Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12237, David Blanchard, N. H.
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Service
N. H.
Blanchard, David
Number
S. 12237
Carded
Contests
[blank]
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Date of death [illegible]
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Vermont 18,731
David Blanchard of Orleans in the State of Vermont who was a Pr. & Sgt. in the Compy, commanded by Captain Clough. of the Regt commanded by Col. Poor. in the [Mass Ma - crossed out] N. H. Line for 8 mo. Priv 2" Sergt.
Nov. 18/05
Records corrected GS
Inscribed in the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Sept 1833 and sent to Uriel C. Hatch, Troy, Vt
Arrears to the 4th of Sepr '33 $91.65
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar. '34 18.33
[total] $109.98
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Ebr Brown Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 3 Page 54
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David Blanchard
for
Claim for a pension
Uriel G. Hatch Agent
for claimant
Troy Vt
Henry Allen
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SS
State of Vermont
County & District of Orleans ss.
At a Probate Court holden at Irasburg within said
[illegible] the District of Orleans, On this twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before the Probate Court for the County and District of Orleans, now sitting, David Blanchard a resident of Potton, in the Province of Lower Canada, aged seventy six years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. He enlisted at Northfield in the State of New Hampshire in the month of June in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five for the term of eight months and served at Winter hill near Boston in the State of Massachusetts the whole of said term of eight months, that he marched from said Northfield on or about the twentieth day of June of said year 1775 and served in the company commanded by Capt. Jeremiah Clough and in the Regiment  commanded by Col. Poor and that on his march from said Northfield to said Winter hill he passed through the towns of Concord, Londonderry across the ferry near Amesbury and from thence  through Mystic to Bunker hill.
And he also states that he enlisted again at said Northfield on or about the first day of August in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy seven for two months and served in the company commanded by Capt. Benjamin Sias and in the Regiment commanded by Col John Stark. During this term he served in and near Bennington in the State of Vermont and was in the Bennington battle so called. That he was born in Canterbury in the State of New Hampshire where I lived until 7 years old then in Northfield where I lived untill I was thirty two years old, then in [illegible] where I lived 16 years then I removed to Potton in the Province of Lower Canada my present place of residence where I have since resided. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not
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Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid .
Attest [signed] John H. Kimball Clerk

We Horace Warner a clergyman residing in the town of Troy in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont and Oliver Chamberlin & James Craigue a Justice of Peace Select & select man residing in the same town, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Blanchard who has subscribed and sworn to the aforegoing declaration; that we believe him to seventy six
years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
[signed] Horace A Warner
[signed] Oliver Chamberlin
[signed] James Craigue

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Attest [signed] John H. Kimball Clerk
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after 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 court further certifies, that it appears to them that Horace Warner who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in the town of Troy in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont and that Oliver Chamberlin who has also signed the same is a
resident in the same town of Troy and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I John H. Hinds Clerk of the Probate Court of the [County - crossed out] District of Orleans in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of David Blanchard for
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a pension
In testimony whereof I have [illegible - crossed out] and hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Irasburgh in the District [County - crossed out] of Orleans and State of Vermont this twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.
[signed] John H. Kimball Clerk

State of Vermont
Orleans District as a Probate Court holden at Barton in said District this 11th day of July 1833 personally appeared before the said court [and - crossed out] the said David Blanchard makes this further additional declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. He states that he has no documentary evidence of his services, and that he cannot obtain the testimony of any living witness to the same, there being none living to his knowledge.
[signed] David Blanchard

Sworn to and subscribed this Eleventh day of July
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three. In testimony whereof I John H. Kimball Register of Said Court have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court
at [Irasburgh - crossed out] Barton in the District of Orleans this 11th day of July in the year of our
Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three.
[signed] John H. Kimball Register
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April 16, 1934
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David Blanchard-S.12237
BA-J/AWF  [An - written in]
Mr. Lee R. Bruce
Pelican Lake
Wisconsin
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of the 9th instant, in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Corporal David Blanchard.
You are furnished herein the record of the only soldier named David Blanchard (surname searched under similar spellings), that is found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The data given were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S.12237, based upon his service in that war.
David Blanchard was born in Canterbury, New Hampshire, date not stated, nor are the names of his parents given; he lived there until he was about seven years of age, when he moved to Northfield, New Hampshire.
While residing in Northfield, David Blanchard
enlisted and served with the New Hampshire troops, as follows: from June 20, 1775, eight months in Captain Jeremiah Clough's company, Colonel Poor's regiment; from August 1, 1777, two months in Captain Benjamin Sias' company, Colonel John Stark's regiment, and was in the battle of Bennington.
He was allowed pension on his application executed, December 20, 1832, at which time he was living in Potton, Province of Lower Canada and was aged seventy-six years; he had lived in said Potton since about the year 1816.
There are no data in this claim concerning the
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family of David Blanchard.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of
pension, the name and address to whom sent and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., citing the following data:
David Blanchard
Certificate No. 18731
Issued September 28, 1833
Rate $36.66 per annum
To commence March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Vermont Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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Sept. 6/95 Hist to Jane A. Stickney, Bradford, Mass. M. E. C.
Feby. 16, 1905 History to Mrs. T.M. Merriman, Cambridge, Mass.
1907 Mch. 16 Hist to Bertha Gardner c
1929 Dec. 5 Hist to Ruby C. Brander any.
1934 April 16 Hist to Lee R. Bruce any.

