Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20858, Nathan Chandler, Continental Mass
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SERVICE
Continental 
Mass   

Chandler, Nathan  
Lucy

NUMBER
W. 20858
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14,200
New York
Nathan Chandler
of Potsdam in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Whitcomb of the Massachsetts line, for the term of 10 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 27 of Apr 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 of Sept 1820[?] and sent to Russell Atwater Judge [illegible] Lawrence Co of N York
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819  $130.13  SEmi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820  48  $178.13
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818
Discontinued [in pencil]
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March 1835 to 19 May 1835, the day of his death agt notified 26 March 1839
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2300
New York Albany
Lucy Chandler
Mrs
widow of Nathan Chandler
who was a Private
in the [illegible] line
for 10 months
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
33 Dollars + 33 
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 
20th day of October 1843
and sent to
B G Baldwin
Pottsdam
N. York
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book [illegible]
Vol./Page 103.
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Nathan Chandler
Mr. Ford
[illegible]
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On this ninth day of January 1821 personally  appeared in open Court, being the Court of Common pleas held in and for the County of St Lawrence State New York which is a Court of record. Nathan Chandler of Potsdam in said County, aged sixty three years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820 then he the said Nathan Chandler enlisted for the term of one year about the first of February in the year 1776 in the State of Massachusetts in the Company command- ed by Capt. Aaron Hayns, the Regiment commanded by Col. Whitcomb in the line of the State of Massachusetts, on the Continental Establishment, and he continued to serve in the said Corps untill the last day of December 1776 when he was discharged from said service in Ticonderoga in the State of New York and that he served at several other times as particularly set forth in the declaration that he made before Russell Attwater on the 27th day of April 1818 on which he  received a Certificate from Secretary of War, as pensioner, dated September 16, 1819 number 15.206 And  in pursuance of the Act of the 1st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day March 1818, and that I have not  since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby  to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions
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of an Act of Congress entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land the naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War passed on the 10th March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or Debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. ____
Schedule [in 2 columns]
1. Horse - - - $45.0- 
1. Saddle ---      6.0
2. Cows - - -     30.0
6. sheep - - -     7.50
2. swine - - -      4.0
1. old cutter - - - 5.0
1. Table - - -       2.0
8. Chairs - - -     3.0
1. work stand -  2.0
1. Looking glass - 3.0
                     _________
                          107.50
Amount brought up 107.50
1. Trunk - - -                 1.0
2. Chests - - -               1.50
1. Case with draws -  -  2.0
1. Brass Kettle -            4.0
1. Iron [illegible] -         3.0
1. Pot - -                     0.25
2. small kettle -          1.25
1. spider           -        0.50
1. Tea kettle  -           0.50
8. knives & forks   -   1.0
         ____________________
As valued by Court  $122.50

I have in my possession under a Contract made with the proprietors of the Town of Potsdam 104. Acres and 98/100 of Land, dated Sept. 23, 1816 conditioned that if I pay them $787.35/100 in five annual instalments with interest annually, he was to have Deed of it, but I have not paid any part of said sum. __ I have had cleared about 40. Acres cleared, a Log House (in which I live) and a Barn built on the same - worth nothing in the opinion of the Court. - My Family consists of myself aged Sixty three much afflicted with the rheumatism, so as not able to labour, my occupation has been that of a Farmer - my Wife aged 57, 1 Daughter, aged 24, named Roxa - 1 Son named Ira aged 20. 1 Son named James 15 years old. - 1 Son named Freeman 12. yrs old - Ira the eldest Son of course leaves me in a few months, being nearly of age the labors of the other two are all that I have to depend on and am liable to be sent off from the Land I am on at the pleasure of the Landlord or owners of them and I have no other means of living but the labour of those Children, they
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being labourers on Farm. -
Nathan Chandler [signature]

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 9th day of Jan'y 1821 -
Before me 
Joseph York Clk. [signature]

State of New York
St Lawrence County ss. } 
[seal]
I Joseph York clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and Clerk of the County of St Lawrence do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of this Court and further that it is the opinion of the Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the said schedule is one hundred and twenty two dollars and fifty cents ---
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 12th day of Jan'y 1821.
Joseph York Clk  [signature]
Wm Strachan [illegible]  [signature]
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In the matter of 4199 Lucy Chandler 
application for pension under Act of July 1838 Widow of Nathan Chandler

