Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12,242, Isaac Blake, N.H.
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SERVICE 
N. H.
BLAKE, ISAAC
NUMBER S. 12,242
CONTENTS
[BLANK]
carded
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2508
New Hampshire
Isaac Blake of Thornton in the State of N. H. who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded by Col Webster in the N. H. line for 7 mos 24 days
Inscribed on the Roll of N. H. at the rate of 25 Dollars 99 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of NOv 1832 and sent George Woodward Plymouth N. H.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $38.98
Semi-anl. allowanc ending 4 Mar 33 12.99
[total] $51.97
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by I hick Blair Clerk,
Book D Vol 1st Page 143.
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton County ss.
On this [illegible - crossed out] eighth day of Septtmber AD 1832 personally appeared Isaac Blake of Thornton in said county aged sixty seven years & over, in open court before the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for said State now sitting in Plymouth in for said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of the Congress June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the Revolutionary war under the following named officers & served as herein stated. viz that in the early part of February 1780 he enlisted at Campton in said County of Grafton with Capt. Gersham Burbank captain of the militia of that town for two months to go to the northern part of the State to guard against the Indians who had come out of Canada the fall before taken, two men named [illegible - crossed out] Elijah Blodget & Nathan Barlow & carried them captive to Canada as he then understood. That this had alarmed the people & that the force he joined went to protect & secure them. That he went to Haverhill in said County of Grafton having passed muster under Col David Webster of said Plymouth. That he joined the said forces at said [illegible - crossed out] Haverhill. That the whole body was under the command of Capt Runnels. That a detachment was made & sent to Stratford in the present County of Coos then Grafton under Lieut. James Heath. That said Blake went with said detachment to said Stratford & remained there occasionally going out upon scouts until the expiration of said two months when he was honorably
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dismissed & returned home. That he remained
at home till the latter part of May or first of June in the same year when he enlisted a contracted with said Captain Burbank, to go again into the service for six months & go to New York & West Point, that he understood that the men then called for were wanted to fill the places in the regiments that were once filled by the three years men whose time had run out. That after engaging as aforesaid he went to said Plymouth & passed muster under Col. David Webster, went to Amherst in said State & passed muster again under Colonel Peabody, passed through Worcester in Massachusetts & arrived at West Point & joined Col. Cilleys first New Hampshire Regiment. (Col. Joseph Cilley) That Gen. Poor he thinks had commanded the brigade but had died or been killed in a duel a little before that time. His company called a Major's company was commanded by Lieut. Howe, that remaining a short time at said Points he crossed the North River at the lower ferry, went down through Peekskill & crossed the north river at Kings ferry at Stoney Point. Went to Orangetown in New Jersey English neighborhood thence to a place he thinks was called Perammus [Paramus] on Hackensack river, back to Orangetown & pitched tents on the spot where they struck them at leaven Orangetown lay there awhile & hearing of Arnold defection, were called to West Point. Marched there, cross over to Constitution Island & there pitched tents & remained there till he was detached into the Highlands to cut tiny wood. Returned to camp which [illegible] had
been removed to Soldier's Fortune. From there he was detached to stand as Commissary's guard at Peekskill in place of some man who had been overpowered with the cold. Remained a short time, heard they were discharging the men at
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Camp, returned shortly to camp & was discharged then by Col. Cilley Dec. 6, 1780, that the annexed [illegible] paper is a true copy of the written discharge he then received excepting the last figure in the date of the year which date in the original was 1780, that the original discharge was handed Colo Moses Baker whose name is on its enable him to procure the said Blake's pay. That it was handed him in 1781 which said Blake thinks might have caused the mistake of the year. That after his said discharge he returned home to said Campton - that he was in no battle save a light skirmish at Salute mills just above Dobbs Ferry on a Creek on North River that he has no documentary evidence of his said service except the paper annexed & knows of no living testimony that he can procure beside the annexed depositions. He did not receive this recollection a written discharge from his said first period of service. He hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the prospect and deeds that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any State. That he was born on the twentieth day of September  anno Domini 1764 at Falmouth now Portland in the  State of Maine, left there at eighteen months old as he was told & removed to Nottingham in New Hampshire, moved thence before his remembrance to Allenstown in said New Hampshire & remained there till he was about ten years old when he removed with his father to [said - crossed out] Campton in said County of Grafton & lived there till about twenty years of age & removed to Thornton where he now lives & has resided there ever since. He does not know that his birth is any where recorded that his family bible in which the same was recorded, is worn out & gone.
[signed] Isaac Blake
Subscribed & sworn to the year & day first above mentioned.
Geo Woodward Clerk
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We Moody Elliott & Joseph Webster both residing in the town of Thornton in said County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Isaac Blake who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be sixty seven years of age and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
[signed] Moody Elliot
[signed] Joseph Webster
Sworn & subscribed the day & year first aforesaid.
[signed] Geo Woodward Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, &
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 Moody Elliot [illegible has signed the preceding certificate is a resident in Thornton & that Joseph Webster who has also signed the same is a resident in said Thornton and are credible persons & that their state is entitled to credit.
[signed] Geo Woodward Clerk
I George Woodward Clerk of the Court aforesaid
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Blake for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 8th day of September
1832  [signed] Geo Woodward Clerk

Isaac Blake Declr 11657
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11,657
Isaac Blake
Private
7 mos & 24 days
W. C. E.
Admitted
Sr-5.99
George Woodward Esq
Plymouth N. H.
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11,657
BRIEF in the case of Isaac Blake of Thornton in the State of New Hampshire
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? [blank]
3. How old is he? 67
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
|Period.|
|early In 1780|
|May or June same year|
|Duration of Service.|
|Years, Months, Days.|
| -, 2 [mos], - |
| -, 6 [mos]*, - |
|Rank.|
|Private|
|Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.|
|Gen.|
|Cap Burbank Col Webster|
|Cap Burbank Col. Peabody and Col Cilley|
*on Roll for 5 months & 24 days
5. In what battles was he engaged? none mentioned
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Campton N. H.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
two living Witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
[yes - crossed out] all right
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
W. C. Easton
Examining Clerk.
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Blake,
Isaac
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The Barer [bearor] Isaac Blake being a New Levey in the first N. Hampshire Regt is hereby Discharged from the service and has leve [leave] to return to the State of N. Hampshire.
All issuing companies are desired to issue Provisions to the above named Isaac Blake untill the sixteenth Inst. he procuring a certificate of his Last Drawing.
Camp Soldiers Fortune Decr 6th 1781 Joh Cilley Col a trew [true] Coppey [copy] Moses Baker
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Rev War
12242
Invalid
File No. 12,242
Isaac Blake Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7 1832
Index: [blank] Vol. A, Page 35
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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11,657
Isaac Blake
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Isaac Blake
which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? [blank}
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he
served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? no clergyman
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? no
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? [blank]
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? Yes
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? Yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? Yes
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
all answered
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For [blank] year [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]. For [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]; and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly
attached to the certificate.
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Ebenr Foss - Depn.
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I Ebenezer Foss of Thornton in the county of Grafton & State of New Hampshire aged seventy three years depose & say that in the year 1780, I resided in the town of Canterbury in the said State & that a requisition was made upon that town to furnish a small number of men, (three or four to the best of my recollection) to go out for six months to take the place of the three years men, whose time had run out & to fill up the Continental regiments. I further say that the last of May first of June of that year I enlisted as one of the men who were called for & went out. That I went to Amherst in said State & there passed muster under a muster master whose name I have forgotten. From Amherst I went to Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts & there drew provisions. From Worcester I went to West Point in the State of New York & joined Col Cilley's regiment in the company commanded by Lieut. Senter who acted as Captain. From West point cross the North River went down the east side to Kings ferry & recrossed the river & went to Orangetown in New Jersey. From there went to a place called English neighborhood. From there to some place which I have forgotten & back to Orangetown & thence to West Point where our troops arrived soon after Arnolds desertion. After this we lay a while on Constitution island & went from there to a place called Soldier's Fortune where huts were built for winter & there I was discharged. I further say that Isaac Blake now of Thornton aforesaid then of Campton as I understood from him in the said county of Grafton was engaged in the same six months service, served in the same regiment in the company under the command of Lieut Howe. That I was well acquainted with said Blake, learned from him his place of residence & the term for which he had enlisted & when he enlisted & I was intimate with him during said service was with him at the places before mentioned. I further say that I have
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no doubt said Blake was in said service during the whole fit until the close of said six months & was regularly discharged. I was discharged at Soldier's fortune sometime in the early part of December but I cannot State the precise day, as I have lost the discharge I received at leaving the service.
[signed] Ebenezer Foss

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss.
Sept 3d 1832 Then personally appearing said Ebenzer Foss whom I know to be a man of good 
character for truth made solemn oath to the truth of said affidavits before me
Benjamin Burley Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss.
I George Woodward Clerk of this Court of Common Pleas for the County of Grafton do certify that Benjamin Burley Esqr is a Justice of the peace within & for said County of Grafton
duly qualified to take affidavits & that I believe the above to be his genuine signature.
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court this 22 day of September 1832.
Geo Woodward Clerkado
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David French Affid.
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I David French of Campton in the County of Grafton & State of New Hampshire aged sixty two years coming October depose & say that I removed with my fathers family in the year 1779 from Newbury in Massachusetts to the said town of Campton. That the county where my father settled was then new & there was but one family within [three - crossed out] two miles of the place where he settled. That family was Israel  Blake's. That said Blake was a poor man & lived in a small log cabin within fifty or sixty rods of my fathers. That he had a large family of children, the oldest of which was Isaac Blake then about fifteen years old. That I was then nine years of age & that the children of said Blake were my only companions & I was much with them, very intimate with them & interested in whatever concerned the family. I further say that in the winter of 1780 or 1781 orders came for men to go immediately into the revolutionary service & said Israel Blake was as I understood drafted to go as one of the men. I well remember said Blakes consulting with my father as to what he should do & saying that the situation of his family was such that he could not leave them & he was too poor to hire a substitute & that he did not know what to do. My father advised him to send his son [Robert - crossed out] Isaac then sixteen or to seventeen years of age & after some hesitation & expressing some apprehensions that Isaac would not pass muster  for his want of size & that he could not bear the fatigue & exposure of the service, he listened to my fathers advice & consented to let his son Isaac go. I remember well that the demand for men was express & that they were wanted to turn out without delay & that said Isaac's mother came to my fathers house & that she & my mother sat up all night preparing Isaac to set off, my father being rather better off in circumstances than Mr Blake. I further say that said Isaac left home for two or three months, I am unable to say which & was gone in the service, as I understood, the time he went out for.  & I remember his return & that he was much stouter & fleshin than when he went out & that some time not long after his return he
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enlisted for six months & went out again & was gone the time he enlisted for. I further say that I remember his Fathers dissatisfaction at his enlistment & that he promised to give him a certain gun if he would remain at home contented by after his six months were out & not enlist again. I further say that it has always been my impression that said Isaac Blake was out in both said periods eight or nine months & my prevailing impression has been that it was nine. But of this I am not  table & speak with certainty & I mention and forgoing in circumstances to show the means I have of recollectary facts which took place when I was so young. I further State that I had no knowledge & my recollection of the places to which said Isaac Blake went at either of said periods or the officers under whom he served. But I have no doubt from what I do remember that said Isaac Blake was in the revolutionary service of the United States at least eight months in the year 1780 or 1781 - and I further depose that said Isaac Blake now resides in Thornton in said County of Grafton & has resided there nearly fifty years & is the same who is now making application for a pension under the recent act of Congress.
[signed] David French

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss.
Sept 3d 1832 Then personally appearing David French above named whom I know to be a man of fair character for truth made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit before me.
[signed] Benjamin Burley Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss.
I George Woodward Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Grafton do certify that Benjamin Burley Esq is a Justice of the peace within & for said County of Grafton duly qualified to take affidavits that I believe the foregoing to be his genuine signature.
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court this 22d day of September 1832.
[signed] Geo Woodward Clerk