Rev War
12237
Invalid
File No. 12,237
David Blanchard Sergt Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: [blank] Vol. A, Page 35
[Arangement of 1870.]
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Navy Bldg.
Reg. Mail to Mrs. Finch, Navy Dept., from Mail Room 4-12-34 Ryan
!. 152 Lee R Bruce, Pelican Lake Wis. RE: David Blanchard Rev War
Received M H F 4-12-34
Orig ret. Monday Apr. 16, 34
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I. 12,237
David Blanchard
Dec 20, 1832 res. Potton Prov Lower Can 76 
b Canterbury NH
Ent Northfield NH James
1775 per Capt Jeremiah Clough
Col Poor
8m
Aug 1 1777
Capt Benj Sias
Col John Stark
2m
Bat Bennington
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FORM 77
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Pelican Lake Wisconsin
April 9th 1934

Veterans Administration
Washington D C
Gentlemen;
Will you kindly advise what record you have of Corp David Blanchard War of the revolution.
The DAR records shown him as such and of marrying Azwba Fitzgerald.
Thanking you in advance for anything that might lead to tracing this line of the family I remain

Yours very truly,
Lee R Bruce Agent

[signed] Lee R Bruce
P.S. I am a direct decendant of him

[stamp] Received Apr 12 1934
[illegible] Reader G Vets. Adm.
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Oct. 21, 1929
Monrovia Calif.
Dept. of Interior
Rev. War Dept:
Will you please tell me if you have any record of David [only written in] Blanchard thought to have enlisted from Vt.
David Blanchard's services in assisting in the establishment of American Independence during the War of the Rev. were as follows.
Minute man at Lexington
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Brandywine
Served all through 1776 and fought under Geo. Washington
I have no record of his birth or marriage. One grandchild believe him to have been borned in N. Y. state and another believes it was Bennington Vt. He died about the begining
or just before the Mexican War, at Westphalia, Clinton Co. Mich.
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He was a Michigan Pioneer and owned land there.
Unfortunately the lady who cared for him at the time of his death belived all papers should be distroyed and before any one could stop her
they were burned.
His daughter Sophia Blanchard Lackey drew a pension as wife of War of 1812 vetren and her daughter Clarissa Lackey Lathrop drew a pension
as wife of Civil War Vetren. Clarissa Lathrop was my grandmother.
I am anxious to prove my claim as elegiable for the D.A.R.'s.
Kindly let me know what records you have and if research work is necessary about what the cost would be.
Respectfully
Mrs Ruby C. Brander
324 E. Lime
Monrovia Calif.
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Lowell Mass. Feb 24, 1907
To the Bureau of Pensions
Washington D. C.
Please send me the record of David [Blan - Crossed out] Blanchard who fought in the Revolutionary War.
Yours truly
Bertha Gardner
32 Robbins St
Lowell Mass

[stamp] W. & N. Div. Feb 27 1907 [illegible]
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This David Blanchard was born in Canterbury [V - crossed out] New Hampshire
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[stamp] U. S. P. B. [illegible] Files Feb 3 1905
Own ECt
392 Brookline St.
Cambridge Mass.
Jan 31, 1905.
To the Clerk of the Revolutionary pensioners, or the Chairman. My daughters & their daughters, wish to join the [illegible] Will you inform me what the cost will be to certify that my grandfather, was a Revolutionary War pensioner. Sec of State of N.H. writes me that David Blanchard born in Canterbury N. H. (my grand
father) enlisted as private in Capt Jeremiah Clough's Company of Col Enoch Poor's regiment in 1775 (age 20). Also in Benj Sias Co. Col Stickney Regimt in 1777.
[the rest is cut off]
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David Blanchard, my grandfather, was born in Canterbury N. H. Oct 1756, lived in Northfield N.H. where several children were born, then went to Cabot Vt. where my father was born. David Blanchard 2nd in Oct. 1786. Also several other children, then Moving to Patton, now Mansonville P. Q. where he died in 1845. I remember he was called Capt. & was a pensioner. The Sec of the Revolutionary
Sol. of Vermont writes me he thinks he was an Orleans Co. pensioner.
Very Respet
Mrs M. Merriman

[stamp] U S Pension Office Feb 2 1905
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[stamp] U S Pension Office Aug 29 1895
[stamp] U. S. P. B. Old War & Navy Files Aug 30 1895
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B
Bradford Mass. Aug 24-1895
the U.S. Pension Agt
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
Can you give me any information, relative to where & when one David Blanchard who served in the revolutionary war was born. He was wounded, & recd pension at Troy Vt. As near as I can ascertain, he was born in or about 1757. Also can you tell what battle he was wounded in? I am a distant relative of his, wish you would kindly give me all information you can in regard to him, from such data you have at hand, by so doing, you will oblige.
Yours Respectfully
Mrs Jane A Stickney
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF/HMM
December 5, 1929
Mrs. Ruby C. Brander
324 E. Lime Street
Monrovia
California.
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 12237, it appears that David Blanchard was born in Canterbury, New Hampshire, date not given, lived until y yrs old. X While residing in Northfield, New Hampshire, he enlisted and served with the New Hampshire Troops as follows:
From [illegible] 20 in June 1775 eight months in Captain Jeremiah Clough's Company Colonel Poor's Regiment; from August 1, 1777, two months in Captain Benjamin Sias' Company Colonel John Stark's Regiment and was in the battle of Bennington.
He was allowed pension on his application executed December 20, 1832, at which time he was living in Potton, Province of Lower Canada and was aged seventy-six years. About 1816.
There are no data as to family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of David Blanchard, S. 12237, the name of the person paid and possibly the date of his death, you should apply to the Records Division,
General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C., citing all of the following data:
David Blanchard
Certificate Number 18731, issued September 28, 1833
Rate - $36.66 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Vermont Agency.
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The above noted David Blanchard is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Very truly yours,
Earl D. Church
Commissioner