3023
[illegible] 1786
[illegible] 1835

Admitted 
Private 10 months

B.G. Baldwin
Potsdam N. Y. 
agent -
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Extract from the records of the Town of Hardwick,
Worcester County, State of Massachusetts - taken from Book first, page 519 -
Nathan Chandler of Rochester in the state of Vermont and Lucy Wing of Hardwick, Published April sixteenth seventeen hundred eighty six.
On page 452 of the same Book in this Record,
"A list of Marriages Consummated by Paul
Mandell [illegible] since February" second seventeen hundred eighty six."
Immediately after the foregoing entry on the Record, there follows a list of eleven marriages with no date annexed to any of them except the first in said list. The ninth entry in said list is as follows, "Nathan Chandler of Rochester and Lucy Wing of Hardwick."
Immediately following said list is the following entry, to wit,
"A list of marriages consummated by Paul Mandell [illegible] since June Nineteenth seventeen hundred eighty seven.
State of Massachusetts, Hardwick Town Clerks office
County of Worcester October 18th 1839
I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Record from the Record of Publishments, and from the Record of Marriages in said office, now in my custody as Town Clerk of said Hardwick, with the exception of the [illegible] which are expressed in the Record in fair legible figures as follows: In the Publishment, "April 16, 1786." - In the date prefixed to the first list of marriages from which the extract is taken, the date is similarly expressed as follows: "Feby 2nd 1786," and the date prefixed to the next following list of marriages is also similarly expressed as follows: "June 19, 1787."
Attest Joseph Stone, Clerk of said town,
of Hardwick for the year 1839
I, Joseph Stone, above named, depose and say, that I have the office of Clerk of the Town of Hardwick
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in the County, Town and state aforesaid and that the foregoing are three copies from the recorder of Publishment and from the Recorder of marriages in said office now in my custody or Town Clerk of said Hardwick with the exceptions above named, as certified by me.
Joseph Stone, Clerk of said Hardwick [signature]

Subscribed and sworn to this nineteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, Before me, 
Gardner Ruggles Jus. Peace. [signature]

I certify that the above named Deponent is irrefutable as a man of truth. 
Gardner Ruggles J.P. [signature]


Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester, Ss
I, Charles G Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify that Gardner Ruggles is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified - and that the above signatures of the named are true and genuine.

In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court, this twenty second day of October, one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-eight.  
Chas. G. Prentiss, Register [signature]

[seal]
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of 7th July 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" - 
State of New York ss
St. Lawrence County
On this second 3rd day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before Hon. Horace Allen one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, Lucy Chandler a resident of the town of Potsdam in said County of St Lawrence and State of New York, aged seventy seven years on the thirteenth day of November last who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress [illegible] July 7th 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," that she is the widow of Nathan Chandler, who was a private in the Revolutionary Army, that the said Nathan served about three years in the Revolutionary War, as she has always understood from him.  She was not acquainted with him until after the war and does not know what period of the war he was enlisted. The name of his officers she does not recollect except that she understood he served for a time in Capt. Aaron Hayne's Company and Col. Whitcomb's Regt, that she supposes he enlisted as a volunteer in the State of Massachusetts, and served as a private in the Continental Army.   That he drew a pension for his services under the Act of 1818 of eight dollars [illegible] month, his pension certificate being dated September 16th 1819.  She further declares that she was married to the said Nathan Chandler early in the year 1786.  She does not precisely recollect the time in the year
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that her husband the aforesaid Nathan Chandler died on the 19th day of May 1835, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above stated.  She further saith that she was born on the 13th day of November 1761 at Cape Code in the State of Massachusetts, that her father's name was Wing, that she moved when she was five years old to Hardwick, Mass.  That she lived there when she was married to the said Nathan that she was married by one Mendel, a Justice of the Peace of the Town of Hardwick, and in a fortnight after was removed with her said husband to Rochester, in the State of Vermont where she resided until 1817, when she removed to Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York where she still resides.  This deponent further saith that she has no record of her age or marriage that she has a paper containing a record of her own children taken principally from the town Clerk office of said town of Rochester and certified to by the Town Clerk.  That the following is a copy of said record.  "The record of Mr. Nathan Chandler's children taken March 10, 1780, Freelove, the daughter of Nathan Chandler and Lucy his wife was born at Rochester Nov. 27th, 1787.
Lucy the daughter of Nathan Chandler and Lucy his wife was born at Rochester Jany. 28th 1790. 
Jim Clements Town Clerk. 
Nathan, the son of Nathan Chandler and Lucy his wife was  born March 7th 1792.  Jim Clements Town Clerk- 
Chester Cotton was born March 4, 1794.
Rocey was born July 24, 1796.
Daniel was born July 16, 1798.
Ira was born September 28, 1800
Naomi was born July 28, 1802.
Recorded Feby 14, 1804 Enoch Emerson Town Clerk
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"The foregoing is a copy of the original record now in the Town Clerk's Office in Rochester Vermont:
Attest J.W. Willard Town Clerk [signature]

"James was born Feb. 2. 1805
Freeman was born Feb. 2, 1808,"

This deponent further declares that at the time of the death of her said husband, there was due a balance of his pension for two months and fifteen days, which she never has obtained, that the pension certificate of her said husband has consequently never been given up, that she is about to make the necessary papers for obtaining the said balance and wishes to retain the said certificate to sent to the Agency Office for that purpose that the said certificate is in these words-

"War Department
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 18th March 1818. Nathan Chandler, late a Private in the Army of the Revolution is inscribed on the Pension List Roll of the New York Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the twenty seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen"

"Given at the War office of the United States, this sixteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
L.S. 
J.C. Calhoun [signature]
Secretary of War."

