Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 16,079, Nathan Blake, N.H.
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SERVICE
N.H.
Blake, Nathan
NUMBER 
W16,079
Tenny, Molly (Samuel) (former widow)
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3262?(damaged)

New Hampshire,
Molly Tenny,
widow of Samuel Tenny, dec? formerly, 
widow of Nathan Blake, dec. 
who died on the 5th day of May 1799,
of Grafton Co in the State of N. Hampshire
who was a pri. Cor. Sert in the company commaded by Captain Wiggens of the right commanded by Col. Long N.H of the N.H. mila
line for    5 mo. private,   $16.66
               6 mo. Corparal   22.
               6 mo. Sergeant,   30.

Inscribed on the Roll of Concord 
at the rate of 68 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of March
1840, and sent to Hon. F. Pierce,
Senate, United States.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1840 $638.00
Semi-annual allowance ending in Sep. $40    34.33

$672.33

Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4 1836
Section the 3 (unreadable)
act of 3 March 1837

Recorded by D.M. Cindy  Clerk
Book A Vol. 2  Page 32.
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Sarah Blake wife of Eliphaset Blake of Alexandria aged 57 years deposes and says that Samuel Tansey late of Alexandria deceased died on the 24 day of August 1837. I further say that Molly Tenny who is now in my presence is now the widow of the said Samuel Tenny and has remained a widow ever since the death of said Samuel Tenny and resided in my family since that time.
Sarah Blake
State of New Hampshire, Grafton County H. (New Hampshire)
Then personally appeared the above named  Sarah Blake and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed is taken before me and I further certify that is my belief the said Sarah Blake is a respectable person and a credible witness. D.C. Churchill Justice Peace
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Eliphalett Blake of Alexandria in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire aged 58 years depose and say that I am one of the sons Nathan Blake and sally Blake formerly of Sanbornton in said state. I further say that my said father died on the fifth day of May 1799. I further say that after the death of my said father my mother married one Samuel Tenny then of said Sanbornton afterwards moved to said Alexandria with whom she lived until his death which took place on the 24th day of August 1837 at said Alexandria and my said mother has remained a widow ever since the death if said Samuel Tenny and resided in my family. I further say I know of no family record of my said father’s family except the one attached to the family Bible. [illegible] [illegible] annexed the title page [illegible] annexed belongs to the same family bible. I further say that said family record was written by my uncle Cally (who is since dead) at the suggestion and dictation of my mother soon after the death of my said father. I frequently saw it as I lived at home with my mother and for more than twenty years past since my mother died in 
Alexandria. I have frequently seen said record and for more than two years past said Bible has been in my family.
Eliphalt Blake
State of New Hampshire Grafton County Js
Alexandria February 3, 1821  Then the said Eliphalt Blake personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true. Before me and I further certify that the said Blake is a respectable person and a credible witness.
D.C. Churchill Justice Peace
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[printed document with fill ins]

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
_____________
I, JOSIAH STEVENS, JR.  Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that {D C Churchill} is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of {Grafton} duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the {twenty first} day of {May} 18{39} and will expire on the {twenty first] day of {May} 18{44}  and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.

Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this {fourteenth} day of {February} 18{40}

Josiah Stevens Jr [signature]  Secretary of State
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Nathan Blake, Lieutenant

Morrill, Postmaster

Israel W Kelly
Salisbury NH
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I Nathaniel Morrill Jr. depose and say that I hold the
Office of Town Clerk in the Town of Epping, County
of Rockingham and State of New hampshire, and
that I have examined the records of said town and
do not find the marriage of Nathan Blake and
Molly Calley on said records, the records are not
so full as to warrant me in saying that they were
not married at Epping, and I have not been able
to find Mr. Stealuses record of Marriages with the
Church records
Nathaniel Morrill Jr
Town Clerk of Epping

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County
Epping October 10, 1839
Octo. 10. 1839-
Personally appeared the above named Nathaniel Morrill
who is a creditable witness and Town Clerk of said Town of
Epping and made oath in due form of law that the
above declaration by him signed is true
Before me
Nathaniel Bachelder Justice  Peace
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
JOSIAH STEVENS, Junior. Secretary of the State aforesaid do
certify that Nathaniel Bachelder is an acting Justice of
in and for the County of Rockingham duly Commissioned and
that his Commission was dated on the 29th
day of June
1838 and will expire on the 29th day of June
1843 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 13th
Day of February 1840

