Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45673, Jonathan Chase, N.H.
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SERVICE
N.H. 

Chase, Jonathan or Chace 

NUMBER
S.45673
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71
Jonathan Chase
9.593
Con
Sept 1819
Cont.
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To the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting at Wolfborough within and for the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire, on the second Tuesday of July, 1820.
Jonathan Chase aged 71, resident in Alton in said County, comes into court, and in pursuance of an act of Congress passed on the 1st day of May, 1820, brings with him, and in his proper person exhibits to said Court a Schedule by him subscribed, containing his whole Estate and Income - his necessary clothing and bedding excepted -as follows: 
One cow -  three sheep - and no other property - [signed] Jonathan Chase

And the said Jonathan Chase in pursuance as aforesaid produceth to said Court the following oath by him duly taken and subscribed :-viz.
I Jonathan Chase 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 int 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.
[signed] Jonathan Chase

And the said Jonathan Chase doth here in Court further declare on oath, that he served in the revolutionary was as follows, viz.
I enlisted in April 1777 into the Company commanded by Captain Richard Were in Col. Scamel's Regiment New Hampshire and served two year and upwards I joined the army  at Ticontaroga [Ticonderoga] and in the retreat from Ticontaroga to fish Kiln [Fish Kill] I then was ["on" cut off] recruiting service until I was regularly disharg["ed" cut off]

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That the date of his original declaration in order to obtain a pension is Apr. 25th 1818 and the number of his pension certificate is 9,593:- That his occupation is that of a farmer & is not able to labor at his occupation - That the number and names of his family residing with him, and their ages and capacities to contribute to their support, are as follows, viz.
He has no other family [except - crossed out] but himself

Wherefore he prays the opinion of the said Court as to the value of the property contained in the said schedule, and that the same, together with a copy of the premises be duly certified to the Secretary of War.
Sworn and declared before the said court the 11th day of July 1820. }  Jonathan Chase
Attest, [signed]  A. Peirce CLERK

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.....STRAFFORD  ss.
At a Court of Common Pleas holden at Wolfborough within and for the county of Strafford and state of New - Hampshire, on the 11th day of July 1820 before DANIEL M DURELL Esquire, Chief Justice, and VALENTINE SMITH and SAMUEL QUARLES, Associate Justices of said Court.
The aforesaid schedule and oath and the above declaration duly subscribed and sworn by the said Jonathan Chase having been by him exhibited in person, and presented to the Court, and the same being seen and considered, it is the opinion of said Court that the value of the property contained in said schedule is fifteen dollars [blank] cents. Wherefore the Court order that a copy of the premises, together with the proceedings thereon be duly certified to the Secretary of War.
Attest, [signed] A. Peirce, Clerk

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.....STRAFFORD  ss.
I, Andrew Peirce, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Strafford, being a court of record, do certify that the foregoing schedule and oath, and the declaration annexed, with the proceedings and opinion of the court thereon are true copies from the Records and files of said court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, the 11th day of July - 1820.
[signed] A. Peirce, Clerk
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9593
New - Hampshire

Jonathan Chace
of Alton, in the state of N. Hampe. who was a non-com. offr. in the regiment commanded by Col. Scammel of the N. Hampshire line, for the term of two years.

Inscribed on the Roll of New - Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25 of April, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19 of April '18 and sent to Daniel M Durell, judge, Dover, New - Hamp.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1819 - - -82.63
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept, 1819 - 48. "
[total]  $130.63

10 mo 6/30
+ 4/31

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

Continued

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Dead.  See letter to S. Avery J.P.
Agt. May 28, 1835

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Notification sent to A Peirce [Gov?]
Dover, New Hamsr. 6th Sept. 1820
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Alton, N. Hampshire.
J. Chase
Private
3 New Hampshire Regt
1777 - 2 years
Service admitted

[the following has an X through it:]
Wanting the judge's certificate of the reduced circumstances of the applicant.