She further saith that she knows of no documentary or other evidence of her said husband's services in the Revolutionary war, she believes he enlisted as a volunteer, but is not certain she cannot tell when he enlisted, nor under
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sections of country he marched but she refers the Department to the evidence obtained by her said husband when he was placed upon the Pension List and which she supposes is on file in the records of the Department.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before Horace Allen First Judge of St Lawrence County Counts
Lucy X Chandler 
her mark
  State of New York
Lawrence County
SS:
I Horace Allen First Judge of the County Courts of said County do hereby certify that Lucy Chandler named in the foregoing declaration subscribed the same by marking her mark in my presence, alleging that she was unable to write by reason of bodily infirmity.  And I further certify that for the same reason, and on account of her advanced age, I believe she is unable to attend a court of record personally for the purpose of making her declaration without injury to her health, the Court sitting
about thirteen or fourteen miles from her
place of residence, and I further certify that
I have been well acquainted with the said Lucy
Chandler and her husband Nathan Chandler
deceased for more than fifteen years past and
until the death of the said Nathan and believe the
statement of the said Lucy entitled to the fullest Credit
Decr 3. 1838.
Horace Allen First Judge
St Lawrence County Courts.
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State of New York
St Lawrence County SS
Ammi Currier of Potsdam in said County being sworn saith that
he is aged 74 years, and is well acquainted with
Lucy Chandler named in the foregoing declaration. That Nathan Chandler also therein
named, and this deponent resided near
each other and worked together in Rochester
in the State of Vermont in 1784 and 1785
In the winter or spring of 1786 said Nathan
went to Hardwick in the State of Massachusetts
as this deponent understood & believed, and
married the said Lucy (whose maiden
name was Wing) and brought her to Rochester
aforesaid and they resided there in the same
neighborhood with this neighborhood until he removed to
Potsdam aforesaid which was about
thirty years ago; and after a few years, the said Nathan
and Lucy removed also to Potsdam and lived in
the neighborhood with this deponent until the
said Nathan died which was in May 1835, and
the said Lucy, being now his widow lives in the same
neighborhood, with her son Chester C
Chandler. This deponent says he has ever since
the year 1786 been well acquainted with the said
Nathan and Lucy and with all their children,
and he verily believes they were lawfully
married in the year 1786, and that the
aforesaid declaration of the said Lucy which
he has heard read is correct. Said Nathan
drew a pension under the act of March
1818 for several pass before he died, and
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this deponent also draws a pension under the
act of June 7, 1832
Sworn before me this
13th day of December
[illegible]
===
1838 before me
Benjamin G. Baldwin
Justice Peace
I am well acquainted with
said Ammi Currier
believe him to a person
of truth & veracity.
B.G. [illegible]
State of New York
St Lawrence County ⎬ SS
I Alvin C Low Clerk
of said County hereby
certify that Horace Allen was on the third
day of December instant and now is First
Judge of the County Courts of said County
and that I am well acquainted with his
handwriting and believe his signature
to the foregoing jurat and certificate is in each
case genuine, also that Benjamin G. Baldwin
is and was at the time when the above affidavit
of Ammi Currier purports to have been taken
a Justice of the Peace of said County duly
qualified and that his signature to the jurat
is his genuine hand writing with which I am
well acquainted
In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my ┃
hand & affixed the seal of
said County this 19th
day of December in the year
1838
A [illegible]
M
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION
3--525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSION.
Washington, D. C.,         , 192_

In reply to your request of _______, for the history of Nathan Chandler, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, the following is taken from the S & W claim for pension.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
Mar. 1, 1776 to Jan 1, 1777

RANK
Pvt

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
Captain Aaron Hayns
Colonel  Whitcomb

STATE
Mass.

DATES OF ENLISTMENENT OR APPOINTMENT
July 1777 - Sep. 11, '77

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
Capt. Stockwell
Colonel Cushing

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
Sept 24, 1777 to Oct. 18 '77

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
Capt. Ney
Colonel Doolittle

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
Augs 10 1780 to Nov 1, 1780

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
Capt. Grout
Colonel Dallett

Battles engaged in     None stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment     enl in Barra, Mass.
Date of application for pension,  Apl 27, 1818 - al.
Residence at date of application, Potsdam, St. Lawrence Co., NY

Age at date of application,  60
Remarks:  He arrm "Early in 1786" in Hardwick, Mass.  Lucy Wing b. Nov. 13, 1761 at Cape Cod, Mass; he d. May 19, 1835 & she was al. pension on an ap ex Dec. 3, 1838 while res. in Potsdam, NY.  Children all b. in Rochester. Freelane b. Nov. 27, 1787; Lucy b. Jan. 28, 1790; Nathan b. Mar. 7, 1792; Charles Cotton b. Mar. 4, 1794; Rocey (or Roxa) b. July 24, 1796; Daniel b. July 16, 1798; Ira b. Sept 28, 1800; Naomi b July 28, 1802; James b. Feb. 2, 1805; Freeman b Feb. 2, 1808.

