Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,529, Nathaniel Bartlett, N. H.
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SERVICE N.H.

Bartlett, Nathaniel

NUMBER  S.23,529
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1889 Nov 1 history by M M Bartlett [?]

341
New Hampshire
Nathaniel Bartlett
of Cornish  in the State of N.H. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Scott of the Regt commanded by Col Cilley in the N Hampshire line for the term of 3  years from April 1777 to April 1780

Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of August 1832 and sent the Hon. H. Hubbard Charleston N.H.

Amount due on 4th of March 1832 - - - $80.00
[Amount due on 4th of] Sep 1832 - - - - -40.00
[total] $120.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act  7 June 1832.}

Recorded Book D.  Vol.A  Page143
BLB
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Nath Bartlet's
Declaration [?]
New Hampshire line
Col Cilly
April 1777
April 1780
Correct by Roll
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State of New Hampshire
Cheshire ss
On this Fourteenth day of July 1819 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Cheshire personally appears Nathaniel Bartlett of Cornish in said County of Cheshire aged sixty these years last November resident in said Cornish who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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"  That the said Nathaniel Bartlett enlisted in said Cornish in the company commanded by Captain Scott of Colonel Joseph Cilley's New Hampshire Regiment called the first New Hampshire Regiment in the month of April in the year of our Lord 1777.  That he continued to serve in said corps or in the service of the United States untill the thirtieth day of April 1780 when he was discharged from the service in West-Point in the State of New York as more fully appears from his discharge in writing hereto annexed; that he was in the battles of Monmonth and Stillwater; and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of said services.
[signed] Nathaniel Bartlett

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
[signed] Elisha Huntley } One of the Judges of the Court of Com. Pleas
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I Elisha Huntley Judge as aforesaid do certify that in my opinion the said Nathaniel Bartlet did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress
I also certify that the said Court has no particular arms or device for a seal
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this Fourteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
[signed] Elisha Huntley} one of the Justices of said Court of Common pleas
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We Leonard Comings and Obed Powers of Cornish in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire make oath and say that we live near Nath. Bartlet of said Cornish and have a general knowledge of his circumstances and have had for a number of years and from that knowledge we give it as our opinion that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance of his country for support
[signed] Leonard Comings     Obed Powers

State of New Hampshire
Cheshire ss. July 13th 1819
Then Leonard Comings and Obed Powers personally appeared and each for himself made solemn oath that the above written affidavit by them subscribed is just and true.
Before me
[signed] Harvey Chase Jus. Peace

I Harvey Chase Notary Public for the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Lenard Comings and Obed Powers signers of the above written affidavit are personally well known to me to be men who sustain good characters in point of truth and veracity  I believe their characters could neither of them be impeached in a Court of Justice, but that they would every where (when known) be deemed and taken to be credible witnesses
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and annexed my notarial seal this 13th day of July 1819
[signed] Harvey Chase  Notary Public
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Nathaniel Bartlett, Affidavit

Admitted
$80 per annum
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Nathaniel Bartlett of Cornish in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire do depose and say that I took an active part in the Revolutionary War and served as a private for the space of three years in Captain Scotts Company of Col. Cilleys Regiment of the line of the State of New Hampshire Ending on the 30th day of April 1780 when I obtained an honorable discharge at West Point signed by Col Joseph Cilley.  That I applied for and obtained the allowance of my claim to a pension under the act of the 18th of March 1818 and received from the War Department a certificate numbered 14.947 dated 27th September 1819 & that my name was afterwards stricken from the Pension List on account of the amount of my property.  My discharge was annexed to my declaration made July 14 1819 and may now probably be found in the Pension Office at Washington.  I am now a resident of Cornish aforesaid and was also a resident of said Cornish at the time of making my first application-
[signed] Nathaniel Bartlett

State of New Hampshire 
Sullivan ss⎬ August 3 1832 Then Nathaniel Bartlett who is a credible witness personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true. Before me
[signed] John Bryant Justice of the Peace

I Benjamin B French, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Sullivan in the State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify that John Bryant is a Justice of the Peace and the above signature purporting to be his is genuine
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court August 9th 1832
[signed] B.B. French
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Nathaniel Bartlett
14947.
not entitled
March 1820
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STATE OF NEWHAMPSHIRE.
CHESHIRE COUNTY SS.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
ON this 18th day of July 1820 personally appeared In open Court being a court of record for said county, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, Nathaniel Bartlett, aged sixty five years, resident in Cornish in said county, who being first duly sworn, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: He enlisted at Cornish some time in the forepart of the year 1777 into the Co. commanded by Capt Scott in the Regt commanded by Col Joseph Cilley to serve as a private soldier in the late Revolutionary war for three years, that in April or May of that year he joined the company at Charlestown in said County & marched to Ticonderoga - that he remained in said Co. faithfully serving his country during  the time of his enlistment.  Was at the battles of Stillwater & Monmouth and was discharged April 30th 1780 as appears by his original discharge annexed to his declaration made & sworn to July 14th 1819 before the Hon Elisha Huntley Esqr & now in the War Department at the city of Washington
The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the fourteenth day of July 1819  The number of my pension certificate is 16,947
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, 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 1818, 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. 
That my occupation is that of Husbandry, which by reason of age and infirmities, I am now unable to pursue by my personal labor and that I was injured at battle of Monmouth as to my hearing & have been ever since and am still partially deaf. I have been also for sometime blind as to one eye.  That I have a wife aged fifty nine years who is feeble &  I have in my family one son viz Lyman Bartlett aged 18 years and one daughter viz Louvina Bartlett aged 23 years, both remarkably [active?] and industrious, & this is the whole of my family
[signed] Nathaniel Bartlett


Sworn to and declared at Newport in said County, on the 18th day of July 1820 before
[signed] R Vose } Judge of said Court.

