to have been subscribed sole Judge of the said Wayne Probate Court. And that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In Testimony whereof I hereby subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court this 258th day of January A. D. 1834
[Signature] Sam'l. Hannah C. W. C.

The following questions were then put and answered by the claimant to wit - 
Ques") Where and in what year were you born?
Ans") In Queen Ann County State of Maryland in 1748
Ques") Where were you living when called into Service?
Ans") In Wayne County N. Carolina
Ques") Have you  any record of your age and if so where is it?
ns") I have in a boo in my possession
Ques") Where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live?
Ans") I lived in Wayne County N. Carolina til 1797 as near as I can recollect when I moved to Richmond County N. Carolina where
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I continued to live til the fall of 1831 when I moved to Wayne County Indiana where I now live
Ques") How were you called into Service &c
Ans") I was drafted
Ques") Sate the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops where you served such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
Ans") I cannot recollect any officers except those mentioned in my Declaration and I have forgotten the names of all the Regiments which I was acquainted with - The general circumstances of my services are mentioned in my Declaration as far as I can recollect
Ques") Did you ever receive a discharge from the service &c
Ans") I have forgotten whether I received a written discharge or not but if I did it was from Adjutant Taylor and is lost
Ques") State the names of persons to whom you are acquainted in your neighbourhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief as to your services as a Soldier of the revolution
Ans") I know of many here who can state as Benj. - Moorman and James Lovin have done in the foregoing affidavit but these two were deemed sufficient and no one of them being a clergyman - I am unable to get the affidavit of any
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Letter to Hon. Andrew Kindly Apl 22 1841
Letter Hon A. J. Harlow July 16 1851
1846

Act 1832
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Washington
April 13th 1846

Sir
Will you have the kindness to inform me if there is a file in your office a claim of Samuel Chase for  services rendered the private is a drafted soldier. What is the condition of said claim? If disallowed in which part? and whether there has been any subsequent  [illegible] on the subject claim.
With of regard for you &c
[Signature] N. Kennedy

J.L. Edwards
Com. of Pen.
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July 6/30

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N. Car. 
will the papers be copied
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House of Reps.
July 9, 1858

I desire a copy of the papers in the case of Samuel Chance, a soldier in the Revolutionary war. and the person to whom I direct your attention this morning - 
Very respectfully,
Your obt. srvt.
A.J. Harlow [Signature]

Hon
J. L. Edwards

Indiana Case
act June 7. '32
Susp'd or rejected