Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,339, Samuel Chadd, Md.
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Service
MD

Name
Cadd, Samuel

Numbe
S.16339

Carded
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5433
Kentucky
Samuel Chadd
of Harrison Co in the state of Kentucky who was a private in the company commanded by Captain McGuire of the regiment commanded by Col Bruce in the Md Militia for six months for 1776

Inscribed on the roll of Kentucky at the rate of 20 dollars blank cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of pension issued the 11 day of February 1833 and sent to Hon R.M. Johnosn, H.R.

Arrears to 4th of Sept '32 $30.
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mch '33 $10.
$40.00

{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Wm Allison - Clerk
Book D Vol 9 Page 34
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16339
INVALID

File No 16339
Samuel Chadd
Priv Rev War

Act: June 7, '32

Index Vol A Page 427
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1940 May 21 - Hist to Lida Jane Hunt
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Samuel Chadd's 
Declaration

21882
from 1776 Private
6 months
$20

Hon. R.M. Johnson
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State of Kentucky
Harrison County

On this 8th day of December 1832 before me Lewis Day an acting Justice of the Peace and a member of the County Court of said county which is a court of record appeared Samuel Chadd a resident of Harrison County and state of Kentucky aged upwards of seventy-eight years having been born on the 15th day of Dec 1754 in the county of Frederick & state of Maryland. Having his age recorded in his own family bible taken from that of his father & which he believes is true concerning his age, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the law of congress passed June 7th, 1832 - He states that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as he herein states - that he was drafted and served in the Maryland service for the United States for three months in the beginning of the year 1775 or 1776 to which he does not recollect distinctly under Capt. Michael Mcguire or McGuire, a Major Blair & Colonel Bruce - that he marched from Frederick County Maryland where he then resided to Philadelphia and that his service consisted in marching above thence through the Jerseys near Lord Sterling where he drew rations, thence through the Jerseys and back home according to orders, when this tour had expired. That he was again drafted for three months in the year 1777 to guard the British prisoners taken with Burgoyne and served the tour under Capt. Fullers, other officers not recollected. That he went from his said residence to Fredericktown, Maryland thence he marched with the said prisoners through Georgetown, Maryland to Winchester Va where
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company of soldiers met his and took charge of the prisoners & he returned home under his officers his tour being ended. That he obtained no discharge except from Capt. Maguire which has been long since lost of mislaid; that he believes he was in the actual service of the United States as aforesaid a full six months or upwards including the two aforesaid tours. He states that he resided in Frederick County, Maryland until the spring of 1792 when he moved to Bourbon County Kentucky - thence to Harrison County where he now resides & has resided ever since - he states that there is no person living within his knowledge by whom he can prove his services - that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state or territory.

Samuel Chadd

Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

Lewis Day - JP HC

State of Kentucky Harrison County - I Lewis Day a justice of the peace in & for Harrison County Ky do hereby certify that the above-named applicant Samuel Chadd is in my opinion unable form bodily infirmity to attend the court being very old, decrepit & inform & living some distance from the courthouse - Given under my hand this 18th Dec 1832.

Lewis Day - JP HC
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We James Kinslar & William Coleman residing in the county of Harrison and state of Kentucky hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Chadd aforesaid who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy-eight years of age; that he has been and still is reputed in the neighborhood where he resides to be a man of veracity an to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

James Kinslar
Wm Coleman

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.

Lewis Day - JP HC

I Lewis Day an acting justice of the peace in and for the county of Harrison & state of Kentucky before whom the foregoing declaration was made by the said applicant in person do hereby certify & declare it as my opinion after the said investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above name applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And I do further certify that the said James Kinslar and William Coleman who have signed the above certificate are residents of Harrison County and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Lewis Day - JP HC

Commonwealth of Kentucky, Harrison County to wit:

I Samuel Endecott, clerk of the County Court for the county aforesaid, do certify that Lewis Day whose name is subscribed to the foregoing proceedings and certificates is now and at the time of subscribing his name thereto
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was an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county and state duly appointed and commissioned and that full faith and credit ought to be given to all his official acts and deeds as such and that the signatures annexed are his genuine signatures in testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this 31st day of December AD 1832 and in the 41st year of the Commonwealth.

A W L Endecott C.H.C.o by
T W M Endecott - D.C.

SEAL
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MAIL STAMP - Illegible

FREE

Hon Lewis Cass - Secy War
Pension Bureau
Washington City

KY
21662
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[illegible] Co KY, Jany 4, 1833

Sir

I herewith transmit you the declarations of Joseph Oder & Samuel Chadd for pensions under the act June 7, 1832. Please inform me of the [torn page] position made of them when the rotation comes & oblige yours

Respectfully

N B Coleman

Hon. Lewis Cass Sec War

P.S. [illegible] Johnson can inform you as to who I am if you require it.

N.B.C.
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Received Stamp - Apr 17, 1940

Tuscole, Illinois
April 12, 1940

Mr. A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Hiller:

Thank you very much for the information which I sought on William Tipton, a revolutionary war soldier.

I had asked for data on server names at once because I had erroneously presumed that it would be easier for your clerks to have it all at one time. If the government would supply funds for your department, nothing would please me more than to be employed there, as it would be to me an interesting line of work.

I was sorry you did not send the data on the first name instead of the last, which was the more important to me at this time.

Will you please trace Samuel Chadd, Harrison County, Kentucky, 1833, Feb 11 (when his pension was granted) for me? He was a member of the Maryland Militia and applied for his pension March 4, 1831, while a resident of Kentucky.

I am not a professional genealogist, but these are my own ancestors whose records I wish to obtain.

Thanking you again and hoping that the big rush is over for you although I fear activity in this direction will increase rather than decrease and, in that event, that congress will give you all the clerical help you need.

Very truly yours

Lida Jane Hunt

Miss Lida Jane Hunt
103 E Van Allen
Tuscole, Illinois
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May 22, 1940

BA-J/ADI
Samuel Chadd S.16339

Miss Lida Jane Hunt
103 East Van Allen
Tuscola, Illinois

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative to Samuel Chadd, a soldier of the revolutionary war.

The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim S.16339, based upon the military service in that war of Samuel Chadd.

Samuel Chadd was born December 15, 1754, in Frederick County, Maryland. The names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of Frederick County, Maryland, Samuel Chadd enlisted the beginning of 1775 or 1776 and served three months as private in Captain Michael McGuire's company, Colonel Bruce's Maryland Regiment. He enlisted in 1777 and served three months as private in Captain Fuller's Maryland Company.

In the spring of 1792, he moved from Frederick County, Maryland to Bourbon County, Kentucky and then to Harrison County, Kentucky.

He was allowed pension on his application executed December 18, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Harrison County, Kentucky. He was then called Samuel Chadd, Sr.

There are no family data.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the death date of soldier, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C. and cite the following data; "Samuel Chadd, Certificate No 5443, issued February 11, 1833, rate $20.00 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Kentucky Agency".

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator