Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6908, Lemuel Chase, Mass
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Mass

Chase, Lemuel
Sarah

NUMBER
W. 6908
B.L. Wt. 26.426-160-55.

CONTENTS
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[On left half of page]
[illegible] Cir. [illegible] Apl. 1835
___________________ [hand drawn line]
Transferred to Albany from
4 Sept 1834 - Apl 20 1835
___________________ [hand drawn line]

[On right half of page]
No. 6898
[plus sign] Albany N.Y.
[plus sign] ["Vermont" crossed out]

Lemuel Chase
of Addison Co. in the State of Vermont,
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Blanchard of the Regt commanded
by Col. Woodbury in the Massachusetts
line for 11 months & 15 days Private $38.30

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 38 Dollars 30 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of March
1833 and sent to Hon. L. Haight
Present

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833    $76.60
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept}
1833}    19.15
$95.75

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book D. Vol. 4 Page 98
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[Written perpendicularly to left of text]
S. P. Briggs, Sept 25, 1858
[illegible handwritten mark on lower corner, may be initials]

3393
New York, Albany 
Sarah Chase
widow of Lemuel Chase
who served Mass [inserted above line] in the Revolutionary 
war, as a Private
_________________________
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
38 Dollars 30
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 3d February, 1853.
_________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the
5th day of Jany 1834
and sent to
Charles S. Lester
Saratoga Springs
New York
_________________________
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 72 Vol. A

32
[illegible]
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[On left half of page]

Cir J. S. Edwards Jany 18/[remainder obscured] 
Vol. [illegible] 106. ---

[On right half of page]

Act March 3,}
May 3          } ss.
118418

Sarah Chase [hand printed]
Sarah Chase [written in cursive, crossed out] wid [widow] of
Samuel [crossed out]
Samuel [crossed out] Chase Priv
Lemuel [crossed out]
Lemuel Chase

Rev war

Rev Pen.
Vol. A. P. 72

[written diagonally across other text}
No 262426 iss [issued] May 26/56

[illegible] Feby 53 - 3393
A.P.72
[illegible] 160 A[illegible] [illegible] 23d./56.
Boynton


Jno S. Edwards
Resent
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[Written on back of other document]

No 4204
L. Chase

Cl [?]
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State of Vermont                 }
Addison County [illegible]   }

On the 24th day of July 1832. Personally
appeared in Open Court before the Judges
of Addison County Court now sitting, Lemuel
Chase resident of Salisbury in said County aged
sixty seven years on the 17th day of February last
who being first duly sworn according to law, makes
the following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the act of Congress passed on the 7th
day of June 1832 --
That on the 10th day of May in the year 1780, at
Sutton Mass. he enlisted in the Massachusetts Militia
for three months in Capt John Blanchard's Company
and Col. Joseph Woodbury's regiment being the 5th
Massachusetts Regiment, and from Sutton marched
to Rhode Island, and remained on the island three
months and at the expiration of the three months
service he volunteered and went as a guard for
the French Army stores from Rhode Island to Fishkill
N.Y. and at Fishkill was put into Capt Lee's Company
in Col. Saml. Fletcher's Regiment and from thence
marched to Fort Edward on North River in the State of
New York and there became a waiter [underlined] for Col Fletcher
one Calvin Ewing was the other waiter for Col Fletcher.
That he remained at Fort Edward until some
of the last day of April in the year 1781, and was there
dismissed returned home making in the whole time
that he was in the services eleven months & 15 or 20
days, & one year from the time he left home to his return.
That he has no documentary evidence nor does he know
of any person by whom he could prove his services
That he relinquishes all claim to a pension or annuity
from the United States except the present [illegible] 
his name on the pension roll of any agency
that he now resides in Salisbury aforesaid
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and has resided there fourteen years last past, and
previous thereto lived in [illegible], Vermont for
twenty years, & previous thereto lived in Sutton Massachusetts -----
Lemuel Chase 
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Saml. Swift, Clerk

Mr [?] Rufus Perkins and Hiram Champlain [sic] of
Middlebury & in the vicinity of Lemuel Chase's residence 
[next line is interlineated]
Aaron Barrows of Salisbury aforesaid
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Lemuel Chase who has subscribed and sworn to
the above declaration, that we believe him to be
Sixty Seven years of age, that he is reputed and believed
in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a
soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that
opinion.
H H Champlin
Rufus Perkins
Aaron Barrows

Sworn & subscribed
the day & year aforesaid
Saml. Swift Clerk

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
that Hiram H. Champlin & Rufus Perkins are residents in
the Town of Middlebury, near to the residence of said applicant
and the said Aaron Barrows is a resident in said Salisbury,
that they are credible persons, and that their statement is
entitled to credit.
Saml. Swift Clerk
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I, Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the County of
Addison in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that 
the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter
of the application of Lemuel Chase for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of office this 30th day of
July 1832.
Saml. Swift Clerk

[illegible seal]
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State of New York
Saratoga County [preceding two words underlined], ss.

