Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15639, Asa Chase, Mass.
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(3-1776)
Service    Number
Mass  Chase, Asa  W. 15639
                      Olive
CONTENTS
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Paper Copied and sent to D Holman, Douglas, Mass; June 7, 1834
318
Massachusetts
Asa Chase
of Worcester in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain King of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Brooks in the Massachusetts line, for the term of 3 years from Apr 1781 to 17
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of Mar 1831 and
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of August 1832 and sent to William Jennison Worcester Mass
the Roll on [blank] day of [blank] 182[blank]  and notification sent to [blank] at [blank] Pension commencing on the [blank] of [blank] 182[blank]
Amount due on 4th of Mar 1832
semi annual [illegible] 4 Sept " [1832]
$80
$40
$120
{Revolutionary Claim, 
Acts 7 June 1832}
Recorded Book 4
Vol 2
Page 39-49 43
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Reported
1582
Massachusetts
Olive  Chase
widow of Asa Chase
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private N.H.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of August 1848 and sent to David Holman
Douglas
Mass
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 21 Vol 2
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Asa Chase
Douglas
15 Apr
Not on Rolls
DH
Admitted
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I David White of Douglas in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts Aged fifty nine years do testify and say that Asa Chase of Douglas in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts inlisted in April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty one for the three years service and in the same year I went into the service at West Point where I saw Mr Asa Chase and he belonged to Col John Brooks Regiment and Mr Chase continued in the service until the Last of December in the year one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty three when he returned to Douglas and further the Deponent sayth not - David White
Worcester on April 15 1818 personally appeared David White and made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed before me and said deponent is a credible witness.
Benjamin Craggin Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts holden within and for said County of Worcester, certify, that Benjamin Craggin Esq. before whom the annexed affidavits have been made is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that his name subscribed thereto is his own proper signature.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, this twenty third day of November
A.D. 1818
Abijah Bigelow Clerk
Application 
of Asa Chase
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Obediah Morse of Douglas in the County of Worcester State of Massachusetts aged fifty four years do testify and [illegible] that I inlisted into the three years service in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty one and that Asa Chase of said Douglas inlisted at the same time to the same service that we marched together and posed Mentor together at west point we went into separate Regiments and we both Continued in the service until the last day of the year one thousand seven hundred and Eighty three when we both returned to Douglas. And further the Deponent sayth not
Obediah Morse
Worcester on April 15 1818 personally appeared Obediah Morse and made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed before me Benjamin Craggin Justice of the Peace
And I further Certify that the above deponent is a credible witness - Benjamin Craggin Justice of the Peace
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State of Massachusetts
Asa Chase a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Douglas in the County of Worcester in the state aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the first Day of April in Seventeen Hundred and Eighty one
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to December Seventeen Hundred and Eighty three in the three year service.
as a Private Soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence; that I belonged to Capt King's Company in Col. Brooks regiment being the seventh regiment in the Massachusetts line
and that I left on or about the last of December 1783 as above explained and I was honorably discharged from service but have [illegible] my discharge and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of Fifty three years
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Asa Chase
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A.D. 1818, personally appeareth before me Edward Bangs one of the judges of the Circuit Court of the Common pleas for the western circuit of said State comprising said County of Worcester
the abovenamed Asa Chase
after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and suscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of said Court, the day of the date aforesaid.
Edward Bangs
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State of Massachusetts
Asa Chase a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Douglas in the County of Worcester in the state aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the first Day of April in Seventeen Hundred and Eighty one
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to December Seventeen Hundred and Eighty three in the three year service.
as a Private Soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence; that I belonged to Capt King's Company in Col. Brooks regiment being the seventh regiment in the Massachusetts line
and that I left on or about the last of December 1783 as above explained and I was honorably discharged from service but have [illegible] my discharge and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of Fifty three years
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Asa Chase
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A.D. 1818, personally appeareth before me Edward Bangs one of the judges of the Circuit Court of the Common pleas for the western circuit of said State comprising said County of Worcester
the abovenamed Asa Chase
after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and suscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of said Court, the day of the date aforesaid.
Edward Bangs
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Act. 44  595
13679
Olive Chase
wid of Asa
Mass
act 7 July 1838
Married 1789
[illegible] husb. died
9 Oct. 1847
Admo, Act 17 June 44
[illegible]
$80 per an
from 9 Oct 1847
Chs. G. Prentiss
Worcester
Mass
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State of Massachusetts s.s.
Worcester County
On this tenth day of June one thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Eight, personally appeared before me Benjamin Thomas Judge of Probate for said county.
