Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22169, Thomas Chase, Navy (N.H.)
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(8-1776)
SERVICE Navy (N.H.)
Chase, Thomas
NUMBER S. 22169

CONTENTS
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Letter to Jeremiah Pichard 25th
March 1840
Issued duplicate certificate issued
22d May 1840- + [and] sent to 
Hon: J. W. Williams  on [crossed out] House
of Representatives-on 23d May
1840-

[illegible seal]

[illegible] 30.402
New Hampshire
Thomas Chas[illegible]
of [illegible] in the State of New Hampshire
who was a Marine in the Frigate commanded
by Captain Nicholson of the (Left Blank)
by N. H. in the Navy of 
time for 15 months

Inscribed on the roll of New-Hampshire
at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of Feb
1836 and sent to 
Joshua Marshall  [illegible]

Arrears to the 4th of March 1886 $166.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 
State of New Hampshire County of Coos Ss
On this fifth day of January A.D. 1836, personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate, now sitting, Thomas Chase a resident of Stewartstown in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire, aged seventy one years, 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 7, 1832.
That he entered the service under the following named officers and served as herein stated - According to the best of my recollection in December 1779, at fifteen years of age, in the town of Stratham in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, I enlisted, in company with John Marble, Coker Marble, Edward Busby, William Taylor, Joseph Parsons & John Leavit, likewise from Stratham, as a volunteer to go a cruise, in the capacity of marine on board the Frigate Dean of the United States continental service. I went immediately to Boston Ms & was put forthwith aboard the Dean, which I found to be a vessel of 450 or 550 men, & I was told that she was one of thirteen similar vessels then in the continental service. The Dean was commanded by Captain Nicholson; Delaware, lieutenant of the ship; Hampstead, lieutenant of the marines; James Lambert & Tilden Crooker, Sergeants of the marines; McLeavre sailing master, and John Marble, whose affidavit is hereunto attached, was quarter master - After going on board the Dean we laid in Boston harbor six or eight weeks & went from thence to the English Channel, soon after which, being about the last of March 1780, we took the Ship Hume a brittish ship loaded with rum & bound for the city of New York, on board which prize John Marble & Coker Marble, abovementioned, I recollect were put, & sent back with it to Boston, who else from the Dean went on board this prize I do not recollect- The Dean soon after left the Channel & cruised off the western islands when we took a ship called a Bark, a dutch built vessel, loaded with wine and fruits. She was sent to New London Ct. The Dean then went back to the English Channel where after laying a short time we took two prizes, brittish privateer vessel, the one called Brig & the other Snow
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They were both taken in one day, the Snow was a copper bottom. Joseph Parsons was put on board one of these-- They were both taken to Boston. The Dean soon after this returned to Boston where she arrived in the month of October 1780. I remained on board the Dean till she was stripped. Her guns taken out & her masts unstepped making as I believe ten months that I was on board the ship - The marines were all dismissed in one day without, so far as I remember,  any written discharge being given to any of us-- I then went home  to Stratham and did not enter the service afterward.  While on board the Dean, I did not receive any commission, but was a private with marines during the whole cruise - After leaving the service I continued to live in Stratham where I was born in the year 1765 and had always lived before entering the service till the year 1787 when I removed to Wolfboro in the County of Strafford & State of New Hampshire where  I resided most of the time till the year 1815 when I removed to the aforesaid town of Stewartstown where I here have since resided and now reside-- I once had a record of my age in a bible which was carried by my children to school about twenty seven years ago, & the bible was burnt in a school house, which was burnt when I lived in Strafford County, & I have since kept no record of my age. I am known in the neighborhood where I reside by Saml. G. Piper, Ths. Piper, Barzillai Brainard, Libbeus Hall, L.F. Hall, Charles Sargent & Moses Pickard, who can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief as to my service in the war of the revolution - Jeremiah Young of Colebrook in said County of Coos,  & Richard Tibbet & Chs. Wiggins in a distant neighborhood of the aforesaid Stewartstown have known me before my living in Stewartstown & can likewise testify to the same - my poverty and means of information have not put it in my powers to procure the testimony of any witness of my service except that furnished by the affidavit of John Marble, hereunto annexed, and I do not know of any other living witness, by whom I can prove it. The reason of my delaying the present application to the present time, is that the papers setting forth my claim to a pension which were furnished to the war department in the year 1833 were mislaid in the office of Jared W. Williams, Esq. so that I have not till within a few weeks been able to regain them-
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or in County except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of my State
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid-
[signed] B Hunking, Judge Probate