On this second day of
December A.D. 1853 before the Saratoga
County Court of the State of New York Sarah
Chase, a resident of Saratoga Springs in
the county of Saratoga and State aforesaid
aged sixty four years, who first being
duly sworn according to law, doth, on
her oath, make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefits of the provision
made by the act of congress, passed on the
third February 1853, granting pensions to
widows of persons who served during the
Revolutionary War; that she is the widow
of Lemuel Chase who was a private in
the army of the Revolution; that she is
ignorant of the names and rank of the
officers under whom the service was
performed & that she cannot state from 
her own recollection or knowledge the
time when he entered the service or when
he left; that she believes he resided in
the town of Sutton in the State
Massachusetts when he entered the service; that
in conformity with the Law of the United
States of the 7th June 1832 a certificate of
pension was issued to the said Lemuel Chase
dated the eighth day of March 1833 signed
be Lewis Cass Secretary of War & recorded as
appeared by endorsement thereon by D.
Brown Clerk in Book D. Vol. 4 page 98
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entitling said Lemuel Chase to thirty eight
dollars and thirty cents per annum payment
upon which certificate were [sic] made at the
Albany Pension office & said certificate
was surrendered by deponent to the
Albany Pension Agency sometime in
July last past & reference to the proof
& evidence filed upon his application will
prove the service rendered by him.

She further declares that she was
married to the said Lemuel Chase on
the fourth day of December eighteen hundred
and seven; that her said husband
died on the fourteenth day of August
1852. that she was not married to him
prior to the second of January, eighteen
hundred, but at the time above stated.
She further declares that she is now a
widow.

her [written above X in below line] 
Sarah X Chase
mark [written below X in above line]

Sworn to and subscribed   }
on the day & year above   }
written, before                   }

A. Bockes
Ret. Judge

And the court do hereby declare their
opinion that the above declaration
is in all respects true

A. Bockes
Ret. Judge
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State of New York
Saratoga County [preceding two words underlined] ss.

I James W. Horton Clerk
of the County Court of the county of Saratoga
do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of
the said court in the matter of the
application of Sarah Chase for a
pension. And I do further certify
that satisfactory evidence was exhibited
to said Court, that Sarah Chase the
applicant was & is the widow of
Lemuel Chase a Revolutionary pensioner
& that said Lemuel Chase died at
the town of Saratoga Springs in the
county of Saratoga on the fourteenth
day of August in the year one thousand
eight hundred & fifty two

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed my seal of office this
second day of December 1853 --

James W Horton Clerk
of Saratoga County
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"State of Vermont
Windham County [preceding two words underlined]. ss.

Be it remembered
that at Townshend in the County of aforesaid
on the fourth day of December in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seven Lemuel Chase and
Sally [sic] Kingsbury both of Acton in the
county of Windham aforesaid were duly
joined in marriage by me John Dyer
Justice of the Peace

A true copy from the original record
this first day of March A.D. 1808
John Dyer
Justice Peace.

A true copy from the original record
attest Silas Ball Town Clerk"

I Ephraim H. Farrar, Clerk of the town of
Townshend being duly sworn depose and
say, that I hold the office of town clerk
of the town of Townshend County of Windham 
State of Vermont & that the foregoing marriage
certificate of Lemuel Chase & Sally [sic] Kingsbury
is a true extract from the records of
said town clerk's office as recorded in Volume
Two page 181 of the town records of said
Townshend

Ephraim H Farrar

Subscribed & sworn          }
before me Dec 13th 1853 }
John Blundin Justice of the Peace
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State of New York      } on this 16th day of April
County of Saratoga ss.} A D 1855 personally appeared
before me a Justice of
the peace within & for the County & state aforesaid
Sarah Chase aged 67 years a resident of Saratoga 
Springs in the State of New York who being duly
sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow
of Lemuel Chase who was a private soldier
during the Revolutionary war on account of whose
services she is now a pensioner of the United States
at the rate of 38 dollars & 30 cents per annum
for proof of his services during the Revolution
and of his death and her marriage to
the said Lemuel Chase she refers to the
proof on file in Pension Office upon which
a Pension was allowed her under act 3 Feby
1853 recorded in Vol A page 72

She further states that she is now a widow
and makes this declaration for the purpose
of obtaining the __bounty land to which she may
be entitled under the "act approved March 3. 1853

her {written above X in below line]
Sarah X Chase
mark [written below X in above line]

We Hiram Rogers and Hiram Chase
residents of Saratoga Springs in the State of New York
upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration
was signed and acknowledged by Sarah Chase
in our presence, and that we know that she is the
identical person she represents herself to be and
that she is now a widow
Hiram Rogers
Hiram Chase

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were
sworn to and subscribed before me on the day
and year above written, and I certify that I know
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[Written on reverse side of another document]

118418
Sarah wid of
Saml [sic][Lemuel] Chase
for B Land
act 3 Mch [March] /55

filed by
John S Edwards
5 May 1855
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The affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant 
is the person she represents herself to be, and
that I have no interest in this claim
John T. Carr   J. Peace

State of New York,                    }
Saratoga County Clerk's office.}  SS.

I, JAMES W. HORTON CLERK OF THE SAID COUNTY, do hereby certify, That
John T. Carr was on the day of the date of the above DECLARATION and CERTIFICATE, a
Justice of the Peace
in and for said County, duly elected and sworn, and that the signature to the Jurat of the
above Declaration and to the above Certificate purporting to be his, is genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the Seal of said County,
this 28th day of April. in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five

James W Horton
CLERK.
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[Written on reverse side of another document]

No 4204
Leml Chase
Vermont

[illegible]
11 mo - 15 dy
Private
$38.30

Hon. S. Haight
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[Typeset form with answers handwritten]

BRIEF in the case of Lemuel Chase of Salisbury
Cy [sic] of Addison in the State of Vermont
 (Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he?  64

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period. I Duration of Service. I Rank. I Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

[blank] I Year, Months, Days. I As a I Gen.

May In 1780 I 3 I Private I Capt Blanchard. Col Woodbury

[blank] I 8 - 15 I Waiter I Capt Lee, Col Fletcher

5th Massachusetts Regiment [written across all four columns]

5. In what battles was he engaged? [no answer]

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Sutton, Massachusetts

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  Correct

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

[illegible signature Examining Clerk.
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[checkmark]
26,426

[flourish diagonally upper right to lower left]

[illegible, possibly signature]
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 6908
Sarah Chase
Wid"
Lemuel Chase
Privt Rev War
Act: Feb 3 1853
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 128

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Official Business }     FREE

[Stamp] Saratoga Springs N.Y. Sep 21

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
D.C.

[written perpendicularly in middle of page with each line underlined]
Sarah Chase
Lemuel -- NY [illegible]
1853
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Official   }
Business } FREE

[Stamp] Saratoga Springs N.Y. Sep 10

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

[written perpendicularly in middle of page with each line underlined]

S. P. Briggs [illegible]
let of Aug 6th
back pension for
a rev widow - wid
received a pension of
[illegible] amount
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[illegible] 52
[flourish] Pension Office
December 30/53.
Sir
Please report time
of last payment to, or
death of within named
pensioner & if arrears
to whom paid

Respectfully
S. Cole
for commr.

F. Burt Esqr  
S and
Present.

Samuel [Lemeul] Chase, act 1832
$38.30 per annum -- paid
to 4 Mar 1852. no death
F. Burt
Auditor
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Saratoga Springs Sept. 9. 1858

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
Can you oblige
me by forwarding a copy
of the late Pension Laws,
what will enable me to ascertain
whether any back pension [preceding two words underlined]
can be obtained for a widow,
of a revolutionary Pensioner who
died some 4 or 5 years ago, & who
had rec'd a pension since a
about 1834 -- The widow has
since the death of her husband
rec'd the same that he did,
$38. per year --

She has rec'd a Land Warrant --

Yours Truly S. P. Briggs
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Saratoga Springs Sept. 20, 1838
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir.

Yours of
16th inst [instant] is rec'd, & am much obliged for your offer to give me the
necessary information as to the possibility 
of obtaining any arrears or increase 
of pension in the particular case
I have in hand -

The person referred to is Sarah Chase [preceding two words underlined]
widow of Lemuel Chase [preceding two words underlined], who obtained 
a pension over 20 yes ago
Amt $38. which continued to some
4 or 5 yes age when he died & since
which his widow has rec'd the same
& has also rec'd 160 acres of land --

He was a Soldier of Revolution

Yours Truly
S. P. Briggs
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[Form typeset, answers handwritten]
Brief in the case of Sarah Chase widow of Lemuel
Saratoga County and State of New York
act of February 3-1853
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.") [no answer]

Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

Husband a pensioner under act of June
7, 1832 at $38 30/100 per annum

Allowed $38 30/100 per an. to commence Feb 3/53
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since admission of the claim? If so, what?