Respectfully,


Commissioner.


Government Printing Office
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Nathan Chandler

James Conant's 
affadvit

Mass line
Colo. Whitcomb
1 March 1776
1 Jany 1777


Services probved
Admd

Admitted
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St Lawrence County }
State New York } ss     On this twenty seventh day of April 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of St. Lawrence State of new York, Personally appear Nathan Chandler aged Sixty years; resident in the town of Potsdam in the said County of St. Lawrence who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, that he the said Nathan Chandler, enlisted in the Town of Barre in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the first of March 1776 in the company commanded by Capt. Aron (sic) Haynes, and joined Collonel (sic) Witcomb' (sic) regiment at Boston about first April and continue to serve in said corps, in the service of the United States until the first of January following, when he was dismissed from service in Ticontaroga (sic) State of new York, that he joined the American Army at Bennington in July 1777 in the company commanded by Capt. Stockwell, belonging to Collo. Busihing' regiment, that he continued to serve in sd (said) company until the first of September following when he was dismissed from service at Bennington State of Vermont, that he again joined the United States Army, at Saratoga, about the 24th of September 1777 in the company commanded by Captain
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Captain Nye in Collo. Doolittle' regiment, that he continued in service in said company until the eighteenth day of October 1777 when he was dismissed from service, at Saratoga, State New York, that he enlisted in the Town of Liecester (sic) common wealth of Massachusetts on the first of August 1780 in the company commanded by Captain Grout in the Regiment commanded by Collonel Hallett that he joined said regiment on the 10th August at NewPort Rhoad Island (sic), continued to serve in the said corps, in the United States service until the first of November following when he was dismissed from service at NewPort in the State of Rhoad Island (sic) that he was in a battle at Fort Millar and was paid for all the foregoing services in continental bills issued by the Congress of the United States, and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
(Signed) Nathan Chandler

Sworn to subscribed and declared before me the day and year aforesaid 
(Signed) Russell A. Attwater

I Russell Attwater one of the Judges of the court of Comm. Pleas in and for the County of St. Lawrence and State o New York, do certify, that it appears t  my satisfaction that the said Nathan Chandler did serve in the revolutionary war as stated the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned act of Congress
(Signed) Russell Attwater
(illegible)ville  July 3, 1818
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Commonwealth of Masachusetts.

WORCESTER, ss.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of Judicial Courts holden within and for said County of Worcester, certify, that Eleazer James Esquire, before whom the annexed affidavits have been made, is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that his name subscribed thereto is his own proper signature. 

IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, this seventh day of July, A.D. 1819.
(Signed) Abijah Bigelow, Clk

Application of }
Nathan Chandler }
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I James Conant of Oakham in the County of Worcester, & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, just sworn testify and say that Nathan Chandler, formerly of Barre, in the County aforesaid, now of Potsdam in the County of St. Lawrence & State of New York, sometime in the month of of January A.D. 1776 enlisted in the company of Capt. Aaron Haynes, in Col. Whitcomb's regiment as a private soldier in the war of the Revolution for one year, that he served until the first of January A.D. 1777 when he was discharged at Ticonderoga. 
(Signed) James Conant

Worcester Co. July 6th 1819  Personally appeared James Conant & made oath to the affidavit above by hi subscribed.  Before me Eleazar James  Justice of the Peace

(Seal hand drawn)

Worcester ss.  July 6, 1819  I hereby certify that James Conant above named is a person of veracity & that his affidavit is entitled to full faith & credit.
(Signed) Eleazar James, Justice of the Peace
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I Lemuel Robinson of Bar[r]e in the County of
Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, yeoman [?]
testify & say, that Nathan Chandler, formerly of Bar[r]e
aforesaid, new of Potsdam in the County of St. Lawrence
in the state of New York, about the first
of January A.D. 1776, enlisted into Capt. Aaron
Haynes company, Cap. Whitcomb's Regiment,
& serve as a private soldier in the war of
the Revolutions for the term of campaign,
& that he continued in said Service until
January A.D. 1777, when he was
discharged. I enlisted in said Haynes
company at same time with said
Chandler, & we were both discharged
at the end of the year for which was engaged

Lemuel Robinson
Worcester Ss July 6th 1819. personally appeared Lemuel
Robinson & made oath to the truth of the foregoing
affidavit by him subscribed.

