Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17881, Frederick Chaffee, Conn.
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SERVICE                                            NUMBER
Conn.        Chaffee, Frederick            S. 17881

                                                      carded
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         Connecticut  17,674.
  Frederick Chaffee
......chester in the State of Cont.
who was a Matross in the Company commanded
by Captain Durkee of the Regt commanded
by ________________ in the Connect
line for seven months.
             $29.17/100

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 29. Dollars 17 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of September  1833 and sent to   Jesse
Charlton, East Windsor. Cont

Arrears to the 4th of September, 1833     72.92
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March        14.58
                                     1834.                    ______
                                                               $ 87.50
                                         {Revolutionary Claim,
                                          Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Wm R. Palmer, Clerk
Book E.  Vol. 3.  Page nine.

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Died Jan. 1 -1837-
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Frederick Chaffee

   No.  5472
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 AD 1832.
State of Connecticut} Js East Windsor
County of Hartford}
On the 11th day of August 1832, Personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate, for the district of East Windsor, in Hartford County, now sitting Frederick Chaffee resident of Manchester in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut aged 65 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 7 AD 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States in August A1782 10th day  was substituted for his brother Josiah Chaffee in a company of Artillery & of the State Troops Commanded by Capt Benjamin Durkee, Lieut  Daniel Knowlton & Thos Hoskins were the Company officers   The company was attached to Coll McClellands Regiment
I joind [sic] the Company in New London at Fort Trumbull and performed the regular duty there for the space of four months when my brother returned & I was released or dismissed  this took place about the middle of December of the same year:   And about the first of March 1783 I again joind the same company & Regiment as a substitute for my said brother that I served in the army this time three months  was stationed at Fort Griswold in Groton   The only companies I recollect stationd [sic] at these two forts were Capt Latham's and Capt Durkee's   our company carried musket as well as doing their Artillery duty.  I received an honorable dismission from the service but do not remember whether I had a written discharge.  I have no documentary evidence
  I was born at Ashford in Windham County in Connecticut March 1767 [date inserted] resided there when I went into the service of the United States have lived there since the Revolutionary War   Now live in Manchester Hartford County Connecticut.   My Record of
my age is on the town Books in sd Ashford
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i am known in my present Neighborhood to Doctor William Cooley  G B Dimock both residents in Said Manchester who can testify as to my character for veracity & their belief of my services as a Soldier of the Revolution
   And I hereby relinquish any claim whatever to  pension or annuity except the present & declare that my name is not on the Roll of  the agency of any State.
    [Signed]  Frederick Chaffee

Sworn and Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
          [Signed]    Edgar Bissell Clerk

We William Cooley a resident of Manchester and G B Dimock a resident of the same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Frederick Chaffee who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 65 years old in March last, - that he is respected & believed in the Neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
              [Signed]     Wm Cooley
                                 G B Dimock

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
            [Signed]  Edgar Bissell Clerk

[Seal affixed here]
...the said Court do hereby 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 the applicant cannot produce in Court without too much inconvenience and expense as it appears to them, a Clergyman,  But he has produced in Court Doct. William Cooley and Mr. GB Dimock residents in Manchester aforesaid, who have signed the preceding certificate and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit

 I Edgar Bissell Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of East Windsor do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in
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the matter of the application of Frederick Chaffee for a pension
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 11 day of August AD 1832 -
     [Signed]  Edgar Bissell Clerk

[Seal affixed to left of previous sentence]
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Frederick Chaffee
2nd Declaration


Admd
   7 mo Matross
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                      Declaration