Admd
25, April, 1818
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Strafford ss}  
On this 25th day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Courts of Common Pleas for the First District in said State, personally appears Jonathan Chase aged sixty nine years, resident in Alton in the said district, 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 Jonathan Chase enlisted in said service March or April 1777 in the state of New Hampshire in the company commanded by Captain Richard Weare of the 3rd New Hampshire Regt. to serve three years [;] that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until [the, crossed out] April 1779 when, being a non commissioned officer, & on the recruiting service at Exeter, New Hampshire, he, by permission of Gen. Enoch Poor of the New Hampshire Brigade, procured one James Smith as a substitute to serve in his said Chase's place & stand the residue of the time for which he had engaged - that said James Smith was mustered at said Exeter, on the 27th day of April 1779 & then & there served as his said Chase's substitute as aforesaid when he was discharged from service in said Exeter - state of New Hampshire by then Gen. Poor, that he was in the battle of October 7th 1777 with Burgoyne, at Stillwater and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support; [and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said serve - crossed out]

Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.

I, DANIEL M. DURELL, Chief Justice of the Courts of Common Pleas for the first district in the State of New - Hampshire, as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Jonathan Chase 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.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said Court for the County of Strafford in said district to be affixed to the same, this twenty fifth day of April A. D. 1818  [signed] D M Durell
Attest [signed] Danl Waldron  Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Strafford
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This may certify all whom it may concern that Jonathan Chase was a Soldier in the late Capt. Richard Weares Company in the third Battalion of New Hampshire Forces commanded by Col. Alexander Scammell of whom I was Lieutenant, and commanded said Company after the decease of Capt Weare[;] said Chase was promoted to sargeant [sergeant] for good behaviour and served two years faithfully in the Continental service
Greenland  April 28 1818  [signed] James Wegwood

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss}  Greenland  April 18, 1818
James Wedgwood above named personally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the above certificut [certificate] by him subscribed before
[signed] Enoch Clark  Justice Peace
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State of New Hampshire
First judicial district ss}  March 31, 1819

I  D. M. Durell Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the district aforesaid do certify that it has been made to appear to my satisfaction that Jonathan Chase who made the foregoing declaration is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
[signed] D. M. Durell
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October 8, 1915.

Mrs. Gertrude G. Rhodes
Oxford, Mass.

Madam:   In response to your letter of the 5" instant, in which you state that this Bureau informed you on the 4th instant that "A Revolutionary War soldier could not draw a pension". you are requested to reread said letter, a copy of which retained in this Bureau states that "Revolutionary War soldiers who deserted [underlined] were not entitled to a pension".  This data was not given you in regard to any specific soldier of that war but only as a matter of general information.
   In your letter of October 5, you refer to a Revolutionary war soldier named Jonathan Chase of New Hampshire, and state that the records of Concord, New Hampshire report that he deserted December 1, 1777, and that he was in Captain Richard Weare's company. Colonel Alexander Scammel's regiment.
   The printed records of the state of New Hampshire entitled Rolls and Documents relating to soldiers in the Revolutionary War, Volume 3, page 17, shows one Jonathan Chase on a Return of Captain Isaac Frye's [underlined] company
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Colonel Alexander Scammell's Third Battalion, marked deserted December 1, 1777.  The Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to the Jonathan Chase who deserted December 1, 1777, or served in Captain Isaac Frye's company.
   You are herewith furnished the history of the only Jonathan Chase of New Hampshire found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
   From the papers in the claim Sur. File No. 45,673, it appears that  Jonathan Chase enlisted in New Hampshire (place not stated) in March or April, 1777, in Captain Richard Weare's company, Colonel Alexander Scammell's 3d New Hampshire Battalion; he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant, (date not given) and served until April 1779, when, being a non commissioned officer on the recruiting service at Exeter, New Hampshire, by the permission of General Enoch Poor, he procured one James Smith as a substitute and was discharged at said Exeter.  He was in the battle of Stillwater on October 7, 1777.
   He was allowed pension as Jonathan Chace for the above noted service on an application executed April 25, 1818, at which time he was 69 years of age and a resident of Alton, Strafford County, New Hampshire.  There is no further data as to family on file.
Very respectfully, 
[signed]  G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.

Chase - 2 -
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Rev Ser
Oxford, Mass.
Oct. 5, 1915.