We Ebenezer G. Bradford, a clergyman residing in the town of Colebrook in the County of Coos & State of New Hampshire, and Barzillai Brainard of Stewartstown aforesaid, do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Thomas Chase, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy one or two 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]  Ebenezer G. Bradford
Barzillai Brainard

Subscribed the day & year aforesaid-
[signed]  B Hunking, Judge Probate

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states-- and the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Ebenezer  G. Bradford who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the town of Colebrook aforesaid and that Barzillai Brainard who has also signed the same is a resident in Stewartstown aforesaid is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
[signed] B Hunking, Judge Probate

State of New Hampshire County of Coos
I Jared W. Williams, Clerk & register of the court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original procedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Chase for a pension-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this fifth day of January Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred & thirty six
[signed] Jared W Williams, Clerk & Regr of Probate
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The seven interrogatories prescribed by the war department are considered to the
Court by the declarant, Thomas Chase, aforesaid, in the following manner, to wit
Answer 1. I was born in the town of Stratham, in the County of Rockingham & State of New
Hampshire; and I think it was in the year 1765, but perhaps it was in 1764
 " 2. I have none. The record which I once had of my age, was burnt in Brookfield
N. H. 26 or 27 years ago. It was written on a blank leaf in my bible, which was
carried as a school book by my children to school; and the school house being
burnt I lost my bible and my record. I have since depended on my memory
alone to keep my age, time of birth etc in recollection
  " 3. I was living in the town of Stratham, aforesaid, when I entered the service, and continued to reside in the same town after I left the service till I was 22 years old. I then removed to Wolfboro in the County of Strafford N.H. and resided there the next 22 years of my life I then removed to Brookfield in the same County of Strafford and lived there about 4 years, I then removed to Tuftonboro in the same County of Strafford and lived there about 3 years, I then removed from Tuftenboro in the year 1815 to the aforesaid Stewartstown where I now reside-
  " 4. I voluntered-
  "  5. The name of the Captain of the Dean was Nickolson; that of the lieutenant of the
marines was Hampstead; those of the Sergeants of the Marines were James Lambert &
Tilden Crooker; that of the lieutenant of the ship was Delaware; that of the quartermaster 
was John Marble; that of the sailing master was [     ] and that of the Cooper was Peasles. I cannot remember the names of any more of the officers. We took 4 [prizes] while we were out, 3 in [  ] not far from the English Channel & 1 near the western islands. The first prize we took was called the Hume, the next a Bark, found at the western islands, the two next, 
taken at one time, were called the one Snow & the other Brig-- Hame Brig & Snow were
found at the time, we were lying about the English Channel-- We returned to Boston after having been out about ten months.
  "  6. I never received any written discharge that I remember of, I think the marines were all dismissed as one. All of us from Stratham enlisted for one cruise in the Frigate & when she returned to Boston, we were, I suppose, of course dismissed. I was a private the whole time of my service.
  "  7. Barzillai Brainard, Libbens Hall, L.F. Hall, Moses Martin, Samuel G. Piper, Thomas Piper, James Heath, Ira Owen, Moses Pickard, Charles Sargent, & Henry Dellachight, now reside in my immediate neighborhood, are well acquainted with me and can testify as to my character for truth and as to my reputation in regard to revolutionary service and has been since my residence in Stewartstown; and the aforesaid Sam G. Pipe & Thomas Piper, and Jeremiah Young of Colebrook in the aforesaid County of Coos, and Richard Tibbits and Charles Wiggins, residing in a distant neighborhood in Stewartstown aforesaid were well acquainted with me when I lived in Wolfborough and can testify to the same as they 
have understood it, for the whole time they have known me--