Olive Chase, a Resident of Douglas, in the County of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, 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 the Act of Congress, passed Feb. 2, 1848, making further provision for surviving Widows of Soldiers of the Revolution.
That she is the Widow of Asa Chase, late of Douglas, Ms, deceased, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and received a Pension of Eighty Dollars per annum, under the Act of the 7th of June 1832. The Evidence of his service consists of a regular Discharge, at the close of three years service, in the Army of the Revolution. This discharge is now supposed to be in the War Office at Washington.
She further declares that she was married to the said Asa Chase, on the 19th day of April 1789, that her husband, the aforesaid Asa Chase died, on the 9th day of October 1847; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four; viz at the time above stated.
She would also state that her deceased husband, Asa Chase, drew his Pension up to Sept 4, 1847.
She further states that she has not been married since the decease of her husband but still remains his widow.
attest Benj Thomas  
her 
Olive X Chase 
[illegible]
Fulfilled and sworn to the day and year abovesaid before me.
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at her residence in Douglas, her name
being in my own hand writing / the mark
her own, and I certify that the hand of
Olive Chase was unable by reason of bodily
malformity to appear in open
court.
Bessy A. Thomas
Judge of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester [illegible]

I Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the
Court of Probate for the County of Worchester, do
testify this signature to the above certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set 
my hand and the seal of said court this
twenty fourth day of June, in the year 
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and forty eight
Charles G Prentiss, Register
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The following persons an all that have been married by the Rev Isaac Stone since the 24th of April 1788 to the 21st of April 1789
April the Nineteenth Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-Nine Asa Chase of Alsted and Olive Dudley of Douglas
Douglas April 21st 1789 the above named persons was returned to me and recorded for me
Nathe Fry  Town Clerk
I hereby certify the above to be a true Copy of the records with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows April 19th 1789
Scotto Berry 2 Town Clerk
I Scotto Berry 2 of above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Douglas in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts and do affirm the above a true extract from the records of said Town of Douglas with the exception above named as certified by me.
Scotto Berry 2 Town Clerk of the Town of Douglas
Worcester ss Jany 1st 1848
Sworn before me
Chester Morse Justice of the Peace
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Thayer
N.H.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15639
Olive Chase
Widow of
Asa Chase
Priv Rev. War
Act: Feb 2nd 1848
Index:-Vol. A, Page 130
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Nov. 9/97 Miss Flora A
Woonsocket, R.I.
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4,659
Massachusetts Roll
Asa Chase
Private 4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 16th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 2d. of Nov. 1818
and sent to Benjam Craggin [illegible] Judge
Worcester Mass
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. 4th + 19/30 - 37:6
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4th March 1819 - 48:
85:6
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818}
Douglas Massachusetts

See letter 30 Apr, 1829 to W. Jennison
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Reported
516
Massachusetts
Olive Chase
widow of Asa Chase
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Husband died 9th Oct 1847
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars - 
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 9th day of March [crossed out] Oct, 1847.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of July, 1848
and sent to C.G. Prentiss,
Worcester,
Mass
[Act of JUNE 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2. Page 24.
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516144
as My
free
L. Edwards Esq
missioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington
D. C
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Douglas Ms. August 5, 1848
Sir
By request of Widow Olive Chase of this place, I enclose to you the declaration which she has made in order to procure a Certificate for her, in conformity with the Act of 2 Feb 1828, to entitle her to draw a Pension.
Please to make return to me 
Yours with due respect.
David Holman S.M.
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Asa Chase map act of June 1832 $80 per an
To what time was he last paid
GCA
Pension Office
July 8 1848
Paid to 4th Sept. 1847.
A.B.T.
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Oct 28- 1897
Office of the Pension Bureau Department
Washington D.C.
Please send me information concerning the personal carreer [career] of one Asa Chase of Douglas. Mass. a pensioner of the Revolutionary War
Very truly
Flora Heath Thayer
235 North Main St-
Woonsocket-
RI
[Stamp] PENSION
OCT
30
1897
US
OFFICE
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Worcester (Mass) June 27, 1848.
Dear sir,
I send this application of Olive Chase, Widow of Asa Chase, for a Pension.
Please send her Certificate, when granted, to
Your Obedient Servant,
Chas. G. Prentiss
Hon. J.S. Edwards
P.S. I have the original Pension Certificate (318) in my hands. I suppose it will be necessary to send it to the Agent in Boston, to obtain the amend.
C.G.P.
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Worcester July 18, 1832
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secy of War
Sir-
William Jennison Esq of this town is a highly respectable magistrate in this County of Worcester. He has been for many year the principal Clerk in the Clerks office of the Court of Common. Thus and Supreme Judicial court. He has heretofore been in the habit of preparing papers for pensioners and you can rely with entire confidence in the representations which he may make to you in preparing these paper of those who are to receive the benefits of the late vets.