I, SALMA HALE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Cheshire, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the 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 property in the aforesaid schedule, is 1023 dollars and 52 cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 24th day of July A. D. 1820
[signed] S. Hale
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SCHEDULE,
of the whole estate (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) and income of Nathaniel Bartlett of Cornish in the County of Cheshire and State of Newhampshire, Applicant for a Pension under the act of Congress of May 1st, 1820.

80/100 of 100 acres of land where I live in Cornish undivided lying in Common with John Bartlett -- 750.00
1/? pew in the meeting house --  5.00
1 Horse $15,  4 cows 50 -- 75.00
5 young cattle & calves 23, 13 Sheep & lambs 16.50 -- 39.50
1 Sleigh & harness 5[ 25?], 1 harrow 1.50, 1 iron bar  1.50 -- 28.00
1 Chain $1.00, one axe .75, a hoe .33 -- 2.00
Coopers tools [etc?] 8, [?] rings & wedges .50 -- 8.50
2 Saddles 7.50, weaving loom & apparatus 4 --11.50
Spinning wheel & reels 1.00, 1 five pail Kettle  -- 3.00
Gun [afowls?] .50, 7 bushels corn 4.37, 1 bushel rye .50 -- 6.37 
Meal .66, pork & game 10.50, 2 1/2 barrels cider 3.75 -- 14.91
Cider cask 3, 120 lbs. cheese 6,  flax .45 -- 9.45
10 milk pans 1.00, 2 milk pail .34, 1 churn .17 -- 1.51
2 earthen pots. .20,  wheel head, & card, .50 -- .70
Tin pans, pots & jugs 1.00, crockery & [?] 4, teapot 1 -- 6.00
Pewter dishes .75, decanter & tumblers .50,  Looking glass 50 -- 1.75
1 Wooden clock 10,  - case of drawers $3, light stand .50 -- 13.50
3 tables & spread 5, trunk & chest 3, -- 6.00
Table linen 1.25, 6 [?] chairs 3,  11 kitchen chairs 1.67 -- 5.92
1 Cheese press .50 , books 1.50 -- ac
Andirons 1.50, maple Sugar 2.50, woolsay 17 1/2 [?] 5.83 -- 9.83
1 Chest .50, old iron 1.50, salt .50 -- 2.00
Note against Haron Bradley for 20 payable June 1821 -- 18.00
[total] $1023.52
[signed] Nathaniel Bartlett
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In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Nathan Bartlett, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.

Apr. 1777 - Apr 30 1780
RANK. Private
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
Capt Scott
Col. Joseph Cilley [illegible]
STATE. N H

Battles engaged in, Stillwater Monmouth
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [blank]
Date of application for pension, July 14, 1819
Residence at date of application, Cornish Cheshire Co NH
Age at date of application, 63 years in Nov 1818
Remarks: His claim was allowed. Wife, name not stated 50 years in 1820. Children Louvina, 23 and Lyman 18 years in 1820

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Military M.B.H.

Revolution
23529
INVALID.
File No. 23,529
Nathaniel Bartlett
Pri. Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 22
[in brackets] Arrangement of 1870


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Feby 11-1902 N. B. Gould Camb[eidge?]
Oct. 29-1902 Emma C. Flanders Littleton N.H.
1905 Oct 27- Family and history to Ida Gregory
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14,947 R
New Hampshire
Nathaniel Bartlett
of Cornish in the state of N Hamp who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Cilley of the New Hamp line, for the term of three years

Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14th of July1819.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of Sept 1819, and sent to Harvey Chase Esq Agent Cornish N Hamp.

Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1819 - - - - $13.70
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820 -  - 48.-- 
1 mo 18/31  4/30    [total] $81.70

 {Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

Discontinued

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See letter Jan 19 1832 to Hon H. Hubbard H.R.
To Do. 12 March 1832

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Notification sent Sep 18th 1820 to Harvey Chase Cornish N.H.
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4411
Case of Nath Bartlett,

Harvey Chase
agt
Cornish, N. Hamp
recd July 22, 1819.

Admd -
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Cornish N. H. July 15th 1819
Sir
At the request of Judge Huntley I send you inclosed the declaration of Nath. Bartlett of this town made in order to obtain a pension under the act of March 18th 1818 - to which declaration is annexed his discharge-
Yours [?]
[signed] Harvey Chase

Hon J.C. Calhoun
Secty at War
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War Department
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Nathaniel Bartlett late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New Hampshire Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this twenty seventh day of September One thousand eight hundred and nineteen
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CR
Littleton N.H.
Sept. 4. 1902.
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C
Wishing to obtain a Certificate of Enlistment, Service etc. of Nathaniel Bartlett, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, from Cornish, New Hampshire.  I write to ask if any fee has to be paid in advance to obtain the desired information.
I wish it to establish my eligibility to membership among the D.A.R.
Respectfully -
[signed] Emma C. Flanders.
Littleton, N.H.

[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE  A SEP 6 1902
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own
OCT 19 1905
Waitsfield Vt
Oct 05
Pension Commissioner
Dear Sir:
Please send me Revolutionary War record of Nathaniel Bartlett of Cornish N H & Wm Wheeler as contained in their for pension application
Yours truly
[signed] Ida Gregory

[stamp] U. S. PENSION OFFICE  A OCT 18 1905