And the court further certifies that, by the investigation it has given to the matter of 
the service of the applicant Thomas Chase, it appears to them that the belief of
his service is as general & extensive as his acquaintance; and that no doubt do or
we have existed of his revolutionary service as stated in his foregoing declaration.
B Hunking, Judge Probate

State of New Hampshire County of Coos S.
I, Jared W. Williams, Clerk and Register of the court of Probate
hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of 
said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Chase for
a pension-
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of 
office this fifth day of January one thousand eight hundred ┃
thirty six.
Jared W Williams, Clerk & Register of Probate
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APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.
County of Coos ss.
On this eighth day of May 1840, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Coos personally appeared Thomas Chase who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Nickerson of the Ship of war Dean in the regiment commanded by Colonel [blank] in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of New Hampshire that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate, on or about the twenty fifth day of January 1840 at or near Wm M Smith's Dwelling house in Stewartstown was Destroyed by fire as he believes in Wm. M. Smith's Clother's Shop
[signed] Thos Chase

Sworn and subscribed to, before me [signed  Wm M Smith  Justice of the Peace the day and year aforesaid.

I Jeremiah Richard do certify that I am well acquainted with and know Thomas Chase to be the same person described in the above affidavit and I do not believe that he would state any thing under oath which he did not believe the true
[signed]  Jeremiah Pickard

Sworn  to be for me [signed] Wm M Smith Justice of the Peace
I [?] certify that in my opinion, Jeremiah Pickard is a man of truth and veracity

NOTES--The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate.
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.
[icon of pointing hand] If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the case in a few instances many years ago, he should leave out the above words in italics, and insert, in lieu thereof, "but has never received a formal certificate, and now wishes to obtain one."
The pensioner's oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity. The person must swear that he well knows him to be the same person described in the above affidavit. The magistrate must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity. This oath must also be authenticated by the certificate of the proper officer, under his seal of office, setting forth that the officer before whom the affidavit may be made is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be.
When a person acting as an Agent or Attorney for a Pensioner, loses the certificate, the affidavit of that person is also required, which must be authenticated as above.
[icon, as above] In every case where the Clerk of the Court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should be sent with the papers.
[icon] Mode of authenticating papers. -- In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or small ribbon, the ends 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.
[icon] No attention will be given to applications from persons who act as agents, unless they are known at the War Department or are vouched for as respectable persons by some one who is known to the Department.

House of Rep. Washington May 20th 1840 I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above subscribers & their hand writing & have no doubt the signatures are their hand writing, I also know who Wm M Smith the above signer is an acting  Justice of the Peace
[signed] Jared W. Williams Mem. Cong
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23805
Thos Chase

Admitted

Joshua Marshall
Stratford.

[crossed out: Jared W Williams Lancaster}

NH
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Pension Office,
July 18
Sir:  The evidence in 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 shew 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 with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, shewing the service of Thomas Chase
Dec 1779 -- 10 mos -- Marine -- Capt Nicholson Frigate -- Dean 

Present age & place where entered service:  67, Stratham, N.H.

Proof by which the declaration is supported: Traditionary & one witness

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant
J. L. EDWARDS.
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:
   This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State Troops." "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers. &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c.   Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
   Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1.  The Regular Troops.
2.  The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3.  Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4.  Indian Spies.
   As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides.  And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of_____}
County of_____ } ss.
   On this_____day of_____personally appeared (a) before_____A.B. a resident (b) of_____in the county of_____and State, Territory or District of_____aged (c)_____years, 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 Congress, passed June 7, 1832.  That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)_____, with _____and served in the _____(e) regiment of the_____line, under the following named officers:
    [in brackets:]  Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched.  (L.)  This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c. [end of brackets]

   He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency for the State of
   Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
     [in brackets:] And then will follow the certificate of the Court.

   And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
   I_____of the Court of _____do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of_____for a pension.
   In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this _____day of_____&c.

   If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
   Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers, or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
   (k)  We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the _____and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____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.
   Sworn to and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
    [in brackets:] And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
   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 A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergymen, resident in the_____and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
   I,_____Clerk of the Court of _____do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of _____for a pension.
     In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this _____day of_____&c.

   Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power.  This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
   If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his    [end of page]
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department.  A very full account of the servives of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case.  The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.  All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the county in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
   The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State Troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State Troops of Virginia.
1.  Where and in what year were you born?
2.  Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3.  Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
4.  How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?  And if a substitute, for whom?
5.  State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6.  {To a Soldier. {  Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
{To an Officer. { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7.  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

   The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
   The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons---one of whom should be the nearest clergymen, if one lives in  the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.  If one of these persons is a Clergymen, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
    The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party.  And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
   Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of the Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
   Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of Court or County, under his seal of office will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
   No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authorized before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

  (a)  The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
   (b)  The declarant must make his declaration in the cpounty where he resides.  If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
   (c)  The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
   (d)  The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
   (e)  Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had.  Every claimant must state, 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.  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 _____ year _____months, and _____ days, I served as a _____.  For _____months, and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
   It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each 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 [in italics:] about three or four months, [end italics] in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
   (f)  The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
   (g)  The opinion of the Court is always required.
   (h)  The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
   (i)  The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.
   In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends 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.

Proof of Service.
   (j)  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 claimant's 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.
   [double brackets]  The notes from (a) to (i) are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers, and State Troops.  The proof required by rule [?] note (j) applies to continental troops only.
   (k)  This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
   (l)  If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
   (m)  The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank]  for a statement of the military history of Thomas Chase a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.  S. File 22,169
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. Dec. 1779
LENGTH OF SERVICE. 10 mos.
RANK. Pri of Mariner
OFFICERS: CAPTAIN Nicholson  under Lt. Hampstead
U.S. Ship "Deane"  Navy
Captured "Hume" & 3 other prizes,

Battles engaged in, [check mark]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Stratham Rockingham Co. N.H. 1787 [1779]
Wolfeboro N.H for 22 yrs.
Date of application for pension, Jany. 1, 1833.
Residence at date of application, Stewartstown, Coos Co. N.H. since 1815.
Age at date of application, 67, Born 1764 or 1765 at Stratham, N.H.
Remarks: No data as to family.
to and for death

Very respectfully,
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House of Rep. May 20th 1840
J L Edwards Esq
Enclosed are papers for the renewal of a certificate with my certificate as requested
Yours very respectfully
[signed] Jared W Williams
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Record Division.
November 14, 1908.

Mr. John T. Gilman,
# 11 Brownville Avenue,
Lynn, Mass.

Sir:  In reply to your letter dated the 2"" and received the 3"" instant, you are advised that the enclosed is a statement of service of the only Thomas Chase of New Hampshire found on the record of pensioners of the Revolutionary War, and that said record fails to afford any information in regard to Lucius Powers described by you.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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adm d

10 Mo Marine
33.33
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Joshua Marshall
Stratford
County
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Harmony Maine 10 Feb 1831
I John Marble of Harmony in the State of Maine, of lawful age do testify and say that I knew Thomas Chase from his boyhood till some time in March 1780. Till the latter part of December 1779, and the former part of Jan. 1780, we both resided in Stratham, in the State of New Hampshire. We then went together to Boston, where we immediately went on board the United States Frigate Deane, and served on board, I as a quartermaster and he as a marine, till some time in March 1780, I was then put on board the ship Hume, a private vessel as mate leaving said Chase on board the Deane.
[signed] John Marble
Sworn to before me this 10th day of Feb. 1831
[signed] Harvey Evans  Justice of the Peace

And I hereby certify that John Marble who a  has subscribed & sworn to the above certificate is a credible person & his statement is entitled to credit
[signed]Harry Evans

Should Mr Chase obtain a pension, Esq. Ingham is requested to inform Capt. Marble
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State of Maine
Somerset Co. ss.}
I Joshua Gould, Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Somerset & State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Harvey Evans on the tenth day of February A.D. 1831, was a Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified;  that his commission was dated on the twenty seventh day of October, A.D. 1830 and will expire on the twenty seventh day of October A.D. 1837, and that his signature within written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County this thirty first day of December 1835.
[signed]  Joshua Gould, Clerk

[along left side]
[Harmony?] [illegible]  1814
13 Feb.
A. M. Ingham Esq. P. M.
Canaan
Vermont

