Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34688, John Chandler, Continental
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Continental

Chandler, John

S. 34688

Mass. residence & agency
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Massachusetts Roll
1827
John Chandler
Capt Drury
2d Lieut
Knox'es Regt of artillery 1775 1 year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. Continental
Inscribed on the Rill of Massachusetts
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month to commence on
the 4 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 of July 1818
and sent to Hon. Sam Putnam
J of P Court Salem Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818
5 mo. 1/30th $100.00
{Revolutionary claim}
{Act 18th March, 1818}
1 year
Not intitled
discontinued by Secy of War, 19 Feb 1821
Salem Essex County
Notification sent July 26th 1820 to
Ichabod Tucker, Salem, Massachusetts
No second schedule
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John Chandler
A O Mitelo
JUne 22, 1818 The evidence in this case 
would be sufficient in any Court of Law to 
prove the former existence of the Commis
sion, & that Chandler served as he has stated.
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I, John Chandler, of Salem in the County of Essex and
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on oath declare that I enlisted
into the service of the late United Colonies, in the Revolutionary
war, on the Continental establishment, in the month of May,
in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
seventy five; that I was then a non-commissioned officer in Capt.
John Crane's Company of Artillery, in the      Regiment of
the Massachusetts line, commanded by Col: Henry Knox;
that I continued in the service of the said United Colonies against
the common enemy, until the month of January in the year of
our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven when
I was discharged, at Fishkill, in the State of New York; that 
I held a commission of Second Lieutenant in the Company of
Artillery commanded by Capt.: Drury, in the same Regiment, from
the seventeenth day of January in the year seventeen hundred and
seventy six, till the time of my discharge as aforesaid: And I
further declare as aforesaid that the paper hereto annexed
bearing date" the seventeenth January 1776," is a part of the 
original commission which I held, and under which I acted, as
Second Lieutenant; that the residue of said commission 
contained my name and words appointing me to said office; that
the said residue has been lost by time and accident; and
that from reduced circumstances, I need the assistance of my
country for support--

John Chandler

I, John Chandler, of Salem, in the County of Essex
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and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby relinquish my
claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States.  John Chandler
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss:  On this fourth day of April A. D. 1818, personally appear-
ed before me, Samuel Putnam, one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court of the Commonwealth aforesaid, John Chandler, named in the 
forgoing declaration and made solemn oath to the truth thereof, and subscri-
bed the same and the above written relinquishment.  And it appearing
to my satisfaction that the said John Chandler served as an officer in the
Revolutionary war, on the Continental establishment, against the common
enemy, for the term of nine months & more I hereby certify and transmit
the testimony in the case and the proceedings had thereon to the Secretary
of the department of war.
Given under my hand and the seal of the said Court, at Salem, 
this fourth day of April, A.D. 1818.  S. Putnam, Just.
S. J. Court of Mass.
June 18, 1818.  I further certify that Maj.
Thomas Barnes, Nathaniel Gover, and
Joseph Chandler aforenamed are credible and disinterested
witnesses; and that I am satisfied, said John Chandler was a 
Lieutenant duly commissioned that he served more than nine
months above period of Continued Service, and that he is poor
and infirm
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United States of America
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Suffolk, ss.}
Boston.} 
ON this fourth Day of June
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
before me, SAMUEL JACKSON PRESCOTT, Esquire, Notary Pub-
lic, by Legal Authority duly admitted and sworn, and dwelling in BOSTON,
aforesaid, and Justice of the Peace, and of the Quorum, within and for
the said County of Suffolk, personally appeared Nathaniel Glover of
Boston, aforesaid, gentleman, formerly an acting order by Sergeant,
in the War of the Revolution, in the company commanded by Capt.
Jothan Drury & in the Massachusetts regiment of Artillery, of which
Henry Knox was Colonel, and John Crane, Lieut Colonel, and
at the same time came also Joseph Chandler of the same Bos-
ton, painter, who acted as Bombadeir in the company and
regiment, and under the same officers, and severally made solemn
oath that they are well acquainted with John Chandler of
Salem in the County of Essex, in said Commonwealth, now
present, and that, to their certain & personal knowledge, he the
said John Chandler was a Lieutenant in the said Captain
Drury's company of Artillery, in the Massachusetts Line, & in
the regiment of which the said Henry Knox was Colonel,
and the said John Crane, Lieut. Colonels, and that they the
said Deponent, both & each of them, served in the said Capt.
