Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1835, Elisha Chamberlain, Mass.
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Service                                            
Mass.    

Number 
R. 1835 

Chamberlain, Elisha 
Susannah
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Declaration
of Elisha Chamberlain--

Keane
N.H.

Private 8 Months

$26.66


H. Hubbard
Chamberlain
NH

CHAMBERLAIN, ELISHA
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Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,}
COUNTY OF CHESHIRE, SS.}
On this nineteenth day of March 1833 personally appeared in open Court, before the Hon. Aaron Matson Judge of Probate for said County now sitting, Elisha Chamberlain a resident of Keene in the county of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire aged Sixty nine years last September 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 7th, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
In the year 1778 - in the last part of the month of March, he enlisted for eight months in Captain Sabin Mann's Company in Col.(Benjamin) Hawes Regiment of Massachusetts Militia, that he enlisted at Walpole in the State of Massachusetts, and proceeded to Rhode Island - to Tiverton and there joined in Company - was stationed there some three or four months, was employed in guarding, and in building a fort - The Brits then were in possession of Rhode Island - Than (Then) he went out Rhode Island under Genl (General) Sullivan - crossed Howland's Ferry - was there stationed on what was then called Wind Mill Hill -  was in the battle on the Island - and marched off in the retreat, he thinks the next day right after the battle. - remained at Bristol a few days and was then marched to Providence. - remained there until he was dismissed in, as he thinks, the last of November. - That by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot state precisely the length of this service, but he well recollects that he served the full eight months, and several days over - and that not recollecting the days, he now states that he served as above not less than eight months - as a private, -
That he was born in Walpole, Massachusetts in the year 1763 - September 20 - 
That there is a record of age on the town records of said Walpole
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That he went from Walpole aforesaid into said service, where he then lived - That he [illegible] lived at Brooklyn Mass & Fitchburg, and in Keene aforesaid since the war - The last 27 years in said Keene - That he was a volunteer in said service. 

Recollects in said service Genl Sullivan as before stated - recollects Col. Clapp of Dorchester had a Regiment of militia stationed near our Regt., recollects a black Regiment stationed on Wind Mill Hill at the same time he was - recollects that the French fleet was in the Harbour while he was stationed there - and that they left before the battle & retreat.

That he did not receive any discharge in writing. - That he has no documentary evidence and does not know that any persons are living who knew him in said service - that he has been quite feeble and infirm for years past & has not been at said Walpole for more than thirty years past. -- That he is known to Rev. [illegible] who he believes will certify as to his [illegible] of his service in the Revolution.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State. 

Elisha Chamberlain
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
before me Aaron Matson Judge of Probate
We, Zedekiah S. Barstow a clergyman residing in Keene aforesaid & David Carpenter of the said Keene
hereby certify, that we are acquainted with Elisha Chamberlain who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be sixty-nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion, though we have no real knowledge of the past of his serving in the army.
Z.S. Barstow
David Carpenter
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
before me Aaron Matson Judge of Probate
And 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 it appears to them Zedekiah S. Barstow who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Keene and that David Carpenter who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Keene and is a credible person and that their attestment is entitled to credit.
Aaron Matson Judge of Probate
I, Asa Parker Registrar of the Court of Probate for said County of Cheshire, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of Elisha Chamberlain for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this nineteenth day of March, A.D. 1833.
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July 28 1913
C N Fessenden
Chicago Illinois

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Elisha Chamberlain
of Cheshire in the State of NH (New Hampshire)
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain (left blank) of the regt (regiment) commanded by Col Hawes in the NH (New Hampshire) line pr 8 May.

Inscribed on the Roll of NH at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of June 1833 and sent (illegible) on H (Henry) Hubbard Charlestown (New Hampshire)

Arrears to the 4th of Mar (March) 1833 $53.32
Semi-anl. (annual), allowance ending 4 Sept.
 13.33
(Total) $66.65
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by J H McBlair Clerk,
Book 6    Vol. 1    Page 76.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
of the 7th July AD 1838 entitled an act granting
half pay and pensions to certain Widows:
State of New Hampshire}
Cheshire County [illegible]}  on this twentieth
day of March One Thousand Eight hundred and forty
three, personally appeared before me Horan Chapin
one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas Susannah Chamberlain
a resident of Swanzey in the County of Cheshire aforesaid
aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn according
to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by
act of Congress passed on the seventh of July A.D. one
thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, entitled
an act granting half pay and pensions to certain
pensioners:  That she is the widow of Elisha
Chamberlain who was a Revolutionary
Pensioner - (Evidence of his rank, services, and pay being
in the Pension Office) - She further declares, that
she was married to the said Elisha Chamberlain
on the 6th or 7th day of May  - seventeen
hundred and eighty three or four, and that her said
husband died on the eleventh day of June
eighteen hundred and forty - that she was
not married to him prior to his leaving the Service,
but that the marriage took place previous to the
first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety
four viz at the time above stated
Susannah X Chamberlain her mark

John Chamberlain
Daniel H Chapin

Sworn and subscribed on the twentieth day of
March 1843
Before me Horan Chapin one of the
Justices of the Court of common pleas for Cheshire Co.

State of New Hampshire
Cheshire Co. 
I Elijah Sawyer Register of the Court of Probate
in and for said County of Cheshire, hereby certify
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that Horan Chapin is a Justice of the Court
of Common Pleas in & for said County, duly Commissioned
and qualified and that the signatures to this, and
the other papers hereto attached, purporting to be his,
are genuine -

[a square of paper with a smudged ink stamp is attached]
In testimony whereof I [illegible] to affix
the seal of said Court of Probate this
twentieth day of March 1843
Elijah Sawyer [illegible]
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Susanna Chamberlain,
wid. of Elisha
Pension Claim
Act 7 July 1838
from New Hampshire

P. of Atty. to examine
papers

S. J Bowen Atty
Present
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Know all men by these presents, that I John
Chamberlain of Swanzey in the County of Cheshire
& State of New Hampshire, declare that I am a child
of Elisha Chamberlain dec'd who was a Revolutionary
pensioner of the U.S. and also the son of Susannah
Chamberlain who was the sife & late widow of said
Elisha & that she is also deceased.  I further declare
that I am advised that my said Mother was in
her life time entitled to pension under the Act
of 1838.  I therefore hereby constitute & appoint
[S.?] J. Bowen Esqr. my true & lawful atty.
for me and in my name to examine all
papers & documents on file in the Departments at
Washington & Elsewhere, & prosecute said claim
with full power of substitution, hereby authorizing
him to act as fully in the premises as I might
if personally present.

Witness my hand and Seal this twenty second
day of May 1854.
John Chamberlain [to the right of the signature is what appears to be a postage stamp]

State of New Hampshire}
Cheshire Ss.

May 22. 1854 Then the Said
John Chamberlain made oath that the above
Statement is true & I certify that I believe him
directly interested and that he is a child of both
Elisha & Susannah Chamberlain.
George F. Starkweather, Justice of the Peace
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Susannah Chamberlain
Widow of Elisha Chamberlain
Claim for Pension
Act 7 July 1838 - filed
from New Hampshire

P. of Atty enclosed

S. J. Bowen
Atty
Present.
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Washinton City DC
May 29, 1854

Sir,
Enclosed you will find Power of
Attorney from Heir of Susannah Chamberlain
who claimed Pension under Act of
7 July 1838 from New Hampshire.
I wish to examine papers on file
Yours truly
S J Bowen
[illegible]

Hon L P Waldo
Com of Pensions
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, County of Middlesex
Town of Newton, February 18th 1843 In the Records
of the Town of Newton I find the following
Marriages consummated by ?? Rev. W. Jonathan Homer
After sundry others I find the following
"Mr. Elijah Chamberlain + Miss Susanna Brown both
of Newton, were married May sixth seventeen hundred
and eighty four"
I, Elijah F. Woodward Clerk of the Town of
Newton certify that the above is a true Copy from the
Record of Marriages in the Town of Newton with the
Exception that the date which is expressed on said Record
in fair legible figures as follows  May 6th 1784

I, Elijah F. Woodward above
named depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk
in the Town of Newton, County & State aforesaid and that
the above is a true Extract from the Records of said Town
with the exception above named.
Elijah F. Woodward Clerk of the Town of 
Newton
Sworn to this 18th of February A.D. 1843
before me
Seth Davis Justice of the
Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office February 20 1843
I hearby certify that at the date of the above
attestation Seth Davis was a Justice of the Peace
for the County of Middlesex
Witness the Seal of the State
John A Bolles
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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August 18, 1930. 