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SAMUEL E. SMITH,
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MAINE.
TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS,
GREETING,
[signature] Saml E. Smith
KNOW YE, That Harvey Evans, of Harmony, in the County of Somerset, Esq., whose name is borne upon the paper hereunto annexed, was on the twenty seventh day of October A.D. 1830 appointed and commissioned, and on the twenty sixth day of January A.D. 1831 qualified, as one of our Justices of the Peace within and for said County and that to his Acts and Attestations as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed. GIVEN under my hand at AUGUSTA, this twelfth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three and in the fifty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.
BY THE GOVERNOR.
[signed] R. G. Green  Secretary  of State.
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3 - 871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L.D.L.
Claim No.[blank]
Certificate No.[blank]
Claimant Wid.Abigail
Soldier Thomas Chase
Service Col. Jonathan Charles N.H.
Additional Service Rev.  War
N. Wolfboro, N. H.
No. [blank] claim, State records [blank]
No claim, combination records , [blank]
REMARKS:
Only J. File 22169 - Marine
N.H. res -
No Wid Abigail Chase 


Chief Division
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Lynn, Nov. 2, 1908.

COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir: -

The person referred to in the inclosed letter Dr. Lucius Powers, was born about the year 1740 and resided and practiced in what is now the town of Acton in Maine but as the town was not incorporated until 1830 and an appeal to
the Town Clerk has failed to inform me what the name of the territory was called previous to that time, I am somewhat at a loss to give definite information relating to his residence. Upon looking at an old map I find that Lebanon about that time included a generous portion of the earth around that locality and our man may have been one of its proudest inhabitants and had a large field for his
practice. The family tradition has it that he was a surgeon during the Revolutionary War and I am looking for confirmation of that tradition if possible. Both himself and wife were practitioners in that locality and upon her death he removed to N.H. to spend the remaining years of his life with his daughter in what is now the town of Alton N.H. but was formerly known as New Durham Gore.
This is all the data I can give you and if we cannot trace him we will have to be satisfied with the knowledge that we know at least where he is buried. As there was no widow she is not interested in this case.  Another record I am looking for is that of Thomas Chase who went from Wolfboro N. H. and I think served in
Col. Jonathan Chase's Regiment of N.H. troops. He was a Pensioner for the last years of his life, residing at No [North?] Wolfboro N.H. and died about 1830 in the 99th year of life. The most I care about this case is to ascertain just when his pension ceased that I may fix the date of death exactly. He married late in life and for the second wife had Abigail Cate. If there is a record of this
case please state the time her pension ceased if she got one
Yours respectfully
JOHN T. GILMAN
11 Brownville Ave.
Lynn, Mass.

[S?] 22169
30402

[stamp]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE
A
NOV 3 1908
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For the Clerk of the Pension Office
Naval Department.
Dear Sir;
Please give me the Naval data of the services of Thomas Chase born in Lisbury  Martha's Vineyard Sept. 30. 1755 - died there Ap. 1844 - He was with John Paul Jones on the ship - "Bon Homme Richard", in 1775. Any information regarding him will be thankfully received. Please do so at your very earliest convenience and at the same time send me your bill for services rendered.  Also services on the ship "Alliance" under the same officers, 1775
And I am-
Gratefully Yours
Miss) H. M. Fisher
239 Emerson Place
Brooklyn, N.Y.

Dec. 10 /03

P.S. Stamp enclosed for a reply.

[stamped]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE.
D
DEC 11 1903
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New Hampshire
Concord  (Revy Navy) Agency
Invalid File 22.169
Name Thomas Chase
Rank, Marine (NH)
Vessel, Frigate Deane 

Rate per month, and date of commencement.
1st Issue. { Ctf. 30402  Feby. 15, 1836
2d Issue. { Act June 7, 1832.