With sentiments of very great respect
I am Sir your humble Obdt St
Isaac Davis
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July 24, 1832
Pension Office
Apr 81
King
Brooks
Wm Jenison [Jennison]
Worcester
Mass
$80 per ann
$80 per ann
318
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Hon. Lewis Cass,
Secretary of War - 
Sir - 
I forward to your Department the statement of Asa Chase, applicant for restoration to the pension list, under the recent law of Congress.
There is some diversity of opinion as to the proper mode of making the statement, required by your rules - but I have prepared this case according to my understanding of the matter - and if I am incorrect, or the application be inadmissible in its present shape, you will please furnish me with a copy of such blanks as you have prepared in such cases, that I may make this application, as well as all others, conformable to your wishes.
I have procured a letter of introduction [underlined] from Isaac Davis, Esquire, of this town, which I hope will prove satisfactory to you in this case, and will render unnecessary any further documents of a similar nature, in case I should have other applications to forward to your Department.
My authority here [underlined] has never been doubted, during the six or eight past years that I have attended to pension cases, and I hope my credit will continue to be undoubted [crossed out] as good at Washington, as it has been in times past, in relation to any business I may have, connected with the same subject.
I am, Sir, very respectfully -
Your obd. servt. William Jennison
Worcester, Masstts
July 14, 1832
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester County, ss,
I, Charles W Hartshorn Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, do hereby certify, That Chester Morse, Esquire, was, on the first day of January, 1848, and still is, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature to the certificate, on the deposition of Scotto Berry Jr. hereunto annexed, is genuine.
Given under my hand, and the seal of said County, this fourth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
Charles W Harshorn Clerk
[County Seal]
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, Charles G Prentiss Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court, that Asa Chase was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Eighty Dollar per annum was a resident of the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and died in Douglas, in said County in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-Seven on the ninth day of October and that he left a widow, whose name is Olive Chase, and who now resides in said Douglas.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Worcester, this twenty seventh day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
Charles G Prentiss, Register
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aa
516-44
Admitted
David Holman
Douglass
Mass
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DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled, "An act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
Worcester COUNTY, ss.
On this second day of August, 1848, personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid,
Olive Chase
a resident of Douglas, in the county of Worcester 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 benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Asa Chase who was a resident of Douglas Mss, who was a Private in the War of the Revolution, and is the identical person who drew a pension under the Act of 17th June, 1844, on account of the Revolutionary service of her late husband aforesaid, at the rate of Eighty dollars and cents [crossed out] per annum.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, Before me, per Olive X Chase [Printed logo L.S]
Morse 
In the presence of
David Holman
Silas Chase
Chester Morse Justice of the Peace.
Certify, That the declarant is personally known to me, a widow and a pensioner, as she declares.
Chester Morse Justice of the Peace.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
Worcester County, ss.
Charles W. Hartshorn Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Chester Morse on the second day of August current was, is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature, above written, is genuine.
Give under my hand, and the Seal of said Court, this fourth day of August 1848
Charles W Hartshorn Clerk
[Diamond shaped seal]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester County, Ss. In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1839 - I, Asa Chase, of Douglas in the County of Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty six years, testify and say that under the law of the United States of the eighteenth day of March, 1818, my name was inscribed on the pension list, roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the 16th day of April, 1818, in consideration of my services as a Private in the Army of the Revolution, agreeably to my Pension Certificate, from the War Department, dated the 28th day of November, 1818, and numbered 4,659 - 
That I enlisted for the term of three years on the - day of April in the year, 1781, in the State of Massachusetts, in the company commanded by Captain King, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Brooks, in the line of the State of Massachusetts, on the Continental establishment, that I continued to serve in said corps until sometime afterward, when I was transferred to the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment, under Col. Jackson, where I continued in the service until some time in December, 1783, when I was discharged from the service, on the High Lands, so called, in the State of New York.
That I have been stricken from the pension list on account (as I suppose) of the amount of my property.
That I resided in the Town of Douglas aforesaid, when I made my first application for a pension, and have continued to reside there ever since.
Asa Chase
Worcester, ss, July 12, 1832.
Then personally appeared the above named Asa Chase, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Declaration and Statement, by him subscribed 
Before me, William Jennison
Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, Ss.
I, Abijah Bigelow, Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Worcester, do certify, that William Jennison, Esquire, before whom the within Declaration and Statement was signed and sworn to, is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Worcester, and that his signature thereto appears to be in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony, whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, this twelfth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk