Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 23483, Zadock Bartlett, Continental Mass.
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Service   Continental 
Mass.


Bartlett, Zadock
or Bartlet
Hannah

Number - W.23843
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Left side

1889
? history by M.M. Bartlett



Rep. Nov. 28


Right side

2942

Vermont   Montpelier


Hannah Bartlett
Mass.
widow of Zadock Bartlett

who was a Private

in the Mass. Line
for 15 months


Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
50 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1843.


Certificate of Pension issued the
28th day of Nov. 1843
and sent to 
J.M. Edwards
Keene
N.H.


[Act of March 3, 1843.]

Recorded in Book A
Vol.  A   Page 31
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2423


New Hampshire

Zadock Bartlett
of Cheshire in the State of N.H.
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain _______ of the Regiment commanded
by Col. Ward in the N.H. 
line for 15 months


Inscribed on the Roll of N.H.
at the rate of 50 Dollars ___ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of Nov. 1832 and sent to J.M. Edwards Keene N.H.


Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832    $75.
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833  $25.

$100.

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}


Recorded by Bass Blair Clerk,
Book D  Vol. 7  Page 143.
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9259


Zadock Bartlett

Private


15 months


Admitted


W.C.E.



$50.
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9259


Brief in the case of Zadock Bartlett of Chesterfield 
Cheshire Co. in the State of New Hampshire
(Act 7th June, 1832.)


1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?   a Court


2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?


3.  How old is he?   76


4. State his service,as directed in the form annexed.


Period - 

1775 - to Dec. 
Dec. 
1776 Aug. or Sept.
1777 Sept.


Duration of Service - 

8 months
2 months
2 months
3 months


Rank - 

Private


Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

Capt. Wood/ Col. Ward
Capt. Barnes/Col. Ward
don't recollect the officers
Capt. Sherman or Morse/ Col. Cushing 



5. In what battles was he engaged?   none


6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Northboro Mass.

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?

Several by witness - 
a favorable report on his claim, a congress

8. Are the papers defective as to form, or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

Right


I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

W.C. Easton 
Examining Clerk
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20750


Zadock Bartlett


Dec. 22 1831

referred with ? to the 
Commissioner on Rev. pensions


January 10 1832


Bill -  No. 237
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State of New Hampshire
Cheshire Ss}
On this twenty first day of October 1828 personally appeared in open court (being a court of record for the state of sd NewHhampshire Zadock Bartlett aged seventy two years who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820 that he the said Zadock Bartlett enlisted about the first of May 1775 in the state of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Wood in the Regiment commanded by Col. Johnathan Ward in the line of the state of Massachusetts on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in sd corps untill the December following when he was discharged from said service & on the same day entered the company commanded by Capt. Daniel Barns of the above named Regiment and served in sd. Company until the February following when he was discharged by sd Barns making ten months uninterrupted service and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services except the deposition of Silas Baily & Reuben Babcock
And in pursuant 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 March one thousand eight hundred & eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any name disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as 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 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 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 hereunto annexed and by me subscribed
[signed] Zadock Bartlett
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Cheshire Ss
I Salma Hale, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Zadock Bartlett 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 are truly copied from the record of said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is ninety nine dollars and eighty two cents In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this eighth day of November AD 1828
[signed] S Hale Clerk
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State of New Hampshire

Cheshire [illegible]

On this 13th day of August A.D. 1838 personally appeared before me Larkin Baker, Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Cheshire Hannah Bartlett a resident of Chesterfield in the county aforesaid aged 82 years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows."  That she is the widow of Zadoc Bartlett late of said Chesterfield deceased who was a Revolutionary soldier and a Revolutionary Pensioner under the act A.D. 1832, drawing a pension of $50 per year.  His pension certificate [illegible [illegible] Mr. Edwards [illegible] attorney to draw the balance due, at the decease of [illegible] husband & he says was returned to the Pension Office in Washington.  He was put upon the list she thinks about 7 years  [illegible.]  She further declares that she was married to Zadoc Bartlett on the 29th of March A.D. 1780 by the Rev? Peter Whitney, at Northboro, Mass.  That her husband, the aforesaid Zadoc Bartlett died on the 23rd day of January A.D 1837.  That  she was not  married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four at the time above stated and that her name before marriage was Hannah Sever.

Hannah Bartlett

Sworn to & subscribed the day and year above written before me Larkin Baker Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.