Date of Certificate, and to whom sent.
1st  Issue. { Vol. 1  Page 77.
2d Issue. { [blank]

Act 14th July, 1862, 
[the rest of this part of the page is blank]

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1904 Jan. 12. Hist. to Miss H. M. Fisher - Warner-
1908 Nov. 14, Hist, to John T. Gilman
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I Jeremiah Young of Colebrook in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire, aged forty eight years, do testify and say that I have been well acquainted with Thomas Chase of Stewartstown in said county more than thirty years, have resided in the same neighbourhood where he lived, during that time and from what I have heard him say, and from what I have heard others say previous to his making application for a pension, I have no doubt that he served in the revolutionary War of the United States as he has Stated and that the said Chase has maintained a good character for truth and veracity and I have no doubt he has stated the facts relating to his services during said War according to the best of his recollection and that it is generally believed in the neighbourhood where he now resides that he served as he has stated in his declaration 
[signed]  Jeremiah Young

State of New Hampshire 
Coos ss. January 5, 1836}  Then personally appeared the above named Jeremiah Young, and made oath to the above affidavit by him subscribed. Before me [signed] Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the above named Jeremiah Young is a disinterested credible Witness-
[signed] Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace

I Benjamin Drew of Stewartstown in the County of Coos aforesaid aged fifty one years do depose and say that I am well acquainted with Thomas Chase of Stewartstown aforesaid and from what I have heard from him and others in the neighbourhood previous to his making an application for a pension and from a knowledge of his character for truth I have no doubt he served as a Revolutionary Soldier, during the Revolutionary War of the United States as nearly as he has stated in his declaration as he could recollect.
[signed] Benjamin Drew Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire Coos ss. January 5th 1836.⎬ 
Then personally came before me, the above named Benjamin Drew and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed was true -- and I further certify that the above named Benjamin Drew is a disinterested credible witness
[signed] Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Coos ss}
Superior Court of Judicature Clerk's office January 22 1836.

I, Adino N. Brackett Clerk of said Court, certify that Joshua Marshall is now an acting magistrate for said County, qualified by law to administer oaths & that the forgoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In witness of which I have hereto affixed my seal of office & subscribed my name the day & year before written
[signed] A.N. Braerckett, Clk.
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I Samuel G. Piper of Stewartstown in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire aged sixty five years do testify and say that I have been acquainted with Thomas Chase of Stewartstown aforesaid[;] ever since the year 1792 have resided near him in Wolfeborough and Stewartstown N.H.  That I believe he served in the Revolutionary War as he has stated on board the Frigate Dean that I so understood previous to his making any application for a pension and that it was so understood and believed in the neighbourhood where he resided ever since the Revolution and that the said Thomas Chase has always sustained a good character and is a credible Witness -
[signed] Sam G Piper

I Richard Tibbits of the said Stewartstown aged Sixty years do testify and say that I have been well acquainted with the above named Thomas Chase during the term of from thirty five to thirty eight years, last past, have resin the same town the most of that time and that I believe he served as he has stated during the Revolutionary War on board the frigate dean.  I so understood previous to his making application for a pension I was told so by a Brother in law of mine John Piper, who is now dead, and that the said Chase is a man of good moral character which he has sustained ever since I have been acquainted with him and that he is a credible Witness -
[signed] Rich Tibbets
.
State of New Hampshire
Cass County ss. January 5th A.D. 1836 Then personally came before me the subscriber the above named Saml G Piper & Richard Tibbets and [illegible] made oath to the truth of the above affidavits by them [illegible] subscribed
[signed] Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace

I further certify that the above named Saml G. Piper and Richard Tibbits are disinterested credible witnesses and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
[signed] Joshua Marchall Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Coos ss.}
Superior Court of Judicature, Clerk's office
January 22d 1836
I Adino N. Brackett Clerk of said Court, certify that Joshua Marshall is an acting magistrate qualified by law to administer oaths & that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony of which I have hereto affixed my seal of office & subscribed my name the day & year above written
[signed] A.N. Brackett, Clerk.