To the Commissioner,
Dear Sir:   Your letter of Oct. 4, saying that a Revolutionary War soldier could not draw a pension received.
  I am told that Jonathan Chase, a Revolutionary soldier, did receive a pension.
   According to the records at Concord N. H. he deserted Dec. 1, 1777, but also saw service after
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that date, as well as before.  He was a sergeant in Capt. Richard Weare's Co., Col. Alexander Scammel's regiment and enlisted from Sanbornton New Hampshire.  Do you think there could have been a mistake in those N. H. records in regard to his deserting?  Or was desertion not held against him for some reason?
   They write me from Concord N. H. that the
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House of Representatives passed a vote that he was entitled to the depreciation of his pay covering a period which [just, crossed out] included just that date (viz. date of desertion)
   Are there any records in your office indicating that he deserted?  Will you kindly inform me if he did receive the pension, as I have been told.  I have a copy of his sworn statement made when applying for the pension.  
 Very sincerely,
[signed]  Gertrude G. Rhodes,
Oxford, Mass.
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October 4, 1915.

Mrs. Gertrude G. Rhodes,Oxford, Mass.

Madam:  In response to your letter of the 1" instant, you are advised that Revolutionary soldiers who deserted were not entitled to pension.
Very Respectfully,
[signed] GM Saltzgaber
Commissioner
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Rev. war section.

September 16, 1915.

Mr. John T. Gilman
Soldiers Home
Chelsea, Mass.

Sir:  In response to your letter dated the 4th instant, you are advised that the history of Jonathan Chase, Sur. File No. 45,673, Rev. War, was furnished you under date of December 1, 1908, and that it is not the practice of this Bureau to furnish more than one such statement to the same person.
Very Respectfully, 
[signed] G M Saltsgaber
Commissioner.
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau  * Jonathan Chase  Inv. file 45673
Date of Enlistment - Mar. or Apr 1777 

LENGTH OF SERVICE 
Apr 1779

Rank - Sgt

Officers - Captain 
Richard Weare 

Colonel
Alexander Scammell

State 
N. H.

*Pensioned as Jonathan Chace

Battles engaged in - Stillwater

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted in New Hampshire

Date of application for pension, Apr 25, 1818, His cl was al. [claim was allowed]

Residence at date of application, Alton, Strafford Co. N.H.

Age at date of application, 69yrs.  died Mch 21, 1835*

Remarks:  The above noted is the only soldier of that name N. H. Service  &c

*from agency book

[Handwritten text] aud before discharge again
see aud. rept. for widow
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Lynn  Nov 19/ '08
Eac

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C. 
Rev

Dear Sir: - A few days ago I wrote your office making inquiry for the record of Jonathan Chase who died sometime after 1830 at No Wolfboro N. H. and was said to be a pensioner of the U. S. at the time and being being at the time of death in his 99th year.  Since writing the previous note I have learned from his grand daughter (daughter of his eldest daughter), Nancy (Chase) Edgerly who died Oct 24, 1888 at the age of 104 yrs) that he was for some time on the staff of Washington and served through the war.  I give you this that you may the more readily select him from the many of the name Jonathan Chase who are on record as soldiers of that war.  I am seeking his pension record to ascertain 
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date of his death and name of his second wife who as far as I can lean [learn] survived him.  I have before asked for the Pension Record of Thomas Chase (the name claimed by some of his descendants as the old man) and have received the same from your office but he does not meet requirements being many years too young.  I lived in Wolfboro some fifty years ago and never heard of but one Chase family and that was Thomas Chase, eldest son of the Jonathan sought, and his descendants all of whom, I know.  He lived as far as I can learn at the outbreak of the war in New Durham Gore - as it is named in the U. S. Census of 1790 and now named Alton N. H.  About 1791 he moved about four miles to So Wolfboro and raised a family [.]   after a second marriage to Abigail Cate he moved to No Wolfboro where he died.  This is the best I can give you in the way of information.
[signed] John T. Gil,man
11 Brownville Ave.
Lynn Mass
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Lynn Nov 18 /'08