Drury's company one whole year, and without intermission, and tht
the said John Chandler was during the whole of said
term of one full year, to wit, from the month of January
1776, to the month of January 1777, a Lieutenant in
said Captain Drury's company of Artillery, and that
the said John Chandler, was present with said company
without any intermission or absence during the whole of
said term of one year as aforesaid, and that the said
company and regiment was on the Continental establish-
ment, and that all the said officers were continental
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officers. And also that the said John Chandler, during the
said year, and likewise during the whole time that he was
in the service of his Country sustained the character of a 
good officer.  And the said deponents also severally
made solemn oath that the said John Chandler, by
reason of his reduced circumstances in life, needs the
assistance of his Country for support.  And further
that they, the said Deponents, are altogether disinter-
ested persons.  Wherefore and In true Testimony
whereof both and each of the said Deponents have hereunto
subscribed their names, and have been duly and severally
sworn to the Truth of the Premises by oath solemnly taken
before me, the said Notary and Justice.  In witness
whereof, and for making these Presents of full force and effects 
and as the said Deponents are persons of good name and credit,
I, the said Notary and Justice have not only hereunto sub-
scribed my name, but have also affixed my Seal of Office
the day and year first within written.
Nathan Glover
Joseph Chandler
S. J. Prescott, Notary Public}
and Justice of the Peace of the Quorum.}
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The undersigned begs leave to remind the Honorable Secretary
at War that a certificate, under the Great Seal of this
Commonwealth, as to his official character & was transmit-
ted to the War Department in February last, accompany-
ing sundry documents & papers of Israel Gilman, a soldier
in the last war.
S. J. Prescott
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I, Thomas Barnes of Salem in the County of Essex and Com-
monwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age depose and say that I was
an officer in the Army of the late United Colonies in the Revolutionary
War, and that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six I knew
Mr John Chandler, now of Salem aforesaid, then in New York to be
a Lieutenant in the Regiment of Artillery then commanded
by Col. John Crane, but had previously been commanded by Col. Hen-
ry Knox.  I often saw Mr Chandler and always knew him in the 
capacity and rank of Lieutenant Thomas Barnes
Essex ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
April 4:1818.  Then the above named Thomas Barnes person-
ally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the above
written affidavit by him subscribed before me.
S. Putnam Just.
S.J Court of Mass.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss. I, Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of
the Commonwealth aforesaid in & for the County aforesaid, here-
by certify to all whom these presents may concern that the
aforenamed Hon: Samuel Putnam is a Judge of the Supreme
Judicial Court as aforesaid, that the seal hereto affixed is 
the seal of said Court, & the signature aforesaid is his prop-
er hand.  Attest
Icabod Tucker, Clerk
John Chandler
Admitted
June 22, 1818 The evidence in this Case
would be sufficient in any Court of Law to
prove the former existence of the Commis-
sion, & that Chandler served as he has stated.
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John Chandler
Sept 1829
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun
and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third
Monday of June, A.D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding ac-
cording to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in
point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the pow-
er of fine and imprisonment, John Chandler
resident in Salem in said Circuit, who is named in
Pension Certificate No. 1824-now in his possession, of which the
following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818,
John Chandler late a 2d Lieutenant
"in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate
"of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the 4th
"day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
L.S. "Given at the War Office of the United States, this sixteenth day
"of July one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as
follows, to wit, 
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding
excepted, to wit, a small parcel of land on River
Street in Salem 40 by 49 feet, with a house on it 16 by
30 feet, 2 Stories and a small work shop...$450.00
Old furniture in family use.  Clock....17.00
Old card table $2. 8 chairs $3.  desk 4.00....9.00
two other tables 3.50. round table $2. Looking glass 2.50 8.00
case of drawers $4.50. easy chair $3. Chamber chair $3. 7.50
another case of drawers $1. bureau $3.50 small table 1.50 6.00
andirons, shovel tongs 1.50 & kitchen furniture pots etc $11. 12.50
$520.00
He owes $100.00 to P & I Chase and to others $30.00 deduct 130.00
$390.00
His son Jno D. Chandler is a shopkeeper & has furnished and sup-}
plied the Declarant articles to the amount if (for which} 300.00
said declarant is indebted) $90.00
He is
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He is sixty seven years old.  by trade a carpenter
but has been disabled from labour for four years
by a fever sore on his right leg.  so bad he is
hardly able to walk about.