Before me-Eleazar James, Justice of the Peace
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Worcester Ss. July 6, 1819. I hereby certify that
Lemuel Robinson, within record is
a person of veracity, & that the affidavit
by him subscribed is entitled to
full faith and credit.
Eleazar James Just. Peace

I Russell Attwater one of the Judges of the Court
of Common pleas in and for the County of Saint
Lawrence, and State New York, do certify, that 
since the return of this declaration of Nathan
Chandler, from the Se[c]retary for the department of
war for "proof of Service", I have received the
affidavits of James Conant and Samuel Robinson
which are now annexed to the 5th declaration, and I
also have examined the said Nathan Chandler again
on Oath, and he declares that the difference of the date
as to his enlistment, between his declaration and the
affidavits, is owing to his takeing the time of
his being marched, from Barre, to join the regiment
(which was about the 5th March,,) to be the time of his
enlistment, but on further reflection he's convinced
that he did enlist as stated in the affidavits in
the month of January from the examination
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examination of this Nathan Chandler and this
affidavits. It appears to my satisfaction that the
said Nathan Chandler did serve in the revolutionary War
as stated in the preceding declaration
and affadavits, against the common enemy, and
that from his reduced circumstances, he needs
the assistance of his country for support
and I now transmit the proceeding and [illegible] taken and had before me, to the secretary for the department of War pursuant
the directions of the aforementioned act of
Congress [illegible] July 20th 1819-
Russell Attwater
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
---
File No. 20858
Lucy Chandler
wid of
Nathan Chandler
Priv Rev. War
---
Act March 3d 1/43
Index: Vol. A, Page 132
Arrangement of 1870.]

1923, May 10 hist to Raymond E Van Syckle - E
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Albany 3023
Lucy Chandler
widow of Nathan Chandler
who was a pensioner under the Act of March 1818
and who died on the 19th May 1835
of St. Lawrence Co in the State of N York
who was a Private in the -- commanded by captain -- of the Regt commanded by Col. Whitcomb in the Mass line for 10 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of May
1839 and sent B.G. Baldwin
Potsdam, NY.

Arrears to the 4th of March '39.           99.99 
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep. 16.66
$116.65

Act July 7, 1838
Recorded by D. Brown.    Clerk
Book A Vol. 2 Page 72
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New York MCH '26
___________
Nathan Chandler.

Private.
1776 ten months.
__________
Aged 66 years by verification a farmer
unable to pursue the same being afflicted
with the rheumatism. Wife aged
60 years, Daughter aged 26 years, 2 sons
ages 17 & 16 years his eldest son is in 
very bad health and unable to labor
and has been under the care of a Physician
for one year.
Schedule dated 9 January 1821.
Real property 104 98/100 acres of land obtained
from the properties of the town of
Pastdue [?] by contract. Conditioned that he
was 
to pay them $787 38/`00 in fine and 
enstatements with interest, per the fulfillment
thereof he was to have a deed for
said land but he has not paid any
part of a sum. He has cleared about 40
acres of a land and built a log house
thereon in which he lives [illegible] a barn
which the court has gave it there opinion
to be worth nothing.
Personal Property - 1 Horse, 1 Saddle, 2 cows,
6 sheep, 2 swans. Household & Kitchen
furniture in all value at $122.50
no debts due to him. 

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Schedule under Act March 1823
dated 17 October 1823.
Real property. He has since been
making his 1 Schedule paid towards one
[illegible] parcel of 104 98/100 acre
land, Investing of 41.16/100 acres as 
sum amounting to scarcely the interest
[illegible] on the purchase money of the sd
parcel of 41 16/100 acres which purchased
money amounts to $308.70 and a small
part of the interest thereon still remains due and unpaid and the sd
parcel of Land embraces the aforesaid
House and Barn and about 26 acres 
of the cleared land, but the time of 
payment for all of the sd last mentioned
purchase money has elapsed and
he has no contract for any longer
entrance [?] of possession of the sd last 
mentioned parcel of land.
Personal property valued by the court
$75.87 1/2.
2 cows sold and the money 
apportioned in the payments of debts
2 Sheep dead, 1 swans [illegible] and
consumed in his family, and a variety
of articles of Household & Kitchen furnished 
destroyed and lost. 
84.90

N.B. The names of the creditors and amts
pd in each mentioned in his schedule
M.B. Hitchcock Esq Albany, N Yk
April 12, 1826 Revd & Lent as above
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Albany N.Y
Nathan Chandler on soll act 1818 to what time period?
John Hany Esqr
VL
Died 19th May 1835 pt. that period
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PRESIDENT
WILLIAM P. HOLLIDAY
DETROIT
VICE-PRESIDENT
WILBERT H. BARNETT
ADRIAN
VICE-PRESIDENT
MILTON E. OSBORN
ANN ANBOR
SECRETARY
RAYMOND E. VAN SYCKLE
DETROIT

THE MICHIGAN SOCIETY
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
1729 FORD BUILDING
DETROIT, MICHIGAN

Registrar
FRANKLIN S DEWEY
DETROIT
CHAPLAIN
REV. CHARLES W. MERRIAM. D.D
GRAND RAPIDS
HISTORIAN
WILLIAM L. JENKS
PORT HURON
TREASURER
FRANK G SMITH
DETROIT