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C. 
Rev

Dear Sir: - Yours of 14th replying to mine of 2nd relating to information sought of the Pension Record of one Thomas Chase at hand with the record now well considered and will say that he does not meet requirements as he is not old enough by nearly thirty years and our man must have been dead before this one applied for pension having died about 1830 in his 99th year/  I think  I have listened to closely to one portion of his descendants who have claimed his name was Thomas Chase while another portion think his name was Jonathan Chase, of whom there is a record in Census of 1790 and in the 
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right location and with the proper number of boys and girls we know him to have had at that time  I refer to Jonathan Chace of New Durham Gore in the 1790 census now known as Alton N. H.  He moved the next year about three miles and built him a cabin in So Wolfboro [Wolfeboro] where he finished up his family contract and remained late in life when having lost his wife he married again and moved a few miles to No Wolfboro where he spent his last days a pensioner, and is buried.  I ask for any pension record of a Jonathan Chase who hailed from that locality and who married for second wife Abigail Cate.  This is the best I can do,
[signed] John T. Gilman
Lynn Mass.
11 Brownville Ave.

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U. S. PENSION OFFICE
A
NOV 19 1908
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{FCls?] 2  Revolutionary

SOLDIERS HOME IN MASSACHUSETTS.

Chelsea, Sept.,4, 1915

Pension Dept.
Washington D. C.

  The enclosed letter to the War Dept Will explain the object of this note and I would like to have a copy of his application for a pension, if such is to be obtained
  There is no question but he was a Pensioner for years before his death ans [sic] a small balance due him was paid to his widow Abigail Chase.  His application should state explicitly what his service was.  I think that he served in the Regiment of Col. Joshua Wingate.

John T. Gilman
Soldiers Home
Chelsea Mass.

Jonathan Chase
letter to War Dept returned.

[seal]  U. S. PENSION OFFICE
D
Sept 7 1915
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WI
Rev [?]
June 4 - 1915

Pension Dept.
Washington D. C.
Dear Sirs:  Can you give me the Rev. war record of my great grandfather Jonathan Chase (New Hamp. troops)  
Johnathan Chase was born Stratham N. H. July 22 - 1749 or 1748  died Wolfborough N. H. March 21 - 1835
Twice married
1st - Abigail Wilson
2nd Abigail Meserve
I understand that he moved to Wolfborough shortly after the war [end of page]
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and am informed that he enlisted from Sanberton [Sanbornton?] , but am not sure of this.
Thanking you in advance, I am
Yours very truly,
[signed] F. H. Niles
Address Ocean Beach
New London, Conn
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45673

INVALID.

Revy

File No. 45-673

Jonathan Chace
Non Com. Off [officer]  Rev. War

Act:  18 March 1818

Index: - Vol. 3, Page 85

[in brackets] Arrangement of 1870.


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1908 Dec. 1  Hist. to John T. Gilman [we?]
1915 June 10  Hist. to F. H. Niles
Mr Gilman adv. no duplicates
1916 Oct 18  Hist. to G G Rhodes 
[Oxford?] Mass. aw.
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[seal]  OFFICE OF AUDITOR FOR INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
IN REPLYING QUOTE INITIALS

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON
September 18, 1915.

The Commissioner of Pensions
Sir:  In reply to your letter of the 15th instant (Rev. War Section) you are informed that according to the latest account rendered by the U. S. Pension Agent at Portsmouth , N. H., the records of this office show last payment to have been made, in the case of Jonathan Chace, certificate No. 9593. Rev. War, to Samuel Avery, attorney for the widow Abigail Chace of Wolfborough, Strafford Co., New Hampshire, at $8.00 per month from September 4, 1834, to March 21, 1835, the date of the pensioners death.
Letter herewith returned.
Respectfully,
[signed] Oscar A Price  Auditor.  F R
P
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3-307
(Old No. 3-399)
Rev War Section ["division" crossed out]_ _ _ _ J.S.C.,  Ex'r.
S File No. 45673
Jonathan Chase
Rev. War

Department of the Interior.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., Sept. 15, 1915

SIR:  For use in the above-entitled claim for pension, you are requested to furnish this Bureau with a report in the case of Jonathan Chase allowed $8 per month from Apl. 25, 1818, pensioned under the Act of Mch 18, 1818 by certificate No. 9593 issued Apl. 19, 1819, at New Hampshire Agency, showing date of last payment of soldier's pension and to whom paid.

Very respectfully,
[signed] G M Saltzgaber  Commissioner.

THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT,
Treasury Department.   o-2

Died 21 Mch 1835, check dated July 1, 1835
Pd 3 [unknown] 35