Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 923, Jeremiah Blanchard, Mass.
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Mass.   Blanchard, Jeremiah   R. 923
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Rejected no such service as is alleged, performed after Dec 1782 See letter 21 Aug 34 to H[?] B. Wright, Wilkes Barre, Pa
925
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Ex'r. INVALID. 
No 923
[crossed out: Act of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873 ]

Jeremiah Blanchard
P.O __________
Service:  __________
Enlisted:  __________,18
Discharged:  __________,18
Application filed:  __________,18
Alleges:  __________
Re-enlisted:  __________
Attorney  __________
P.O __________
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7, 1832 

State of Pennsylvania Snyder County ss 
On this 7 day of August 1834 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of Snyder County Captain Jeremiah Blanchard a resident of Pittston in said County aged seventy years of age and upwards who being full duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of that of Compult passed June 7, 1832 

That he was born in Coventry in the State of Rhodeisland on the fifth day of November 1763 of which he has now a record- 

That he thinks in the first part of November October 1782 he served as a substitute for Norman Eaton, who was drafted for a period of eight weeks in the State Militia of Massachusetts. That he started from Pittsfield in Massachusetts in Capt Stephens Company. said company was attached to the 4th Regiment as he believes
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his company marched to Greenbush in the State of New York opposite Albany where he encamped for the four weeks. Thence to he marched  to Landing Bay -  thence to Stillwater in the same state- he thinks the name of the ensign was Frances - at Steel Water his tour of Eight weeks expired he had a written discharge which he left will Captain Bacon of Massachusetts which is now lost. He retured home to Pittsfield.

That in the latter part of December 1782 he volunteered in at Stillwater aforesaid in Captain Sloans Company of Volunteers in Colo. Williams Regiment of United States troops for nine months --- 

That he marched once up the Hudson River, and there was stationed geneally in about Stillwater for the whole time of his enlistment. He doesn't recollect now the names of the officers of his company he or his seated at this time was Wright, & Frances - That at the end of his enlistment he was discharged. he had a center discharge-and a
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certificate containing a record of his age which is now lost-- After this he went to Massachusetts - from this to Connecticut where he lived six months - thence to Sharon in the same place where he resided one year  - thence to New York State where he lived nine yeasrs -thence he removed to Pittston Snyder County where he lived to this time-- That before he settled in Pittston he was in Wyoming at the time of Wyoming Massacre  , offered bay considerably by be a prison among the Indian for four weeks and upwards - he made escape after a long series of Jefferys and privations - He knows of no person now lives whom he can get to testify to his service. That he would refer to Thomas Williams and Cornelius Courtwright  Esq of Pittston to testify as to his character for truth and veracity and the belief in his services. He Hereby relinquishes any claim whatsover to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not the agency of any state-
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That there is no Clergyman aside in Petition Sworn and subscribed in open court Aug 7, 1834 
Jeremiah Blanchard 
C. D. Shoemake Associate Judge 

Thomas Williams of Pittston aged seventy year and upwards being duly sworn in open court, and a pensioner of the U States doth say that has known Captain Jeremiah Blanchard the above applicant forty years and upwards - that he has full confidence in the truth of the above declaration and believes him to be a man of truth and veracity-- and that said Blanchard his always been deemed and expected a soldier of the Revolution and he believes him to have been in such service.- 
Thomas William

Sworn and Subscribed  in open court Aug 7, 1834 - 

C. D. Shoemaker associate Judge
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Cornelius Cortright of Pittston being duly sworn says he has known Capt Jeremiah Blanchard above named for a period of forty years and upwards-- that he has full confidence in the truth of the above declaration, and believe him to be a man of truth and veracity-- and that he has generally been deemed a reputed solder of the revolution - And he his este belief that the facts contained as above are strictly true-- Cornelius Cortright

Sworn and Subscribed in open Court Aug. 7, 1834 
C. D. Shoemaker Associate Judge
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State of Pennsylvania
Snyder County SS
And the said Court do herby declare their opinion after the 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 Thomas Williams, and Cornelis Cortwright Esquire are residents of the Township of Pittston and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. 

I, Henry Pettibone Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas of same County do herby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application Jeremiah Blanchard for pension - 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this day 14th of August 1836--
H. Pettibone Prot. 


31 July
Jeremiah Blanchard
Pennsylvania