Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,916, Nathaniel Chick, Penn
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(3 - 1776)

SERIVCE
Penn
1812 War
Chick, Nathaniel
NUMBER
R. 1916

CONTENTS
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State of New ork
Orange County

On this 2nd day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, personally appeared before the undersigned, a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county or Orange, Nathanial Chick, a resident of the town of Mount Hope in the county of Orange and state of New York, aged eighty years the twelfth day of October last, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the month of April seventeen hundred and seventy-six for the term of two years under the following named officers.

That he enlisted into a company of Pennsylvania regulars (illegible) by Captain Azariah Drake and served in the said company from the time of his enlistment until the month of October seventeen hundred and seventy-eight and with the regiment commanded by Col. Anthony Wayne. 

That he enlisted in the town of Bedford in the county of Bedford and in the state of Pennsylvania and that a few days after he enlisted the company of Capt. Drake, was ordered to march to a place called Standing Stone, about forty miles northwest from Bedford, to guard against the Indians who then infested the frontiers of the state and were continually committing depredations on persons and property of the frontier inhabitants.  At this place we remained until December of the said year, when we were ordered to march for Trenton, near which place we arrived about the thirtieth of the said month, and encamped near the river and remained encamped until the evening of the first day of January 1777.
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When we marched upon Trenton and attacked the Hessians at that place and had a pretty warm fight to drive the Hessians, some of them, into the river and made a number of prisoners in this action. which was fought on the second of January 1777.  This deponent was wounded in the arm and belonged to Col. Wayne's regiment.  

That on the sixth day of the aforesaid month, Captain Drake's company was ordered on what was called provost guard and was sent to a place called Battle Hill in the county of Morris in the state of New Jersey, with the prisoners taken at Trenton. And this deponent went with the company to the last (illegible) place, where they remained until the following spring.  He thinks that it was in May when they were (illegible) by a part of the seventh regiment near Captains Gonoe, St. Clair and Stills, and under the command of Major Thomas Hunt, when we were ordered to march toward Bennington in the state of Vermont.  

We marched as far up the Hudson as the Highlands and crossed the Hudson over to the east side, where we encamped for a short time.  While there the express met us and informed us that the battle at Bennington had been fought and the enemy was defeated.  

On hearing this news, we were ordered to extract ourselves and march again for New Jersey when. after marching and counter marching, we took up our winter quarters at Morristown in November of the said year and remained until the spring of seventeen hundred and seventy-eight, when we were again ordered to march and after marching through several places in New Jersey, which from old age and loss of memory, he cannot recollect, they arrived at Trenton where on the twelfth day of October 1778 this deponent received a written discharge from the army, written in the presence of this deponent and Lieutenant John Rolehack, and delivered to the deponent by Col. Anthony Wayne's own hand, which this deponent has preserved and which
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is now presented with this declaration, as witness to establish the claim of this deponent, and which discharge he does most solemnly declare is a true and genuine discharge given to this deponent by Col. Wayne himself and written with his own hand and delivered to this deponent in the Colonel's own (illegible) in the presence of Lieutenant Holehack as before stated, who is now dead, and which said discharge bears date October the twelfth day seventeen hundred and seventy-eight.

He further declares that the reason why he was not discharged when his time was out was because, at that time, he had a very bad swelling on his left shoulder, which was pronounced by the physician to be a white swelling and through the advice of the physician, whose name was John Mulford, he remained with the army until his shoulder was cured.  That after he got lame, he did not do duty as a soldier but had a place in the provisions department, where his duty was to make out provision rolls and which duty he performed until he was discharged by Col. Wayne, as before stated.  

That after his discharge, he returned to his father in the town of Bedford in the county of Bedford and in the state of Pennsylvania where he remained about one month, when he volunteered into a company commanded by Capt. Harrison Posey, Lieutenant Charles Bowyer for the term of six months and in the regiment under Col. Howell Lewis.  This service commenced in November of the last mentioned year in the town and county above mentioned.  From Bedford we went to Carlisle, where we remained at least two months, when this deponent enlisted into the regular army for one year or during the year under Captain St. Clair, Lieutenant Lewis and in the regiment under Col. Lewis.  From Carlisle we marched to Redbank on the Delaware River below Philadelphia where we remained some time.  From Redbank we marched to a place called Waterloo about
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eighteen miles from Baltimore.  After being at Waterloo some time we were ordered back to Burlington in New Jersey and from Burlington we went to Amboy in the service.  From Carlisle to Amboy we belonged to the army under the command of General Lafayette.  From Amboy we were ordered north and the company that this deponent belonged to was with Col. Wayne at the taking of Stoney Point.  