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
ILL

Marion G. Russell
National Americans Society,
44 East Twenty-Third Street, 
New York, New York.

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 1835, that Elisha Chamberlain was born September 2, 1763 in Walpole, Massachusetts.

He stated that while residing in Walpole, Massachusetts, he enlisted the latter part of March, 1778, and served eight months as private in Captain Sabin Mann's Company, Colonel Hawes Massachusetts Regiment; he was in the battle of Rhode Island.

After the war, soldier lived in Brooklyn, Mass. and in Fitchburg (Massachusetts).

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 19, 1833, while a resident of Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, where he had resided for twenty-seven years. 

He married May 6, 1784, at Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Miss Susannah (Susanna) Brown; both parties then of said Newton.

He died June 11, 1840 in Swanzey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, survived by his widow, Susannah, who resided in Swanzey, N.H. in 1843, aged Seventy-six years.

Their son, John, was a resident of said Swanzey in 1854 and stated that his mother was then deceased.

Very truly yours,

E.W.MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner.
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We John Chamberlain and Sylvia Chamberlain depose and say that--we are acquainted with Susannah Chamberlain of Swanzy in the County of Cheshire & State of New Hampshire, that she is the widow of Elisha Chamberlain late of Said Swanzy, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner, that he died on the Eleventh day of June AD 1840--and that the Said Susannah Chamberlain still survives and remains his widow--
February 11th 1843
John Chamberlain
Sylvia Chamberlain

Cheshire fs.  Feb. 11th AD 1843.
Sworn to and Subscribed before me
Nathan G. Babbitt  Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire   )
Cheshire    fs.                     )

I Elijah Sawyer Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County of Cheshire, & hereby certify that Nathan G. Babbitt is a Justice of the peace for said County of Cheshire duly appointed & qualified, and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is genuine--

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the Seal of said Court of Probate and Subscribe my name this Eleventh day of February A.D. 1843.
Elijah Sawyer  Register.

[illegible seal affixed to the left of the above paragraph]
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State of New Hampshire                )
Cheshire Co. Town of Swanzey  fs. )

I Susannah Chamberlain, Late Pensioner under the Act of 1838 as the widow of Elisha Chamberlain, late of Swanzey aforesaid, am advised that an act pafsed on the third day of March 1843, giving me a pension for one year to obtain which, I now make this demand, and request that I may be authorized to receive the same which may be awarded to me.--

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my name this twentieth day of March 1843
Susannah  X her mark  Chamberlain

John Chamberlain     )
Daniel H Chapin        )

Sworn and subscribed this twentieth day of March 1843
Before me  Horan Chapin Justice of the C.Co. Pleas

State of New Hampshire   )
Cheshire County   fs.         )

I Elijah Sawyer Reg'r of the Court of Probate in & for said County of Cheshire, do hereby certify that Horan Chapin is a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the county aforesaid, as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the seal of the Court of Probate this twentieth day of March 1843
Elijah Sawyer Reg'r.

[illegible seal affixed to the left of the above paragraph]
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No.  8875

Susannah Chamberlain

N.H.  Elisha

1835

let to E. Sawyer  May 10 1843
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Pen Off
May 10th  '43--

Sir,

The claim of Susannah Chamberlain has been examined & disallowed--

Since the adjustment of her husbands pension, the rolls of the Mass. service have been rec'd which show that the alleged service in 78 in Hawes reg't in R Id (Rhode Island)--which he estimated at 8 mo was 1 mo 17 days--He asserted that he commenced service in May 78 under Capt Sabin Mann of Col Hawes Regt and served 8 mo in R. Id (Rhode Island)   No roll of Capt Mann for that year has been found but the Staff rolls of the Regt show that Col Hawes' regt was in service but 1 mo 17 days at that time as settled & paid in 1784--

She is therefore not entitled

Elijah Sawyer Esqr.
Keene
N.H.
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July 22, 1903.

The Honorable Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:-

I am desirous of getting whatever information may be in the possession of your department regarding service rendered in the War of the Revolution by Elisha Chamberlain, who is reported by the Secretary of War(in report of 1835) as having been pensioner.  His pension began March 4, 1831 at the age of seventy.  He served in some Massachusetts regiment.  He resided in New Hampshire at the time of receiving pension.