In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832.
State of Connecticut
Hartford County} Js  East Windsor
On this 4th day of May 1833 Personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of East Windsor in sd Hartford County Frederick Chaffee a resident of Manchester in sd Hartford County aged 66 years last March, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following Declaration explanatory of his Declaration made before this Court on the 17th day of August 1832, in order to obtain the benefit of the Provision made by the Act of COngress passed June7th AD 1832
      That the reasons why he enterd [sic] the service before  he was sixteen years ols were the following  That my brother Josiah Chaffee enlisted to Lieutenant Knowlton at New London after he had been there as a Drafted man two months, when my Brother enlisted Lieut Knowlton who was a nigh neighbor to my Father and who knew me
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well: agreed that if my brother would enlist for a year, he would accept of me part of a Substitute for him, accordingly on or about the 12th day  of August 1782 my brother received a Furlough and I immediately joind the Company as stated in my said first declaration and I continued to do my duty in said company untill on or about the 15th day of December 1782, my said brother returned to the Company and I was dismissed and returned home to attend School thro the Winter, having performed a tour of duty of not less than Four months.  Again on or about the first day of March 1783, I returned back to the Company at Fort Griswold and again took my said Brothers place, and was employed in guarding the garrison for the term of Three months, when my said Brother returned and took his place in said Company and I returned home. In my first term of service Four months: and in my second term of service and for this service I claim a pension as a Private Soldier. My Witnesses are Thomas Knowlton who was my Mess mate and Bunk Mate the whole of the time And Sergeant Thomas Farnham
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whose Affidavits accompany this application
time
   [Signed] Frederick Chaffee

   Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
     [Signed]  Edgar Bissell Clerk

I Edgar Bissell Clerk of the court of Probate for the District of East Windsor do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Frederick Chaffee explanatory of his declaration made on the 11 day of August 1832 for sd pension.
            In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 4th day of May 1832 -
    [Signed] Edgar Bissell Clerk


three months
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                                               March 30, 1936.

Mrs. Blanche Morton Bean       BA-J/ILL
1065 Queen Ann Place             Frederick Chaffee
Los Angeles, California.            S.   17881

Dear Madame: 
   Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records for your ancestors, Frederick Chaffee of Ashford, Connecticut, Elias Chapman who was born in Ashford, Connecticut, in 1749 and died 1839, Hezekiah Eldredge who was born in Mansfield, Connecticut, in 1744, and Daniel Knowlton, born1738 and died 1835, also of Connecticut.

A search of the Revolutionary War record s has been made and no records found of claims for pension based upon service of the Elias Chapman and Daniel Knowlton as described by you, or of any Hezekiah Eldredge; similar spellings of the surnames were used in the search. The record of Frederick Chaffee has been found; it is furnished herein as shown in pension claim, S. 17881.

Frederick Chaffee was born in March, 1767, in Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut; the names of his parents are not shown.  His father was living at the time Frederick rendered service in the Revolution.

While a resident of Ashford, Connecticut, Frederick Chaffee enlisted August12, 1782 and served four months as private in Captain Benjamin Durkee's company of Artillery, Colonel Samuel McClennan's Connecticut regiment, stationed at Fort Trumbull; he enlisted March 1, 1783 and served three months as private in the same company, at Fort Griswold.  Both tours were rendered as substitute for his brother, Josiah Chaffee, who rendered other service.

    Frederick Chaffe resided in Ashford, Connecticut, after the war, and moved from there to Manchester, Hartford County, Connecticut.
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   Frederick Chaffee was allowed pension on his application executed August 11, 1833, at which time he resided in Manchester, Connecticut.  He made no reference to wife or children

    The soldier died January 1, 1837.

         Very truly yours,


         G.H. Sweet
    Acting Executive Assistant to the Administrator



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                           17881
                          INVALID.

File No.    17,881
 Frederick Chaffee
Matross   Rev War

Act:  June 7"   32
Index:- Vol. 1,   Page 427
   [Arrangement of 1870.]