Marriage proved by public record
Death of husband proved by cr. witnesses Identity & widowhood proved Cr. Witness

Name and residence of Agent
Charles S. Lester
Saratoga Springs
N York
Examining Clerk.
J. S. Gray
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[On back of other document]
[written perpendicularly on left side of page]
Apl 7
App for transfer
[stamp] Saratoga Springs Apr 3

Free [underlined]
[illegible]

Hon J. S. Edwards
War Department
(Albany) [written upside down]
Pension Officer
Washington City

Lemeul Chase [written upside down]
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Saratoga Springs
April 3d 1835. [preceding two words underline]

Sir

I enclose to you the application of Lemuel Chase
for a Transfer from the Vermont to New York State Pension
Agency framed__ agreeably to the form I had the honor
to receive from you. I trust the papers now sent will be
sufficient to sustain the application
Respectfully Yours
Wm L. J. Warren
for W A Beach
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[left side of document]

[illegible seal - missing 2/3rd]
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary at War
Washington City -

[written upside down]
appr for [illegible]
March 23 1835
Pension Office

[right side of document]
Lemeul Chase [in upper right corner]
[illegible] Mar 25 1835
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Recd 23 Mar.

Saratoga Springs
March 17. 1835

Hon. Lew [Lewis] Cass
DSir [Dear Sir]

Mr Lemuel Chase a pensioner has
hitherto lived & Drawn his pension Money in the State
of Vermont, But has now come to Reside in the
State of New York at this place. And he wishes his
name Transferred to This State to enable him
to Draw his money of the United States agent at
the City of Albany - I forward his own affidavit
of his present residence & a copy of his certificate
which is all that now occurs to me necessary

If any thing [sic] further is necessary I will endeavor
to furnish it. Please Direct to me at this place

I am respectfully Yours
Wm L. F. Warren
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County of Saratoga - on this first day of April 1835. Before me
the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Saratoga
personally appeared  lemuel Chase who on his oath declares
That he is the same person who formerly belonged to the
company commanded by Captain John Blanchard
in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Woodbury
in the service of the United States that his name was placed
on the Pension Roll of the State of Vermont from whence he
has lately removed. That he now resides in the State of New York
where he intends to remain & wishes his Pension to Be
there payable in future. The following are his reasons for 
removing from the State of Vermont to the State of New York.
His son lives at Saratoga Spring in the State of New York
is a side man & has to hire his Board & washing He
waited me & his mother to come & keep house so that we could
do his Board & washing & By such assistance as he could
give us enable us to live more comfortably.
Lemuel Chase
Sworn & subscribed to Before me
the day & year aforesaid
Wm A Beach
Justice of the Peace ⎬

Saratoga- William L. F. Warren Berry duly sworn before me this
first day of April 1835. Say That he is acquainted with
Lemuel Chase who has subscribed the above declaration
and that the said Lemuel Chase described in the above
affidavit is the person who has taken the above oath
Sworn & subscribed to Before me

STATE OF NEW YORK,
SARATOGA COUNTY CLERK'S OFFCE, SS.
 I, ALPHEUS GOODRICH, Clerk of the county of Saratoga, Do Certify, that William A. Beach before whom the annexed affidavit purports
to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the
Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am
acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name
subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing
and signature
WITNESS my hand and seal of office, the 2d day of
April  1835
A Goodrich
Clerk
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County of Saratoga - on this first day of April 1835. Before me
the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Saratoga
personally appeared lemuel Chase who on his oath declares
That he is the same person who formerly belonged to the
company commanded by Captain John Blanchard
in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Woodbury
in the service of the United States that his name was placed
on the Pension Roll of the State of Vermont from whence he
has lately removed. That he now resides in the State of New York
where he intends to remain & wishes his Pension to Be
there payable in future. The following are his reasons for
removing from the State of Vermont to the State of New York.
His son lives at Saratoga Spring in the State of New York
is a side man & has to hire his Board & washing He
waited me & his mother to come & keep house so that we could
do his Board & washing & By such assistance as he could
give us enable us to live more comfortably.
Lemuel Chase
Sworn & subscribed to Before me
the day & year aforesaid
Wm A Beach
Justice of the Peace ⎬

Saratoga- William L. F. Warren Berry duly sworn before me this
first day of April 1835. Say That he is acquainted with
Lemuel Chase who has subscribed the above declaration
and that the said Lemuel Chase described in the above
affidavit is the person who has taken the above oath
Sworn & subscribed to Before me
the day & year aforesaid.
Wm A Beach Justice of the Peace

Wm A Beach the magistrate above named do
hereby certify that Wm L. F. Warren the witness who has
taken the above oath is a person of respectability & veracity
Dated April 1st 1835.
Wm A Beach
Justice
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Application of Sarah Chase for a pension
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State of Vermont,
Windham, S.S.
{Seal}
I, Royall Tyler, Clerk of the County Court, for the County of Windham, being a court of record and having a seal, as hereto attached, do certify that John Blandin was at the date of the paper writings to which this is attached, and now is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his signature to the gaval thereon written is genuine; that the said paper writings are executed according to the laws of this State, are in due form; and that as such Officer, he is duly authorized by the laws of this State to take acknowledgments of Deeds, take Depositions, administer Oaths, &c.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of court, at Brattleborough, this 15th day of December Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
Royall Tyler [Signature] Clerk.