Josiah Stevens Junior Secretary of State
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I, John Gunnison, Ordained Minister of the Gospel over the Congregational Church and Society in the Town of Brentwood, and is the same Parish where the late Nathaniel Trask was for many years the Ordained Minister-- I have made search and inquiry for the ministeral records of said Church while the said Trask was with them, who has been long dead, and can find none, and believe none are in existence. John Gunnison
Rockingham ss. Jan 9th 1840 then the said John Gunnison made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true, and I certify that the said John Gunnison is the ordained Minister over the Congregational Church and Society in the Town of Brentwood in said County Joseph Graves Justice of the Peace
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I, Ephraim Robinson Town Clerk of Brentwood do certify and testify that I have examined the Records of said Town from 1775 to 1800, and do not find therein any records of marriages solemnized by the Reverend Nathaniel Trask who was formerly for many years the settled minister of Brentwood. I further certify and testify that I have made search and inquiry for the ministerial records of said Trask, who has been long dead, a find none, and believe are in existence. Ephraim Robinson

Rockingham ss. January 9th 1840
then the said Ephram Robinson made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true. And I certify that the said Ephraim Robinson in the Town Clerk of the town of Brentwood in said County
 Joseph Graves Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE. JOSIAH STEVENS, Junior. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Joseph Graves is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Rockingham duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 19th day of May 1836 and will expire on the 19th day of May 1841 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine. Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 13th day of by 1840 Josiah Stevens, Jr. Secretary of State
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton County, ss. On this third day
many in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and forty personally appeared before
me, D.C Churchill
one of the Justices of the
Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County
of Grafton aforesaid, Molly Tenney a resident of
Alexandria in the County of Grafton State of
New Hampshire, aged Eighty years, 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 passed July 4, 1836 and the
act explanatory of said act passed March 3, 1837
and the resolution of Congress passed July 7th 1838
That she was married to Nathan Blake,
of Epping in the County of Rockingham and
State of New Hampshire, who was according to her
best knowledge and belief, a private and Corporal,
in the Revolutionary War it is her belief
that sometime in the 1775 he enlisted in a
company commanded by Captain Nathan Brown
in a Regiment commanded by Colonel David Gilman,
and served as a private or Corporal, untill [sic] some time
the year 1776-
That from sometime in the year 1776 to
some time in 1777, he served as Corporal, in a
company commanded by Captain Mark Wiggin
in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Pierce Long and
it is her belief that he was at Ticonderoga in
said Regiment in this tour of duty-
That in 1780 he served three months in a company commanded by Captain D. Gordon, but in what capacity she is not able to say.
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It is also her belief, that the aforesaid
Nathan Blake served in the War of the Revolution at other and different times that those before
stated, but at what particular time or places, or
under what officers, she is not able to state-
She further declares that she was married
to the said Nathan Blake, at Brentwood in the
County of Rockingham New Hampshire by the Reverend
Mr. Trask then Minister of said Brentwood
on the twenty sixth day of June 1770 that
her husband, the aforesaid Nathan Blake,
died on the fifth day of May seventeen hundred and ninety nine that she was afterwards
married to Samuel Tenney who died on the twenty
fourth day of August Eighteen hundred and
thirty seven and that she has remained a widow
ever since that period and still remains a widow
as will more fully appear by reference to the
hereto annexed-
That she has no dockumentary [sic] evidence
in support of her claim, other than what accompanies this declaration - Molly Tenny (her mark)
witness Sarah W. Kelly
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above
written
Before me
D. C Churchill J C C Pleas [Justice, court of common pleas]
I further certify that the above applicant cannot
from bodily infirmity attend the Court
I further certify that the said applicant states that
her said husband served as a Sergeant in his last tour
to Ticonderoga in Capt Wiggins company which
was omitted to be put into her declaration by mistake.
D. C. Churchill J C C Pleas [Justice, court of common pleas]
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE. JOSIAH STEVENS, JR Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that D. C. Churchill is an acting Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Grafton duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 24th day of November 1834 and will expire on the Sixteenth day of December 1860 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine. Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 13th day of February 1840 Josiah Stevens, Jr. Secretary of State
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Nathan Blake
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State of New Hampshire
In Committee of Safety Exeter 17 November 1781
To Nicholas Gilman Esquire Treasurer
Pay to Nathan Blake twenty five pounds eighteen
Shillings and three pence said remission being
for wages and Interest thereon due to them as appears 