After we had been at Stoney Point about three days, the regulars were ordered to New Jersey again.  While in this service the deponent, a part of the time, done quarter master sergeant's duty and after he had been in this duty some time, he was appointed a lieutenant in Capt. St. Clair's company, and for at least three months done duty as adjutant's duty for Col. Lew's regiment.  Due to ill health he was obliged to take a furlough and return home.  This he did and received a furlough for six months, at the expiration of the six months, his health not returning, his furlough was renewed for six months more, when on account of the continuation of ill health, he sent his resignation to the commanding general, which was written some time in the month of October 1780.  In this service he had a lieutenant's commission which he kept with him until in October 1817, while riding quarantine at Staten Island, after a voyage from New Orleans to New York, he had his trunk broken open and all his property that it contained taken therefrom, together with his commission which he never afterward found. 

The reason why did not apply under the act of 1818 was because he was a man of property and was not entitled to the benefit of the said act. And he does most solemnly declare that the reason why he has not applied under the act of June 7th 1832, is that some years previous to 1817 he lived in Cincinnati in Ohio
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and that in April of the said year, he left Cincinnati for New Orleans and that from New Orleans he went to New York and never afterwards returned to Cincinnati.  That previous to his leaving Cincinnati and under the expectation of returning to that place again, he left his most valuable papers amongst which was the discharge now presented, with his sister who then lived in Cincinnati, but who is now dead.  That he wrote several times to Cincinnati for his discharge but could not obtain it until in the summer of eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.  And the reason why he could not obtain his discharge was that his sister had removed from Cincinnati into the northern part of Ohio.  On this deponent's learning where his sister had removed to, he started from Milford in Pennsylvania where he then lived, in the beginning of July eighteen hundred and thirty-eight and went to Ohio where he was able to find all his papers as he had left them, together with this certificate which he again declares is the discharge that was written by Col. Wayne's own hand and which he received from the hand of Col. Wayne in the Col's own (illegible).  He thinks that at the time he received this discharge Wayne acted as Brigadier General by (illegible) but still signed his papers as Col.  Of this fact, however, he will not be certain.  

That this deponent was born in the town of Bedford in the county of Bedford and the state of Pennsylvania on the twelfth day of October seventeen hundred and fifty-nine; that he knows of no record of is age as kept except a record now in his own possession, as kept by his mother while living, on a leaf of her hymnbook.  That he is not sufficiently acquainted with any clergyman in his neighborhood who can certify to his general character or to his belief of his having been a soldier, but that
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John W. Martin and William M. Martin are sufficiently acquainted with to testify to his general character for truth and veracity and for his reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolution; that since the Revolutionary war he has lived in Bedford in Pennsylvania, Cincinnati in Ohio from which place in the last war he went to the western frontier as a soldier as will more fully appear by the accompanying discharge received by this deponent from Col. John Miller of the 19th Ohio Regiment, which I present in support of my claim for service done under Anthony Wayne.  Since the last (illegible) he has resided in Cincinnati in Ohio, in (illegible) Essex County New Jersey in Milford in Pennsylvania and now resides in Mt. Hope in Orange County New York.

That he does not know of anyone living who can testify to his actual knowledge of his service but produces his discharge, which he has before mentioned, together with the discharge from Col. Mohn Mills of the 19th Ohio Regiment bearing date Nov. 21st 1816, and knows of no other record to support his claim.  He further declares that from old age and loss of memory, he is unable to state all the particulars as they transpired while he was in the army, but what he has herein stated is substantially true.  

That  he now relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity whatever, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll or agency in any state or territory in the Union and further from ill health he is unfit to attend the sittings of the court of record of the said county.

The words "seventeen" and "eight" were written on (illegible) and the words "Stones," "March," "his country," "remained there," were underlined before being

Signed:  Nathanial Chick

Sworn and subscribed the day and year above mentioned before me
Signed:  Hulet Clark, a judge of Orange County
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(3)
It is hereby certified that Nathaniel Chick is entitled to an honorable discharge agreeable to the Surgeon's certificate given to R R Chapman and George Wheeler Surgeon in the Western Army.  Said Chick is hereby discharged by inability occasioned by wounds he received in the battle of Fort Niagora the nineteenth day of December in the year 1813.  Said Chick had enlisted the 4th day of May 1812  for during the war in the artillery, was attached to Capt Dan Cushing's Company of heavy artillery and said Chick had not been legally returned in any company by being on extra duty nor has not drawn pay regular.  Agreeable to the company return there is  thirteen months and twenty seven days of pay due to the said Chick and clothes as follows.  One coat, one
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Hamsburg, October 23rd, 1827
J. L. Edwards, Esq
Dear Sir,
Will you have the goodness to inform me what further evidence is necessary to substantiate the claim of Nathaniel Chick of this state to a pension for services rendered during the Revolutionary War?  I have the pension laws and other accompanying documents Mr. Chick has left his papers with me, and I am desirous of proceeding understandingly in this matter.  I have the honor to refer you to Hon. Jas Buchanan, Mr. E. L. Hutter, Gen Cameron.
Faithfully yours
Richard McAllister