March 13, 1923

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Sir: --

Please furnish statement of Revolutionary
services and family data of--
Benjamin Johnson, bn Epping, N.H. 1753; died Knox Me. 1846.
wife Priscilla.
Enlisted May 1 1776 Capt Benj. Sias's: Col.
Thomas Stickney; Gen Stark's Brigade.
3 years private in N. H. line.
Placed on Pension Roll of Maine
Nathan Chandler, bn 23 Aug 1758; died Potsdam, N.Y.
9 May 1835; married 4/16 1785.
Drew a pension of $96. which his widow continued to receive up to 1840 at Potsdam, N.Y.
Yours truly
Raymond E. Van Syckle
Secy.
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2475
Declaration of
Lucy Chandler
for 1 yrs. pension under
the act of 3 March 1843
$33.33 per ann:
B.G. Baldwin
Potsdam, N. Y.
agent
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of
Congress of the 3rd March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July
7. 1838
State of New York
County of St Laurence

On this eighth day of June A.D. 1843 personally appeared before the undersigned Benjamin G
Baldwin a Justice of the Peace in & for
said County. Lucy Chandler a
resident of the town of Potsdam in the
County of St. Laurence aforesaid aged
eighty one years on the thirteenth day of
November last, who being first duly
sworn according to law, doth on her
oath, make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefits of the provision
made by the act of Congress
passed on the 3rd day of March 1843
granting pensions to widows of persons
who served during the revolutionary
war.
That she is the widow of Nathan
Chandler who was a private in the
Revolutionary war army that
he served for a time as has understood & believes in Capt Aaron
Hayne's Company in Col Whitcomb's
Regiment in the Continental army
enlisting as a private and a Volunteer in the State of Massachusetts.
She further says that her said husband
drew a pension of eight dollars.
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per month under the act of 1818
and she drew as his widow a
pension of thirty three Dollars thirty three cents
per annum under the act of July
7. 1838
and she further declares that
she is still a widow-
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Lucy M Chandler
Benjamin G. Baldwin
Justice Peace

I hereby declare that I am well
acquainted with the above named
Lucy Chandler have lived over
her for many years. know her
to be the widow of Nathan Chandler
deceased. a pensioner of the United States and I assisted her in obtaining her pension as his widow
Dated June 8th 1843 the said Lucy made her mark being unable to write by imprinting. Benjamin G. Baldwin
Justice Peace
State of New York
St. Lawrence County 
p: I, Alvin C. Low, Clerk
of the County of St. Lawrence, do hereby certify
that Benjamin G. Baldwin Esquire, before
whom the foregoing declaration of Lucy
Chandler purports to have been subscribed
and sworn, was at the time of taking said
declaration, a Justice of the Peace in and for
the said County duly elected and qualified
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and further that I am well acquainted
with the hand writing of the said Justice
of the Peace, and hereby believe that the signatures
to the certificate of the said declaration
are genuine. In testimony whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand, and affixed
the Seal of the said County,
the 9th day of June 1843

A.C. Low, Clk
By G.B. Eastman, D. Cek
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[top:]
NY Dec 31
4199
7 July 1838
Lucy Chandler

[sideways:]
[Circular stamp:]
POTSDAM NY
DEC 23

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

Application for a pension under the act of July 7, 1838.
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Potsdam N.Y. Dec. 22, 1838.
Sir,
Please examine the enclosed papers in the care of Mrs. Chandlers appication for a Pension under the act of July 7 1838 as soon as practicable and advise me of the result.
Yours Resply
B. G. Baldwin
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Treasury Department.
Second Comptroller's Office,
March 8th, 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The Widow of Nathan Chandler, a pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.Y. Agency, at the rate of eight Dollars [crossed out: and Cents] per [crossed out: annum] month, under the law of the 18th March, 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1835, to the 19th May, 1835, the day of his death.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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1.02  [crossed out: $1.00]
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.

[written sideways:]
2476
July 8, 1843
B
N.Y.
Mar 3d 1843
Cls.

[circular stamp:]
POTSDAM N.Y.
JUL 2
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[Reverse of preceding file 38:]
Potsdam N.Y. July 1, 1843.
The Pension Office will [illegible] examine the enclosed papers and send certificates of [illegible] to B. G. Baldwin
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1 March 1823
N.Y.
Nathan Chandler
Recd. 4 Nov: 1823
Mar 20

[sideways text:]
Free Free
Potsdam N.Y.
Oct. 23
Honbl. J. C. Calhoun Esquire
Secy. at War
Washington City

[upside down at bottom:]
Mr. Edwards
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Potsdam St. Lawrence county,
N. York Octr. 23. 1823.