His family are his wife aged 66, and
his daughter Sally aged 40.  who has always been
an invalid
He served in Capt Drury's Company
in Col Crane's Regt. in Massachusetts line all
1776 and part of 1777 
John Chandler.
Sworn to & declared}
before Wm Witmore}
Judge within named}
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Salem. Masstts, Nov 7, 1820.  The undersigned, citizens of
Salem, hereby certify that we are acquainted with Lieut. John
Chandler, late a U. S. Pensioner, and know he is and for
many years has been very lame and infirm and disabled
from following his trade of a Carpenter:  he is in very re-
duced circumstances and has been obliged to expend (illegible)
in Doctor's Bills; he has no income from any business
and has not property sufficient to maintain him and his
wife and daughter, who are all invalids.  He is dependent
on his friends for support, and they are not wealthy.
Jesse Smith
John Andrews} Benj. Shinabu
Saml. Endicott} 
Perley Putnam} Selectmen James Odell
John Howard} of Salem John Buffington
Jno Osgood
James Silver} Asa Flanders
Ephm Emmerton
Stephen Webb} Sams Holman
Edwd Barnard
David Putnam} James Kimball
Jno Glen King} Ellis Mansfield
John Moriarty } overseers Abner Goodhue
of the
Joseph Howard} poor
I certify that the above are in my opinion genuine Signatures of respectable
and credible Town Officers and citizens of Salem
Nath Silsbee
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun
and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third
Monday of June, A.D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding ac-
cording to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction, unlimited in 
point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the pow-
er of fine and imprisonment, John Chandler
resident in Salem in said Circuit, who is named in
Pension Certificate No. 1824 now in his possession, of which the
following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
" I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818,
John Chandler late a 2nd Lieutenant
"in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate
"of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the 4th 
"day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this sixteenth day
L. D. "of July one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as 
follows, to wit, 
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding 
excepted, to wit, a small parcel of land on River 
Street in Salem 40 by 49 feet, with a house on it 16 by
30 feet.  2 Stories and a small work shop...$450.00
Old furniture in family use.  Clock...17.00
Old card table $2- 8 chairs $3-desk 4.00...9.00
two other tables 2.50- round table $2- Looking glass 2.50 8.00
case of drawers $4.50-easy chair $3- Chamber chair $3--7.50
another case of drawers $1-bureau $3.50 small table 1.50--6.00
Andirons, shovel, tongs 1.50 & kitchen furniture pots etc. $11--12.50
$520.00
He owes $100.00 to P & A Chase and to others
$30.00 --deduct 130.00
$390.00
His son Jno D. Chandler is a shopkeeper & has furnished and sup-}
plied the Declarant articles to the amount of (for which} 300.00
said declarant is indebted)} $90.00
He is
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He is sixty seven years old, by trade a Carpenter
but has been disabled from labour for four years
by a fever sore on his right leg. so bad he is 
hardly able to walk about.
His family are his wife aged 66, and
his daughter Sally aged 40, who has always been
an invalid
He served in Capt. Drury's Company
in Col. Crane's Regt. in Massachusetts line all 1776 and part of 1777.
John Chandler
Sworn to & declared}
Before Wm. Witmore}
Judge within named}
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Salem. Masstts, Nov 7, 1820. The undersigned, citizens of
Salem, hereby certify that we are acquainted with Lieut. John
Chandler, late a U. S. Pensioner, and know he is and for
many years has been very lame and infirm and disabled
from following his trade of a Carpenter: he is in very re-
duced circumstances and has been obliged to expend (illegible)
in Doctor's Bills; he has no income from any business
and has not property sufficient to maintain him and his
wife and daughter, who are all invalids. He is dependent
on his friends for support, and they are not wealthy.
Jesse Smith
John Andrews} Benj. Shinabu
Saml. Endicott}
Perley Putnam} Selectmen James Odell
John Howard} of Salem John Buffington
Jno Osgood
James Silver} Asa Flanders
Ephm Emmerton
Stephen Webb} Sams Holman
Edwd Barnard
David Putnam} James Kimball
Jno Glen King} Ellis Mansfield
John Moriarty } overseers Abner Goodhue
of the
Joseph Howard} poor
I certify that the above are in my opinion genuine Signatures of respectable
and credible Town Officers and citizens of Salem
Nath Silsbee
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath,
taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Witmore
a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, John Chandler do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United
States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not,
since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 navel service of the United Sates in the revo-
lutionary war," passed on the eighteenth 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 hereto annexed and by me 
subscribed.  So help me GOD.
