Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 449-100, Jacob Flanders, N.H.
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Service
N.H.

Flanders, Jacob

Number B.L.Wt 449-100
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No 449

Jacob Flanders
N. Hampshire

Wt issued 28th Feb 1809
& del'd to J Fisk Esq
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The Deposition of Eunice Chase testified and
saith that she was well acquainted with
since Prince Flanders family and that
Jacob Flanders son of sd Prince Flanders
was a little short of twenty years old when
he was killed in the Battle at Stillwater
that I heard him the said Jacob say that he
was enlisted for during the war and that
it was the general conversation in the
family that he was enlisted for the war
and that I saw some of his clothes that
was sent home with all holes in them
and stained with blood and that it was
the Common talk that he was killed in Battle
I also testify that John Flanders Saml
Harden Elizabeth Goodwin & Ruth Colby
are the only heirs of Prince Flanders
father to Jacob Flanders
Berlin 6th 1802
[signature] Eunice Chase

State of Vermont
Orange County
[illegible] Oct 16th 1808
Enice Chase personally appeared and after being carefully examined
and duly cautioned made Solemn Oath that the
foregoing Deposition by her subscribed
is the truth and nothing but the truth
Before me 
[signature] Nathan Carpenter Jus Peace
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[illegible]
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Hannah Flanders testifies and say
that such land was about twenty years old when
he was killed in the Battle at Stillwater and that
according to the best of her information at that time
he was enlisted during the war - and also testifies
that John Flanders Saml Flanders Elizabeth Goodwin
and Ruth Colby are all the heirs of Prince Flanders
father to the above named Jacob Flanders
Berlin Octr 16th 1808
[signature] Hannah Flanders

State of Vermont
Orange County ss
Berlin Cott 16th 1808-
Hannah Flanders personally
appeared after being carefully Examine and ┃
duly cautioned made Solemn Oath that the fore
going Deposition the truth and nothing
but the truth
Before me [signature] Nathan Carpenter Jus P
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Know all
men by these presents that by
Virtue of the power of John Flanders
date I the said Reuben Carpenter mentioned
in said Power do hereby constitute & appoint
James Fisk Esq of Barry County of Orange
& State of Vermont my true & lawful
attorney for me to apply for & obtain the
lands mentioned in said
Flander's Power
to me the subscriber & to do & transact any
other matter or thing relating to the same
that I could
transact of do were I person ally present,
[illegible]
confirming [illegible]
may in the premises

In witness witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & seal this 12th day of Oct
1808
[signature] Reuben Carpenter
In presence of us
[signature] Wm McCurdy
[signature] Alexr Morrison J.
 

State of Ohio
Franklin County
Personally appeared Reuben Carpenter Signer &
Sealer of the foregoing
testement & acknowledge
the same to be his per act & Deed  
[signature] Alexr Morrison Justice of the Peace
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State of Ohio Franklin County 
 I Lucas Sullivant Clerk of
the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin County do hereby
certify that Alexr Morrison Jr Esqr before whom the foregoing acknowledgment of Reuben Carpenter
was taken is now and was at the date of taking the same a Justice of the peace duly
commissioned in and for the County aforesaid and to all whose of
final acts full faith and credit is due and ought to be given
as well in Courts of Justice as thereout. In Testimony whereof
have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal
of said County this 16th day of January 1809
[signature] Lucas Sullivant Clerk
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Jacob Flanders Corporal Cob Haly Regiment
Capt Drew's Company
New Hampshire Line appears
to have enlisted 14th Nov 1776 for the War
and is registered as dead 15th October 1777
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I Moses Chase of Warfield County of Chittenden
State of Vermont & of lawful age testify & say
that I was a soldier in the Regiment commanded by Col J. Scilly N Hampshire line, of the Continental army
at Saratoga in the year
1777 & was well acquainted with Jacob Flanders a soldier in Capt Drews Company
the same Reg
know that sd Jacob
was wounded in engagement with the enemy at Bemis heights on the 7th day of Oct 1777 of
which wound he died in a few days after
further the with not 
[signature] Moses Chase

State of Vermont
Orange County
October 12th 1808 then
personally appeared Moses
Chase
Signer to
the above deposition after being duly examined & continued under solemn oath to the [illegible] of the above deposition by him subscribed before me
[signature] Nathan Carpenter Jus Peace
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M Chase
Deposition