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1936  Mar. 10 - Hist. to Mrs. Blanche M. Bean -
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      Los Angeles, Calif.  Feb. 20, 1936
Veterans Bureau
Washington, DC
Dear Sirs:
Was any one, or all, of the following named ancestors in the Revolutionary War - pension list and if so may I please have a copy of the pension application?  I think they served from Connecticut, if at all.
1. Frederick Chaffee, b. Ashford Ct. 1767: d. West Springfield, Mass 1837   [the last name appears to have been underlined, followed by the words "one & all of"]
2. Elias Chapman  b 1749 d Ashford Ct 1839
3. Hezekiah Eldridge b. Mansfield Ct 1744, d Salisbury Ct 1806
4. Daniel Knowlton b. 1738, d. 1835  Where?

Thanking you for your services [illegible word]
                                        Yours truly,
        [Signed]  (Mrs.) Blanche Morton Bean
                       1065 Queen Ann Place
                       Los Angeles, Calif.

[ A stamp follows with the "Received" date of Feb. 24, 1936]
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    Y    Affidavit
Thomas Knowlton
for Frederick Chaffee
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I Thomas Knowlton of the town of Willington in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut of lawful age do testify and say that I was a member of the company of Artillery under the command of Captain Benjamin Durkee, 1st Lieutenant Daniel Knowlton and Second Lieutenant Thomas Hodgekins, and belonged to the Regiment under the command of Colonel McClellan which was stationed at Fort Trumbull in New London and at Fort Griswold in Groton in New London County Connecticut for the term of one year from the 9. day of August 1782. -
That according to my best recollection Frederick Chaffee of Manchester Hartford County Connecticut joined said Company on or about the 12th day of said August as a substitute for his brother Josiah Chaffee. That said Frederick Chaffee continued in said Company and served as a Soldier for about the space of four months, when his brother came and took his place and he went home for two or three months  The said Frederick returned to the Army again & took the place of his brother as his substitute about the 1 of March 1783, and continued with sd until the 1 of June of said 1783 when his brother again returned to the Army and he left the service. -  The first four months of this service was rendered at Fort Trumbull the last three months was performed at Fort Griswold aforesaid.- The only company stationed at these two forts was Captain Lathams, and the other Capt. Durkee,- and further the Deponent saith not. -
           [Signed] Thomas Knowlton

Tolland County Js. town of Tolland July 30, 1832   There personally appeared Thomas Knowlton who signed the foregoing Deposition in my presence & made solemn oath to the truth of the same,. I would further certify that said Knowlton is a credible witness. 
    [Signed]  Loren P. Waldo Justice of Peace
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I Thomas Farnham of Hampton in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut, aged Seventy eight years, testify and say that I am well acquainted with Frederick Chaffee, now him presents, of the Town of Manchester, County of Hartford, in said State, And I do say that in the month of May 1782 I enlisted as Orderly Sergeant in the Company commanded by Capt Benjamin Durkee in tCol. Samuel McClellans Regiment of State troops, for the term of one year, and seven months to New London and there kept [illegible word] in Fort Trumbull the whole year and at the expiration of sd year we were discharged    I was Orderly Sergeant in Sd company the whole time -   And I well remember that the said Chaffee above named served as a Private in said Company as a Substitute for his Brother more than six months as part  of the said Company was detached to go to Fort Griswold on the Groton side & saw Chaffee was one of the number. The rest of the time said Chafee served said Chaffee served in the Fort  Trumbull said services were performed in the War of the Revolution
       {Signed]  Th L. Farnham
In answer of
C. F. Cleveland     April 26, 1833 -
Esq Patriot

Windham County Js Hampton   April 26,, 1833
Personally appeared Thomas Farnham signer of the foregoing Affidavit, and made oath to the truth of the same before Me - And I certify that Said Farnham is a credible witness -
   Attest Chauncey F. Cleveland Justice of Peace
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I Armin Bolles Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify, that Chauncey F. Cleveland Esquire before whom the within affidavit was made is duly enrolled as a Justice of the Peace in and for said Windham County, that the within signature of his name is in his hand writing and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as such -

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my  hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Brooklyn in said County this 29th day of April A.D. 1833 -
   [Signed]  Armin Bolles Clerk