John Chandler
ESSEX, ss. C.C.C.P. June, term, A.D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed John Chandler
took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me
Wm Witmore Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify 
that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied 
from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is 
the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the prop-
erty exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is five hundred
and twenty dollars and he owes $430.00
L. S. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed
the seal of the said court, at Salem, in said County of Essex,
on this 17th day of July A. D.
1820. 
Attr. Ichabod Tucker Clerk
The foregoing is a true copy of record, in testi-
mony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of said Court at
Salem aforesaid on this twenty fifth day
of November A. D. 1820.
Attr. Icabod Tucker Clerk
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34 688
Revy INVALID
File No 84,688
John Chandler
Lieut Rev War
Act: 18" March 18
Index. Vol. 2, Page 481
[Arrangement of 1870]
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In C
The DELEGATES of the United Coloni
New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, th
land, Virginia, North-Carolina, and Sou
WE reposing especial trust and confi
these presents constitute and appo
in the Re
Colonel Henry Knox
in the army of the United Colonies, rais
hostile invasion thereof.  You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge 
Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging.  And we do strictly 
charge and require all officers and soldiers under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as
Second Lieutenant And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from
time to tie as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee of
Congress, for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the time being of the army of the United
Colonies, or any other your superior officer, according to the rules and discipline of war, in pursuance of the
trust reposed in you.  This commission to continue in force until revoked by this or a future Congress.
the Seventeenth January 1776 By Order of the Congress, 
John Hancock President
Attest Cha Thomson (illegible)
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1827
July 1818
Lt. Jno Chandler
Salem
(illegible)
Sep 1818
age 67
disabl?
has $520
owes 430
$90
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun
and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third
Monday of June, A.D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding ac-
cording to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction, unlimited in
point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the pow-
er of fine and imprisonment, John Chandler
resident in Salem in said Circuit, who is named in
Pension Certificate No. 1824 now in his possession, of which the
following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
" I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818,
John Chandler late a 2nd Lieutenant
"in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate
"of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the 4th
"day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this sixteenth day
L. D. "of July one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as
follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding
excepted, to wit, a small parcel of land on River
Street in Salem 40 by 49 feet, with a house on it 16 by
30 feet. 2 Stories and a small work shop...$450.00
Old furniture in family use. Clock...17.00
Old card table $2- 8 chairs $3-desk 4.00...9.00
two other tables 2.50- round table $2- Looking glass 2.50 8.00
case of drawers $4.50-easy chair $3- Chamber chair $3--7.50
another case of drawers $1-bureau $3.50 small table 1.50--6.00
Andirons, shovel, tongs 1.50 & kitchen furniture pots etc. $11--12.50
$520.00
He owes $100.00 to P & A Chase and to others
$30.00 --deduct 130.00
$390.00
His son Jno D. Chandler is a shopkeeper & has furnished and sup-}
plied the Declarant articles to the amount of (for which} 300.00
said declarant is indebted)} $90.00
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He is sixty seven years old by trade a carpenter but 
has been disabled from labour for four years by a 
fever sore on his right leg, so bad he is hardly able
to walk about.
His family are his wife aged 66, and his daughter
Sally aged 40, who has always been an invalid.
He served in Capt. Drury's Company in Col. Crane's 
Regiment in Massachusetts all 1776 and part
of 1777.  
John Chandler
Sworn to and declared before
Wm. Witmore, Judge within named.
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath,
taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore
a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, John Chandler do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United
States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not,
since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 navel service of the United Sates in the revo-
lutionary war," passed on the eighteenth 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 hereto annexed and by me 
subscribed.  So help me GOD.
John Chandler
ESSEX, ss. C.C.C.P. June, term, A.D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed John Chandler
took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me
Wm Wetmore Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify 
that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied 
from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is 
the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the prop-
erty exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is five hundred
and twenty dollars and he owes $430.00
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed
the seal of the said court, at Salem, in said County of Essex,
on this 17th day of July A. D.
1820. 
Attr. Ichabod Tucker Clerk