Honbl J C Calhoun Esqr.
Secy. at War,
Sir, Enclosed is the Schedule of Nathan Chandler who applies to be restored to his pension.
He has sent several schedules upon which were considered deposition. Please have the goodness to write me in due time the result of his application.
Respectfully, Yr. Mo. Obdt. Servt.
Horace Allin
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Nathan Chandler
Hon: Wm. D. Ford
Reco. 24 Jany 1821
14206
Aged 63 years --
afflicted with Rheumatism
Service short [?]
not entitled
Suspended See letter to Hon Mr. Ford - Feb 1 1821
Sent to W. D. Ford July 16, 1821 Discond.
1 Schedule
Wife, aged 57 yrs.
Daughter 24 yrs.
sons 20 15 d 12 yrs old
Sched: $122.56
Has a contract for land, but has not [illegible] any money on [illegible]
Discontinued
Sent to W. D. Ford
July 16. 1821,. Waterstown

[sideways:]
J L Edwards Esq
Pension Office
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In the matter of Nathan Chandler Revolutionary claimant for pension.
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State of New York }
St. Lawrence County } Ss.
On this seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty three personally appeared in open court being the court of common pleas held in and for the county & state aforesaid being a Court of record, Nathan Chandler of Potsdam in Said County aged sixty six years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration (in order to obtain the provisions made by the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820) that he the said Nathan Chandler enlisted for the term of one year about the first of February 1778 in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Aaron Haynes in the Regiment commanded by Col. Whitcomb in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment and that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the last day of December in the said year 1776 when he was regularly discharged from said service at Ticondaroga in the State of New York and that his name had been placed on the pension list of the United States by a certificate from the War office numbered 14206 and dropt. thereupon on account of of his property and in pursuance of the Act of 1st May 1820--
I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale
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or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it or to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress Entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debt due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed
Schedule
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Real Estate Non except as hereinafter mentioned and esteemed to be of no certain value.
Personal Estate
-----------------
One horse 11 years old valued at | $30 |
One old saddle & Bridle | 5 |
One cow $15 four sheep $4 one swine $6 | 25 |
one old table $1 six old chairs $1.50 | 2.50 |
One stand table $1.00 Looking glass $1- | 2 |
One Trunk. 75 cents two old chests $1.50 | 2.25 |
One Brass Kettle $4. Broken iron pot 25 cents | 4.25 |
Two very small Iron Kettles 75 cent 1 broken iron spider 12 1/2 ct | 87 1/2 |
6 old worn knives & forks 37 1/2 cts an Earthen  dish 12 1/2 cts | .50 |
* Earthen plates 50 cts one old case Drawer $1 | 1.50 |
2 old hoes 50 cts one old axe 50 cts | 1 |
One iron kettle broken | 1 |
------------
| $75.87 1/2 |
The whole of which said personal property is estimated by me as well as by the said court at
[crossed out: Seventy five Dollars & eighty seven and a half cents]
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one Iron Kettle Broken 
$75.87

The whole of which said personal property is
estimated by me as well as by the said Court at
[crossed through "Seventy five Dollars & eighty seven and a half cents"]
Seventy five Dollars & eighty seven & a half
cents, besides the present year's produce
of the Land hereinafter mentioned,
raised thereon by Chester C. Chandler
(a son of mine 29 years of age) who has served
me as a Labour for 11 months last past
(including the Labor of raising said
produce under a contract with me
that he should receive & retain his wages
for such service out of such produce as
far as the same should intend and that
such wages are greatly due to him and remain
wholly unpaid amounting to about one
hundred and thirty two Dollars; and that
the said produce consists of about 45
bushels of Wheat in the sheaf which I estimate
at [crossed through "thirty"] $36. About 50 bushels of corn in the ear
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valued by me at [crossed through "twenty"] $20. About 12 Tons of hay valued by me at $60.  About 45 bushels of potatoes valued by me at $9. About 4 bushels of oats valued by me at $1 and about the value of $1.50 in Garden Sorell, the Said produce in the whole value by me at one hundred twenty [crossed through "Dollars"] Seven Dollars & fifty cents.

That since the exhibition of my first Schedule the following changes have been made in my property

Nathan Chandler [signature]
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[crossed through "the following changes have been made in my property"]
(viz)-Personal property mentioned in said first schedule
and either not inserted above or inserted at different values
& for what reason
_________________
Property in said first}
Schedule & values} Description of changes} Present Valuations
_________________
1 Horse then valued at $42} grown older & too high at first} now valued at $30-
1 Saddle & Bridle 46} worn Since} 5-
2 Cows 30-} 
{One cow sold since at $18 to 
{Nathaniel W. Chandler in consideration}
{of his paying a debt for me to}
{Ephraim D Briggs due before} $15-
date of first Schedule}
6 Sheep - 7.50 two since dead 4-
2 Swine - 4- one since killed for families use}
& other partly fatted} 6-
1 old cutter - 5. since worn out - 0.00
1 Table - 2 since broken - 1-
8 Chains - 3- two of them since broken - 1.50
1 work stand 2. High at first & worn since - 1-
1 Looking glass - 3- Since broken & new one since bought 1-
1 Trunk - 1-Too high at first-.75
1 Case Drawers 2- very old too high at first - 1-
1 Iron Kettle 3.- Since broken - 1-
2 Small Iron Kettles 1. 25 too high at first -.75
1 Spider -.50 Since broken - 12 1/2
1 Tea Kettle .50 since broken - 0/00
Knives & forks 1- Say used since - .37 1/2

