Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19240, Samuel Chase, Conn.
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SERVICE                                   NUMBER

Conn.   Chase, Samuel           S. 19240
                                           B.L.Wt. 103392-160-55
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Massachusetts
27446    Samuel Chase
of Dennis, in the State of Mass
who was a private in the Compny commanded by Captain Ten Eyk of the Regt commanded
by  Colonel Butler in the
line for Conn.
    10 months 4 days
                  pri
   Mil & Cont

Inscribed on the Roll of Mass
at the rate of 33 Dollars 77 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of May
1834    and sent to   
        Honl J. Reed  H of Reps

Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1834     $101..31
Semi-anl, allowance ending
                        4  Sep   "                     16.83
                                                       ________
                                                     $ 118..14
                                {Revolutionary Claim,
    Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by George Taylor Clerk
Book E   Vol. 2   Page 15


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320229  Act Mch 3/53
                May 23/64

Rebecca H. Crowell
        and Samuel R. Chase
                  Minors of
       Samuel Chase 
                          dcd

      Rev. Pensioner

Allowed 160 acres
                           L.M. Drury
June 2d. 1864         Examiner

Chas Reed
           Boston  Mass.
     Drury
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Sept 12/66   Date of Birth of warranters endorsed on Nt and enclosed to Alvin WIlkins   Esqu...
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                       No   [?]
Samuel Chase.
            Dennis.
      26,015
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Barnstable SS.   On this fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Nymphus Marston Judge of the Court of Probate [last six words inserted] of the County of Barnstable now sitting at Yarmouth in and for said County, Samuel Chase a resident of Dennis in said County, aged seventy, 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, A.D. 1832.

That he was born at Harwich in the State of Massachusetts the twentieth day of November A.D. 1761, and that there is no record of his birth except his Fathers Book: that he was in the United States service from the ____ day of June  A.D. 1779, to the ____ day of October A.D. 1779 as a Private  in the service:  that he was residing in Tolland in the State of Connecticut when he entered the service; that he continued in the Army as a substitute for Samuel Cobb and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Lieut Ellis:  that he marched from Tolland to New London, from New London to a place called Black Fort with twenty five men as a Guard -; that he served at such place with the soldiers above mentioned who were not of the regular troops; but of the militia  he had no regular officers;  that he was in no battle but in some skirmishes as the place he occupied was an outpost and at the end of his service he received no written discharge:  that since the Revolutionary war he has resided at Dennis in said State of Massachusetts.

   ALSO:  that he was in the United States service from the first day of July A.D. 1780, to the first day of Jany, A.D. 1781 as a Soldier in the Army:  that he was residing at Tolland in the State of Connecticut  when he entered the service: that he entered in the army and served for a period aforesaid under the command of Genl. LaFayette, Swift Colonel & Denite Cap Taylor Lieut:  that he marched from Tolland to  Nelson Point, from there to New Jersey from place to place & thence returned at Fishkill New York; that he served at New Jersey with the troops of the regular troops; and a number of the regular officers were known to him  that he was in no battle and at the  end of his service received a written discharge with a number of others

which discharge has been lost; - when I arrived at New York Nelson Point, LaFayette had I think twenty hundred men more or less selected, & I had the honor to be the second man selected from the Connecticut Forces [last four words inserted], & I was under his command during the six months above mentioned  Genl. Washington often inspected us.  I was dismissed about the first of January with my few clothes and without shoes or stockings & with great difficulty and most severe sufferings I walked through the snow and upon the frozen ground back again to Tolland from whence I enlisted & marched them back again to the Town of Dennis in the State of Massachusetts where I have ever since resided - I would further state that while I was at West Point & in that vicinity Arnold sold West Point & Andre was executed very near where I was, & Genl. Poor & another General commanded the two Brigades under General LaFayette
                      ...........to support my statement
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..... where I have ever since resided - I would further state that while I was at West Point & in that vicinity Arnold sold West Point & Andre was executed very near where I was, & Genl. Poor & another General commanded the two Brigades under General LaFayette & I know of no evidence or witness to support my statement  I have never resided in Connecticut since the war - but Mr. Eleazer Nickerson & Orin Howes resided in my neighborhood & can testify to my character for veracity & then belief of my service as a soldier of the Revolution

He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any State.
    [Signed]  Samuel Chase
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Attest Abner Davis of the Court of Probate

We Eleazer Nickerson & Orin Howes residing in the Town of Dennis aforesaid & being near neighbors of said Samuel Chase hereby certify that we are well acquainted with sd Saml. Chase who has subscribed  and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy 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.
       [Signed]  Eleazer Nickerson
                        Orin Howes
Sworn and subscribed as aforesaid.
Attest  Abner Davis Judge
of the Court 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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the court further certify that it it appears to them that Eleazer Nickerson, who has signed the preceding certificate, is resident in the Town of Dennis and is a credible person; [last two words inserted]  and that Orin Howes who has signed the  same is a resident of sd  Dennis & is a Justice of the Peace [last four words inserted] and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.  The Clergyman of Dennis  residing at a considerable distance from the place of the sitting of this Court, his attendance could not be procured with any convenience this day - and the testimony of sd Nickerson and Howes from their character and having resided in sd Dennis their whole life time is as satisfactory to the Court as the Clergymans -
    [Signed]  Nymphus Marston Judge

I Abner Davis, Regr of the Court of Probate do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the court in the matter of the application of Samuel Chase for a pension.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and the seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
     [Signed]  Abner Davis, Regr.


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Samuel Chase
     Dennis
        26, 015
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State of Massachusetts  Plymouth County
On this Nineteenth day of April A.D. 1864 personally appeared Before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County - Mrs. Rebecca H. Crowell, formerly Rebecca H. Chase, aged 25 years, and Samuel R. Chase, aged 21 years, - both of which were minors on the 3rd day of March A.D. 1855, and children of the late Samuel Chase, a Revolutionary Pensioner, who was inscribed on the Massachusetts roll of Pensioners, and who wee children of the said Samuel Chase, the identical person who drew said pension, Reference is made to the papers on file in the department, on which the original Pension was granted, that said Samuel Chase, the Pensioner, died August 29th 1845.  The claimant further declares there were no other minor children of the deceased in 1855 - that after the father died, their mother again married and is now living with her Husband, that they are not entitled to Bounty Land for any other service, & that they never before applied for this, that they now apply for Bounty Land, under the Act of March 3, 1855, to which they are entitled under said act.
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and that they do hereby constitute and appoint Charles Reed of Boston Mass, their attorney, to prosecute said claim & to receive the land warrant when issued for them
      [Signed]  Rebecca H. Crowell
                      Samuel R Chase
Joseph Thacher
Benjm Thacher

We Joseph F Thacher and Benjamin Thacher residents of Dennis in said State and County, upon our oath declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Rebecca H. Crowell and Samuel R. Chase in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statement of the applicants that they are the identical persons they represent themselves to be.

Joseph F Thacher and Benjamin Thacher made oath to the foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn and subscribed before me on the day and year first above written, and I certify that I knew the affiants to be credible persons, And the claimants the identical persons they represent themselves to be.   I have no interest in this claim
   [Signed]  Isaiah Nickerson} Justice of the
                                                         Peace.
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State of Massachusetts -Barnstable County-
I Molly Howes formerly wife, and then widow, of the late Samuel Chase and Mother to Rebecca H. Crowell and Samuel R. Chase - children of the late Samuel Chase, a Revolutionary Pensioner - and that I again married, and that I am now the wife of Caleb B Howes and now living with him - and I do hereby relinquish   all my right & title to said land warrant forever, to said Rebecca H. Crowell and Samuel R. Chase, -
    [Signed]   Molly Howes
Witness}  Benj Thacher
                Isaiah Nickerson

Barnstable Js  Dennis April 19 -1864
Personally appeared the above named Molly Howes and Subscribed and acknowledged it to be her free act and deed, this nineteenth day of April A.D. 1864
Before me 
 [Signed] Isaiah Nickerson} Justice of the Peace
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State of Massachusetts County of Barnstable
Town of Dennis
Copy from the Town Record of Dennis of the Marriage of Pliny Crowell to Rebecca H Chase
Pliny Crowell First Age 19 years Seaman
Rebecca H Chase First Age 20 .. Parents Names Samuel & Molly Chase
Married June Nineteenth Eighteen Hundred and fifty Nine 
by Rev William H Sturtevant
                          Jun e 19th 1859
A true Copy from the Town Records of Dennis
Now in my possession
       Attest Isaiah Nickerson
                                  Town Clerk                             
                                            of Dennis

Copy of the intention of Marriage
Intention of marriage of Samuel Reed Chase of
Dennis and Temperance Baxter of Yarmouth entered their intention of Marriage June 20, 1861 _   A True Copy from the Record of the Town of Dennis now in my  possession
      Attest  [Signed] Isaiah Nickerson
Dennis April 17 - 1864           Town Clerk
                                                    of Dennis                     
                                  also Justice of the Peace,
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        Application for
           Bounty Land
      160 acres, act 1855,
         Revolutionary War.

 Chrales Reed
    Boston
      Mass.
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State of Massachusetts County of Barnstable Town of Dennis
Copy from the Town records of Dennis of the Marriage of Samuel Chase to Molly Harden
Capt Samuel Chase to Mrs. Molly Harden
     Attest  Isaiah Nickerson Town Clerk

I CERTIFY  that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, as follows: - (b)
 " July 17th 1838"   Isaiah Nickerson

I, Isaiah Nickerson above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town CLerk in the town, county and state aforesaid, and that the above is a true copy from the records of sai Town, with the exception above named, as certified by me.
    [Signed] Isaiah Nickerson  Town Clerk
                                                  of Dennis

Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this Twentieth day April A.D. 1864.  I have no interest in this case.
  [Signed]  Miller W. Nickerson  Justice of the 
                                                       Peace.
_________________________________________________
(a)   Here fill in an exact transcript of the record, except that, instead of copying the figures, the date must be written out in full.
(b)   Here give the date exactly as it is in the record.
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                        No   26015

Samuel Chase  Barnstable  County
Massachusetts - Dennis
        Barnstable
   Admin
    10 months 4 days Cap Ten EYK
          Colo Butler
Application must be
made to the Comptroller
of Public Accounts 
at Hartford, Cont
for endorsed of the 
claimants Service
     July 23- 1833
    Pension Office

Hono J. Reed H R

Abner Davis Regr, Barnstable County
Massachusetts
                Barnstable
   Index
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   WAR DEPARTMENT,
                        Pension Office,

Sir:
    The evidence is support of your claim,  under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form.   On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections  exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus}).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them;  and you will, by compling [sic] with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, showing the Service of Samuel Chase   Barnstable County  Massachusetts

[A chart with six main columns follows:]

Period when the service was rendered.
Duration of the claimant's service.
           Year.        Months.     Days.
Rank of the Claimant.
Names and rank of the Field officers under 
        whom he served.
Age at present, and place of abode when he 
        entered the service.
Proof by which the declaration is supported.

Served  1779 - 4 mos    private    Sgnt Ellis    
     70 years     Traditional evidence, paper not     
                                 correctly attached     
Served 1 July 1780  6 mos   private  Genl 
     LaFayette, Gl Swift   Tolland  Connecticut  

I am, respectfully,
   Your obedient servant,
         J. L. EDWARDS,
             Commissioner of Pensions.
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                                 103392

                                      160 acres
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P                             19240
                            INVALID.

File No.   19,240
      Samuel Chase
      Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th  32
Index:- Vol. 2, Page 68
   [Arrangement of 1870.]
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                                 Boston, Mass.  Aug.27, 1866.

To the Comr. of Pensions,
                     Sir,
                      I beg to trouble you to have enclosed upon the within warrant the ages of the minors, and then to enclose it in the within envelope to W. Wilkins, of Detroit.
                 Respy. yr obt svt.
                   [Signed] Horatio Woodman

Wt No 103392   [illegible word]  55 enclosed

Alvan Wilkins Esq
    Detroit
         Mich
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               Comptrollers Office
              May 17th 1834.
I Elisha Phelps Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut do certify that I find the name Samuel Chase or Chafe, upon a roll of short lines in 1779, as having served in the 4th Cont. Regt. as a private from the 16th of August to the 15th January 1780, being five months.

And that by the pay roll of Capt, Ten Eyks company light infantry belonging the 2nd Cont. Regt.  commanded by Col Zabelen Butler, it appears that Samuel Chase of Tolland served therein  from the 1st day of July to the 4th day of December 1780, as a private, being five months & four days.
5-4                          [Signed] E. Phelps
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10-4
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   Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary's Office, Boston. May 2th 1864
I hereby certify, That at the date of the attestations hereto annexed Isaiah Nickerson and Miller W. Nickerson was
Justice of the Peace for the County of Barnstable, in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to their acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.

I believe the signature of said Justice to be genuine
    In testimony of which, I have hereunto affixed the SEAL OF THE COMMONWELATH  the date above written.

   [Signed]  Oliver Warner.
           Secretary of the Commonwealth
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   to be signed by Joseph &
      Benj Thacher


   [illegible initials]
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State of Massachusetts County of Barnstable
We Joseph F Thacher and Benjamin Thacher havingbeen duly sworn, depose and say, that we well know Samuel Chase who was a REvolutionary Pensioner and served as a SOldier in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain under General LaFayette
whose children now applied for Bounty Land thtwe kew him for more than Fifteen years before is death which occurred at Dennis about Nineteen years ago, -and that we know he died about that time because we were at the Funeral and have resided within Forty Rods of his Residence for about Forty Years
   [Signed]  Joseph F Thacher
                      Benj Thacher
that we are residents of Dennis that we have known his said widow from his death to this time, that she has remained [word unmarried follows, is crossed out]  that her declaration was signed and acknowledge by her in our presence, - that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, - and that we are disinterested.
          [Signed] Joseph F Thacher
                        Benj Thacher

Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this Nineteenth day of April A.D. 1864. I certify the affiants are to me well know and credible.
{Signed]  Isaiah Nickerson Justice of the Peace
        
It is hereby certified that satisfactory proof has been exhibited before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, by the affidavits of Joseph F Thacher and Benjamin Thacher of the said County and State, who are personally known to me, who are entitled to credit, and who swear that they have no pecuniary interest in the result of the above application: that Molly Howes is the widow, remaining  of the late Samuel Chase who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain  that Samuel Chase Volunteerd [sic] as a Soldier and Served under General LaFayette - 
and that the said Samuel Chase died in Dennis on  or about the Twenty Ninth day of August A.D. 1845

In testimony whereof, I have set my hand this Nineteenth day of April 1864.  I have no interest in this case.
[Signed]  Isaiah Nickerson} Justice of the Peace.

* " We attended his funeral" or "were in the neighborhood at the time," or some equally good reason.
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State of Massachusetts County of Barnstable 
                       Town of Dennis

Marriage Solemnized by Revd Isaac Dunham
Capt. Samuel Chase of Dennis Wife Molly Harden 
             of Dennis
July Seventeenth Eighteen Hundred and Thirty 
               Eight
Recorded by Isaac Nickerson Town Clerk
March Twenty Seventh -Eighteen Hundred and 
                Thirty Nine

Births,
Rebecca H. Chase Born January Twenty fourth
Eighteen Hundred Thirty Nine -
Samuel R Chase .. August Fourteenth
Eighteen Hundred Forty Two -
Deaths,
Samuel Chase Died August Twenty ninth
Eighteen Hundred Forty Five -

I CERTIFY that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, as follows: - (b)
Marriage "July 17th 1838  "Death Augst 29 -1845
_______________________________________
Births - Jany. 24th  -1839
            Augst. 14th - 1842

I, Isaiah Nickerson above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town, county and state aforesaid, and that the above is a true copy from the records of said Town with the exception above named, as certified by me.
   [Signed]  Isaiah Nickerson Jr.{ Town Clerk
                                                    of Dennis
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this ..... day of ......  A.D. 185....  I have no interest in this case.
        ..............................  Justice of the Peace

(a) Here fill in an exact transcript of the record, except that, instead of copying the figures, the date must be written out in full
(b) Here give the date exactly as it is in the record.
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State of Massachusetts  County of Barnstable
Town of Dennis
Copy from the Town Record of Dennis of the Births of the Children of Samuel and Molly Chase
Rebecca H Chase   Born  Jany 24 - 1839 -
Samuel R Chase       "   Augst. 14 - 1842 -

A True COpy from the Town Record of Dennis
Now in my possession
       [Signed]   Attest Isaiah Nickerson
                                                    Town Clerk
                                                       of Dennis
Dennis April 19th 1864 }
                             also Justice of the Peace.
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State of Massachusetts    County of 
          Barnstable
Town of Dennis
Copy from the Town Record of Dennis of the
Death of Samuel Chase a Revolutionary Pensioner -
Samuel Chase Died Augst Twenty Ninth Eighteen Hundred and Forty Five
            .. Augst. 29th .. 1845 -
A True Copy from the Record of the Town of Dennis Now in my possession -
         [Signed] Attest Isaiah Nickerson
                                  Town Clerk
                                        of Dennis ...
                   Also Justice of the Peace
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                                        320229
Application for Bounty Land
   Act 3 March 1855. 
    160 acre warrant.

Rebecca H Crowell}
Samuel R, Chase}  Children of the 
                              late Samuel Chase


         Not on files
         May 25/64

                                         DEPARTMENT
                                              OF THE
                                            INTERIOR
                                         No 281864
                                     PENSION OFFICE

Charles Reed
Attorney
Boston
Mass.
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State of Massachusetts  County of Barnstable
Town of Dennis
Copy of the the Marriage of Caleb B Howes to the Widow Molly Chase
Mr. Caleb B Howes of Dennis to
Mrs. Molly Chase of Dennis
February the Twelfth Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Two
Married by Revd.  Richard Tollman
   [Signed]  Attest Watson Baker Town Clerk

   I CERTIFY that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, as follows: - (b)
   " Feby 12   " 1852  Watson Baker Town Clerk
                                  Isaiah Nickerson
  Dennis  April 18 1864

I, Isaiah Nickerson above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town , county and state aforesaid, and that the above is a true copy from the records of said town, with the exception above named, as certified by me.

   [Signed] Isaiah Nickerson  {Town Clerk
                                               of Dennis

Subscribed to and sworn to before me, this Twentieth day of April  A.D. 1864.  I have no interest in this case.
      [Signed]  Miller W. Nickerson  Justice of 
                                        the Peace.