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Affadavits Pension
Thos. Chase
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I Thomas Piper of Stewartstown in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire aged thirty eight years do depose and say that I have been acquainted with Thomas Chase of said Stewartstown ever since I can remember more than twenty five years have lived a near neighbour to him and that I believe he went on board the Frigate Dean during the Revolutionary War as he states and that it is so believed and understood in the neighbourhood when he resides, and was so understood and believed previous to his making any application for a pension and that his character is good for truth and veracity.   That, he is a credible witness-
[signed] Thomas Piper

State of New Hampshire
Coos County SS January 5th A.D. 1836. 
Then personally came before me the subscriber, Thomas Piper above named and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed and I further certify that the above named Thomas Piper is a credible witness-
[signed] Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire
Coos ss    I Jared W Williams of Lancaster in said County of lawful age do depose & say that the papers relating to the claim of Thomas Chase of Stewartstown in said County above named for a pension were sent back from the Pension department at Washington to me at said Lancaster as the Register of Probate who had certified the proceedings and I soon afterwards handed some of them to Mr Young Esquire who had assisted Mr Chase in preparing the papers.  And supposed that I handed them all to him till about two months ago found the declaration of Mr Chase and the most material part of the testimony supporting it under an envelope containing other papers & then handed the papers relating to Mr Chases Claim over to his Agent J Marshall Esq 
[signed] Jared W Williams

State of NH  Coos ss  Jany 22 1836.
Then personally appeared the above named Jared W Williams and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed and I further certify that the above named Jared W Williams is a credible witness 
Before me [signed] Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace
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I William M Smith do depose and say that Thomas Chase of Stewartstown a Revolutionary Pensioner did deposit his certificate of Pension with me last fall for safe keeping, and that I put it in my desk in my shop and that the same was destroyed by fire together with the shop on the 26th day of January last
[signed] Wm M Smith

State of Newhampshire Coos ss  Stewartstown
May 7th 1840 then personally appeared William M Smith and made oath that the above was in his belief true before me
[signed] Roswell Hobart  Jus Peace

J L Edwards Esq  [D?] [?]  Mr. Chase wishes me to write to you and state the facts as they are in order that he may obtain another certificate so that he may still receive his pension If the above is sattisfactory Evidence that his certificate is destroyed Pleas to send me an other for him  If it is not sattisfactory Pleas let me know what evidence is nessary [necessary] to obtain another certificate.

Show [writter?] to Jared W Williams MC from this County on the subject and have Recd no answer
Yours Respectfully
[signed] Wm M Smith
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Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner
of Pensions for the United States
Pension Office
Washington City D.C.

Pension Papers
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Stratford N.H. January 22d 1836
To the Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions for the United States
Sir enclosed with this, are the papers of Thomas Chase of Stewartstown making application for a pension.
After being informed by your Honour where and to whom the Original papers were sent, I could not obtain them untill the last of Nov. last part and then found them in a very informal imperfect State so much so that I thought it expedient to make out new ones so far as was practible [practicable].
The former declaration forwarded to the War Department by Mr Chase is now sent with the other papers because it will carry to you upon the face of it an explanation of a discrepancy of one year in his age; he being a year older as you perceive by the present declaration, than he could be reckoning his age to present time on 67 years from January 1833 -  as soon as Mr Chase became informed of the act of June 7th 1832 he procured the assistance of a neighbour to draught his declaration in accordance with that act; and this was done in the year 1832 when he was as he thought 67 years old. It appears he intended to keep all the papers which his imperfect knowledge of the business showed him to be necessary on hand, to be ready for an[d] where the probate Court of Coos County (the Probate Courts in N.H. being Circuit Courts) should be holden at the place nearest his own residence. 
Now this happens every year on the first Tuesday of January, so that his papers rested in his hands till Jany 1833 when he had become 68 years of age. The draught was then amended, as you will see to fit the date, but overlooked in the facts of it which gave the age of the declarant.
Mr Chase is very illiterate and resides over forty miles from Lancaster where the business of the County is chiefly transacted; and not having imployed any person who has been faithful in his business has been the cause of his papers being mislaid and not before properly presented
I have endeavoured to prepare his case as well as was in my power and present to your Honour all the facts as they exist
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and have it for your Honour's consideration
I am Sir, very Respectfully Your
Obedient Servant
Joshua Marshall
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J. R. Poinsett [?]-  Sir  Some time since I wrote to Samuel  W Williams M C from NH with my affidavit stating that Thomas Chase had left his certificate for Pension with me for safe keeping and that it was destroyed by fire at the time my shop was burned and wished him to see you and get another and send to me. I  have Received no answer.
If you are satisfied that Mr. Chase certificate is destroyed you would oblige Mr Chase by sending me another at this place 
Wm M Smith
West Stewartstown N H 
March 12th 1840

Mr W M Smith's Clother's shops was burnt Jan. 26th 1840 with all it contained except 2 dye Kettles. Mr Thomas Chase of Stewartstown County of Coos and State of New Hampshire Pensioner left his Pension certificate with Mr Smith Last September to have his papers made out for collecting his Pension and it was burnt with the shop as Mr Smith says [.] Mr Smith sent to Hon. Jared W Williams M.C. from New Hampshire his affidavit of the same an answer being delayed longer than he expected he sends again directly to you. Mr Smith is a Justice of the Peace a man whom we believe would state nothing but the truth[.]   Mr Chase is a poor man and wants his pension money to live on
Will you please to send him another certificate
to West Stewartstown N. H.
March 13th 1840
Your obedient servant
[signed] Jeremiah Pickard, Postmaster

Hon. J R Poinsett
Secretary of War
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Thos. Chase
23803

[very faint]
Place the [illegible] [illegible] Pike & {Tibbet?] [illegible line] [Index ? -  all the rest illegible]
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
State of New Hampshire  County of Coos SS }
On this the 1st day of January AD 1833 Personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting Thomas Chase a resident of Stewartstown in the County of Coos and State of N.H. aged sixty seven years 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 7. 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated to wit
I think in December in 1779 I enlisted in Stratham in the County of Rockingham and State of N H where I then resided as a marine in the continental establishment & immediately went to Boston & was sent on board of the Frigate Deane, Captain Nicholson, Lieutenant Hampstead of the Marines, James Lambert & Tilden Crooker were Sergeants of Marines, the ship Lieut was Delaway, Sailing Master McCleaver, Quarter Master John Marble now living in Harmony Maine & whose affidavit accompanies this, after going on board ship we laid in Boston Harbour six or eight weeks we went from there to the English Channel soon after which we took the ship Hume loaded with  Rum & bound to New York on board which prize vessell Quarter Master Marble returned to America after leaving the Channell we cruised off the western Islands & took a ship called a barque loaded
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with wine & fruit.  She was sent to New London Ct where she arrived safe we thence went back to the channel where we took two prizes - privateers one a brig the other a Snow, taken in one day both were brought into Boston Mass safe[.] I remained in the ship till she returned to Boston Mass where I staid till the ship was stripped - her guns taken out & her masts unstepped when all the marines , I among them, were dismissed in one day. I remained in the ship 10 months as near as I can possibly remember.  I have not any discharge, If I ever had I have lost it.  I have the accompanying affidavit of John Marble which is the only testimony I have to my services.  I was born in Stratham NH in the 1765.  I have no record of my age that I know of.  I lived in Stratham where I resided until 1787 when I removed to Wolfeboro NH where I resided until the year 1815 when I removed to Stewartstown NH where I now reside. 

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state - 
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
[signed] Thos. Chase
[signed] Benj Hunking Judge of Probate
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We  Richard Tibbets residing in the Town of said Stewartstown and Saml G Piper residing in Stewartstown hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas 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 & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid  [signed] Rich Tibbets
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid  [signed]  Sam G Piper

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 there is no regular clergyman resident in the vicinity of the declarant and that Richard Tibbets ans Samuel G Piper are of Stewartstown aforesaid also that said Applicant who has signed the preceding certificate was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states in his declaration and that said Tibbets and Piper witnesses as aforesaid who have signed above are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit
[signed] Benja Hunking Judge Probate 

State of New Hampshire Coos ss
I Jared W W Williams Clerk or Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Chase for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 1st day of January Anno Domini 1833
[signed] Jared W Williams Register Probate
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME  Chase, Timothy  GRADE  Private  LINE  Massachusetts

WARRANT NUMBER  3893   ACREAGE  100    ISSUED Feb. 27, 1790  to Theodosius Fowler

The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.