___________
$113.75    $68.50 1/2
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I stated in my said first Schedule that I
was in possession of 104.98/100 acres of Land with
about forty acres cleared and a log house
& barn thereon, under a Contract for the purchase
of the same bearing date 23d September 1816, at
the price of $787.35 in five annual Instalments
with Interest annually but
that no part of said purchase money
had been paid. I have since paid
towards one separate parcel of said
Land consisting of 41 16/100 acres a sum
amounting to nearly the interest fallen 
due on the purchase money of the paid
home of 41 16/100 acres which purchase
money amounting to $308.70 with a small
part of the interest thereon still [illegible]
& unpaid, and the same parcel of
Land embrases the aforesaid house & Barn
and about 26 acres of the said cleared
Land, but that the time of payment of
for all of the said last mentioned purchase
money has elapsed, and I have no contract
for any larger continuum
of possession of the said last mentioned
parcel of Land, and am liable to be
turned out of such possession at any time
without any claim for a return of any part of
the said moneys paid towards the same. The residue of
the said 104 98/100 acres of Land I am under an
agreement to surrender up to the proprietors of whom
I purchased having paid nothing toward the same
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My family consists of myself afflicted with 
Rheumatism & infirmities of age so as to be unable
to labour my wife aged fifty nine years one
Daughter aged 26 years two sons one aged Seventeen
years & the other aged fourteen years the elder of
which two sons has been from ill health for
nearly one year last part & still is unable to labor
and has during most of that time been under the care
of Physicians whose bill for such care are about
fifty Dollars & remains wholly due & unpaid I have
Six other Children who are over 21 years of age &
have left me neither of whom are of sufficient
ability to assist me to the means of subsistence and
I am in circumstances that require and am actually
in need of assistance from my country for support
Nathan Chandler

I Myrtle B. Hitchcock Clerk of the County 
[crossed through "St. Lawrence New York"] & of the Court aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears to
the satisfaction of the Court that the said Nathan
Chandler did serve in the Revolutionary War 
as
stated in the preceding declaration against the common
enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement
on the continental establishment I also certify that the
foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed
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are truly copied from the records of the said Court And I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Seventy five Dollars eighty seven and a half cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this Seventeenth day of October 1823
Myrtle B. Hitchcock
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[left panel:]
Nathan Chandler
14.206 - Mar '20

off already

Comr [?]
J. L. E.

[right panel, sideways:]
6th day of June 1822
Myrtle B. Hitchcock Clk
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On the fifth day of June 1822 personally appeared in open Court, being the Court of Common Pleas held in & for the County of St. Lawrence, State Newyork, which Court is a Court of Record Nathan Chandler of Potsdam in said County of St. Lawrence, aged sixty four years & upward, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Provisions made by the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 & of the first of May 1820 that he the said Nathan Chandler enlisted for the term of one year about the 1st of February 1776 in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Capt. Aaron Hayns in the Regiment commanded by Coll. Whitcomb, in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment & that he continued to serve in the Corps until the last day of December 1776 when he was discharged from said service at Ticonderoga in the State of Newyork & that he served at several other times as particularly set for in the declaration that he made before Russel Atwater on the [crossed out: twenty]
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27th day of April 1818 on which he received a Certificate from the Secretary of War as a Pensioner dated September 16th 1819 number 14.206 and in pursuance of the act of the first May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my Property or any part thereof with an intent thereby so to diminish it so as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to Provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, passed on the 18th March 1818 & that I have not no[r] has any person in trust for me any Property or Securities contracts or debts due to me no[r] have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed as follows
Real estate none Personal one old horse ten years old, on old saddle & bridle, one cow 5 yr old - 4 sheep 1 hog 1 old table 6 old chairs one table stand, one small looking glass, one small trunk, two sorry old chests one brass Kettle one iron Kettle.
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but leaks having a hole through it, two sorry small iron Kettles, one spider legs broke off. 6 knives & forks, much worn, one earthan [earthen] dish & earthen Plates. One sorry old case of drawers two old hoes one ax
My family consists of myself, sorry infirm being afflicted with the Rheumatism so as not to be able to labour. Wife aged fifty eight one daughter living with us aged 25 unmarried who assists us to live what she can besides providing for herself two sone one sixteen the other thirteen years old. I have six other children that have left me, but not either of them in circumstances that they can assist me to live. the lands mentioned in my declaration made on the 9th of January 1821 and forwarded to the War office has since been taken from me and I have been under the necessity of parting with my personal property mentioned in that declaration and not in this to support me since then and have no means of living but by the labour of those two boys above mentioned & I am in circumstances that I require & are actually in need of the aid & assistance of my country for a support
(Signed) Nathan Chandler
Sworn & subscribed in open Court this fifth day of June in the year of our Lord 1822 
M. B. Hitchcock Clk.
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and the Court estimate the property of the above applicant at Sixty dollars and eighty eight cents.

State of New york }
St. Lawrence County Clerks office }
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a schedule & affidavit on file in this office that the original proceedings were had in open Court & the property contained in the said schedule valued by the said Court as is above mentioned.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of the said Court this 6th day of June 1822
Myrtle B. Hitchcock, Clk