by Captain D Gordons company roll for 3 month  men in 1780
M. Weare President
State of New Hampshire
Office of Secretary of State
July 14-1840
I hereby certify that the foregoing
is a true extract from the Original
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
affixed the Seal of said State
Josiah Stevens, Jr. Secretary of State
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THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING The Old and New Testaments: TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES; AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED, By His MAJESTY'S Special Command. Appointed to be Read in CHURCHES. EDINBURGH. Printed by MARK and CHARLES KERR, His MAJESTY's Printers. MDCCXCIII. Blake, Nathan
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Mr Nathan Blake Senior was Born the 29 day of
August 1757 was drounded [drowned] May 9 day of the year 1799
Li [lie] under water Seven Houers [hours] Befoor [before] found-
Moley Blake was Born October 29 day of the year 1759
Jeddiah Blake was Born March the 20 day of the year 1779
Eliphelet Blake was Born September the 18 day of the year 1781
Moley Blake was Born January the 17 day of the year 1785
Anna Blake was Born May the 16 day of the 3d 1788
Sarah Blake was Born January the 12 day of the year 1790
Nathan Blake was Born August the 19 day of the year 1793
Betty Blake was Born July the 12 day of the year 1795
Nathan Blake was Born the April the 13 day of the year 1798
Moley Blake died August the 26 day of the year 1796
Anna Blake died August the 25 day of the year 1796
Sarah Blake died September the 7 day of the year 1796
Nathan Blake died August the 29 day of the year 1796
Baly Blake died June the 7 day of the year 1796
Nathan Blake was born April 3 1798 and died March 21, 1821
Blake, NATHAN
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Revolutionary WIDOW, Etc.
File Number 16079 
Molly Tenny
Widow of 
Samuel Tenny
Sergeant Revolutionary War
Act July 4, 36
 Index:Volume M Page 268
(Arrangement of 1870.}
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State of New Hampshire
Portsmouth January 14, 1777. We the subscribers
Non Commissioned officers and Soldiers belonging to
the New Hampshire Regiment under the commend
of Colonel Pierce Long in the Continental service
do acknowledge to have received of Noah Emery Junior
Payments  to said Regiment at the
several sums herein set against each of our names
being for one month advance pay from the seventh
of January instant to the seventh of February next  And we
do severally foreswear and engage that in case any of us
should enlist into the Continental service on the
New Establishment before the said seventh day of February next
that such sums by us respectively received and not then
due to us respectably shall be accounted for by us respectably
as part of our bounty or Wages in the said Continental
Establishment. Witness our hands
Names, Nathan Blake [illegible] Corporal
Sum [illegible] Pounds 2.4.0 [2 pounds 4 shillings, 0 pence].
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State of New Hampshire office of Secretary  of State February 20-- 1840 I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true extract from the original now in this office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said State Josiah Stevens Junior of Secretary of State
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A Muster Roll of Captain Mark Wiggins Company
in Colonel Longs Regiment Mustered by Benjamin
Baker Muster marks.
Their Names.  Nathan Blake [illegible] corporal.
Place of abode, Epping when
Mustered. September 30 (1776)
State of New Hampshire
Office of Secretary of State
February 20. 1840
I hereby certify that the foregoing
is a true extract from the original now
in this office In testimony of the foregoing
I have hereunto affixed the Seal of
said State
Josiah Stevens, Junior
Secretary of State
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4923
New Hampshire
July 4, 1836
Honorable F. [Franklin] Pierce
Senate US
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Nathan Blake D. 99
 Molly (Tenny) M. 78.S 
 1775 8 Nathan Brown Gilman 
1776 or 7 Mark Wiggin Long as Corporal 1780.3 Gordon on roll 
Volume 5 New Hampshire roll
was paid February 7. 1777 [illegible] Section clerk
Allow [17]76 2 months private
and [17]80 3 months private
Corporal 6 months
[illegible] 6  months
17
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Mark Wiggin Volume 2
Sq book- 
Nathan Blake Corporal
[illegible] 8 '76 [1776] illegible] a
private August 22, 1776 L Dr.
O Wiggin [illegible]Bunde 21
No [illegible] Sergeant 
applied September 1776 and August 1777
No other Black sergeant approved September 1776 and August 1777 the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] January 17 
No other Black found [illegible] [illegible] that date [illegible]
1777
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4923
Molly Tenny formerly widow of Nathan Blake deceased New Hampshire
 Act July 4 1836 Married 1778 died 1799 
Allow 5 months private $1hhh
6 months Corporal $22 
6 Sergeant$30. 
$68.66 
On Captain Wiggins roll. Colonel Long-New Hampshire militia 
Grafton County
Honorable F Pierce U.S.Senate
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the Subscribers being enlisted Soldiers in Captain
Nathan Brown working in Colonel David Gilman’s
Regiment do acknowledge to have received of Nicholas
Gilman the said sums set down against each of our
names which is in full for one months advance
Wages in the colony service agreeable to a vote of the
council and Assembly
Exeter April 10th 1776
Nathan Blake forty Shillings 2.0.-

State of New Hampshire
office of Secretary of
State
February 20-1840
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a
true extract from the original now
in this offer
In testimony of the foregoing
I have hereunto affixed the Seal
of said State
Josiah Stevens, Jr.
Secretary of state
[illegible seal]