I would be pleased to know in what company he served, the captain of his company, colonel of his regiment, and the general of the brigade or division, and also the campaigns in which he took part.

Any information you may be able to send me will be appreciated.

Yours very truly,
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RECEIVED
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
Elisha Chamberlain  R. 1835

[Column 1]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Mch. 1778

[Column 2]
OF SERVICE.
8 mos

[Column 3]
RANK.
Pvt.

[Column 4]
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.......................................COLONEL.
Savin Mann.................................... Flames

[Column 5]
STATE.
Mass

Battles engaged in,  Rhode Island

Residence of soldier at enlistment,  Walpole Mass.

Date of application for pension, Mch. 19, 1833  His cl. was al.

Residence at date of application,  Keene, Cheshire Co., N.H.

Age at date of application,  born Sept. 3, 1763 at Walpole Mass.   died June 11, 1840

Remarks:
Soldier married May 6, 1784 at Newton, Middlesex Co., Mass.  Miss Susannah Brown, who was a resident of Swanzey, Cheshire Co. N.H. in 1843.  A son, John was also a resident of Swanzey N.H. in 1834.

Very respectfully,

Commissioner.

1565b3m10-08
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Miss Jennie C. Watts
6 Exeter Park
Cambridge, Mass

MAY 18 1912  [checkmark]

Hist of
Elisha Chamberlain

Mass.   R. 1835

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FITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
FEB. 3, 1892.

Fitchburg Historical Society.
JAMES F.D. GARFIELD, Secretary.

Fitchburg, Mass.   August 24, 1903

Hon E.F. Ware
Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,

Will you kindly give me a statement of the military service of Elisha Chamberlain, a Massachusetts soldier of the Revolution.  He was a native of Walpole; and family tradition resigns him to the cavalry service in 1778.

Respectfully yours,
James F.D. Garfield

(81 Grove St  Fitchburg, Mass.)
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AUG 26 1903
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National Americana Society
44 EAST TWENTY-THIRD STREET
TELEPHONE  ALGONQUIN 1032

NEW YORK.
July 19, 1930.

Mr. E.W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner of Pensions,
Bureau of Pensions,
United States Department of the Interior,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Morgan:-

Will you send us, please, copies of the war records of the following Revolutionary War soldiers.

[checkmark]  Moses Chamberlain, [last name underlined] who was born in Walpole, Massachusetts.  He died probably in 1777, at Walpole.  Was there a pension granted to him, or to his widow, Deborah (Sarah?) Chamberlain?  He served for nine days as a member of Captain Seth Bullard's company, Colonel John Smith's regiment, in the alarm of April 19, 1775; his name appears, under date of August 1, 1775 on the muster roll of Captain Seth Bullard's company, Colonel Joseph Read's regiment; his name was again given as a member of the same company, on a return dated September 26, 1775, at Roxbury, Massachusetts.

[checkmark]  Elisha Chamberlain who was born at Walpole, Massachusetts.  He died, June 11, 1840, probably at Swanzey, Vermont.  In 1778, he served as a private in Captain Samuel Cowell's Wrentham company, Colonel Hawe's regiment.

Sincerely,
National Americana Society
Marion G. Russell.
of the editorial staff.

KB/MR.

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Aug. 29--1903--
GHJ.
James F D Garfield
Fitchburg  Mass.
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1912 Feby 21  Hist. to Mary
L. Holman.  V.L.M

1912 May 24  Hist to Jennie
C. Watts.  V.L.M

1930--Aug. 18--Hist. to Marion
G. Russell--ILL.

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REJECTED

1835.
P.O.______________________________________
Susannah Chamberlain
Service:  Widow of Elisha

Enlisted:_______________________, 18    .
Discharged:___________________, 18   .

Application filed:__________________, 18   .
Alleges:

Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.

_____________Recognized. ____________Contract.
______Cert. of Dis.   Searched for________, 18   .
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8875
Apl  13   43

Susannah Chamberlain

N.H.

July 7, 1838

Sus.  Chamberlain

m/84  d 40

Admitted {stricken out]

Elisha

Elijah Sawyer, Esq
Keene  N.H.